PewDiePie was nominated to run in the internet phenomena "King of the Web", coming first in the leaderboard as overall king. In his 1000th video, PewDiePie showed appreciation and gratitude for his rapidly growing fanbase by compiling an assortment of video material from the beginning to the present of the last two years since his YouTube channel has gained notable popularity. On several Fridays with PewDiePie, he recorded videos of surprising fans by video chatting with them on Omegle, and has edited a collection of his own in-game reactions in videos commonly known as "Funny Gaming Montage" or "Scariest Moments in Gaming". On Fridays, PewDiePie uploads a video known as Fridays with PewDiePie, which includes vlogs, doing Q&As, opening fanmail (known as "bromail") and generally talking about what is currently going on in his life. PewDiePie spawned a fanbase named the "Bro Army", and references his subscribers as "bros". Then, PewDiePie began uploading many Let's Plays and playthroughs on horror-themed videos, including Amnesia custom stories, flash games and other types of games such as Façade. Months following the Minecraft video, he started doing Call of Duty 3 commentaries, and Let's Plays on Alone in the Dark and Wolfenstein. with Marzia.įelix opened his YouTube account under the name PewDiePie on April 29th, 2010 with a Infiniminer playthrough video showing a player that was trapped in a shed by the other players. Most current fanmail address uncertain since PewDiePie moved to the U.K.Felix cited reasons behind the move such as necessity for personal space (as both himself and Marzia have been staying in the home of her parents in Italy) and also slow internet was interfering with the upload rate of his YouTube videos. He won and received the Social Media Show Award.įor the summer of 2013, he and Marzia left Italy to stay in the United Kingdom for 3 months. As the live ceremony would take place on May 23rd, 2013 at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, he and Marzia took the opportunity to go. įelix was nominated in the category of social media for the Social Star Awards 2013. The party was on April 4th, 2013 with some guests in attendance that included YouTubers Ken, TJ, Toby Turner and Olga Ray, Chester See, Davey Wavey Tayrn Southern, Seth Hendrix, and Jacksfilms. A party was hosted by Felix in Los Angeles to celebrate the growth of his channel to 6,000,000 subscribers and invited anyone interested in attending. While in Los Angeles, Felix participated in being part of a few video projects on the YouTube channel TheFineBrosand was in an episode of Internet Icon. He also made mention of plans of going to Los Angeles at the end of March to stay for a month as well as searching along with Marzia for a permanent residence in the United Kingdom. įelix announced in an imprompto video monologue on March 11th, 2013 of saddening news about the death of his grandfather, who suffered from prolonged skeletal cancer, and was returning to Sweden for the funeral rites.
The four of them went to the Museum of Modern Art, saw the movie " Mama" and played at the arcade. On February 7th 2013, they arrived in New York City after Marzia received an invitation to Fashion Week and met up to hang out with fellow YouTubers Anthony Padilla and Kalel. On November 30th, 2012, he noted in a video of going aboard to Brighton with Marzia from December 3rd to December 7th. įollowing Felix's move to San Paolo, Italty, he stayed as a guest in Marzia's parents' house. While still living in Sweden, Felix and Marzia went overseas to Los Angeles for the first time. On March 28th, 2012, Felix did his first newspaper interview with the Swedish site, in which he noted his intention to have a full-time job and while making YouTube videos as a secondary job as well as moving to Italy with Marzia. After Marzia's birthday, she moved to Sweden to live with him. He responded back and they started communicating for a while on Facebook until Felix visited her in Italy in August, and then in September as well as October. Marzia found Felix really funny and wrote to him at the end of June. She learned of Felix when Marzia's best friend watched PewDiePie on YouTube at the end of May and shared the videos with her. Marzia and Felix began dating around October of 2011. Afterwards, Felix began college at Chalmers University and left in 2011. He originates from Göthenburg, Sweden, and graduated from high school in Göthenburg. Felix Kjellberg was born on October 24th, 1989 and currently lives with his girlfriend, Marzia, and their pug named Maya.