I’m so lucky to share my life with this amazing woman.” PewDiePie’s Problems with Rants and Racism Announcing the union on Twitter, he wrote: “We are married!!! I’m the happiest I can be. In August 2019, Kjellberg and Bisognin tied the knot in a private London ceremony. They were introduced online in 2011 and began a long-distance relationship, before living together in Italy, then Sweden, and eventually settling in Brighton - because of the town’s reliable internet connectivity - where they would share an apartment with two pet pugs, Edgar and Maya. In July 2013, Kjellberg moved to Brighton, a UK seaside town that has become a hub for YouTubers, with his Italian girlfriend, Marzia Bisognin, (nicknamed CutiePie) a beauty blogger. PewDiePie and Marzia (CutiePie) Move to Brighton, Get Married On August 15, 2013, PewDiePie became the most-subscribed YouTube channel in the world. By December that year, he had signed with Maker Studios - a talent network for video-makers that provides resources, expertise and help with promotion and marketing, in return for a share of ad revenue - and saw his channel quickly grow from 100 million to 200 million views per month. He reached his first 1 million subscribers in July 2012. He was soon uploading several clips a day, and eventually, to his parents’ horror, he dropped out of Chalmers in 2011 to work at a hotdog kiosk while he developed his channel. PewDiePie began to take off after Kjellberg filmed himself screaming his way around the horror game Amnesia, and began to receive requests from viewers for more of the same. Felix Kjellberg: From Hotdog Seller to Maker Studios Superstar He struggled to fit in at Chalmers: “I had nothing in common with the rest of the people in the program,” he told Icon Magazine’s Maria Lindholm. He registered his PewDiePie account while at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, studying industrial economics and technology management. He set up his first YouTube channel, PewDie, in 2006 - “pew” being slang for the sound of a laser gun firing - but as his interest in the channel waned, he forgot his password, so when he returned to YouTube in 2010, he was forced to set up a new account, PewDiePie.īy now, Kjellberg had learnt to edit videos from an online tutorial, and uploaded his first "Let’s Play" video - of him playing Minecraft. “We’re really nerdy people.”ĭuring his last year of high school, he bought a computer with money he made selling artwork through his grandmother’s gallery. “Sweden has a great culture around gaming,” he told Rolling Stone magazine in 2015. As a child, he enjoyed art and playing on his Super Nintendo his obsession with video games grew during adolescence, during which he spent a lot of time gaming in his bedroom, or at internet cafes. His mother and father, Johanna and Ulf, are both successful chief executives. How Felix Kjellberg Became PewDiePieįelix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg was born on October 24, 1989, in Gothenburg, Sweden. Like his videos, PewDiePie’s future appears to be disturbingly unpredictable. He apologized, claiming his humor had been taken out of context, only to blurt the n-word months later during a live stream in September 2017. He apologized in 2012 for his use of “gay” and “retard” as supposedly playful insults and for making rape jokes - but after he posted videos containing anti-Semitic and Nazi imagery, he was dropped in February 2017 by his network partner, the Disney-owned Maker Studios he was also ejected from YouTube’s Red platform and the Google Preferred program. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage/Getty Images)īut as the Swede’s fame has grown, his behavior has become increasingly controversial. PewDiePie attends the European Premiere of ’Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ at Leicester Square on Decemin London, England.
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