History LetsPlay / PewDiePie

Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known as [[https://www.youtube.com/pewdiepie PewDiePie]], is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swe]][[FunnyForeigner dish]] Website/{{YouTube}}r who became immensely famous for his video game [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] and now does wider arrays of content.

He was born on October 24, 1989 and initially set out to pursue a degree and career in business (to specify, industrial economics and tech management), eventually dropping out due to personal dislike of school[[note]]''not'' solely to start his [=YouTube=] career, [[CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer as has been commonly reported]][[/note]].

* AwesomeMccoolname: "Felix Arvid Ulf" translates to "Happy[=/=]Lucky Forest Wolf".

* KnifeNut: This is what happens when any game decides to give him a knife.
-->'''YOU SPEAK CHOPNESE?'''

Since reaching fame, Kjellberg's content has progressed from gaming and branched out into wider areas, mainly based on providing commentary, with some of his most famous series including ''Pew News''[[note]]in which [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a dizzying number of characters]] [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals all played]] [[LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles by Kjellberg]] discuss [=YouTube=] news (although Kjellberg himself rather conspicuously gives his own serious opinions); and that's not even getting into the [[MythArc wider story]].[[/note]], ''Meme Review''[[note]]where Kjellberg comments on one or several new memes[[/note]], and ''LWIAY''[[note]]short for ''Last Week I Asked You''; a shameless {{expy}} of the WebVideo/{{Jacksfilms}} series ''Yesterday I Asked You'' (''YIAY'') where Kjellberg looks at fan-submitted memes on his [[http://reddit.com/r/pewdiepiesubmissions subreddit]][[/note]].

* AwesomeMcCoolname: "Felix Arvid Ulf" translates to "Happy[=/=]Lucky Forest Wolf".

* {{Megane}}: Goes on and off, he doesn't really need the glasses.

** There's also [[ItIsPronouncedTropay Pipé]] the ambiguously French pipe in his ''Condemned'' LP.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Often pronounces "accurate" as "ac-ur-it" instead of "ac-yur-it".
** The same goes with his pronunciation of "simulator" ("sim-ul-ater" instead of "sim-yul-ater").

His prominence has given him the ability to ColbertBump whatever he chooses to give exposure to, especially if it's obscure, but it has [[BlessedWithSuck also]] made him one of the most controversial [=YouTubers=] on the platform. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Long story short]], he's no stranger to backlash.

Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known as [[https://www.youtube.com/pewdiepie PewDiePie]], is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swe]][[FunnyForeigner dish]] [[Website/YouTube YouTuber]] who became immensely famous for his video game [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]] and now does wider arrays of content.

* TheDissTrack: PlayedForLaughs with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dh-RL__uN4 Bitch Lasagna]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHgc8Q6qTjc Congratulations]]", a pair of diss tracks against Indian music record label and film production company Creator/TSeries, as the two creators were in competition at the time for the most subscribed YouTube channel. PewDiePie brings up T-Series' shady past, possible mafia collusion, and the fact that they sent him a cease and desist letter for expressing his disdain for their company.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Music/RoomieOfficial (a fellow Swedish Youtuber) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLaOsNwmieE made a whole song]] about how goddamn fabulous Pewdie is.

* NeverMyFault: In his video complaining about the problems with [=YouTube=] and saying how he will delete his channel at fifty million subscribers. One of his complaints is that he thinks that the site is unsubscribing his followers or his videos are not being shown in the subscribers Youtube feed. He didn't consider the fact that some of the subscribers may have become distrustful due to the amount of clickbait he has been using despite claiming he's used them as a joke.

** His reading of the Youtube search results for "Don't believe [=FaZe=] Clan" in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHNbitDDW3A PewDiePie React]]".

* SitcomArchnemesis: His latest one involves a channel from India called Creator/TSeries and Felix considers the channel as his greatest rival when it comes to the number one channel on Youtube.[[note]]Though Felix notes that Youtube Gaming, Music, and Movie already surpassed him ages ago.[[/note]]

* SmallNameBigEgo: Inverted. [=PewDiePie=] is without a doubt the biggest name on Youtube and probably in gaming as well, but he's so humble about it that ''he doesn't even consider himself to be famous.''

** One to Youtube in his "Teach Me Senpai" video; one of the suggestions is to show how to get lots of subs, so he purposely and hilariously overreacts to a ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'' JumpScare as we see his sub count increase exponentially the longer he overreacts.

* TrouserSpace: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] during a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MvqOQ87z-Y play]] of {{VideoGame/Bully}} in which for some reason he decided to control Jimmy in his underwear delivering a package during an Errand: "Where the fuck would I keep this package? ... [[AssShove I put it inside my asshole]]! That's disgustingly nice."

* ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest: He has created multiple videos showing some of the problems of being a channel with the highest number of subscribers. The most nortorious examples are the anti-semitism scandal in 2016 and the Christchurch mosque shooting in 2019. The former caused Felix to be accused of being racist and anti-semitic due to a bad joke being blown out of proportion. The latter caused people to blame him for the shooting after the shooter referenced the "Subscribe to Pewdiepie" meme. Lighter examples include lesser [=YouTubers=] challenging him for the title of "[[RedBaron The King of [=YouTube=]]]" or other [=YouTubers=] bullying him for the sake of drama and bragging rights.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: While his videos reacting to people who hate his videos are mainly played for laughs but a moment of seriousness is shown when the most known hater named Dilon the hacker begged him to help him get his channel reactivated
-->'''[=Pewdiepie=]''': Why would I help you? you constantly make videos bashing me and my fans, and you're 99% of the reason why I had to turn off the comments in my videos before because of your constant spamming of my comments section. You and your friends have also made videos insulting my girlfriend, going so far as to claim she's cheating on me in one of your videos. So no, I will not help you and not only will I not help you, but I'm glad this happened to you. For all of your threats to hack people I think that it's great that karma finally caught up to you and your channel has been hacked. I can only hope you learn some sort of lesson from all of this because at the moment, I think you are a very sad and despicable person. You've gotten exactly what you deserve - Do not attempt to contact me again.

* BumblingDad: UpToEleven with Pewdie's voice over.

* FamousLastWords: Captioned when Pewdie says "Please don't find me" while playing ''Amnesia: Killings in Altstadt''.

* FanDisservice: His ''LET ME BE YOUR HERO!'' video. It's just Pewdie singing a cover of Enrique Iglesias' "Hero" while walking around and skipping stones--as well as groping, licking, and caressing his sex toy named Jerry. [[UpToEleven It gets kind of hard to watch.]]

Kjellberg is currently the owner of the most subscribed-to independent[[note]]Important distinction; he was surpassed by the Indian corporation Creator/TSeries in April 2019.[[/note]] channel on [=YouTube=] (over 100 million subscribers, referred to by a number of [[FanCommunityNickname nicknames]] (initially the "Bro Army", now "Floor Gang"), and over 18 billion views across all videos) and has received a Guinness World Record for it. Saying that he's a prominent figure on [=YouTube=] -- especially for outsiders and media personalities looking in -- is now an understatement.

Kjellberg is currently the owner of the most subscribed-to independent[[note]]Important distinction; he was surpassed by the Indian corporation Creator/TSeries in April 2019.[[/note]] channel on [=YouTube=] (over 100 million subscribers, currently referred to as [[FanCommunityNickname "Floor Gang"]], and over 18 billion views across all videos) and has received a Guinness World Record for it. Saying that he's a prominent figure on [=YouTube=] -- especially for outsiders and media personalities looking in -- is now an understatement.

* PapaBear:

* [[http://www.pewdiepie.net Website]]
* [[https://twitter.com/pewdiepie Twitter]]

* SelectiveObliviousness: In one of his Q&As, he gets asked if he can sing a ''Franchise/Frozen2013'' song. ''Somehow'', he interprets it as "Can you sing 'Let it Go' on guitar?"

** His girlfriend, [=CutiePie=] AKA Marzia, was originally just a fan he would talk to over Facebook.

* CampStraight: Despite his {{Bishonen}} persona, going to the extents of crossdressing at times, he is straight and has had a girlfriend for several years.

* CloudCuckooLander: Pewdie invokes this ''heavily'', whenever he isn't in the company of one of his many "friends." Its been shown that, despite Marzia ([=CutiePie=], his girlfriend) has acted as the "straight girl" when both play a videogame, she's more likely to fall into this territory.

* DistaffCounterpart: Subverted with Cutie Pie, aka Marzia, Felix's girlfriend's channel. While [=Pewdiepie=] does let's plays, she herself mostly does blogs on fashion and makeup tutorials. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr-6-tv5MF8 She actually made a video explaining that she was her own person and people shouldn't subscribe if they expect to see Pewdie all the time.]]

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: When he and his girlfriend play ''[[VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent Amnesia]]'' together. While Pewdie ScreamsLikeALittleGirl, she ''[[NightmareFetishist laughs]]''.

* ThePerilsOfBeingTheBest: He has created multiple videos showing some of the problems of being a channel with the highest number of subscribers. The most nortiorious examples are the anti-semitism scandal in 2016 and the Christchurch mosque shooting in 2019. The former caused Felix to be accused of being racist due to a bad joke being blown out of proportion. The latter caused people to blame him for the shooting after the shooter referenced the "Subscribe to Pewdiepie" meme. Lighter examples include lesser [=YouTubers=] challenging him for the title of "[[RedBaron The King of [=YouTube=]]]" or other [=YouTubers=] bullying him for the sake of drama and bragging rights.

* BullyingADragon: He made several commentary videos and diss tracks targeting the professional corporation T-Series, where he throws insults at the company and accuses them of several illegal activities. Whether or not he was joking, T-Series still responds by banning his diss tracks throughout all of India.

* BullyingADragon: He made several commentary videos and diss tracks targeting the professional corperation T-Series, where he throws insults at the company and accuses them of several illegal activities. T-Series responds by banning his diss tracks throughout all of India.

** In ''VideoGame/Minecraft'', "[[LikeADaughterToMe He was like a father to me,[[ [[MindScrew I loved him like a son...]]" when his pets die.

--> "You wake up with a pounding head, a slight pain in your neck and a swollen penis."

-->"Too much alcohol, diapers, and...dead babies."

-->'''Son:''' Dad, I lost my arm!
-->'''Dad:''' I DON'T CARE!

* CartwrightCurse: Pewds suffers this in his Minecraft Let’s Play. Throughout the series Pewds has gained many pets which he has loved greatly and taken with him on his adventures. But Minecraft can be very dangerous if you’re not careful. [[spoiler: It started with Joergen, who died in episode 5, then it was Water Sheep in episode 14, then Joegen #2 in episode 19. Starting from episode 20, at least one of Pewds pets have died in nearly every episode.]]

* CloudCuckooLander: Pewdie invokes this ''heavily'', whenever he isn't in the company of one of his many "friends."

** Its been shown that, despite Marzia ([=CutiePie=], his girlfriend) has acted as the "straight girl" when both play a videogame, she's more likely to fall into this territory.

** Subverted in his Black Snow playthrough
--> '''Pewdie:''' "Alright flowers, tell me where your leader is."
--> *beat*
--> '''Pewdie:''' "Forgot flowers can't talk, shit!"

-->"Oh no, you scared my dog! '''YOU WILL DIE FOR THIS!'''"

-->'''[=Pewdiepie=]:''' YOU EVIL BITCHES! THAT IS NOT A FUNNY STORY!

-->'''[=Pewdiepie=]''': Um... You don't win the competition.

* GainaxEnding: Occasionally.

* HeroicBSOD: In his VideoGame/CorpseParty LP, Pewdie is very shaken during and after [[spoiler:Seiko's death]].
** A lesser example after [[spoiler:Bengt's death]] in the VideoGame/{{Journey}} LP.

-->'''YOU SPEAK CHOPNESE!?'''

-->''[[spoiler:Disguised fake Pewds tries to poison Pewds 1 in cinnamon challenge. Disguised fake Pewds is actually Hitler Pewds PLOT TWIST Hitler Pewds tries to finish Pewds 1 off. Pewds 1 escapes without Hitler Pewds notices by replacing himself with Ragdoll Jerry. Hitler Pewds gets shot by Pewds 1. Hitler Pewds is actually in love with Ragdoll Jerry PLOT TWIST. Pewds 1 finishes Hitler Pewds off and dies much drama Pewds 1 steals Ragdoll Jerry for his girlfriend. A few days later ragdoll Jerry is depressed and thinks of the times him and Hitler Pewds had together. Ragdoll Pewds kills himself. Pewds 1 realizes he is broken/dead. The universe get's altered. Alpha and Omega. All that shit. The End.]]''

** His playthrough of VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper was only three parts long, and Pewdie never got past the Full Tank level.
*** Averted, he has now [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvZbyUADqd4 finished the game]].

--> '''Pewds:''' I can't believe this happened, I can't believe this, You won't believe this, She doesn't believe me, I can't believe ...these kids, Can you believe this?, I can't believe this, I can't believe I fell. I can't believe it! ''(begins to walk away from the computer screen)'' ''I can't believe I found this! I can't believe it! Can you believe this?'' '''[[RageBreakingPoint I can't believe it!! He can't believe it!!!]]''' '''''[[RageBreakingPoint YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS!!]]''''' ''(JumpCut)'' [[SanitySlippage Fucking hell,]] [[LampshadeHanging It goes on! it goes on...]]

-->''Haters gonna hate,''
-->''I laugh cuz you skate,''
-->''This is not my fate,''
-->''Because I ate.''

--> ''I know you love me, I don't care''
-->'' I sing Justin Bieber, I don't care''

* TropeyComeHome: During part 4 of Pewdiepie's Minecraft Let’s Play, he discovered a washed-up pirate ship filled with loot. When Pewds came back to where Joergen was he found the horse was nowhere to be seen. While this was the second time Pewds had found his horse had gone, this was the first time he wasn’t able to find Joergen quickly. Pewds spent a full in-game day trying to find Joergen to no avail. Eventually he found Joergen still having no idea where he disappeared to. The episode ends with Pewds losing Joergen [[RuleOfThree once again.]]
** It turns out that [[spoiler: due to a glitch, disembarking from a horse causes it to disappear and remain invisible. Pewds later figured out how to deal with this glitch to his relief, but sadly, [[ShootTheShaggyDog Pewds would lose Joergen coming home from the Nether realm not too long after.]]]]

-->'''Pewds:''' I'm so fucking sweaty I could eat a diarrhea. [[LampshadeHanging That doesn't even make sense]].

--> "Should I really go down here? I don't think it's a good idea... but let's do it anyway!"

Kjellberg is currently the owner of the most subscribed-to independent[[note]]Important distinction; he was surpassed by the Indian corporation Creator/TSeries in April 2019.[[/note]] channel on [=YouTube=] (over 100 million subscribers, or [[FanCommunityNickname "19-year-olds"]], and over 18 billion views across all videos) and has received a Guinness World Record for it. Saying that he's a prominent figure on [=YouTube=]--especially for outsiders and media personalities looking in--is now an understatement.

* SelectiveObliviousness: In one of his Q&As, he gets asked if he can sing a ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' song. ''Somehow'', he interprets it as "Can you sing 'Let it Go' on guitar?"