History Trivia / PewDiePie

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The Cocomelon diss track was taken down 2 days after it's upload for allegedly violating [=YouTube=]'s child safety and harassment guidelines. The audio-only version and video versions can be found on multiple sites, though the latter is harder to find.

* FanCommunityNickname: The former widely-held term was "bros", with Felix's collective fanbase being deemed the "Bro Army", but it has since been substituted for "9-year-olds"[[note]]stemming from Twitch streamer Alinity referring to his fanbase as such in an insulting manner, only for them to [[AppropriatedAppellation begin wearing it with pride]][[/note]], "19-year-olds", and now currently "Floor Gang".

* CreatorBreakdown: Felix suffered a major one in November 2016 during his trip to America and the filming of the second season of ''Scare [=PewDiePie=]''. Due to working on the filming, [=YouTube=] Rewind 2016, his Revelmode network, and the Birdabo vlogs all in tandem, he and his friends were eventually left miserable from the mounting stress, leading to him announcing halfway through the month that he was stopping the vlogs and ceasing uploads until he returned. [[HarsherInHindsight Made even worse]] was that the antisemitism controversy that would happen half a year later would get that second season cancelled, meaning his entire breakdown was AllForNothing.
* CreatorsApathy: By his own admission in 2018, Felix essentially stopped trying so hard, saying in his own words that he had "given up on the channel". He nonetheless appreciates the support he's still given despite him not putting in as much effort as he used to. He, and to a lesser extent his editors, reaffirmed this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJshpnCutc early 2019.]]
-->'''Brad''': (referring to his editing) The thing is, whether its good or bad, they'll tell you it's shit anyway which is why... I don't care anymore.\\

** His [[OnlyInItForTheMoney comment to the Retsupurae]] gets this, big time.

* BigNameFan: [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Notch]] once said that he watches his videos, and when Felix asked if he was a Bro, he answered [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4c02dkrqW1r25oouo1_500.png "Sure why not :D"]] Come 2019, Notch would voice his approval for Felix's playthrough of the game.

* ApprovalOfGod: LetsPlay/HatFilms did a parody video of his [[https://wsssssww.youtube.com/watch?v=7E0qBskfnNc opening pack video]], itself a parody. [[https://twitter.com/pewdiepie/status/557984911605633024 He tweeted to say he found it funny.]]

* FanCommunityNickname: The former widely-held term was "bros", with Felix's collective fanbase being deemed the "Bro Army", but it has since been substituted for "9-year-olds"[[note]]stemming from Twitch streamer Alinity referring to his fanbase as such in an insulting manner, only for them to [[AppropriatedAppellation begin wearing it with pride]][[/note]] and now "19-year-olds".

* ApprovalOfGod: LetsPlay/HatFilms did a parody video of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E0qBskfnNc opening pack video]], itself a parody. [[https://twitter.com/pewdiepie/status/557984911605633024 He tweeted to say he found it funny.]]

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Felix wound up losing much of his support from [=YouTube=] and having Creator/{{Disney}}-owned Maker Studios sever ties with him after a controversial video that featured him paying two men to hold up a sign reading "Death to all Jews" as a joke. Other videos had contained controversial "[[CrossesTheLineTwice jokes]]" like this, but the way this particular video blew up on social media was the breaking point that lead to [=YouTube=], Disney, and parts of the fanbase distancing themselves from Felix. In an exceptionally rare case, this ended up [[{{Unishment}} working out in his favor]], since becoming an independent creator again gave him the freedom to do what he wanted as well as giving him more time to himself.

* ArtistDisillusionment:
** His bros are bad according to him. Those who tell him to stop wasting the lantern, at least.
** He is not a fan of those who attack anybody who criticizes him, especially when it comes to horror games.

** If it wasn't for him, ''no one'' would know who Nero's Day at Disneyland is.[[note]]Their song "Child Protective Services Theme" is his most famous EndingTheme, and their song "No Money Down Low Monthly Payments" was used as the theme song for an intro Felix would use for his horror game videos.[[/note]]

** Felix denounced his previous Nazi jokes and declared his intent to distance himself from that kind of humor, both out of recognizing how unfunny they were and because they lumped him with groups of people he didn't wish to be associated with.
** While he stated that he learned a lot from the experience, Pewds feels that Revelmode was the biggest mistake of his life and has gone on to say that he ''will not'' work on any more business ventures.
---> It's like I already have a full-time job. I don't need ''another'' full-time job.
* CreatorBreakdown: Felix suffered a major one in November 2016 during his trip to America and the filming of Scare Pewdiepie Season 2. Due to working on the filming, [=YouTube=] Rewind 2016, his Revelmode network, and the Birdabo vlogs all in tandem, he and his friends were eventually left miserable from the mounting stress, leading to him announcing halfway through the month that he was stopping the vlogs and ceasing uploads until he returned. [[HarsherInHindsight Made even worse]] was that the antisemitism controversy that would happen half a year later would get Season 2 of Scare Pewdiepie cancelled, meaning his entire breakdown was AllForNothing.

* CrossDressingVoices: Ainsley's lines are spoken with female Siri.
* FanCommunityNickname: The former widely-held term was "bros", with Felix's collective fanbase being deemed the "Bro Army", but it has since been substituted for "9-year-olds", stemming from Twitch streamer Alinity referring to his fanbase as such in an insulting manner, only for them to [[AppropriatedAppellation begin wearing it with pride]].
* TheMerch: See [[http://pewdiepie.spreadshirt.com here]].

** Half of his ''VideoGame/DeadRising3'' videos are either deleted or private, and there seems to be no explanation for what happened to them either.

** Felix has stated he's not so much happy with his older videos from when he was just starting to become famous, saying he finds them too cringe inducing in a "Try Not To Cringe" challenge video. He's even joked the only reason he still keeps his older videos up on Website/YouTube is because he [[MoneyDearBoy still gets ad revenue from them.]] In reality he doesn't take the videos down because he knows [[MagnumOpusDissonance there are fans who still like to watch his old content.]]

** Him announcing that he would delete his channel at 50 million subscribers. Once he hit 50 million, he held his end of the bargain and deleted his channel. [[spoiler:[[ExactWords His second channel, Jacksepticeye2.]]]]

** In the light of Music/XXXTentacion's death, Felix revealed that not only was he a fan of X, but X reportedly contacted him with hopes to livestream together, but Felix declined out of fear.

** Following [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhWZavn2OvM the Meme Review episode]] in which he reviewed Hong Kong protest-related memes, PewDiePie was banned from Chinese web forum Baidu Tieba.

* BannedInChina: "Bitch Lasagna" and "Congratulations" were both banned in India following a court order to have them removed from [=YouTube=].

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Felix wound up losing much of his support from [=YouTube=] and having Creator/{{Disney}}-owned Maker Studios sever ties with him after a controversial video that featured him paying two men to hold up a sign reading "Death to all Jews" as a joke. Other videos had contained controversial "[[CrossesTheLineTwice jokes]]" like this, but the way this particular video blew up on social media was the breaking point that lead to [=YouTube=], Disney, and parts of the fanbase distancing themselves from Felix. In an exceptionally rare case, this ended up working out in his favor, since becoming an independent creator again gave him the freedom to do what he wanted as well as giving him more time to himself.

'''Felix''': This is a great testimony of... where this channel is right now. ''I'' don't care, my ''editors'' don't care, were really putting the best content that we possibly can now.

** He's getting ''really'' sick and tired of those who attack anybody who criticizes him. Especially when it comes to horror games.
** The reason behind the increasing lack of multi-part Let's Plays in favor of more reaction videos. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osPKCm7jmeQ Felix has essentially grown tired of doing only playthroughs and wished to expand his content to things he actually wants to produce]].
* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: He had a tendency of making at least two playthroughs at a time.

* BigNameFan: [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Notch]] once said that he watches his videos, and when Pewdie asked if he was a Bro, he answered [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4c02dkrqW1r25oouo1_500.png "Sure why not :D"]]
* ColbertBump: This happens to many of the independent games he plays, to the point that some developers have sent him beta builds of their games just to drum up excitement among the fans.
** If it wasn't for him, ''no one'' would know who Nero's Day at Disneyland is. (Their song "Child Protective Services Theme" is his most famous EndingTheme, and their song "No Money Down Low Monthly Payments" was used as the theme song for an intro Pewdie would use for his horror game videos.)
* CreatorBacklash:

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Felix wound up losing much of his support from [=YouTube=] and having Creator/{{Disney}}-owned Maker Studios sever ties with him after a controversial video that featured him paying two men to hold up a sign reading "Death to all Jews" as a joke. Other videos had contained controversial "[[CrossesTheLineTwice jokes]]" like this, but the way this particular video blew up on social media was the breaking point that lead to [=YouTube=], Disney, and parts of the fanbase distancing themselves from Felix.
* SeriesHiatus: Currently, he is putting ''Ni No Kuni'' and ''Kingdom Hearts'' on this. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Had he remembered his save file when he moved]], ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'' wouldn't be on this.

** He eventually turned off rated comments because he was sick and tired of spam on the channel, though he left general comments on at first.

* BannedInChina: "Bitch Lasagna" and "Congratulations" were both banned in India following a court order to have them removed from the site.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor:
** Felix wound up losing much of his support from [=YouTube=] and having Creator/{{Disney}}-owned Maker Studios sever ties with him after a controversial video that featured him paying two men to hold up a sign reading "Death to all Jews" as a joke. Other videos had contained controversial "[[CrossesTheLineTwice jokes]]" like this, but the way this particular video blew up on social media was the breaking point that lead to [=YouTube=], Disney, and parts of the fanbase distancing themselves from Felix.

* StreisandEffect: A firm believer of this trope as he references this hundreds of times when he calls out people for attempting hiding stuff only to end up having it exposed online, bringing far more attention to it.

* ColbertBump [=/=] NewbieBoom: This happens to many of the independent games he plays, to the point that some developers have sent him beta builds of their games just to drum up excitement among the fans.

* FanCommunityNickname: The former widely-held term was "bros", with Felix's collective fanbase being deemed the "Bro Army", but as of late it seems to have been substituted for "9-year-olds", stemming from Twitch streamer Alinity referring to his fanbase as such in an insulting manner, only for them to [[AppropriatedAppellation begin wearing it with pride]].

** Half of his ''VideoGame/{{Dead Rising 3}}'' videos are either deleted or private, and there seems to be no explanation for what happened to them either.
** Several of his Videogame/HappyWheels videos have been marked private, despite the funny montages featuring clips from some of them.

** Felix has stated he's not so much happy with his older videos from when he was just starting to become famous, saying he finds them too cringe inducing in a "Try Not To Cringe" challenge video. He's even joked the only reason he still keeps his older videos up on Website/YouTube is because he [[MoneyDearBoy still gets ad revenue from them.]] In reality he doesn't take the videos down because he knows [[MagnumOpusDissonance some people besides himself still like to watch his old content.]]

** Felix wound up losing much of his support from [=YouTube=] and having Creator/{{Disney}}-owned Maker Studios sever ties with him after a controversial video that featured him paying two men to hold up a sign reading "Death to all Jews" as a joke. Other videos had contained controversial "[[CrossesTheLineTwice jokes]]" like this, but the way this particular video blew up on social media was the breaking point that lead to [=YouTube=], Disney, and parts of the fanbase distancing themselves from Felix. Unfortunately this also caused one for [=YouTube=] in general, as the same social media journalists essentially went up to a bunch of [=YouTube=]'s advertisers and said "Hey, did you know your ads are playing on [insert allegedly racist video here]?" causing what's become known as The Adpocalypse among creators.

* [[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings Why Bros Can't Have Nice Things]]:
** He eventually turned off rated comments because he was sick and tired of spam on the channel, though at first he left general comments on. He later turned them off because he was annoyed with the [=YouTube=] overhaul, not that he was alone in doing that.

** Felix has stated he's not so much happy with his older videos from when he was just starting to become famous, saying he finds them too cringe inducing in a "Try Not To Cringe" challenge video. He's even joked the only reason he still keeps his older videos up on YouTube is because he [[MoneyDearBoy still gets ad revenue from them.]] In reality he doesn't take the videos down because he knows [[MagnumOpusDissonance some people besides himself still like to watch his old content.]]

** Felix wound up losing much of his support from [=YouTube=] and having Creator/{{Disney}}-owned Maker Studios sever ties with him after a controversial video that featured him paying two men to hold up a sign reading "Death to all Jews" as a joke. Other videos had contained controversial "[[CrossesTheLineTwice jokes]]" like this, but the way this particular video blew up on social media was the breaking point that lead to [=YouTube=], Disney, and parts of the fanbase distancing themselves from Felix. Unfortunately this also caused one for YouTube in general, as the same social media journalists essentially went up to a bunch of YouTube's advertisers and said "Hey, did you know your ads are playing on [insert allegedly racist video here]?" causing what's become known as The Adpocalypse among creators.

** Felix has stated he's not so much happy with his older videos from when he was just starting to become famous, saying he finds them too cringe inducing in a "Try Not To Cringe" challenge video.
*** MoneyDearBoy: He's even joked the only reason he still keeps his older videos up on YouTube is because he "still gets ad revenue" from them...
*** MagnumOpusDissonance: ...though in reality he doesn't take the videos down because he knows some people besides himself still like to watch his old content.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Felix wound up losing much of his support from [=YouTube=] and having Creator/{{Disney}}-owned Maker Studios sever ties with him after a controversial video that featured him paying two men to hold up a sign reading "Death to all Jews" as a joke. Other videos had contained controversial "[[CrossesTheLineTwice jokes]]" like this, but the way this particular video blew up on social media was the breaking point that lead to [=YouTube=], Disney, and parts of the fanbase distancing themselves from Felix.
** Unfortunately this also caused one for YouTube in general, as the same social media journalists essentially went up to a bunch of YouTube's advertisers and said "Hey, did you know your ads are playing on [insert allegedly racist video here]?" causing what's become known as the "Ad-pocalypse" among creators.

** Then there's the "delete his channel at 50 million subscribers". He did delete his channel, but it was the [[{{Troll}} Jacksepticeye2]] channel that he deleted.

** He eventually turned off rated comments because he was sick and tired of spam on the channel, though at first he left general comments on. (He later turned them off because he was annoyed with the Youtube overhaul, not that he was alone in doing that).
** He also removed comments because of some trolls accusing him of beating his girlfriend. He was understandably unamused.
** [=PewDiePie=] is aware of the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic brony community]] when he played the ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' custom story ''The Small Horse'' and the ''Luna Games''. He had his screen name long before the name Pinkie Pie became very well-known and therefore it is not derived from her name.
** [[http://pewdie.tumblr.com/post/143224921965/fans-that-i-dont-want Pewds goes berserk]] after some of his fans insulted one fan that Felix visited through the Make-A-Wish Foundation by mocking her appearance.

** He's getting ''really'' sick and tired of the FanDumb attacking anybody who criticizes him. Especially when it comes to horror games.

** While he stated that he learned a lot from the experience, Pewds feels that Revelmode was the biggest mistake of his life and has gone on to say that he ''will not'' work on anymore business ventures.

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: He's always making at least two playthroughs at a time.

* CreatorBacklash: Felix has denounced his previous Nazi jokes and has declared his intent to distance himself from that kind of humor, both out of recognizing how unfunny they were and because they lumped him with groups of people he doesn't wish to be associated with.

* OneOfUs:
** Pewdie is apparently a fan of [[Music/{{OFWGKTA}} Tyler, the Creator]], after having used "[=Domo23=]" and "Yonkers" in his videos. Another comparison is that [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} they have both called themselves unicorns]].
** He is a ''huge'' Music/{{Radiohead}} fan; [[https://www.facebook.com/PewDiePie/posts/261437970555766 he has said]] that they're his favorite band.
*** He has said that he has a "[[https://twitter.com/pewdiepie/status/377760785331523584 special relationship]]" with ''Music/InRainbows'', and in a Reddit AMA, he was asked to list his top 5 favorite albums, and he listed ''In Rainbows'' for all of them.
*** When asked by a bro on Twitter about his opinion on ''Music/OKComputer'', [[https://twitter.com/pewdiepie/status/251994418586996736 he responded]] saying that all of the album's songs were amazing, but he loved "Airbag", "Paranoid Android", and "Let Down" the most.
** Before he become famous, he is a big anime fan. He also has his own [[http://myanimelist.net/profile/Pewdie MyAnimeList account]]. [=PewDiePie=] himself confirmed that [[https://twitter.com/pewdiepie/status/433069342192717824 this is his real account]].
** ''Manga/{{Blame}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I4HDFSOc6U is his favorite manga of all time]].