Trivia / PewDiePie

• Approval of God: Hat Films did a parody video of his opening pack video, itself a parody. He tweeted to say he found it funny.
• Artist Disillusionment: He is not a fan of those who attack anybody who criticizes him, especially when it comes to horror games.
• Attention Deficit Creator Disorder: He had a tendency of making at least two playthroughs at a time when he was still primarily making gaming content.
• Author's Saving Throw: In response to the outcry from him cheating in Episode 20 of his Minecraft playthrough (to give himself potatoes), Felix apologized and promised that he wouldn't do so again for anything else, even when he was off-camera. To go even further, he decided to show the construction of Joergen's memorial in full to quell any further worries that he had been using cheats to build his other structures.
• Banned in China:
  • "Bitch Lasagna" and "Congratulations" were both banned in India following a court order to have them removed from YouTube.
  • Following the Meme Review episode in which he reviewed Hong Kong protest-related memes, PewDiePie was banned from Chinese web forum Baidu Tieba.
• Colbert Bump:
  • 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.
  • He also gave a huge one to the breakcore group Nero's Day at Disneyland. Their song "Child Protective Services Theme" was his most famous Ending Theme, and their song "No Money Down Low Monthly Payments" was used for his horror LP intros.
• Creator Backlash:
  • The reason behind the increasing lack of Let's Plays in favor of reaction videos. Felix essentially grew tired of doing only playthroughs and wished to expand his content to things he actually wanted to produce.
  • 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 in with groups of people he didn't wish to be associated with.
  • While he stated that he learned a lot from the experience, he 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."
  • Felix has stated he's not very happy with his older videos from when he was just starting to become famous, saying he finds them too cringe-inducing. 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. In reality, he doesn't take the videos down because he knows there are fans who still like to watch his old content.
  • Felix has since stated that he doesn't really care if people see his old videos anymore, saying that he might reupload them someday.
  • His Only in It for the Money comment to the Retsupurae.
• Creator Breakdown: 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. Made even worse was that the antisemitism controversy that would happen half a year later would get Season 2 cancelled, meaning his entire breakdown was All for Nothing.
• Creator's Apathy:
  • 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 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.
    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 out the best content that we possibly can now.
  • Taken even further in November 2020, where in response to a question asking if he would work at YouTube after he retires, he revealed (after a definite no) that he had essentially already "retired" a few months prior. Many found it no coincidence that uploads were growing father apart, especially once he made the statement.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: The lines of his cutout of Ainsley Harriott are spoken with female Siri.
• Fan Community Nickname: The first and most popular nickname for Felix's fans is "bros", with his collective fanbase being deemed the "Bro Army". In the late 2010s, it was 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 begin wearing it with pride, "19-year-olds", and "Floor Gang".
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: 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.
• The Merch: See here.
• Milestone Celebration: He's made a couple videos for hitting a certain amount of subscribers, or at least thanked his bros directly.
• Missing Episode:
  • Half of his 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 Happy Wheels videos are marked private, despite the funny montages featuring clips from some of them.
  • His Cat Lady videos all disappeared with no explanation. Part 9 of Alice: Madness Returns also disappeared, though that one is speculated to have been due to a bogus copyright flag.
  • On September 16, 2016, Pewds purged several of his videos that he was no longer satisfied with, including excising entire playlists.
• Occidental Otaku: To a degree, he's certainly a fan of Japanese pop culture including anime and video games. And after being delayed in 2020 by the Covid pandemic, he and Marzia finally moved to Japan in 2022.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: Felix wound up losing much of his support from YouTube and having 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" while saying "Subscribe to Keemstar" as a joke. Other videos had contained controversial 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.
• Series Hiatus: Some of the games he plays end up going unfinished for one reason or another. This can be due to forgetting about the game or because of circumstances outside of his control.
• Streisand Effect: A firm believer of this trope as he references this hundreds of times when he calls out people for attempting to hide stuff only to end up having it exposed online, bringing far more attention to it.
• Trolling Creator:
  • He titled a news video informing viewers that he would be away on a business trip for a few days "Bye Bye Forever" and than opened it with him announcing his retirement before doing a 180 just to mess with the fans.
  • Him announcing that he would delete his channel at 50 million subscribers. Once he hit 50 million, he held up his end of the bargain and deleted his channel. His second channel, Jacksepticeye2.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The anti-Semitism controversy led to the shutdown of his YT network Revelmode and the cancellation of the second season of Scare PewDiePie, which was fully filmed and ready to release but will now never see the light of day.
  • In the light of XXXTentacion's death, Felix revealed that not only was he a fan of X, but X reportedly contacted him with hopes to livestream together; Felix declined out of nervousness.
  • When he was starting out as a YouTuber, Felix tried to apply for many different jobs, one of them being at Mojang. One would have to wonder how different Mojang and YouTube would be had he been hired.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things:
  • Felix eventually turned off rated comments because he was sick and tired of spam on the channel, though he left general comments on at first.
  • He also removed comments because of some trolls accusing him of beating his girlfriend. He was understandably not amused.
  • PewDiePie was aware of the brony community when he played the Amnesia: The Dark Descent 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.
  • Pewds went berserk after some of his fans insulted one fan that Felix visited through the Make-A-Wish Foundation by mocking her appearance.
  • In late August 2019, Felix disabled the Closed Captions on his videos after someone named Bangla Fz1 kept editing the subtitles to advertise their channel.^note They had been doing this to other popular creator's channels as well.

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