YMMV / PewDiePie

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• Accidental Innuendo: Innuendos are often intentional, but once he gets scared he spurts some more honest ones:
  • And now we will ride Farsa!^note  Farsa means "dad" in Swedish, so you can see where that might sound wrong. He lampshades this in one video.
  • Whenever he says "Condemned", it sounds an awful lot like "condom".
  • In one video, Pewds and Marzia were playing Super Smash Bros.. During one match, while she was playing Kirby, Marzia ended up saying "You came in my mouth!" Needless to say, the rest of the match got quite awkward...
  • In an "attempt" to become more inclusive, the bro-fist is sometimes replaced with the sister-fister.
• Adorkable: PewDiePie's character he plays comes off as this, and he usually uses this character when he’s playing Minecraft.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Regarding his Minecraft series:
  • Water Sheep’s portrayal has flip-flopped depending on Pewds mood. This leads to many drastically different interpretations among the fandom.
  • At the end of Episode 29: Did Peepeepoopoo push Pewds into the End Portal out of betrayal, or to protect all the other animals from being brought along? It's also possible that both interpretations are true, but since Peepeepoopoo died the very next episode, it is likely going to be impossible to find out.
• Archive Panic: As of 2023, there are over 4700 videos on his channel. Happy catching up.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: For a brief period of time (emphasis on "brief"), Pewdie tinkered with his Twitter to make it appear like a fake Twitter for Aaron Paul.
• Broken Base:
  • Some feel that his 2015-onward videos have declined in quality, due to a reduced focus on gameplay and reactions, and more time devoted to "dramatic" intros on nearly every video and greater "weird" humor just for the sake of it. Others believe this was a major improvement that made the channel more entertaining, with some who used to dislike Felix acknowledging it. Felix himself regards this as better content than the days of "sit down and play a game for 15 minutes", much to the dismay of the former camp. He acknowledged this change in his "WHY I DON'T PLAY VIDEO GAMES ANYMORE.." video.
  • His enforcement of Ho Yay with Jacksepticeye became this for fans, who more or less either find it endearing and amusing because Jack reacts all casually or playing around with it or those who find it incredibly annoying, unfunny, or borderline Stalker without a Crush since everything for Felix has to be enforced with Jack. Some however see it as a small Take That! comedic approach to the Septiplier ship or trying way too hard to make fun of it.
  • His "feud" against T-Series. Some find that the entire fiasco became overblown over time and quickly overstayed its welcome, claiming that Felix was exploiting and shamelessly cashing in the situation. Others found it amusing and join in on the fun whether it's done ironically or not.
  • His Minecraft let's play. Some would say that he did indeed take a large strand of a beard in the way he approached the game, learning more building techniques and redstone tricks and slowly distancing himself from his standard naïve approach of the game by providing an ongoing lore on his Minecraft world. Detractors would see this as a Seasonal Rot on his part and pretty much accusing him from running out of ideas after defeating the Ender Dragon, preferring him ending the series right after that point.
• Creator Worship: The "Bro Army" tends to get pretty defensive against people who raise slight negative feedback, no matter how justified the criticism against him. Though it becomes less and less so as the fanbase grows.
• Discredited Meme: Felix himself put an end to the "Subscribe to PewDiePie" meme after multiple incidents of it being used to promote hate, taking all the fun and joy out of the meme.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Mr. Chair. While being just a chair, and not doing much except just laying there, fans have responded very well with it, making fanart with his catchphrases. Much of the reason is that Pewdie will call every single chair on every single game "Mr. Chair", making him probably the only character present in almost every Let's Play he makes (because, lets face it, there's probably at least a chair in EVERY video game).
  • His pugs (as acknowledged here).
  • His pet toad, Slippy. His death at the end of 2017 was a major Tear Jerker for many fans.
  • From his 2019 Minecraft Let's Play:
    • Jørgen, the first horse he managed to tame and ride on an adventure. His death by suffocation in the Nether Portal was considered a major Tear Jerker.
    • Sven, the blue collared dog. The Subreddit took to him almost immediately, with fanart of him constantly being drawn. They all near collectively had a heart attack when he nearly drowned in episode 9.
    • Lastly, Water Sheep (or jeb_) for all the wrong reasons.
    • Rolf. Just Rolf.
• Epileptic Trees: A commonly accepted piece of Fanon is that in order for Sven and his boyfriend to have fricked and made bebe, that Sven’s BF has to be Transgender.
• Fandom Rivalry:
  • He and UberHaxorNova have garnered some debates over whose Happy Wheels Let's Play is better. Same goes with whose Amnesia LP is better: PewDiePie's or Tobuscus's. The rivalry exploded when Nova did a short-lived Slender playthrough.
  • With Retsupurae fans, due to the latter making a video criticizing the former. A majority of the discussion brought about by the rivalry takes place on the Retsupurae videos.
  • Felix really doesn't like these debates, and went out of his way to tell his fans to stop the petty fandom fights.
    "Who is the best YouTuber? No one gives a shit..."
  • This tends to happen when Felix plays an indie game, instigating a Newbie Boom. Generally, the original fanbases tend to dislike the overwhelming presence of PewDiePie fans.
  • He also made a video where he played 3 free games, not knowing about Nerd³'s 3 Free Games series which was essentially the same concept. Felix addressed this retrospectively in the video's description.
    "So I didn't know Nerdcubed had a similar series a while ago. And even if I did, what's the big deal?"
• Fountain of Memes: There is lots of meme-worthy content in his videos. It doesn't help that he's extremely quotable, as well. See here.
• Fandom-Enraging Misconception: Calling Felix a Nazi based on his past controversies is an easy way to anger the fanbase, as they will be quick to point out that Felix apologized for his behavior multiple times and purposely distanced himself from the edgy jokes that made him controversial because they caused him to get lumped in with genuine Anti-Semites.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Felix's Creator Breakdown, culminating in his final Birdabo blog in November of 2016, became this in light of the antisemitism controvery that happened 6 months later getting Season 2 of Scare Pewdiepie cancelled, the filming being one of the biggest factors of his burnout, rendering his breakdown All for Nothing.
  • In the video "In my defense...", in which Pewds talks about clickbait media and his situation, he outright predicts that 2017 is the year that's going to go bad for him. Ouch.
  • When he did a livestream in December 2018, at the peak of the subscriber war against T-Series, Pewds said that he is sometimes legitimately worried that someone is going to do something crazy, in the name of the "Subscribe to PewDiePie" meme, and he is going to look like an idiot. In March and April 2019, some supporters committed criminal acts of vandalism and mass shootings to spread the "Subscribe to PewDiePie" meme, which prompted Felix to end the meme at the end of the latter month.
  • Felix's video on Bear Simulator, which mainly consists of him bad-mouthing the game, became a lot sourer in people's mouths after news got out that the developer of the game had decided to quit making games because of "drama" from the game. Although Felix claims he must not have been the only factor, and the developer didn't directly mention him, a lot of people still hugely attributed the developer quitting to him.
  • Many of Felix's earlier gaming videos and playthroughs became this in light of his "Forced Positivity on YouTube" video where he explains that he faked much of his enthusiasm because he figured that many people on YouTube were drawn to positivity, admitting that it was exhausting at times to keep it up, especially with games he didn't enjoy. Needless to say, it made his shying away from gaming content make a lot more sense.
  • The "Subscribe to PewDiePie" meme became a lot less funny when a gunman referenced it right before committing a livestreamed terror attack at a mosque in New Zealand.
  • "Congratulations" has a line where Felix says, "I'm 'bout to cause a genocide so you can call me [Hitler]". The song was made in December 2018 and the line mocks comparisons between him and Hitler, but if he had made it after the New Zealand shooting (when it was released), he probably would've avoided references to him causing any type of genocide.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: "I DON'T LIKE MARVEL MOVIES", naturally. In a later video, he would humorously label this his "worst controversy," and going purely by the metric of likes to dislikes, it technically is. He does, however, admit that he actually liked the Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame movies, before launching into a satirical philosophical tangent about Thanos, morality, and Søren Kierkegaard.
• Ho Yay: Now with its own page.
• Hype Aversion: A number of people choose not to watch him because of the way his fans idolize him, in addition to being the most subscribed channel.
• It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: When PewDiePie plays obscure games, they tend to explode in popularity. Fans of those games don't take it too well. Usually this is in fear of the Lowest Common Denominator of the Bros joining their communities and multiplayer sessions.
• Memetic Badass: If there's something that everyone knows about Sven, is that he takes many Creeper explosion in the face and tanks it.
• Memetic Molester:
  • Ao Oni wants to sleep with you.
  • Piggeh, who seemingly wants to molest everyone.
  • The Bros, as one video said: "There you are, cheese-tits! Now KISS ME!"
• Memetic Mutation: Has page here.
• Memetic Psychopath:
  • From his Minecraft lets play, Jeb (or jeb_) is seen as a sadistic schemer and demonic presence.
  • Similarly, Felix himself is known as the kidnapper- er "Unwilling Escorter with a Boat" who takes Villagers from their homes to his crib, where they serve as his personal servants, from DJ's to librarians. He even makes them reproduce en masse to train more librarians.
• Misaimed Fandom: During the T-Series "feud", some fans and outsiders were under the impression that Felix actually did hate TSeries and that he was genuinely accusing them of cheating their way to #1. He and his friends have had to clarify multiple times that it was all just in good fun, and while a few jokes had some basis in reality, there was nothing to be angry about.
• Misblamed: No, Felix did not cause the first Adpocalypse. While his Fiverr video is frequently cited as what caused it, or at the very least was a partial catalyst for it, advertisers only left the site a few months after its upload due to their ads showing up in videos with extremist content made back in September of 2016. In addition, Felix's channel was not listed among those with extremist content in the articles first reporting the exodus of advertisers in March of 2017.
• Moe: Sven, the dog that Pewds managed to tame in his new Minecraft lets play can be this.
• Nausea Fuel: The disgusting jelly bean challenge video, in which Pewds plays a rage game and has to eat a bean every time he dies, with the bean either being a nice flavor or a nasty flavor (for example, white could be coconut or baby wipes). He ends up eating a lot of bad ones, and it gets to the point where he gags severely and almost vomits on camera. However, something does come out of his mouth, which is then ever so graciously shown in a slow-motion close-up.
• Nightmare Retardant: The main appeal of videos, turning normally horrific moments into gut-busting laughter, whether it be his Consuela-eque female voice acting, his hilarious reactions to being scared, or just his general wackiness.
• No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: Can this video get 1 million dislikes?
  YO! WHAT'S F-F-F-FUCKING GOOD? ONE MILLION DISLIKES! CAN WE SMASH IT?
• Older Than They Think: An unprecedentedly popular Youtube-based Let's Player whose wacky antics, comedic presentation, and high-pitched voice have set new trends in the Let's Play format, attracted a surge of imitators, and created a mass dichotomy of those who think he's funny and those who think he's just annoying. Wait, are we talking about Pewdie, or DeceasedCrab?
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Felix is the most-subscribed individual on YouTube who remains among the most watched YouTubers, but starting in 2017, his reputation started to derail due to making videos that were perceived as being anti-Semitic which resulted in him getting dropped by Disney and Google, brought the rape jokes he made (and already apologized for) early in his career back into the limelight, and is speculated by some to have been a partial catalyst for the first Adpocalypse^note Sponsors cited the fact that their products were being advertised on explicitly pro-alt-right videos on the site. His reputation was further tarnished from him using the N-word during a livestream, badmouthing Bear Simulator so much that the developer quit making games because of "drama" from the game, and shouting out ER, a YouTube channel featuring offensive and politically-charged humor, among nearly 20 other channels. Things got even worse when the white supremacist perpetrators of the 2019 Christchurch massacre endorsed him while livestreaming the atrocity. While he has since toned down his behavior and apologized, he remains controversial outside of his fanbase, and you'd be hard-pressed to find an article on him after 2017 that fails to mention his controversies.
• Parody Displacement:
  • His LWIAY series was conceived as an innocent, obvious tongue-in-cheek riff on Jacksfilms' YIAY series (what with it being much more awkward to pronounce and all), but due to his version reaching a wider audience, there was a notable period of time where many of his fans were legitimately mad at Jack for "stealing" Felix's idea, and the two of them had to publicly clear the air.
  • Pewds' cover of "Hej Hej Monika" is going to make the song more likely known as some kind of DDLC parody song rather than a one-hit-wonder from 2004. His cover not only dwarfs an earlier posting of the song by almost 9X, but the Kizuna AI channel did a cover of the song, outright saying it was inspired by Felix.
• Periphery Demographic: Felix has a lot of young fans, even though his actual videos aren't completely PG. Invoked with the 9 year old moniker. Initially, it's a slander presented by Alinity to insult Pewd's primary audience being at the age range of 9 to 12 years old. Needless to say, Pewds and the fanbase ran wild with it.
  "I'm starting to find it weird that I've been 9 for 9 years."
• Self-Fanservice: While Felix isn't unattractive by any means, he's not the typical Bishōnen he's usually depicted as in fanart either.
• Shocking Moments:
  • Getting Ben Shapiro to host Meme Review.
  • Elon Musk hosting another meme review with Justin Roiland.
  • His 2019 playthrough of Minecraft, his first real gaming playthrough in years and a major case of Revisiting the Roots. Many fans, old and new, were drawn in by Felix's reactions to all the new content since he last played. Felix himself would be surprised at how much he was genuinely enjoying the game, to the point where he would spend hours on and off-camera playing the game.
    Felix (near the end of part 7): I've been playing for 2 hours. (starts chuckling) And I still have so much to do! (laughs)
• Special Effect Failure: His attempt to do a Double Vision here is obvious.
• Squick: Several of his jokes are dripping with this:
  • When Piggy stops simply yelling "I'm Pumped".
  • Follow the period! It's what his mom always said.
  • When fans recommended to let him watch a certain infamous "YOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" anime, this is his entire reaction.
  • The whole concept of the "Frick Room" he built in Minecraft.
• Unexpected Character: The cohosts for meme review were often already famous people rising to meme status, such as Ben Shapiro, Elon Musk, Justin Roiland, and Mr. Beast with his crew. Then you get “Blue shirt kid”, a random kid who got interviewed for the T-Series rivalry, and rose in meme status on the subreddit, but basically had nothing else that would make him big enough for Meme Review.
• The Woobie:
  • Timmy, the son from Happy Wheels, who gets blown up, shredded, impaled, yelled at, and forgotten on an alarmingly frequent basis.
  • The Pewdie clone in the Charlie Charlie Challenge. All he wanted to do was help the challenge, and he got yelled at, forced to leave, and repeatedly called a "fucking idiot". All strung together by some marvelous acting on Felix's behalf.

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