Pewdiepie Essay

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PewDiePie, or Pewdie is the YouTube alias of Swedish gamer Felix Kjellberg. He is known for his Let’s Play videos of video games, often ones considered horror-themed. He is known for obnoxiously screaming and crying in reaction to the games. Felix Kjellberg began his YouTube account PewDiePie on April 29th, 2010 with a Minecraft playthrough video showing a zombie that had spawned in a minecart. In the first few months following this video, Pewdie began uploading playthroughs of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dead Space 2. In October 2011, a single topic blog Fuck Yeah PewDiePie was created for fans of his videos, which has gained 2200 followers[18] in the span of 8 months. As of June 2012, Pewdie’s YouTube channel has 668 uploads, including play-throughs of 38 games and 27 Amnesia custom stories sent in by the fans, 1,000,000 subscribers and fares an average of 253,391 views per day. Outside of YouTube, Pewdie’s Facebook fan page has 195,528 likes, his official forum has 11,000 members and a wiki about his videos has 45 pages. In addition, posts and fanart about Pewdie appear on Tumblr under the tag “pewdiepie" and there are more than 8700 pieces of fan art for PewDiePie on deviantArt. Throughout his videos, PewDiePie talks to props in the games as if they were real people. The first character he created was introduced in a run of a custom Amnesia story titled “Abduction,” uploaded to YouTube on April 17th, 2011. In the video, Pewdie finds a golden statue in a bookshelf and names it Stephano (sometimes spelled Stefano). Over the course of PewDiePie’s YouTube series, the object gained a fearless personality with a French accent. When Pewdie is scared or distracted, Stephano advises him to not make noises or complete actions that will alarm enemies. However, Pewdie will often place Stephano on the nearest shelf immediately after telling

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