Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg born 24 October 1989 known online as PewDiePie is an Englandbased Swedish YouTuber comedian gamer and philanthropist known primarily for his Lets Play videos and comedic formatted shows After registering his eponymous YouTube channel in 2010 he primarily posted Lets Play videos of horror and action video games His channel experienced substantial growth in popularity over the next two years and he reached 1 million subscribers in July 2012 Over time his style of content diversified to include vlogs comedy shorts formatted shows and music videos He became the mostsubscribed YouTuber on 15 August 2013 and firmly held the title until early 2019 when he publicly vied for it with an Indian record label TSeries The latter established a significant lead in April that year although his channel remains as the secondmostsubscribed on the platform having received over 106 million subscribers as of August 2020 From December 2014 to February 2017 he had the mostviewed channel on YouTube As of May 2020 his channel has received over 25 billion views ranking as the 16thmostviewed channel on the platform Description above is from the Wikipedia article PewDiePie licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia