PewDiePie, the guy with millions of loyal YouTube subscribers and a penchant for yelling for minutes on end during Let's Play sessions on the video site, made $7 million last year, and he's getting really sick of talking about it.
Felix Kjellberg, 25, who goes by the handle PewDiePie, amassed his fortune by offering color commentary as he played and recorded video games. Swedish language newspaper Expressen recently published a report on PewDiePie raking in about $7.4 million last year by playing games and streaming the sessions.
Here's a translation of an excerpt from the report:
Being big mouth is normally not a winning recipe. Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg, 25, may be considered the exception.
The annual report for his company Pewdie Productions has just been submitted to the Companies Registration Office, and Expressen has taken some of the amazing numbers. .
Revenues amounted to over 63.7 million crowns. Profit before tax was 63 million.
Despite having a following that's larger than the population of Canada and about half the size of the UK's—yep, he has more than 37 million subscribers on YouTube—it's not hard to find people who flat out dislike the Let's Play pioneer.
Addressing his haters, PewDiePie shared a video titled "Let's Talk About Money."
"Money is a topic that I've purposely tried to avoid for the five years that I've been making videos, because I ... I just feel like it's not important to anyone—I just want to make entertaining videos," said PewDiePie in his YouTube address. "Don't get me wrong, though. I'm not going to pretend like it doesn't matter to me. It matters to everyone."
From there, he explained how happy he was selling hotdogs on the streets after he left university. The six-minute-long address, however, boiled down to content producers proclaiming money isn't as big a deal as the world makes it out to be.
"It seems like the whole world cares more about how much money I make than I do myself," he said. "We did raise a million dollars for charity and very few articles picked up on that. But here it is, everywhere, how much money I make. I don't think there's any good reason anyone should care. And on top of that, there's no good reason why I should care either."
Check out the full video below:
