Career

He created his youtube channel on 29th of April 2010. He surpassed 1 million subs in july 2012 and on 15 August 2013, Kjellberg became the most-subscribed channel on Youtube , being briefly surpassed in late 2013 by Youtube-Spotlight (moonlight yo spotlight yo) and several times in early 2019 by Indian record label T-series. From 29 December 2014 to 14 February 2017, Kjellberg’s channel was the most-viewed Youtube channel. As of April 2019, the channel has received over 96 million subscribers and 21 billion video views, ranking as the second-most subscribed and eleventh-most viewed on the platform. Kjellberg’s most noted YouTube content includes his Let’s Play-styled video game commentaries, particularly of horror genre. His content has been praised as genuine and unfiltered but also received as abrasive, and in some cases, met with controversy.