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PewDiePie Net Worth [year]

Net Worth: $30 million Age: 30 Born: 24th October 1989 Country or Origin: Sweden Source of wealth: YouTuber/Vlogger Last updated: 2020

Introduction

Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, who is famously known by his online pseudonym PewDiePie PewDiePie is the current YouTube sensation widely popular after the great subscriber war with the T series. However, PewDiePie lost the YouTube war to reach 100 million first on May 28, 2019. He is estimated to have a value of around $ 30 million as of 2019 and is considered one of the richest YouTubers of all time.

PewDiePie earned his net worth from your eminent diverse career as a comedian, video game commentator and YouTuber. He is listed as the highest-earning YouTube star. Later on, you will get to know how he earns from YouTube, his sources of income, sources of salary income, assets and other money-related details.

Early Life

Felix was born on 24th October 1989, in Gothenburg, Sweden. From a young age, he was interested in art and was an avid gamer during his days in high school.

He graduated from High school from Göteborgs Högre Samskola in 2008 and went on to study at Chalmers University of Technology. But, Felix felt that he didn’t belong there and so he decided to drop out to do what makes him happy.

Even though his early days were hard, he said in a video that he bought equipment to get started by selling his works of Photoshop. He came up with the name of the channel to be ‘PewDiePie’ even though at first it was just Pewdie.

Career

PewDiePie’s energetic and funny commentating on games with epic reactions made him a viral phenomenon very quickly, and he became the most subscribed YouTube channel in 2012 with 5 million subscribers.

He went on to sign with Makers Studio and started to get attention on the media as well. PewDiePie’s channel now has more than 3500 videos with over 50 million subscribers.

In October 2011, PewDiePie started uploading weekly blogs. In the eight-month period, his YouTube channel had an impressive amount of uploaded videos. As his channel began to grow, he began to extend the content of his video; publishing animated comedy and live-action. PewDiePie could also be described as an icon of social networks. Beyond the fact that he has numerous followers on YouTube, PewDiePie also has more than 7 million likes on Facebook, Ten million followers on Instagram and eight million followers on Twitter.

He has funny characters in his videos. While watching these funny videos, the interest of the person watching the videos is diverted to the comments and reactions that PewDiePie shows while playing video games. As a result, his videos belong to the “Let’s Play” set. 

As the number of his followers reached the climax700,000, PewDiePie received an invitation to speak at the Nonick Conference in 2012. In July of that same year, the number of his subscribers increased to 1 million. It took only a couple of months before reaching 2 million. In October 2012, OpenSlate recognized the PewDiePie channel as the number one channel on YouTube. As of December 2019, PewDiePie has over 100m subscribers on YouTube.

His channel has included much different game series and segments over the years among which his Lets Play series has been widely popular.

As his popularity grew and reports about the large sums of money were starting to come out publicly, he got a lot of attention as well as hate at the same time.

That is why he has several videos dedicated to mean comments. His signature is the brofist that he does at the end of his every video. He also posts vlogs time and again and has a following of any mainstream media.

PewDiePie Salary, Sources of Income, Earnings

As of 2019, PewDiePie is estimated to have a net worth of around $ 30 million according to several online sources. His main source of income is his successful career as a Swedish Internet personality, YouTuber, Twitcher, comedian, actor and game commentator.

PewDiePie officially began his career on YouTube in 2011 after he left Chalmers University of Technology. In addition to YouTube, he also gets a good sum of money from merchandise sales, comedy content, sponsorships, and appeared on television shows and series.

PewDiePie YouTube Earnings

PewDiePie launched its YouTube channel on April 29, 2010. It mainly makes videos in the genre like Let’s Play, vlog, comedy and satire, similar to other YouTube stars such as Ryan Higa, Markiplier, Jake Paul and others.

As of 2019, the estimated monthly profit of PewDiePie is around $ 140.8 thousand to $ 2.3 million. PewDiePie’s annual YouTube income is approximately $ 1.7 million to $ 27 million per year.

Also, he has received silver, gold, diamonds and ruby ​​playback buttons, which means he earns about $ 1.4 million per video upload.

PewDiePie Commercial Companies and Merchandise Sales

On the other hand, PewDiePie also makes a good sum of money from merchandise sales. Sell ​​products that include t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, hats and tank tops.

He sells products online through his website. The average price of merchandise ranges between $ 50 and $ 200 per piece.

Similarly, he wins from his companies. He gets royalties and a large sum of money from his video games. He released games like PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist, PewDiePie’s Tuber Simulator, Animal Super Squad and others.

PewDiePie Other Source of Income

In addition to his eminent career, he earns a huge sum of money from other sources. Earn money with his appearance in other media, such as Epic Rap Battles of History, Conan, Internet Icon, Rewind series, Sveriges Radio, South Park, Oscar’s Hotel for Fantastical Creatures, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and others.

On top of that, he also gets a royalty from his book, This Book Loves You. The book is the parody of self-help books that includes the collection of aphorisms, jokes and wisdom. Also, he also earns from his own program PewDiePie, Scare PewDiePie and Let’s Animate.

PewDiePie’s Instagram Earnings, Investments and Charities

Similarly, PewDiePie is also earned as the influencer of social networks. From Instagram, earn about $ 35,230 to $ 58,716 per sponsored publication. In addition to that, PewDiePie also collects a good sum of his investments in various companies and the stock market. It is said that he accumulates around 6% of its nett assets from the returns on those investments.

Career Highlights

In 2015, he released his own game called PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist.

He then went on to also release his book that was called This Book Loves You. PewDiePie has won several accolades among the gaming area on Youtube, most notably winning the Best Gaming Channel, Show, or Series in the 5th Streamy Awards.

Forbes named PewDiePie as the highest-earning YouTuber with his annual income reaching $15 million in 2016.

YouTube isn’t the only source of income for Pewdiepie who is also involved with many other productions and projects.

He is also a big giver and has a project called the ‘Water Campaign’. Through the program, he managed to raise over $400,000 and has also been involved with many collaborations over the years.

In recent times, Felix has also been giving a new edge to his channel with some of his free speech videos following controversies over some of the content of his videos.

Favourite Quotes

“My parents said that sitting at home playing video games all day won’t bring you anywhere in life.” – PewDiePie

“The thing that has made YouTube so successful is that you can relate to the people you’re watching to a much higher degree than to the people you see on TV.” – PewDiePie

“When I started my YouTube channel in 2010, I never imagined that one day it would be the most subscribed channel in the world and that I would be a part of such a great community.” – PewDiePie

“Dropping the news to my parents that I was skipping my ‘dream education’ at Chalmers to sit at home recording videos while playing video games was not easy.” – PewDiePie

“With my channel, and what people associate with the Internet, most people think it goes viral, you become this huge thing super quick. I never had an explosion or a huge thing. It’s just been something that has progressively been growing. It’s been building.” – PewDiePie

“It was so much easier to connect with my fans when I was smaller. I could answer every message, and I enjoyed doing that.” – PewDiePie

Life Lessons

1. Just do whatever you feel like doing

Of course, there are some significant differences in the way PewDiePie approaches his business, considering that he is in the entertainment business, not the education business.

And yet, I think that this is also something that many of us could apply more in our businesses.

PewDiePie is so successful primarily because he is so incredibly authentic.

He doesn’t seem to be scared at all about what people think of him (of course, in reality, he is scared, but he doesn’t let this fear stop him at all).

What he does every single day is turning all the weird thoughts that may come to the mind of a young person into reality.

Yes, I am talking about those thoughts that we all have but which we never would do because we are too scared what other people will think.

The result is stuff like dressing up one of his male best friends as his girlfriend and making him perform her “role”, running around the city like a crazy person pretending to be a Pokemon master, or following the instructions of some strip-tease game in real-time.

2. Only focus on your core group of fans and ignore everything else

PewDiePie has such a massive audience, that it may seem impossible to tell who his ‘core audience’ is.

And yet, his humour is so specific and strange that only a certain group of people actually gets it. The majority of people still sees him as making his money by merely shouting into the microphone.

But these people who ‘get him’, are so fascinated by what he does that they consume all of what he produces, interact with him to insane degrees, and share his stuff like nothing else.

He has these challenges where, for example, he asks people to take a brief video clip of him and turn them into the funniest memes.

Or, where he asks people to make drawings of him and his dog Edgar.

There are literally thousands of people who, every single week, spend hours and hours participating in these challenges.

These are the people who do all the marketing for him. The people who convince others that his weird kind of humour is worth listening to. The people who defend him when he’s getting himself into another crisis.

PewDiePie, at the same time, just keeps speaking in his own voice.

He just keeps producing stuff that the core of his audience understands and responds to.

His “bro army”, which is how he is calling his community, has its running gags, memes, symbols and recurring themes which only insiders can understand.

In this way, he creates a real community feeling among his followers.

3. Keep doing what you believe in no matter what

The amount of criticism that PewDiePie received over the past few years must’ve been insane, and would’ve certainly broken many people.

Particularly the media shit-storms that he received in the aftermath of some of his missteps were incredibly intense.

Although he has recognized that he has overstepped in many aspects, in essence, he has continued to do the same things that have always done, even after some of his major partnerships have fallen apart.

Regardless of what you think of him, it is clear that he works in and out on the things that he loves doing and that he believes in.

If you just keep going and pushing forward, the right people are going to respect your effort and your honesty.

4. Co-creation and interaction

I have hinted on this before, but a large section of the content that PewDiePie produces is co-created with some of his fans.

One example for this is people like “Dillon the hacker”, one of his “enemies”, who is supposedly trying hard to destroy PewDiePie’s supremacy on Youtube.

5. Consistency is still key

PewDiePie has started posting videos about 7 years ago while working in a hot-dog stand to finance himself. 

I don’t know when exactly he began posting daily, but it must have easily been several years now.

Daily writing is already hard enough, but daily video production?

All the planning that is involved, all the retakes that you need to do, all the editing that needs to get done.

It must be one hell of a time-intensive job.

Plus, when he started, there was no such thing as a “professional” Youtuber. He just believed in the process of something that he loved doing, and then kept going with it.

Eventually, it worked out and he started making money.

Today, with his daily videos and the ad revenue that he generates from it, he eventually became one of the richest social influencers, making an estimated $12 million per year.

Summary

PewDiePie is the most popular YouTuber of all time, with millions of subscribers, and a net worth that’s beginning to stack up; just like many other social media stars such as Mrbeast and Logan Paul.

As of 2020, PewDiePie’s net worth is estimated to be $30 million.

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Plants vs. Winter: The Origins of English Conservatories

by K.M. Pohlkamp Your ruthless Viscount patron has commissioned a heinous new poison. Your stores of toxic cuttings and seeds are running low and the backyard garden is blanketed with snow. Dear assassin, how will you grow the plant ingredients you need? This dilemma developed while writing my historical novel, Apricots and Wolfsbane, set in the early 1500's England. Yes, my assassin could have simply harvested a sufficient supply of seeds and cuttings during the previous fall. Yawn. She could have purchased supplies from a shadowy figure in the alley. Instead, I had her bartered for access to a solarium. Since my character exists in early Tudor England, like a good historical fiction author, I began research period solariums only to find the word didn't exist until about the mid 1800's. Well then. A quick find and replace later, my assassin's solarium transformed into a greenhouse. Problem solved, right? After all, greenhouse technology was first used in about 30 A.D. to provide the Roman emperor Tiberius with an ample supply of "cucumbers" which physicians believed would ward off his ailments. (Historical note: he likely did not eat cucumbers, but rather melons that lacked sweetness.) The Roman philosopher, Pliny the Elder, described those first Roman greenhouses as:

"beds mounted on wheels which they moved out into the sun and then on wintry days withdrew under the cover of frames glazed with transparent stone." 

 The "transparent stone" roofs were thin sheets of mica that were kept warm by maintained fires outside of the stone walls. It wasn't until the 13th century that the Italians built the first modern greenhouses (Giardini botanici) which fostered new species brought home by explorers of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and, later, the New World. Development of the concept spread and by 1450, Korea also had "temperature controlled" houses as documented by Jeon Son in his 1459 cookbook, Sanga Yorok. These early structures comprised of modest wood or metal frames with glass. In southern Europe, a simple roof or a wall of windows maintained sufficient warmth thanks to the "greenhouse effect." During the day, sunlight warmed the interior of the structure and the glass trapped enough residual heat to keep the plants content throughout the night, even in winter.

This was all great if my assassin was Italian, or Korean, or Spanish. But she's English. Those early, simple concepts of passive heating proved insufficient against the harsh winter of Northern Europe. 

Thankfully for her (and me), the concept of greenhouses finally took root in England in the 16th century. But even before that time, the value of moving plants inside during cold nights was well understood by the English.

The Gardener's Labyrinth, written by Thomas Hill in 1577 under the pseudonym Didymus Mountain, was the first common gardening book written in English. The book describes the concept of a greenhouse by referencing Tiberius' original inspiration: (You can download the beautiful original document here.)

"The young plants may be defended from cold and boisterous windes, yea, frosts, the cold aire, and hot Sunne, if Glasses made for the onely purpose, be set over them, which on such wise bestowed on the beds, yeelded in a manner to Tiberius Caesar, Cumbers all year, in which he took great delight . . ."

In the 17th century, glasshouses in Britain came to be called "orangeries," developed to shelter citrus imported from Spain. Orangeries were originally built as extensions to large buildings but evolved to be separate structures. To fight the brutal winter, early English orangeries featured a charcoal underfloor heating system that dispersed warmth through channels called "hypocausts." The structures had solid roofs and walls, usually with a large door to facilitate relocation of the trees. Maintenance of the greenhouses required attentive care to close at night and prepare for winter weather.

The popularity of orangeries grew in 1689 when William III took the crown of England, Ireland and Scotland. Also around this time in 1661, Louis XIV commissioned a great glasshouse for Versailles measuring 150 m (490 ft) long, 13 m (43 ft) wide, and 14 m (46 ft) high. These events further transformed glasshouses from university, government and scientific institutions into symbols of aristocracy and the social elite. In England, this status was especially bolstered by the 1696 "window tax" and the 1764 "glass tax." 

The great English conservatories were born.

The word "conservatory" is derived from the Latin conservato (meaning "stored or preserved") and the Latin root ory  (meaning "a place for"). However, the word came to invoke glazed structures for conserving or protecting plants from cold weather.

John Nash designed four conservatories for Buckingham Palace in 1825. However, when William IV ordered remodeling of the palace, one of the conservatories was moved to Kew in 1836. The structure remains the oldest, fully glazed greenhouse still standing. The design features structural columns to support the heavy weight of the glass panel roof and walls.

Nash House at Kew Gardens. Photo from Reference [3].

As symbols of prestige, glasshouses became cutting edge with increasing innovations. The magnificent glass and iron greenhouse of the Palm House in Kew was constructed under Queen Victoria between 1844 and 1848 by architect Decimus Burton and iron worker Richard Turner. To achieve construction on the massive scale, architects borrowed techniques from the shipbuilding industry, which provides rationale for why the building resembles an overturned hull. The structure consists of wrought iron arches held together by horizontal tubular structures containing long pressed cables. The center of the greenhouse nave is 19 m (62 ft) high.

Palm House Green House. Photo from www.kew.org

Sir Joseph Paxton, the gardens superintendent for the Duke of Devonshire, supervised the construction of an iron-framed Great Conservatory at Chatsworth house between 1836 and 1841. The conservatory covered three-quarters of an acre, and at the time, was the largest glass building in the world. Shaped like a tent, it measured 20.5 meters (67 ft) high and 84 m (277 ft) long. Eight boilers heated the conservatory, requiring the operation of ten men and seven miles of iron pipe. During the Great War, the massive amounts of coal required became unavailable, but all the gardeners were enlisted anyway.  Unattended, all the contained plants perished and the Great Conservatory was demolished in 1920.

However, the Great Conservatory became Paxton's model for the Crystal Palace. Constructed in 22 weeks, the Crystal Palace covered 19 acres and was the largest enclosed space at the time. Containing 293,625 panes of glass, the palace spread five times as long as the Palm House (undoubtedly on purpose), and higher than Westminster Abbey. For his efforts, Paxton was knighted by Queen Victoria. 

The Crystal Palace. Photo from the BBC Hulton Picture Library.

The Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire on the night of November 30, 1936. The two surviving towers were demolished in 1941. The Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom restaurant of the same name was not modeled after the Crystal Palace in London, as you might expect, but rather by after the San Francisco's conservatory of Flowers.

As all fads, the greenhouse craze would not last. Britain's expanding empire and new wealth from the Industrial Revolution enabled the construction of an increasing number of glasshouses. However, the Industrial Revolution also decreased the cost of making glass so severely that the glass and window taxes were abolished in 1845 and 1851, respectively. Glasshouses subsequently became affordable to the English middle class and businessmen quickly realized that caste represented a larger consumer base potential. By the early 20th century, plain, self-assembled, small glasshouses were manufactured with iron structures for the common home garden.  

After hours of research, I determined it is possible my English assassin could have had access to a rudimentary glasshouse - if her connections possessed sufficient wealth. Such structures were not common in early Tudor England, but the concepts and technology were understood. However my research posed a new dilemma only I could answer: would access to such a luxury allow my ambitious assassin to prevail . . .

References

[1] Bruno, Gwen. "A Short History of the Greenhouse." Dave's Garden. March 1, 2012. Accessed July 13, 2017. http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/3607#

[2] "History of the Conservatory" Richmond Oak Conservatories Ltd. Accessed July 15, 2017. http://www.oakconservatories.co.uk/history-of-the-conservatory/

[3] Hodgson, Larry. "A Brief History of the Greenhouse." Laidback Gardener. January 27, 2016. Accessed July 12, 2017. https://laidbackgardener.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/a-brief-history-of-the-greenhouse/

[4[ Mountain, Didymus. The Gardener's Labyrinth. 1577.

[5] Paris, H.S. et al. "What the Roman emperor Tiberius grew in  his greenhouses."  Cucurbitaceae 2008, Proceedings of the IXth EUCARPIA meeting on genetics and breeding of Cucurbitaceae (Pitrat M, ed), INRA, Avignon (France), May 21-24th, 2008. 

[6] "The Crystal Palace." Disney Vacation Planner. Accessed July 16, 2017. http://www.solarius.com/dvp/wdw/crystal-palace.htm

[7] "The First Greenhouses: From Rome, to America." RIMOL Greenhouse Systems Blog. February 4, 2013. Accessed July 14, 2017. https://www.rimolgreenhouses.com/blog/the-first-greenhouses-from-rome-to-america

[8] "Way Back When: A history of the English Glasshouse" Hartley Magazine. September 3, 2015. Accessed July 13, 2017. https://hartley-botanic.co.uk/magazine/a-history-of-the-english-glasshouse/

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K.M. Pohlkamp is the author of the Tudor-era novel, Apricots and Wolfsbane, following the career of a female poison assassin. She is a proud mother of two, a blessed wife to the love of her life, and a Mission Control flight controller at NASA. Originally from Wisconsin, she now resides in Houston, Texas.

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Hat Tip To: English Historical Fiction Authors