PewDiePie raises $1.5 million for charity from YouTube members alone YouTube: PewDiePieYouTuber Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg has donated $1.5 million to various charities thanks to channel membership revenue he earned throughout 2020 and 2021. PewDiePie is without a doubt one of the biggest YouTubers out there, and with 110 million subscribers is the fourth most followed YouTube channel on the entire site. The creator has been known to make plenty of charitable donations in the past using the revenue he makes from his channel, and in November 2020 even revealed that he\u2019d been donating the money he earned from Super Chats during streams to charity. On August 29, the Swede went on to reveal that he\u2019s managed to donate a huge amount of money to charity over the last year or so thanks to revenue from channel membership. \u201cIn 2020 and 2021, through membership revenue \u2013 which I vouched to donate to charity \u2013 we were able to donate the total of $1,520,003 for various amazing charities,\u201d he wrote in a community update. The full list of charities the huge amount of money went towards are: Winston\u2019s Wish – Save the Children (Lebanon) – Blue Ocean Foundation – Papyrus – Movember – Comic Relief \/ Red Nose Day – Book Trust – World Food Program – Make A Wish – Alzheimer\u2019s Research – Centre for Effective Altruism – Pewds went on to give his \u201cbiggest thanks to everyone for making this possible.\u201d Fans were naturally blown away by the generous donation, and quickly praised the YouTuber in the comments of his community post. \u201cPewds is legitimately so generous, I don\u2019t understand how people can hate this man,\u201d one follower wrote, another adding: \u201cThe fact he gets over $1 million through memberships is insane. What\u2019s even more insane is that he donates it.\u201d The post received over 130,000 likes and 2000 comments, with people praising the YouTuber for making such a big impact on these charities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PewDiePie raises $1.5 million for charity from YouTube members alone YouTube: PewDiePieYouTuber Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg has donated $1.5 million to various charities thanks to channel membership revenue he earned throughout 2020 and 2021. PewDiePie is without a doubt one of the biggest YouTubers out there, and with 110 million subscribers is the fourth most followed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}