PewDiePie explains why he doesn\u2019t care about YouTube views anymore YouTube: PewDiePieFelix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg has laughed off concerns over his dwindling YouTube popularity, and the steep drop in views, claiming he \u201calready feels retired\u201d and stopped caring about fame a long time ago. For years, Swedish content creator PewDiePie reigned supreme as the King of YouTube, sparked by his huge T-Series vs Pewds rivalry, extraordinarily popular Minecraft videos, and more. In more recent times, however, the 32-year-old has found his average video views dropping away, his interactions dwindling, and his popularity seemingly \u201cfading away\u201d in a way he and his fans have never seen before. While his \u201cBro Army\u201d may care, Pewds says it doesn\u2019t bother him in the slightest. He\u2019s already climbed to the immense heights of the top of YouTube, he says \u2014 a goal he \u201cdidn\u2019t even really want,\u201d ironically enough \u2014 and has been purposefully \u201cdoing what [he] likes\u201d for months. \u201cI\u2019ve said it before,\u201d he said after one worried fan raised concerns. \u201cI\u2019ve considered myself retired for like a year now. I\u2019m only doing YouTube videos for fun now.\u201d The biggest concern the PewDiePie fandom has had in the past few months has been around the Swede\u2019s immense subscriber count, and how having those 110 million followers doesn\u2019t translate to video views anymore. Felix was quick to brush those concerns in a December 2 video. \u201cThis channel is so hyper-inflated by the T-Series rivalry, so it\u2019s not like they\u2019re all my dedicated fans anyway. And then, I\u2019m doing what I like doing. People have always put me in a box, and I think that\u2019s the big problem here. I\u2019m doing what I like, and that means that people will stop watching me. \u201cHonestly,\u201d he continued, \u201cI\u2019m kind of getting tired of it. I\u2019m just trying to have fun, and people say \u2018I wish he was like he was five years ago!\u2019 That\u2019s not what I want to do. Years ago I did horror, and when I stopped my views dropped then. \u201cI\u2019m allowed to change. I stopped worrying about if people were watching, and started making things I wanted,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s normal to change.\u201d Related segment begins at 2:07 in the video below. Funnily enough, the \u201cdrop\u201d in PewDiePie\u2019s immense YouTube popularity still leaves him raking in more than two million views per video, and he often adds more than a million new subscribers each month that he uploads. Kjellberg admits he\u2019s \u201cextremely lucky\u201d to have the success he\u2019s enjoyed over the past decade, and says he\u2019s \u201cchilling\u201d now. At the moment the Swede is enjoying reaction videos, but the 32-year-old admits that could change again too. If that comes with less views, he adds, \u201cso be it.\u201d \u201cPeople always complain,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I did games, people complained. When I watched Reddit videos lots, they complained. They do it for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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