YouTube's Highest Earning Creator PewDiePie: Deleting His Channel at 50 Million Subscribers?

By Laura Clark - 14 Dec '16 23:00PM

YouTube's highest earning creator, Felix 'PewDiePie' Kjellberg trolled fans after announcing that deleting his channel was the joke he was hitting on.

The 27-year old Swedish video producer and web-based comedian announced on his December 02-video that he'll be deleting his YouTube channel whenever he hits the milestone of 50 million subscribers. PewDiePie as a social media influencer, drops engagement with YouTube as a protest wherein he claims that YouTube has changed their promotional scheme and that users remove people from the subscriber's list without even notifying them.

PewDiePie is raising issues regarding the video service over distinguished strain.However, last Saturday (December 10), PewDiePie disclosed that the promise was nothing more than a publicity stunt.

"I just wanted to say, you know when you make a joke and it blows up bigger than you ever imagined?" PewDiePie mused on before wiping off a two-video secondary channel.

"That was the joke. That was it... that was the joke," PewDiePie explained. The piece was even considered as one of Youtube's biggest hoax created over the weekend.

Following the prank which blows all YouTubers, PewDiePie has received speculations which even led to perceiving him as a racist. The video was part-pleasing and sickening. Some find it as a good laugh though it silently plays a counter-demonstration.

According to CTV News, the slab was aiming by a notice of an upcoming charity event Cringemas. It was an event organized by the members of Revelmode, a collective which was also started by Kjellberg himself. As stated, the proceeds raised by the Cringema viewers will pitch to an affluential AIDS foundation (RED). PewDiePie earned about $15 M over the past year, according to Forbes wherein some of his earnings has been used for raising foundations.

And on December 08, 2016, YouTube announced that youtube.com/PewDiePie has become the site's first channel ever to reach 50 million subscribers.