Here's The REAL Reason Why PewDiePie Will Quit YouTube In 2020

In his latest vlog, the Swedish Internet star, PewDiePie, has announced that he will be quitting YouTube in 2020. The 30-year-old vlogger, real name Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, widely known as PewDiePie, is based in the UK and has the second biggest number of subscribers on the video-sharing platform.

In August 2019, he had hinted towards his impending absence from YouTube in one of his videos where he said that it would be “good for me to take a break at some point. It would be nice to not have YouTube in my brain for the first time in 10 years.”

And now, in his latest vlog on December 15, 2019, the Youtuber confirmed the news. “I am taking a break from YouTube next year. I wanted to say it in advance because I made up my mind. I'm tired. I'm feeling very tired. I don't know if you can tell. Just so you know, early next year I'll be away for a little while. I'll explain that later but I wanted to give a heads up,” he said.

Thanks to his ever-growing popularity on the platform, PewDiePie has a whopping 102 million subscribers on his channel and earns over $8.7 million per month. PewDiePie also has a giant social media following with over 20 million followers on Instagram and 18 million on Twitter.

But is this all really about “taking a break” from Youtube?

The YouTube megastar, PewDiePie has been courting major controversies and turbulences in his career since 2017. Just two months ago, he was banned in China after he joked about memes which compared the country's President Xi to Winnie the Pooh.

'The resemblance is uncanny,' remarked PewDiePie in one of his vlogs. He also commented on how “China is like that one person on Twitter that can't take any criticism and just blocks everyone.”

“It's all about pleasing China and following Chinese rule,” PewDiePie had said.

Disney cut off all ties with PewDiePie in 2017

Early in 2017, PewDiePie was slammed for using racial slurs in his vlogs. It was followed by his use of antisemitic jokes and Nazi imagery in his vlogs from 2016, unearthed by The Wall Street Journal. In light of this controversy, the Disney-owned Maker Studios multi-channel network cut ties with the vlogger in February 2017. He was also removed from the Google Preferred advertising programme and the Scare PewDiePie YouTube Red series were cancelled as well.

2018 was no better as PewDiePie continued to attract controversy

In May 2018, PewDiePie used a sexist remark "Twitch thots", streamer Alinity, sparking a major feud. Proving that he has not learned from his past mistakes, the vlogger again faced public ire when he posted an insensitive meme about pop star Demi Lovato, talking about her overdose and alleged heroin use, though he later deleted the tweet.

Just two months later, in September 208, he called fellow YouTubers Logan Paul and KSI, “scumbags” and called out the latter for making “sexist” comments about his now-wife, Marzia Bisognin, who also quit YouTube a year ago.