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YouTube Multi-Millionaire Pewdiepie: 'I'm Tired Of Talking About How Much Money I Make'

Oct 11, 2014, 20:32 IST

Felix "Pewdiepie" Kjellberg is arguably YouTube's biggest celebrity. With over 31 million subscribers on YouTube and hundreds of millions of views on his videos, Kjellberg is living the ultimate dream of any young teenager or 20-something hoping to make it big on the video-sharing platform.

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Making YouTube videos about video games is his job. And even though it doesn't sound like a lucrative profession, or even a profession at all, Kjellberg is making a pretty penny from doing pretty much anything he wants and putting it up on YouTube for all of his fans.

In 2013, he made over $4 million from ad revenue. And after the Wall Street Journal reported that number, Kjellberg held an AMA on Reddit where he confirmed he made "roughly around that." Everyone wanted to know about the money aspect first, a detail that's not lost on Kjellberg. He told Icon magazine he's "extremely tired of talking about how much I make. In the very few interviews I've made, it doesn't matter how long we've talked to each other, the headline is still just about my paycheck."

To Icon, Kjellberg explains,

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You can read the full interview in Icon here.

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