PewDiePie’s success and fame as a ‘YouTuber’ has led many to try and follow in his footsteps. But how successful is he? Well, at one time, he was the most successful, financially as well as based on subscribers, personality on YouTube. First, he’s a Swede. His real name is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg. His YouTube channel is consistently the most subscribed-to channel on YouTube, though it has been dethroned pesdiepie by an Indian Bollywood-playing site on more than one occasion. As of AprilPewDiePie’s channel was dif as the third-most subscribed and eleventh most viewed platform on YouTube. After dropping out of college to concentrate on his YouTube channel, within a year — by — his channel surpassed 1 million views.