In Case You Want To Jump Off A Bridge Today, "PewDiePie" Made $7 Million In 2014

BBC –  YouTube’s most popular star earned $7m (£4.5m) in 2014, according to Swedish newspaper Expressen.

Felix Kjellberg, 25, known to fans as PewDiePie, records himself playing video games and uploads his reactions online. He has 37 million followers on the video-sharing website – more than One Direction and Taylor Swift. “He appeals to an attractive demographic of teens and young adults,” said Ian Maude, from Enders Analysis.

Before that South Park episode a few months ago, I had no idea who the hell PewDiePie was. I’m sure that today, plenty of you have no idea who the hell this guy is either. Which will probably make the news of this guy who just films himself reacting to people playing video games and uploading said reactions to YouTube made $7 million dollars last year alone. And he made another $4 million in 2013. But if you’re currently asking yourself what else does this guy do to earn that much goddamn money in one year, the answer is nothing. Video game reactions and YouTube. That’s it. And he’s making a hundred times more money than I’ll ever see in my lifetime. And don’t get me wrong. I understand how it all works and being able to get 37 million YouTube followers is certainly more impressive than anything I’ll ever do in my life. But still. This shit just makes me sick to my stomach. You see a 23-year-old kid like Vladimir Tarasenko sign a piece of paper that will have him getting paid $7.5 million per year for the next 8 years and you can swallow that because he’s just 7.5 million times better at hockey than you. But all this PewDiePie guy does is make some funny noises on YouTube. He doesn’t even sell tshirts on a smut peddling site. Unbelievable. But at least this college diploma is gonna pay for itself in no time…. *chugs bleach*

And in case you don’t hate the world enough, here’s what is worth $7 million these days.