Pewdiepie reveals his face … or something.
YouTube’s biggest individual content creator, Felix Kjellberg, better known as Pewdiepie, came back from a brief three-week break he took during the first of the year. During his comeback episode, we discovered that Pewdiepie – after a decade on YouTube – was finally going to reveal a face to us … backwards.
For the past ten years, we have become very familiar with Pewdiepie’s appearance. YouTuber was never ashamed to show its face and share stories of its life, however embarrassing they may have been. However, given the popularity of YouTubers like Corpse Husband and Dream – who never showed their faces – Pewdiepie felt it was time to finally make a reverse reveal.
In his first video in three weeks, Pewdiepie returned to his usual comic criticism of his community’s subreddit submissions, r / pewdiepies. Before diving into memes, however, YouTuber used their introduction to do what they called “reverse face revelation”. All of this involved turning off the camera and having its editor put an avatar in place of his face.
As usual, Pewdiepie asked his audience to help him create his own avatars and promised that the most voted would be his new avatar. Outside of YouTube, Pewdiepie recently signed an agreement with video distributor Jellysmack to bring video content to his Facebook page.
That deal spawned an article with a strange title in the New York Post that stated that YouTuber was “coming back”. The article contained a caption that said Pewdiepie had been absent for the past five years. Of course, it all referred to his absence and his return to Facebook – not YouTube. Without missing an opportunity, however, Pewdiepie was quick to point out that Felix Kjellberg was making videos in his absence – in reference to a long joke that Pewdiepie and Felix Kjellberg are actually two different people.
Pewdiepie has proven time and again that not only can he keep the audience engaged, but he is also able to grow his community. In 2020 alone, YouTuber gained six million followers, through a combination of let’s play and reaction videos. At the end of the day, he has a total of 108 million followers on YouTube. With its reach extending to Facebook in the near future as well, it would be safe to say that Pewdiepie will be more prevalent than ever.
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