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On the 29th of October in Gothenburg, Sweden, greatness was born.
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The PewDiePie youtube channel was created on April 29, 2010.
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The Minecraft let's play was the first of hundreds of let's play videos PewDiePie would upload to his channel. The let's play became a staple on YouTube, thanks largley to PewDiePie.
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This would be the first of countless big milestones to come over the next several years.
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PewDiePie passed Smosh to become the biggest creator on YouTube.
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The show, which was PewDiePie's favorite show, featured him as a main part in two episodes.
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PewDiePie's first mobile game quickly became the top grossing mobile game less than two hours after it's release
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The appearance on Stephen Colbert's show was the first instance of a youtuber being on a late night show.
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The Book titled "This Book Loves You" became a New York Times best seller.
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Scare PewDiePie is a show produced by the creators of The Walking Dead that was found exclusively on YouTube Red. The show was a massive success and one of the biggest YouTube original shows.
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PewDiePie was named one of the 100 most influential people worldwide in 2016, something very few online influencers have accomplished.
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PewDiePie was the first channel to reach the 50 Million mark. Even almost 5 years later, he's still one of only 25 channels to reach the mark. Even more impressive, the vast majority of those 25 channels are companies, not individual creators like PewDiePie.
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PewDiePie became the first individual creator to reach 100 million YouTube subscribers. The next closet channel to 100 million at the time was still 40 million behind.
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The Guinness world record for most subscribers by an individual male on YouTube with 109,000,000, was awarded to PewDiePie
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