The youtuber, who has more than 102 million followers, says he is very tired and needs to get YouTube out of his head for once.
"I'm tired. I feel very tired, ”PewDiePie began in one of his latest videos. The youtuber, which has more than 102 million subscribers behind it, says it needs a break and for that reason it will temporarily leave YouTube at the beginning of 2020. “At the beginning of the year it will be out for a while. I think it would be nice to take a break. It would be nice not to have YouTube in my brain for the first time in 10 years. ” The platform will begin the private decade of his prodigal son, who among “vlogs”, opinion videos and video game streams has ranked first among the most followed content creators since 2013.
The decision comes after several encounters with YouTube itself, which PewDiePie threatened to leave after knowing thanks to Newsweek that it takes approximately 45% of the revenue generated by video. The youtuber made a move of moving to Dlive, which only covers 9.9% of them, but after several comings and goings throughout the year, he finally stayed in the “chain” that saw him be born. Another sign of Felix Kjellberg's fatigue, the person behind PewDiePie, has been seen a few days after announcing his retirement. Exhausted from social networks, the creator has posted a video explaining why he hates Twitter and deleted his own account from the service. Right now he only has one (@pewdiepie) to, as he explains in his biography, "prevent from false accounts" that usurp his identity.
The war between Twitch and Mixer
In any case, the world of videogames begins to distance itself more and more from YouTube and focuses its attention on Twitch and Mixer. In the comparisons of use of this year 2019, the last two have more hours of streaming video games than “Youtube Gaming Live”, whose number of active channels has fallen by 25% in the last quarter. Even so, it remains ahead of Mixer in reproduced hours, which is why the latter continues with its policy of signings and exclusives, with which it has given us a 2019 marked by the controversy of Ninja, which was passed from Twitch to Mixer and, as revenge, the first used their channel to advertise, coming to sneak a porn video inside it. Surely 2020 has prepared more wonderful chapters of this war and rivalry between the different streaming pages.
