Ask just about any stranger on the street who Felix Kjellberg is and you'll likely get a blank stare. Identify him as PewDiePie, his name on YouTube—where he's got almost 40 million subscribers—and you’ll get a few more positive responses. The 25-year-old Swede is the top-earning YouTube star on the planet, pulling in $12 million pretax over the past year, all for providing expletive-heavy comment
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