PewDiePie is teaching his fans to mistrust the media, and we should listen

YouTube’s top personality is rarely serious in his daily videos on that site, and that’s going to continue because he didn’t delete his channel today — or, at least, he didn’t delete the channel he’s known for.

Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg was never planning to delete his YouTube account, which now has more than 50 million subscribers. The Swedish creator, who is best known for inventing screaming with a European accent while playing games, made a tongue-in-cheek promise to delete his account earlier this week in an episode where he criticized Google’s video platform. He claimed he would pull the trigger once he reached 50 million subscribers. Today, PewDiePie posted a video where he showed himself deleting an account that he owned called “Jack septiceye2” — which is named after fellow YouTube personality (and European screamer) Jacksepticeye.