PewDiePie Announces A 'Break' From YouTube In 2020: 'I'm Feeling Very Tired'

Is PewDiePie finally ready to unplug from the interwebs (for real this time)?

On Sunday, the YouTube star announced he will be “taking a break” from the platform in 2020, confessing to his subscribers that he’s sick and tired of uploading videos every week.

The announcement came in a YouTube video, ironically, in which the vlogger — who has garnered over 102 million subscribers on his channel and has earned over $30 million in the process — told his fans:

“I am taking a break from YouTube next year. I wanted to say it in advance because I made up my mind… I’m tired. I’m feeling very tired. I don’t know if you can tell. Just so you know, early next year I’ll be a way for a little while. I’ll explain that later but I wanted to give a heads up.”

A day after making that bombshell announcement, PewDiePie (real name Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg) rid his Twitter account of all its tweets, only keeping the profile active to “prevent fake accounts.”

In his latest video, aptly titled “I hate twitter,” the 30-year-old told his fans, “I hate Twitter, I think about deleting mine all the time,” adding:

“What I don’t like is the constant posturing that goes on there. People just can’t seem to help themselves from pointing out what is good, and what is bad, and how others are bad and how you are good. To the point where it almost becomes fiction where you satisfy this need…You get rewarded for saying things that make you seem virtuous, rather than acting on it.”

He went on to suggest that many fellow influencers are pretending to be virtuous when they actually “are not,” sharing:

“It explains why the site has become such a cesspool of opinions, and how, more often than not, those that boast about being virtuous often through hiding are not. There are so many YouTubers I could call out.”

Well, if there’s one thing we can say about PewDiePie, it’s that he definitely doesn’t pretend to be virtuous: he’s always been an unapologetically inconsiderate, frequently problematic tool!

Naturally, fans were upset by the announcement. Sure, this isn’t the first time the Swedish social media star announced his exit from the platform — in 2016, he said he was deleting his channel because YouTube was out to get him — but this time around, fans fear he really means it.

Maybe that’s because PewDiePie previously teased he was going to “take a break” from the site in a video in August, in which he said: