PewDiePie Raises $1.5 Million for Charity

Popular Youtuber PewDiePie is paying it forward, raising and donating $1.5 million to various charities, generating the money from his channel memberships revenue throughout both 2020 and 2021.

PewDiePie posted the following:

“In 2020 and 2021, through membership revenue – which I vouched to donate to charity – we were able to donate the total of $1,520,003 for various amazing charities,” he wrote in a community update.

The full list of charities the huge amount of money went towards are:

• Winston’s Wish
• Save the Children (Lebanon)
• Blue Ocean Foundation
• Papyrus
• Movember
• Comic Relief / Red Nose Day
• Book Trust
• World Food Program
• Make A Wish
• Alzheimer’s Research
• Centre for Effective Altruism

Pewds went on to give his “biggest thanks to everyone for making this possible.”