PewDiePie ends family vlogs
Marcia edited every single video in the series, earning praise for her work as a mother and creative professional while the speaker notes an overwhelming positive response to recent uploads. The decision to end family vlogs featuring three-year-old Björn follows a commitment to protect his privacy as he matures. While YouTube's system might have improved comment filtering, the primary reason for stopping was simply not wanting to go on forever. Björn growing up marks the suitable time to cease this format. The speaker values their ability to move freely in Japan compared to other locations where fame brings restrictions like staring and photo-taking. They believe Björn deserves autonomy to make his own choices regarding privacy. Despite loving the community aspect of sharing videos, the speaker states: I do not love being famous, I actually kind of hate it. PewDiePie confirms they will continue creating other types of content.
Transcript (en)
And Bjorn being born and seeing him grow up as well, just sharing those precious moments, I think has been really, really special. Marcia has worked so hard on these videos. She's edited every single one of them and I think she really made them so special as well. And I'm so thankful to her and I'm so proud of her for everything that she does, from being a mom to hardworking and creative. She really, really inspires me and I'm so, so grateful to have her. And I feel like usually there's one or two bad comments, but we literally just got outpouring support with these videos and that's just been so incredible. Maybe YouTube's filtering system got better, I don't know. The reason we're stopping is because we didn't want to go on forever, but I also felt like with Bjorn growing up, it's a good time to stop. I love making videos and I'm going to keep making videos, obviously, and I love sharing videos and I love the community aspects of the back and forth, but I do not love being famous. I actually kind of hate it. I hate that I can't go to certain places and I always kind of have to be mindful of other people and staring, sneaking photos, following you around and I feel like in Japan I love it so much because I can just sort of do whatever here and I think for Bjorn I want him to make his own choices of... he deserves his own privacy and I think that's why we felt like now is a good time to stop even though he's so wonderful and we love sharing him with you guys because it's been such a joy seeing him grow up and I'm so proud of him.
