PewDiePie shows how difficult it is to take a break from YouTube

Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg is ending 2019 with a couple of major decisions: he plans to take a small break from YouTube in 2020, and he’s wiped out his popular Twitter account, losing its 19.3 million followers in the process. The news has generated headline after headline about why YouTube’s most followed creator is stepping away from the spotlight, but the attention just highlights how hard it is for many YouTubers to take time off at all.

To be clear: Kjellberg isn’t quitting YouTube. He announced his decision to take a break in a recent video, informing fans it would last for a short while at the beginning of 2020. Reports suggested that Kjellberg was taking a substantial amount of time away because he was exhausted or in response...

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