{"id":6030,"date":"2014-10-12T08:04:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T00:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6030"},"modified":"2014-10-12T08:04:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T00:04:35","slug":"this-guy-makes-millions-playing-video-games-on-youtube-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/12\/this-guy-makes-millions-playing-video-games-on-youtube-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"This Guy Makes Millions Playing Video Games on YouTube &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The YouTube personality with the most subscribers isn\u2019t Justin Bieber (8 million) or Rihanna (12.5 million). That honor goes to a 24-year-old Swede named Felix Kjellberg, better known by his YouTube handle, PewDiePie.<br \/>\nPewDiePie doesn\u2019t sing or dance, no. PewDiePie has made his name\u2014and a fortune\u2014posting videos of himself playing video games. In one November video, for instance, he plays the Xbox Indie game \u201cTechno Kitten Adventure,\u201d helping a feline avatar navigate dangerous terrain filled with unicorns and narwhals, and shrieking in frustration each time his cat crashes into an obstacle.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2014\/03\/this-guy-makes-millions-playing-video-games-on-youtube\/284402\/\">This Guy Makes Millions Playing Video Games on YouTube &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The YouTube personality with the most subscribers isn\u2019t Justin Bieber (8 million) or Rihanna (12.5 million). That honor goes to a 24-year-old Swede named Felix Kjellberg, better known by his YouTube handle, PewDiePie. PewDiePie doesn\u2019t sing or dance, no. PewDiePie has made his name\u2014and a fortune\u2014posting videos of himself playing video games. In one November &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/12\/this-guy-makes-millions-playing-video-games-on-youtube-the-atlantic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Guy Makes Millions Playing Video Games on YouTube &#8211; The Atlantic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","category-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}