Katie Couric Sits Down For Interview With YouTube Star PewDiePie

Since she joined Yahoo News in 2014, Katie Couric has interviewed everyone from Michael Bloomberg to BuzzFeed’s Ze Frank to controversial Instagram star The Fat Jewish. Her latest subject is top YouTube star Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg, who sat down for a chat at YouTube Space NY.

The interview is split into a number of “conversations” between Couric and the Swedish gaming star. In the first section, PewDiePie marvels at his rapid rise to YouTube success and tries to find a fitting way to describe his job to the former CBS, NBC, and ABC newswoman.

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The other segments detail PewDiePie’s various off-YouTube projects, including the book he released earlier this year

and the various charitable campaigns he has engineered. Couric and PewDiePie also sit down to play his new mobile game, Legend of the Brofist, which arrived on iOS and Android in September.

If you’re only vaguely familiar with PewDiePie’s histrionic, over-the-top YouTube videos, you might think he presents himself as a goofball when talking with major media outlets. Instead, as he has proven multiple times, he is an eloquent, thoughtful interviewee, and that allows his discussions with journalists like Couric to be fascinating videos, both for his fans and viewers with a more general interest in the YouTube community. You can check out his Yahoo interview here.

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