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PewDiePie Has No Legs

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Published September 21, 2026

PewDiePie Has No Legs is a fan-driven joke theory claiming that YouTuber Felix Kjellberg is legless, kicked off by PewDiePie himself during an episode of his LWIAY series in November 20181. The bit jumped to Reddit within a day, spawning shopping-cart edits and mock proof posts that became a running gag on his subreddit2.

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Overview

The joke sits on a fake-conspiracy framing where PewDiePie plays along with the theory and fans produce edits, screenshots and mock investigations trying to confirm or deny it1. Common formats include reworks of the PewDiePie Shopping merch photos where his legs are replaced with cart wheels or cropped out entirely2. Other posts pull frames from his own videos, drawing arrows and red circles like true-crime detectives to argue either side.

The tone is deliberately dumb, a fandom in-joke that only makes sense if you watch his LWIAY reviews. Fans layer callbacks to his 'he has no legs' line, and the theory keeps recurring across /r/PewdiepieSubmissions as one of the recognizable bits from that stretch of PewDiePie content2.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube (source) / Reddit (viral spread)
Creator
Felix 'PewDiePie' Kjellberg
Date
2018

On November 21, 2018, PewDiePie uploaded 'The last hope for my channel… LWIAY – #0056,' where he flipped through submitted PewDiePie Shopping merch edits and joked that the photos had to be Photoshopped because 'he has no legs'1. The line was a throwaway aside inside his usual meme review segment, but his audience picked it up straight away as the premise for a whole theory2.

How It Spread

The day after the video went up, on November 22, 2018, Reddit user dickslappernohomo posted a PewDiePie Shopping edit with the YouTuber's legs replaced by the shopping cart wheels, and the post climbed past 20,700 upvotes within two months2. The same day, Redditor LukeTheGeek posted a companion meme built directly on the 'no legs' quote, gaining over 15,100 upvotes2.

In the weeks that followed, /r/PewdiepieSubmissions filled with posts either proving or disproving the theory, with users pointing to frames from PewDiePie's own videos as evidence2. The bit stayed one of the subreddit's recurring in-jokes and folded into the wider LWIAY comment culture, where fans kept referencing the line under new meme submissions1.

Timeline

2018-11-21

PewDiePie uploads 'The last hope for my channel… LWIAY – #0056' and jokes that PewDiePie Shopping edits are photoshopped because 'he has no legs'.

2018-11-22

Redditor dickslappernohomo posts a shopping-cart-wheels edit to /r/PewdiepieSubmissions, later crossing 20,700 upvotes.

2018-11-22

Redditor LukeTheGeek posts a second 'no legs' meme the same day, gaining over 15,100 upvotes.

2019-01

'Proof' and 'disproof' posts about PewDiePie's legs keep filling /r/PewdiepieSubmissions as a recurring subreddit bit.

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