PewDiePie Has No Legs
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.
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
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.