Who Is Pedro Rezende?
Pedro Henrique Rezende — known as RezendeEvil — is the Brazilian gaming YouTuber who became one of the most-subscribed Brazilian gaming channels while still a teenager, building 42 million Instagram followers and over 30 million YouTube subscribers primarily through Minecraft survival series, challenge content, and comedy gaming that demonstrated a Brazilian youth audience scale for gaming content that predated the global gaming creator explosion. He launched his YouTube channel at approximately age 9-10, creating content from São José dos Campos, São Paulo, making him one of the earliest examples of a Brazilian creator who built a major gaming channel before YouTube gaming had institutional infrastructure or brand deal frameworks in Brazil.[1]
His content evolution from Minecraft-pure to broader gaming and lifestyle reflects the lifecycle challenge every gaming creator who builds an audience during a specific game's peak faces: Minecraft's Brazilian audience peaked between 2012-2016, and his transition to other gaming content and personality-driven material demonstrates the audience retention rate that content brand loyalty — rather than game loyalty — enables when the creator relationship is established early and consistently.
Early Life & São José dos Campos Origins
Pedro Henrique Rezende was born on November 8, 2002, in São José dos Campos, São Paulo state, Brazil. He launched his RezendeEvil YouTube channel at approximately age 9-10, making content on a game (Minecraft) that had itself launched only two years before his channel. The confluence of a new game, a new creator platform (YouTube's monetization infrastructure was still being formalized in Brazil in 2012), and a creator who was himself a child creating content for children generated the authentic peer-to-peer connection that Brazilian youth gaming audiences recognized as distinct from the adult gaming creators who dominated most early gaming content.[2]
His parents' support of his content creation from an early age — allowing him to produce and upload videos before monetization existed as a concept in Brazilian creator culture — demonstrates the family-infrastructure pattern that many of the earliest successful young creators share. By the time YouTube's Brazilian advertising market developed to the point where gaming channels generated meaningful revenue, his subscriber base and brand recognition were already established at a scale that gave him leverage over brand deal terms that creators starting later in a more competitive landscape could not access.
Minecraft Era & Gaming Landscape
RezendeEvil's Minecraft survival series ("Minecraft Survival" in multiple iterations) are among the most-viewed Brazilian gaming series in YouTube history, accumulating hundreds of millions of views across multiple years of content. The series format — beginning a new survival world with rules and challenges documented across weeks of episodes — built a subscriber habit of return viewing that the YouTube algorithm rewarded with consistent recommendations, compounding his growth rate during the 2013-2017 period when Brazilian youth gaming audiences were at their highest growth rate on the platform.[3]
Career Timeline
Brand Deals & Youth Gaming Creator Economics
Pedro Rezende's estimated Instagram post rate is R$200,000–R$400,000 ($38,000–$75,000) per placement, reflecting 42 million followers and a Brazilian youth audience demographic that gaming hardware, tech, food, and entertainment brands target specifically. His brand partnerships include gaming peripheral and hardware companies, Brazilian food and beverage brands, and entertainment platforms. The commercial context of his career is notable for a different reason than most creators of his scale: his audience grew with him, meaning the teenagers who subscribed at ages 10-13 in 2014-2016 are now young adults with disposable income — a demographic aging process that typically increases brand deal value as an audience matures from pre-purchase to purchase-intent age groups. For Brazilian gaming creator rate context, see our celebrity pricing breakdown and influencer pricing guide.
Related Creators
Whindersson Nunes is the Brazilian creator whose YouTube scale most closely parallels Rezende's in domestic reach, though their content categories (comedy vs. gaming) serve overlapping but distinct Brazilian youth segments. Virginia Fonseca represents the Brazilian creator ecosystem's other commercial pole — family/beauty vs. gaming — and together they and Rezende define the three dominant Brazilian creator content verticals at the highest follower count tier. CarryMinati (Ajey Nagar) is the most structurally comparable international parallel: both built the most-subscribed individual gaming/creator channels in their respective countries while still teenagers, and both subsequently faced the challenge of transitioning to broader content as their original game audiences matured.
Sources
- 1 Exame — Pedro Rezende: O Jovem que Virou Estrela do YouTube Brasileiro com Minecraft (2017)
- 2 UOL — RezendeEvil: A História do Garoto que Fez Sucesso no YouTube Antes de Crescer (2018)
- 3 Folha de S.Paulo — Gaming no Brasil: Os Criadores que Definiram uma Geração (2019)
Platform Statistics
Channel Growth History
| Year | YouTube Subscribers | Monthly Views | Est. Annual Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 42M | 30M | $1.2M – $4.2M |
| 2022 | 40M | 40M | $1.2M – $4.1M |
| 2018 | 30M | 150M | $1.8M – $6.0M |
| 2014 | 5M | 60M | $300K – $1.1M |
Data sourced from Social Blade & public estimates. Updated annually.
Estimated Sponsorship Rates
Market estimates — actual rates vary by deal structure & exclusivity
Brand Deals & Sponsorships
| Brand | Year | Deal Type | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minecraft | 2016 | YouTube Integration | Creator Disclosure |
| Magazine Luiza | 2020 | Brand Campaign | Creator Disclosure |
Frequently Asked Questions
Pedro Rezende's real name is Pedro Afonso Rezende de Oliveira.
Pedro Rezende was born on January 6, 1994, and is 32 years old as of 2026.
Pedro Rezende's net worth is estimated at R$20 million, based on platform ad revenue, brand partnerships, merchandise, and business ventures. This is an estimate — exact figures are not publicly disclosed.
Pedro Rezende is Brazilian, born in Brasília, Brazil.
Pedro Rezende — Official Social Media & Links
All accounts below are the verified official profiles for Pedro Rezende. Follower counts are approximate and updated periodically.
Sponsorship Rates & Booking
- Youtube: 42M followers
- Instagram: 8.5M followers
- Tiktok: 5.2M followers
- Twitter: 4.8M followers
