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PewDiePie responds to talks about how much he makes

Feel free to contribute to thread in a meaningful manner dude - so far it's been quite enjoyable and I'm finding other people's POVs to be quite interesting (which is originally what I wanted to know about).

Comments like that really aren't helpful or constructive.
It's a perfectly legitimate contribution. Your opinion on the subject is just flat-out wrong. The guy has 30,000,000+ subs. They're there for his personality, not for the games. The games shown on the channel are eclectic in their variety, so there would be no obvious rhyme or reason to following his channel expecting to see games. In fact, this follows for many of the biggest LPers. If PDP was just a Minecraft LPer or just a DOTA player, you'd have an argument. But he's not. The channel is a cult of personality.

Claiming otherwise is just plain lunacy.
 
Does anyone know how much James Rolfe (AVGN) makes? He'd someone that I would actually be happy to see make 7 million. He's the least obnoxious most humble famous gamer on Youtube. He may be the only person to become famous for playing and talking about games that isn't obnoxious.
 
While I'm not a fan of his type of commentary, I'm envious. I've been doing a YouTube series with my best friend for as long as PewDiePie has but ours is obscure and we don't make any real money off it.

However, like he said in the video, it's never really been about money for me. I just like producing videos.
 
It's a perfectly legitimate contribution. Your opinion on the subject is just flat-out wrong. The guy has 30,000,000+ subs. They're there for his personality, not for the games. The games shown on the channel are eclectic in their variety, so there would be no obvious rhyme or reason to following his channel expecting to see games. In fact, this follows for many of the biggest LPers. If PDP was just a Minecraft LPer or just a DOTA player, you'd have an argument. But he's not. The channel is a cult of personality.

Claiming otherwise is just plain lunacy.

Brilliant post
 
While I'm not a fan of his type of commentary, I'm envious. I've been doing a YouTube series with my best friend for as long as PewDiePie has but ours is obscure and we don't make any real money off it.

However, like he said in the video, it's never really been about money for me. I just like producing videos.

Where's the link, let me check it out.
 
Kudos to him for being so incredibly successful. Even the YouTubers / streamers that aren't as successful as he is. It takes a lot to just give up a job with a steady income to do something like that full time, that's a huge risk. I'm all for taking risks, but man, I really don't think I could ever take one of that magnitude.
 
It's a perfectly legitimate contribution. Your opinion on the subject is just flat-out wrong. The guy has 30,000,000+ subs. They're there for his personality, not for the games. The games shown on the channel are eclectic in their variety, so there would be no obvious rhyme or reason to following his channel expecting to see games. In fact, this follows for many of the biggest LPers. If PDP was just a Minecraft LPer or just a DOTA player, you'd have an argument. But he's not. The channel is a cult of personality.

That's interesting - I don't watch his videos (only ever watched his Alien Isolation one) so assumed it was all AAA games with the occasional niche title but checking out his channel, you're right, it's certainly not all AAA games.
 
That's interesting - I don't watch his videos (only ever watched his Alien Isolation one) so assumed it was all AAA games with the occasional niche title but checking out his channel, you're right, it's certainly not all AAA games.
I mean when I checked last night, he had a Catherine LP that he was doing. That's a kind of niche Japanese title to be featuring. It's also pretty heavy thematically. I don't think anyone followed his channel expecting to see him play that game in particular. They're just there to see whatever the dude plays.

I mean this is a guy who basically helped spur the reprint of a four year old title: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...inted-following-its-recent-youtube-popularity
 
I have watched maybe two or three of his video and neither liked nor disliked them, but since 30mil people like his content so much that they subscribed and regularly get their entertainment from his videos I don't see a problem with him making a lot of money.

I think the main reason why people are angry is because they think they could do it too, and there is no talent needed and thatswhy they are jealous.
But yeah, its youtube, if you think you can do it too, just stop complaining and try it.
 
But contrary to Kim, he actually did something to become famous and continues to do so :x
So does Kim, but people tend to be really ignorant when they think others are getting more than they deserve.
 
He's a nice guy who makes content I have no interest in compared to other gaming YouTube personalities.

Nothing about his content is offensive or terrible (now that he stopped rape jokes), it's just dumb. Dumb doesn't even have to be a bad thing. The majority of people seem to be alright with dumb, and that's their perogative.
 
Amazed that he even bothered with the salty haters. I expected this:

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Class act. Even if his videos aren't my cup of tea, he makes a great living doing what he loves to do.

That's sweet as hell.
 
I mean when I checked last night, he had a Catherine LP that he was doing. That's a kind of niche Japanese title to be featuring. It's also pretty heavy thematically. I don't think anyone followed his channel expecting to see him play that game in particular. They're just there to see whatever the dude plays.

I mean this is a guy who basically helped spur the reprint of a four year old title: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...inted-following-its-recent-youtube-popularity

If you go to his page on youtube and sort videos by age (from oldest to newest) for the first two years it's all videos with

Crysis 2
Portal 2
COD Black ops
Fear 3
Fatal Frame 2
Amnesia
Minecraft

in them so I think my point that it was the big name games that he was covering that allowed him to get his users stands.

I'm happy that it's allowed him to become more eclectic now he's got the money and resources to do so but I still think the games he was covering are at least partially behind his success and therefore the developers of those games deserved a cut at the time.

Anyway, off home - cheers for the discussion gaf - some interesting viewpoints - always good to get other peoples opinions. :)
 
I don't think that he deserves all this hate. He seems to be a nice guy and his points in the video are quite logical.

Nevertheless I don't think that anybody on this planet deserves >7 millions a year. Not speaking of a jelly standpoint here (ofc everybody would be happy to not have to worry about the rent and so on). It's just a disproportionate amount of money to earn considering the fact that there are nurses, teachers, factory workers, etc. working so much and getting nearly nothing (sometimes not even enough to pay rents, feed all the family, etc.). Personally, I'm not against the fact that some people should have higher wages because of the work they're doing, but at one point it just got out of hand. When actors, entertainers, politicians, etc. earn millions and billions a year and others struggle to get more than 20 000 then there is something inherently wrong with this. We are all contributing to the society in one way or another. The factory worker may produce something which you use in your everyday life (smartphone, car, what ever), teachers have a big impact on children, their education, their social development and actors and entertainers are also needed for ones amusement. Some might be more important some less but all of them are important for our society. There is no way to justify such disproportionate wages. But meh, that's so tl;dr.

I guess that the debate is centred around a false argument namely that pewdiepie's videos are bad and that he's not deserving the money for "screaming at his webcam". Content is always debatable but it seems like millions of people enjoy watching his videos and therefore I don't get the hate considering that point. We have to accept that some people get money for stuff we personally don't like/ do like. However the one question still remains: is it necessary that the differences between wages have to be so disproportionate?
 
Guy pulled himself up, worked hard, succeeded.

Good for him.

For everyone saying he makes too much... the market determines what someone's labor is worth.
 
If you go to his page on youtube and sort videos by age (from oldest to newest) for the first two years it's all videos with

Crysis 2
Portal 2
COD Black ops
Fear 3
Fatal Frame 2
Amnesia
Minecraft

in them so I think my point that it was the big name games that he was covering that allowed him to get his users stands.

I'm happy that it's allowed him to become more eclectic now he's got the money and resources to do so but I still think the games he was covering are at least partially behind his success and therefore the developers of those games deserved a cut at the time.

Anyway, off home - cheers for the discussion gaf - some interesting viewpoints - always good to get other peoples opinions. :)
The thing that's impressive looking at that list are two main things:

A) That he was able to create a "brand" using such varied titles. Many LPers choose to focus on one game like Minecraft, or one genre like FPS/MOBA.

B) That he was able to retain and grown a following once he moved onto more eclectic tastes.

The thing is that's he's so popular, people would watch him play just about...anything now.
 
I don't see why people cares how much money he makes. I don't watch any of his videos or any LPers, but obviously lots of people choose to subscribe and watch his videos. And Youtube finds him valuable enough to compensate him what they choose to pay. I fail to see any problem.
 
PewDiePIe isn't even that annoying relative to some of the youtube gamers that get more play around these parts. The hate for him is ridiculous.
 
If you go to his page on youtube and sort videos by age (from oldest to newest) for the first two years it's all videos with

Crysis 2
Portal 2
COD Black ops
Fear 3
Fatal Frame 2
Amnesia
Minecraft

in them so I think my point that it was the big name games that he was covering that allowed him to get his users stands.

I'm happy that it's allowed him to become more eclectic now he's got the money and resources to do so but I still think the games he was covering are at least partially behind his success and therefore the developers of those games deserved a cut at the time.

Anyway, off home - cheers for the discussion gaf - some interesting viewpoints - always good to get other peoples opinions. :)

Yeah because Activision clearly needs more money.
 
I don't watch that much of his stuff but I do find him genuinely amusing at times.

I guess I understand the jelly though, he's rich, handsome and his GF is fly.

I'm not jelly (much) but I guess I can see why some are.
 
If you go to his page on youtube and sort videos by age (from oldest to newest) for the first two years it's all videos with

Crysis 2
Portal 2
COD Black ops
Fear 3
Fatal Frame 2
Amnesia
Minecraft

in them so I think my point that it was the big name games that he was covering that allowed him to get his users stands.

I'm happy that it's allowed him to become more eclectic now he's got the money and resources to do so but I still think the games he was covering are at least partially behind his success and therefore the developers of those games deserved a cut at the time.

I don't know kinda disagree with this because if you were to actually put the videos from oldest to newest you'd get a list that's mostly composed of only amnesia, and I don't think people watched him just to see the game, most people watched him because of his reaction towards the game.

What I'm trying to say is that back when me and my friends started out 1st year of highschool we used to watch him and we didn't care if it was a big AAA game or whatever, we just watched him because of the things he did while playing and shit, and I can say most people that subbed to him did the same thing.
 
Well, firstly thanks to the OP on linking thr youtube vid, as Pewdiepie earns money from the click bait, so rather than posting the text just post his youtube vid so he can earn more millions. Back to pewdiepie, good for him for earning money on a hobby. I'm sure all of us wish we could earn millions playing our hobbies. His youtube vids never hit a chord woth me, so don't bother with him. If it bothers alot pf people, don't give him attention or clicks, he earns money on negativity too, just be indifferent and move on.
 
I can see why people hate him: he makes more money in a year than most people earn in their LIFETIME, taking about games and he doesnt even have to lift a finger to get it.

I never watched a video from him because of that.
 
I can see why people hate him: he makes more money in a year than most people earn in their LIFETIME, taking about games and he doesnt even have to lift a finger to get it.

I never watched a video from him because of that.

What horseshit. Dude puts in work and risked a lot to try to achieve this success.

I'm not a fan of his videos either, but this dismissal of the effort that is made to be a success on this platform is ridiculous.
 
Never understood all the hate he gets.
I've only seen like 2 of his videos and I can't say I liked them. But other people seem to like his style and if he gets to make a lot of money doing something he seem to love then good for him.

He still seems better than some "you adult" celebs that are constantly getting arrested for drunk driving and drug abuse
 
Congratulations to you PewDiePie!
Enjoy your money, I watched your entertaining Bloodborne videos (minus the screaming).
I hope Marcus ENB will have the same success.
Good luck guys.
 
Sex tape. She is also related to some rich folks.

Basically the tabloids made her career.

Eh? I thought it was more than that, because i meant it more like "PDP did actually something to earn his Money"

Kim didn't do much if it was just that. I mean, good on her that she's rich a fuck and got a famous Rapper as Husband, but PDP did really a bit more to get where he is.
 
I don't think that he deserves all this hate. He seems to be a nice guy and his points in the video are quite logical.

Nevertheless I don't think that anybody on this planet deserves >7 millions a year. Not speaking of a jelly standpoint here (ofc everybody would be happy to not have to worry about the rent and so on). It's just a disproportionate amount of money to earn considering the fact that there are nurses, teachers, factory workers, etc. working so much and getting nearly nothing (sometimes not even enough to pay rents, feed all the family, etc.). Personally, I'm not against the fact that some people should have higher wages because of the work they're doing, but at one point it just got out of hand. When actors, entertainers, politicians, etc. earn millions and billions a year and others struggle to get more than 20 000 then there is something inherently wrong with this. We are all contributing to the society in one way or another. The factory worker may produce something which you use in your everyday life (smartphone, car, what ever), teachers have a big impact on children, their education, their social development and actors and entertainers are also needed for ones amusement. Some might be more important some less but all of them are important for our society. There is no way to justify such disproportionate wages. But meh, that's so tl;dr.

I guess that the debate is centred around a false argument namely that pewdiepie's videos are bad and that he's not deserving the money for "screaming at his webcam". Content is always debatable but it seems like millions of people enjoy watching his videos and therefore I don't get the hate considering that point. We have to accept that some people get money for stuff we personally don't like/ do like. However the one question still remains: is it necessary that the differences between wages have to be so disproportionate?

PewdiePie is an entertainer. The public decides his fortunes, same with sports figures. On the other side of the coin no one has to like him and he makes nothing.
But he put himself out there, starting with nothing and found an audience that appreciates him.
 
I remember that original gaf thread that made the announcement.

I still watch every week its a great show, depends a little how good of a co-op game the game itself is off course I loved the tomb raider over head games.
Keep up the great work.

Thanks. Yeah, games like the Tomb Raider puzzlers are great because you HAVE to cooperate and Seth and I are good at that. Same with Splinter Cell Ops and Portal 2.
 
It...can assuming you don't draw an imaginary correlation between he posting videos and the subsequent rise in development which may have been entirely unrelated. This reads as imaginary cause and effect. The bolded, as stated, is just conjecture. Do you have any evidence?

The Amnesia developers, Frictional Games, talked about it in one of the reasons for their game's success on their blog: http://frictionalgames.blogspot.dk/2012/09/amnesia-two-years-later.html

You can also click their year one analysis for a bit more, but they theorize that Amnesia having mods helped its success a lot, as it provides longevity, and then YouTubers playing the game and said mods, to bring attention back to Amnesia.
 
PewdiePie is an entertainer. The public decides his fortunes, same with sports figures. On the other side of the coin no one has to like him and he makes nothing.
But he put himself out there, starting with nothing and found an audience that appreciates him.

Why are you quoting me? I said that he doesn't deserve the hate.
 
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