• PewDiePie is making 4 million a year from his awful Let's Plays
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[QUOTE]But revelations that YouTuber ‘PewDiePie’ is raking in $4 million a year for his gaming videos should hammer the nail home. PewDiePie—Felix Kjellberg—plays games while talking, screaming, and swearing, and it’s earned him 27 million subscribers, more than established gaming channels like Machinima, which has just under 11.5 million.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2014/06/18/youtuber-pewdiepie-is-making-4-million-a-year/[/url] [IMG]http://gyazo.com/f0ed2e8291c06abd765c75fb0c064b4a.png[/IMG]
These days.....
wow, what a genius.
This is actually genius. I'm going to start a terribly unfunny lets play where all I do is scream, make dumb noises and use memes and boobs in my thumbnails and make tons of money.
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;45146937]This is actually genius. I'm going to start a terribly unfunny lets play where all I do is scream, make dumb noises and use memes and boobs in my thumbnails and make tons of money.[/QUOTE] But that's what everybody's already been doing since years
his only skill is that he knows how to market himself. dudes like DSP are what happens when you take that away
The man is making money hand over fist from idiots. If anything, I'm jealous as hell.
Its amazing that he has this cult following to him. People sending him shit, I remember some kid screaming at me saying hes apart of PewPewDies gaming group or posse or whatever. Well, stupid does sell.
Congrats to him. Who gives a shit about how stupid his videos are, this guy is making a hell of a lot more than we are.
At least he does use his popularity to raise awareness for charity. He's already picked 2 Humble Bundles for Charity:Water and raised over 400k last year for them in a separate fundraiser.
lets hope the rust kiddies don't find this thread
How does he actually make that money? All from advertising?
[quote]Just in case I wasn’t clear, I personally can’t watch a PewDiePie video for more than a minute or two without feeling physically ill. I truly don’t understand the appeal, and yet the appeal is obviously there. When I say there’s something “brilliant” about this, it’s in the same vein as “reality TV is brilliant.” It’s terrible, it’s the dumbing down of culture, etc. etc. But it taps into an audience that exists and gives that audience what they want. That’s good business, whether or not it’s good art or whatever you want to call it. There are myriad better YouTubers out there, from TotalBiscuit to EpicNameBro to the dozens of others that do good, hard work and don’t manage to get 27 million subscribers. So it’s a weird, perplexing phenomenon that I find fascinating and grotesque all at once.[/quote] This is a very frustrated article.
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;45146937]This is actually genius. I'm going to start a terribly unfunny lets play where all I do is scream, make dumb noises and use memes and boobs in my thumbnails and make tons of money.[/QUOTE] That's like trying to copy CoD. It either doesn't work or you make significantly less than the thing you're copying.
i think his videos are dumb and repetitive but apparently he gives a lot of it away and he seems to interact with his viewers a lot could be worse
Doesn't he "donate" the money though?
if i had the opportunity to become that rich from making videos on youtube, i wouldnt mind acting like a dork in front of a camera a few hours a day
I wish I could be an annoying piece of shit for $4 million a year. Why have you failed me, Capitalism?
You might not like his video, hell you might not like him, but you've got to give him kudos for what he does. The guy can make a 1minute long video of utter nonsense and he will be rolling in more cash than some people make in a year. The fact that he does 90% of the editing / uploading / what ever himself means he rakings in almost all the cash too. [editline]18th June 2014[/editline] Plus he donates a fuck load to charity
[QUOTE=UncleJimmema;45146982]Congrats to him. Who gives a shit about how stupid his videos are, this guy is making a hell of a lot more than we are.[/QUOTE] This and I can't hate him because of all the charity work he does. Although I'll never watch his videos. Doug Walker on the other hand, why is no one making a fit about that fuckface.
[QUOTE=The Castro;45147040]Doug Walker on the other hand, why is no one making a fit about that fuckface.[/QUOTE] Who? [sp]that's why[/sp] [editline]18th June 2014[/editline] Also regardless of how little you like his videos or jokes, he still seems like a really chill dude.
[QUOTE=D3vils Buddy;45147032]You might not like his video, hell you might not like him, but you've got to give him kudos for what he does. The guy can make a 1minute long video of utter nonsense and he will be rolling in more cash than some people make in a year. The fact that he does 90% of the editing / uploading / what ever himself means he rakings in almost all the cash too. [editline]18th June 2014[/editline] [B]Plus he donates a fuck load to charity[/B][/QUOTE] Now it's a bit hard for me to hate him. He's annoying but still a good guy. Like younger Justin Bieber (before he turned into a douche)
[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;45147018]Doesn't he "donate" the money though?[/QUOTE] I think he donates some and keeps the rest
No he fucking isn't. He's not exactly happy about the news buzzing about unconfirmed numbers either (most of it being estimates from sites like Socialblades). Especially when none of these fucking newssites bring up the fact that he raised over a million dollars in charity. He doesn't earn anywhere near those amounts. He might have if a third party network + adblock/adskips hadn't existed and it was all solely wired to him with constant good and amazing ads to generate tons of good revenue. I'm not saying he doesn't earn money, he earns enough to live off of it, and then some, but these fucking numbers are ridiculous. He's told me himself out of all his earnings he only really takes out 4000 dollars for his own use, the rest he saves away, uses to get new equipment, titles and so forth to keep his channel going, or donates to charities. Fuck this sensationalist bullshit.
You know what? Good for him. He found an untapped source of money doing something relatively easy, and he's profiting greatly from it.
[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;45147095]You know what? Good for him. He found an untapped source of money doing something relatively easy, and he's profiting greatly from it.[/QUOTE] I doubt it's easy. All that script writing takes some work.
man, i should follow his recipe to make the big bux ☒ Act like a twelve year old with out his Ritalin ☒ Scream on every chance you get to break the sound barrier ☒ Play scary games ☒ Be a jackass to my fans edit: whoa, i attracted some fans!
Who the fuck even watches those terrible videos? Like, i can't even think of one demographic that would enjoy his videos.
hes a fucking winner.
[QUOTE=aydin690;45147122]Who the fuck even watches those terrible videos? Like, i can't even think of one demographic that would enjoy his videos.[/QUOTE] ADHD sonic fans with rabies
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