• Game Theory: How Let's Plays Conquered YouTube
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Not the same title, but it's what the video is about: [video=youtube;EgMqhEMhVV8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgMqhEMhVV8[/video]
I'm sorry, I just can't watch a video with this [img]http://puu.sh/3HBmV.jpg[/img] in the thumbnail.
Sorry I don't think I really want to watch this video, but I think I know why: a shitload of 12 year olds started discovering youtube and latched onto Pewdiepie.
[QUOTE=Kegan;41533665]Sorry I don't think I really want to watch this video, but I think I know why: a shitload of 12 year olds started discovering youtube and latched onto Pewdiepie.[/QUOTE] In short: the younger generation having easier access to the internet than there used to be 5-10 years ago (eg. tablets, mobile phones, game consoles that all have simple internet access as you first use the device, no need to learn how to use it to connect or browse the internet. Also the fact that people like pewdiepie are always the first results when searching for a lot of games) It's a shame that the quality of videos are determined by hits rather than the content these days. Sorry if I have anything wrong, this is just my personal opinion on content.
[QUOTE=HetsuProcyon;41533691]In short: the younger generation having easier access to the internet than there used to be 5-10 years ago (eg. tablets, mobile phones, game consoles that all have simple internet access as you first use the device, no need to learn how to use it to connect or browse the internet. Also the fact that people like pewdiepie are always the first results when searching for a lot of games)[/QUOTE] So I was close, and then thanks to those children that idiot is making more money I'll probably ever see in my life just for being a faggot on youtube. Worse still is because of PDP "whacky facecam" Let's players are the hottest thing now.
Most of PDP's fanbase consists of 12 year olds who haven't aged enough to develop a sense of humor beyond things like screaming incoherently into their headsets, making rape jokes (if I had a dollar for everytime I heard a little kid say "im gonna rape your mom!" whilst playing a video game), and just plain acting like an idiot (which again a majority of little kids do both online and in real life). But yeah to add on to HetsuProcyon's point, the # of people who have access to the internet and Youtube in general is much higher now than it was a couple years ago, coupled with the fact that Youtube is probably chock full of young kids who find bland and dull "randumb" humor funny, from that I think we can begin to understand why the top "Youtube Celebrities" (RWJ, PDP, Smosh, Nigahiga, etc) are so popular. It also has to do with the way many of the Youtube Celebrities edit their videos, with frequent jump cuts literally every couple of seconds just to keep the younger generation who can't focus for more than a couple minutes without getting bored, hooked on their videos. But yeah Youtube is a cesspool now, gone are the days of being creative and original, now you just hop on the latest bandwagon and HOPE that you'll become as popular as the top Youtubers (you won't though, nor can't) ANYWAY that's just my two cents.
People have always looked at me funny when I've told them that I have a universal and ceaseless hatred for all children. As far as I'm concerned, anytime that children (IMO <13/14) get their tiny, greasy mitts on any form of entertainment that adults may enjoy, they ruin it like the shrill little assholes they are. Look at how a lot of online gaming has become flooded with retarded children screaming obscenities and rape jokes. It only makes sense that they'd swarm YouTube like the little locusts they are once they found anything of interest (PDP) to them. Something tells me that I won't be considered odd for hating all children much longer, at this rate.
[QUOTE=TurboSax;41534381]People have always looked at me funny when I've told them that I have a universal and ceaseless hatred for all children. As far as I'm concerned, anytime that children (IMO <13/14) get their tiny, greasy mitts on any form of entertainment that adults may enjoy, they ruin it like the shrill little assholes they are. Look at how a lot of online gaming has become flooded with retarded children screaming obscenities and rape jokes. It only makes sense that they'd swarm YouTube like the little locusts they are once they found anything of interest (PDP) to them. Something tells me that I won't be considered odd for hating all children much longer, at this rate.[/QUOTE] If there was the option to refresh the internet back to when I started using it back around 2003 I'd be happy to go down that route. It's such a shame we have all of this great technology in today's world to use the internet but we can't enjoy it because it's just too over-populated with people who aren't using it correctly, in a mature sense. I still find myself browsing the internet wayback machine sometimes to remind myself how great a lot of major websites used to be. I am actually delighted to see really old content archived, no matter how good or bad it is, it's always great to look back.
I would of not watched this if I went by the ratings but I didn't. Very interesting video. I saw a Vice documentary about the reply girl and how misleading thumbnails was one of the main causes for Youtube to changing it's algorithms.
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