• PewDiePie is making 4 million a year from his awful Let's Plays
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Brb making lets plays.
[QUOTE=Tetsmega;45150108]Not only was PDP the first the capture that untapped market of subscribers, he was the first to do it. Anyone else who came after are copycats/wannabes/etc.[/QUOTE] He was the first to capture the ocean because he was the only one with enough sense to build a canal. The others are splinter aqueducts.
Too much hate revolves around popular lets-players. When it comes down to it, PewDiePie produces frequent content which consistently entertains his fan base. I'm not saying he particularly talented, if it wasn't PewDiePie then it'd be any number of the other lets-players who produce quality content consistently.
He should raffle money in large amounts to the internet peoples :)
[video=youtube;EgMqhEMhVV8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgMqhEMhVV8[/video]
this is why i fucking hate the 10's if i could time travel back to the 90's and keep looping them before any of this shit came to be i would and never look back
[QUOTE=murple;45154437]this is why i fucking hate the 10's if i could time travel back to the 90's and keep looping them before any of this shit came to be i would and never look back[/QUOTE] yeah cause fuck technology that improves lives just because you don't like 1 person
I can't even be mad. That's fucking impressive. [editline]19th June 2014[/editline] This thread is filled with so much hate and jealousy. Calm down people, he makes money doing what he loves, plenty of it goes to charity, he entertains so many people!
[QUOTE=murple;45154437]this is why i fucking hate the 10's if i could time travel back to the 90's and keep looping them before any of this shit came to be i would and never look back[/QUOTE] are you 12
[QUOTE=Coyoteze;45147228]This right here is some of the scummiest shit I've heard. "haha what are opinions everything except what i like is clearly inferior and you have to be a retard to like it" It's literally what you're saying, and there's no denying that. It's pretty fucking ironic that people like you who seem to claim some sort of "mature highground" are pretty goddamn immature yourself in delivering your point. Good fucking job.[/QUOTE] Oh, the irony. You whine about people not respecting other's opinions and all you've done in your succeeding posts is continuously tackle everyone who refuses to like pewdiepie even though they're simply expressing their opinions. Even if they're flinging shit at him you're not going to be able to fend off half of facepunch alone. So please stop.
Can't say I'm a fan of him/his videos, but he managed to capture a market and become successful as a result and on top of that he donates to charity. Good for him. I wish him all the success he can garner.
[QUOTE=DeEz;45155225]are you 12[/QUOTE] no just made a regretful post i just wanted to vent i'm sick of hearing about this twat
And here I am, an unemployed nineteen year-old college student who doesn't even have his own car trying his damned hardest to get through the rest of his education to earn a little piece of paper that will allow him to get a soulless, dead-end job that will likely earn him less than $100k per year in a nation with one of the worst economies on the planet while there are people who post videos on the internet of themselves playing video games where anywhere between ten thousand and ten million people treat them like gods and they make fucking bank out of it. Can I please take a time machine back to the mid twentieth century or earlier?
[QUOTE=murple;45155342]no just made a regretful post i just wanted to vent i'm sick of hearing about this twat[/QUOTE] then why did you click on a thread about pewdiepie, read the thread and then contribute to it?
[QUOTE=Elstumpo;45155423]then why did you click on a thread about pewdiepie, read the thread and then contribute to it?[/QUOTE] as i said to vent
[QUOTE=murple;45155449]as i said to vent[/QUOTE] get a blog [editline]20th June 2014[/editline] or a diary since no one will read either
Holy shit, that's easily 100k a month after taxes! Crazy. I don't say this often but I'm jealous as hell. Not for his job, I really wouldn't want to trade with im, but I would like his income.
[QUOTE=Daemon White;45152265]I'm in that business, but it's swamped with anyone and everyone that is able to record gameplay. Good luck getting anywhere unless you truly stand out (Unlike me, I'm just average). [editline]19th June 2014[/editline] [url=http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/28i1dg/iama_pewdiepie_youtube_gamer/]Pewdiepie did an "IamA" on Reddit today[/url] A lot of questions were answered. He apparently did make $4 million in 2013. [img]http://i.gyazo.com/94cac5667118c6d02b60b27ee9d4b811.png[/img] [img]http://i.gyazo.com/0c7e3502710f138f98e7f31da3ec5019.png[/img][/QUOTE] Pretty much this, people can't see the difference between an actor and the person, that is what he does, he acts. I personally don't like his act, but I don't go out of my way being an even more annoying anti-fan like most people in this thread.
[QUOTE=DesumThePanda;45151113]its kinda hard to market a douche who looks like a stereotypical manchild and literally is a manchild, it's easier to market a person who acts like a stereotypical manchild but looks and is a normal dude[/QUOTE] that's kinda my point. PDP in real life could be as big of a douche as DSP and get away with it because he knows how to modulate his appearance for his audience, i.e. he's not stupid enough to think they would want to watch a complete asshat. DSP legitimately doesn't understand why his audience doesn't like him, so he doesn't know that the solution is to either stop being a prick, or give the [I]appearance[/I] of not being a prick. if he had enough of PewDiePie's marketing knowledge to understand that then i can almost guarantee that he would be a decently popular let's player, at least until his general shittiness came to light. [editline]19th June[/editline] DSP's videos suck so bad because he's an idiot, and he doesn't know his audience as a result
[QUOTE=Irespawnoften;45146968]The man is making money hand over fist from idiots. If anything, I'm jealous as hell.[/QUOTE] I'm just disgusted at the idiots. This jealousy of easy money is part of the problem, we should strive to be better than that.
[QUOTE=murple;45155449]as i said to vent[/QUOTE] This is why STGYM exists, come join the fun if you like venting. [editline]19th June 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Killuah;45156296]I'm just disgusted at the idiots. This jealousy of easy money is part of the problem, we should strive to be better than that.[/QUOTE] Hah, not a chance, even if you point out who's really at fault, they won't strive to be better because 'why bother' and 'I don't care.'
Amazes me how you can make this much money by recording yourself playing other peoples games.
I can say as a fact that everyone mad at him is jealous. No one is forcing you to watch his videos, for crying out loud. It doesn't have any effect on your lives.
I'll give him cred, even though I personally don't like his videos, the guy knows how to get an audience.
I honestly can't stand his videos, but congrats to him for figuring out how to make money on the internet.
Why would they give so much to him? I understand he has millions of views, but if the majority of those views are from kids with no income, then how the hell are the advertisers going to make their money from advertising on his videos? Shouldn't he get less? Or is someone with a spreadsheet somewhere monitoring all this and knows that PewDiePie is making them a profit? Ok, I just checked out some of the advertisements they run. I don't know if other people will see different ones than I did, but here's what they advertised: Retirement home Beer Buying meat from Maple Leaf Buying printers and other technology for your business TD Banking - Getting home insurance Mazda - Getting the new 2014 model. Now maybe those advertisements were picked out for me depending on how much info google has on me, but if that's what all these kids are seeing, then the advertisers are probably making fuck all by having them run on PewDiePie's channel. [QUOTE=InfectedPotato;45156702]People usually underestimate how much money advertising companies really have.[/QUOTE] Well if they really have a lot of money, I don't think they would be making foolish investments. How else do you think they got so rich?
[QUOTE=GeeOhDee;45156612]Why would they give so much to him? I understand he has millions of views, but if the majority of those views are from kids with no income, then how the hell are the advertisers going to make their money from advertising on his videos? Shouldn't he get less? Or is someone with a spreadsheet somewhere monitoring all this and knows that PewDiePie is making them a profit?[/QUOTE] People usually underestimate how much money advertising companies really have.
I remember watching a Cooptional Podcast and Jesse Cox was mentioning when he first met him. Something to the effect of: "I was getting ready to rag on him and do an impression of him and generally just make fun of him, and then when I met him we felt like assholes. He was so nice. We were expecting him to be wild and screaming but he was just like 'Yea, the videos are pretty crazy right.' He was so fucking nice we felt awful." Something like that. It might have been ep 39.
[QUOTE=Kannata;45156496]Amazes me how you can make this much money by recording yourself playing other peoples games.[/QUOTE] Anything can sound stupid if you oversimplify it. "Amazes me how you can make this much money by kicking a ball around a field." "Amazes me how you can make this much money by writing stuff (code) on a computer." "Amazes me how you can make this much money by sitting in the office all day."
[QUOTE=Daemon White;45152265][url=http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/28i1dg/iama_pewdiepie_youtube_gamer/]Pewdiepie did an "IamA" on Reddit today[/url] A lot of questions were answered. He apparently did make $4 million in 2013. [img]http://i.gyazo.com/94cac5667118c6d02b60b27ee9d4b811.png[/img][/QUOTE] Strange, could have sworn we were told something else by a certain someone...
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