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Eh....this may be an unpopular opinion but this article is supposed to make me feel really bad for the self imposed "workload" of Pewdiepie. Boo hoo, he's so di

Eh....this may be an unpopular opinion but this article is supposed to make me feel really bad for the self imposed "workload" of Pewdiepie. Boo hoo, he's so disadvantaged... he made, from my quick research, something like $15 million last year alone. If $15 MILLION salary isn't enough for you that you have to keep "pushing the envelope" being "edgier" for more and more attention then I think you're probably being greedy and shouldn't really be surprised when you finally push it too far. Maybe I'm the asshole, but I just can't muster up sympathy to empathize with the plight of someone who makes millions of dollars playing video games and making off color remarks.

empath75 10y ago
He makes enough money to hire writers.
- kmonsen 10y ago
  And a PR person to let him know what is too far and how to handle issues.
- ForRealsies 10y ago
  He makes enough money to take risks.
vlunkr 10y ago
I don't think it's supposed to make you feel bad for him. Just trying to help outsiders understand what may have happened. Also, people tend to write off the work that youtubers do (they just play video games for a living!!), but nobody bats an eye that pro athletes can make 6-7 figures playing games. I don't think being a youtuber is much different than running a TV show, except that generally they do all or at least most of the work on their own, creative, technical, business, etc.
- nommm-nommm 10y ago
  >I don't think it's supposed to make you feel bad for him. Then it was extremely poor writing because I got the impression that was one of the main messages. Maybe there was an interesting message in there but it didn't come through. I agree that making a good, well produced, YouTube video takes a lot of work. I've never seen PewDiePie's videos but they don't sound very good or like they are much work to produce.
paulpauper 10y ago
does't mean he keeps $15 million every year The problem is that YouTube goes after much smaller people, as well, quite frequently, often for arbitrary or small reasons, and resolving such content disputes is Kafkaesque, taking weeks. Often someone (usually a competitor) will flag a video and then YouTube will pull it and suspend the account or put a restriction on the length of videos (often a 15 minute length restriction for flagged accounts), citing 'copyright infringement', which is a favorite boilerplate explanation, even though nothing was actually infringed upon and no DCMA report was made. If could be trivial as a ringtone or a 10-second clip of some music on a TV in the background, or a midi file from a video game made 25 years ago.

empath75 10y ago

He makes enough money to hire writers.

kmonsen 10y ago
And a PR person to let him know what is too far and how to handle issues.
ForRealsies 10y ago
He makes enough money to take risks.

vlunkr 10y ago

I don't think it's supposed to make you feel bad for him. Just trying to help outsiders understand what may have happened. Also, people tend to write off the work that youtubers do (they just play video games for a living!!), but nobody bats an eye that pro athletes can make 6-7 figures playing games. I don't think being a youtuber is much different than running a TV show, except that generally they do all or at least most of the work on their own, creative, technical, business, etc.

nommm-nommm 10y ago
>I don't think it's supposed to make you feel bad for him. Then it was extremely poor writing because I got the impression that was one of the main messages. Maybe there was an interesting message in there but it didn't come through. I agree that making a good, well produced, YouTube video takes a lot of work. I've never seen PewDiePie's videos but they don't sound very good or like they are much work to produce.

paulpauper 10y ago

does't mean he keeps $15 million every year The problem is that YouTube goes after much smaller people, as well, quite frequently, often for arbitrary or small reasons, and resolving such content disputes is Kafkaesque, taking weeks. Often someone (usually a competitor) will flag a video and then YouTube will pull it and suspend the account or put a restriction on the length of videos (often a 15 minute length restriction for flagged accounts), citing 'copyright infringement', which is a favorite boilerplate explanation, even though nothing was actually infringed upon and no DCMA report was made. If could be trivial as a ringtone or a 10-second clip of some music on a TV in the background, or a midi file from a video game made 25 years ago.