PewDiePie
PewDiePie came up the other day as a topic of conversation. At the time, I said that I didn't like him or was, at best, apathetic about him.
Well, I decided to give him another shot, as I kind of didn't feel like it was fair for me to judge him based on just the one and a quarter half-remembered videos I watched of his a year or so ago. So I went to his channel and right there on his front page was a video titled "A Funny Montage." I assumed that this was intended to be a sort of "Best of PewDiePie" video, so I figured that would probably be the best place to start.
This is that video:
I managed to last maybe two minutes into that (up to the Slender thing where he's making the asinine faces while he's zooming in and out on the Slender Man's crotch) before I just had to close the tab and sigh wearily, entirely unamused. So, yeah, I gave him another fair chance to impress me, or at least to not aggravate me, and well... let's say that PewDiePie is definitely not for me and just leave it at that, okay? This will be the last post I make about him, until and unless he ever does something that's actually noteworthy.
(EDIT)
Also this:
PewDiePie is the most subscribed channel on Youtube right now. Think about that. Just let it sink in. *facepalm* The only reason I could stomach that video at all was thanks to the MST3K-like reactions in the upper corner (which are parodying PewDiePie himself when he does that in his own videos).
To be fair, he has apparently toned down the rape jokes since that video was made, but still... the shrieking like a banshee thing is pretty terrible, regardless.
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(EDIT 2)
And this is a video mocking many of the comments in response to the above "Adults React to PewDiePie" video:
Yeah, that sounds about like what I would have expected to be the response.
(/EDIT 2)
Well, I decided to give him another shot, as I kind of didn't feel like it was fair for me to judge him based on just the one and a quarter half-remembered videos I watched of his a year or so ago. So I went to his channel and right there on his front page was a video titled "A Funny Montage." I assumed that this was intended to be a sort of "Best of PewDiePie" video, so I figured that would probably be the best place to start.
This is that video:
Click to viewI managed to last maybe two minutes into that (up to the Slender thing where he's making the asinine faces while he's zooming in and out on the Slender Man's crotch) before I just had to close the tab and sigh wearily, entirely unamused. So, yeah, I gave him another fair chance to impress me, or at least to not aggravate me, and well... let's say that PewDiePie is definitely not for me and just leave it at that, okay? This will be the last post I make about him, until and unless he ever does something that's actually noteworthy.
(EDIT)
Also this:
PewDiePie is the most subscribed channel on Youtube right now. Think about that. Just let it sink in. *facepalm* The only reason I could stomach that video at all was thanks to the MST3K-like reactions in the upper corner (which are parodying PewDiePie himself when he does that in his own videos).
To be fair, he has apparently toned down the rape jokes since that video was made, but still... the shrieking like a banshee thing is pretty terrible, regardless.
(/EDIT)
(EDIT 2)
And this is a video mocking many of the comments in response to the above "Adults React to PewDiePie" video:
Yeah, that sounds about like what I would have expected to be the response.
(/EDIT 2)