The Unofficial PewDiePie Thread

According to Totalbiscuit (Who literally makes his living on youtube) some packages are indeed "Pay per ad viewed" (He explains Youtube's various publicity packages and their payouts in the following videos). Note for example that the ads with a skip option only pay if the person doesn't hit the skip button.

That said, the evaluation of 8 cents per view is grossly overestimated. I'd not be surprised it's 1/100th or 1/1000th that. Partially because a simple look at the kind of ads youtube serves (Some coming from businesses that aren't actually big mega corporation) shows no one could afford to run ads on youtube if they paid that much.

edited 4th Jun '14 10:55:32 AM by CobraPrime

I never said that my estimate was anywhere close to being accurate. And of course, don't forget that this is Pewdiepie, and presumably he would get more money from his ads because of his gigantic popularity, not to mention other sources of income besides strictly ads.

Indeed, more research seems to point to it being more like .5 cents per view. That's still $15000 per video, or, from my earlier estimate, $125 per minute of effort.

Still, in my opinion, making more money than he deserves.

edited 4th Jun '14 10:59:22 AM by Thnikkafan

Yeah but that makes a big bit of difference. Going from your evaluated "OMG he makes 2 K ber minutes of video" and "He makes between 20$ to 100$ per minutes of videos" (Which still adds up to a nice salary)

I'm not saying he's not making major cash due to his ludicrously high view count of course. But going by what other fairly successful (Though not nearly as much as Pew Die Pie) Youtube content providers have mentioned in the past, I doubt he makes as much as your math implied.

I'm sure he doesn't. I would run a more accurate analysis, but when I try to use a calculator for these sorts of things it won't input properly because his subscribers and views are Off the Scale.

Fact is, these estimates aren't anything good because he's in some sort of special place as the #1 Youtuber. I think I'll just settle for the nice vague estimate of $Too Much.

edited 4th Jun '14 11:09:55 AM by Thnikkafan

So, since I have really shitty tastes, I actually like Pewdiepie and the fans. Does anyone have any suggestions on Youtubers who are similar? Because I apparently like screamy/overreacting let's players. Also, does anyone know of a way to fix my tastes?

Watch Retsupurae to fix your tastes. Watch pretty much any You Tube Let's Play otherwise.

Retsuprar strikes me as being... not very nice. They're an entire channel devoted to mocking let's players, correct?

More so MSTing them. Admittedly, their early stuff can get kinda mean-spirited at times, but they're far more mellow by now, and mostly just crack jokes and mock technical flaws in the videos rather than the people themselves. And they have a lot of non-LP but still video game related stuff, like videos riffing on cheesy/bad/forgotten/all three video games and riffs on bad Newgrounds flash games (which they mostly did to try to get away from the negativity being sent toward people). They do still riff on Let's Plays from time to time, but they've more recently been the exception rather than the rule, and they highly discourage people from actually attacking the LPers whose videos they mock, since it's more supposed to be a silly fun thing than a hate thing.

edited 4th Sep '14 12:22:42 AM by Odd1

I really don't think I'd like them, especially since I've blocked one of the guys on twitter for being a jerk, and I'm really not a fan of making fun of things for humor, usually.

Then how are you a Pew Die Pie fan?

Also: isn't making fun of things kind of how humour works?

There was that one incident where they missed the whole joke of the Nostalgia Critic's Let's Play, which even he has admitted didn't pan out as well as he thought it would when he came up with the idea.

not if you have a shitty sense of humor.

They have said before that they didn't like how their take on the video turned out themselves. Either way, though, neither video is very good anyway, so let's just file them both in the "forget it ever happened" folder.

It didn't stop Retsupurae fans from going after the video anyways.

So? They and their fans are separate entities.

I watched this and it reminded me of how much I absolutely love PDP screaming.

That delicious screaming.

I'm going to look at his screaming compilation. I'm sure there is one.

...if this forum was the sort that had image macros, I'd be slinging Fry's squint with a "not sure if serious" under it your way.

What can I say, I genuinely likes his screaming as of now.

He's apparently cameoing on South Park as I type this.

He is.

I never saw that coming.

...

That was kinda creepy.

Apparently this is going around the internet. Okay then...

Long live the King!

Pewdiepie roasting Youtubers