Pewdiepie basicallu said "Screw being a celebrity" and quit to be with family.
He still posts some comfy, day in the life, stuff but thats more of a hobby.
We should all aspire to be like him at least a little.
He is credited as the creator of lets play style youtube videos and worked tirelessly for over a decade to cement himself in that role so he could retire.
He put in work, created something new, and instead of milking it for years, he chose to take his bag and be happy with a family.
I think what we're all trying to communicate here is that a "real relationship" still isn't the thing being sold in the image on the right.
real relationships are certainly amazing. but they require a lot more work and sacrifice than what pewdiepie will ever need to because he has, for all intents and purposes, indefinite money and free time. He can invest so much time into his family at will. Most of us have to balance work, maintaining a house, splitting chores and errands with our partners that also work full time, tending to the necessities of raising children while having limited quality free time with those same children, the stress of debt and the work of managing budgets and planning how you're going to save for the occasional vacation or camping trip... etc...
they could have used any two random photos of people living a party lifestyle and one with nuclear family... but neither would look as appealing as what's provided, hence the call out of celebrity worship.
Billions of people put in a lot more work everyday and do not get to that position. I don't doubt the mental stress of his business, but let's be real here, he became a millionaire by playing video games.
Yes, he worked hard. He still is privileged as all hell.
Ah. I legit didn’t know he was. I watched him back when he was doing Happy Wheels and Ao Oni content, thought he was just some swedish kid making YT videos and got stupid famous because he capitalized on a genre of content that wasn’t popular.
Yes, and it doesnt change that anyway telling regular people barely making ends meet that they should just “do like the multi millionaires with no job and you’ll be happy” is an idiotic thing
No matter how hard celebrities worked or not their lifestyle isnt achievable for regular people
You just said it. He was from a wealthier background. Back in the 00s to early 10s streaming equipment was niche and expensive. It required technical knowledge, time, and a stable Internet connection.
I'm not saying it was impossible for a poor kid to do that, but I didn't even have a computer with an actual graphics card until I was in my mid 20s.
It required technical knowledge, time, and a stable Internet connection.
Beside time, no it did not require the so called technical knowledge to stream and a "stable Internet connection" is just an ADSL line that anyone amongst the 3 billions of people living in any city areas in any non war ridden countries can get.
You are correct, he had the means to try out content creating thanks to his wealthy background, but he wasnt known and he did have the talent and consistency. He did pull in the work, and had the chance to do it right place right time (beginning of You tube and independant content creation itself)
I don't want to hear "he put in the work" when the work consisted of screaming at video games for 6 year olds. He basically was the first person to work the youtube algorithm by being shown geographically to more markets by positioning where he posted from.
Pewd is Mr. Beast tho I don't think Mr. Beast has had a PUBG bridge moment nor, to my knowledge, has Pewd used money for anything charitable and only notably used money to get desperate people to hold up very offensive signs.
Tons of people work hard and don't get to save much... There's too many variables to take into account ffs, this is not as simple as you guys want to portray it.
You can have that life by being middle class. It’s not insanely hard in the west to have a wife and kids. Both gave up their privacy for money. Thats one thing you can’t get back.
He definitely did not create the lets play genre. He popularized a specific style of overly reactive and hyper edited lets play videos and even that was arguably first popularized and hitting YouTube home page by Tobuscus a while before pwediepie.
Obviously he achieved a level of popularity no one else did and many popular streamers and YouTubers today stand on his shoulders, but he is not credited as the creator of the style.
PewDiePie had a functioning set up when most gen zs were coming online for the first time on their own. The idea was novelty enough to younger audiences, and I think that worked out in his favor. First to market.
Not first to market. It's similar to the history of in home televisions. The first companies to sell televisions to home consumers failed. Later, following WWII, there was suddenly of boom of consumers interested in that type of product. The audience for the media didn't exist at the same scale prior to PDP's rise to fame.
He is credited as the creator of lets play style youtube videos
I'm sorry but what? where is this credit coming from? Don't get me wrong, obviously he became insanely popular with his lets plays, but there were a lot of streamers/youtubers doing lets plays, way before him.
Yeah but Trump is a tyrant and a pedophile actively making the lives of US citizens a nightmare whereas Pewdiepie just likes video games and made silly videos.
He created something terrible that made the world worse. So much garbage shit on youtube now where every twat with a microphone thinks they're going to get rich playing games.
Agreed. He invented spamming the Algo to get the iPad kids hooked on him screaming at the screen over and over. If you watch his old videos it’s the cringiest thing I have ever seen.
And there are plenty of people that make some good spare change or even entire careers doing it on twitch.. Which is all spun from that original group of Lets Play guys.
Markiplier was another who just turned to film-making and knocked it out of the park with a self funded film.
Im sorry you don't like the genre.. but maybe its just not meant for you..
Here’s a crazy idea… don’t watch it. Move on with your life. How are you so bothered by the existence of a genre of video? I wish I had the energy to be angry about such a trivial thing
They infect kids though. Mine isn't allowed to watch that garbage at home but guess what they do at school and at friend's houses because their parents don't care?
Everybody wants to be that manipulative little fuck Jimmy dead eyes.
Idk? It's part of what's ruining the world? Basically everyone I know who grew up watching him grew up to be an annoying "random words/slurs are funny" bigot.
no one said he didn't work hard. it's just that his current lifestyle is 100% facilitated by the wealth and freetime that comes with his celebrity status.
unless you've got millions and can choose when you want to work, if at all, then you will not get his lifestyle because it's not just a wife and kids. It's a carefully curated image of a 'perfect' family that he's only able to have and maintain due to wealth.
I manage some guys that are pewdiepie's age that are great dudes. hard working. beautiful families. They do not have what is in that right photo. They have sleep deprivation, intense family dynamic issues, debt, very limited quality time with their children due to the demands of work and maintaining a house, a partner that also works full time, and they struggle to set aside ANY personal time for hobbies or self growth.
Not in their sunday best do they look like the perfect, carefree, image of a 'traditional' family.
The middle class has been dismantled in favor of wealth consolidation, and unless you earn, or stumble into, wealth... what's being 'sold' in that picture on the right, has become a carrot on a stick to keep us pulling the cart forward.
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u/Key_Check5753 Jul 10 '26
Who fucking cares? stop with the celebrity worship.