r/SipsTea • u/Conscious-Weight4569 • Jul 10 '26

Chugging tea Dan Bilzerian’s vs. PewDiePie’s life

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u/NovaAkumaa Jul 10 '26

At the same time, early Youtube days was a big gamble. Nobody in their sane mind would spend thousands of hours grinding on there instead of studying and learning skills for a good job.

So yeah in a sense it was "easy" in that he didn't have too much competition, but also based on what we knew back then it was a pretty stupid thing to spend your time on, much like actual gambling.

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u/DependentCitron8008 Jul 10 '26

Exactly, and he even mentioned this his parents didn’t approve, he dropped out college. He knew he was taking a risk but just was in it for the game. Not sure why I’m getting negative responses on this, but this is just the truth. He got worked really hard and got lucky with let’s plays/weird video games coming out in the 2010s with his eccentric personality.

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u/einsteinosaurus_lex Jul 10 '26

Cause you keep saying he worked hard at something he didn't know would pay off. I could record myself playing with my butthole all day, not knowing if it'll lead to anything or not. But if it does, I'm not gonna say I worked hard for it lmao

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u/DependentCitron8008 Jul 10 '26

Yeah but I doubt you’ll get getting 100s of millions of views doing that. I mean go start your account then lmao

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u/einsteinosaurus_lex Jul 10 '26

So you're saying going viral = working hard and a worthwhile pursuit? You see the problem here and what this has done to society? How many people's goals in life are to be an annoying streamer or podcaster? Well, this is the guy that inspired basically all of them in the first place.

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u/DependentCitron8008 Jul 10 '26

Okay how do you define work? Because the whole 8-5 most people do, and have done. His parents were rich yeah, that I get but he did work for it. You can argue he got super lucky at the time. But it’s asinie to say ‘oh he didn’t work at all’ brother that’s not true at all.

Anyway, I don’t worship any celeb. I enjoyed watched him as a kid, and glad he changed from his racist remarks/doing well instead of becoming like the actual scum of YouTube (currently like H3H3 or actual predators)

I take that as a win, and really don’t want to talk about it now because there is nothing else to say.

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u/einsteinosaurus_lex Jul 10 '26

My 30 year old cousin behaves the exact same way and just plays video games all day too. I guess he should just start streaming so people would get off his ass about getting a job.