Interesting, I kind of assumed that he’d been long forgotten by the YouTube crowd, but he’s still the number 10 top youtuber going by how many subscribers he has.
So, this may actually have an impact on Linux perception, but I’d wager with people in PewDiePie’s age group more than younger people. He’s 35, a lot closer to my age than expected.
If I sound like an idiot it’s because I never followed PewDiePie except for watching him scream and flail in Dark Souls that one time.
He’s kinda grown up with his audience. I dropped out of watching as I hit adulthood, then tuned back in for his “meme review” phase, where the inside joke was that everyone watching was a nine-year-old, when in reality he already had an aging audience.
He eventually grew bored with the format (and at that point already he made it clear he was doing it for fun, not because he needed to). The view counts steadily trended downwards as he switched to making videos he wanted to make, instead of ones that made money, as he was set by then.
At some point he ran a book-club style format, because he wanted to get into reading more. At least some portion of the fanbase was into that, but at that point he lost a lot of viewership.
Nowadays he seems to post very infrequently, and it seems to mostly be vlog-style content about family life and living in Japan.
I may be wrong, but I think his content was more for a younger audience? I don’t have many examples, but the people I remember seeing watching his stuff were around 5-10 years old
Interesting, I kind of assumed that he’d been long forgotten by the YouTube crowd, but he’s still the number 10 top youtuber going by how many subscribers he has.
So, this may actually have an impact on Linux perception, but I’d wager with people in PewDiePie’s age group more than younger people. He’s 35, a lot closer to my age than expected.
If I sound like an idiot it’s because I never followed PewDiePie except for watching him scream and flail in Dark Souls that one time.
He’s kinda grown up with his audience. I dropped out of watching as I hit adulthood, then tuned back in for his “meme review” phase, where the inside joke was that everyone watching was a nine-year-old, when in reality he already had an aging audience.
He eventually grew bored with the format (and at that point already he made it clear he was doing it for fun, not because he needed to). The view counts steadily trended downwards as he switched to making videos he wanted to make, instead of ones that made money, as he was set by then.
At some point he ran a book-club style format, because he wanted to get into reading more. At least some portion of the fanbase was into that, but at that point he lost a lot of viewership.
Nowadays he seems to post very infrequently, and it seems to mostly be vlog-style content about family life and living in Japan.
I may be wrong, but I think his content was more for a younger audience? I don’t have many examples, but the people I remember seeing watching his stuff were around 5-10 years old
9 years old
There was an in-joke among him and his viewers that all the viewers were 9 years old.
10-16. It was mostly edgy content but not as edgy as leafy.
But his prime was like 10 years ago? So they are like in their mid twenties now.
The “subscribe to pewdipie” mass shooting was in 2019, 6 years ago, and he was already a household name at that point
That sounds entirely plausible to me. Once again, when it comes to PewDiePie, I have no idea what the fuck I am talking about.