The first time I ever saw PewDiePie was as South Park parody. The 4th graders were all aghast that the kindergartners were watching somebody play video games on YouTube instead of playing games themselves. The kindergartners derisively responded by calling the 4th graders “grandpa”. I never thought about him again until Sargon of Akkad made a pitch for people to subscribe to PewDiePie’s YouTube channel in an effort to keep him the most subscribed to channel on the platform; an effort that eventually failed. But that’s when I subscribed to his channel. The first time I tried to watch one of his videos, I kept wondering when he was going to do or say something. Then I realized that whatever he does or says, I had already seen it. But then every once in a while he drops the curtain and reveals that there is actually a wizard at work behind the scenes.
Rush Limbaugh recoiled from Twitter at the very outset of the platform. No surprise that ol’ Rushbo had it right from the beginning: Twitter is a sewer, and Facebook ain’t better in my opinion. I “deleted” my Twitter and Facebook accounts back in June of this year. I put “deleted” in quotes because I’m certain that Twitter and Facebook both maintain their files on you in perpetuity, and update the file by tracking your activities off of their platforms.
Anyways, Pewd came to his own conclusion that Twitter is awful, and comes at it from a perspective of Greek philosophy. If he made more content like this, I would probably watch him on a regular basis. Maybe PewDiePie is just growing up, which is always a good thing for young people to do.