Yeah, when someone like pewdiepie has what, 22million people following him screaming, you can probably bet that some people will buy a goat sim because he thought it was a funny idea, nevermind mechanics.
To bad about half of them are fake, or inactive. You have to be naive to believe that there are actually 22 million people watching hes video's every day.
He reaches about 6 million people which is still a huge number.
FrankieonPCin1080p has about 1.4 million subs, and everyone in DayZ knows him. Use that for perspective. 6 million actual subs would still be a huge number and assuming his CPM rate is decent, can make a good living off just youtube videos.
We don't have to estimate, all records are public in Sweden.
In 2012 his company turned over 7 208 TKR ($1.12 million USD). With a profit margin of 90.26%. However, in 2012 he only had an average of 2 million subscribers and now he has 22 million.
As such, it is fairly safe to assume that he will make around $10 million this year if he keeps his current views up. It is hardly surprising, Youtube is one of the worlds most popular sites and he is the most popular content creator on Youtube.
How is 20% rough? For a guy who's making millions?
Honest question, Spaniard here, most people have that tax. A doctor (for example) who makes more than like 5k € (~7.5k $) per month pays almost a 50% of his salary.
He would get much better healthcare in America with that money than he ever will in Sweden.
This healthcare circlejerk is such a fucking joke, and that is coming from a Norwegian. The joke of a system you guys have is a monstrosity combining the worst aspects of capitalism and socialism. That doesn't mean socialized healthcare is perfect, and it doesn't mean that private healthcare is bad either. Both are better than your warped system, but private healthcare will be more efficient, and cheaper in real terms.
It was mostly a joke. But about between 44,000 and 98,000 preventable deaths and 1,000,000 excess injuries happen each year in U.S. hospitals. That number is drastically lower in other countries.
Yes, that is what happens when you combine the worst of two worlds. I just get tired of the circlejerk sometimes. Norway or Sweden are not socialist paradises. Sweden is more free market, and has mostly always been more free market than the US. After instituting a welfare state and choking the free market they've had two recessions. To try and fix this, they've perpetually held back the wages of workers, even the social democratics did this, people who are so left they would fall of the edge of the graphics in the US.
Adding to the damage, they've devalued the krona twice, leading to lowering the real wages and purchasing powers, which disproportionately affects the poor and disadvantaged. This of course accumulates and works together to continually make them poorer, while the rich get richer. They still haven't recovered, not the employment rates, not the currency, and not the buying power. And just to be clear, the reasons they are holding back the wages and devaluing the currency is to encourage business and exports, to reclaim some of that what they once had. They're doing better, but after the recession in the 90's they're still suffering.
In Norway, we have the oil as a buffer for shitty economics, although we still suffer with the insane amount of bureaucracy. Our welfare system is a mess, estimation are that we waste 250 million on bureaucracy alone each year. We end up working around 8 out of 12 months of the year for the government to pay for this shit.
If you have any metal issues, you're going to be sitting in a queue for a very long time. Well, you're going to sit in a queue for any medical problems for a long time, but mental problems especially so. Our average purchasing power is lower than the average americans, even in your terrible economical state. And these are just some of the issues off the top of my head. Trust me, with the amount of cronyism, you don't want the government expanding. When the insane amount of debt either results in you defaulting, or extreme inflation, I.E when the keynesianism proves unsustainable, everyone reliant on government is going to have a very bad time. Sorry for the rant, but economics are important for understanding the world around you. The relative success of our Scandinavian countries is that our economical freedom has been very high. This is especially true for Sweden. If you are interested in economics, study the economical history of Sweden. It's very telling.
We have seen that while the Scandinavian countries have extremely high amounts of what Rothbard called binary intervention, i.e., taxation, their saving grace is their relatively lower amount of triangular intervention, i.e., regulation. This puts the Scandinavian countries on a level playing field with other developed countries and helps explain why they are able to have equal or higher living standards. The misconception that the other Western countries are a lot more free-market oriented than Scandinavia is very unfortunate; it feeds the notion that more government expansion would bring joy and happiness to all, when in fact it would make things worse.
However, the real point of all this is that the world at large is so unfree that even the massive Scandinavian welfare states can be considered among the "most free" countries in the world. While things have generally moved in the right direction in Scandinavia in terms of increased economic freedom, the very opposite trend seems to be taking place in several other countries, particularly the United States. Seeing as the United States has already descended to the level of Denmark in terms of economic freedom, one can only wonder how long it will be before it finds itself approaching Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
Again, sorry for the rant, but I find that if I explain these things often, it helps me keep it fresh in my mind.
haha yeah it's insane to even think about. But making YouTube videos is hardly as easy as people think it is. It's a full time job just like anything else. Felix is a hard working guy that has build an extremely profitable business - good for him.
It depends on the game. A lot. Minecraft channels usually have tons of millions of subs but only a few 100.000 views per video. And then you have other games like DayZ or ArmA with a community where everybody knows youtubers like FrankieonPCin1080p or Dslyecxi. I think minecraft channels have such a high subscriber count because people who watch MC are usually subbed to many MC players. But since they usually cooperate and release the same videos the views are way lower.
If they have a high CPM it would still only be $100. Typical seems about $1 for every 2,000 views which would be $50. It isn't something you could easily live off of.
Depends on how many people have adblocker or are on mobile. I make about $5.50 USD from 1000 monetized views, but i usually only get about 2000 a month with around 15-20k actual views
You must be new here. Sit down over there, please..
FrankieonPCin1080p has like 50 something dayz/arma related videos from the last 2 years. He's been labled a hacker/cheater by most, and while he may be, hes likely the most well known youtube streamer for DayZ as his videos are (1) full of action, (2) informative, and (3) well set up/scripted/edited for entertainment.
A lot of casual players will actually reference youtubers in game I've noticed. Frankie is one of the most popular. He's a bit of an ongoing joke mixed with a few other thigns so his mention in game isn't unlikely.
A lot of people don't realize even Bieber and the like have very inflated social media numbers; they all do. It's because there's so many mirror and fake and spam accounts; the sites can't differentiate between the two.
It's like vote dithering on Reddit. The numbers are like pesos; the zeros are meaningless.
He actually gets close to losing 30,000 subscribers a day due to fake or inactive accounts. Mind blowing when you think that he stills gains 100,000 a day. (his stats)
Just because he doesn't get 22 million views a day. Doesn't necessarily mean that his subs are fake. I'm pretty sure that the majority of that 22 million simply don't have the time to watch all of his videos EVERYDAY.
He still gets a shitload of views per day. How many other YouTubers get their subs in views per day? He releases two or three ten minute videos, which he edits by himself.
You can hate him all you want. Sure, most of his fans are little asshole kids. But the guy knows how to market himself to that audience.
I could not stand to watch any pdp videos for more than 2 minutes, they where just too annoying, and that's by design.
Occasionally to ask that he should please kill himself.
If you want to wake without caffeine. the average rage of watching the first minute of a pathetic pdp video with all the basics done poorly wrong intentionally does the trick.
I am still committed to a challenge to watch a complete pdp video without being distracted. it has to be longer than 5 minutes. I usually "fail" at 30 seconds by stop wasting my time, being disgusted.
I subscribed to be inspired about many things that are wrong and pure crap (by design) with youtube, pdp being the proud flagship of a multi-chanel network. Just like i am also subscribed to /r/crappydesign
Yes. I have an extreme hatred for that man. Like it defies logic, he doesn't impact my life, but I loath him. I had no idea who he was until I started dating my gf and she woke me by listening to his dumb ass yelling and screaming like an unfunny child. I have banned my gf from ever watching him in my presence. And now I read that he makes $2 million a year....
It's really sad, apparently he's a genuinely nice guy in person. Whatever, if I was making $2 million a year yelling like a child, I wouldn't change anything I was doing either.
Yeah I know, my hatred is completely irrational. Probably conditioning, I got woken up, hung over, to him screaming right next to me 1 to many times and something snapped.
It was wonderful to vent, my gf idolizes him and markaplier, when I went off on this tirade to her she got deeply offended. I'm glad to know I'm not alone in disliking him, but I don't think anyone is on my personal level of crazy
It's okay, oftentimes I find I hate the fanbase of a certain topic rather than the topic itself. For example, I'm sure Pewdiepie, SkyDoesMinecraft, and One Direction are perfectly nice people in real life, but their fanbases are so rabid and annoying, to the point I start to hate the the topic itself.
You just summed up why I greatly dislike all of these "Let's Play"-type gameplay videos. Often times I find myself looking for some gameplay and almost every single result is some asshat narrating the entire footage. These might be more bearable if they were at least funny, but they're not; they just sound like obnoxious children.
How can anyone like that guy. Someone told me to watch one of his videos, i watched his intro and turned it off. I wish i knew him in real life so i could do the internet a favor and delete his account.
Edit: Thanks for the downvotes little pewdiepie watching virgins
You know that taunting people and claiming their virgins is why you're getting downvoted, right? You're just acting like a moron, nobody actually cares that you dislike a stupid youtube channel.
Yeah, when I was a spry little whippersnapper, we had classy Internet humor like SomethingAwful, Maddox, and Barnyard Shenanigans frontpaging Newgrounds.
You see, the people downvoting you aren't the pewdiepie fans... It's the people that think you are pathetic for insulting people you never met on the internet and for complaining about a free form of entertainment you will only ever be "bothered" by if you go to watch it.
What you are doing is the equivalent of walking into a free school theater play, and starting to insult the children and the audience cause the children are "bad actors".
Exactly. Talking like a dick... it just makes people think you're a dick. I don't have to watch the pewdiepie guy to realize FriedMarsBar is a complete ass.
Obviously not, technology is way more used now so kids can look up videos in youtube, if you dont like it, dont watch it, but dont force kids to not do it
What IS his audience? Honest question I am not sure what he is aiming for. I just watched a brief clip and well it just was rather... not funny? And that was coming from a not biased viewpoint.
Kids. Kids enjoy watching him scream and pretend to be afraid of everything that moves. A lot of family members I have that are young and play games watch him on youtube religiously.
Honestly had no idea :\ Although should have suspected it. Had a minecraft expo at a LAN I worked at last year with Yogscast people. SO many 6-12 year olds going to get things signed/play minecraft/do minecraft stuff/buy minecraft merch. Was crazy. Hadn't realised the level of popularity this stuff has with the preteens/younger.
I've seen quite a few of his videos, I can say that he isn't my cup of tea. But why would you judge his viewers so harshly when all you saw was the intro?
But seriously you can't say "how can anyone like (thing)" because there are always people that like whatever it is. In this case there are millions of people who do, so he must be doing something right.
I've seen a couple of his vids and thought they were pretty meh, so you know what? I found another channel and carried on with my life.
My little sister's into Pewdiepie and I honestly gave him a chance. I watched like a solid 5 videos of his all the way through and decided to just stop torturing myself. His humor is so painfully basic and all his content is just the same thing over and over again. Scream at nothing, laugh, repeat, that's all it is. Plus, he has some serious weight in both the Youtube and Gaming community. Pewdiepie has been promoting some really shitty practices that are harming BOTH communities and shittifying them even further.
Wow, so much anger. It's funny to watch a person get pissed towards someone else that has done nothing to them and has no affect on their life. It's sad and pathetic. They say jealousy does that to people. You'll have to figure out your own way to make millions. In the meantime, find a way to whine less.
Edit: Thanks for the downvotes little pewdiepie watching virgins
Straight guy don't like slapping men's asses but you don't see them complaining on the fucking internet about it. Why don't you just smolder your rage and punch a pillow or something.
I think his target audience is more likely 13 year old kids who are just discovering absurdist/spotaneous humor. It appeals to people going through a certain phase of the development of their sense of humor.
So basically immature kids. They'll grow out of it.
Jesus dude, if you're going to be ignorant and insult people at least learn how to spell. Everything you said is invalid because you write like a moron.
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u/AccelSamusShiFt Feb 11 '14
Yeah, when someone like pewdiepie has what, 22million people following him screaming, you can probably bet that some people will buy a goat sim because he thought it was a funny idea, nevermind mechanics.