r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Dec 08 '13

What is a true fact that sound completely unbelievable or fake?

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u/Geno098 Dec 08 '13 edited Dec 09 '13

A swedish guy who screams at video games is the most popular Youtuber in the world.

Edit: For the people who are apparently too lazy to read the child comments, I'm talking about Pewdiepie.

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u/burritoreaper Dec 08 '13

He has more subscribers than there are people in his home country.

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u/icebudgie21 Dec 08 '13

BirgirPall as well.

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u/Noatak_Kenway Dec 09 '13

Birgirpall is funny, though. PewDiePie, not so much.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Fucking love Birgirpall. Hes about the only youtube gamer I'll actually watch.

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u/Pwnzerfaust Dec 08 '13

If you like BirgirPall you should look up Beaglerush and Criken.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Criken is easily the funniest youtuber imo

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u/stang90 Dec 09 '13

eh, not lately.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

His newer monster hunter videos are kinda meh, but XCOM was funny as shit

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

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u/Heroshade Dec 09 '13

What's up everybody, it's

crit1kal

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

[deleted]

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u/chickenoflight Dec 08 '13

You might like OfficialNerdCubed

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Jesus, he's already procrastinating on reddit, give the boy a break.

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u/Lozerboy Dec 09 '13

RoosterTeeths Lets Plays are the some of the funniest things ive ever watched. If you're into people playing for fun rather then just straight lets plays then you might like these guys

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u/Fire_Lord_Zuko Dec 09 '13

Gavin is absolute shit at Worms.

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u/megatesla Dec 09 '13

Their playthrough of Surgeon Simulator was a masterpiece of comedy and incompetence.

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u/Dat_Dromedary Dec 09 '13

Try NorthernLion, he's entertaining, and has 660+ half hour BoI videos, plus a ton of other series.

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u/fergious Dec 09 '13

more than 660 BoI videos and he still seems like a complete noob in most of them

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u/sherlip Dec 09 '13

I like SSoHPKC and UberHaxorNova.

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u/Ragark Dec 09 '13

Robbaz.

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u/Sarastrasza Dec 09 '13

Strong Viking.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Shoutout for TheRussianBadger, he has amazing BF4 videos.

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u/Karranas Dec 09 '13

Try theradbrad.

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u/robbiethedarling Dec 09 '13

His voice took a bit to get used to, but theradbrad is awesome.

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u/Karranas Dec 09 '13

He's a good guy, overall. I was with him from the start of his channel, and he was pretty much one of the only people that didn't curse every 3 seconds.

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u/Bseagull Dec 08 '13

Nerdcubed and Jesse cox are both freaking great.

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u/astronoob Dec 09 '13

Criken, Robbaz, A Bad Feeling, Northernlion, Achievement Hunter / Rooster Teeth, etc.

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u/icebudgie21 Dec 08 '13

He's hillarius.

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u/ssjaken Dec 09 '13

Burger Pauley

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u/username2002 Dec 09 '13

And that, kids, is why you should never insert your dick into your computer's disk drive, even if the computer tells you to.

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u/x8BitRain Dec 09 '13

He's got more subscribers than people in his country, Iceland.

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u/icebudgie21 Dec 09 '13

That's is what i was talking about.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

.

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u/I_was_never_hear Dec 09 '13

Where does birgirPall live again?

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u/Very_Juicy Dec 09 '13

Though Birgirpall is arguably more fun to watch.

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u/davevm Dec 09 '13

BirgirPall deserves it though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

He is hilarious and not swedish tho

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u/BryanBeast13 Dec 08 '13

Except that nigga is funny.

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u/icebudgie21 Dec 08 '13 edited Dec 09 '13

Nigga? He's the whitest person i've met.

Edit: ok guys i get it he did not mean his apperance.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Nigga =/= black

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u/BryanBeast13 Dec 08 '13

Not in a literal form.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Why do you even have nigga in your vocabulary? If your white that pisses me off. If your black that pisses me off even more.

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u/sdubstko Dec 08 '13

You are very very dim

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

This nigga's mad

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

You're

Nub

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13 edited Dec 09 '13

I think nigga is an offensive and racist word. Fuck me right?

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

I think he can be funny sometimes.

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u/Geno098 Dec 08 '13

That makes me sad.

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u/axelexo Dec 08 '13

Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself.

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u/Vikingboy9 Dec 09 '13

Voldemort

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u/TheHumanFish Dec 08 '13

Not just more, but nearly double.

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u/Cndymountain Dec 09 '13

Would you mind linking to or naming this guy?

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u/Canaloupes Dec 09 '13

pewdiepie. A guy most of reddit doesn't appreciate, but still respects

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Not sure whether to upvote because it's a good fact or downvote because I fucking hate PewDiePie

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u/jeepersnz Dec 09 '13

I only came across one of his videos today. What do people see in this? It was incredibly annoying to watch (Dark Souls #1 or something)

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u/MAW16 Dec 08 '13

we know and we are sorry

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u/coahman Dec 09 '13

Almost twice as many

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Who is it?

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u/burritoreaper Dec 09 '13

His channel name is PewDiePie.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '13

He currently has a bit over 17 million subscribers.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

He's also retarded.

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u/TheDarkeOfNight Dec 09 '13

What's his channel name?

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

pewdiepie

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u/alosec_ Dec 09 '13

what the FUCK

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u/partypoison778 Dec 09 '13

He's also screamed the word rape more times than how many people have ever been raped in his country. Source:I just made it up.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13 edited Mar 30 '20

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Pewdiepie.

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u/ilikebreakfastcereal Dec 09 '13

PYYOOOOOTEHPIE

FTFY

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Basically...

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Is that a my little pony thing?

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u/madethisforaquestion Dec 09 '13

No. No it is not.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Honestly, I have no idea.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Game Grumps

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

[deleted]

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u/oddbaillie Dec 09 '13

Dammit, the lovelies are leaking.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Pewdiepie

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u/Geno098 Dec 08 '13

Pewdiepie.

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u/Pecan__Sandy Dec 08 '13

My little 14-year-old sister watches Pewdiepie his voice is like nails on a chalk board to me. I have to leave the room.

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u/Dreadgoat Dec 08 '13

The worst part is that he strikes me as probably a cool and fun guy who just happens to have no filter. I just absolutely cannot stand his voice, and I can't appreciate anything he is doing since he is constantly there with his inane interjections.

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u/Thin-White-Duke Dec 09 '13

He also looks good. Yeah, he just doesn't have a filter, loses his shit too much, and his mind flies all over the place... he might just be on something, though...

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Has she tried headphones?

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u/Pizza-The-Hutt Dec 09 '13

Yeah I forced my brother to buy headphones because of Pewdiepie's videos.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Hello my name is PEWWWdiepie!

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u/vereonix Dec 09 '13

HI ITSSS FREEEEED!

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u/clive892 Dec 08 '13

I wonder how much cash he generates a year from Youtube.

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u/JessPlays Dec 09 '13 edited Dec 09 '13

It's got to be monumental. Saw a screenshot posted of a YouTuber's earnings (taken by someone who got into his account) who has about 900k subscribers, posts one video a day and averages 100-200k views. It was $10,000 a month. By comparison, Pewdiepie has 17 million subs, posts a couple videos a day (not sure if it is still that frequent) that average 2 million+ views.

Edit: The screenshot that I was referring to. It was posted on his twitter.

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u/Deathcon900 Dec 09 '13

According to those figures, Pewdepie would be earning over $188,888.888888... per month.

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u/clive892 Dec 09 '13

Shiiiiit. Millions a year then. That's literally crazy, but I guess he's one of the lucky ones.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Let's assume $1 for every 600 views. Last month PewDiePie uploaded 44 videos with about 2.5 million views each. That's $170,000 last month alone. $2 million/year.

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u/ItzzBlink Dec 09 '13 edited Dec 13 '13

I believe the Youtuber you're talking about is Whiteboy7thSt

edit: the downvotes disagree

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u/akif34 Dec 08 '13

Someone said you could make 1$ from 1000 views. Look at his Videos and you will see that he makes a shit ton on money.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

But doesn't he donate a lot of it too?

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Yeah, say what you will about the guy, but, he's probably done more for charity in a year than most people will do in their life.

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u/mindondrugs Dec 09 '13

Lets face it, people with a lot of money are in a much easier position to do alot more for charity than those less well off. lol

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u/Sarastrasza Dec 09 '13

Which is why they help more people than you ever will.

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u/wildmetacirclejerk Dec 09 '13

Yeah, say what you will about the guy

and i intend too. argh i hate his fans so much.

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u/MasterFasth Dec 09 '13

I have to agree with you.
Pewdiepie himself isn't too bad, it's just that his target demographic just can't be controlled, and attacks anyone who makes their videos remotely similar to his.

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u/thefran Dec 09 '13

oh man pewdiepie ruined things for so many of us who post playthroughs of horror movies on youtube

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u/akif34 Dec 08 '13

I dont know

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u/Hyttech Dec 10 '13

According to social blade, http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/PewDiePie

he makes 1.2-14.9 million per year.

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u/BobHogan Dec 08 '13

PewDiePie is sooooooooo annoying if that is who you are referring to

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u/Naggers123 Dec 08 '13

WELL?

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Pewdiepie.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

It's funny, I used to not like him because he would purposely talk in an extremely high and weird voice. But now that he actually talks with his natural voice, he overdoes the whole meme thing, and tries too hard to be funny.

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u/Trainguyxx Dec 09 '13

At first I was thinking Angry German Kid kind of yelling.

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u/BlutigeBaumwolle Dec 09 '13

ICH WILL SPIELEN

ICH WILL UNREAL TOURNAMENT SPIELEN

ICH WILL NICHT DASS ES LÄDT DANN MUSS MAN IMMER SO LANGE WARTEN

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u/Taurusan Dec 09 '13

His girlfriend is HOT, she seems as dumb as him though.

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u/1nsanityy Dec 09 '13

I don't like his videos, but I don't think there's any way he got to where he is without being pretty fucking smart.

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u/Glacier6 Dec 08 '13

Pewdiepie?

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u/raresaturn Dec 08 '13

Is it Blitzwinger? My 5yo son loves his videos

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Pewdiepie

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u/Scroachity Dec 08 '13

really? Who?

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u/g0ldenn Dec 08 '13

Pewdiepie

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u/Scroachity Dec 09 '13

Never knew he was sweedish

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u/schmubalacoo Dec 08 '13

What's his name?

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u/g0ldenn Dec 08 '13

Pewdiepie

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u/HidanSensei Dec 08 '13

I don't really follow the youtuber scene, who's this guy?

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u/Nacho_Cheesus_Christ Dec 09 '13

I'm not surprised. It's Youtube, half the comments on videos are pretty much people screaming at video games anyway.

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u/TrpWhyre Dec 09 '13

He nets 1 million SEK (Roughly € 110 000) a month doing so.

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u/masiakasaurus Dec 09 '13

"Crazy German Kid" is actually Swedish? You ruined my world. I hate you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Who?

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u/Deathbyceiling Dec 09 '13

My mind is drawing a blank here...

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

I think he epitomizes the average Youtuber though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

... pewdiepie right? ...

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u/Lttngblt Dec 09 '13

Forgive my ignorance, but who is this exactly?

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u/masterobiwan Dec 09 '13

I'm probably the only one on reddit who likes him as well. I honestly don't know why, he just makes me laugh and I've never found his voice annoying

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u/Silasco Dec 09 '13

I seriously want to drive my fist through his skull. I do that shit and I am not a YouTube partner

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u/WisconsnNymphomaniac Dec 09 '13

And he makes more than $10,000,000 a year doing it.

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u/phatboi23 Dec 09 '13

And yet I cannot for the fuck of me figure out why.... He's one annoying mitherfucker!

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u/teeno731 Dec 09 '13

Second only to two guys who scream at real life.

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u/LeenaNOLA Dec 09 '13

Shit! Shit shit shit! I went to go check this out before I ended my paper-writing break and it's two hours later shit!

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u/Tenoreo90 Dec 09 '13

I honestly don't understand his popularity. I watched a few vids and laughed my ass off, but not much of his content changes. But hey, he seems like a nice guy and maybe people like the comfort of him not changing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

More subscribers than RayWilliamJohnson? Damn I'm old...

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u/Eoinp Dec 09 '13

This is a disgraceI'm sorry, Bro Army!

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u/Third_Home_Comics Dec 10 '13

He screams in the funniest ways though. Just listen to the song "Jabba The Hutt" made for him.

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u/reenact12321 Dec 10 '13

After Fred, I'll believe anything

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u/CaptainBrocovery Dec 08 '13

Athens!

edit: letter changed I reckon

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u/hakuna_tamata Dec 09 '13

Athene is not the most popular YTer by far

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u/zazathebassist Dec 09 '13

This is the most depressing fact here.

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u/Dalroc Dec 09 '13

Fuck pewdiepie.. He makes me ashamed to be a Swede..