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Penny Arcade - Comic - The Dumbest Timeline
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Penny Arcade - Comic - The Dumbest Timeline
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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The artwork and script here are both impeccably calibrated. I feel this man's rage, and his resignation.
Would that the subject matter were less repulsive.
It's mainly the Vloggers that litter YouTube.
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That's the last couple years in a nutshell.
This is why I just stick to the mostly "wholesome" Youtubers that play videogames. Game Grumps, ProJared, The Sw1tcher, and my boy Jim effing Sterling, son.
Also Binging with Babish, and First We Feast with that awesome Hot Ones show.
YouTube really shouldn't try to have their cake and eat it too with these moron teen celebs who do shock things for views. I feel like the line wouldn't even be drawn if one of these vapid idiots knocked someone out and stole someone's crack and smoked it, or something.
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Then I read the line "Logan Paul is the sort of creature an evil wizard would make out of shit, and I hate him."
This is exactly how I feel, thanks again Tycho!
Cannot unsee.
51% in the US.
I was happy, then.
Looking at my subscribed channels, it's split three ways between makers, outdoorsy/camping channels and comedic news feeds like The Daily Show or Samantha Bee.
Asshats like Logan Paul are the reason I've become proficient at scrubbing my viewed videos and it chaps my narrow ass that I am required to do so.
...and maybe also cute animal vids.
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I've gotten into Primitive Technology lately (as in, the YT channel). It's about the most un-YouTube channel you could think of. He's posted an average of one video a month for the last three years and they're between 5 and 10 minutes long. He doesn't say a single WORD or really look at the camera, rather relying on a few terse subtitles to describe what he's doing. I don't even have a clue what his name is. He knows it's unimportant. He just does interesting shit. And yet he has over 7 million subscribers and his videos range in the 5M to 45M views band. I guess I'm saying that gives me hope.
Edit: Oh, and I should mention that I found out about him from my brother and his sons, who are squarely in the pewdiepie demographic, but freaking love this channel and rewatch the videos regular. As do my 6 year old son and I now.
WTB: C-Team audio dubbed over puppies cavorting on a gaming table
PrimTech is deceptively good at youtube. I love how whenever he's hammering or hitting something, it's an even 1, 2, 3, next, 1, 2, 3, next. He knows how to never linger on a shot.
40 years from now we'll see middle-schoolers with tazered rat keychains, their parents will be all "I remember when tazering rats meant something" and my generation will be all "just unplug me already"
FTFY.
Meeeeeh. I liked the comic but disagree with the post. Like I could be remembering the 80s wrong (like Gabe and Tycho, I wasn't even a teenager until the 90s), but I remember punk as something I only ever heard about at home (because my family was a bunch of weirdos), not like a super-popular movement that every kid was into. Like, while I was listening to tape dubs of The Dead Milkman, my classmates were swooning over New Kids On the Block and Vanilla Ice. I said in another post, our president is exactly this species of trolldom, and I don't think you can get less anti-establishment that the president of the United States. Logan Paul isn't Johnny Rotten, he's this generation's Gordon Gekko. Making a buck off of trampling on other people.
Of course maybe Tycho is referencing 90's "punk", the style of can't-get-away-from-it music poppy-ass Avril Lavigne did. In which case yeah, that does fit.
Or I dunno, there's another spin on punk in saying it's the thing kids do to piss off their parents... but I feel like that's too broad. That's kids being fucking kids, not a genre.
To me, punk specifically means anti-establishment, and if you're a mouthpiece for the establishment (and are getting paid beaucoup bucks for it), you can't really be what I consider punk, even if old people really hate how you make your money.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
The thing that is sustaining me at the moment is that something he does will backfire while he is in Russia, and end up getting his ass mudstomped by a Russian SOBR team.
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Hmm, and now I wonder why there aren't turn-key "buy your own streaming platform" services aren't shouting at me from every podcast like Casper mattresses and SquareSpace plugs. How much money would it really be for Logan Paul to just order himself some cloud servers and stream from his own domain? For an added money cushion, he could even invite other controversial Youtubers to his platform and rent them some server space and bandwidth.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
The caveat with Youtube, is that *everyone* goes there. that is how you get found. if you made your own little spot on the internet without the followers, no one would know you existed.
With however many millions of followers he has now, sure he can do that now, but not before then.
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If a smaller channel did the same horrible shit they'd get shutdown by YT. Yet it seems like it's one rule for bigger channels and different ones for everyone else.
sometimes it really is that simple.
Oh sure, if he was a no-name I'd totally get why he doesn't do his own spinoff streaming service. But since he has made a name for himself already, and is actually being discussed in the news so much that now even an old fogey like me knows who he is, you'd think he'd spin that into his own money-making opportunity - TrollTube or some shit, renting out space to all the internet personalities THEY don't want you to see. I bet even some non-controversial personalities would want to come over just because lots of people (rightly) hate Youtube right now. Supposedly he's worth 13 mil, that should be more than enough to get him started... if not maybe he could get some silicon valley investors, he seems their type of hero.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
So obviously YouTube auto-demonetizes all their content.
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Shit Golem brings in that money. A smaller channel is easier to get rid of because it offers less to Youtube than someone super popular like Shit Golem. Though, I think I read somewhere that his videos have been temporarily demonitized or something?
On another note, the breadth of his platform as other have hit upon at least in part is a consequence of it being on a centralized resource that is controlled by a collective entity that does not necessarily share your values. A corporation's primary purpose is to obtain profit while minimizing liability after all. So shitbirds being heard is unlikely to change. Just make what use of it that you can and move on with life.
Yes, Logan Paul was attempting to defibrillate a dead rat using a Taser?
For the purposes of verifying this claim, I watched the relevant section of the video in question (relevant section: 4:20-6:18). He clearly shouts "Die!" at 5:11, after having discharged the Taser at the dead rats (there are two).
I think that's proof enough against the theory.
obviously he was just reenacting
There's no reason for him to go to a streaming service that he has to pay for himself since he can stay on YouTube for free and up to very recently, get paid to be there. People who monetize their content on YouTube get paid for serving ads, so in order for another streaming service to make sense, he'd have to be able to sell ads, and that adds a whole other layer of complexity to someone who just wants to shout and be a dickhead. As long as YouTube doesn't ban you, there's no upside for anyone to pay for a different streaming service.
Isn't this a bit of a tautology?