How does people in Youtube for example Pewdiepie get to the top?

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    • It's all about originality. Pewds was the first or one of the few people who play with a webcam and show their reactions when they get scared. But I believe 4PP(4playerpodcast I think) really started it. Anyways, a lot of people do that now, and it's hard to find a new idea to become original. So it's all about luck now.:) If you're a good one, then you're a good one.

    • Not all people start off big, most people start off small. You have to enjoy what you are doing, don't say stuff in a monotone voice or be boring, and most of all, you have to be patient. Nothing happens all at once, you'll slowly get more and more subs, and you'll become popular one day. Don't forget, pewds made videos for 2 years. And of course, you have to have something that shows it's you, if your just "a person on youtube", your channel would grow ever so slowly.

    • Noirproxy wrote:

      I am going to be 100% honest and say that I don't find most of what PewdiePie says or do funny. There are thousands of people in the world that do but sadly his humor style doesn't really click with me. He always reminds me of that weird kid in your class at school who would say random stuff but people just accepted them and treated them as the special class clown. Not a bad thing in anyway as he is obviously a unique individual like any other person but I generally just watch some of his stuff to keep up with the goings on in LPing.

      The problem is that the sheer amount of copy cats out there in the world have kind prime examples of what I mean. They record the same games as him and also try and sprout random stuff as if the randomness is the point of the joke when it is not. PewdiePie is good at improvising and thinking off the top of his head, which allowed him to be very popular. People like originality and in his early days he accompolished this very easily. Though it is obvious that this talent is beginning to thin.

      Either way the answer to "how do people get to the top like Pewdiepie" is simply done through dedication to their passion for gaming and to the quality of their videos. The problem with making it to the top though is that your perspective of why you do it begins to change over time. There is obviously quite a bit of money to be made in the LPing scene. Now I am in no way saying that LPers like Tobuscus or Pewds are sell outs but after watching that video conference of Pewds explaining how he turned LPing into a job I became worried.

      I always follow the saying "If you turn the things you love into a job, then it was never the thing you loved in the first place". I have seen way too many LPers worry about the subscriber count of their channel, which in turn is them worrying about cash flow. A prime example being DarksydePhil. The guy doesn't come off as a person who enjoys gaming. Everything he does is just a way to make a quick buck and I generally use him as a prime example of how not to be an LPer.

      I know many LPers who have barely scratched the 10,000 sub mark and I still class them as some of the best LPers out there in the field. The thing is that being the top LPer is about expressing that love for the gaming scene. Showing and then sharing that passion with your audience and putting that excitement and overwhelming energy to focus on nothing but the game as your main focus. It is a way of thinking that I generally live by and at times when at work I have wondered what it would be like if I clicked on my Analytics. What would I think and feel if I let the view and subscriber count overwhelm me and placed into my main focus over the game I want to play?

      To simply put it I see becoming the top LPer as being somewhat of a heroic figure. The perfect representation of what gaming has always been about like a child opening their first gift on christmas morning in every video.
      I was gonna comment tl;dr and try be funny but then I realized it's not mean enough.

      Uh, dude... you always analyze everything and in such a annoying way too.

    • I am going to be 100% honest and say that I don't find most of what
      PewdiePie says or do funny. There are thousands of people in the world
      that do but sadly his humor style doesn't really click with me. He
      always reminds me of that weird kid in your class at school who would
      say random stuff but people just accepted them and treated them as the
      special class clown. Not a bad thing in anyway as he is obviously a
      unique individual like any other person but I generally just watch some
      of his stuff to keep up with the goings on in LPing.



      The problem is that the sheer amount of copy cats out there in the world
      have kind prime examples of what I mean. They record the same games as
      him and also try and sprout random stuff as if the randomness is the
      point of the joke when it is not. PewdiePie is good at improvising and
      thinking off the top of his head, which allowed him to be very popular.
      People like originality and in his early days he accompolished this very
      easily. Though it is obvious that this talent is beginning to thin.



      Either way the answer to "how do people get to the top like Pewdiepie"
      is simply done through dedication to their passion for gaming and to the
      quality of their videos. The problem with making it to the top though
      is that your perspective of why you do it begins to change over time.
      There is obviously quite a bit of money to be made in the LPing scene.
      Now I am in no way saying that LPers like Tobuscus or Pewds are sell
      outs but after watching that video conference of Pewds explaining how he
      turned LPing into a job I became worried.



      I always follow the saying "If you turn the things you love into a job,
      then it was never the thing you loved in the first place". I have seen
      way too many LPers worry about the subscriber count of their channel,
      which in turn is them worrying about cash flow. A prime example being
      DarksydePhil. The guy doesn't come off as a person who enjoys gaming.
      Everything he does is just a way to make a quick buck and I generally
      use him as a prime example of how not to be an LPer.



      I know many LPers who have barely scratched the 10,000 sub mark and I
      still class them as some of the best LPers out there in the field. The
      thing is that being the top LPer is about expressing that love for the
      gaming scene. Showing and then sharing that passion with your audience
      and putting that excitement and overwhelming energy to focus on nothing
      but the game as your main focus. It is a way of thinking that I
      generally live by and at times when at work I have wondered what it
      would be like if I clicked on my Analytics. What would I think and feel
      if I let the view and subscriber count overwhelm me and placed into my
      main focus over the game I want to play?



      To simply put it I see becoming the top LPer as being somewhat of a
      heroic figure. The perfect representation of what gaming has always been
      about like a child opening their first gift on christmas morning in
      every video.
      Dude, you're good at these things XD
      Well I am here on your side. The hype that is coming from LPers like Pewds here, is that we get a lot of young new LPer who totally copy him and that's the problem. They think that they can get to the top this way, because they do it like Pewdiepie or another Youtuber they like. Creativity and originality is the key to succes.

    • Noirproxy wrote:

      I am going to be 100% honest and say that I don't find most of what PewdiePie says or do funny. There are thousands of people in the world that do but sadly his humor style doesn't really click with me. He always reminds me of that weird kid in your class at school who would say random stuff but people just accepted them and treated them as the special class clown. Not a bad thing in anyway as he is obviously a unique individual like any other person but I generally just watch some of his stuff to keep up with the goings on in LPing.

      The problem is that the sheer amount of copy cats out there in the world have kind prime examples of what I mean. They record the same games as him and also try and sprout random stuff as if the randomness is the point of the joke when it is not. PewdiePie is good at improvising and thinking off the top of his head, which allowed him to be very popular. People like originality and in his early days he accompolished this very easily. Though it is obvious that this talent is beginning to thin.

      Either way the answer to "how do people get to the top like Pewdiepie" is simply done through dedication to their passion for gaming and to the quality of their videos. The problem with making it to the top though is that your perspective of why you do it begins to change over time. There is obviously quite a bit of money to be made in the LPing scene. Now I am in no way saying that LPers like Tobuscus or Pewds are sell outs but after watching that video conference of Pewds explaining how he turned LPing into a job I became worried.

      I always follow the saying "If you turn the things you love into a job, then it was never the thing you loved in the first place". I have seen way too many LPers worry about the subscriber count of their channel, which in turn is them worrying about cash flow. A prime example being DarksydePhil. The guy doesn't come off as a person who enjoys gaming. Everything he does is just a way to make a quick buck and I generally use him as a prime example of how not to be an LPer.

      I know many LPers who have barely scratched the 10,000 sub mark and I still class them as some of the best LPers out there in the field. The thing is that being the top LPer is about expressing that love for the gaming scene. Showing and then sharing that passion with your audience and putting that excitement and overwhelming energy to focus on nothing but the game as your main focus. It is a way of thinking that I generally live by and at times when at work I have wondered what it would be like if I clicked on my Analytics. What would I think and feel if I let the view and subscriber count overwhelm me and placed into my main focus over the game I want to play?

      To simply put it I see becoming the top LPer as being somewhat of a heroic figure. The perfect representation of what gaming has always been about like a child opening their first gift on christmas morning in every video.

      That was god damn awesome. I feel the same way too about pewdie. At least lately
      I love ya all ~ :3

    • Noirproxy wrote:


      The problem is that the sheer amount of copy cats out there in the world have kind prime examples of what I mean. They record the same games as him and also try and sprout random stuff as if the randomness is the point of the joke when it is not. PewdiePie is good at improvising and thinking off the top of his head, which allowed him to be very popular. People like originality and in his early days he accompolished this very easily. Though it is obvious that this talent is beginning to thin.


      This is a problem, though not a problem for Pewdiepie. It's a problem for all the other people who are trying to copy him. I figure this is a clarification that's necessary =P

      Either way the answer to "how do people get to the top like Pewdiepie" is simply done through dedication to their passion for gaming and to the quality of their videos. The problem with making it to the top though is that your perspective of why you do it begins to change over time. There is obviously quite a bit of money to be made in the LPing scene. Now I am in no way saying that LPers like Tobuscus or Pewds are sell outs but after watching that video conference of Pewds explaining how he turned LPing into a job I became worried.


      Nah. You don't get to the top by hard work. Hard work is necessary in order to get to the top, but it is not what gets you there. Pewdiepie is at the top because he happens to have a particular personality and camera presence that happens to appeal to a huge audience, because he made videos that were easy viral material when he was playing Amnesia, and because he happened to have a blend of intangible qualities in his videos that made everyone like them, like his originality..If you don't have a camera persona that's just right, happen to be making the right videos at the right time to go huge, and happen to have a lot of luck, all the effort trying to be funny and editing your videos and putting out tons of videos won't get you to the top.


      I always follow the saying "If you turn the things you love into a job, then it was never the thing you loved in the first place". I have seen way too many LPers worry about the subscriber count of their channel, which in turn is them worrying about cash flow. A prime example being DarksydePhil. The guy doesn't come off as a person who enjoys gaming. Everything he does is just a way to make a quick buck and I generally use him as a prime example of how not to be an LPer.


      Nah. I don't mind at all if people on youtube are able to make money doing in, and I don't think that if someone wants to make money on youtube it has to inhibit their ability to create good content. It may be a problem for some people who don't recognize that you can't force popularity and try to hard just to be popular, but I don't hold it against anyone who wants to make youtube a job or a business as long as that means that can make more videos I like.
      A few more words about this: I try to not assess someone's motivations or be the judge or whether someone's greedy for money or just loves what they're doing because you can't know. Unless someone is very obnoxiously just trying to exploit their channel and very obviously just trying to make a quick buck, it's a bit of an unfair accusation to make that they just want money, and unless someone doesn't have monetization on at all you can't say they care only about the videos and nothing about money.


      Anyway, a few more words about why Pewdie is popular:

      +Pewdie is watchable and comfortable on camera.
      I think this is the biggest one, and it shows especially in his vlogs. Pewdie is very comfortable and relaxed on camera, and his commentary feels very natural and free-flowing. Many let's players I see who try to copy him tend to have lots of subtle intangible cues that they're very subconsciously aware of being filmed for an audience and that they're putting on a show. While Pewdie is obviously being filmed for youtube, he is so comfortable on film and natural that it feels like he could be a friend of yours playing a game with you, and this makes him easy to watch and enjoy and be entertained by.

      +Silly humor.
      Silly humor gets views on youtube, and that's just a fact.

      +Viral-ready content.
      During the time he was making Amnesia videos, there was an somewhat untapped and ripe market for horror game reaction videos. Horror games and things related to them have always had a natural tendency to go viral, and pewdie was making the right videos at the right time.

    • I think the thing that gets lost on people is that there is no "way to the top."
      Pewdiepie got there because he's Pewdiepie and he was making the right videos at the right time. Everyone who gets tothe top gets there ffor different reasons, and you can't get there by trying to be them. You can't try to get to the top by doing what pewdiepie does, or what anyone else is doing. They're already doing a better job then you are doing what they're doing.

      The answer to how you get to the top is that there's a million different ways, and you have to find your own.

    • Why Some "Lucky" people reach the top.

      There is really no explanation for this. All you really need is belief. If you believe you can reach the top then you'll just have A CHANCE to reach the top. NOT CERTAIN TO REACH THE TOP. PewDiePie reached the top due to his luck. 'Cause one time he said "Creating gaming channels aren't that easy". That is my "Guessing" explanation.

    • Just like many have already said, if you have an original and an interesting idea, it'll get noticed. Being entertaining is pretty much a must. No matter how small fry you'd be at first, if you're something special, people will gradually spread the word.

      With Pewds being an example, I must say I haven't found a single gaming channel similar to his, and it's probably the first and the last I'll ever watch. For me, personally, the facecam is a big hit - I enjoy seeing the gamer's reactions as he plays while chatting away to their viewers, and kind of letting them tag along to the gaming experience. Other live players just babble something in the background, with minor comments like 'ow', 'oh' or 'hey I can go there' and you're like 'meh'. Also the jokes are pretty dry/lame usually, if there's none at all. I know Pewds takes it a bit too far sometimes, but most of the time he's just fun to watch :'D

      Also, many wannabe-YouTubers start out a bit too young imo. I prefer to watch fellow grownups, but perhaps that's just me.
      "Cool guys don't look at explosions~"