AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Cause they're true

and funny

I watched the newest one about Captain America, and when they were saying something along the lines of, "They use a lot of levers and dials and switches and knobs and buttons in this movie because it's the 1940s," I just thought, "Thank God you were here to observe that for me, without you I would have missed that detail. Hahaha?"

i can't stand them either. Traditional sitcoms too, Full House, Big Bang Theory, anything with a laugh track really.

What about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cyx6nWdFas

While I'm not a PewDiePie fan, I do think that if you have the most subscribed channel on YouTube and get millions of views per video, you must be doing something right.

I've been told that he's a really nice, friendly dude when he's not on camera. Seems like his screechy, offensive facade is just because that's what his audience likes. Keep in mind, one of his bigger demographics is tweens who think anything with a swear word is the funniest thing ever.

I don't necessarily like the strategy, but I won't pass judgement on him for knowing what people want to see.

I actually watched a vid of his recently where he was playing Dark Souls 2 and it was surprisingly enjoyable.

Last thing of his I saw was like 3 years ago when he was yelling and screaming about Amnesia or some such shit and it was turrible. Now I dunno what to think of him, but it's important to remember that anyone is capable of change and growth when they're producing their own content.

I just don't like facecam Let's Plays in general unless the facecam actually adds to the LP. For instance, the only Mario game that needs a facecam is Mario 64. When you're playing it with your feet. Most LPs that have facecams are almost always less about the game and letting the game influence what's happening and more about the LPer. And that's all fine and good, but there's a certain... genre almost of LP that Youtube tends to breed. Loud, screamy facecams over games that are not at all enhanced by facecams.

Sort of related, take a look at most of the custom thumbnails that get slapped on youtube reccomendations and complete the following checklist:

• Person starring in the video with their mouth open
• Some kind of high saturation color background
• Channel or person name is larger or more focused on over the name of the game (typically in red, white or yellow)

And to keep myself on topic here, I'm not a fan of the Youtube Promoted genre of LP, mostly because of how Youtube popularity works and what you have to do to gain and keep it. (this is especially relevant to PDP since he's the single most subscribed to channel on the website) The style of video it lends itself to is distracting as hell.

If you are talented at being an annoying twat, chances are it's because you're an annoying twat.

Or a good actor.

I generally don't care for LPs even though I'm subscribed to some channels that do lots of them, like TBFP. What I prefer are the 'best bits' type of videos and one-offs that condense the essence of the game along with good humor into one tight package. There's one LP I've watched from beginning to end and that was Daggerfall of all games.

Likewise, there's only one stream I occasionally watch (timezones don't help here) and that's 4Player Network's because I'm actually interested in the commentary of most of the staff on that site, not to mention that the streamed games get discussed on their podcast.

If I enjoy any Let's plays, it'd be the ones where they aren't overreacting and have a very laid-back approach to the game.

I don't really watch Pewdiepie but from every clip I've seen about him, he just overacts too much for my taste.

At least I don't hear about him making rape jokes any longer, so he's probably better than he was when I first saw anything about him.

I recall one of my favourite let's play was Dead Rising where a group of 3-4 guys went through the game with Frank wearing that Servbot mask but it was unfortunately discontinued.

LP related: I think some DeceasedCrab's are fine when I wanna see something kinda funny and calming. However, nothing he'll do will top his LaMulana and Iji LPs.

@pewdiepie success thing

i remember seeing a youtube video about that and him moving a couple times in europe helped promote him via youtube more. the video is here if you guys want to watch it

I knew it was Game Theory before I even clicked the link.