How exactly did this Swedish guy become so wildly popular in the early 2010s?

Proto-zoomers have no sense of humor just like zoomers. They think being loud and laughing is the same thing as being funny.

>>212995319 (OP)
He had rich parents and knew how to exploit his autism

>>212995319 (OP)
no idea
he was never funny or interesting
guess he just got lucky and started snowballing

>>212995319 (OP)
By screaming like a retard and having blue eyes

He BTFO rogan boys

>>212995319 (OP)
The living proof of blackpill. A nerdy guy that’s really sexy.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

>>212995408
He is short just like penguinzo

>>212995465
this is the only real answer itt. thank Mikko Tarmia unironically.

>>212995364
BARRELS

>>212995510
I can go deeper than that. Most white gamers were commentaters and tips and tricks kinda 'Tubers. PewdiePie went to the whole reaction route.

Let's Plays were just becoming a thing, and for people outside of Sweden he was the first real exposure to someone outside of their own country they could connect to, which is always a fun novelty, while also being a part of their interests.
It's always funny to see people complain about modern youtubers being slop while talking about the "good old days" of people like PDP and Markiplier, when the people who weren't children back then were criticizing them for just screaming into the camera and making funny faces to appeal to a child audience. Why yes I watched retsupurae, how can you tell?

>>212995319 (OP)
Felix said it himself. Pure luck and perfect lucky timing.
He just happened to choose the perfect time to start making videos. Not too soon, not too late. And if he tried it today he would go nowhere.
He's said multiple times that his content was flawed and limited but for some reason it was perfect back then and kids loved it because loud and repetitive.

I guess it was the beginning of the zoomer brain rot.
Anyway, his content today is 10 000x better and actually watchable. Just comfy family vlogs and random stuff from around Japan. Dude is just chilling.

>>212995574
>PewdiePie went to the whole reaction route.
yea and he was simply the first. the king of letsplays. none of this markiplier or jakesepticeye bullshit.

Pioneer in the let's play with commentary.
>b-but muh underground youtuber who came 5 years earlier
Yeah, Facebook didn't create social media, but the inception is not what matters.

>>212995585
I missed when Minecraft let's plays weren't dedicated to child audiences and that was before Minecraft got taken over by the underaged horde.

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He's watchable and had enough autism unlike anglo streamers

>>212995319 (OP)
Initially by screeching like a retard and making children and even bigger retards laugh. Then he started parroting 4chan memes and terminology which people always eat up (that synthetic man blew up out of nowhere by doing the same thing).

>>212995319 (OP)
Brother just picked the perfect time and was one of the first Lets Play'ers. His loudness and stupid jokes attracted the kids like TikTok attracts kids today.

same way ishowspeed and everyone else does, by screaming into the microphone and providing lonely kids with a parasocial relationship

>>212995880
Why are you violating my childhood?

>>212995319 (OP)
I wish there was a Pewdiepie of Paradox games. All gameplays I've seen feel like the most depressing class back in school

>>212995480
Only zoomers and Americans care about height.

>>212995954
I don't think there's enough happening in Paradox games to make it that engaging.
For EU4 I've found Red Hawk to be the most palatable creator, pretty chill and doesn't minmax.

>>212995954
Florryworry on twitch

I the early stage of his career it seems he just played the games that were popular here.

Never really followed this dude and he was kinda clingy in that 2016s howtobasic and filthyfrank yt era, especially when he imitated the latter

The bridge and t series arch were kino howevermore

>>212995319 (OP)
The internet zeitgeist was just vastly different back then, his autistic screaming shtick wouldn't land today, he was just at the right place at the right time

>>212995961
Says the Australian where every guy is like 190cm in his country

>>212996012
>Red Hawk
where the fuck is he from, he sounds just non-ESL enough to be from a developing EFL country

How much can you bench bro

>>212995319 (OP)
That was before the internet was invaded by brown people
now the only way to become popular is by posting repetitive brain rot garbage or watching repetitive brain rot garbage while pausing every 30 seconds to sip some fake coffee or say something retarded and vaguely relevant

>>212995391
modern poopoopie is just a pseudo intellectual desperately searching for something that he can cling on to justify his success because he knows he's never actually accomplished anything of real value to society in his entire life and likely never will so he just moved to japan and makes video essays on 200 year old books and works out like every other loser

>>212997026
doesnt seem that way to me at all, infact he seems very content just making a video every other month and living his best life.

>>212995319 (OP)
this

His accent is kinda weird. Wonder if he's speaking naturally or partly putting it on. The Sabaton guy has a weird accent too, speaking of nothing.

>>212995319 (OP)
This pathetic racist retard nomalized hate against an entire nation

>>212997081
I can't speak for Pewds other than him being from Göteborg but Joakim from Sabaton is from here in Falun. He sounds like the rest of us when we speak English.

>>212997233
what nation are you refering to?

>>212997234
Cool. Didn't know Falun turned into Sabaton in English.

>>212995364
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>>212997056
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bhaaYkMG0Q
it was actually penumbra, not amnesia that got him started

>>212997409
and I remember my brother showing this video and I just thought the guy was loud but back then it really was the peak youtube

he linked up with epstein

>>212997233
sar he's just a youtuber sar

>>212995745
I started playing minecraft alpha when I was 13 or something tho

Pewdiepie definitely browses 4chan and is a fa/g/.

>>212997409
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAI8B3xTIHo
amnesia was earlier
also blacklight was underrated, good game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U6ZgImZ5vo
basically cod but everyone has a built in wallhack

>>212995319 (OP)
i thought he was cool until he got tattoos and moved to japan. only the worst types of white people move to japan. white people, stop it. youre not japanese. i know some of you are reading this right now. i hope a japanese person murders you

>>212999873
he is there temporarily
he said they are gonna move out once his son grows up more. Probably going to school in Sweden or something

>>212999945
Except they changed their mind and is now staying forever. They even bought land and is building a new house.

>>212999945
>Probably going to school in Sweden or something
Child abuse at that point.

>>212999873
Bro, Japan has like the lowest homicide rate amongst the first world. You'd have better luck winning the lottery.

I found his house in Setagaya. Tesla's black car parks there.

>>213002685
Why do you know so much about Japan? Are you planning on moving there?

>>212997050
This. But definitely seemed to be seething about Joe Rogan for some reason. I think it was because Joe once said that Pewdiepie's English wasn't very good.