>>716365658People took him seriously because youtube response vids were often done by retards talking off the cuff.
And you have to understand the context, this was when Sony's reputation had bottomed out. The PS3 buildup and launch was a cascade of failures, LITERALLY NO GAMES, just inferior multiplats and Ken Kutaragi's delusional hype. It was a trojan horse of Sony proprietary formats.
Which is why people got a thumb up their ass that some overly-confident thug wannabe would brag that it was just "the best". Which was Sony's launch marketing too. He trashed every rival game, made basic factual errors, and never mentioned a PS3 game.
It was the perfect bait, garuanteed replies from people who wanted to prove their superiority
Then he became an ironic meme, and then everything became irony-poisoned. Chad worked at a time when youtube was a sincere social network