Recently PewDiePie posted a serious video where he asked for the "subscribe PewDiePie" meme to stop. A "meme" that garnered him something like 20-30 million new subscribers on YouTube over the past year or so.
The thing is, "subscribe to PewDiePie" is more than just a funny little "meme". A lot more. It is, essentially, a revolt against the modern political climate. The two major important messages that this revolt is pushing forward are:
1) Individual independent YouTube personalities vs. soulless giant megacorporations.
The "meme" may on the surface be a revolt against the YouTube channel T-Series, where people are campaigning to keep Pewds as the #1 most subscribed YouTuber. However, when we look deeper, it's more than just that. It's more than just this one random Indian music megacorporation. It's a statement against all megacorporations, including Google itself. Google wanted to disassociate from Pewds after the Wall Street Journal published their defamatory hit piece, and this "subscribe to PewDiePie" meme is a revolt against this. It's a message to Google, and other Silicon Valley giant tech megacorporations that "we want honest everyday people as our YouTube heroes, not soulless megacorporations like you". It's a message that we want YouTube to be primarily a platform for individual diverse creators, not just another cleaned-up soulless TV channel.
2) It's a message against the mainstream media.
The western mainstream media has become a ridiculously biased global propaganda machine that pushes a particular political agenda, and feels threatened by the raise of independent YouTube personalities that have ended up with bigger audiences and a farther reach than them. Over the past couple of years the old mainstream media has engaged in a relentless war against popular individuals who do not toe the political party line and are seen as a threat to the political message, and the very existence of the traditional mainstream media.
The "subscribe to PewDiePie" meme is a message to them: We don't want you. We don't care about you. You are a biased propaganda machine that routinely engages in lies and fabricating fake news to push a political agenda. We don't care if you disappear from the face of Earth. Good riddance! Go away!
This is why the "subscribe to PewDiePie" meme was so important. But now they got to him. Now he wants to end it. The years-long mass harassment and smearing campaign against him finally worked, and he gave up.
The amount of defamatory articles against him published on major news publications is staggering. He would have more than enough of a case against them for defamation. He has demonstrably lost millions of dollars in revenue, and a loss of reputation that has resulted in a constant years-long massive harassment campaign against him. But he won't sue.
Instead, he just gave up. The harassment campaign worked, and he gave up.
This is how they get to you.
The thing is, "subscribe to PewDiePie" is more than just a funny little "meme". A lot more. It is, essentially, a revolt against the modern political climate. The two major important messages that this revolt is pushing forward are:
1) Individual independent YouTube personalities vs. soulless giant megacorporations.
The "meme" may on the surface be a revolt against the YouTube channel T-Series, where people are campaigning to keep Pewds as the #1 most subscribed YouTuber. However, when we look deeper, it's more than just that. It's more than just this one random Indian music megacorporation. It's a statement against all megacorporations, including Google itself. Google wanted to disassociate from Pewds after the Wall Street Journal published their defamatory hit piece, and this "subscribe to PewDiePie" meme is a revolt against this. It's a message to Google, and other Silicon Valley giant tech megacorporations that "we want honest everyday people as our YouTube heroes, not soulless megacorporations like you". It's a message that we want YouTube to be primarily a platform for individual diverse creators, not just another cleaned-up soulless TV channel.
2) It's a message against the mainstream media.
The western mainstream media has become a ridiculously biased global propaganda machine that pushes a particular political agenda, and feels threatened by the raise of independent YouTube personalities that have ended up with bigger audiences and a farther reach than them. Over the past couple of years the old mainstream media has engaged in a relentless war against popular individuals who do not toe the political party line and are seen as a threat to the political message, and the very existence of the traditional mainstream media.
The "subscribe to PewDiePie" meme is a message to them: We don't want you. We don't care about you. You are a biased propaganda machine that routinely engages in lies and fabricating fake news to push a political agenda. We don't care if you disappear from the face of Earth. Good riddance! Go away!
This is why the "subscribe to PewDiePie" meme was so important. But now they got to him. Now he wants to end it. The years-long mass harassment and smearing campaign against him finally worked, and he gave up.
The amount of defamatory articles against him published on major news publications is staggering. He would have more than enough of a case against them for defamation. He has demonstrably lost millions of dollars in revenue, and a loss of reputation that has resulted in a constant years-long massive harassment campaign against him. But he won't sue.
Instead, he just gave up. The harassment campaign worked, and he gave up.
This is how they get to you.
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