but surely, the antithesis of the mainstream media became what it once sought to avoid, replace, or even destroy.
Youtube is one of the saddest victims. It was the face of this new culture, but now it is an empty husk, merely a soulless imitation of its former self, consumed by greed and infected by the will of corporations, it was violently forced into a more ad-friendly place. Taking away the source of income, the power, and later on; the voice of many creators who dared to speak up against Youtube and their disregard for the community that made it the titan it is now. They give influence to those who pander to the corporations with their clean, superproduced, non-controversial conten, then try to hide and depower the ones who don’t.
Twitter was one of the many places the media found where they could once again induce outrage and manipulate the masses through sensationalism and lies. And the now fully consumed and corrupted Twitter can no longer fight back, being just another puppet forced to exert the will of the mainstream media, stripped of what once made it special.
With all that said, let’s go back to PewDiePie Vs T-Series.
The 2nd most subscribed channel on youtube is T-Series, a multi-millionaire company that built an empire of their own by making content on multiple spheres of entertainment at the same time, producing astronomically high amounts of high-budget industrialized content.
PewDiePie, on the other hand, is a single man who gathered a world-wide fanbase with his charisma and everchanging content. A man who survived the storm and still stands as an icon of the internet’s power, how a culture of passion and expression, fueled by the very presence of those who enjoy and take part in it, can make a man known across the whole planet simply for being eccentric and expressing passion towards the culture we all learned to love.
PewDiePie, love him
