[2023-08-12] why i'm disappointed in pewdiepie [v_wKDUwOIXw]

So as you probably know by now, PewDiePie

has released a video announcing that his

baby Bjorn has been born. Number one,

the name Bjorn. I mean, Bjorn, come on.

That's like the most stereotypical Swedish

name I've ever heard. Isn't Bjorn the name

of one of the singers in ABBA? I know it

means bear in Swedish, but in English,

Bjorn just kind of sounds like a weak

energy name. Anyway, I made a video a

couple months ago expressing my concerns

about having a white kid growing up in

Japan, and I expressed some of my

criticisms on PewDiePie and Marzia as

future parents. And with this recent video

where they've vlogged the baby and shown

his face to countless millions of people,

I have to say I'm kind of disappointed

with PewDiePie and Marzia with their

decisions as parents. So number one, I'm a

firm believer that children shouldn't be

used for content on YouTube or any other

platform. I think it's very harmful and

damaging to their psychological upbringing

and their mental health if they're placed

on the internet from a young age, and it

causes a lot of problems going into

adulthood, if a child, for example, a

child actor has massive exposure to

millions of people, it definitely has some

kind of negative psychological impact on

certain kids depending on their

personality types. For example, Macaulay

Culkin from Home Alone and the kid that

played Anakin Skywalker from Episode 1

were very famous and well-known child

actors who grew up to have a lot of

problems and struggles as adults. One

example of a very young girl that was used

on the internet for YouTube content would

have to be Venus Angelic. Don't know if

you remember her. But she was like a very

young girl who was used and exploited by

her mother to make these viral videos on

YouTube, roleplaying and cosplaying as a

living doll. And if you follow her now,

you can kind of see that she's not doing

so well, and she's having a lot of

struggles mentally in life. And I kind of

feel sorry for her, and I think this is

mostly the fault of the mother. PewDiePie

claims that he has now retired from

YouTube, and yeah, it's definitely been a

while since he was at his peak on YouTube.

But the video he's recently put out

showing his baby's face talking about his,

you know, beginning of his journey as a

father. That video currently has 4 million

views, and that's just within 20 hours.

Not even an entire day has passed yet and

it already has 4 million views. So I can

easily see this video getting like 20

million views, which is a lot of eyeballs

to be on this young baby, this young kid.

And I'm just wondering how this kid's

gonna feel in, let's say, 10 years' time,

15 years' time, when he realizes that, oh

wait, I'm on YouTube and like 20 million

people have seen me as a baby. That's kind

of embarrassing. I kind of feel a bit

disappointed in PewDiePie for his decision

in using his baby for content because

let's not beat around the bush, that's

basically what it is. He disguises it and

claims it's like, oh, I'm just updating my

community because people want to know

about what I'm up to, and that's fine and

everything, but at the end of the day,

it's just blatantly him using the baby and

him becoming a father as part of his

channel's content. He's monetizing the

video, millions of views, it's got ads on

it. Obviously he's going to make thousands

of dollars just from this. And I don't

really understand why he's doing this

because he's already made tens of millions

of dollars. He's already made enough money

to live in luxury for multiple lifetimes.

Why does he have to do this for content

when he's already made it in life? It just

kind of strikes me as irresponsible and

kind of selfish that he prioritizes

updating his community and his fan base

and making videos about becoming a father.

He prioritizes that over protecting the

mental well-being of his kid and his

family. I understand this is a very

exciting and life-changing event in their

lives, and they want to make a video about

it and share what's happening in their

lives, and I just don't really think

that's a good idea. I've always disagreed

with the family vloggers where they just

basically film their kids and all the

drama that happens, and they're like

monetizing their kids and turning the

children into content. And the children

don't really have a say in this. It's not

like they can say, um, Dad, I don't really

want to be in the YouTube videos. They're

too young to really understand the

potential negative effects that it could

have on their futures because they're too

young to really understand the

consequences of being exposed to so many

eyes on the internet. Children are too

young and they don't have the mental

ability or capacity to be able to

understand the ramifications of being on

the internet from a very young age. I

think that children shouldn't really be on

YouTube until they're at least 16 or 18,

when they're old enough and mature enough

to be able to make the decision for

themselves that they want to be on

YouTube. And it should be the parents'

role to protect the children from the

internet, because on the internet there's

a lot of weird and scary people that I

personally, if I had a child, I would be

kind of freaked out and scared knowing

what kinds of people would be watching my

child on my YouTube channel. At the end of

the day, someone has to think about the

children, and as it is right now, I'm kind

of disappointed with PewDiePie's current

actions. Basically day one of him becoming

a father. I was kind of hoping that he

would keep this side of his life private.

I was kind of worried that PewDiePie might

not have the mental maturity yet to be a

father, and he might not be responsible

enough. He certainly has the money, but

you know, money isn't everything. It's not

the most important thing. I would love to

be proven wrong, but so far from what I've

seen, I haven't really seen signs or good

proof that he will be a mature and

responsible father. You can easily tell

that PewDiePie has very high emotional

intelligence, and the guy has an extremely

big And loving heart, and that's great and

everything. But does he have what it takes

to protect his family from the evils of

the internet? So I congratulate them on

the successful birth of the baby, and I'm

glad that everything worked out fine and

there were no complications. But so far,

I am a little bit disappointed. I haven't

given up all hope on PewDiePie, and I do

think he has great potential to be a great

father. And I'm just hoping that from now

onwards, he will try to do better. I'm

sleeping enough on every day.

Okay.

I think my SD card's gonna get full up.

Oh, how many hours

have we streamed?

My SD card can only save 5 hours, 5 hours

30 minutes of footage. Yeah,

Thailand's nice. I don't know why people

keep saying it's a third world country.

Look at Thailand, it's nice.

I think it's way nicer than Osaka and

nicer than Tokyo.

Tokyo is just a little bit too sterile.

Famous what? He is the number one of,

uh, star. Oh, famous actor. I like this

place. This place is nice.

What's that building? MBK. It's very long.

Your phone battery doesn't get hot? Yeah,

surprisingly it's not hot at all,

although the GoPro is boiling hot to

touch. The GoPro is really hot, like it's

But luckily it doesn't overheat and stop

It's like

150 kilograms.

What's this movie? Transformers again?

How many bloody Transformer movies you're

gonna make? They've redesigned Optimus

Prime. It looks more like the cartoon now.

It's old.

How old?

2 months ago.

Oh, what's this building?

Wow. Oh, look, Tesla!

Teslas everywhere here.

How can people be poor here and there's so

many Teslas? I've never seen so many

Teslas in one place before.