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Why does Pewdiepie have so many subscribers

2015-10-18 · 6 min

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    Hey guys, so today I woke

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    up. Yeah, but I have a question for you

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    that randomly popped into my mind a few

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    days ago. I guess you all know the channel

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    called PewDiePie. As you may be aware, he

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    has how many? 40 million subscribers.

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    But I made an interesting observation.

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    Most of his videos only have around 2 to 3

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    million views, right? So am

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    I right to assume that not all of his

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    subscribers watch his videos? So let's do

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    the maths here. What is, as a

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    percentage, what is 2 to 3 million of 40

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    million? It's about 5%, right? I'm not

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    sure. 10% of 40 million is 4 million,

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    and most of his videos don't get 4

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    million. Most of them are around the 2.5

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    million mark, right? So 5%?

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    5% of his subscribers So when you

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    look at it like that, it's not really

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    impressive, isn't it? I was just

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    wondering, why do so many people subscribe

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    to PewDiePie and then don't actually watch

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    his videos? Because for someone who has 40

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    million subscribers, I kind of expected

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    all of his videos to have at least 10 to

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    20 million views each, right? But that's

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    not the case. I mean, even channels who

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    have only 5 million subscribers, they also

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    have 2 to 3 million views per video.

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    So that means about 50% of their views are

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    coming from their subscribers. So doesn't

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    that make them more successful than

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    PewDiePie? I guess it doesn't because

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    everyone knows PewDiePie is like the most

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    successful channel on YouTube— person on

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    YouTube. But that's only based on his

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    subscriber count, which is like 40 million

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    right now. I'm not sure if subscriber

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    count is that important. Because you could

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    have 40 million subscribers, but if only 1

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    million watch your videos, that's only 1

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    million potential ad clicks.

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    And if people aren't clicking on your ads,

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    I don't think that the YouTuber is making

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    much or any money. So for example, I have

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    7 subscribers, but none of them watch my

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    videos, but I still get some money from

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    random people just finding my videos

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    somehow. So I really couldn't care less

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    about the subscriber count because it

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    doesn't mean anything. I mean, I could

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    have a million subscribers and, and it

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    wouldn't mean anything if they weren't

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    actually watching my videos. So only 95%—

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    95% of PewDiePie's subscribers aren't

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    actually watching his videos. So does that

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    mean that 95%

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    of his subscriber base aren't making him

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    any money? So does that mean that

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    PewDiePie makes all his millions from only

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    5% of his subscriber base?

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    Interesting. Also, another thing that

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    made me think about something about his

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    subscriber base was that he has millions

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    of subscribers, right? So out of those

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    millions, at least a couple thousand must

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    be dead. Because let's think about it,

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    most of PewDiePie's subscribers are

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    probably not elderly people or old people,

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    mostly young. So chances of them

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    dying of old age, natural causes, are

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    pretty low. So that leaves murders,

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    accidents, and suicide. I just wonder how

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    much of PewDiePie's subscriber base is

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    still alive. Also, I wonder how many of

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    PewDiePie's subscribers are criminals.

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    I mean, it's a pretty large number, 40

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    million. Out of that 40 million, I bet

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    there's at least 100 who have murdered

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    someone, stolen from someone, or done some

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    kind of major crime. And I wonder how many

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    thousands are like in prison. Kind of

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    interesting. I guess it's not that

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    interesting, but I found it interesting

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    enough to make a video about it. So it

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    makes me wonder, why do so many people

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    just click on subscribe on PewDiePie's

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    channel and they don't actually watch his

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    videos? I guess that the main reason is

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    they're just like curious what all this

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    fuss about is. So you hear his name all

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    the time on Facebook, on the news— well,

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    not so much the news, but like gaming

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    digital media news. So I guess they're

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    just clicking subscribe to check it out,

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    and they're not enjoying the videos, so

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    they just click— so instead of

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    unsubscribing, they just stop watching him

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    completely. Or they're too busy to watch

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    YouTube, or they don't watch YouTube

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    anymore, or they

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    died. I'm the same as well. Sometimes I

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    subscribe to a channel that I find

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    interesting at first, and then I stop

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    watching the channel completely for no

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    reason. Mainly I just forget that the

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    channel exists, or I no longer find the

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    videos interesting, but I just stay

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    subscribed just because I can't be

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    bothered to click unsubscribe. So yeah,

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    that was my video. I was just curious. My

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    question is How come PewDiePie has such

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    a large subscriber number but his video

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    views are relatively low? And if

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    you have any comments you'd like to make,

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    make them in the comment section. And I

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    guess I'll see you— see you tomorrow.

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