PewDiePie explains why his Reddit forum changing isn\u2019t such a bad thing Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg has addressed the ever-changing state of his subreddit, after fans raised concerns the Reddit forum dedicated to discussing the YouTube king and sharing memes for him to review had \u201cgone to sh*t.\u201d Pewds\u2019 subreddit has been a key part of his content for some time now, and he often delves into the halls of Reddit to find images and memes shared for his \u2018Meme Review\u2019 show, as well as his longstanding \u2018Last Week I Asked You\u2019 series. Over time, more and more fans have trickled into \/r\/PewdiepieSubmissions since Kjellberg founded it two years ago, and it now boasts more than 2.4 million fans. While some see the explosive growth of the subreddit as a reason to celebrate, others have revealed they\u2019re less than fond of the growth, saying it has \u201cgone to sh*t\u201d and suggesting they \u201cmiss the good old days.\u201d \u201cThis sub has turned to karma-whoring, reposts, and Pewds-unrelated posts,\u201d yxng_elmo said in a post which received thousands of upvotes and more than a handful of Reddit-based merit awards dubbed \u2018gold\u2019 and \u2018platinum.\u2019 \u201cPewds has called people out on it, and it still hasn\u2019t changed. This sub is now awful, it\u2019s not \/r\/memes and \/r\/dankmemes. Go post your memes there. Can we go back to the good old days of awesome fan arts, not five minutes scribbles?\u201d PewDiePie hit back at yxng_elmo\u2019s thoughts in his latest video on December 30, suggesting things cannot always stay the same on internet forums, especially as they continue to grow beyond the scope of its early days. \u201cI don\u2019t think people want this [r\/PewdiepieSubmissions] to just be fan arts, it\u2019s nice to see everyone once in a while, but no one would use the subreddit if it was just fan art\u2026 that\u2019s a weird metric of something being better,\u201d the YouTuber replied. \u201cI\u2019m sure this person has ways to feel the way that they do, but I find in general, as someone who has run communities for a long time on the internet, after a certain while people just tend to complain and it doesn\u2019t always seem completely funded. \u201cIn my old forum, back in the day, the same thing happened. It was a fun space, and then it grew bigger and bigger, and then people were like \u2018this sucks now, before it was better because of fan art.\u2019 People complaining doesn\u2019t help it either. \u201cPeople don\u2019t know what to think. Whenever there\u2019s a big group on the internet, they can\u2019t think for themselves, so when people say that the forum has gone to sh*t it just spirals out of control and they just choose to believe it\u2019s gone to sh*t.\u201d According to the YouTube king, the subreddit was \u201cthe same as it as always been,\u201d at least from his perspective, but suggested if there were ideas on how to improve the subreddit, he was \u201call ears\u201d as long as the ideas were constructive. He also added he would \u201crather see more karma-whoring posts\u201d rather than just posts about how bad the subreddit had gotten, though as he continued his trawl through the subreddit\u2019s memes, he may have changed his mind. First, he hit a showing 420 notifications from Discord, and 69 on Reddit\u2014 \u201cmaybe he was right\u201d he said with a laugh\u2014before another Mr Beast image appeared. He soon added the subreddit may, in fact, have \u201cveered off-course.\u201d \u201cHe was right, I can\u2019t unsee it!\u201d he said, but admitted he didn\u2019t mind so much if the subreddit changed face over the years. \u201cI still have fun reviewing them all though.\u201d For mobile readers, the related segment begins at 6:18 in the video below. Whether or not you like the way \/r\/PewdiepieSubmissions has developed since it was first founded in mid-2017, all Kjellberg fans can agree on one thing\u2014the forum may take on a life of its own while Pewds takes time away from YouTube in 2020. The King of YouTube recently revealed he would be taking a hiatus from video creation \u201cfor the first time in 10 years,\u201d due to feeling \u201ctired\u201d from the constant uploading and maintenance of his 102-million-subscriber channel. One thing is for sure though: when he does return he\u2019ll have a host of new memes to review on his subreddit, if it survives the brewing civil war between his fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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