It’s really silly to ruin your life with a criminal record like this, but at least the guy did something useful with his fandom. A lot of kids on YouTube are just watching, wasting away.

A lot of (adults) on (Netflix) are just watching, wasting away.

A lot of (people) on (television) are just watching, wasting away.

So at the end of the day we learned that nothing ever really changed.

My mother objected to me spending too much time reading and not enough outside.

I imagine there were people in the stone age that objected to people wasting too much time near the fire and not enough fighting with sabertooth tigers.

Exactly that! When I was living on the street, we used to call the fire "stoneage-tv". Because the human brains have such a long history of staring "into" the fire, I have the mild suspicion, that reading on e-ink displays without a backlight might make it less likely to get lost in thoughts, than when staring on a "glowing" screen. Unfortunately the only competetive screens are still rather expensive (paperlike)..

..damn, I got lost in offtopic thoughts again! ; )

It's an interesting thought! If you had a Twitter account in your bio, I would have followed it.

I don't think a parent encouraging their kid to have a little balance in their life is necessarily a bad thing.

His popularity is a combination of things, it started with his obscene reactions to horror games, then he became the most subscribed channel and that made him the defacto king of YouTube which made him even more popular, than he kept getting into controversies which made him even more popular and now he has a massive influence on the meme market which is keeping him popular.

he's also the most reliable youtuber imo, come rain or shine he uploads content that is consistently interesting. i follow all of the major "one person" channels on youtube and they all fall behind his metric

More so just the teenage angst driving a 19 year old to leave his mark on the world with a public prank