PewDiePie Has Turned Off Comments FOREVER!

markkaz said:
Coincidence? YouTube made this video available on their YouTube Creator Academy channel.
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lol I wouldn't be surprised, maybe Google going "please Pewds watch this and don't turn off your comments". I don't agree with what he said about relying on viewers to create a positive community though. He literally just said to rely on people on the internet to create a positive community, it's the content creators job to help guide viewers towards being a positive community and that means protecting them from trolls/arseholes by using the filters as much as possible, removing comments that promote negativity since Google doesn't do it and banning people who frequently do it, otherwise it ends up like Pewds, he did actually rely on his community to help keep the comments clean and apparently said in a video or 2 long before I started watching him that if people saw channel promotion on his vids to down vote and report as spam and report any comments that might seem bad. Clearly it didn't help, I don't think it'd be an issue of the bad comments were getting washed away in a sea of positive comments but it's the other way around, and it's even becomming so for a lot of bigger YouTubers hitting the 2-5mil mark. Content creators need more power to control the comments section. Although I also wouldn't be surprised if Pewds didn't fully know how to use the comment settings properly :S
 
Hell yeah I support his decision. I can understand his decision. I will continue to support him as well. I will always be a bro [emoji109]
 
It's the problem of becoming popular. He has the best job ever, but he lost more than half of what made it fun for him. I started live streaming and sometimes 2-3 of my subs stop by and I have a conversation with them while I play and I have to say that was the most fun/rewarding experience I've had so far aside from making content which people enjoy. Interacting with your viewers makes it worth while because you make real connections with complete strangers.

I'd like to think there is some threshold of subs to possible interaction before content becomes automated and no longer human. I think Pewds has gotten to the point where he's just shooting out videos. Yes people like them, but he's losing his personal connection to it. The creation of his own website is a step towards making it personal again, but how can you get personal with 30million subs. It's the sacrifice one has to make when becoming 'popular'
 
The comments switch is one that will never be turned off for me. Whether a comment's positive, criticizing, or just the occasional troll hate, it's always a thrilling time
 
I think it was a good idea for him. I feel that the amount of trolls and spam out numbers the amount of people genuinely commenting. Especially with the amount of people that watch his videos. Plus now, it will give people more of an incentive to directly communicate with him on a twitter and it holds people a bit more accountable for what they say.
 
Terrance said:
I think it was a good idea for him. I feel that the amount of trolls and spam out numbers the amount of people genuinely commenting. Especially with the amount of people that watch his videos. Plus now, it will give people more of an incentive to directly communicate with him on a twitter and it holds people a bit more accountable for what they say.
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I agree with you 100% I actually felt kinda bad for him because he IS the most popular channel on youtube so he is most likely to get alot of spam.
 
I understood why he did it, and I am quite guilty because when I do giveaways, I sometiems post it on his videos and other famous youtubers. Anyway, I don't see myself disabling the comments and still trying to reply to the comments as much as possible.
 
I think he will probably lose some subscribers but then they weren't real fans to begin with if that's the case so maybe its a good way to weed out the trash talkers and people using him.
 
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