/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11206308]

did he save literature?

[Anonymous No.11206311]

don't shill yourself mate

[Anonymous No.11206318]

Who?

[Anonymous No.11206320]

>>11206311
>>11206318
bait, this is clearly a serious thread please respond as such.

[Anonymous No.11206323]

>>11206308
yes
>>11206311
>>11206318
>i'm so cool for pretending not to know who the worlds most successful youtuber is

im not a fan of the guy either but this is just embarrassing

[Anonymous No.11206328]

>>11206308
Fuck I'm a massive fan of 'amnesia epic jumpscare complaition'. this guy's great love the jokes

[Anonymous No.11206330]

LOCAL BUSINESSMAN TAKES INTEREST IN PSYCHOLOGICAL FICTION. RECOMMENDS TITLES TO HIS SOCIAL CIRCLE.

[Anonymous No.11206331]

>>11206323
i know who the fuck you are, stop shilling.

[Anonymous No.11206333]

unironically, yes. he single handedly brought the most people to read since philip defranco

[Anonymous No.11206334]

About since 2016 he's been cool, done a lot less game stuff and only plays them when sponsored or he actually likes the game.
Not original content but whatever, literally the best representative of youtube

[Anonymous No.11206337]

>>11206328
he even hated those episodes himself

[Anonymous No.11206338]

>>11206308
stop samefagging

[Anonymous No.11206340]

>>11206331
wow i feel like a celebrity

[Anonymous No.11206342]

>>11206323
Not him but I don't know who he is. I don't know any youtubers. Except John Green I guess. But I don't watch him.

[Anonymous No.11206352]

>>11206337
His new stuff isn't much better.

[Anonymous No.11206354]

>>11206340
your girlfriend is constantly on helium please give her some Sulfur Hexafluoride for once

[Anonymous No.11206376]

>>11206354
your using alot of big words i dont understand and im gonna take that as a sign of disrespect

[Anonymous No.11206394]

kids tv presenter

>>>/tv/

[Anonymous No.11206396]

pewds is singlehandedly saving Youtube, videogames, politics, literature, the white race, and the West

[Anonymous No.11206408]

>>11206376
listen to her voice - your girlfriend is on helium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LORuafXo-0

[Anonymous No.11206410]

people are reading sun and steel
people are readying themselves to storm the palace
people are ready to reinstate the emperor

[Anonymous No.11206420]

>>11206408
she sounds like björk on helium

[Anonymous No.11206427]

>>11206308
I'd like him to review some philosophy. Tell him to read the Critique of pure reason. A good summer read, fairly enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.11206435]

>>11206427
this unironically

[Anonymous No.11206438]

>>11206410
>people are ready to reinstate the emperor
Not until they get rid of Michiko.

[Anonymous No.11206451]

>>11206427
>Critique of pure reason
>fairly enjoyable

a what

[Anonymous No.11206462]

>>11206451
don't be a bitch

[Anonymous No.11206479]

Pewdiepie doesnt even review books, he summarises them.
>>11206427
Could he even attempt that?

[Anonymous No.11206490]

Bait post who cares. He's a hype man, where you can respect that he cares about stuff and has a platform to put on cool stuff but at the end of the day when he talks about books it's like hearing wind blow through the door. He's too new to literature to really say anything interesting about it, so at best if you're already a pewdiepie fan it's cool that he's taking a bunch of gamers and millennials and introducing them to a world of books, but he's no professor and he doesn't really have the chops to actually say much exciting about literature.

[Anonymous No.11206492]

He's reading a lot of books often praised on /lit/, and I'm almost certain he browses /lit/ himself.

He's shown a great appreciation for Japanese literature. The only reason you're all up in arms is your elitist image board book club is no longer going to be niche or fringe because everybodies starting to read the book you've all been talking about for the past six years.

Why can't you guys just be happy that people are starting to appreciate the classics?

[Anonymous No.11206530]

>>11206492
>He's shown a great appreciation for Japanese literature.
Ahahaha, do you also think /lit/ has a good appreciation for Japanese literature?
> your elitist image board book club is no longer going to be niche or fringe because everybodies starting
It was never niche for fringe and the books were always being read commonly. This is not a movement.

[Anonymous No.11206537]

>>11206530
>Ahahaha, do you also think /lit/ has a good appreciation for Japanese literature?

Yes, I see threads on Japanese literature all the time.

>It was never niche for fringe and the books were always being read commonly. This is not a movement.

Then why the fuck is everybody so pissy about books getting popular on this board retard

[Anonymous No.11206548]

>>11206492
Ok Stoner and what else?

[Anonymous No.11206555]

>>11206490
well, fucking duh, if you want a professor to talk about literature you'd go to a seminar. you're measuring pewdiepie's merits with an inappropriate yardstick.

starting from the premise that he caters to an audience of (as some autist in a previous thread called it) "male kids" that are used to 420 jokes, rekt feminist retardation videos, and dabbing to the haters, knowing that there are cool books out there is a noble cause.

and i dont even watch pewdiepie, i dont like videogames

[Anonymous No.11206563]

>>11206408
god, id do her ass so badly. so adorable. lucky pewd must be tearing it up real good

[Anonymous No.11206582]

>Had an interview to do an English MA at a top 50 globally ranked uni
>Mentioned one of my favourite novels that isn't widely read is Dazai's No Longer Human
>Later find out it was recommended by fucking PewDiePie

How fucked am I?

[Anonymous No.11206594]

>>11206582
you're not gonna make it

[Anonymous No.11206596]

>>11206582
upside is you can pretend thats the reason you dont get it

[Anonymous No.11206599]

>>11206582
This is exactly what I mean?

Just because you're not hipster and popular doesn't diminish the greatness of a piece of work? You should be happy everybody is enjoying it as you had?

[Anonymous No.11206611]

>>11206599
Stoner used to be my favorite novel. books for this feels?

[Anonymous No.11206617]

>>11206582
Get pretty tilted when this happens. Friend was over at my apartment the other day and we were taking a peak at my bookshelf, he recognised pale fire and commented that he too had seen Blade Runner 2049, in which the book had made a brief cameo.

Never seen The Matrix but I was reading Baudrillard's S&S in Uni once and some girl remarked something along the lines of, 'oh cool that's the Matrix book'

[Anonymous No.11206621]

>>11206599
these people aren't reading books to gain insights, or to experience other perspectives, or to be taken to other worlds.
they're reading them as status symbols to show off how "well-read" and "sophisticated" they are; how can you show off your superiority if pewdiepie is reading your favorite books?
it's disgusting

[Anonymous No.11206622]

>>11206548
Watch his videos and find out idiot?

[Anonymous No.11206624]

>>11206599
I don't care that he recommended it per se, I care that he's the only famous person who has ever recommended it so now it's possible the person deciding whether to accept me on a course with a focus toward postcolonial theory thinks I get my book recommendations from someone who heavily references the alt-right, uses the n-word and mostly appeals to 12 year olds.

[Anonymous No.11206634]

>>11206624
>the n-word

Lol

[Anonymous No.11206640]

>>11206308
No, he doesn’t read what he claims to read and his fans are all lower iq locusts so there’s a near 0% chance he’s successfully done anything for anyone that reading rainbow didn’t already fail to do.

low iq teacher, shallow reading, no direction, bad person

low iq viewers, low C, not going to follow through, low intuition, incapable of abstraction, bad aesthetic sense, low chance for being taught

you people

[Anonymous No.11206647]

>>11206621
Its a fucking book? Sure maybe they won't understand the underlying themes, or won't read it to gain experience or insight. Fuck, they probably won't remember it, but like dinner, they forget it but it fills them.

The absolute arrogance of making this an us vs. them situation. The poor slobs reading OUR books, that only WE can appreciate. The fucking snobbery.

>>11206624
Thats your issue, you're worried about what somebody will think of you because of a book? Pathetic.

[Anonymous No.11206652]

>>11206647
>getting this baited

go back to pewd's channel, newfag

[Anonymous No.11206658]

>>11206624
>heavily references the altright, uses the n-word, and mostly appeals to 12 year olds

soi boi detected, enjoy getting your gf cucked by jamal

[Anonymous No.11206672]

>>11206658
>enjoy getting your gf cucked by jamal

Does that mean Jamal is gonna fuck me?

[Anonymous No.11206674]

>>11206652
>hurr durr look at this newfag, look at how he brings up decent points

Reddits that way mate, try harder

[Anonymous No.11206817]

>>11206622
I did. I'm saying Stoner is the only book he mentioned popular here. how did you not get that?

[Anonymous No.11206863]

>>11206817
Its a monthly video series?

Did you not notice Crime and Punishment for example, or even No Longer Human?

Get your head out of the gutter anon

[Anonymous No.11206871]

>>11206323
>>i'm so cool for pretending not to know who the worlds most successful youtuber is
I don't know who the worlds most successful cuckold is either. That title means about as much as your opinion on anything to me.

[Anonymous No.11206894]

>>11206863
Crime and Punishment is one of the most popular books in the world. You could maybe argue for No Longer Human but I havent seen it mentioned much here. So 2 out of like 18 books hes reviewed. Ya he definitely browses /lit/ all the time!

[Anonymous No.11206902]

>>11206582
>isn’t widely read
>literally one of the most popular books in Japan
You’re like the type of person that thinks they’re erudite because they read Slaughterhouse 5.

[Anonymous No.11206907]

>>11206894
I feel like you haven't watch any of the videos anon...

[Anonymous No.11206923]

>>11206894
>Ya he definitely browses /lit/ all the time!
I mentioned this shit to a girl I speak to who watches him. Apparently his friend/editor posts on this cartoon image trading forum and recommends YLYL threads, lit recommendations, etc.