/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12308558]

What do we think of Pewdiepie's transition into Booktubing?

[Anonymous No.12308601]

>>12308558

He's at least got some semi-decent taste even if he did get most of it from /lit/ but nice seeing he didn't resort to YA crap.

[Anonymous No.12308646]

I definitely don't see enough threads about it, thank you

[Anonymous No.12308674]

It kind of feels forced.Like he just randomly transitions from making from YLYL videos to reviewing Don Quijote. But thats just my five cents.

[Anonymous No.12308682]

>>12308674
Either he enjoys multiple things or he uses the former to fund the latter. Kind of like how some online sites use clickbait articles to fund actual journalism

[Anonymous No.12308686]

>>12308558
He very obviously started browsing /pol/ got curious because of meme'ing of mishima and junger and then came over here, lurked, saw that people had premade charts for him to skim, had excessive time on his hands since his job takes him maybe 2 hours a day and he is a millionaire from a rich family with nothing to do but play games and have sex with his gf, took up reading in earnest, figured he could pump out more content and "engage" his young viewers with an unorthodox angle of attack via book reviews and then eventually became an avid reader with a somewhat noble appreciation of the canon. He's a stupid boring faggot but he has alright taste now and is probably less insufferable to talk with because of this board. I doubt its had a marked effect on his viewers besides driving more newfag shitposting traffic to this site.

[Anonymous No.12308691]

>>12308674
>from making from YLYL videos to reviewing Don Quijote

Fuck, that was an even worse tease than the Culture of Critique review

[Anonymous No.12308699]

>>12308558
I'm not interested at all. Frankly you should stop making these threads and get a job.

[Anonymous No.12308731]

>>12308674

None of this feels natural I agree. He's just doing it for attention and maybe to change his image a little but if he did it quietly for a year or two and not straight away by doing videos on how he is such a bookworm now then maybe they would be more interesting.

[Anonymous No.12308737]

He's an adult calling himself Pewdiepie.

[Anonymous No.12308742]

>>12308731
>>12308686
>pewdiepie is reviewing books to gain popularity

That's the most retarded thing anyone could possibly say on the matter.

[Anonymous No.12308749]

>>12308742

And to loose his image people already have of him. Do you think the kids from Home Alone or Harry Potter would want to be remembered for those roles their entire life? Imagine it must be some sort of hell for them.

[Anonymous No.12308782]

>>12308646
I know this is sarcasm but GOD when will 7yo kids stop posting about him

[Anonymous No.12308788]

>>12308682
Like Buzzfeed? I have heard Buzzfeed News is bretty good.

[Anonymous No.12308795]

he should do it more often, weekly or bi-weekly

[Anonymous No.12308814]

>>12308749
Pewdiepie is already being rebranded by the MSM. If his endgame is to distance himself from the brofisting image he established his channel upon, he literally doesn't have to do anything at this point.

[Anonymous No.12308832]

>>12308749
>Do you think the kids from Home Alone or Harry Potter would want to be remembered for those roles their entire life
Daniel Radcliffe has already branched himself out from Harry Potter through hard work and talent and become an established actor, its the cunt Emma Watson who'll forever be Hermione because she's a shit actress.

[Anonymous No.12308843]

>>12308742
fuck off pubeypoo

[Anonymous No.12308855]

>>12308832
Incel alert.

[Anonymous No.12308857]

>>12308855
Fuck off Zach.

[Anonymous No.12308859]

>>12308737
Underrated roast

[Anonymous No.12309004]

Regardless of whether it's disingenuous or sincere, I think it's a good thing. However you feel about him, he has an absurdly large audience. He's probably inspired tens of thousands of people to pick up Mishima this year (I'm one of them). Teenagers are picking up reading as a hobby, and people who like reading are getting exposed to some decent books. If you check the subreddit for his book club thing, you see some recommend 1984 like every third post (even though he openly stated hating it). Maybe they'll find a book they like that wasn't required reading in high school.

[Anonymous No.12309022]

A list of my thoughts :

This is what I'm talking about, the inability to understand basic and rudimentary posts and instant offense on insult because he sees a post that doesn't automatically spout that Jews should all die and they need to be gassed. This is the exact post that my reply was about, showing the inability to articulate coherency, ability, nuance or tact. You are nothing but a buzzword spewing shitposter who has infested the site with obnoxious rhetoric that would be favorable to people if put in a coherent or intelligent way, but is extensively off-putting because such a lowly animal is screaming at the top of his lungs about Jews. You have ruined everything /pol/ once was, I bet you think that Blacked threads and five word OPs were the baseline and blood of what /pol/ once was. You're nothing but a shitposter, and it's why I and many others migrated here to escape you mentally handicapped rebbitors and facebook retards. Your ilk ruined the entirety of /pol/s reputation. Thank fucking God you haven't found (rescinded), I would track your IP and shoot you myself if that were t

Took an immense amount of time to write it. The anon is an autist. He's also clearly new himself, since 4chan has always been shit.

keep repeating the word mind though when you mean entire being. and then just stop there, since you've never studied any scientific field in your entire life you can't actually address or understand what i am talking about (remember you're still stuck in a false separation you've imposed on your own identity between yourself and yourself, how can you even begin to understand the lack of separation between you and others or humans and their environment?).... so the other stuff i wrote went over your head, sorry i mean mind.

[Anonymous No.12309024]

>>12309004

Pewdiepie the next JK Rowling. I wonder if he'll ever consider writing a fantasy series. Curious to see what it would be about.

[Anonymous No.12309159]

>>12308558
Nice, he learned a lot of subversion, a true pol`s son

[Anonymous No.12310087]

>>12309004
Why would it be disingenuous though? What would he gain from doing book reviews? Those videos get a lot less views than he's other videos.

[Anonymous No.12310106]

>>12310087
Yeah, this is what I don't get. /lit/ is actually retarded enough to think he has some ulterior motive or angle and he's reviewing fucking books.

[Anonymous No.12310123]

>>12310106
Yeah. He just grew up and started reading more. Nothing wrong with that.

[Anonymous No.12310159]

why do retarded crossboarders love this retarded finnish neet so much

[Anonymous No.12310173]

>>12310087
I didn't mean to imply that I thought it was disingenuous. The posts above seemed to pointing at the idea that pewdiepie was doing this for ulterior motives. But even he was just pretending to like books to change his public image or whatever, it's still has positive effects.

[Anonymous No.12310199]

>>12310159
he's based one of us redpilled

[Anonymous No.12310254]

>>12310159
hes based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.12310260]

Yay, more normies ruining the books even further.

Mass literacy was a mistake.

[Anonymous No.12310261]

>>12310159
he is one of basedpilled

[Anonymous No.12310286]

>>12310260
Normies don't like Pewdiepie, their facebook feeds tell them he's bad.

[Anonymous No.12310317]

>>12309004
>you see some recommend 1984 like every third post (even though he openly stated hating it)
I don't remember that. He openly hated Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 showed up as an alternative for a better dystopian book in the latest video.

[Anonymous No.12310328]

>>12310260
Shut the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.12310331]

>>12310159
Because eceleb shillers are retarded

[Anonymous No.12310349]

>>12310286
>>12310328
>literally God of Normies
>b-but he's /ourguy/ cause he said the n-word
Pathetic

[Anonymous No.12310354]

>>12310349
>n-word
r*ddit called

[Anonymous No.12310360]

>>12310354
You can't say the n word though that's racist

[Anonymous No.12310370]

The only thing more embarrassing than his book "reviews" is the blatant shilling from obvious crossboarders.

[Anonymous No.12310372]

with private browsing, one of top results searching pewds is him saying nigger

[Anonymous No.12310378]

I wouldn't care except for the fact that by aping /lit/ he's actually exposing a ridiculously large audience to actually good literature and the idea of reading being a fun thing to do

even for a cynical bastard like me, I can't be mad about that

[Anonymous No.12310411]

go to bed, felix

[Anonymous No.12310419]

>>12308558
>believing he's read any of them
He never goes beyond talking about them in the vaguest way. He doesn't even give any quick rundowns of the plots.

[Anonymous No.12310473]

>>12310419
This post is the purest Ressentiment I've ever seen.

>Waaah Pewdiepie is rich and handsome, doesn't have to work hard for a living, has a beautiful gf
>BUT READING WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MY THING! REEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.12310488]

>>12310473
>u jelly
Very intelligent
Not that guy btw but I'm also very doubtful that he actually reads. You can't read 70 novels in your apparently first year of engaging with serious literature and actually understand any of it. You certainly wouldn't be parading your new hot hobby around like you just found some fucking goldmine. And yes, he never discussed any of the books at length apart from shit you can skim on wikipedia.

[Anonymous No.12310530]

>>12310488
>You can't read 70 novels in your apparently first year of engaging with serious literature and actually understand any of it.
He doesn't read academic textbooks, he reads middlebrow-core, here's a sample of his reading list through what he's discussed on youtube:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/121751.Pewdiepie_s_Literature_Club_
It really isn't that impossible that a 29 year old can read a few books like American Psycho or Kafka By the Shore in a year if one's consistent throughout the year, especially counting novellas and short stories.

[Anonymous No.12310545]

>>12310488
I just heard him expound of the works of Mishima with at least a midwit level of comprehension. I think it would take more effort to pretend to read these books and then comment on them than to actually read them.

[Anonymous No.12310571]

>>12310360
Fuck up nigger
I do what I want.

[Anonymous No.12310579]

>>12310545
>I just heard him expound of the works of Mishima with at least a midwit level of comprehension.
so you'd say he performed admirably for the level his audience is familiar with. very good.

[Anonymous No.12310583]

>>12308832
Literally everyone only knows Daniel Radcliffe from Harry Potter. Emma Watson is at least moreso known for being cunt irl than she is for being a cunt in fiction.

[Anonymous No.12310601]

>>12310579
maybe he just likes reading.

[Anonymous No.12310614]

>>12309022
aww such a cute kitty!

[Anonymous No.12310717]

>european "christian" man goes on about how frickin' based buddhism is for valuing self-control, the rejection of vice and meaningful suffering
>idolizes mishima and murakami
why you wouldn't want to be familiar with the most amazing literary tradition of all time in favor of chink trash is beyond me

[Anonymous No.12310809]

i wish hed fucking do anothe rone

[Anonymous No.12310871]

>>12310286

>The most popular account on YouTube is repellent to normies

[Anonymous No.12310873]

>>12310717
how does it feel to be cucked by Big Buddhist Cock, christian boi?

[Anonymous No.12310876]

>>12310871
it's kind of insane that the most popular account is some swedish guy who just talks about random shit

[Anonymous No.12310899]

People who shit on Pewds are NPCs.
I think he's fun and a good influence.

[Anonymous No.12310944]

>>12310871
>implying people bother to unsubscribe

[Anonymous No.12310949]

>>12310876
No its really not if you realize >>12310899 is most people on Earth

[Anonymous No.12310957]

>>12308558
Pewdiepie's move to booktube allows me to forgive myself for introducing my son to meinkraft - therefore I'm for it.

[Anonymous No.12310958]

>>12310159
He's redpilled against degeneracy just like me.

[Anonymous No.12310963]

>all these underage that defend him/got into reading because of him
No wonder this board has gone from shit to worse lately. Fuck all of you.

[Anonymous No.12310984]

>>12310899
>People who shit on Pewds are NPCs.
Yes.

Dunning kruger effect.

[Anonymous No.12310989]

>>12310963
suck me

[Anonymous No.12310993]

>>12310963
nah /lit/ was ruined by many things, JBP is the single most damaging human meme besides the Deleuze-Land shit which at least brought intelligent faggots here.

[Anonymous No.12311017]

>>12310717
He's a swede, a cuck by nature.

[Anonymous No.12311047]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvtAbg2_xZc
this is the only good booktuber

[Anonymous No.12311074]

>>12311017
More like Swedish vikings cucked the world. Bet you're a Brit salty over the fact that your ancestors got enhanced with superior Nordic DNA or a Dane.

[Anonymous No.12311082]

>>12311074
>N*rdicucks
>enhancing anything

[Anonymous No.12311084]

>>12310993
>Deleuze-Land faggots
>intelligent

[Anonymous No.12311097]

>>12310717
because Pewdiepie is Aryan
>>12311084
relative to JBP spammers and the people falseflagging as JBP spammers to bait JBP spammers and people who hate them, yes.

[Anonymous No.12311108]

Is Pewdiepie like Peterson for 10-20 crowd?

[Anonymous No.12311129]

>>12309004
Do you burgers only hate that book because you were forced to read it in high school? How many of you have actually read it?

[Anonymous No.12311224]

>>12310530
I think he's read most of the books through audible, the ones not there definitely, and some of the ones he's actually bought he might half listen, listen or read the book and that is why he appears to give a wimpy brief on them. Or maybe he's talking to his audience.

[Anonymous No.12311389]

>>12308558
He sounds like his hymen is fully intact.

[Anonymous No.12311409]

I think he should become enlightened of the fact that John Mackey may have given birth to the alt right.

[Anonymous No.12311477]

>>12310349
That wasn't the point, retard.
>muh mass literace was le mistake xDD

[Anonymous No.12311482]

>>12310349
That wasn't the point, retard.
>muh mass literacy was le mistake xDD

[Anonymous No.12311503]

>>12310159
Swedish*

[Anonymous No.12311614]

>>12311129
I've read it twice and I dropped out of highschool.

[Anonymous No.12311644]

>>12310871
He's only popular with the subset of the world population that spends a lot of time on the internet, actual normies either don't have youtube accounts or are the kind of people that would unironically subscribe to Youtube music or T-series or whatever.

[Anonymous No.12311680]

Will Pewdiepie review books with his sister? Pic related.

[Anonymous No.12311713]

>>12311129
Can't speak for non-burger pewdiepie, but the I think we mainly like it unless we just hate all books. I didn't particularly like reading at that point, and I finished it in a night.

What I don't like is that it's the only insightful book a lot of people have read, and people just blindly recommend it always. I'm not sure there's anyone left who hasn't read it.

[Anonymous No.12311744]

>>12310530
>culture of critique wasn't a photoshop
What the absolute fuck? What video was that from?

[Anonymous No.12311818]

>>12310106
yea absolutely, honestly i like the new pewds he's doing what he wants who fucking cares

[Anonymous No.12311825]

>>12310871
normies dont watch pewds fag they dont even know how he is
>muh if he inspire normies to read i wont feel speical anymore

[Anonymous No.12311828]

I wish he’d stop making threads about himself on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.12311831]

>>12308558
I think he's just doing what he wants to do, its only a minor fraction of his content only once every couple of months. Honestly if he wants to expand his knowledge via literature and inspire other people to pick it up good on him. I wont bitch about muh e-cleb like some people here

[Anonymous No.12311880]

>>12308674
Calla serrano, ctm