Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Gaming with PewDiePie”.
This is mixed at with the Virg we’re here at maker studios in Culver City, outside Los Angeles, we’re here to interview PewDiePie and the world’s most popular youtuber. We’Ve got a new TV show coming out exclusively on YouTube, called scare PewDiePie and we’re gon na play a little bit of his own video game. So you designed this game with a chain yeah exactly I work with out of minds and we might had a jam and they met a really cool prototype and I was like you guys are awesome. I want to do a full game with you and out came PewDiePie legend of the brofist. We have to do this like you’re in the game.
This is me, looks exactly like me, so barrels are the enemy they’ve taken over my fans. As you see here, I don’t have any views on the video, which is the worst thing that could ever happen to me right to bear, and the brownness has come to my house and they’ve taken all my fans. Is that, like a YouTube thing, it’s because, like in all games ever they just put dirt barrels as like decor. We need to fill this space that barrels.
So I made it like a conspiracy theory that barrels are evil. I mean it’s, not far-fetched. No, it’s probably the truth. Alright you’re not waiting up for me.
I say how it is cuz, we’re that I’m playing as my girlfriend with another guy right – and I guess well that made it weird. What compelled you kind of suit you looking to get making your own games? It’S literally been my dream before I started making YouTube videos and the thing like with the game I was, I was scared of making it like too much of a eco thing. I guess like it’s all about me: it’s all right! Look at me in a video game yeah and I’m making other people develop.
That for me as well like I wanted to be fun for them, and I think we found that so last year you had a video game. You had a book, and now you have a TV show yeah YouTube TV show. It all happened at one turns.
How is that transition been going from going from having you know, just a channel and making lots of videos to now doing always you’re another medium? It’S very cool to try out different things and who doesn’t want a game who doesn’t want to do all this stuff? I I do it Lisa. What was the inspiration for the show? I mean it’s horror theme right, which is like kind of going going back to your roots of kind of the video, the videos you used to make of the videos that helps you. I guess, grow your base. That’S correct! I think it was cool to do what I already do and then you know take it to another level of I’m jumping on you yeah.
It’S the same thing I do essentially, but even bigger this isn’t a traditional TV show just like you know your the way. You’Ve been doing videos on YouTube, isn’t kind of a traditional entertainment level. You got ta jump dude yeah. So what can viewers expect? Oh, it’s gon na be really fun. It was the craziest one of the great days experience in my life, and so you were picked up every single day in LA and just taken somewhere. I had no idea I was gon na do.
I was just gon na picked up, and then I knew I was gon na. Do it through some time it’s going to be on YouTube, reg right. This is like something for people who subscribe and they pay the $ 9.99 a month uh-huh. What was the? I guess the rationale there I mean cuz, you’ve supported, eat your bread and past yeah. Yeah II thought it was you think it’s good for artists, I hope so mm-hm.
I understand why they’re not maybe used to used to being free right. It was kind of the same with the this game when we we wanted it to be the best game possible. So we said: okay, we don’t want to put ads in it and we don’t want to do all these things and my friends especially we’re very against that in the beginning.
Yes, the game came up, everyone has played, that’s been very positive about it and no one says it I can force, I think people will have. Hopefully I think we will have the same reaction to that. The show you have one of the largest audiences on the internet, one of the largest audiences on YouTube. How does it been trying to treat that like you’re, just hanging out on a couch with somebody? Oh man, it’s hard yeah difficult, but I do think it’s important if there’s something that that’s going on and or you know, I want to share my thoughts on it’s important because if I just make funny videos all the time, which is what I try to do.
Sorry man yeah people kind of forget that I’m just a person and right I’m doing all this but, like you said it, fans are very reasonable and and understanding people and we suck at this game so like on top of everything that you’re doing right now you Have rebel mode, which is like your own talent agency? It was the I guess. What was the rationale there in terms of you know why? Why create kind of this, like indie indie label as part of a larger label? Was it just? You know you wanted to help support people. You like exactly I’m kind of an indie guy right at a larger scale. I guess, but I think, there’s a lot of cool stuff. You should dammit you want without me, there’s a lot of cool stuff.
We can do as a smaller group and as a part of way, more talent, and I want to explore that and I think that’s really exciting. So you, you must have like the resources of maker, your disposal, but you’re able to just make it kind of like you’re. You know, stick a circle or friends that you want to promote.
Do you get it? We did it cool cool job, thanks for hanging out with us change very much very plan. Yeah scare PewDiePie comes to YouTube, read on February 10th to learn more check out the verge calm or on YouTube at youtube.com. Slash The Verge .