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Since YouTube recently announced their new payed service “YouTube Red”. Everyone has been up to arms about it, for mainly good reasons! 

YouTube doesn’t exactly have the greatest reputation when it comes to new updates.

YouTube Red’s main selling points being: You can watch YouTube without ads, watch original shows, download videos, access to music library, etc. All for $10 a month. (Source)

It’s worth noting right away that my show “Scary PewDiePie” will be available via YouTube Red. (Link)

So how come YouTube, an ad revenue website decided to switch to include payed services? This might seem insane, especially since YouTube comes from the ad giant Google.

Well, despite YouTube being a huge website, YouTube still isn’t profiting. Daily Mail posted earlier this year:

If you read through all those bullet points, the answer behind YouTube Red’s existence becomes a lot more clear.

Either way, it still seems that most people aren’t sold about YouTube Red yet:

Why? Well the answer is simple, people’s main argument being: “Why would I pay $10 a month for a service that I can get for free with Adblock”? 

So out of curiosity, I asked via Twitter how many people actually use adblock:

I can also confirm with my own Google statistics that, that 40% is a correct estimate.

It’s a number that has grown a lot over the years, from roughly 15-20% when I started. And it’s not unlikely that it will keep growing.

What this means is that YouTubers lose about 40% of their ad income.

Personally, I’m ok with if you use adblock on my videos. Ads are annoying, I get it, I’m not here to complain about that.

But for smaller channels, this number can be devastating.

Despite this, it seems that many people’s general attitude towards Adblock is very open loose:

I think what many people still don’t realize is that:

# YouTube Red exist largely as an effort to counter Adblock. 

# Using Adblock doesn’t mean you’re clever and above the system. 

# YouTube Red exist because using Adblock has actual consequences. 

Now, there are questions remained to be answered about YouTube Red. Like: How much of YouTube Red’s $10 actually goes to it’s creators? How come YouTubers don’t get payed for Novembers free trial period? This was changed recently, (Source). Will YouTube Red actually be beneficial for smaller channels? Is the $10 price actually justified?

These are all important questions about YouTube Red. But right now, it’s more important that we understand what the actual problem here is.

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I did a video playing the latest FNAF (4).

Rating wise, it’s probably one of my worst videos ever:

Which is totally fine, that’s not why I’m writing this… the point is: fans were upset over the video and I just wanted to explain a few things around it.

The main reason people were upset is because I wasn’t scared while playing it. A lot of people know me on YouTube as being easily scared. So of course people want to see me play the game to see me get scared. 

That’s not what they got, so they dislike the video - Fair enough.

Some fans even damn right demanded that I “faked reactions” for the sake of entertainment. 

Fake reactions? It’s what fans wanted right? So why don’t I just do that? I’ll get more views, fans will be happy, everyone is happy? YAY, right?

I don’t know… I don’t want to? 

I explained in the video that the reason I don’t find it scary is because after you played the first 3 games. You learn the mechanics, you understand how the game works, you know exactly what to expect, there’s no unknown or surprises anymore. Fear of the unknown if the biggest key to horror and that’s gone. What’s left? 

A dull game that people are begging me to play:

I could go on, but you get the point…

Many also asked: “WELL IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE GAME, WHY DO YOU PLAY IT?” 

How will I know if I like it or not if I don’t play it? Also: If I don’t play it, fans will get upset (you’ve seen the demand for it).

I actually liked the first 2 games!  But apparently this game is the holy grail of gaming and any criticism to it will result to all of this.

Again, I could go more in depth about how this game objectively don’t hold up to the other 3 titles, but these were my main points and I’m going on for too long already!  

To be honest, I’m kinda proud of myself for not bullshitting myself through the game for fan pleasing and views. *Pats myself on the back*. Not sure if 2012 PDP would’ve done the same…

Now, here’s the video, some people enjoyed it at least. :-)

tl;dr: Don’t hate the playa hate the gaem

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Can I also just say that I’m a fan of Scotts work and I don’t hate FNAF. It’s just the insane fan craze over the games that puts me on the spot and I have to respond this way.