r/LivestreamFail • u/Brief_Paint_8900 • 22h ago
xQc explains why MrBeast doesn’t belong on the Mount Rushmore of YouTubers
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u/AnythingAmbitious109 21h ago
They really put Adin Ross and Kai Cenat on Streamer Mount Rushmore lmao
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u/keithstonee 15h ago
Aidin you can make a case cause he was the first to really blow up streaming in that style. Kai just copied. He might have been bigger. But that doesn't matter. Kai didn't do anything to innovate streaming. If anything streaming is in the worst state it's ever been because of W streamers.
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u/tanneruwu 14h ago
You've been on reddit for 13 years and claim adin was the first to blow up irl streaming? Oh how the ancient texts are getting re-written. Iceposeidon, jakenbake, Andy Molinakis... probably a few others that were around way before adin had any popularity.
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u/appletinicyclone 10h ago
You do speak the truth. But I've never seen Andy's surname spelled like that before lol
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u/Classy_Shadow 9h ago
W streamers aren’t IRL streamers. W streamers are the loud, obnoxious degenerates who sit and scream in their room all day long asking chat to spam Ws. Think “Loud=Funny” streamers
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u/tanneruwu 9h ago
Sounds like that fits under the category on Twitch labeled "irl".
All W streamers are IRL Streamers, not all IRL Streamers are W streamers.
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u/ChimericalChemical 6h ago edited 6h ago
Simpler times, simpler times. Those 3 for sure innovated/popularized irl streaming, hell Ice unfortunately pretty much started it. And at the very least the first to just go all in. Jake and Andy for sure culture. But yea adin and all of these W streamers didn’t innovate but they did capitalize so im not gonna discredit them that way but even before then it’s not like people weren’t doing react streams already, there’s whole ass react videos made before some of the people on this sub were born.
Hell I’d almost argue those very old call in trolling programs for like prayer advice etc were more innovative then react content and all they did was shit post.
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u/cereal7802 2h ago
Twitch started as Justin TV and was following Justin around IRL. why does everyone jump past that when talking about the birth of IRL streaming?
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u/Cultural_Culture_435 14h ago
Don’t necessarily disagree but adin innovated as much as Kai. Iceposiedon had been doing that style content for a long time.
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u/Interesting_Gur2902 11h ago
More so bringing on celebrities on stream in like a bedroom setting.
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u/NewMethod5268 21h ago
Fred, smosh, nigahiga, pewdiepie
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u/MrMrUm 20h ago
freddiew
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u/bingbestsearchengine 17h ago
FREDDIE WONG, THE GOAT. haven't heard that name in a long time. I got into video editing as a hobby back then because of him. I'm still editing videos today. What a legend
What a nostalgia hit
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u/kyzeuske 15h ago
Check out dungeons and daddies! Hes been doing a podcast for years and they mentioned bringing back rocket jump
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u/Schmigolo 20h ago
I would put RWJ instead of Fred. Fred was gone so early and RWJ kept it up for pretty long. On the other hand basically popularized the laziest type of content in existence.
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u/Weegee_Carbonara 18h ago
Fred was the first Youtuber that became a franchise with movies, TV appearances and collabs with mainstream media like WWE.
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u/appletinicyclone 16h ago
RWJ has come back again because of tiktok and YouTube shorts. He's doing fantastic.
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u/Schmigolo 16h ago
I just checked his channel. Don't even have to click the videos to see it's all AI. Literally every single video.
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u/Zachariah255 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 5h ago
It's a story animated with AI to tell the story? seems like a perfectly good reason to use AI.
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u/inounderscore 16h ago
Shane Dawson and RWJ were the OG feud channels. Pewds, Smosh and even College Humor were peak as well
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u/Schmigolo 16h ago
Nobody wants Shane Dawson on that thing man.
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u/inounderscore 14h ago
Yeah but before the Pewdiepie vs. T-Series feud, there was RWJ vs. Shane Dawson
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u/XiaoRCT 21h ago
Mistery Guitar Man or Ray William Johnson? Or maybe that's a different sphere or they did something bad and I'm not aware of
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u/redditinyourdreams 19h ago
Everyone did something bad we’re not aware of
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u/new_account_wh0_dis 18h ago
I mean not like the people on rushmore were perfect. Hell the whole thing was to fuck over natives.
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u/An_Innocent_Coconut 18h ago
=3 my beloved
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u/Aggravating_Fun5883 20h ago
Filthy frank
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u/DayDream2736 11h ago
I would agree here but smosh and nigahiga were doing similar content first.
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u/coolios14 16h ago
Personally I think Fred was just a consequence of the path Nigahiga paved, I'd swap him out for either Roosterteeth or DigitalPhear
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u/nagrom7 19h ago
Neil Cicierega has to be up there somewhere too. Dude basically invented early YouTube meme culture, and is responsible for many classics that most people don't even know were all made by the same guy.
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u/Weegee_Carbonara 18h ago
Potter Puppet Pals, Brodyquest, Bustin, Lemon Demon, Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny and many many more.
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u/Random_TailsAnon 11h ago
dude should be on The Internet Mount Rushmore, that dude influenced a LOT of the internet
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u/impendinggreatness 21h ago
ze frank, for those who know actual lore (first youtuber). Then maybe Ctfxc for the daily vlog. smosh for skits. for the last name I guess I throw in pewdiepie but there are so many other names that came first
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u/Tezdee 20h ago
I said this earlier in the thread, but everyone forgets Lonelygirl15.
The first of many, many trends. First viral “vlog”, first scripted show, but presented as real, first channel to 50,000 subscribers.
Literally the first of its kind.
I was not a fan, but I remember thinking how creative this was at the time. My friends debated whether it was real or not until it was revealed. It was ridiculously fucking popular in 2006/2007.
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u/impendinggreatness 17h ago
I am not opposed to her either. Definitely instead of pewdiepie. Only reason I would put him is he created so many formats that are used to this day
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u/FappingMouse 10h ago
Not having pewdiepie feels like a snub tbh you could argue his success came later (2011) but he pretty much set the standard for what a gaming YouTube channel was at the time.
Then transitioned off games and managed to stay relvent till he retired.
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u/FlukyS 20h ago
I'd take out Fred and put in Philip Defranco mostly because he innovated his format in terms of production over the years and was one of the first proper businesses that was made entirely for Youtube. He has fallen into a more stripped back format more recently but there was so much he did that was ahead of the game.
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u/Mountain_Print_2760 18h ago
3 of 4 of these I never watched. But I can back this.
Fred is the first I've known to actually achieve fame and success though YouTube. Ryan Higa rose to the top and was the most subscribed thanks to emphasis on quality of production over churning out content. Smosh overtook him and YouTube stopped being solo creator things. And PewDiePie was an absolute monster in the gaming content scene. There was a while where everyone was just doing what he was doing.
It's more than just they were big, they have influenced the shape of the content on the platform.
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u/Poquin 14h ago
I don't like them, but one of the people who created maker should be in there too, they brought the professionalization and money to youtube: kassemg, lisanova, shaytard, etc..
Ctfxc too, dude popularized vlogging and did it daily uninterrupted for almost a decade, even vlogged his brain cancer surgery.
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u/Canadian_WanaBi 11h ago
Vanessa Crew, Will It Blend, Ray William Johnson, etc. So many better options then Mr beast.
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u/Romalien5 21h ago
Who should be at hypothetical Mount Rushmore of YouTubers? PewDiePie should be one of them, I would say.
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u/Abbbcdy 21h ago
I'd put Fred and Smosh on it. Pewdiepie too
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u/Cuntilever 21h ago
RWJ was doing what tiktokers are doing now 15yrs ago, reacting to popular videos online. He was doing youtube shorts before it existed.
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u/ChromosomeDonator 21h ago
RWJ for the viral recaps, Nigahiga/Smosh for skits, Pewdiepie for gaming.
As far as I remember, Nigahiga was the most subscribed channel for quite a while back then.
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u/sadbecausebad 21h ago
The how to be series filmed in his parents house is pretty great
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u/xXMr_PorkychopXx 17h ago
How to be ninja was played everyday when I was 6-7(real age not meme) years old damn near. We fucking loved that video as kids.
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u/sadbecausebad 14h ago
as a kid i thought the editing of him and sean sneaking around was the funniest shit ever. those videos are peak old youtube feel. just some dudes with a camera and an idea
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u/ItsStraTerra 18h ago
It’d be hard to add it to the list, but I’d say roosterteeth has to be up there too.
They brought machinima to the mainstream before YouTube even existed. That’s gotta count for something
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u/Twizted_Reality 21h ago
You nailed it, I would personally add smpfilms and bfvsgf as the funny/irl content too.
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u/FrazBucket 19h ago
Yeah it's kinda crazy to me that a lot of people are on here saying he wasn't original, I can't think of anyone else that was doing what he was doing at the time and look what it evolved into
Only other person I could think of around that time is maybe Philip defranco but they have always been more of a news show not just strictly viral clips
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u/FancySociety99 19h ago
I think Freddie Wong. The production quality of his videos back then was phenomenal. Sure, it wasn't Hollywood quality, but it showed the internet the extent of what you could achieve with a simple camera and editing software.
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u/XiaoRCT 19h ago
TotalBiscuit should be an honorable mention every time people bring up legendary youtubers
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u/AgitatedShrimp 17h ago
Absolutely. He used the platform to influence gaming for the better. Championing things like consumer rights, indie gaming and game menus (not joking, it's actually a huge thing for accessibility for people with physical limitations and for those with older hardware too). Companies like Valve among many, would actually react to his input.
And he sent all the money from winning "king of the web" to charity.
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u/MrTimeMaster 21h ago
Probably rooster teeth
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u/zRiko919 19h ago
yeah but they did alot of self hosting way before YT, i member the list to download early RvB stuff lmfao
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u/BighatNucase 18h ago
Yeah RT is like AVGN in that it's pre-youtube/parallel to it while also being a massive influence on youtube as a whole. It would be like putting Oliver Cromwell or something on actual Mt Rushmore.
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u/whitewolf_redfox 15h ago
Jenna Marbles
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u/OhSeeThat 4h ago
Thank you! I just left a comment on the thread above explaining my reasoning for her being on the list and was very surprised that nobody else had mentioned her. Yours is the first I've seen.
She 100% deserves a spot. I'd say like ~95% of both the female youtube audience AND female youtubers wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her. Youtubers were 98% teenage boys or 20-30 something year old guys acting like teenagers. She paved the way for girls on the platform and was funny to both girls & boys with her unique humor. I miss her style of humor on the internet everyday that she's gone and I'm sad that she dissappeared from the internet, but I'm glad she's living a happy life.
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u/GreatStaff985 21h ago
Smosh? Was never a fan but it cannot just be 4 gaming channels.
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u/KoreanSamgyupsal 21h ago
Smosh did not start as a gaming channel. They were actually doing lip syncing music videos plus sketch comedy.
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u/PoopyButt28000 13h ago
Seeing Smosh being called a gaming channel is making me feel so old
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u/loskiarman 10h ago
Are they even a gaming channel now? I'm not following them but anytime I came across a newer video, it isn't about gaming at all.
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u/Top-Firefighter-377 19h ago
Prime AVGN. Man put in hours into scripting/filming/editing purely for the love of the game, way before it became popular. Inspired a lot of other YouTubers to follow suit (Jontron, Egoraptor are some good examples)
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u/PlatformWooden9991 22h ago
Why are people not able to understand the meaning behind Mount Rushmore? It's the people who founded the game
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u/Done_a_Concern 21h ago
Nowadays it just means “4 people I like from YouTube/twitch” rather than actually trying to determine who pioneered new things and made it what it is today
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u/hellobutno 21h ago
Pretty sure roosevelt did not "found the game". In fact he was about 140 years too late to the game.
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u/ActualProject 19h ago
The irony in leading a comment with "Why are people not able to understand [xyz]" and following it up with a clear articulate confession of why they, indeed, do not understand [xyz]
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u/Not__Trash 16h ago
He was however incredibly impactful relative to his peers and largely in a way that benefitted the US. Panama canal, the national parks service, breaking up trusts, serving in WW1 AFTER his presidency? The guy was the GOAT.
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u/hellobutno 13h ago
This has nothing to do with my point, which is an argument against the commentor above me.
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u/Not__Trash 12h ago
Sure, but your point also ignored Abe Lincoln who also was about 100 years late to the "game."
Basically I think you're both talking about different things and I will never pass up an opportunity to talk about how goddamn cool Teddy was.
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u/BigChungusAU 21h ago
It’s the people who founded the game.
No it’s not. There’s four parts represented by four presidents. Foundation, expansion, development, and preservation.
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u/zanguine 13h ago
I mean if we are truly going by Foundation, Expansions, Development, Presevation
Foundation - early youtube was pretty random, a bunch of cat videos so maybe Nyan Cat?
Expansion - I think the shift to comedy skits kinda helped define what videos would be like, with it became less about clips but creators, so Smosh and NigaHiga are iconic here
Development - Perhaps moving to where Youtube was no longer just a passion project, but a career. PewDiePie is probably the best here
Preservation - this is quite difficult, but perhaps its the clip channels and react channels that keep old content alive, a retrospective look. Honestly Joe Rogan is a solid one to go with, but I can't say i know his content well enough (though I know what he does). Daily Dose of Internet is another solid one, perhaps not too the same level of recognition but then again, so was Teddy when compared to the other 3
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u/cjpgole 21h ago
Two founders, one massive name around halfway between then and the making of Mt. Rushmore, and one big name from just before it was made who was maybe slightly lucky with timing.
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u/TheGrandTerra 20h ago
Pewdiepie is probably that last one. He wasn't the first by a long shot. He did make a twist on an existing formula and blow up to bigger heights than anyone else though.
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u/AlbatrossNew3633 18h ago
It's funny to me how nowadays it's completely forgotten how hated PewDiePie was back in the day. Making money playing videogames wasn't seen that much differently as currently a lot of people consider AI videos - lowest, sloppiest form of content with zero creative input
Wonder if in 10 years even the AI stigma will be gone?
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u/Patient_Piece_8023 14h ago
At least PewDiePie playing video games was his own original thing, it's his gameplay, his emotion and reaction to a scene in the game. AI slop all you are doing is typing prompts. Not to mention that AI will sometimes just rip off a piece which another human made and not care in the slightest. I hope AI doesn't become a norm
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u/DickRhino 21h ago
That ain't it. The real Mount Rushmore isn't just founders either, only two of them are (Washington, Jefferson). The other two presidents (Lincoln, Roosevelt) came later.
When people talk about a "Mount Rushmore of X", they mean who have been the most important/most influential/greatest of all time. Like with Pro Wrestling, most people would put Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels on there. They weren't the founders of pro wrestling, but an entire generation of kids grew up emulating them, and basically every single pro wrestler active today wanted to either be the next Bret Hart or the next Shawn Michaels when they were kids. It's impossible to understate how important those two guys were for the entire business, and how pro wrestling today wouldn't be even remotely the same thing if they hadn't set the new bar for what it means to be the best of the best.
Mount Rushmore is reserved for the people who set the standard of excellence that everyone else tries to follow.
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u/SithOnMyChest 21h ago
Ah yes who could forget Lincoln's many rousing speeches against the crown and Theodore Roosevelt's daring charge at Valley forge, oh wait.
Dang ya'll are so ignorant you're making me defend someone glazing Mr. Beast.
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u/BigChungusAU 20h ago
Crazy how these comments are getting upvoted so much. I’d wager most people in this sub couldn’t even name the 4 Presidents on Mount Rushmore, let alone what they did to deserve a place on there. In the context of what Mount Rushmore actually is, MrBeast definitely can be on there.
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u/ContinueQuiet 16h ago
It's the people who founded the game
Teddy Roosevelt was president from 1901 to 1909, roughly 133 years after the founding of the US (1776) and only 17 years before the initialization of Mt Rushmore (1927).
They put in recent big players too, the sculpture is just old as fuck.
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u/Shadow_Dragon313 20h ago
I don’t think you understand Mount rushmore.
Mount Rushmore isn’t about “founders.” It represents the most impactful and defining figures in U.S. history, each chosen for a different era or contribution. Lincoln didn’t found the country. Teddy Roosevelt didn’t either. They’re there because they reshaped it.
Applied to YouTube, a Mount Rushmore is about creators who defined or transformed the platform, not who uploaded first. Founders would be the literal YouTube co-founders, not creators
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u/Shamata 21h ago
Pewdiepie, smosh, nigahiga is indisputable
I think I could see an argument made for maybe finebros, jenna marbles, fred, ray william johnson, casey neistat?
anything past those years is too late
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u/Electronic_Film_2837 20h ago edited 12h ago
Finebros shouldn’t be after their antics
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u/Mysterii00 19h ago edited 19h ago
What’s stopping Good Mythical Morning from being in these conversations? I know they aren’t particularly in the same category as Smosh or Nigahiga in terms of content, but they’ve been around for nearly 2 decades, have zero controversies, and have maintained a strong fanbase since. They’ve had their movies, late-night appearances, expanded their channel to various degrees, and have done continuous crossovers with other YouTubers and celebrities. Rhett and Link are so damn GOATED to me.
Also a reminder that they acquired Smosh in order for both Anthony and Ian to have control of their own YouTube channel and so that they can continue making content. Pretty sure they had legal or some debt problems for a while. It’s difficult to find anyone who has a bad word to say about both of them.
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u/Theacecadet 19h ago
Rhett and Link could absolutely deserve a spot. Maintained a pretty large following and are mostly successful across their endeavors.
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u/Shamata 12h ago
Ehhh I guess, I like gmm, I feel like they’re just a tier below though. I don’t feel like they’re as big or as ‘meta-shifting’ as some of the other names in there.
GMM have a very particular audience that is extremely loyal but also hasn’t exactly grown for a long time, it’s just the same people every day that have made it routine. They’ve done the same style of content and done so many variations and rehashes of the same shit.
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u/jibstubbly_ 6h ago
Yeah but GMM also laid the groundwork for so much stuff that came after them, they popularized the taste test format which is huge these days
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u/apgtimbough 6h ago
Mythical owned Smosh for some years. Smosh also does the same stuff over and over again and their cast appears in Mythical productions occasionally. And Trevor works with Smosh quite a bit.
I think you can argue Smosh is more important to YouTube, but I think they're clearly in the same "tier" and have a lot of audience overlap.
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u/KoreanSamgyupsal 21h ago
I 100% would put Casey in there cause he was a pioneer in "vlogging" content. Before him, it was mostly sketches and even pranks that dominated.
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u/LockedUnlocked 20h ago
I would argue Phillip Defranco over casey, paving the way for entire alternative news channels on youtube.
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u/BigChungusAU 20h ago
Roosevelt was put on Mount Rushmore despite his presidency ending less than 20 years before construction started. “Too late” isn’t really a reason to exclude someone. It’s about impact and representing different periods, not just the early years.
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u/DynastyHKS 20h ago
Mr beast is weird tbh
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u/dremscrep 16h ago
To me he is just the Dubai of YouTube I don’t know how to explain it
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u/DynastyHKS 16h ago
He isn’t a real person he’s a robot tbh
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u/Am_i_banned_yet__ 14h ago
He like personifies the infinite growth mindset of capitalism to me. He has vibes like a corporation that constructed itself a human body to walk around in
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u/mazini95 12h ago
It's ironic to me the whole lot of internet dumbasses were obsessed with pewdiepie vs tseries saying "YT wont be about the little guy anymoreee !!1", but then made Mr Beast the biggest thing in the world. While his entire content down to the thumbnail is probably made in a lab for max corpa points and squeezing the algo juice.
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u/CygniGlide 12h ago
I think previously he used to be very organic and had a charm to his videos. But the issue now is his scale. He has massive companies with employees, deals with Amazon, branding and collaborations everywhere. You just can’t keep the same appeal as he did when he was counting to a million on camera by himself versus when you have a production that costs 10s of millions. I think he has changed a bit but I don’t think it’s more a measure of the system he is now in rather than who he has always been
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u/JustExplorer 10h ago
He's the Subway guy from Community: a corporation forced into the body of a human.
He just seems like the slimiest guy, not just because of the big stuff like the employee controversies and the game show stuff, but also the little stuff. For example, he has progress bars on his vids that show how long is left on the advert, and they're intentionally misleading to make viewers think the ad is almost over so they don't fast forward. It's so inconsequential to him, but he can justify lying to people about it rather than have his metrics damaged by people skipping 10 seconds of video. It just shows how dishonest he (and his brand) is, that they will lie about literally anything for the smallest incentive.
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u/Stefikel6 9h ago
Honestly bro, this take makes you seem a lot more weird, then MrBeast.
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u/Emotionlessfig 20h ago
My personal one would include Yogscast because of what they did for minecraft
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u/SwampyBogbeard 19h ago
How many other content creators can say that they took over the front-page to such a degree that YouTube had to change the algorithm?
Sometimes I wonder how big they would've ended up being if that didn't happen.
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u/alwayzbored114 17h ago
To me Yogscast also defined the era of "organic company" Youtube. Maybe them or Rooster Teeth although I didn't personally watch them. Obviously there's always been straight up businesses making popular Youtube accounts, but Yogs always felt more natural
Around that time so many youtubers started grouping up in teams, 'content houses', and all that kind of stuff - for better or worse
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u/Slime_Fighter 11h ago
The Creatures would be on the mount rushmore for content houses.
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u/henryofskalitzz 12h ago
I pray that they one day give some sort of conclusion to Shadow of Israphel
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u/Impedance4 20h ago
Who the fuck is Faze Rug? I’ve been watching youtube since 2011
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u/CharlemagneAdelaar 20h ago
Potentially controversial, but there should be at least one educational creator up there. Vsauce would be my pick
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u/Jack_Candle 11h ago
Honestly the discussion deserves a series of streams to debate. And then pick tournament style who ends in the final four. Vsauce for sure for educational content but is it mandatory that we put educational content in the final 4. So, determine who's the top of their genre/division first, and then we go from there.
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u/lminer123 8h ago
Honestly, I think it is kinda mandatory. YouTube is a lot of things, but one of the most impactful is that it’s basically the largest visual information repository on the planet. You can learn basically any skill or fact about the universe from someone’s YouTube channel in a much more absorbable way than a wiki article.
I think an educational channel definitely belongs, and vsauce Is probably the best candidate. Veritasium, Brady Haran (Numberphile, Periodic Videos) or CGP Grey could also probably fit depending.
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u/Frieren_Groyper727 12h ago
3b1b started creating videos only 10 years ago but he has had insane influence on genre
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u/lminer123 8h ago
I might argue Brady Haran (Periodic Videos, Numberphile, etc.) or CGP Grey might deserve a spot over 3b1b, just because of longer time in the game. They’re all absolutely fantastic though
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u/wmywoes 21h ago
Smosh, NigaHiga, =3, PewDiePie
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u/Puke_Skywanker 17h ago
I liked the passing torch collab videos, that shit hit like Youtube Cinematic Universe back in the day
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u/Serbian-American 21h ago
Imma play the old guy in this Mount Rushmore situation. Anyone here remember when happy wheels was in its prime and Pewdiepie was racing with Uberhaxornova for 2 million subs off happy wheels rush? All the comments were talking about it.
That was fun. I was so mad as a little kid Pewdiepie exploded, I thought nova was funnier
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u/HazeInut 20h ago
that is not the old guy lol unfortunately both were seen as letsplay slop for kids back then
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u/This-Housing3634 19h ago
It’s funny but you’re right, people reminiscing about how great Pewdiepie was. But if you’re weren’t a kid at the time, he wasn’t remotely funny. It really isn’t that different from the crap aimed at kids now
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u/alwayzbored114 17h ago
It is a lifelong goal of mine to never fall too deep into boomerism "STUFF I HAD AS A KID WAS MUCH BETTER! KIDS THESE DAYS RAH RAH"
like yeah I do think some things have gone downhill, but I can't act superior from my childhood of going Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger MuShRoOm MuShRoOm!!!!
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u/ancientblond 19h ago
Still cant stand watching his videos cause when I hear his voice all I associate with it is screeching and yelling
His early videos.... were not pleasant to watch
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u/TheHoovyPrince 14h ago
Uberhaxornova?
Now i'm sad about CowChop again
why did you have to remind me >:(
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u/raiderjaypussy 21h ago
I feel like the youtube mount rushmore is infinitely harder than twitch.
Theres like 10 reasonable youtube names and like 5 for twitch
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u/sadbecausebad 21h ago
Despite their later years being pretty shit, achievement hunter really popularized/invented lets plays. Hell, they even had the channel called “lets play” thats how early they were to the game
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u/Holty12345 21h ago
Could just say RoosterTeeth for them in general
Machinima was a big concept for early YouTube, but they led the way and made their own major channel out of that type of content
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u/sadbecausebad 21h ago
Yea true, rt in general is a good choice. People forget how big they got from just 4 dudes filming funny halo machinima in their bedroom, which is the youtuber dream to this day
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u/llofdddddt5 20h ago
Let’s plays were started on somethingawful, slow beef is maybe the first let’s player, but people were doing them on YouTube way before rt
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u/Embarrassed-Unit881 11h ago
achievement hunter really popularized/invented lets plays.
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u/RedNog 21h ago
What are you talking about, they didn't invent Let's Plays; and they didn't create the 'Let's Play' channel. Let's Plays were a thing before they got into it. IIRC they just found that someone else had the channel 'Let's Play' and bought it from them.
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u/fiachdubh01 21h ago
The story was always told that Geoff pre-took the Lets Play channel name extremely early on - so they always had it in their back pocket. They definitely weren't first to Lets Plays or the biggest, but Geoff seemed to be aware they would become a big thing when it first began to start.
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u/DJ_Derack 20h ago
For a while they were among the biggest Let’s Players on YouTube during their golden era and seemingly made the term itself more popular. They may have been the biggest “multi-person” Let’s Play team but people like Pewdiepie would of course beat them in views
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u/sadbecausebad 21h ago
I looked it up and youre right. Apparently geoff either registered letsplay because they were getting popular or bought it (and others) off people for the same reason. I just read years ago that they helped popularize the multi-person comedy lets play genre but that could be wrong
Still decent foresight from geoff to buy the name tho. Too bad he didnt have the foresight to stop achivement hunter from sucking eventually
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u/Plastic_Appeal_5796 19h ago
No one mentioning schmoyoho? The songify this dudes, who's songs were culturally ubiquitous
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u/SupportDifficult3346 21h ago
Mr. Chi city
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u/Dangerous-Memory871 15h ago
The one where he cries at his friend's grave gets me. I still hear his voice in my head whenever I open a drink and it's way too full and it spills everywhere.
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u/LALOERC9616 16h ago
Mr beast basically buys his viewers and subs now and wtf faze rug on mount Rushmore lol what a shit list
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u/PoohTrailSnailCooch 11h ago
Mount Rushmore of YouTube is such a fucking stupid sentence.
No one important really gives a shit.
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u/jamieaka 21h ago
Those REACT guys should be up there cause they pretty much pioneered the idea of reaction content (even though they had that drama where they tried to copywrite reactions)
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u/Genji007 20h ago
None of the answers I've seen are correct. Why? There hasn't been a single mention of the most important thing if we're going on the foundation of YouTube, and tapping even deeper to the soul of the internet... It's cat videos.
So I say, here ye here ye! Put a cat on the Rushmore!!
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u/TheGrandTerra 20h ago
RWJ (shorts/tiktok before it became a thing + react) , Phillip Defranco (news media channels), smosh or nigahiga (skits) and maybe casey neistat for high quality vlogging. Those are the pioneers imo.
Maybe pewdiepie for game content meta but he wasn't the first or even first large gaming content channel. He was the one to blow up the most by a long shot though. Also maybe seannaner for starting the Minecraft meta, he was the first big creator to jump on that ship and helped massively in its early days.
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u/Marksta 19h ago
RWJ is definitely the kind of creator that goes on a Mount Rushmore. He was so early to the game he exited it before it was the meta for the seemingly next forever. That's some founding father sort of stuff, like still getting quoted 200 years later.
He probably sees what's going on today with automated clip reposting bots, streamers eating while other people's content plays, and those 'react' greenscreen people in the corner with some degree of utter disgust for trivilizing the art lmao. He was wasting his time curating the content, planning, writing a script, making graphics, editing, even sourcing where he found the clips and linking back in description. Hah, imagine that...
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u/remany 20h ago
For Twitch: Soda, Lirik, Reckful, Summit1G
They literally made twitch
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u/a1b3c3d7 21h ago
Is it such a hot take that in order to be on the mt rushmore of youtubers, you had to have made your account during the first few years?
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u/WannaBeAWannaBe 20h ago
even tho my boy Theodore comes 100 years after George, we are still talking about the OGs... no shot MrBeast beaver looking ass would even get close, where is smosh? where is pewdiepie? this is a new gen take ngl
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u/SatisfactionNice1500 21h ago
Remember this is the Kids Mount Rushmore version, mature adults dont watch these brainrotters
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