Please don't rough up other users like that, even when their comments are bad or annoying (or you feel they are). It damages the community more than it helps.
Not that you shouldn't have commented! but please do it with honey not vinegar. Sometimes users don't understand what the intended spirit of the site is yet. Pointing to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html is always good of course.
I appreciate your sentiment and thank you for the reminder.
It was very difficult for me to avoid getting personal and using ad hominem attacks in this particular case; I tried to temper my gut reaction by using language like "maybe this isn't the community for you" instead of harsher terms.
In reflection, though, it's not my place to judge others like that, or try and police the community. I apologize.
600K subs is pretty impressive. Enough to start edging him into the minor celebrity status. Most people struggle to make it into the 100s for subs. Fewer even than that make it into the 1000s. Reaching 100000s is a serious milestone.
Dude, 600k people is a small city. He reaches a small city worth of people. That's not insignificant by any stretch of the imagination.
While yes, cnn is just grasping at smoke to stay relevant as less people care about "news", the guy is legit as a celebrity. Plus, he's actually good at his craft and even got an artistically challenged idiot like me into watercolor painting.
Where I live, Norway, 600 k is bigger than the capital city! Even 60k is not a small city. Only ten towns in the whole country have more than 60 k inhabitants.
For most of us having any kind of direct impact on even a few thousand people in a lifetime is quite an achievement.
> Dude, 600k people is a small city. He reaches a small city worth of people. That's not insignificant by any stretch of the imagination.
Also bare in mind that not everyone who follows YouTube contributors subscribe to their channel. So the actual number of people following his videos will be much higher (eg the tree video in that CNN article has over 5m visits)
Russia has a comparable population to Japan. And there are lots of YouTubers with literally millions of subscribers, and I don’t hear about most of them even in Russian media.
It really is a lot for Japan, if you ever visit ニコニコ動画 (https://nicovideo.jp) and look at the top videos, views pale in comparison to anything on Youtube. Nico video is #28 on Alexa in Japan (Youtube is #2) and is very very popular, it is a Japanese only Youtube site. It is so popular the Nintendo switch app to view the site came out a year before a Youtube app did (7/2017 vs 7/2018).
An old guy who teaches people how to paint in a fun way is interesting? The only agenda is getting people to watch CNN for CNN. This story will get eyeballs for a little while. Sometimes the news is just the news. Even when people think the news is some kind of conspiracy, it usually is just the news trying to get attention and sell some ads.
It's a conspiracy TO sell ads. Conspiracy just means there's some subset of people that aren't "let in" on what's happening, so they don't fully understand the mechanism of what's going on.
