I would have to start by admitting that the only reason I know anything about PewDiePie is that he happens to be a fellow Scandinavian, and it struck me as incongruous (a long time ago) that the world's top YouTuber would hail from a an otherwise "socially restrained" culture like Sweden... as the old joke goes "Swedish farmer Ole loved his wife Lena SO much that... one day he ALMOST told her!"

As I wrote a few days ago, "Big Fish are Overrated." When you have as many followers as he does, his purpose in being represented anywhere has less to do with helping/supporting a platform than it does with having one more way to reach and extend his existing audience.

If we for shits and grins were to say that he came to Dtube, his purpose would be to funnel off a few Dtube subscribers, NOT to bring his following to Dtube.

The whole "who we need to recruit to Steem" argument is far more relevant in going after "3rd tier" content producers who might have 10,000 to 200,000 followers/subscribers and are having a really hard time monetizing their outlets enough to make more than pocket change. And then support them, to become million-subscriber superstars once they are here.

Besides, the whole thing is sort of silly... Dtube barely runs with its existing load; can you imagine what would happen if 200K people suddenly tried to concurrently watch something?

Besides... most of the current storm in a teacup is less about PewDiePie and more about people with sour grapes... concerning the way D-Live was here for a while, used our resources, and then broke away without so much as a lube or a thank you.

The whole thing, though, seems like a sad reflection of just how much society has moved to a place where people just like to point fingers and assign blame, rather than just buckle up and DO something...