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A youtuber with 5 million followers and 5 billion views, and has won "Streamer of the Year" at the streamer awards in the past.
If you're asking out of genuine curiosity: a youtuber with a lot of influence.
If you're asking to brag how out of touch you are: someone with more influence than you.
bro, is it you? are you that streamer?
no. but asmongold, even if you dont like him is one of the larger, more influential people out there. Should he be? Is his content that good? Doesn't matter.
"Who even is that" heavily implies "why should I care" and the answer is: because he has a fanbase of rabid morons incapable of independent thought who will do whatever he says to do. So linux spaces are very likely about to be bombarded with people who hate linux without having ever tried it because asmongold said he didn't like it, or a bunch of people adopting linux.
It also heavily implies "Im proud of the fact that I dont know who this person is." Which is just not impressive. "Taylor Swift? Who is that?" indicates you are living under a rock, not that you are cool. And aside from pewdiepie, asmongold is probably one of the youtube gamer names people know.
https://socialblade.com/youtube/handle/asmontv says there's over thousand youtube channels with more subscribers than him. He might well be large & influential in his niche, but it's unlikely that people outaide his niche will know who he is. Do you think you've heard of 1,000 biggest youtubers whose channels aren't about things you're interested in?
Pewdiepie, by comparison, is the 12th most subscribed channel on youtube. I think you're underestimating how much more famous that makes him with the general public.
With the "general public" yes. Within the computing and gaming space, he's pretty influential. I realize that "linuxmemes" isn't about gaming, so there are a lot of non-gamers here but he is a well known name in his niche, which is PC gaming, which is a very relevant niche. It's not like he's one of the 1000 youtubers and runs a makeup channel.
Yes, he isn't universally well known. But given how well known he is in the niche, and how relevant the niche is, and therefore how likely his niche is to translate into linux users or linux haters, it's extremely relevant to the discussion.
And I'm not saying "everyone should know who Asmongold is!" anyway. I'm merely saying "he's not irrelevant, and bragging about being out of touch doesn't make you cool".
I don't think anyone but you ever said he was irrelevant, or bragged about not knowing who he was. You're extracting a ton of meaning to a short comment which I just don't think is actually there