#LWHY Series

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PDP Video #4073: “”I went on a break for 30 days & THIS HAPPENED”

Video Description/Summary:

“Good to be back gamer”/ The King of Youtube has finally returned, with clearer skin and bigger beard! But how will he react to the sudden topic-shifting his Subreddit has done while he was away? Welcome back from break, PewDiePie!

Stats and Facts:

The video is published on February 22, 2020, 36 days away from the last video. Its duration lasts 15 minutes and 2 seconds, and is in the Entertainment category.

This video is the 106th(?) episode of the LWHY (old name: LWIAY) series, where Felix reacts to his subreddit, Pewdiepie Submissions, with its multitude of memes and fan-arts.

As of February 22, 2020, the video is gaining 6′530′585+ views.

Same day in the Philippines, the video is #6 on the TRENDING tab.

More details down below.

Special Details:

Felix talked about the following events that have happened while on break: the coronavirus (he mentioned he brought three boxes of face masks to prepare with, and randomly wore five of them halfway through the video), the topic-shifting his Subreddit was doing (it was still Lego week when he checked), Ninja’s hot take about the phrase “it’s just a game”, and plans on changes for his Youtube channel (plus some “big projects” he’s been working on).

Sive prepared folders (in a folder named “pewds return”) for Felix, compiling all the things that he saved from each of the Subreddit’s weekly topics. Inside it was a “$399 toilet seat” meme (original post deleted), along with a folder named “break” containing more folders: “cooking”, “corona” (deleted), “gardening”, “general”, and “painting or art week”.

Felix tried to login to his Minecraft account after noticing a Minecraft Gardening picture, but failed to remember the password (in which he typed into the Email bar “asdadsasdfsadgsven help” instead.)

He mentioned he watched Yu-Gi-Oh! during his break, in which he’ll make a video about it soon.

He tried to do “the Woah” dance move, but attempts were made.

He checks the comments of the last video, only to find copies upon copies of each other’s comments (a.k.a. the Pewdiepie: / Everyone: joke) and people “losing hope” of Felix ever coming back.

He mentions at the end of his video that “68% of [his audience] aren’t subscribed”, referencing the usual meme of Youtubers mentioning their viewer statistics to their audience, to motivate them to subscribe.

No Game Ad outro for this video, but instead promotes the Represent merch.

Felix asks his audience for some video requests since he “[doesn’t] know [what] to film” as of the moment. You can comment on this video or this Subreddit post if you have any!

Memes shown throughout the video (Top Voted Memes of the Subreddit as of 2/2/2020): 

”Big brain time” (”pretend that you are already sleeping”) / ”lit” (Screen Quality meme) / ”not wrong” (horse and buggy meme) / “-2 pp” (Canadian money meme) / “Modern problems...” (Extra Panel meme pt.1) / “... require modern solutions” (Extra Panel meme pt.2) / “Can confirm” (Gen Humor meme) / “Oh yeah, I forgot he was still here” (Subreddit Topics meme) / Three Days without Felix meme (link unknown) / Liar Pewds meme (link unknown) / Pewds’ Legs in Antarctica (link unknown) / “I miss him he was like a father to us” (Missing Pewds meme) / Heart-shaped military tanks meme (link unknown) / “biggest planet on earth” meme (link unknown) / A Perry the Platypus meme (link unknown)

Content of the folders in their respective order:

“gardening”: “Hello Felix))” meme, a Squinting Spiderman meme, the Gardening Subreddit icon, a Minecraft oak tree leaves meme, the Number neighbor meme (link unknown), Three men meme (link unknown), a “guess I’ll garden” meme, a picture of Marzia with pumpkins, a Loading Cat meme (link not found), a Minecraft garden picture, a Ninja meme (link unknown), a picture of Felix holding a pumpkin, that one Shopping cart meme

“cooking”: the Brofist cake, a “that’s a fact” meme, a “what’s going on here” meme (link unknown)

“painting or art week”: a painted Cake by u/paperbenni, u/hugolotter’s fanart, u/Reyes-A’s painted joycons, u/SquekWhomst’s drawn “Evolving but Backwards” meme, u/Mohamed0001′s Marzia painting, u/CR_illustration’s Prince Felix oil painting, the Painting Subreddit icon, the Felix portrait of u/sokoistrying (a.k.a. @sokodraws herself!), a Gru meme (link unknown)

plus some “lego” memes: Bob Ross Lego meme, u/redcrayon419’s Pewds’ Chair!, “The true weapon” meme (link unknown), u/PhantomKornflakz’s custom Felix figure, that weird meme

Future Mentions/Mentioned:

It’s been real, but I’m out! (mentioned)

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lWhy Haruno Sakura is Just the Worst

The world of Naruto is defined by its wealth of colorful and unique characters, from the broody, so-called cool genius, Uchiha Sasuke, to the colorful and thematic ninja like the stoic bug-boy Aburame Shino or the powerful sand-bender Gaara. Each character within the canon is driven by their own unique moral code and individual point of view, they captivate audiences with their uniqueness and specific voice, they pursue individual goals and objectives separate from their responsibilities as ninja. Each of these characters could easily replace Naruto Uzumaki as protagonist if the perspective was shifted, because they are all so deep and complex in their own right.

 All, that is, with one notable exception—the de facto ingénue Haruno Sakura.

Sakura’s defining characteristics seem to be much more binary than the other characters of this universe and decidedly less nuanced. She likes Sasuke, she doesn’t like Naruto, but any real investigation into the hows and whys of her infatuation reveal a gaping and awful void where there ought to be more motivation. This gap in motivational forethought might be something that could be overlooked, were it not for the precise and specific motivations of everyone around her. Furthermore, her ninja abilities are far below those of her contemporaries and seem to have no unifying theme or cohesive style aside from baseline minimums. Her most distinguishing characteristic, in fact, seems to be her knack for being around more powerful ninja.

 It’s a problem that the narrative has attempted to address on several occasions, from the time when she “selflessly” cut her hair to escape a trap during the Chuunin exam arc to the Shippuden transition when Tsunade takes over her training and teaches her healing Jutsu and rage punch abilities. Yet even in these instances, Sakura’s attempts at self-actualization fall flat.

 After making a big proclamation that she doesn’t want to be a victim anymore during the Chuunin exams, and dramatically cutting her hair, all she really manages to do is to fall on the sword (so to speak) while her comrades recuperate and come back with renewed determination to (again) save her. Her post Shippuden power surge is little more than a carbon copy of Tsunade’s abilities—which fit better into the overall style of Tsunade’s femme fatale motif (which more closely matches Ino’s style) and seldom avail her teammates much more than below average support—even her super punch ability works more as a deterrent to Naruto’s advances than any real threat to their shared enemies.

 Which brings us to Sakura’s most defining quality, her role in the ongoing love/hate triangle between the central protagonist and antagonist of the series. Naruto is enamored with Sakura from the moment we meet him (God only knows why), while Sakura is hopelessly in love with Sasuke who loves only power and vengeance. This cycle of infatuation and disinterest drives much of the early episodes, but (inexplicably) continues, unaltered when Sasuke betrays the village and Naruto nearly loses his life trying to bring him back, for no reason other than that he promised Sakura.

Believe me, I understand the value of a good “will they/won’t they” arc, it keeps audiences captivated and hoping one way or another (see also: Twilight series), but there has to be a reasonable limit, but in Sakura’s case, there really doesn’t seem to be one. Betraying her, her home village, nearly murdering her closest friends and even attempting to murder her on numerous occasions—none of these things are deal-breakers for her, apparently. She retains this crush on Sasuke, in spite of never being encouraged in the slightest and continues to exploit Naruto’s feelings for her to try and bring Sasuke back to Konoha Village, in spite of everyone else’s wishes.

 Sasuke never minces words with her and only ever treats her harshly, yet for whatever reason, Sakura just can’t quit him—which may in fact be her specific ninja way, battered housewife jutsu. Her chakra enables her to make excuses for Sasuke’s abusive behavior, his disloyalty only makes her view him as even more of a “bad boy” and in spite of his directness and explicit statements about his motivations and his desire for power above all else—she continues to believe that there is a softer side to him which will reciprocate her feelings some day.

 Self-delusion no jutsu!

Sakura’s not just a boring, lazy and out of place character in Naruto, she’s a downright dangerous example to set for female viewers of a show which caters in large part to younger viewers. Sasuke and Sakura’s relationship normalizes abuse and even glorifies self-sacrificing, obsessive infatuation—a terrible example to set for a character that a frightening number of girls view as a role model (not as many as the better female characters, but still, too many).

 With all this in mind, it ought to be pretty obvious that Haruno Sakura is just the worst.

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(Commentary for PDP Video #4073)

(Meme by u/ImBartex on the PDP Subreddit!)

I almost forgot to do this aaaaaaa-

Pewdiepie is back, and boy oh boy, does he look better than before? 👀 I mean, other than the new 1080p quality this new video has, he looks kinda cleaner jdkhhgskgs.

Anyways, it’s nice to see Felix again being active and happy in a video. Starting off fresh with a new LWIAY (er, LWHY) makes sense since there were a lot of stuff that happened there while he’s away. I only saw the Cooking Week part when I heard about the Subreddit changing, and I wasn’t able to catch up with the other topics they went through (I could’ve participated during Painting/Art Week! Big F. 😞).

Thank goodness he survived the whole “face mask washout”, though I didn’t expect him to buy three packs of those. And for him to wear five of them all at once (as a joke, of course).

I did not know about the Ninja thing, so I’ll just let that pass.

When Felix mentioned these “big projects”, of course this got me thinking of Markiplier’s “Heist” series and Sean’s upcoming Ego content. But as big as projects could go, what will these ones be? And when will these be released/announced? (Speculation should be later, I don’t want to pressure him too much for this time.)

I really love the effort people put into the cakes, artworks, and Lego customs that made into Sive’s folders. There were some pretty good ones too back in the Subreddit, but they’ll start disappearing into the void before I could find them again.

With all that being said, I can’t wait for more new content for this year from our #1 Youtuber. Again, welcome back PewDiePie! ✨

(By the way, the Woah part got me; I legit have classmates who do Tik Tok videos and they kept dancing that part for practice jsdghsh. Seeing Felix do that made me feel like cringing and laughing it off at the same time. I love this boomer so much hhhhhhhhhhhh-)