What a world we live in where someone can become YouTube's biggest star and make $15 million a year, for posting videos of himself playing video games while making asinine commentary!

It's YouTube's fault. YouTube's algorithms for promoting "recommendations" is based on quantity, not quality. PewDiePie rose to the top because he churned out hours of videos of himself playing video games every week. Meanwhile, skilled singers who produce a handful of 5-minute video vidoes, and skilled animators who make a video a month, just can't post enough minutes of content to be selected by YouTube's algorithms for promotion and recommendation - because their videos take time and skill to make. Google and YouTube have the power to promote intelligent content, and instead have taken a route that promotes the "lowest common denominator" content.