Pewdiepie wasnt just a lucky guy with child fanbase, he was a pioneer who morphed into the face of youtube. Pdp didnt ride trends, he started them. He was also a one man shown unlike woolie.
I think Woolie's idea is that "people back then would watch me play any random garbage game so CLEARLY it was my charisma carrying the channel and games were just content fuel". This misses the point that
1-The bad games were half the appeal of the channel (at least to me). I'd take an Escape the Bug Island lp over a souls LP any day.
2-Woolie was carried by his co-hosts covering his flaws. Pat would tell him the difference right and left, Matt would double down the absurd jokes and liam would play the game good and say cloudnigger.
Even outside the context of games, it makes no sense for woolie to assume HE's the only reason people watch when that was never the case before. Look at HIS channel and Woolie didnt have the balls to be a solo streamer like Pat, he hired his previous editor and a friend, presumably because he's self aware that he lacks the charisma to solo carry.
If someone has the timestamp of woolie not getting how people watch the podcast for news i'd like to see that. Like, does woolie realize that some people genuinely only watch his videos for Reggie and not him? Reggie has been on there for over 7 years (jesus christ i feel old), might as well put his name in the title.