This one looks like he does crazy stuff.
He seems to be up for fun like "Yay".
Damn it, I don't know any of them.
Hey guys it's Cathy Cat. Today we are gonna go and ask Japanese people on the streets of Tokyo
If they know any of those three YouTubers: Logan Paul, Dan TDM or Pewdiepie
Do Japanese people know about them? And if what are their opinions on them?
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let's go and Ask Japanese.
Do you know Dan TDM? - I know the one on the right (LP)
I don't know the name but...
Didn't you see him in your Instagram feed? - No I did not.
You have seen this YouTuber before?
On Instagram on the search page, you get a lot of recommendations, right?
There I got a recommend to pictures of this guy.
I think I have seen him before.
Did you end up clicking on the picture?
I didn't in the end.
Do you watch YouTube a lot? - Sometimes.
Have you heard of any YouTubers from abroad? - I don't know any.
Have you seen any of those three before?
Dan TDM, PewdiePie, Logan Paul.
Who are they?
- Never seen them. - No clue who they are.
Well in that case, can you try guessing who the biggest YouTuber among them is?
He seems to do some crazy stuff in his videos.
Dan here is the coolest looking one. - Yeah I thought so too.
So Dan is the coolest? - He is.
Dan TDM seems to get the handsomeness vote.
What videos does this person do?
What? Something about training? - Muscle training?
What movies does PewDiePie if you had to guess?
- He looks like he does music. - Yeah.
What does the last one do?
No clue.
He just looks cool (Dan).
In these pictures he has colorful hair.
He is wearing a Pokemon T-shirt. - Maybe he makes videos about Anime?
He looks like he does.
Maybe he does Anime videos.
And personally your favorite is...? - That on (DanTDM).
Do you watch YouTube? - I do. - I do.
Are your favorite YouTubers only from Japan?
I guess so.
Do you sometimes watch foreign YouTubers too? - I never did.
Not really.
DanTDM, PewDiePie, Logan Paul... Have you heard their names or seen them?
- Not at all. - Not at all.
Looking at the pictures, what videos do you imagine they create?
This one makes muscle training videos and about how to get fit.
He must do some kind of physical exercise videos.
In the middle, Mr PewDiePie, what videos do you think he makes?
Maybe videos on gaming.
- What do you think? - Maybe he is some kind of artist.
And DanTDM, what type of video do you think he does?
His hair color is different, so maybe he does beauty videos.
He is wearing a Gengar Pokemon T-shirt in this picture.
Maybe he does videos on Anime.
Do you sometimes watch YouTube?
Not much. - Sometimes.
I like KyonKuma. Why, you guys don't know him?
I also watch Hamustar.
The stuff they do is really cute.
This one is DanTDM, PewDiePie and Logan Paul.
Who are they?
No clue. - I don't know them.
Don't know them.
What videos do you think PewDiePie does?
He seems to be up for fun like "Yay".
Very energetic? - Yeah.
Maybe he does party music or music videos?
Seems fun. How about DanTDM.
He might be doing live streams on gaming.
Which one do you think is the most popular among those 3?
I like the one in the middle.
But his stomach...
The one in the middle is your favorite? - Yes.
You voted for DanTDM? - Me too.
Well about those two.
One of them is the biggest YouTuber in the world.
I vote for the middle. - For PewDiePie.
DanTDM got another point.
Well then I pick the last one. - The answer is ... the guy in the middle, PewDiePie.
What?
I heard that for the first time.
Do you watch YouTube?
I do! I watch it every day.
Me too!
Do you sometimes watch foreign YouTubers.
Not really. I watch half-Japanese YouTubers.
Here we got 3 famous foreign male YouTubers.
Have you heard or seen them before?
- Nope. - Nope.
NOT AT ALL!
What does Logan Paul on the right seem to do?
Muscle training, skateboarding and snowboarding?
What videos do you think PewDiePie makes?
Music and night club music.
DanTDM, who has blue hair in the picture here. What type of videos does he do?
Game streaming! - I thought so too.
I think game related stuff.
The biggest YouTuber in the world is in it too. Who do you think it is?
I guess the one in the middle?
The right one (Dan).
Why did you pick these two?
Because he looks like he does night-club music.
It's actually the one in the middle. PewDiePie. Bingo.
Who of the others looks most popular with the ladies?
Popular?
That one.
The muscular one?
The one in the middle.
Do you sometimes watch YouTube?
Soooometimes. Sometimes.
How about you? I watch it a lot.
Do you also watch YouTubers from abroad?
Twisted Helix and Inoue Joe. I watch them sometimes.
How about you? - I don't watch international Youtubers.
We picked up 3 famous YouTubers. Please check if you know any of them.
DanTDM, PewDiePie, Logan Paul.
Have you seen or heard of them?
Damn it, I don't know any of them.
I failed at that big time.
I have no clue either.
Looking at them, what type of video do you think they are making?
This one here seems to just be making prank videos.
The other two look like game YouTubers.
This one here fools around, the other two play games or make music.
Logan Paul caused a problem when he came to Japan the other month.
Did you hear anything about that?
I saw that a bit in the online news.
I think I saw that in the news too.
Do you remember what it was about?
He filmed a corpse... - He filmed a dead person
and he got lots of negative comments about that.
How did you feel about that as Japanese person?
Such a jackass.
If you recognize him from the news, could you put a vote down for recognizing him.
Write it in that Kanji symbol - What kanji symbol?
The symbol for "truth" (it has 5 strokes) - Ah that's cute.
So you know about Logan Paul but you don't have a good image?
Japan doesn't have a very positive image of foreign YouTubers.
Many hold the prejudice that they don't have any morals.
What's different between Japanese and foreign YouTubers?
Foremost the language.
Japanese speaking YouTubers can mostly only access a smaller audience.
And Japanese channels are generally mostly watched by Japanese.
But foreign YouTubers can reach many people across the world.
I think there is a communication wall.
The scale of things is different.
While Japanese YouTubers take a bathtub and fill it with slime,
foreign YouTubers could fill a whole swimming pool worth of slime.
I think that's a difference in scale.
Those were our questions. Thank you so much.
Who do Japanese people know?
Shockingly no one knows PewDiePie.
How is that even possibe!
And DanTDM, same thing, no one knew them.
That shows again that Japanese people pretty much only watch Japanese YouTubers.
They all know Hajime Shacho and they all know Hikakin or Fishers,
some of the big YouTubers here. We have also met some of them.
But they don't know any foreign YouTubers.
They didn't watch them. Maybe the people we asked...
We asked people who DO watch foreign YouTubers, and they still didn't know them.
But Logan Paul is known here in Japan but not for a good reason, for a bad reason.
He made himself a bad name when he came this year to Japan and did a video
in the Suicide Forest, and acted very disrespectful towards Japanese culture
and the victims of suicide.
That caused a bit of a ruckus in Japan.
Many YouTubers responded to it. Lots of Japanese people got a very
negative image of YouTubers. Cause they put everyone together and say
"All YouTubers are like that. Obnoxious and they don't care."
That gave YouTubers a bad image, so the older generation
is having a very negative image of YouTubers.
Not only because of Logan Paul but one of the big reasons is him.
That's why we have a couple of people saying Logan Paul
and we couldn't have their faces in the video.
They decided not to be in the video, but they were critical saying
"It's something that is unforgivable, he's been treating our culture with so much disrespect..."
"He doesn't seem to be really sorry , and he has done some other videos in Japan"
"doing things that you shouldn't be doing, it's very disrespectful to our culture"
Those are the opinions that we got now.
So maybe DanTDM or PewDiePie need to put some Japanese subtitles on their videos
to get some more Japanese audiences at this point there don't seem to be that many
Let's see what the future brings.
Which of these YouTubers do you know, do you know any?
Do you know all of them or do you actually know some Japanese YouTubers
that you would like to recommend to us?
Looking forward to find out.
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