05-26-2019, 04:05 PM
To be a "star" on YouTube THESE DAYS, you'd have to have at least 5 million subs.
You can be well known or make an impact with far less...
But if you're just going on sub count alone, it's gotta be over 5 million now IF YouTube is your only claim to fame.
A lot of people with millions of subs are still unheardof by most YouTube users, including myself.
So at the end of the day even with the sub count qualifications, YouTube 'celebrity' means nothing.
Most people will still have never heard of you...
What makes TRUE celebrity is being interesting, discussed, and unique.
That is ALL.
100K subs is enough for your video to have shown up at least in a recommended feed once or twice for probably 70% of the userbase.
But as far as people actually watching you, it's gonna be niche if you're under a million subs. Unless you're REALLY fucking good at what you do, like Styxhexenhammer666, or some of the other YouTubers with under a million subs who are what I'd call 'famous' anyway.
You gotta have a specialty, and you gotta be able to do it better than almost everyone else.
Rich doesn't have any of that, he's just popular in a niche currently, and he's not the most popular in his niche by a longshot...
Tyler's Tarot for example has 3 times the subs that Rich has.
Rich is a legend in his own mind, and that's okay.
But he'll either end up on the couch, 300 lbs sporting a stained wife-beater, or he will somehow manage to stay relevant on YouTube... and the only way he'll do that is to be REAL.
That means not doing tarot when he doesn't wanna. That means not doing chitchat vids because he thinks he has to now. That means addressing esoteric topics even though he thinks most people are too dumb to understand what he's talking about (what an asshole)... because, actually, that's the SOLE reason most people even stick around to watch him once the new wears off.
You can be well known or make an impact with far less...
But if you're just going on sub count alone, it's gotta be over 5 million now IF YouTube is your only claim to fame.
A lot of people with millions of subs are still unheardof by most YouTube users, including myself.
So at the end of the day even with the sub count qualifications, YouTube 'celebrity' means nothing.
Most people will still have never heard of you...
What makes TRUE celebrity is being interesting, discussed, and unique.
That is ALL.
100K subs is enough for your video to have shown up at least in a recommended feed once or twice for probably 70% of the userbase.
But as far as people actually watching you, it's gonna be niche if you're under a million subs. Unless you're REALLY fucking good at what you do, like Styxhexenhammer666, or some of the other YouTubers with under a million subs who are what I'd call 'famous' anyway.
You gotta have a specialty, and you gotta be able to do it better than almost everyone else.
Rich doesn't have any of that, he's just popular in a niche currently, and he's not the most popular in his niche by a longshot...
Tyler's Tarot for example has 3 times the subs that Rich has.
Rich is a legend in his own mind, and that's okay.
But he'll either end up on the couch, 300 lbs sporting a stained wife-beater, or he will somehow manage to stay relevant on YouTube... and the only way he'll do that is to be REAL.
That means not doing tarot when he doesn't wanna. That means not doing chitchat vids because he thinks he has to now. That means addressing esoteric topics even though he thinks most people are too dumb to understand what he's talking about (what an asshole)... because, actually, that's the SOLE reason most people even stick around to watch him once the new wears off.
