Current Events > Knowing what you know now, could you be a YouTube star in the 06-10 era?

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Ic3Bullet 12/14/19 8:13:49 AM #1:	being a popular YouTubed in that era had more to do with your personality, I think, than it had to do with using every marketing trick in the book to attract viewers. You pretty much have to be an expert marketer in order to get enough views to make a living on YouTube now. But knowing what we know now about how to hardball YouTube, if you went back to the era where your only competition was like uh... The Amazing Atheist, do you think you could have made a channel that would draw in a large following? Or at least enough to pay the bills that you currently have? edit: youre not allowed to copycat an existing modern channel for this hypothetical scenario. <cite>Ic3Bullet posted [p:931568865] in Knowing wh... [t:78253976]...</cite> <quote>being a popular YouTubed in that era had more to do with your personality, I think, than it had to do with using every marketing trick in the book to attract viewers. You pretty much have to be an expert marketer in order to get enough views to make a living on YouTube now. But knowing what we know now about how to hardball YouTube, if you went back to the era where your only competition was like uh... The Amazing Atheist, do you think you could have made a channel that would draw in a large following? Or at least enough to pay the bills that you currently have? edit: youre not allowed to copycat an existing modern channel for this hypothetical scenario. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
BuckVanHammer 12/14/19 9:02:30 AM #2:	what am i supposed to know now? --- Minimal, yet feature rich. <cite>BuckVanHammer posted [p:931569798] in Knowing wh... [t:78253976]...</cite> <quote>what am i supposed to know now? </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
gatorsPENSbucs 12/14/19 9:03:53 AM #3:	Sure, I would have come up with some catchy jingle and turned it into a rap song. --- https://imgur.com/pqMQZyw <cite>gatorsPENSbucs posted [p:931569837] in Knowing wh... [t:78253976]...</cite> <quote>Sure, I would have come up with some catchy jingle and turned it into a rap song. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
HairyThotter 12/14/19 9:10:19 AM #4:	But knowing what I know now... even if I did make my channel into a success... youtube would just step in years later and eat up all my revenue and demonetize all my videos because "Gasp! A CHILD commented on it!" Youtube got to where it is by being a free and open alternative to regular TV/entertainment.... now it has become regular TV --- "With cheese in either hand, anything is possible" <cite>HairyThotter posted [p:931569991] in Knowing wh... [t:78253976]...</cite> <quote>But knowing what I know now... even if I did make my channel into a success... youtube would just step in years later and eat up all my revenue and demonetize all my videos because "Gasp! A CHILD commented on it!" Youtube got to where it is by being a free and open alternative to regular TV/entertainment.... now it has become regular TV </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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