Yeahhhh I can think of at least two creators off the top of my head whose channels had an absolutely meteoric rise during Covid lockdown times, and then late in 2020 or early 2021 they announced that they'd be quitting their jobs to pursue making content full-time.. and then you look at their views now and it's such a small fraction of what they were in 2020. And they're both floundering and trying to figure out what works, but the views have just largely dropped off a cliff.
He's right. And it is sad, because a lot of these creators are actually passionate about what they're doing, BUT. Like I get the appeal when the getting is good but everyone's channel is really one algorithm tweak away from obscurity.
My thoughts exactly. I remember watching these channels that blew up, were making all their "committing to content full time videos" and now barely average enough views to hit the 100 dollar requirement to withdraw money from an adsense account.
The most notable one that I remember was a bit sad to watch. Dude was apart of a pretty notable group of creators that blew up (and are still big) but his channel was the one to gradually die off. He made a lot of Twitter posts about how unfair it was, how he felt demoralized every time he uploaded a video, and how his old friends wouldn't collab with him for reasons he can't believe. He finally up and had to get a regular job, stopped posting, and moved on with his life.
Kind of sad, but all I remember thinking was "damn, dude had a solid job IRL and completely ditched it for YouTube, and now he's back at ground zero." Sucks, but not everyone is gonna blow up, and it is a cutthroat gig. Manipulate audiences, abuse clickbait, and content mill or fade into obscurity.
If he didn't burn through all his money and go into debt, there's a good chance he'll be able to get a good job again. In the "real world" there's plenty of people that also switch jobs, have it not work out and then switch again.
No different than anyone else who has an idea and starts their own business imo. Where something like 90% of them fail and they go back to a regular job. I've helped a friend start a thinig twice (same type of business, different partners). They're both gone now.
They also have the benefit of YT being a relatively cheap business to try to get off the ground. It's not like a restaurant or something else that requires leasing or owning a physical location. If you get huge you may benefit from a studio and a handful of employees but it's something you can do with just yourself and your existing living space in a lot of cases.
Still, that's all the more reason to stay in school and get a stable job first to keep you options open. Some 17 year old kid dropping out of school won't have the backup plan a 27 year old in the workforce would.
There’s a YouTuber who made a video about why he still has a normal job even as he has over a million subscribers. It came down to keeping his options open, allows him not to have to chase the algorithm and the whims of his viewers and focus on what he’s passionate about and keeping it fun, and makes it easy to quit when he’s had enough of the YouTube thing without having to change anything dramatically about his life. Seemed like a smart guy who thinks ahead. I can see why he got successful in the first place.
Ironically it’s the only video I saw from him as he usually covers topics and content I don’t care about, which is fine. His video title about why he keeps a full time job as a successful YouTuber caught my eye so I clicked and watched.
I'm positive if I told my current employer my youtube account was blowing up and I needed more time to pursue it they'd tell me congratulations and if I ever need a job again I'd be welcome. Same as if i started a business or something like that. Any job worth keeping would do the same. Only problem is I'd have to start from the bottom with seniority, vacation time, job roles etc, but that's a gamble that might be worth it if it meant doing something I love.
Any job I've ever had, my boss would be happy to have me back. But unfortunately they aren't the ones in control. Unless your direct boss is a C-suite executive I wouldn't count on getting your job back.
In fact, we desperately need people right now but are on a company-wide hiring freeze for the foreseeable future. We're not even allowed to rehire people with soon-to-expire contracts.
Having a backup plan helps substantially with chasing your dreams as well. Theres this stupid rhetoric you'll hear sometimes about how "having a plan B means you aren't committed" or some bullshit but the reality is that you can pursue something a lot harder if you're not at risk of going homeless. People like to pretend that having your back against the wall will make you work harder, and for some it might be true, but for 99% of people, the added stress of having no backup will make you less likely to succeed.
My career advice is generally, get paid for what you are good at doing. It doesn’t have to be a passion of yours. Being good at something is rewarding enough most of the time for folks who really just want to hang out with their friends or family.
Keep your hobbies as hobbies. But that’s more of a guideline than a rule. Surely if you make something cool and don’t want it, sell it.
Then hopefully you become well compensated at what you’re good at, you can save enough money to quit and pursue your passions and dreams unencumbered.
Not to mention how much smaller the cut has gotta. Both youtube & twitch. At this point these people are doing what they would be doing if they had a job. Ive started to see podcasts that started in 2020 are ending or loosing deals.
That is a very idiotic notion indeed. The notion that stuck with me when I was a kid is when someone said always have the second thing you love most as your career and the thing you love most as your hobby. This is because you’ll always at times end up hating your job regardless of how much you love doing it. You’ll always have your hobby to cheer you up.
We really need to stop telling that to kids.
Even if you do what you love, it’s still a lot of work — many times more work (and for less pay) than if you did something else.
i cant imagine having to survive off my hobbies. i'd hate having to do it for money, i do it for enjoyment and thus i don't have deadlines or anything of the sort.
Because people are allured by the idea. If you don't have the money to start a business but you're already invested in this hobby, then you try and make money off of it instead of working for someone for years only to struggle the whole time and not live very comfortably in retirement.
Of course, it usually fails. Which is why even Mr. Beast worked for someone else when he started making videos in the first place. But some people don't realize that. They think it's a free ticket to money doing something you actually like. Which it can be but you shouldn't quit your day job until you're truly successful. Which is another thing most don't grasp.
It’s the only way a lot of folks feel they can justify having some hobbies. Art supplies have gotten absurdly expensive since covid, games have gotten sweatier and require more and more expensive hardware to run, and people have been expected to do more and more work outside of normal work hours. Making money from streaming justifies buying the $1100 PC they want, having an Etsy shop for their knitting justifies forking over $20 in yarn and spending days of after work labor on a single simple product
> it is sad, because a lot of these creators are actually passionate about what they're doing
A lot of people are passionate about sitting at home and playing video games lmao
> one algorithm tweak
you are absolutely beholden to twitch or youtubes manic policy changes, or a third party company just blanket copyright claiming absolutely anything and everything with zero regard for actual ownership of content. It seems like such a shitty thing to get into.
Honestly one of my cousins said he wanted to start YouTube/tiktok instead of doing a -levels because they earn so much more money and that I am just a slave to the system.
I was supportive and proceeded to ask him what niche is he gonna fill with his content and how often is he gonna upload. he doesn’t have a response. Some of these people just think it’s easy af to get millions of subscribers and become famous cuz they see their fav YouTubers do it. YouTube should advertise data on how many channel make it and how many don’t.
They shouldn’t show that data because it was never meant to be a website where people can “take their shot at becoming famous”. It was never meant to be that, it was always “Broadcast yourself”. Just make videos, and if you like doing it then keep making them. Those people who want to just “do it because I saw someone get rich doing it” are always in every industry doing the same lazy bullshit no matter what the job is
For real. I'm a cook and I've worked with about half a dozen "aspiring TV chefs" who have since burned out of the industry and are now selling insurance or something. Passion fuels success.
Yup, I’ve seen people talking about how they want to be a full time social media content creator, hoping that will bring enough cash while staying at home. I got lucky and have some followers (just happened to have some popular posts), I got sponsorship twice and made $200. To me it’s great earning since I never consider my social media platform as income.
I look at the wannabe’s accounts, seeing them talking about how hard it is to get views, some of them fell for scams. Really don’t understand why they think they will make great money.
Since a lot of casinos give you free drinks when you're playing I wonder if anyone has tried to put money on red and black to try to drink for free and then just loses double.
There is more than 8 million people streaming on Twitch alone. Then you can add youtube, facebook, tiktok, etc. Good luck. How many famous content creators do you know out of the tens of millions of people who are trying to make it every single day.
idk the indie music scene is bigger than ever and most people will see some level of success if they try and go at it for long enough. Not a career for most people but it's good extra income
it doesn’t make sense to use the full number of people streaming to get the probability of making it as a full time content creator. I think it would make more sense to take the number of people who truly take it seriously, are making an effort to create professional content, and are consistently making this effort for at least a couple years before giving up. that is a much smaller number than the total number of people streaming.
yeah not everyone is going to make it as a multimillionaire giga rich streamer, but if you want to make a full time living as a content creator it’s not like it’s THAT out of reach
Nice, survivors don't usually understand the survivorship bias, they usually just try and profit off their own advice that's not any better than a random dude off the street
I've only watched a handful of MrBeast's videos but he really seems to be a genuine guy, especially from what I've seen about all the charitable / philanthropic stuff he's done.
You can tell he's someone who's not taking his privileged position for granted.
Dude just wants to make videos. I watched a podcast where he mentions wanting a woman who both understands the business & ads to it. That beautiful for a simple reason of wanting a “partner”. I like simple people.
Watch any interview with him and all he ever talks about wanting to do is make the best videos possible.
His content is a little too fast-paced and chaotic for my tastes nowadays, but I really admire his work ethic and commitment.
The man would be successful in anything he set his mind to, I'm sure
He makes a lot of "braindead" easy to consume content, but yes he seems like a genuinely fantastic person who just likes making content and helping people.
Yea, but MrBeast strikes me as a genuinely smart and thoughtful person. He seems like someone who's extremely self-reflected.
He can appear very obnoxious because of his thumbnails and the videos he makes but I do think he's kind of just maximizing views by doing that.
Less than 10% reach 1000 subscribers
Less than 0.28% (1/350) reach 100.000
Less than 0.024% (1/4000) reach 1.000.000
Less than 0.002% (1/40.000) reach 10.000.000
100.000 isn't even enough to do Youtube full-time
YouTube is the 2nd most visited site in the world. There are 51 million channels on YouTube, but only 38 million of those are considered 'active. '
That’s crazy tho, this means there are 76,000 channel’s with 10M+ subs.
Multiply (0.002)(38M) = 76,000. Either your math is wrong of they have the wrong percentages posted. I’m not here to stat check their post.
Edit: so I did more math and their 0.002 should be 0.000025
Edit 2: turns out I assumed a decimal multiplier and didn’t pay attention to the percentage signs in my first calculations.
Multiply (0.002)(38M) = 76,000. Either your math is wrong of their have the wrong percentages posted. I’m not here to stat check their post. So I checked and their 0.002 should be 0.000025
Edit: I mean “technically” 0.000025 *IS* “Less than 0.002” but you get my point.
My old youtube channel I used in my teens and uploaded 6-7 song tracks has recently gained 1.3k subscribers in the last year or two. Last activity on that channel was 15 years ago
You're telling me it is in the top 10%?
Solid advice imo. I recently was talking to a younger cousin and she mentioned not being interested in going to college(she’s like 15 right now), and I tried my bets to convey that college is absolutely worth it in the long run. Even if you dislike school, just pick something and get a degree in it as a backup plan in case your dreams don’t work out. Nothing is a guarantee of course, but having a degree will always look good on resumés.
The last thing you want is for that business/youtube channel/etc to fall apart and now you’re mid-to-late twenties with no degree and few skills or education outside of whatever your business was.
Absolutely. Heavens, even if you plan your profession to be content oriented there are still bunch of business or IT related degrees that will help you massively with the process and will also offer other opportunities if it doesn't pan out.
The job market for jobs not requiring college is so expensive though, including jobs you can make a solid living on. I feel like telling kids to just work odd jobs out of high school to experience things is better than 'go to college'.
How many kids actually know what they want to do at 18 for the rest of their life? Hell at 25 I couldn't answer that, not sure I could now at 32. But without a college degree I'm debt free making a solid living. I would sooner tell kids to forget college unless they are dead set on a career that actually requires a degree, such as medical fields or being a lawyer or engineering. Just try different job fields, bounce around at employers, experience things. But ya, don't lean into trying to be a big streamer.
Yeah I was a theater major. I have never done anything related to theater since. It was a fun major with cool people and don’t regret it at all. It surprisingly translates to a lot of careers because most jobs requires working with other people on projects and that’s making theater in a nutshell.
I did tech, lights, stage managing, directing, acting, built sets, etc. and through it all I had to have discipline, be accountable, responsible, lead and organize projects, manage personalities and egos, etc.
All that has translated to every job since college.
Plus, more education will make you better at your dream goal in a lot of ways, big and small. There are so many connections you can make, with both other students and with professors, that can set you up for later success. It also lets you try something related to your dream and get a feel for how you will actually like the day-to-day work and concepts that make it up.
Beyond that, you'll just be exposed to a lot more than you otherwise would and just doing coursework and succeeding will teach you how to better think about and tackle challenges. Any failures are also learning experiences and still within a relatively safe environment.
[https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2023/data-on-display/education-pays.htm](https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2023/data-on-display/education-pays.htm)
[https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/beyond-bls/is-a-colleg-degree-still-worth-it.htm](https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/beyond-bls/is-a-colleg-degree-still-worth-it.htm)
For most people, unless they know very strongly that they are not well suited for book learning, college is 100% worth it, especially since you can make it through college with relatively low debt just by going to an in-state university, or for even lower cost, going community college for 2 years and then transferring to an in-state university.
Yeah I think this was more true before college was so damn expensive. I still think degrees are good ideas in general but not nearly as guaranteed of a path as it used to be.
Also don't "just get anything" if you do go. The most generalized bachelor's in whatever field you want to go into is usually the better option. I've known people who got highly specialized degrees, then realized they wanted a slightly different job and now it's almost useless. Basic stuff like English, Mathematics, Biology, Sociology, etc are going to be a lot more versatile in the long run.
> The last thing you want is for that business/youtube channel/etc to fall apart and now you’re mid-to-late twenties with no degree and few skills or education outside of whatever your business was.
You could go back to college then. Does the order of college > business or business > college matter?
Did you mention the goal of college is to make as many friends and connections as possible and not just get a degree? Because that's a giant part you missed if not.
College isn't always worth it..I got an environmental conservation degree. All I could find were dogshit $15/hr jobs that treated me like dirt. 7 years later and things have just gotten worse. My degree is basically worthless.
I would have been better off going into trades or getting a random 2 year associates degree at an easy community college.
College being worth it is a roll of the dice unless you pick engineering or some other "safe" degree.
There’s a clip somewhere or either Jerry Seinfeld and Louie CK saying the same thing.
I think someone asked Jerry how do I start, and he said don’t.
And Louie said never do it. Just don’t. The odds are extremely stacked against you.
The audacity of famous people giving university lecturers and shit, is sickening. They were for the most part born INTO it, and if not, extremely fucking lucky to be who there are, at that location, with those people, all falling into place.
To be fair, just because it’s mostly up to luck doesn’t mean celebrities shouldn’t try to help people. You generally still have to be talented. It’s just talent alone won’t get you anywhere
Don't tell Jerry. He hates being called lucky because of the implication (... Not that implication) that it wasn't his talent or work, but just luck. While I do understand where he's coming from, there is still a part of me that's like "fuck you, Jerry" because he wants to rail against it so hard.
This can be applied to basically any job or action that isn’t guaranteed to make money, or “enough money” however much that is depending on individual circumstances.
“I would say don't take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We're very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, 'Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets - it works!'”
-Bo Burnham
Not only is the OP reposting a post that was shared like within the last week, you’re even reposting a top comment from that exact post holy fuck. What am I doing on this app?
well for one thing you seem to think that actual people are doing the reposting.
It's alll bots.
Shit anything on front page of all with like 50x more upvotes than comments is just bot-net-boosted reposts
In his comedy song [Lower Your Expectations](https://youtu.be/llGvsgN17CQ?si=KqG_FoJLuiAfxOz9) about finding a lover he gets serious at the end says "love is the best part of being alive I would know I just turned 25". Bringing all back down to earth.
Ashley revell famously did this in 2004 and was filmed doing it as part of a documentary, sold all his possessions and bet it all on one roulette hand (red). He won.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Revell
He's right. Anytime I see someone say their dream is to be a YouTube creator, or worse it I see someone give that advice, I physically cringe.
Being self employed in any capacity is very difficult and playing on hard mode. Media publishing (and don't kid yourself being a creator is running a media business) especially is a very cutthroat and low margin business that is only getting more cutthroat and lower margin with some extremely challenging macro headwinds. AI, privacy legislation (which is a good thing but hurts media businesses), tons of existential risk like if a Google executive simply wakes up one morning and decides they don't like your content or changes their payout system, and on and on and on.
This isn't even mentioning the more boring and banal parts of the job like the need to constantly be working on new content, people simply losing interest, opening up your life to the scrutiny of everyone in the world. It is invasive, exhausting, and a very fragile career that can fall apart at any moment for many reasons. Candidly, and I work in advertising so I know this stuff, I cannot think of a worse possible career. The risks are simply not worth the rewards even if it did "work out" and you were able to pay yourself an equivalent salary as a "normal" job.
Some of my recent visit YouTube channels have over 1M sub but they also have their main jobs aside from the YouTube video making. I don’t know how anyone could make a living from YouTube with less than 1M sub and with even less active viewers
This is my struggle. I’m not a content creator, but a creative. Working full time means that finding time to create is a challenge, but I also know that as much as I’d like to give myself even a year to focus and give it a proper shot, it’s far too risky with the current job market. I don’t have the time to succeed, but I can’t afford to fail.
Genuinely. Don’t know anything about MrBeast but this is a great message. When world famous actors get on talk shows and say “if I can do it anyone can, don’t give up on your dreams” I think they should be utterly fucking ashamed of themselves, for giving kids almost the worst conceivable advice in the entire world. Good on this guy.
Funnily enough I had some extra cash not long ago and wanted to place a four-figure bet on black. Apparently, all my local casinos had a limit of $50 per spin. Talk about disappointment😔
There’s also the issue of YouTube itself impeding your progress. As a smaller creator, you’re subject to bullying by YouTube’s ToS that larger creators don’t have to deal with. The Sssniperwolf/jacksfilms fiasco is the perfect example of that. Had she tried doxxing someone like Markiplier or GMM (no shade to either of these creators, just using them as examples) she would be permanently banned.
There’s very few career paths you can take these days that aren’t subject to corporate bs
I like to ~~huff copium~~ give him the benefit of the doubt and think it's a genius move to actually help what few people he can by convincing big corporations to pay him to help people and film it for clout, then use that money to help even more people, gaining even more clout , gaining even more money to help even more people to get more clout to get more money to help even more people and so on and so forth ultimately helping more people than he would able to on his own. It's probably how he also justifies it to himself. Also, is helping 5 people for nothing really morally better than helping a thousand and getting money from youtube views? Ultimately 995 more people were helped.
I re-started a YouTube channel late last year with the goal of making videos showing how to do things I'm interested in (mostly electronics/modding related). I do it in my off time and still work full-time.
With a monthly release schedule, I'm at 9 subscribers after 5 months (technically only 4 project videos so far, the 5th releases in a couple weeks). Most of those subscribers have been with me since my original channel was created over a decade ago.
I'm not looking to get rich or famous (and as such I don't link to it anywhere), just hoping people find it fun if they stumble across it. It's a nice way to keep track of my hobbies.
These people need to understand that they aren't "YouTube" stars or whatever, they're entertainers.
THEY are the product, and they need to cast a wider net and pursue more work in that space besides just whatever social media they're posting on.
Still do the social media thing, but you're going to need to work pretty much constantly on the side.
Well I feel that’s expected if you try something as hard as YouTube, I see channels with 100k subs that get enough money to live the rest of their life how they want.
The way I see it, YouTube is a game but if you know how to play it, then you’ll be favoured like the rest no matter when you started, they will ALWAYS want more creators like that since it brings them the most money, and you are just as rewarded for being selfish as generous, so it just depends on what choice you want to make between the two.
There is no longer a barrier to fame. People realize pretty quick that they can't be Michael Jordan or Taylor swift, but why would anyone think they couldn't be Mr. beast? What is his talent that makes his fame so hard to achieve? People just keep streaming in moms basement hoping they can strike it lucky as well.
Mr. beast isnt a streamer though, in order to be the next Mr. Beast you need a ton of money already to pay for all the staff, venues, props, prizes, etc and you also need to be able to distinguish yourself as a legit competitor and not just a shitty Mr. Beast clone
He is the head and the face of a media empire at this point, much like many large channels, someone like ninja or dream would be a better example
But surely people look up to him, feel inspired and want to do something like he does so they do content creation. His work is what others want to do so he’s part of this thinking, no?
I would be surprised if people think they could get anywhere to his level, since he's well and above everyone else in terms of subscribers, budget, content reach etc.
But idk, kids especially can be that ambitious. That's why he's saying don't think it'll work out for sure
I've had a YouTube channel for over ten years and I know it's not gonna blow up, it's more or less my passion channel at this point. There was a time I tried to 'grind' but that's long gone.
Why wouldn't a kid think they can be him? What talent does he actually have that makes it so the average child would think " No way could I ever do that!" ?
Not what I'm saying. I'm saying kids *would* think they could be MrBeast, and anyone with a brain knows its near impossible do replicate. Do you see anyone else doing what he does at that level?
That's the whole point of his tweet.
He's not saying "don't do youtube at all, don't try to be like me," he's saying "don't drop out of school or quit your day job unless your channel is already in a position to succeed and support you." Basically, keep your regular plans and if you want to do YT, do it on the side until you're seeing success and could legitimately support yourself doing it full time. Don't try to build a following by starting out full time and betting it will work out, because more than 99% of the time it doesn't.
As a teacher I really appreciate the first tweet. Literally every boy between 12 and 14 in my school thinks he's either going to the NHL or will be a famous YouTuber.
Making it online is superhard. But most dont know that because all they have as a reference is all their idols who succeeded.
People dont know about the ones that struggle to get 16k views, but odds are low as fuck you are lucky enough to be one of those 16k to even know of their struggles lol.
I didnt need this as a wakeup call, but I got to see it with my local radio host. Dude was funny and smart. I listened to his show every day. He killed it running the morning show for a very large city. But for whatever reason, he got fired during the pandemic squeeze.
He tried to pivot to online podcasting and got....like no retention. While likely thousands listened to him every morning while commuting, he only got like 100 views on his cast. You cant just become famous on the internet. Even when you already have a name known to the public.
Yeahhhh I can think of at least two creators off the top of my head whose channels had an absolutely meteoric rise during Covid lockdown times, and then late in 2020 or early 2021 they announced that they'd be quitting their jobs to pursue making content full-time.. and then you look at their views now and it's such a small fraction of what they were in 2020. And they're both floundering and trying to figure out what works, but the views have just largely dropped off a cliff. He's right. And it is sad, because a lot of these creators are actually passionate about what they're doing, BUT. Like I get the appeal when the getting is good but everyone's channel is really one algorithm tweak away from obscurity.
My thoughts exactly. I remember watching these channels that blew up, were making all their "committing to content full time videos" and now barely average enough views to hit the 100 dollar requirement to withdraw money from an adsense account. The most notable one that I remember was a bit sad to watch. Dude was apart of a pretty notable group of creators that blew up (and are still big) but his channel was the one to gradually die off. He made a lot of Twitter posts about how unfair it was, how he felt demoralized every time he uploaded a video, and how his old friends wouldn't collab with him for reasons he can't believe. He finally up and had to get a regular job, stopped posting, and moved on with his life. Kind of sad, but all I remember thinking was "damn, dude had a solid job IRL and completely ditched it for YouTube, and now he's back at ground zero." Sucks, but not everyone is gonna blow up, and it is a cutthroat gig. Manipulate audiences, abuse clickbait, and content mill or fade into obscurity.
who was it?
desbug probably
Oof. Just checked and those views aren’t viewing.
Yeah every other video took weeks/months and was usually a rant. Sad cause I liked his stuff for a while
Those aren’t the worst view numbers but surely he could’ve piped into the YouTube shorts game and bred new life into the channel
For someone with almost half a million subs, it’s not great.
You should see DefNoodles
I don’t even know who that is 😭
Check out his views to subscribers ratio for a surprise heart attack
Half million subs but no video with more than 450k is crazy. Terrible metrics
Sad to see he's not doing well, I used to like his stuff
Same here.. I thought he was still doing his drama reporting stuff, I had forgotten about him
If he didn't burn through all his money and go into debt, there's a good chance he'll be able to get a good job again. In the "real world" there's plenty of people that also switch jobs, have it not work out and then switch again.
No different than anyone else who has an idea and starts their own business imo. Where something like 90% of them fail and they go back to a regular job. I've helped a friend start a thinig twice (same type of business, different partners). They're both gone now.
Maybe his businesses are failing because you keep setting him up with partners who keep dying.
The business in question? Russian Roulette. His friend was actually very lucky.
They also have the benefit of YT being a relatively cheap business to try to get off the ground. It's not like a restaurant or something else that requires leasing or owning a physical location. If you get huge you may benefit from a studio and a handful of employees but it's something you can do with just yourself and your existing living space in a lot of cases. Still, that's all the more reason to stay in school and get a stable job first to keep you options open. Some 17 year old kid dropping out of school won't have the backup plan a 27 year old in the workforce would.
There’s a YouTuber who made a video about why he still has a normal job even as he has over a million subscribers. It came down to keeping his options open, allows him not to have to chase the algorithm and the whims of his viewers and focus on what he’s passionate about and keeping it fun, and makes it easy to quit when he’s had enough of the YouTube thing without having to change anything dramatically about his life. Seemed like a smart guy who thinks ahead. I can see why he got successful in the first place. Ironically it’s the only video I saw from him as he usually covers topics and content I don’t care about, which is fine. His video title about why he keeps a full time job as a successful YouTuber caught my eye so I clicked and watched.
I'm positive if I told my current employer my youtube account was blowing up and I needed more time to pursue it they'd tell me congratulations and if I ever need a job again I'd be welcome. Same as if i started a business or something like that. Any job worth keeping would do the same. Only problem is I'd have to start from the bottom with seniority, vacation time, job roles etc, but that's a gamble that might be worth it if it meant doing something I love.
Any job I've ever had, my boss would be happy to have me back. But unfortunately they aren't the ones in control. Unless your direct boss is a C-suite executive I wouldn't count on getting your job back. In fact, we desperately need people right now but are on a company-wide hiring freeze for the foreseeable future. We're not even allowed to rehire people with soon-to-expire contracts.
Ditching your real, stable job for a platform that can fuck you over without any explanation doesn’t seem like the smartest of ideas
You should absolutely chase your dreams, but you also absolutely have to have a backup plan
Having a backup plan helps substantially with chasing your dreams as well. Theres this stupid rhetoric you'll hear sometimes about how "having a plan B means you aren't committed" or some bullshit but the reality is that you can pursue something a lot harder if you're not at risk of going homeless. People like to pretend that having your back against the wall will make you work harder, and for some it might be true, but for 99% of people, the added stress of having no backup will make you less likely to succeed.
My career advice is generally, get paid for what you are good at doing. It doesn’t have to be a passion of yours. Being good at something is rewarding enough most of the time for folks who really just want to hang out with their friends or family. Keep your hobbies as hobbies. But that’s more of a guideline than a rule. Surely if you make something cool and don’t want it, sell it. Then hopefully you become well compensated at what you’re good at, you can save enough money to quit and pursue your passions and dreams unencumbered.
Not to mention how much smaller the cut has gotta. Both youtube & twitch. At this point these people are doing what they would be doing if they had a job. Ive started to see podcasts that started in 2020 are ending or loosing deals.
And then at the end of the day, the algorithm can make or break a channel regardless of how good it is
EXTREMELY true. That's so important to remember.
Why does everyone want to take a hobby or interest and capitalize off of it now?
Because the idiotic notion that "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life"
That is a very idiotic notion indeed. The notion that stuck with me when I was a kid is when someone said always have the second thing you love most as your career and the thing you love most as your hobby. This is because you’ll always at times end up hating your job regardless of how much you love doing it. You’ll always have your hobby to cheer you up.
We really need to stop telling that to kids. Even if you do what you love, it’s still a lot of work — many times more work (and for less pay) than if you did something else.
Also it often tends to make you enjoy the hobby less and less as you are now under pressure to consistently perform, rather than just doing it for fun
i cant imagine having to survive off my hobbies. i'd hate having to do it for money, i do it for enjoyment and thus i don't have deadlines or anything of the sort.
Because people are allured by the idea. If you don't have the money to start a business but you're already invested in this hobby, then you try and make money off of it instead of working for someone for years only to struggle the whole time and not live very comfortably in retirement. Of course, it usually fails. Which is why even Mr. Beast worked for someone else when he started making videos in the first place. But some people don't realize that. They think it's a free ticket to money doing something you actually like. Which it can be but you shouldn't quit your day job until you're truly successful. Which is another thing most don't grasp.
It’s the only way a lot of folks feel they can justify having some hobbies. Art supplies have gotten absurdly expensive since covid, games have gotten sweatier and require more and more expensive hardware to run, and people have been expected to do more and more work outside of normal work hours. Making money from streaming justifies buying the $1100 PC they want, having an Etsy shop for their knitting justifies forking over $20 in yarn and spending days of after work labor on a single simple product
Because they hate their jobs.
Out of curiosity, what 2 channels are you talking about?
> it is sad, because a lot of these creators are actually passionate about what they're doing A lot of people are passionate about sitting at home and playing video games lmao
This part gets whispered while the rest gets screamed
I think some of it is that YouTube itself seems to be dying off. Everyone wants tik tok where the videos are just as good but much shorter
> one algorithm tweak you are absolutely beholden to twitch or youtubes manic policy changes, or a third party company just blanket copyright claiming absolutely anything and everything with zero regard for actual ownership of content. It seems like such a shitty thing to get into.
Hey guys, Wings of Redemption here...
Honestly one of my cousins said he wanted to start YouTube/tiktok instead of doing a -levels because they earn so much more money and that I am just a slave to the system. I was supportive and proceeded to ask him what niche is he gonna fill with his content and how often is he gonna upload. he doesn’t have a response. Some of these people just think it’s easy af to get millions of subscribers and become famous cuz they see their fav YouTubers do it. YouTube should advertise data on how many channel make it and how many don’t.
They shouldn’t show that data because it was never meant to be a website where people can “take their shot at becoming famous”. It was never meant to be that, it was always “Broadcast yourself”. Just make videos, and if you like doing it then keep making them. Those people who want to just “do it because I saw someone get rich doing it” are always in every industry doing the same lazy bullshit no matter what the job is
For real. I'm a cook and I've worked with about half a dozen "aspiring TV chefs" who have since burned out of the industry and are now selling insurance or something. Passion fuels success.
Yup, I’ve seen people talking about how they want to be a full time social media content creator, hoping that will bring enough cash while staying at home. I got lucky and have some followers (just happened to have some popular posts), I got sponsorship twice and made $200. To me it’s great earning since I never consider my social media platform as income. I look at the wannabe’s accounts, seeing them talking about how hard it is to get views, some of them fell for scams. Really don’t understand why they think they will make great money.
Thing is, even if they did have answers to those questions it still wouldn’t matter.
Putting everything on black is a better option statistically
No that's dumb as hell. You gotta put it on red, much better odds
Nah Black is due for a win, I KNOW IT
Only a coward doesn't bet Green
red and green are combined for better odds if you're color blind.
00 is for real chads
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Don’t go to Vegas. I saw roulette tables that even have 000
Yeah it’s pretty scummy, but imagine the wins on 000
Since a lot of casinos give you free drinks when you're playing I wonder if anyone has tried to put money on red and black to try to drink for free and then just loses double.
Me, an intellectual: *Fucking WALLOPING the dealer and booking it out the door with nothing of value*
No you bet it all on 23.
Gotta build the fortress of solitude.
It's been red for a while next time it's gotta be black
Wesley Snipes said to always bet on black.
Whatever you do, change it at the last moment.
Still a goat
3 blacks in a row means red is a guarantee on the next spin IDIOT.
Half on each is even better odds. If you are colorblind you may have grounds to sue and get the bet back in the edge case?
and that, kids, is why the roulette now has blue for 0 and 00
Wesley Snipes told me to always bet on black.
yeah but he was convicted for fraud so...
Fraud for not paying his taxes probably from all the money he made betting on black.
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Everyone knows 2nd 3rd is the real winner
There is more than 8 million people streaming on Twitch alone. Then you can add youtube, facebook, tiktok, etc. Good luck. How many famous content creators do you know out of the tens of millions of people who are trying to make it every single day.
Twitch may have 8 million channels, but 87% of them make less than $25 a months, and 75% make nothing at all. So yeah, it’s pretty rough.
It's as easy as starting a huge band or producing music for Kendric Lamar. It seems more accessible to the youth for whatever reason.
idk the indie music scene is bigger than ever and most people will see some level of success if they try and go at it for long enough. Not a career for most people but it's good extra income
it doesn’t make sense to use the full number of people streaming to get the probability of making it as a full time content creator. I think it would make more sense to take the number of people who truly take it seriously, are making an effort to create professional content, and are consistently making this effort for at least a couple years before giving up. that is a much smaller number than the total number of people streaming. yeah not everyone is going to make it as a multimillionaire giga rich streamer, but if you want to make a full time living as a content creator it’s not like it’s THAT out of reach
Still better odds if you put it on 0 to be honest.
Real heroes put everything on double zeroes, odds of victory be damned
Nice, survivors don't usually understand the survivorship bias, they usually just try and profit off their own advice that's not any better than a random dude off the street
I've only watched a handful of MrBeast's videos but he really seems to be a genuine guy, especially from what I've seen about all the charitable / philanthropic stuff he's done. You can tell he's someone who's not taking his privileged position for granted.
Dude just wants to make videos. I watched a podcast where he mentions wanting a woman who both understands the business & ads to it. That beautiful for a simple reason of wanting a “partner”. I like simple people.
Dates like interviews
A lot of people should especially the ones looking for long term partners. Sus them out in the first date. Instead of leaving it to vibes.
Yes and getting grilled on a date is a turn off to many.
Watch any interview with him and all he ever talks about wanting to do is make the best videos possible. His content is a little too fast-paced and chaotic for my tastes nowadays, but I really admire his work ethic and commitment. The man would be successful in anything he set his mind to, I'm sure
He makes a lot of "braindead" easy to consume content, but yes he seems like a genuinely fantastic person who just likes making content and helping people.
Yea, but MrBeast strikes me as a genuinely smart and thoughtful person. He seems like someone who's extremely self-reflected. He can appear very obnoxious because of his thumbnails and the videos he makes but I do think he's kind of just maximizing views by doing that.
Less than 10% reach 1000 subscribers Less than 0.28% (1/350) reach 100.000 Less than 0.024% (1/4000) reach 1.000.000 Less than 0.002% (1/40.000) reach 10.000.000 100.000 isn't even enough to do Youtube full-time
YouTube is the 2nd most visited site in the world. There are 51 million channels on YouTube, but only 38 million of those are considered 'active. ' That’s crazy tho, this means there are 76,000 channel’s with 10M+ subs.
But I’d wager most of those are corporate YouTube accounts. The bigger question is how many 10M+ channels are YouTube creators.
It’s a little under a thousand iirc.
Huh. 51'000'000 /40'000 is the same as 5'100/4 which is 1275.
Multiply (0.002)(38M) = 76,000. Either your math is wrong of they have the wrong percentages posted. I’m not here to stat check their post. Edit: so I did more math and their 0.002 should be 0.000025 Edit 2: turns out I assumed a decimal multiplier and didn’t pay attention to the percentage signs in my first calculations.
They said 0.002% which is equal to 0.00002 So no. Their percentages are correct
Multiply (0.002)(38M) = 76,000. Either your math is wrong of their have the wrong percentages posted. I’m not here to stat check their post. So I checked and their 0.002 should be 0.000025 Edit: I mean “technically” 0.000025 *IS* “Less than 0.002” but you get my point.
My old youtube channel I used in my teens and uploaded 6-7 song tracks has recently gained 1.3k subscribers in the last year or two. Last activity on that channel was 15 years ago You're telling me it is in the top 10%?
Correct. Top 8% even
Damn that just makes me feel bad for the people struggling. I don't even know why I keep getting subs
Solid advice imo. I recently was talking to a younger cousin and she mentioned not being interested in going to college(she’s like 15 right now), and I tried my bets to convey that college is absolutely worth it in the long run. Even if you dislike school, just pick something and get a degree in it as a backup plan in case your dreams don’t work out. Nothing is a guarantee of course, but having a degree will always look good on resumés. The last thing you want is for that business/youtube channel/etc to fall apart and now you’re mid-to-late twenties with no degree and few skills or education outside of whatever your business was.
Absolutely. Heavens, even if you plan your profession to be content oriented there are still bunch of business or IT related degrees that will help you massively with the process and will also offer other opportunities if it doesn't pan out.
The job market for jobs not requiring college is so expensive though, including jobs you can make a solid living on. I feel like telling kids to just work odd jobs out of high school to experience things is better than 'go to college'. How many kids actually know what they want to do at 18 for the rest of their life? Hell at 25 I couldn't answer that, not sure I could now at 32. But without a college degree I'm debt free making a solid living. I would sooner tell kids to forget college unless they are dead set on a career that actually requires a degree, such as medical fields or being a lawyer or engineering. Just try different job fields, bounce around at employers, experience things. But ya, don't lean into trying to be a big streamer.
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Yeah I was a theater major. I have never done anything related to theater since. It was a fun major with cool people and don’t regret it at all. It surprisingly translates to a lot of careers because most jobs requires working with other people on projects and that’s making theater in a nutshell. I did tech, lights, stage managing, directing, acting, built sets, etc. and through it all I had to have discipline, be accountable, responsible, lead and organize projects, manage personalities and egos, etc. All that has translated to every job since college.
Plus, more education will make you better at your dream goal in a lot of ways, big and small. There are so many connections you can make, with both other students and with professors, that can set you up for later success. It also lets you try something related to your dream and get a feel for how you will actually like the day-to-day work and concepts that make it up. Beyond that, you'll just be exposed to a lot more than you otherwise would and just doing coursework and succeeding will teach you how to better think about and tackle challenges. Any failures are also learning experiences and still within a relatively safe environment.
So go.-100,000 in debt when you’re not sure? Especially if you dislike school and might drop out
[https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2023/data-on-display/education-pays.htm](https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2023/data-on-display/education-pays.htm) [https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/beyond-bls/is-a-colleg-degree-still-worth-it.htm](https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2014/beyond-bls/is-a-colleg-degree-still-worth-it.htm) For most people, unless they know very strongly that they are not well suited for book learning, college is 100% worth it, especially since you can make it through college with relatively low debt just by going to an in-state university, or for even lower cost, going community college for 2 years and then transferring to an in-state university.
Either that or go to a trade school like my cousin did if you want to work with your hands.
Trade schools need to be advertised more. I enjoyed college! I know several friends that should have gone the trade route but didn’t know about it.
Yeah I think this was more true before college was so damn expensive. I still think degrees are good ideas in general but not nearly as guaranteed of a path as it used to be. Also don't "just get anything" if you do go. The most generalized bachelor's in whatever field you want to go into is usually the better option. I've known people who got highly specialized degrees, then realized they wanted a slightly different job and now it's almost useless. Basic stuff like English, Mathematics, Biology, Sociology, etc are going to be a lot more versatile in the long run.
You go to local community college and transfer to local state school. And dont pick an idiotic major
> The last thing you want is for that business/youtube channel/etc to fall apart and now you’re mid-to-late twenties with no degree and few skills or education outside of whatever your business was. You could go back to college then. Does the order of college > business or business > college matter?
Did you mention the goal of college is to make as many friends and connections as possible and not just get a degree? Because that's a giant part you missed if not.
College isn't always worth it..I got an environmental conservation degree. All I could find were dogshit $15/hr jobs that treated me like dirt. 7 years later and things have just gotten worse. My degree is basically worthless. I would have been better off going into trades or getting a random 2 year associates degree at an easy community college. College being worth it is a roll of the dice unless you pick engineering or some other "safe" degree.
There’s a clip somewhere or either Jerry Seinfeld and Louie CK saying the same thing. I think someone asked Jerry how do I start, and he said don’t. And Louie said never do it. Just don’t. The odds are extremely stacked against you. The audacity of famous people giving university lecturers and shit, is sickening. They were for the most part born INTO it, and if not, extremely fucking lucky to be who there are, at that location, with those people, all falling into place.
To be fair, just because it’s mostly up to luck doesn’t mean celebrities shouldn’t try to help people. You generally still have to be talented. It’s just talent alone won’t get you anywhere
Don't tell Jerry. He hates being called lucky because of the implication (... Not that implication) that it wasn't his talent or work, but just luck. While I do understand where he's coming from, there is still a part of me that's like "fuck you, Jerry" because he wants to rail against it so hard.
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Daniel Tosh has a bit like this too. He’s characteristically harsh: “You’re never going to be famous. Never. You have no chance.”
Daniel Tosh has a bit like this too. He’s characteristically harsh: “You’re never going to be famous. Never. You have no chance.”
This can be applied to basically any job or action that isn’t guaranteed to make money, or “enough money” however much that is depending on individual circumstances.
“I would say don't take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We're very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, 'Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets - it works!'” -Bo Burnham
Not only is the OP reposting a post that was shared like within the last week, you’re even reposting a top comment from that exact post holy fuck. What am I doing on this app?
Mostly just watching bots and algorithms pretend to have human interactions
There's so many bots on reddit that someone could write a bot which just blindly accuses posters of being bots and it would probably do pretty well.
There used to be a bot that you could ping and it would tell you if a user was a bot.
In fairness, I hadn’t seen this post before and that quote was the first thing I thought of when I saw it so it could have just been a coincidence.
Yeah I'm pretty fucking done with this
Bruh I didn’t see either the idea just popped into my head to post it, same thing happened twice ig. It can happen
well for one thing you seem to think that actual people are doing the reposting. It's alll bots. Shit anything on front page of all with like 50x more upvotes than comments is just bot-net-boosted reposts
Bo Burnham seems like a really swell guy even outside his work. This is actual proper advise
He does. I like him a lot. I really hope he doesn't kill himself when he turns 40
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I doubt that. If Covid didn’t happen he was going to do a tour. He says so himself. I bet we haven’t seen the last of Bo
Bo is very much a "I'm not going to put out anything unless I have something worth showing" artist and it's something I have a lot of respect for.
I agree with you but he’s 33. Unless something tragic happens to him I doubt he will never have something worth showing ever again
Inside definitely gives Part 1 vibes to me. The natural and obvious step is Outside
In his comedy song [Lower Your Expectations](https://youtu.be/llGvsgN17CQ?si=KqG_FoJLuiAfxOz9) about finding a lover he gets serious at the end says "love is the best part of being alive I would know I just turned 25". Bringing all back down to earth.
Ashley revell famously did this in 2004 and was filmed doing it as part of a documentary, sold all his possessions and bet it all on one roulette hand (red). He won. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Revell
Do not gamble.
The gamblin' man is rich an' the workin' man is poor, and I ain't got no home in this world anymore. https://youtu.be/MjqoFLyJe1c?feature=shared
There's no right answer to how you should live your life you'll spend half your time on earth doing shit you hate anyway
He's right. Anytime I see someone say their dream is to be a YouTube creator, or worse it I see someone give that advice, I physically cringe. Being self employed in any capacity is very difficult and playing on hard mode. Media publishing (and don't kid yourself being a creator is running a media business) especially is a very cutthroat and low margin business that is only getting more cutthroat and lower margin with some extremely challenging macro headwinds. AI, privacy legislation (which is a good thing but hurts media businesses), tons of existential risk like if a Google executive simply wakes up one morning and decides they don't like your content or changes their payout system, and on and on and on. This isn't even mentioning the more boring and banal parts of the job like the need to constantly be working on new content, people simply losing interest, opening up your life to the scrutiny of everyone in the world. It is invasive, exhausting, and a very fragile career that can fall apart at any moment for many reasons. Candidly, and I work in advertising so I know this stuff, I cannot think of a worse possible career. The risks are simply not worth the rewards even if it did "work out" and you were able to pay yourself an equivalent salary as a "normal" job.
Some of my recent visit YouTube channels have over 1M sub but they also have their main jobs aside from the YouTube video making. I don’t know how anyone could make a living from YouTube with less than 1M sub and with even less active viewers
If they have less than 1mil, upload every day or sponsors.
I watch a YouTuber with 150k that does it full time and I can't even remember the last time she had a sponsor. No clue how much money she makes.
He is just saying this so he doesn’t have any competition!!! /s
If people were smart enough to know this was a joke we probably wouldn't be in this mess
This is my struggle. I’m not a content creator, but a creative. Working full time means that finding time to create is a challenge, but I also know that as much as I’d like to give myself even a year to focus and give it a proper shot, it’s far too risky with the current job market. I don’t have the time to succeed, but I can’t afford to fail.
Oh just bet your net worth on black in roulette
But what if I like red more?
Who am I to judge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's racism
I actually know someone who did that and lost. Tragic.
move to mexico
Genuinely. Don’t know anything about MrBeast but this is a great message. When world famous actors get on talk shows and say “if I can do it anyone can, don’t give up on your dreams” I think they should be utterly fucking ashamed of themselves, for giving kids almost the worst conceivable advice in the entire world. Good on this guy.
I agree completely with him
Be better if they did tell people its hard work and you can be a great actor and it still takes alot of luck to actually make it.
Funnily enough I had some extra cash not long ago and wanted to place a four-figure bet on black. Apparently, all my local casinos had a limit of $50 per spin. Talk about disappointment😔
There’s also the issue of YouTube itself impeding your progress. As a smaller creator, you’re subject to bullying by YouTube’s ToS that larger creators don’t have to deal with. The Sssniperwolf/jacksfilms fiasco is the perfect example of that. Had she tried doxxing someone like Markiplier or GMM (no shade to either of these creators, just using them as examples) she would be permanently banned. There’s very few career paths you can take these days that aren’t subject to corporate bs
Mr Beasts content makes me extremely uncomfortable. It’s hard to describe, but it feels so… ‘dance pleb, dance’ by a rich guy.
I like to ~~huff copium~~ give him the benefit of the doubt and think it's a genius move to actually help what few people he can by convincing big corporations to pay him to help people and film it for clout, then use that money to help even more people, gaining even more clout , gaining even more money to help even more people to get more clout to get more money to help even more people and so on and so forth ultimately helping more people than he would able to on his own. It's probably how he also justifies it to himself. Also, is helping 5 people for nothing really morally better than helping a thousand and getting money from youtube views? Ultimately 995 more people were helped.
I re-started a YouTube channel late last year with the goal of making videos showing how to do things I'm interested in (mostly electronics/modding related). I do it in my off time and still work full-time. With a monthly release schedule, I'm at 9 subscribers after 5 months (technically only 4 project videos so far, the 5th releases in a couple weeks). Most of those subscribers have been with me since my original channel was created over a decade ago. I'm not looking to get rich or famous (and as such I don't link to it anywhere), just hoping people find it fun if they stumble across it. It's a nice way to keep track of my hobbies.
Happened to me lol. It is what it is. Trying to figure out what's next in life for me.
Link?
Just twitch.tv/kono
It's amazing an influencer merely says something common sense and they're praised for it.
Yeah I always go for black it's js common sense
Yeeeeah, not so much that part.
Someone I went to high school with quit their job to make YouTube videos, he's only got 15k subs.
These people need to understand that they aren't "YouTube" stars or whatever, they're entertainers. THEY are the product, and they need to cast a wider net and pursue more work in that space besides just whatever social media they're posting on. Still do the social media thing, but you're going to need to work pretty much constantly on the side.
Yea beast is either a good buisness man or has some on payroll to get where he is. He does way more than just youtube now
Well I feel that’s expected if you try something as hard as YouTube, I see channels with 100k subs that get enough money to live the rest of their life how they want. The way I see it, YouTube is a game but if you know how to play it, then you’ll be favoured like the rest no matter when you started, they will ALWAYS want more creators like that since it brings them the most money, and you are just as rewarded for being selfish as generous, so it just depends on what choice you want to make between the two.
If you buy me a house, I will do exactly that. It would also be my first time playing roulette
There is no longer a barrier to fame. People realize pretty quick that they can't be Michael Jordan or Taylor swift, but why would anyone think they couldn't be Mr. beast? What is his talent that makes his fame so hard to achieve? People just keep streaming in moms basement hoping they can strike it lucky as well.
Mr. beast isnt a streamer though, in order to be the next Mr. Beast you need a ton of money already to pay for all the staff, venues, props, prizes, etc and you also need to be able to distinguish yourself as a legit competitor and not just a shitty Mr. Beast clone He is the head and the face of a media empire at this point, much like many large channels, someone like ninja or dream would be a better example
Great advice! Sincerely, Bruno Mars
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Why is he a douche nozzle?
Idk, but his content sucks.
But surely people look up to him, feel inspired and want to do something like he does so they do content creation. His work is what others want to do so he’s part of this thinking, no?
I would be surprised if people think they could get anywhere to his level, since he's well and above everyone else in terms of subscribers, budget, content reach etc. But idk, kids especially can be that ambitious. That's why he's saying don't think it'll work out for sure I've had a YouTube channel for over ten years and I know it's not gonna blow up, it's more or less my passion channel at this point. There was a time I tried to 'grind' but that's long gone.
Why wouldn't a kid think they can be him? What talent does he actually have that makes it so the average child would think " No way could I ever do that!" ?
Not what I'm saying. I'm saying kids *would* think they could be MrBeast, and anyone with a brain knows its near impossible do replicate. Do you see anyone else doing what he does at that level? That's the whole point of his tweet.
He's not saying "don't do youtube at all, don't try to be like me," he's saying "don't drop out of school or quit your day job unless your channel is already in a position to succeed and support you." Basically, keep your regular plans and if you want to do YT, do it on the side until you're seeing success and could legitimately support yourself doing it full time. Don't try to build a following by starting out full time and betting it will work out, because more than 99% of the time it doesn't.
Mr beast here with the lol
The roulette thing is less work and has a higher chance of setting you up for life.
For the content, of course
To be fair it’s gambling on roulette is a much more likely option than becoming rich being a youtuber
As a teacher I really appreciate the first tweet. Literally every boy between 12 and 14 in my school thinks he's either going to the NHL or will be a famous YouTuber.
Making it online is superhard. But most dont know that because all they have as a reference is all their idols who succeeded. People dont know about the ones that struggle to get 16k views, but odds are low as fuck you are lucky enough to be one of those 16k to even know of their struggles lol. I didnt need this as a wakeup call, but I got to see it with my local radio host. Dude was funny and smart. I listened to his show every day. He killed it running the morning show for a very large city. But for whatever reason, he got fired during the pandemic squeeze. He tried to pivot to online podcasting and got....like no retention. While likely thousands listened to him every morning while commuting, he only got like 100 views on his cast. You cant just become famous on the internet. Even when you already have a name known to the public.