people who 'vlog' daily on YouTube C/D

Shaytards.

They seem pretty well off, but do they make a stink load of cash from YouTube for merely existing and acting funny or adorable everyday on video or are/were they independently wealthy?

Also, that name, wtf?

I know about PewDePie who films himself gaming and being a bit of a dork, it is pretty unwatchable to anybody older than 13, but he makes more than $1,000,000 a year and gives a bunch to charities.

He should probably hang on to it.

http://38.media.tumblr.com/077579b9a8ef46b89519b52a4e775cdb/tumblr_n09i3myRtH1rp0a9bo1_1280.jpg

"hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . " "hey guys, it's _____ here, just wanted to talk to you today about _____________ and the thing is . . . "

sorry, that was bigger than I expected xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXrjhsAMhvU

trigger warning: white survivalist macho fantasy artisanal tool-repair porn

fuck narcissistic vlogger blatherers, forever

I love vloggers, but generally more people sitting alone talking into their webcam than quasi-celeb family vloggers like these

we need more words that start with vl

some overlap with gr80s awesomeness charlatans thread.

had never heard of this pewdepie dude until a little bit ago

For a brief time I was addicted to video bloggers who moved to North Dakota in the hopes of cashing in on the oil boom up there.

http://www.youtube.com/user/lasvegascollapse/videos is the one to start with - as it charts the path from Las Vegas housing collapse, a move to North Dakota, growing a beard, endless job searching, living in a truck, gaunt lines in the face from hard work/living, getting the hell out, and then finally back to Las Vegas where he's now subsistence farming in his backyard.

lol I read Shytards and that kind of works too

need fewer words that end with -tards

I had no idea they were that big. I happened across one of their videos and after the 90s-sounding sub-FreeCreditReport.com pop theme song I peaced out

This lasvegascollapse guy is one of the best Kyle Mooney characters.

the ecosystem for vloggers, especially the less produced ones, is odd

like they sort of relate to each other, and are fans of each other, and also have this mass (if lucky) of commenters who are fawning/hostile, and their own contribution to it all is so starkly isolated from direct interaction in any way except the talking-to-the-screen part

which is true of many forms of media but it seems more pronounced with a younger configuration of the technologies like youtube

This is all very much related to the Frontline episode Generation Like

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/generation-like/

q liked jenna marbles for a bit, but haven't sought out her content in ages (it was my now-departed spouse who drove that one really)

http://thehairpin.com/2014/06/my-imaginary-friends-the-beauty-youtuber-economy

It’s the imaginary friend phenomenon that is common to all social media—as the most famous generic click-bait headline formula, “Is Facebook making us lonely?”, unsubtly stabs at. Social media sells companionship at the expense of marketing data. It turns out the pretend company of approachable, beautiful women is all that is necessary to sell to the most valuable of all demographics, women ages fourteen to thirty-four. No wonder vloggers’ friendship is worth millions.

need fewer words that end with -tards

― schlump, Wednesday, June 25, 2014 7:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously.

omg y'all http://youtube.wikia.com/wiki/Shaytards

Sontard has a very kind heart and is often seen helping.
Sontard has a very kind heart and is often seen helping.
Sontard has a very kind heart and is often seen helping.
Sontard has a very kind heart and is often seen helping.
Sontard has a very kind heart and is often seen helping.
Sontard has a very kind heart and is often seen helping.
Sontard has a very kind heart and is often seen helping.

goddamn I'm not sure if this page is gonna make me cry or give me an aneurysm

Rocktard was literally born on YouTube two years after the start of the SHAYTARDS vlog, and has since had his entire life on film. Before his birth, fans watched Mommytard's entire pregnancy on the channel.

May we all survive whatever equal and opposite reaction will befall us all from the horror of this.

I'd like to read a breakdown of the exact mechanics of how people make money from Youtube and how much. I have no desire to be a Shaytard, but is there some kind of Col Tom Parker role I could occupy to steal exhibitionist hillbillies' vlog money?

vlog dollas

vlog svengali prob not a great get rich quick dream

Join my vlog mafia - I am THE VLOGFATHER - Facebook

I would have zero qualms about shaking down vloggers for protection money

I'd like to read a breakdown of the exact mechanics of how people make money from Youtube and how much.

^ Yep, dunno why this phenomenon is perturbing to me, but I really want this laid out, I find it all a bit hard to believe.

well there are some people who cultivate audiences and then paypal it, use patreon, switch to the newer pay model (but that tends to bring out audience resentment, 'i thought you did this for the love', etc.)

there's some information in this forbes article:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelhumphrey/2011/05/31/shaycarls-epic-journey-to-youtube-stardom/

oh it's a mormon corridor thing. there are 500,000+ schmoes like that with wives like that and 3+ kids like that in houses like that from alberta to arizona who are just natively good at advertising their lifestyles because of their business school religion and two generations of multilevel marketing prowess behind them.

I became a YouTube Partner February 2008 and got my very first AdSense check April 24, 2008 in the amount of $367.40, for a month’s worth of videos. I COULD NOT believe that I was actually getting money for being “entertaining”

i found myself compuslively watching some girl who vlogged herself talking about prince the other day (it was from a few years ago). she had some kind of speech impediment and constantly seemed terrified someone would find out she was talking into a camera. it was..weird.

does anyone else here watch 'Trucker Josh VLOGS'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3710213/SaveMarinaJoyce-Police-forced-visit-YouTube-star-London-home-fans-convinced-kidnapped-whispered-help-latest-film.html

best detail is the people on twitter using a headline about a subway collapse during WW2 to explain the park is dangerous

Shay Carl quits the internet after he gets caught sexting a cam girl (image nsfw

I feel bad for his family but his fans really shouldn't be shocked -- this is pretty much standard behavior for Mormon patriarch dbags

We The Unicorns is…

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But how often does the media get it right when talking about YouTube? And what do you do if you’re into it but you’re friends aren’t?

We The Unicorns is here to bring you all the magic from within the world of YouTube and online video. Our mission is simple: we want to create a world of specialised content for fans and YouTubers alike, to connect with the rest of the community through videos, quizzes, interviews and much more. We believe that every subscriber counts, and that’s why as well as hearing all the latest on your biggest faves, we’ll also be bringing you the best in new content from lesser known and up-and-coming creators; not to mention offering some tips and tricks to help you get your own channel started.

Our team is composed of YouTubers, fans and writers, all with at least one foot in the YouTube world; so you know that we know our stuff. And we won’t give you all the misunderstood nonsense like other news sites. We know that with over 400 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute, it’s really hard to keep track of what’s new, trending, or generally worth your time; which is why we’ll do all the hard work to filter it down for you!

should note pewdiepie (mentioned in the very first post) just got shut down for anti semitic nonsense

the dream is over

http://i.imgur.com/6yJxVQA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Rd43u9P.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/xvsOVO8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/azFh8D1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/VfOru5Z.jpg

Where's the handwringing Time/Newsweek overgeneralizing cover story about these folks as generational representatives?

Fuck these scumbags.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/04/25/the-saga-of-a-youtube-family-who-pulled-disturbing-pranks-on-their-own-kids/?utm_term=.f65c7c8653a0

What in the actual fuck.

http://www.wusa9.com/news/nation-now/youtube-stars-lose-custody-of-2-children-after-controversial-prank-videos/436016330

when I read that they live in Maryland I was unsurprised but I'm not sure why

The events themselves are so sick and fucked up, but I have known a lot of dudes who remind me of the dad in a more general way.

YouTube star Pedro Ruiz III shot by girlfriend Mona Lisa Perez in prank gone wrong

Ruiz reportedly had been pushing Perez to go through with his latest prank, in which he would hold a hardcover encyclopaedia up to his chest and get her to shoot at the book.

Perez pulled the trigger on a .50-calibre Desert Eagle gun, a pistol described in online ads as “one of the world’s most powerful semiautomatic handguns.”

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/youtube-star-pedro-ruiz-iii-shot-by-girlfriend-mona-lisa-perez-in-prank-gone-wrong/news-story/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLpI9fSpNWs

I guess now that YT has been rapidly demonitizing a lot of these people that humiliate their children for a living will be in a tough spot.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Salequeen84/videos

https://i.imgur.com/L9h2xaQ.jpg

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/01/18/utah-man-who-runs-popular-youtube-science-channel-is-charged-with-possessing-explosives-during-backyard-experiments/

northwest.com/1005772/arab-andy-livestream-bomb-prank-uw/

god, these idiots.

http://mynorthwest.com/1005772/arab-andy-livestream-bomb-prank-uw/

hm, for some reason that didn't post as a link. Trying again.

A livestreamer who goes by the name “Arab Andy” filmed an alleged bomb prank at the University of Washington that sent students fleeing from their classroom. The entire incident was captured live on YouTube.

As a result, Savery Hall at UW was evacuated at around 5:30 p.m. The Quad at UW was briefly blocked off as police and firefighters investigated to determine there was no bomb. The Quad was reopened at 6:22 p.m.

The online streamer goes by the handle “Arab Andy.” He accepts financial donations while he streams his activities. In return, donators can play audio on speakers as he walks around. Or their text messages are translated into audio on the speakers. Previous videos show him walking around “trolling Seattle,” playing bomb sounds. He is frequently asked to leave markets, and other public places.

On Thursday, Arab Andy allegedly walked around the University of Washington campus disrupting classrooms, acting like he was late to class or just lost — all on live video that lasted nearly an hour and 16 minutes. The livestream shows him walking into the back of a classroom where his speakers play the sound effect of a bomb being activated. This caused students to run from the room and police to respond. He continued to stream until police found him. The Daily reports that university police made the arrest.

“You’re going to arrest me for nothing bro,” Arab Andy can be heard on the live video as police detain him. “Come on stop, bro. That’s not fair bro. Bro? Bro stop. Listen bro. I’m sorry, listen bro. This is, like, assault, bro. This is a YouTube livestream bro. It was a donation. It was a donation to media. Somebody donated two bucks and it played some ****.”

Watch the livestream here on YouTube. Warning: Offensive language is frequently used.

Livestreaming a bomb threat
The live video shows “Arab Andy” walking around the University of Washington campus the evening of Thursday, May 31, 2018. The video features him talking with people who are watching and commenting on his livestream. It shows him walking into classes as audio clips with racial epithets are played over his speakers. One teacher tosses the livestreamer out of his class.

Eventually, at about 39 minutes into the live video, he walks into a sociology classroom and sits down in the back.

“Hi guys, sorry I’m late,” he whispers to the people in the room.

“Is this where you are supposed to be?” a person off camera asks him.

“I think so,” he responds.

His speakers then play an audio clip that the entire room hears: “Attention. C4 has been successfully activated. Bomb detonation countdown successfully started.”

A series of beeps can then be heard on the video as students flee the room. More donations to his stream are noted in the video.

“Oh my God,” he giggles after the room is cleared. “We got to go guys …. Dude, you cannot get a better reaction than that … That was not on purpose. Not playing guys … I just made a whole crowd run for their lives.”

He then walks out of the building where he sees people in the quad talking about the incident. He giggles and acts oblivious as people discuss what just happened in the building. He then walks off campus.

“Yo Arab Andy … Sorry bro. Stay safe LOL,” a donator’s comments are announced on the speakers.

Police and fire trucks begin to arrive. Arab Andy films it all.

“Holy **** dude. It’s not even a bomb guys,” he can be heard saying on the stream. “Prank gone wrong guys. It wasn’t even a prank dude.”

The video shows police officers finding him at University Avenue and 42nd Street.

“Hey! Get on the ground right now! Don’t make any sudden movements,” an officer yells.

“What’s going on? I’m recording bro, if you are going to shoot me,” Arab Andy says. “What are you doing, bro? Put the gun down. What are you doing, bro?”

“That’s fine … record all you want. That’s totally fine,” an officer says. “You are being contacted for a bomb threat … on the ground. Lay on the ground.”

“That was DTS, that was a donation,” Arab Andy says.

“On the ground,” the officer continues to say and instructs him to put his hands behind his back.

“Come on bro, I didn’t do anything,” Andy says on the video. “Bro? Look at the video bro, I recorded it.”

“Good,” the officer says.

“This is F***** bro. You’re going to arrest me for nothing bro. Come on, stop bro. That’s not fair bro. Bro? Bro stop. Listen bro. I’m sorry, listen bro. This is like assault bro. This is a YouTube livestream bro. It was a donation. It was a donation to media. Somebody donated two bucks and it played some ****.”

The video goes blank as officers take his camera. Audio can still be heard as Andy is told that he is being detained and that someone followed him out of the building and reported him to police.

As Andy is being detained, viewers in the livestream begin commenting that cops are racists and that Arab Andy did nothing. They play anti-cop music. Other commenters play “Bomb countdown started” audio clips. Other audio clips continue, telling the cops to kill themselves and that they are pigs.

Eventually, the livestream stops.

That's at least 26 bros.

Other audio clips continue, telling the cops to kill themselves and that they are pigs.

this is fair and all but still fuck these numbskulls

is there no way to discuss this general topic without putting "tards" up at the top of SNA?

guys I'm not sure this internet thing really worked out

xp: Doc, I think that's a reasonable request.

2000AD comics characters are real

thanks, how's life/mods.

twin 13 y/o russian-american brats that i tutor (with aspirations of themselves becoming 'social media influencers' as primary source of income wtf have we come to) opened my science lesson the other day with a bold flat earther gambit. turns out they have been listening to shane dawson's recent conspiracy theory video with his brother. millions of views, mostly children, mostly rapt by every word tumbling out of these cunts' mouths

I kind of wish I hadn't read this:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/ice-poseidons-lucrative-stressful-life-as-a-live-streamer

An 18-year-old former youtuber named McSkillet who apparently specialized in reviewing expensive CS:GO skins drove his McLaren 100 mph the wrong way down the 805 in San Diego yesterday, killing at least two innocent people.

https://fox5sandiego.com/2018/08/23/fatal-8-car-crash-closes-all-lanes-on-northbound-805/
https://www.dexerto.com/csgo/csgo-youtuber-mcskillet-reportedly-killed-in-crash-involving-his-mclaren-super-car-147041

That New Yorker article is really compelling. Would make for a good film.

The part in this Reply All episode about the Youtube vloggers convention and the teens freaking out for their idols is nightmarish (but also seems inevitable as a thing & makes me feel very old)
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/125-all-my-pets#episode-player

omg these people who read books aloud on Youtube with the camera pointed right at their faces.

links plz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-BBfWbVN38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_Vry4Zxd0

weird. the first one seems like an absent dad who made it so that he could "read" to his child over the internet. second one seems like a more institutional/branded one-to-many version of the same thing? i.e. a substitute for an actual parent in the room

old-time UK TV also offered this species of broadcasting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb5ndRhEzf8

This thread made me remember that the Holderness Family exists. Gpd, they are such trash.

Jackanory theme another classic example of 70s BBC children's TV's hauntological goldmine

LEAVE THE HOLDERNESS FAMILY ALONE

ice poseidon should be banned from everything for telling mentally ill people not to take their medications

Holderness Family is absolute garbage. Anyone doing that to their kids is garbage.

The parents have insanely punchable faces.

We haven't said the name Jenna Marbles on ILX since 2014, but she peaced out from YouTube following criticism over videos of hers where she was racist. Now the dominant narrative I saw on Twitter is that "these videos were all from the early 2010s and she deleted them and apologized long ago, and has since grown as a person" but I haven't watched a million Jenna Marbles videos, so I don't know. But she is a huge force in the YouTube vlog thing community. I only found out because my daughter has gotten into YouTubers, so I follow their accounts and some of them were definitely shook up about it.

Very popular OG YouTuber #JennaMarbles is ashamed and embarassed because of her past problematic videos, including doing blackface, being racially insensitive towards Asian, slut-shaming and more. She just announced she's leaving YouTube. And she may never come back! pic.twitter.com/UnL6kZZrfQ

— Perez (@ThePerezHilton) June 25, 2020

her apology seemed very genuine to - she made mistakes, did things which she acknowledges were wrong and that's she's ashamed of. faced into them directly and apologised

I think her videos are really funny, and her relationship betw her, her husband and their dogs is genuinely sweet

even Hitler loved his vlog

Was there an ILX mention of the assholes who “rehomed” their adopted son?

Get a load of all the fuckin' army dudes leaving Jake Paul's house.

https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/05/jake-paul-home-search-warrant-fbi/

Surely that's not just because he threw an unmasked party? See some rumblings on Twitter that for that kind of response it's either serious drugs or underage girls, but maybe the FBI is just bored too.

yeah this is going to be for some serious shit for sure. drugs, illegal pornography

he was involved in looting during a protest

One day he's going to be convicted of something unforgivable like war crimes, then on his way to the chair he'll tell the executioner it was just a prank, bro, and everyone will laugh and he'll be released from jail and elected president the next day.

ok our fascist police state isn't *all* bad

'I Committed Every Capital Crime In 24 Hours'

my favourite scuzzy celebrity gossip site crazy days and nights posted this at 07:00am today: "One of the bigger YouTube stars on the planet is not only a huge drug dealer, but is also distributing porn with unknowing participants"

lol I never heard of this dude before today, but I guess Youtube stars still need a side gig

he seems to have a mansion, those things are fairly expensive

lol I never heard of this dude before today

Jelly.

lol I never heard of this dude before today, but I guess Youtube stars still need a side gig

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, August 5, 2020 9:15 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think he first came to the attention of grown-ups via the conflicts with neighbors at his previous home.

https://www.businessinsider.com/viral-video-star-jake-paul-turns-peaceful-neighborhood-into-war-zone-2017-7

Also, his brother got in trouble for doing a youtube where he visited Japan's "suicide forest" and posted a video of a dead body:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42644321

Dealing pills for the lulz would be very on brand. (Most of the Paul-aged drug dealers I knew didn't need the money for that matter.)