Keemstar says small YouTubers should quit?

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His main point is that there is too much competition. He also mentions there there are no original ideas and if you DO come up with an original idea, someone will steal it once they find you had success with it. The latter is a fair thing to say, not the former.

You don't quit because there is too much competition. That is such a stupid thing to say. I HATE THAT SO MUCH. I've been told that most of my life about the career that I want to go for. YES there is a lot of competition, but who is to say you can't compete? You are not those people, but most importantly THOSE PEOPLE ARE NOT YOU.

Although he doesn't come right out and say it, it feels as if he is saying "I'm better than you and I will always be better than you. I know more than you and will always know more than you. I deserve success more than you do because I was here first" (but that's just me being offended lol) Also to be fair, he does say if you are doing it for fun go ahead and have fun-but still. His whole message is crappy.

Thoughts?
 
How about we look at other fields with a lot of competition. Writing: I still see a lot of new successful writers. Music Production: same. Movie Production: same. Youtube is still growing, there's a need for new creators. There are already highly successful people who have stopped, there will always be gaps to fill. Keemstar always seems so close-minded to me, although I don't think he's a bad person probably. (I wouldn't call him a very good person either :p and he's also a big narcissist but still, I'm hopeful) Stealing is inevitable but that's been so from the beginning of culture and art. The creators who have good ideas will always be the most relevant because they're first with the idea and aren't gonna get stuck or stop building on the idea. If an idea gets stolen, these original creators will do it much better or they'll come up with newer and better ideas.

By the way, originality has always been building on top of the works of others. As long as we change as a culture, we'll have originality at our side.
 
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Keemstar only recently started picking up steam because of his ties with Netnobody and Faze Clan etc etc...if you look at his analytics, he had a growth spurt, and not is feeling like he's a big boy.... which in all honesty he is - 3.3 million and growing etc etc -


He essentially said all small youtubers should get out, and then proceeded to bait people to his twitter by asking small youtubers to post a link for him to go through and "highlight"

later, he tweeted there was nothing worth watching.


however, the teenage / young adult crowd eat it up because he's more dynamic than someone like Scarce - they are the TMZ of youtube pretty much.
 
I think you're misunderstanding what Keemstar's trying to say. Because what he's saying is very valid, but stated in the meanest way possible. He started off YouTube as a Call of Duty troll. He loves messing with people and saying what will offend as many people as possible, but still bring up valid points. He doesn't sugar coat anything.

A lot of people make YouTube channels, but only a small percentage of people actually end up turning YouTube into a career. Either some people are just untalented, or they're severely underrated, or they just give up. There's even a lot of kids out there making channels expecting to be the next big thing, yet their content consists of 360p 20 minute long laggy Minecraft let's plays. Those channels aren't going to go anywhere, unless people are watching them ironically, as some sort of meme.

If you make videos that other people are already making, but doing it better, then you can't expect YouTube to be anything more than a hobby. His DramaAlert show is a new idea, in terms of YouTube. Say what you want about the concept, but no one was covering YouTubers like celebrities and exposing scandals in quite the way he was. And he came up with the idea by seeing YouTubers argue on Twitter, he quoted the arguments kinda mocking them and including #DramaAlert in the tweet, his followers loved it, and he made it a YouTube channel. And now look where it got him.

Telling small channels to quit is just an ongoing joke on his Twitter. In one of his twitter videos talking about at it, at the very end he said, one of us is going to be like 'f**k you, Keemstar.' and keep grinding and grinding at YouTube, and eventually show him up. And that person is going to make it. He's not really bragging (well, it's Keemstar, so he might be), but it's just a very blunt point with truth to it.
 
Yeh keemstar said something dumb and worthless, whoda thunk it? Youtube always has and will always be saturated. Music,film,theatre, even non creative professional fields are hard to break into but who cares? people break out all the time. No one should ever go into youtube expecting fame or money of course but that's pretty obvious. Just another boring bait piece by youtubes signature beg.
 
It's in everyone's interest to discourage new channels and not monetize Yt channels under 1k and 4k hrs.

- Less work for the minions screening videos for advertiser friendliness, hence less overhead for Yt
- Put up barriers to entry so only well capitalized creators with a spare 3-12 months can start channels
- Direct advertisements to approved, vetted and safe channels. these in turn would need to be less monitored, hence decreasing costs
- Large, powerful channels have vested interest in this, they will get served more high paying ads, and decreased competition will see the algos promoting their videos more and more
- I hope no one for a second thinks this is about community safety and blah blah bla, it's all about cold hard $$$

And if any of the large approved channels get out of line, with the soon to be implemented platform wide gag order, they're out the door.
 
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