I've had a lot of people inspire me to do YouTube, but really it started because I wanted to upload Call of Duty videos, so people like Nadeshot, TheMarkofJ, ExoticMoTion, OpTicBigTymeR and maybe MerK with his Coach MerK series. They inspired me to actually get good at CoD and I wanted to upload videos and basically do what they were doing. Obviously I didn't really end up making CoD videos except for a series on the mobile spinoff which I thought would help me get my foot in the door with a CoD audience but instead I decided to keep doing mobile games.
After that it has been people like L.A. Beast, Furious Pete, GMM, Brodie Smith. McJuggerNuggets did a short series about how to be successful on YouTube that also really inspired me. Those channels don't have much in common with the content I make but they made content that made me feel like I didn't have to be a natural entertainer to do YouTube. Some of those people like the LA Beast or Rhett and Link were not the most polished entertainers when they started but they got better over time and that was what I needed to see to feel comfortable starting YouTube as someone whose social skills were lacking.