Sournale Presents
One of my favorite hobbies that I do on YouTube when it isn't editing or uploading videos is
exploring the accounts of random everyday people to do this I usually just go into the comment
section of a random video sometimes even mine scroll down about 10 pages and just look as there
are hundreds of people who wrote Whatever was on their mind about the video sometimes their about
page contains quirky senses that were probably some inside joke for friends some are just
explaining who they are what they do in this world but most of the time it contains nothing in fact
most of the unknown YouTube accounts that I browse through 8 out of 10 times usually have nothing on
them no playlists no videos no channels absolutely nothing except for the name profile picture which
is usually just the default first letter of their name and when they made the account
foreign
now call me a bit obsessive but I am absolutely obsessed with the common man I love the idea of
just seeing random people of all ages whatever gender ethnicity or personality random patches
of people who somehow made it into the spotlight and what better way to see this than on the tens
of thousands of YouTube accounts look up a random name on YouTube Eminem just pick
one filter them through the channels Tab and you will probably find someone with that exact name
the common man is everywhere on YouTube and I'm all for it because before YouTube well
there was Newgrounds and Facebook but before any of that before the internet even existed
the common man was as expected very unknown in a lot of rare films going back to the late
1800s most of the people in these are not known their names have been lost the time
their personality their identity what made them unique in this world unless famous is all but a
race only what they looked like at that moment is all people today will ever know about them
but now YouTube exists where your average Joe can set up a YouTube page write some
stuff about them if they choose and if incredibly lucky they might be more known
foreign ER was my mom but after that early subscribers who weren't family members of
mine and also had public subscriptions on saw a very different sour nail compared to now some of
these people include Brad Broman who subscribed on the 21st of October Jay games who was a fifth
grade friend of mine that I haven't talked to in years Cameron Smith who I think was a friend of
mine I'm not sure I can't remember but the first subscriber that I have the first one that at
least has public subscriptions on and two wasn't a friend or family member was someone called Apollo
storm who subbed to me five days after my channel was made Apollo is still subscribed to me today I
don't know if he still watches my videos that's impossible to tell I don't think he's commented
once on my videos but Apollo storm if you are somehow watching this nearly six years later I
am both surprised and amazed that you are still with me you are one of the lucky few who truly
got to see how my content changed over the course of a half a decade I thank you for staying with me
if you even are but most importantly I will never know who you are you seem to be an old-timer who
joined in 2006 but that is all I know about you and honestly I'm down to keep it that way
in my eyes there are two types of dead ghost-like or irrelevant YouTube channels there's the account
where at one point in time they were famous and well known a mere husk of its former
glory now utterly forgotten either due to no longer uploading uploading videos that no one
wants to see getting canceled or just simply being no longer interesting to people in the
public eye channels where despite their large sub count get videos with views that are four
digits a YouTuber friend of mine Terror also likes to look at the unknown everyday Channels
with me I've already shown this channel in a clip half a minute ago but we also like
looking at this channel called Loni dos Lonnie dos I don't know this man at his Peak had 930
000 subscribers about five times my channel size right now and he used to get at one point tens of
millions of views nowadays though despite his frequent upload schedule he he sometimes can't
even get more than a thousand views I'm not even dissing this guy by the way I don't really have an
incentive to hate on him rather me and my friend like to use him as our example of the question is
this gonna be our Fae on YouTube is this how we'll go down if we don't get canceled or even killed is
this how every YouTuber will end up if they still make content for decades Loney dose never got the
taste of a million Subs by the time he was at 900 000 his Fame dwindled is this gonna be how I end
up one day me and Tara have reached the spotlight of YouTube Fame how long can we stay there
and of course there's the other type of ghost YouTube account the one that never got successful
in the first place it's the one that was never even planning on being a YouTuber of course
I'm talking about the viewers all of the people you are looking at right now make up 99 of all
YouTube accounts simple common everyday users who only have an account to either comment or
just post random videos they felt like making not with any success in mind these people are
everywhere and yet no one will ever know or see them they are the silent majority they are what
makes the famous YouTubers well famous there is quite often so many of them that they are instead
referred to as just guys I don't do that because I don't prefer treating you guys like that oh wait
but it's true it is just downright impossible to know every single one of these people we
all use the same platform and maybe even watch the same videos but not a comment below or above
will ever get to know each other unless they plan on being a YouTuber they will forever be a ghost
speaking of feeling like a ghost I want to briefly touch on the subject of parasocial
relationships a lot of people have started to recognize it and talk about it so here's my take
if you don't know in YouTube definition it's the relationship between the Creator and fam
sometimes healthy sometimes not in the position that I am in nowadays it is absolutely surreal
to have felt both sides of the spectrum I think I have a healthy fan base even if I don't actively
talk to each of you on a regular basis you make your jokes talk about the video and generally are
well behaved good little viewers gold star for you but then I see YouTubers like Sniper Wolf and God
Mr Beast and I look at the comment section and it's just hell it's just pure hell not because
the comments themselves are of bad quality it's because the comments on the videos feel
quite personal like they love the people behind the camera not the video itself it's kind of
hard to describe you just have to look at these comments to get that feeling it's uncomfortable
to read these because I think that both of these people are quite aware of how insane their fan
base is I can't talk though like I'm wise about these relationships because I do the exact same
thing even today I love channels like Markiplier he's funny he's an awesome guy and he makes great
videos but how do I know I like the guy I know quite a lot about him as I've been watching him
since I was five but he very likely has no idea who I am I don't doubt one bitty is a nice guy
all around but again I just can't know for sure I only know him via face cam on the corner of a
game he plays chair [ __ ] simulator I remember I would feel really happy inside whenever a much
bigger YouTuber recognized my comments but now with the experience I have today looking
back at it there's just nothing deep about this it's very shallow and yeah Markiplier
is the only YouTuber I like there's plenty of channels that I either used to or still
watch that doesn't just feel like some online stranger talking about whatever but a friend
it's best you try to quickly get out of a situation like this if you find yourself in one
one day I will be irrelevant where I am literally only known for being someone's
childhood or something like that it could take years it could be right around the corner who
knows but every YouTuber every celebrity really through the passage of time will someday no longer
keep up with the spotlight all channels will die and new channels will take their place Okay so
we've gone quite off topic so to end this video I used to watch a channel called cliche gaming
he was a YouTuber that was around my age at his Peak possibly even younger Christ cliche gaming
he made Gmod videos that would get tens of millions of views he still uploads but
now he is only known for being that YouTuber that everyone used to watch as a kid without
actually talking about the video itself even if he hasn't made a Gmod video in years people
never stop talking about it in his newest videos he is only known for being a relic of
the past it's nice being famous in the online world let's see how long I can make this last
what surprised me the most was how you are sort of brought up onto a pedestal
and people Revere you and there's this big Surge and then all of a sudden they
want to immediately label you as a relevant thing as soon as possible this person can't
be a multitude why does it have to be this are the views so sorry [Music]