I really like the critical drinker, it's nice to see him gain he following he always deserved, but I hope he doesn't get dragged down by these kind of pessimistic moaners he's keeping company with. He doesn't need them, he has a good balance in general and at least looks for positives. If I was him I'd start distancing myself, they're hanging on to his fame anyway, not the other way around.
When you get to certain viewer "benchmarks" on YouTube, you are automatically assigned a "content manager"
This is why you'll see people in the same niches cross over to each others videos.
To some degree, the way it's been explained to me, you eventually get cornered if you monetize your videos. Which is why, IIRC, Russell Brand refuses to monetize his YT videos ( His viewer count could probably net him some decent money, i.e. decent to the average person, but he's already famous and wealthy from being an actor) Brand has kind of talked about it a little, that refusing to monetize gives him creative control.
People who make a living as "influencers", that's kind of a complicated grind. You are under constant pressure to pump out content, you are under constant pressure to get a certain number of views and subscribes, you are under constant pressure from your sponsors, if you get them and some of them even get stalked.
I used to know a guy who was a personal trainer, but for the very wealthy. He also spent time in the fashion industry. Basically a really good looking guy in elite shape and had women chasing him all the time. He would tell me that he'd get groped all the time during shoots or runway stuff. Basically the designers and photographers and magazine people and advertisers and whatever, the more powerful ones, would just straight up grope him. Because they knew he couldn't say anything. Or if he did, they could call him a bigot or misogynist or whatever else. He said he would go home and cry alone. But I mean if you met this person, you'd think, "Wow, this guy probably has it all" I mean he was good looking, young, ripped, making good money, had people be "nice" to him in the way really attractive looking people get treated by the general public. But there he was, getting man handled, and treated like a human toilet.
Things only look a certain way on the surface.
It's easy to be Tom Cruise and know if you piss off a million fans, you still have 80 million more waiting somewhere. How about if you are Nerdrotic and you gotta pay your mortgage and you realize you got 20 fans emails last week and now you only got 15 this week.
EmmyMade
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Sometimes I watch EmmyMade videos because she tries out some interesting receipes, and most of the time, it looks like she really wants to cry in front of the camera.
Give people an inch of fame and see how it breaks them. I like Critical Drinker, but if this is how he makes his living full time, it's probably pretty brutal in terms of emotional and mental grind.
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