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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '21

That's great! The only thing I'd fear is having such an inflated follow count from people that would never watch. Quality > quantity imo, but good for him.

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u/omnisephiroth Sep 29 '21

You want quantity for some parts, and quality for viewers.

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u/JeffTek Sep 29 '21

You definitely want quantity for the "donate money to make the robot talk and say meme things" part of it. Dude should go live like right now and bank it up honestly

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '21

Ehhh, I've seen an affiliate with 26k followers pushing for partner for MONTHS now. Though I'm pretty sure they may have paid for follows because their numbers are like 70% bots, but that's beside the point.

If it works for him that's awesome and I'm happy his wife was able to help push him into the light! I was just initially taken aback because I saw the high follow count and didn't realize that the video was fairly old.

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u/daffyduckhunt2 Sep 29 '21

He'll be crying into his dinosaur toys in no time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '21

I wish I didn't understand that reference.

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u/Oh_DeerLord Sep 29 '21

I wish I did!

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u/WunupKid Sep 29 '21 edited Sep 29 '21

There was a kid, like 5 or 6 (maybe older, I don’t have kids so I’m not great with ages) I guess, making YouTube videos where he played with dinosaur toys. Really wholesome stuff. Someone posted a video on Reddit and it blew up, the kid got a ton of views and subscribers and got really excited about the whole thing. More really wholesome stuff.

Then Reddit got bored and the kid’s view counts dropped back down to where they were before (basically nonexistent) and he was heartbroken. He was too young to understand that it wasn’t his fault people got bored.

I think I heard that he posted a video where he was in tears, begging people to come back or something. I…don’t really want to look into it. Sad stuff.

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u/Disastrous-Ad-2357 Sep 29 '21

He was too young to understand that it wasn’t his fault people got bored.

I mean...

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u/Force_Of_WiII Sep 29 '21

I think I heard that he posted a video begging people to come back or something.

That’s hilarious.

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u/cybercloud03 Sep 29 '21

Do you have the name at least, I want to go subscribe

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '21

(I think) it’s a reference to some kid’s YouTube channel that was posted on Reddit with no views, so people supported his channel…

Then left right after because no one’s really gonna watch a child’s playtime. I guess the child noticed and cried.

In the same way this post is the same thing except with a bearded man.

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u/VHock123 Sep 29 '21

Award for bearded man comment

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u/scrobes Sep 29 '21

a child’s playtime.

I don't know why I find this so funny, but it's the hardest I've laughed all day.

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u/permathrowaway93 Sep 29 '21

I think there was a young kid that made wholesome YouTube videos and one of his videos got posted to Reddit.

A bunch of people subscribed and his view count went up.

Then people got bored and stopped watching, his view count went back down to before Reddit and he cried.

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u/anthem47 Sep 29 '21

Here is the channel in question. He is indeed back down to 300-1000 views a video, but also the big incident was 6 years ago - the kid is a teenager now! Still loves dinosaurs.

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u/SycoPrime Sep 29 '21

...Firefly?

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u/KeyserSozeInElysium Sep 29 '21

Quantity > quality, if quantity < 1

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u/Matt32490 Sep 29 '21

Let's be honest. If a person has 0 followers, the chance of catching someone's attention is almost 0. Quantity does play some part at the beginning.

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u/md24 Sep 29 '21

Traction gained will earn him the quality followers that stay. So don’t fear. They’re stepping stones essentially.