I'm only interested in whether the yt corner is gonna be a staple or not because from the way nick talks about it even on his legoland night stream, he says he still has to see if he gets invited back to AM for 2024 or not. He's practically the reason it exists so he should be the one running it and he was..so why is it still always looking like a 'maybe' after 4 years (3 cons?)
It's giving me the impression that AM doesn't really care if the YT corner exists or not? So if none of the ytbers approaches them and say they want to run it for 2024 it doesn't happen? That's what I'd like to know. Cause if that's the case and Nick has to be the one that says "let's have one this year" but Nick also doesn't want to organize things (you know he just wants to arrive and sit, have his balls licked by fans and then leave)...who's gonna really keep it going?
Nick may be the reason YouTubers have a place at the con, but Vic is the reason Nick exists at the con to begin with. One of the two has a longer shelf-life than the other.
If a YouTube corner is to exist in its own right, the best bet for AM would be to promote people who have something to do with the theme of the convention (that being anime or at least animation). People like Nick are only topically relevant and should be cycled out accordingly.
Critical Drinker may have been the most popular YouTuber in the corner, but that was a very low bar. He blends in with the rest of the pop-culture critics on YouTube and their talking points are largely the same, with hot takes like "Why Modern Movies Suck - The Strong Female Character" (image below from Critical Drinker's channel).
People seem to like CD, likely for the same reasons they like pop-culture critics like Nerdrotic. They know their audience and are thereby able to play it safe while covering popular media that is already being talked about (or to death) by their peers. In any case, their formulaic content is working for them at present.
As Youtubers go MeatCanyon made sense in that he is at least in animation, but he also got his own space apart from the YT corner.
If AM wants to have a more robust YouTube section, recommend getting more content creators who are there with a real purpose and whose experience in marketing themselves goes beyond just showing up on someone's live-stream and chasing trends on YouTube.