- Joined
- Jan 3, 2017
Proving that Bob has never had an original thought in his head. To really make it on YouTube, you need a unique "brand," something that differentiates yourself from other YouTubers who do the same thing. Simply copying someone better than you doesn't work; otherwise, there'd be thousands of successful PewDiePie clones.
Some examples I subscribe to:
All of these channels are infinitely more successful and infinitely more pleasant to watch than Bob's channel.
- Our boy Critical Drinker built his brand around being a profane, drunken Scotsman who dares to say what we're all thinking about movies and TV shows.
- Let's Game It Out is a YouTube "let's play" channel based around taking simulation games and pushing the software to its absolute limits, often with hilarious results.
- The Spiffing Brit is another "let's play" channel featuring a spiffing Brit who finds the most overpowered combinations to beat various video games.
- Just Some Guy is a black man from Chicago who does what Critical Drinker does, only he occasionally branches out to other aspects of nerd culture (such as comic books), instead of just focusing on movies and TV.
Sometimes I think Bob looked at the Angry Video Game Nerd and thought to himself, "Ooh, a video game critic who's an emotionally stunted shut-in with anger management problems! I can do that standing on my head!" but never understood that James Rolfe is just playing a character.