You tube vloggers

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Firstly I must admit I avidly follow a few vloggers - not the big time ones as they don't interest me, I like the ones with anywhere between 100-10k subscribers (that sort of level). But AIBU to think its just THE most narcissistic behaviour ever?! I just can't get my head around it. Are they really able to make a living off the back of it? Do they have the ability to delete their channels and videos in the future if they wanted?

I dont think you tube by itself pays that well per veiw think its something low like 10p per veiw.

Its the affiliate links that earns more
Ads on you tube and linked social media Insta and fb that bring in real money.

Not many make it huge like zoella, Louise Pentland or joe wickes the body coach.

It can take years to become hig and grow audience.

I watch a variety if you tubers I'm in my late 30a.

Some family vloggers
Some fitness both sides of pond
Younger you tubers like gabby/ just jodes/frock me I'm famous/ and few others openly admit being sent gift cards and presents/ gifts even from low cost retailers like Primark.

Brummy mummy also been really honest about this in the past.

Many seem to be at free events/ festivals or holidays even the ones with below 100k subscribers so clearly it's lucrative.

There's a website called social blade which tells you how much certain you tubers make.

You tube in some ways is worse or as bad as Insta which has had a lot of focus lately.

Never understood it. I’ve always wondered how they don’t feel bloody awkward and stupid filming themselves walking around a supermarket or whatever. It’s absolutely bizarre and self obsessed.

www.brummymummyof2.co.uk/2018/01/10-ways-how-i-make-money-from-blogging.html?m=0

The only one I really watch is anna saccone/sacconejolies
I find them very likeable and down to earth.

My sil watches the saccone jolys and I just don’t get it. The Dad is creepy as fuck chatting to a teenage girl audience, and the kids can’t have any privacy.

Wow the social blade is an eye opener!!

I like Safiya Nygaard for fashion/makeup. And some less tweeny ones like Mike Jeavons and Hydraulic Press Channel. They seem to do pretty well from it. Safiya used to work for Buzzfeed, which gave her the legs up.

Mrs Meldrum was mentioned on the Instamums thread as someone who seems to have a nice lifestyle funded by YouTube

My favourite ones are the ones that make cleaning motivation/seasonal decorating videos. They keep me company whilst doing the housework and their houses are gorgeous. My favourite are, in no particular order, Brianna K, Tara Henderson, Erica Lee, Beauty and the Beastons. I used to like LoveMeg but she has changed a bit since becoming famous.
My favourite beauty vlogger is Zabrena, she is gorgeous and so down to earth.
I like having a peek into other people's houses and lives but I always take it all with a pinch of salt as it's all edited to look perfect, leaving out any hundrum or bad bits, normally. I guess it's a sort of escapism for the viewer and ego trip for the maker. Or something.

My dd was a YouTuber for a couple of years when she finished school. Her channel got massive very quickly and the money was great. On top of the Adsense money, the couple of sponsorships she had were unbelievable for a 17 year old. One company asked her how much money she would like and just gave it to her! She rode the wave, made enough money to start up a company doing what she'd actually intended to do, and now does that full time. So vlogging gave her an enormous leg up in life. It didn't seem unfair, just because she basically was born with several disadvantages that would have made a traditional path pretty impossible.
The website SocialBlade does give fairly accurate representations of the YT money earned, but doesn't show all the extras. Dd is still friends with the biggest YTers like PewDiePie etc, and you wouldn't believe the amounts they make. Truly mind blowing mine, at such a young age.

Mine = money.

Wow regiosnal that's fab!

I followed a very disabled lady for a while. She did mostly makeup tutorials and had a big fan base. She was amazing to watch

I hope she made lots of money

Is this a sly instamums10 thread OP???!!!!!!!

For me the issues are the same............child protection issues around the family bloggers whose children work 365 days a year with all aspects of life (inc naked bath time) online for the world to see..................and the undisclosed ads!!!

I initially came across youtube vloggers when looking for a youtube demo of how to use a certain product, and instead of a company video I found some random housewife showing me how to use it!!!!!

I did get hooked for a while, but to be honest the whole thing has been soured by the attitudes of many after they've "made it big"
e.g. Mrs Meldrum after she joined channel mum etc
-less authentic content
-deleting comments/questions by "followers" ie the whole attitude of "I don't want any negativity" when in actual fact some of her followers have simply asked genuine questions she doesn't like
-incongrency; portraying "I'm just an ordinary mum like you" when in actual fact the woman is a registered company with Company House!!!
-incongruency re: family life: dh and I are made for each other etc when in actual fact back in the day in a Q&A she let slip that she and her then bf broke up, she found out she was pregnant, so they got back together. You don't hear her broadcasting that nowadays! It doesn't fit with the projected image of domestic bliss.
-you get the gist!!!

I understand people whose vlogs have a point like tutorials or reviews but the ones where they talk about their lives or have box openings are weird. The family ones especially, you can just see that the lives they project are false yet some people lap it up.

I watch a lot of let’s plays though...

what is a let's plays? never heard of that before

OP, yes I agree with you! I watch a lot of vloggers, and like a pp, I really enjoy cleaning/house tidying videos, and I find a lot of those ladies quite down to earth, but I have to watch with the volume down, as they all use the same piece of music! and 'Mrs Myers' cleaning products seem to be the only product available outside the uk but I also watch some of the more well known vloggers, and find them incredibly self absorbed. I guess the success, money, and constantly getting asked for selfies from viewers goes to their heads a bit! I do have a crush on one of the famous male vloggers, and have met him a few times, but sometimes he'll do a lengthy vlog just having a chat about all his achievements and I'll think, OMG, this is really narcissistic.
I also find one of the family vloggers has got incredibly boring recently, since deciding to vlog more frequently, it's just trips to the shops and swimming, and their 2 kids look extremely fed up having the camera shoved in their face in an m&s cafe or whatever. I think that is due to them having more success recently, but they have run out of interesting stuff to film. I think it's a tricky thing to balance, as nobody likes it when they get too rich, when it seems like all they do is vlog in primark etc, and the general public can so easily turn on them.

re: primark hauls........
that's an interesting one.............given some that film primark hauls never wear their primark clothes!!!!! it's always gifted or #ad clothing in IG and joules/boden etc in their youtube daily/weekly vlogs!

I do like storage/organisation videos from time to time though.

Mammyoftwo Let’s Plays are where people play video games. It’s a big business.

Twitch is a platform just for this.

I often watch them in there is a really cinematic video game but I can’t afford or don’t have the time to play. I also watch people playing strategy games, everyone has a different way of playing them and it’s a good way to get tips on how to run your games.

I like Safiya Nygaard for fashion/makeup.

I love her challenges. I just watched her video "I dressed like bratz dolls for a week" :D

Apart from that, I mainly watch tech and gaming vids, and stuff around organisation. I used to watch a lot of vlogs but I do find them really dull now. My own life is more interesting haha.

I too find myself watching the microvloggers. I think there are HUGE amounts of narcissism. I find it fascinating when I stumble upon someone vlogging for 10 minutes about their trip to the shops, starting with something like "Hi guys, just dropping this week's vlog about my trip to Budgens" when they have 7 subscribers (mostly their mum and their grans etc) and 16 views (mostly themselves or, er, me) and end it with "So thanks for watching guys, I always try to keep my content fresh and up to date, remember to like and subscribe and leave comments in the box about what you'd like to see me up to my crazy adventures" and then end with some weird gesture or phrase.

I feel like commenting WOW WOW WOW you're the next Tyler Oakley - film us a vlog about your trip to post a letter or go on a bus or recharge your phone.

Someone needs to lampoon this for a sketch show.

The ones who do make up tutorials (there is a lovely and brilliant teenager who does it, she's training to be a beauty therapist, she was in a channel 5 doc, she's a wheelchair user with dwarfism, she's great) or show something like their sport (lots of Commonwealth athletes showing reallly interesting stuff at the mo) or something different about their life or hobby - I think they offer something but who watches a vlog called "buying new shoelaces"?

I love watching Louise Pentland, Emily Norris & brummymummyof2
I wish I'd had yt when I was a lonely sahm
It's a bit like watching a magazine show, and I think they earn their money. Yes they get a lot of free stuff but coming up with content & editing etc must take a lot of time

My husband is a retro gamer, so we watch a lot of those vloggers, along with some techy ones like Techmoan and Big Clive. DH also has a channel.

I also watch a few caravan and motorhome vloggers, just to live vicariously through them, as I'd love to have a motorhome or caravan, but it's not going to happen. And then there are the tiny house vloggers, and lastly a couple of beauty vloggers.

It doesn't make much money unless you've got hundreds of thousands of followers, especially with the changes YouTube have made recently, so a lot of them are also using Patreon to bring in the money.

I've never thought of them being narcissistic, at least not the ones I watch. They just want to share a hobby or be informative.