# So, should I try to be a YouTube star?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-should-i-try-to-be-a-youtube-star/701788>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 19, 2014, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-should-i-try-to-be-a-youtube-star/701788 "2014-10-19T11:37:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-should-i-try-to-be-a-youtube-star/701788/41 "2014-10-25T01:20:13Z")

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> [@Aeschines](#):
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> I should have done something really _big_ in life by now at age 43, and I don’t feel that I have. I ain’t earned the million bucks. **I ain’t achieved fame.**

There are **7,000,000,000** people in the world. Fame, almost by definition, can’t be everyone’s. Probably well over 99 percent of people go through life without ever becoming famous.

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