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

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**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:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-should-i-try-to-be-a-youtube-star/701788/1 "2014-10-19T11:37:32Z")

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You know what bums me out? Everyone in the fuckin’ world is successful but me. OK, that’s obviously not true. I’m very good at what I do (Japanese translation). In fact, I am one of the best in the world. I have made a decent amount of money at times. But my ego tells me 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.

I’m quite creative, however, and I think I could make good YouTube videos. OK, that intro probably makes me seem like a loooooser, and you’re probably thinking, “He’d probably SUCK!” No, but really, I think I could make good stuff. Let’s just assume that for the moment…

So what are the ups and downs of trying to make it on YouTube? I mean, I see an idiot like PewDiePie become a multimillionaire. OTOH, I enjoy challenge videos, and there are a bunch of people who seem to be “making it” with pretty minimal technology. So please disillusion me and give me the Straight Dope. I’ve read a bit online, but the focus of the critique seems to be the major content producers backed by real money who feel that YouTube is a rip (for them, it probably is). How about just one guy who would be happy to make a few tens of thousands a year to boost his income and achieve a bit of that success he feels he’s missing right now?

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