I'm not talking about those ultra big youtuber like pewdiepie etc. whereby they are already deemed as celebrity. (then again, even famous A list celebrity could 1 day go broke)


I'm talking about those Malaysian Youtuber. Especially those under 1mil subs.

Can they actually sustain? Can they do Youtube forever and if not where can they go in the future or perhaps unemployed and broke?

It is not uncommon for Youtuber to just fall cause it happened to some youtuber (not including those intentionally dropped out like kevjumba etc.)

Basically, such channel would be like Peter Chao. He had millions of views last time and is considered one of the big youtuber during his peak but now... his channel rake in less than 20k views for each video. Not sure if he can still sustain even with 800k subscriber but he still makes video and have side gigs.

There are many more but Peter Chao is the only one came to mind. Anyhow, they are westerner youtubers... they tend to somehow have some side gigs cause media and entertainment is still viable is those countries.


In Malaysia however, I do not think there are much opportunity in entertainment apart from youtube.


Hence how would you guys think these Malaysian youtubers will do 10 years down the road?

Ah kevjumba where he dropped out to become a monk for some religious movement or something.

amy09 How? Got untung?

hahahaha

youtube is just a platform for them to become enough of a public figure to land sustainable income through external payments such as endorsements and promotions.

from there, they can progress onto making themselves more known and create businesses to cater towards their respective audience by selling merchandise or products that they know that their user base wants

furthermore, they can then gain enough capital to perhaps expand their business more broadly and escape the "youtuber" box and become more of a celebrity.

guy i duno....girl can usually come out become high end escort...and my money is ready

This post has been edited by Mondello: Mar 20 2020, 05:04 PM

In western countries maybe la... but in malaysia what kind of celebrity can they become? Influencers?

Yea basically what holypredator mentioned..you treat it as a side thing to do and who knows might open up more opportunity outside than just Youtube

Last time there was a very good channel with good content, communitychannel on youtube. Because of some personal issue, she stops making contents. A lot of YouTubers that I subscribed, abandoned their channel after facing a personal issue. The trick is to use the youtube channel as a stepping stone, to brach out do something else in your life. If you rely solely on youtube, then you are stupid because fame isn't gonna last forever. Even the most popular idol group will be out of favour aftera couple of year.

chao outside madafaka

if their content is doesnt have the commerce value, the pay is little.
Those video that has commercial value are usually videos that talk about medical/ car/ gadgets/ science/ etc.
Only these video is meaningful for businesses to insert their ads

Its tiring..saw 1 of my friend just started doing youtube...editing part is really time consuming.

yes
influencers
malaysia is a great place for influencers since brands are consistently just paying anyone for a post on their social media profiles
the term "influencer" is also so watered down in malaysia since its such a new concept to us
so you can still be an influencer with like 2k followers and get residuals from companies
compared to needing a stricter regime on western medias since they have more "premium selections"

plus, mereisians fall into the sheep mentality
coupled with influencers, these companies can get a lot of exposure
more than what they can usually get with normal mediums
anything can be sold in malaysia as long as theres a cute influencer willing to put their name on it

But youtuber can afford BMW and Benz

youtuber like jinnyboy coming from rich family compared to cardock. The guy really starts from scratch

Most of them said no after adpocalypse thing
Source this tered

Malaysian youtuber hopeless. All ahbengs ahlians

Hopefully their channel die faster

All the Malaysian YouTubers... making those comedy skits

Do people really find it entertaining? If you people had to pay some sort of money to view their videos would you even view it?

I felt like their contents are just like 9Gag's meme post... just to waste some spare time

With or without them... I don't see they make any difference in anyone's life.

ayam remember 1 channel that malay guy yang bagi duit dekat peniaga tepi jalan.. now sure kenot buat video

ekceli how much they can make ?