How This YouTube Shorts Channel Grew to Millions of Views

This is probably the weirdest interview you will ever see, but it truly IS an interview. It just began in email form, and I used my weird style to turn into an AI-driven interview for this video.

Coming up with the LARRY-loves-Chris storyline was contingent upon Chris giving it the OK … I would never do that sort of thing without the subject’s consent.

But it turns out that I think Chris has a sense of humor that is similar to mine, and he seemed really happy with how this video came out!

This was a pretty fun video to make because I got to invent two new AI characters.

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The Full (Email) Story of Facts R Us

Since I paraphrased and, uhhh, dramatized certain parts of my “interview” with Chris of Facts R Us, I’m posting this here for transparency. What was said by Fake Chris in our interview is very close to what he actually said in our emails to each other.


facts r us email chain

Oct 6, 2023, 7:46 PM

I’m going to be making a video in the near future about this kind of content, and I was wondering if you’d be interested in telling me more about this conversation in the screenshot I’ve provided.

If you look at my channel (link below), you’ll see that I’m interested in “debunking” videos that make false claims and cause people to go off pursuing side hustles that will never pay. My most recent video, Top 10 Dumbest Side Hustles on YouTube, is a great example of how I approach these things.

https://www.youtube.com/@piczoid

Any chance we could have a talk or chat sometime? I live in South Korea (transplant from USA) but maybe we could get something figured out.

Hope to hear from you!

Michael

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How much do YouTube Shorts REALLY pay?

This video takes a close look at how much YouTube REALLY pays for views on YouTube Shorts

I noticed something interesting while I was doing research for my previous video, Top 10 Dumbest Side Hustles on YouTube (which I’ve since renamed Top 10 Worst Side Hustles 2023).

The “Make Money Online” channels were trying to convince viewers that a certain channel that posts nothing but YouTube Shorts was earning long-form money. Of course, this is definitely not the case.

Social Blade is a revenue estimation tool that uses publicly available data about video views and applies a low-end RPM range to predict how much any given channel is earning.

BUT … as of right now, Social Blade does not distinguish between long-form revenue and short-form revenue.

This is important because revenue on YouTube Shorts is literally PENNIES per 1,000 views. Long-form content, on the other hand, tends to pay dollars.

Regardless of content type, RPMs can range pretty widely, but there’s no way that a Shorts channel is earning even the low end of long-form money.

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Top 10 Dumbest Side Hustles on YouTube

This is my latest video, and as always, I have high expectations.

BUT … in this case, I actually believe this one’s going to “blow up.” More on that later on in this post.

First, I just want to explain why I made this video and how I selected the dumbest side hustles.

If you’re in the habit of searching for things like make money online on YouTube, you’re going to see tons of garbage. But it all looks so shiny and real.

Spoiler alert, the vast majority of the side hustles you’ll find on YouTube are complete fiction. And even worse, these videos get hundreds of thousands of views, sometimes millions even, and the comments are astounding. People THANK YouTubers for this trash because they don’t realize that it’s all fake BS.

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