Kevin Bell

How To Be Cool When You’re YouTube Famous

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1.5M YouTube subscribers and still cool enough to take a pic.

Here's the story of meeting YouTube celebs in the airport

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Kevin with Youtube Celebs

I was in the airport the other day and saw a group of dudes followed around by a camera crew... This piqued my interest...

I asked the camera guy as he passed "what are you guys documenting?"

He casually said that it was for a YouTube channel called @FamilyFriendsYT...

Me: Cool, what's it about?

Camera guy: A group of dudes playing pranks and stuff... it's NOT family friendly...

I look them up immediately.

Definitely not family friendly, but these guys are crushing it.

Here are the stats: First Upload: March 10th, 2023
69 Subscribers: March 11, 2023
100 Subscribers: March 11, 2023
1,000 Subscribers: March 12, 2023
2,500 Subscribers: March 13, 2023
5,000 Subscribers: March 16, 2023
10,000 Subscribers: March 23, 2023
25,000 Subscribers: April 7, 2023
50,000 Subscribers: May 2, 2023
75,000 Subscribers: May 21, 2023
100,000 Subscribers: May 26, 2023 250,000 Subscribers: June 20, 2023 500,000 Subscribers: October 3rd, 2023 1,000,000 Subscribers: February 19th, 2024

In less than 1 year, they have hit 1 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS. Insane!

Whatever the algorithm is, they have figured it out.

But here's the coolest thing, and something that we all need to take note of:

They took the time to stop and take a pic. They might be "big time", but they're still just a group of dudes having fun making videos.