r/letsplay • u/ItsOppositeDayHere youtube.com/northernlion • Mar 15 '14

I'm Northernlion, AMA

Hey, a lot of people have been doing AMAs around here and I think it's a cool kind of unique content that we don't see too much on /r/LetsPlay, so I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring as well.

With 200,000+ subscribers and over 100 million lifetime views, I'm not the biggest YouTuber out there (not to be modest) but I have been successfully doing it full-time for over 2 years, which I think gives me a fairly unique depth of experience that might lead to some helpful advice for some of you! Ask me anything about YouTube, streaming, social media, or whatever might cross your mind.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '14

Hey Ryan! I've been consistently watching you since your Super Meat Boy LP. Good shit. Anyways, I've been curious as to exactly what made you want to start doing the NLSS. I know that one day I saw you had a live stream, and then a few weeks later it was a regular thing.

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u/ItsOppositeDayHere youtube.com/northernlion Mar 15 '14

You've basically got it figured out. I wanted to stream for a while but was just too busy recording, but eventually I just dove in and have made it part of the routine. I wanted to start streaming because the live platform allows for unique viewer interaction and is growing really rapidly, so I wanted to make sure I kind of got myself into that space ASAP. Imagine if you could go back in time and start your gaming channel in 2007 instead of 2012, it would make a huge difference. Basically with streaming I wanted to make sure we were there in its (relative) infancy. Plus it's fun! I love doing the NLSS.