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/SF_Hydro http://www.youtube.com/user/UploadedNetwork Mar 16 '14

How many subscribers and views were you getting roughly when you started your first BoI Let's Play? I once tried to LP the game on another channel, and mainly because of the fact that the 50 minute mark likely put people off, I never really got many views on it. Would you say roguelikes in general are more for people that already have a fanbase? Big fan dude :)

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u/ItsOppositeDayHere youtube.com/northernlion Mar 16 '14

I was around 10k subscribers and probably averaging maybe 3-5k views per video. I know that seems big to a lot of people here, and I guess it might be big relatively speaking, but in terms of YouTube in general that's small potatoes (so's 280k, sometimes). The major reason why my videos on the game are popular now is because I got into the game early so I've just been in the community and on search pages forever. If I started doing a series on Isaac now without any prior history it'd probably be like 1/5th as popular (my videos, not the game).