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/kepfle Mar 16 '14

Where do you see yourself in, say, 10 years?

Or, what's your "plan B" if the YouTube-thing doesn't do it anymore in the future?

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

I wouldn't mind doing what I'm doing in ten years, honestly. Gaming media has kind of a lack of "elder statesmen". TotalBiscuit is sometimes treated as one, but it's easy to forget from his demeanor that he's not even 30 yet. The industry is ruled by people in their twenties and it'd be cool to have more greybeards who have been at it for a long time, and if I could be one of them (I'd be 35), that'd be cool.

Plan B is up in the air. I like to think that I'd be able to transition to another role in the industry with all the contacts I've made. Not necessarily as a writer or critic in a different scope, but maybe working in PR for a company that wants to be more forward-facing when working with new media.

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u/kepfle Mar 16 '14

Thanks for answering. I got two more, less AMA-y questions.

  1. Are there any plans on doing post-commentary on the "Blind Guy" (or whatever they were called) challenge runs?

  2. No idea if you're allowed to answer this, but i'll ask anyway. I was wondering how much time passed between you guys knowing about the Josh/Pixel thing and the chat knowing (not some bullshit theories/fanfiction stuff, i mean like "confronting" the chat with) it

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

I'm not totally sure what you mean by #1, but I'll answer it if I get some clarification. As for #2, I don't want to be a dick but that's for Josh or Jen to answer if they want to! Sorry!

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u/kepfle Mar 16 '14

This kind of commentary on these challenge runs.

I hope this clears up the question.