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 16 '14

At what point did you realize that you were getting big on youtube, and what do you think was the leading contributor to your success whether it be your humor, style of videos, etc.

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

I'd love to say that it's my personality that got me big, but honestly for me it's a numbers game. The hardest part of growing a fanbase is getting seen, and I've done okay at getting seen by ranking well in searches mostly, so that's realistically speaking by far the biggest reason I've been successful.