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I hate to say it, but most successful guys on youtube are good looking too. It's an entertainment thing in general, regardless of what we feel about merits.

• onion2k 9y ago
  The number of people who see Tom Scott's channel and suggest he wouldn't have a million subscribers if he wasn't as handsome is close enough to zero to be negligible. People believe that his success comes from his content rather than what he looks like. It's perfectly reasonable to assume the same is true for channels hosted by women. We could be wrong, just as we could be wrong about Tom's subscribers, but everyone's better off for it so maybe being wrong is fine.
  • croon 9y ago
    Which is why I said "most". Exceptions don't disprove the concept.
    • onion2k 9y ago
      There are thousands of popular science and "nerd" channels run by men and none of them are assumed to have got millions of subscribers because of how they look.