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There's a great deal of luck involved. Casey is a curious case of someone who is not interesting, deep, gifted or talented at anything, and yet has a massive au

There's a great deal of luck involved. Casey is a curious case of someone who is not interesting, deep, gifted or talented at anything, and yet has a massive audience. With Casey, he was doing online video, when so few people were, that anything could become a smash hit. His other hits have to do with him already being an established name. It is not unlike Dan Bilzerian - except Dan openly admits he got very lucky to end up where he is at, and so there aren't articles being written on how to become the next Dan or use his 'poker strategy', or maybe there are, I wouldn't be surprised :)

thoughtexplorer 8y ago
Always someone with this shallow and dismissive explanation for someone's success. You don't luck your way from the couch to being able to create such content and do so repeatedly. Clearly he put in his 10,000 hours to get there. The videos are very carefully edited and years of experience helps inform that. Even in the case of Dan, there was probably thousands of hours of poker that came before.
packetslave 8y ago
Disagree strongly that Casey is "not interesting, deep, gifted or talented at anything". He's a professional filmmaker who did plenty of TV and commercial work (including selling an 8-episode TV series to HBO) before ever getting into YouTube. His "secret" was bringing his experience with professional cinematography and production values and applying them to a medium (vlogging) that had historically been very much an amateur game.
- holografix 8y ago
  I have watched a few of his videos through my partner being a bit lonely without a job since we started living in a new country without knowing anyone. He does a great job of being conversational and mostly positive. It definitely gives lonely people a boost. Plus he took a chance at the right time and to paraphrase Peter Thiel “why compete with the herd and try to squeeze through a tiny window? Just walk around and go through the large gate no one has noticed or thought glamorous enough”. The world is littered with pretty good videographers, Casey is a pretty good one that walked through the big YouTube gate instead. Now their are countless sheep following suit.
canada_dry 8y ago
You're getting down voted, but hey - I don't get it either!! The guy is utterly unremarkable and I don't get his popularity at all. But then Jake Paul also has millions of viewers which also defies all logic IMHO!

thoughtexplorer 8y ago

Always someone with this shallow and dismissive explanation for someone's success. You don't luck your way from the couch to being able to create such content and do so repeatedly. Clearly he put in his 10,000 hours to get there. The videos are very carefully edited and years of experience helps inform that. Even in the case of Dan, there was probably thousands of hours of poker that came before.

packetslave 8y ago

Disagree strongly that Casey is "not interesting, deep, gifted or talented at anything". He's a professional filmmaker who did plenty of TV and commercial work (including selling an 8-episode TV series to HBO) before ever getting into YouTube. His "secret" was bringing his experience with professional cinematography and production values and applying them to a medium (vlogging) that had historically been very much an amateur game.

holografix 8y ago
I have watched a few of his videos through my partner being a bit lonely without a job since we started living in a new country without knowing anyone. He does a great job of being conversational and mostly positive. It definitely gives lonely people a boost. Plus he took a chance at the right time and to paraphrase Peter Thiel “why compete with the herd and try to squeeze through a tiny window? Just walk around and go through the large gate no one has noticed or thought glamorous enough”. The world is littered with pretty good videographers, Casey is a pretty good one that walked through the big YouTube gate instead. Now their are countless sheep following suit.

canada_dry 8y ago

You're getting down voted, but hey - I don't get it either!! The guy is utterly unremarkable and I don't get his popularity at all. But then Jake Paul also has millions of viewers which also defies all logic IMHO!