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> Maybe for his own health it's time to move to another state? He's doing just fine. His youtube rankings are pretty "up there" for that genre of channel. Ther

> Maybe for his own health it's time to move to another state? He's doing just fine. His youtube rankings are pretty "up there" for that genre of channel. There is no way to know how that compares to the repair shop, but I suspect it's at least a comparable income stream. He makes 1st person videos of himself riding around Manhattan on his bike, free-associating and showing abandoned store-fronts BECAUSE it gets clicks-- otherwise it would be a waste of time. There's libertarian edge to it all. It looks like the commenters are heavily populated with red-state doom-scrollers rubber-necking at the "downfall" of NYC. If Rossman would move out of NYC to somewhere else, he wouldn't have as much grist for the youtube channel, would he? He would have to go back to making strictly repair videos, loose his whole staff, and probably have less volume in his repair business as well.

71a54xd 5y ago
Yes, but he's also made numerous videos about how he makes less than a pittance of income from YouTube. Yes, the doom-scrolling applies here, but he's from New York originally and you can tell the amicus is how a place he grew up in is still going down-hill. I was in NYC for all of covid and can confirm that Fox News is full of it when it comes to "rampant crime in NYC" however it's not a perfectly rosy picture either in terms of the recovery of small business and character of the city.
kmeisthax 5y ago
Louis Rossman is one of the few people on YouTube who has over a million subscribers, but less than 1% of them actually watch his content. His YouTube rankings are "up there" because of off-platform factors - i.e. him heading up the Right to Repair movement and getting lots of subscribers for that. If he actually tried to monetize his YouTube channel he'd make very little money, because his videos are nowhere near as popular as you'd think. (Yes, he has talked about this.) You are correct that Louis has a right-libertarian mindset, but I'm going to disagree with you on the "he just shows abandoned storefronts so that right-wingers can circlejerk about the downfall of left-wing urban centers" thing. He's a business owner in NYC, so he sees a lot of bureaucratic incompetence and is willing to complain about it. Like I said, YouTube isn't his actual career; this comes straight from his lived experience in the same way that his Right-to-Repair lobbying does. He's equally willing to shout and scream about landlords jacking up rents, too, despite it being ostensibly "free market"; because it directly harms him and his business. And yes, Rossman is specifically planning to move out of NYC. Like I said before, he genuinely does not give a shit about his YouTube channel or selling outrage bait to conservatives. Hell, for a while he literally had a banner baked into every video asking people to watch on Vimeo instead of YouTube.

71a54xd 5y ago

Yes, but he's also made numerous videos about how he makes less than a pittance of income from YouTube. Yes, the doom-scrolling applies here, but he's from New York originally and you can tell the amicus is how a place he grew up in is still going down-hill. I was in NYC for all of covid and can confirm that Fox News is full of it when it comes to "rampant crime in NYC" however it's not a perfectly rosy picture either in terms of the recovery of small business and character of the city.

kmeisthax 5y ago

Louis Rossman is one of the few people on YouTube who has over a million subscribers, but less than 1% of them actually watch his content. His YouTube rankings are "up there" because of off-platform factors - i.e. him heading up the Right to Repair movement and getting lots of subscribers for that. If he actually tried to monetize his YouTube channel he'd make very little money, because his videos are nowhere near as popular as you'd think. (Yes, he has talked about this.) You are correct that Louis has a right-libertarian mindset, but I'm going to disagree with you on the "he just shows abandoned storefronts so that right-wingers can circlejerk about the downfall of left-wing urban centers" thing. He's a business owner in NYC, so he sees a lot of bureaucratic incompetence and is willing to complain about it. Like I said, YouTube isn't his actual career; this comes straight from his lived experience in the same way that his Right-to-Repair lobbying does. He's equally willing to shout and scream about landlords jacking up rents, too, despite it being ostensibly "free market"; because it directly harms him and his business. And yes, Rossman is specifically planning to move out of NYC. Like I said before, he genuinely does not give a shit about his YouTube channel or selling outrage bait to conservatives. Hell, for a while he literally had a banner baked into every video asking people to watch on Vimeo instead of YouTube.