Introducing "World 5 List" - Bringing the YouTube World to Steemit!
Hey my name is Rene and I'm from Amsterdam. I was made aware of Steemit by my good friend Angelo @theywillkillyou who is running what is currently one of the newer blogs on this platform. Like Angelo, I am a producer of another YouTube channel called World5List, which is slowly but steadily closing in on 1,000,000 subscribers (it's currently sitting at around 750,000 subscribers right now). I'll be working closely with him in trying to bring our subscriber bases over to the awesome Steemit community. We both see a lot of potential in this new social media outlet and hope to do what we can to raise awareness and make it grow! Additionally, with my years of experience in YouTube and coaching other YouTubers, I'd be very happy to answer any questions to help other YouTubers on this platform.
To give you a little background about myself, I'd been having a pretty successful online poker career for about 8 years, playing mainly heads-up no limit hold 'em (for those of you who know what that means), when a few years ago I went to Vegas and rented a room from a former poker player who got me interested in YouTube. Thus, World5List was born! https://www.youtube.com/user/World5list
One of the biggest benefits of my current job is that it allows me to travel a lot. I just got back from a month-long baseball road trip throughout the U.S. and Canada; going to games in Chicago, Saint Louis, Atlanta, Washington, New York, Boston, Toronto and Cleveland. In the last year alone I have also been to Belgium, Belize, Germany, Miami, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Austria, Croatia, and Greece, all of which was topped off by an awesome trip to Colombia with Angelo.
The trip to Colombia was a special one in many ways. Angelo and I spent 5 days with Pablo Escobar’s former top assassin, Jhon Jairo Velásquez aka “Popeye” in his hometown of Medellín, Colombia, which you can read more about here: https://steemit.com/youtube/@theywillkillyou/escobar-uncovered-5-days-w-pablo-escobar-s-top-assassin-sneak-peek
Angelo and I have both decided to document this trip not only on YouTube but on Steemit as well, providing you guys with details and footage that won't be published anywhere else (including YouTube!). Popeye is responsible for orchestrating over 3,000 murders, racking up a personal death count of 300, for which he served 22 years in prison.
To make a long story short, Angelo was on a few calls with him and then we just dove right in and flew to Colombia without really knowing what we were getting ourselves into, which I can promise you made for some pretty interesting footage and storytelling!
In my first few blogs I will be writing extensively about this trip and when that's done I will decide (with your guys' help), what direction I will be taking this in! Angelo and I have been in talks about interviewing another high profile criminal, so who knows...
Welcome! Great to see you posting.
Welcome buddy! It's fun here :)
Let's see what the fuzz is all about... ;)
Hey Rene, welcome to STEEMIT! As I shared with Angelo on his intro post, it's impressive how far you also managed to get on YouTube. We mostly gave up on our channel as we were about to break 100K subscribers back in 2011, due to all the censorship and demonetization issues we already faced back then (now, as I'm sure you're well aware, more commonplace than ever).
It's also great that you want get other YouTubers to discover the STEEMIT "light at the end of the tunnel" as well! To that end, you may find some of the materials I referenced in my recent "YouTuber's Guide" post helpful for yourself and others as you attempt the still not-so-easy task of explaining to them what STEEMIT's all about. For some, it almost seems "to good to be true" that you can earn money just by posting, and without any adverts whatsoever!
Link: YouTuber's Guide to Re-Monetizing with STEEMIT!
Both of your channels have some really great content, and I definitely see the "cross" influence between your two channels from your collaboration. You'll also find a great and proactive community of people here, as opposed to many of the nasty 12 year olds comment trolling on YouTube!
Again, to both of you, welcome to STEEMIT, glad you've found your way here, and I dunno but if that first "hit" on Angelo's intro post isn't incentive enough to the potential of "STEEMIT", I dunno what else is. Just imagine once you each get to a "whopping" 1000 subs! lol 😎
Thanks for the encouraging words. What was the channel you were running?!
Our main channel was vlogolution. I still have screenshots of our sub and view counts from those days for posterity (one of our videos alone, at the time, had over 30 million views)! lol
I've always wondered how far we could have gotten there without so much resistance from the YouTube "powers that be". But then again, seeing what's happened the past year... like Alex Jones, imagine having budgeted millions expecting a certain level of income from YouTube, and then it evaporates overnight. Of course, all the more "incentive" to "keep your nut low". I actually wrote a bit more about it in a comment on Anegelo's intro post if you're curious.
Why did you delete the channel all together though?!
we didn't delete it. you can click through and see it's still there. we just haven't really posted any new content on it because nearly everything we posted would be immediately flagged down and/or demonetized as "inappropriate". for example, forget about demonetization, they completely pulled our "I'M OUT OF TOILET PAPER" video off our channel (and other videos as well). At the time, that one video was earning around $150/day on average! However, it still exists on a copycat channel (it's our user name but spelled with I's instead of L's)! For some reason, they never felt the need to remove that copy, despite numerous requests while ours was still live on YouTube!
Ironic, though, how YouTube has no problem monetizing Katy Perry's despicable latest video Bon Appetit, now at 152 MILLION views and counting! So much for "inappropriate for YouTube", if that doesn't stick it right to the gut of every other "hard working" YouTuber, I dunno what does!
Yeah I know we had a video demonetized yesterday that is called: 7 Most Heartwarming good deeds... How about that?!
Hi nice to meet any pointers being on here
Yeah man it's really great nice to meet
Welcome! I've enjoyed the posts I've read from @theywillkillyou so I'm excited to see what you will bring to steemit!
Thanks a lot. Angelo is one of my best friends. I'm super happy he introduced me to this platform! Like I said before I am currently putting together the first blog on our Colombia trip. It's gonna be about the moral dilemma of interviewing a hit men and providing him with a stage and an audience. I expect to have it ready by tomorrow at the latest. Should make for a fun read and will hopefully leave people wondering!
I'm definitely following! I love to travel so beyond your post about Escobar's hitman, I'm excited to see your travels! I'm actually in Italy right now for the first time, I put up a few posts about our adventures in rome, feel free to take a look if you'd like!
Looks like a pretty awesome way to combine the best of both worlds. Travelling to Rome and writing about it on here!
Really can't beat it, outside of being able to earn steem through the posts, it's an amazing online journal of our travels!
Welcome Rene, I think a few days on Steemit and you would be like... what? who? youtube...? what you talking about?
hahaha...
Getting to that point already! :)
Nice to meet you !
Welcome to steemit!
I am also new to steemit
Checkout my blogs @saurabhgupta related to travelling, tech, poems and India's famous monument I I am sure, you will be interested in all such stuff :)
Warm welcome to steemit Rene. I see that in just 4 days you have already started rocking on steemit. Way to go mate! You could be an inspiration to all the newbies like me on steemit.
Following you to not miss any of your interesting posts. :-)
Welcome to Steem @world5list I have sent you a tip
Great to have you here! If you could verify yourself by replying to my comment that would be great.
I'm the 14th comment.
Edit: If you could do it again as I accidentally deleted the comment :/
2nd Edit :D : Verified
Done! :)
I accidently deleted the comment, if you do not mind replying again that would be great, if not I can understand why.
Putting me to work right away... Done!
Lol sorry for that, great to see another big Youtuber here!
welcome to steemit. I am following your blog. Good luck here on the forum.
Thanks a lot. Much appreciated since I'm just starting out. I will have what should be a fun read up by tomorrow at the latest!