The fastest way to grow on YouTube is making controversial or outrageous content that triggers reaction videos, social shares, and news coverage. Sam Pepper's ISIS prank video got over 100,000 petition signatures, many from people who watched it first. The speaker warns against copying this strategy despite its effectiveness.
So you're probably looking at the title and thinking, this can't be true. But in a way, the title of this video is actually pretty true. And I don't know why I'm pointing up there because over half my views are on mobile, so it's actually down there. Uh, knowledge. So to cut straight to the point, the best way to get free unlimited subscribers is controversy.
Antonio Moniz.
Controversy equals views on YouTube. The videos are so controversial. They know that when people read that title, they're going to click on it and they're going to tell other people. If you want views on YouTube, sadly, the best way is just to do something so stupid, something so ridiculous that people have to click on that video and they have to tell people about it. I'm going to say it again because I want you to remember it. Controversy equals views. If you really want views, Do something stupid and it will get views. That's how YouTube works. You see, when you upload that video, some other YouTuber's gonna watch it, and if it is really stupid, that YouTuber's gonna make a video on it, then other YouTubers will see that and make videos on it, and they're gonna tell other people, they're gonna tweet about it, they're gonna share it, people are gonna talk about it. Controversy is views. Let me say it again. Controversy on YouTube is how you get views, and views equals subscribers. Now I can— now I kinda wanna change the topic a little bit and talk about our response to controversial things. All his other videos in that let's play only only have 100,000+ views because we gave it that attention. You know, some of the blame honestly falls on us for bringing so much attention to it. And, uh, Sam Pepper's ISIS prank video, someone started a petition to have that video removed. That petition has over 100,000 signers. Do you think those 100,000 people saw the video? No. Most of those signers saw someone shared the petition on social media, like, hmm, what's this? Looked up the video, watched an ad, watched the video, then signed the petition. Like all this stuff we're doing, uh, it's just, it's just giving them attention. We're just playing into it. Now don't take me out of context. I'm not saying that's the only way to get noticed. Like freaking Faze Rain has 2 million subscribers. He's the most genuine and, you know, non-misleading person on YouTube and he's pretty big. So you can obviously get somewhere on YouTube being, you know, normal and stuff. I'm just saying if you really want views, sadly the truth is you got to do something so stupid and controversial that other people have to talk about it. And when they talk about it, that's just more views for you. And it's just going to keep repeating itself. And it's just the world we live in. You know, we're, we're obsessed with violence. We're obsessed with that type of stuff. And we don't really— we shed light on the— when people do good things, but we don't shed light on it enough. Not as much as we talk about negative things. So there you go. That's the video. Hopefully you learned something. Hopefully you didn't. Don't do what I talked about in this video. Anyways, I'm rambling.
