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Online Video

I Smell Mean Kitty’s Litter Tray

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Okay- I can respect the fact that MrSafety (SMPFilms) has the “top favorited” animal video in history (Mean Kitty). People love cats and rap songs, so the video deserves some love (even if 9 million of the 12 million views are from the same IP address, that happens to belong to MrSafety’s mom).

Don’t get me wrong- it’s not surprising that Mean Kitty’s spinoff channel has attracted a decent following. But the moment Mean Kitty’s channel passes me on YouTube’s most-subscribed list, I think I’m going to have to either go dark or light myself on fire in public.

It’s been a while since I’ve worried about who passed me or who I’ve passed on YouTube’s most-subscribed list. It’s not a very healthy well to evaluate one’s self worth. But as the 85th most subscribed YouTuber I’m going to have to pull a serious stunt to keep from smelling Mean Kitty’s ammonia-scented ass, and even falling off YouTube’s top 100 list.

Any suggestions? Preferably something that doesn’t involve a lot of time or showing my boobs.

I take some solace knowing that I’m still the 12th most viewed YouTube comedian (after KevJumba), and will happily drop when MediocreFilms passes me. It should.

But a relatively new channel about a catrivaling several years and 700 plus videos? Nooooooo! And it doesn’t make it any easier that Cory has left me voicemails taunting this very, very sad reality.

I think I’m about 4 minutes away from a YouTube Reviewed “where are they now?” post.

P.S. This iGoogle YouTube channel widget can bring YouTube a little closer to your iGoogle or other page o’ widgets.

 

Online Video

Popular YouTube Star Quits Denny’s. Goes Full-Time.

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Michael Buckley, writer and host of “What the Buck Show,” has left his full-time job as regional assistant director at Denny’s to plunge full-time into online-video entertainment. Read about it in this New York Post article (found courtesy of this relatively new blog, “YouTube Reviewed“). Here are some quotes about his departure from a recent blog.tv show Buckley hosted.

In a phone interview, Buckley told WillVideoForFood that he’ll miss serving Grand Slam breakfasts, and his co-workers and customers. “It made me cry a little bit, and not just because I’ll miss the 30% off employee discount,” said Buckley.

It is exciting to see a person leave a day job to commit to online video, and other YouTubers (CharlesTrippy, Sxephil, MrSafety) are finding their online work brings more income than day jobs.

Note in this interview with MrSafety Tyra Banks announces that Cory (smpfilms) makes $20,000 a month on YouTube. His response: “who told you?” I happened to be in NYC with Cory the day prior, and I hope he doesn’t mind me telling you that the shirt he bought for this interview cost more than my first suit.

Now we just have to figure out how to do this when you have four kids, a mound of debt, and a giant mortgage.