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Always interested in finding out how much someone is making with Google Adsense and HeyJohnScott gives us the lowdown on how much money he's been making with YouTube Shorts. This video was uploaded to his employer's channel ( vidIQ ), but it looks like today is his last day and he's leaving the nest and will be flying on his own. So how much money has he made anyway? Well watch his last video below from vidIQ called "How much shorts ACTUALLY make now (after the update)". He reveals he's made over $20K over on his personal channel which has 315K subs (nice) and just 6 total videos (with most a couple of years old) but around 33 YouTube Shorts. Most of his longer form videos have sparce viewership under 5K views but one older video with a nice total of 231K views. Most of his traffic is from his shorts which get millions of views. Nine of his YT Shorts have over 10 million views each, and one has 43M. The rest are still doing good, just with a smaller viewe...

I think I'm Team Venus Flytrap in this little scenario rather than Team Black Widow. Spiders kinda give me the creeps but I am enough of a "Sigma" to be able to get rid of that creepy-crawler that's living rentfree in your bathroom that keeps you from going in there. The thumbnail for this video caught my eye so I had to watch this one. Its likely one of those "AI thumbnails" that a lot of people are perturbed about, like those created with MrBeast's "inspirational" AI thumbnail offer that had many responding with heated words. Its still a good one though (likely Photoshopped). But you're reading this waiting til I get to the video, so I'll let you watch. I'm wondering if I can take bets on who is going to win this battle of nature? The spider looks robust and scarily big enough to shrug off the little mouthy part of the Venus Fly Trap. But who knows for sure? Let's see... The video was uploaded by TerraGreen who have run...

Good question. If you're Reno and you have a YouTube channel and you feel you've somehow blundered into a 10,000-strong audience, you might ask yourself if you can you make money with a relatively "smaller audience" like this one? How can you compete with all the huge accounts that generate millions upon millions of views like PewDiePie and MrBeast? And he didn't "blunder" into that subscriber count, he posted repeatedly for most of the four years he's had this account, with a 2 year gap when he was swimming in college. Here's a link to his YT channel: Reno James But for the last year or so he's been posting again and getting some traction as now he has 2.2 million channel views and 400-plus videos uploaded. He's put in the work. The video that's below has 40K views and it was posted just 2 weeks ago. It hasn't gone viral but it raises some interesting points if you're looking to monetize your YouTube channel or just l...

You've just uploaded your video to YouTube and now you're watching the view counter crawl upwards as the hours pass. Will this banger of a video finally be the one that breaks through? Will you get 100K views? Or (gasp!) will be the one that generates 1,000,000 views? You have visions of Adsense millions dancing 💃 in your head. Maybe this time you'll hit the jackpot and make a boatload of money while your subscribers and others enjoy your content. Maybe you'll see a record on your first day with the most views recorded in one day, but you think that Mr Moneybags, MrBeast probably has that record too. But, nope. Surprisingly, MrBeast DOESN'T have the video that has received the most views in 24 hours. He did, but then a new gunslinger showed up and stole his thunder. Below you'll find most of the videos that have the most first day views. The video with the most views was the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI (bet you forgot about that one, didn't ...

Break out the tin foil hats boys, because PewDiePie is unplugging from the Google mother ship. He's heading offline. He bought himself and Marzia and the various PewKiddos a cabin far away in the woods, off the grid where he plans on growing his own veggies, raising a couple of chickens and start enjoying the good life. Why the big change? Well, for those who like to keep track of such things... PewDiePie Is No Longer In The Top 10 WHAT?! When? How did this happen? Well, while Felix was living his life and doing Felix things as Felix likes to do, like learning how to draw over the last year or so, we were all co-opted and distracted into subscribing to other channels like MrBeast 's flashy content and other stuff (hey, now he's up to 409 million subs and marching ever closer to a billion). So PewDiePie has dropped out of the Top 10 Most Subscribed list. What's Felix's reaction? To decouple himself from Google and try to live a less scrutinized lifestyle withou...

I don't know if you've seen The Crow or not but this is a dark little gem that needs to be on your list of movies to watch. Or watch again. Starring the late Brandon Lee (yes, son of legendary martial artist Bruce Lee) as the main character, or anti-hero, Eric Draven, who died during the making of the movie after being shot by an improperly loaded prop gun. The film was released after Lee's death, becoming both a commercial as well as a critical success and was based on the comic book series by James O'Barr, which was published in 1989 to much critical acclaim.And the music! The soundtrack was amazing and worked perfectly with the story in my opinion. The movie is about the revenge Draven seeks after being resurrected by a supernatural crow a year after his own death (on Halloween no less) trying to save his fiancée Shelly (played by Sofia Shinas) during her fatal attack in their shared apartment at the hands of a gang of criminals. The crow seems to help Draven and...

Get ready to plunge down the old "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" rabbit hole. Its time for another hoedown with Wayne Brady, Brad Sherwood, Colin Mochrie, and of course Ryan Stiles. Host Aisha Tyler asks the studio audience for a topic and they choose "marriage" as the subject and throws it over to the guys as the music begins to play (courtesy of Laura Hall) with Wayne kicking it off. I can't help but laugh out loud just about every time I watch clips from the show on YouTube and this is a good one. Even Colin Mochrie lost it when Ryan invoked "a young Joe Pesci" causing all to fall apart. When they all composed themselves, wiping away tears of laughter, Ryan tried again but broke again replacing the Pesci line with "a young Abe Vigoda", another unexpected reference. I've been watching Whose Line Is It Anyway? since it first showed up back in 1998 with Drew Carey as the host and mostly featuring Wayne, Colin and Ryan. Aisha Tyler does a...

And here's Asmondgold 's take on The Liver King's threats and arrest. First there's him muttering to the camera about Joe Rogan's "gonna pay" and he's all stealth mode creeping through a house dressed in a black hoodie, with his eyes darting this way and that. He looks deranged in my opinion, but watch Asmondgold's reaction. The "Liver King's real name is Brian Johnson and he had his moment in the sun back in 2021 when the Internet turned their bemused eyes on Johnson who was this weird overly muscled character who ate raw organ meat claiming this caused his "neanderthal-like" build and that you needed to do this too for real healthy living. Here's a Youtube Short video of him sitting down to "eat breakfast". But he doesn't really eat much raw meat in the video, showing distain for actual food like the whole foods, slapping it off the table. After being exposed as a fraud Johnson had been STILL desperately ...

Once again, the pitchforks are out, youtubers are out in force, and boy are they angry, and they're calling for MrBeast 's scalp or at the very least an explanation WTF he thinks he doing. Why, you may ask, because isn't Jimmy the beloved smiling face of YouTube from a content creator standpoint? Here's a quick video from OG Youtuber Phil DeFranco where he covers the main points. Well just like the sudden reputational downgrade Elon Musk experienced recently, Jimmy Donaldson, owner and the main driving force behind YouTube's Most Subscribed Channel (with more than 408 million subs) and it feels like MrBeast poked many youtubers in their collective eyes. MrBeast has apparently embraced the dark arts of artificial intelligence and has found a new way to monetize AI and he is offering you this gift (for the low, low price of your creative soul) and a mere $80 a month so you too can forgo forever the tedious challenges of creating you own thumbnails with software ...

I've been a viewer of the videos of LEMMiNO for a long time now, first noticing his detailed, well-thought out content years ago, mostly his stuff about Space, which has developed into a multi-year, episodic series that I've recommended vigorously to my fellow space-nerd friends. The video below is LEMMiNO's most recent video that he's uploaded to YouTube last May 2024 called "The Unbreakable Kryptos Code" that currently has 7.5 million views. Posting the video here does not detract views or Adsense revenue from LEMMiNO at all, as all views and ad money stays with the channel that uploaded it. Enjoy. Now back to our previously scheduled blog post. Like a lot of the really good content I stumble across, LEMMiNO was a smaller channel with niche-like beginnings (in his case an apparent love for "rage comics"), his content slowly morphed into more thought provoking stuff that he calmly narrated in a soft-spoken, almost ASMR-like Swedish accent. But...

For most, Google Adsense is one of the primary revenue streams available to youtubers and Jenn from vidIQ points out some new options for increasing the amount of money flowing towards content creators on the website. If making more money with your Youtube channel interests you, then take a look at this video that's just been uploaded. It may give you some ideas of where you might expand your online endeavors or maybe grab an idea to put on the back burner to followup with later. These might offer some different ways to help crank up the money-making aspects for you. Of course there are the usual methods of increasing the amounts of money you can generate by getting brand deals or sponsorships, selling merchandise (like t-shirts, artwork), using affiliate marketing (getting a small slice of the pie when someone buys something you've directed them towards), digital products (ebooks, templates, software), or things like courses (but please not any of those lame "I made a...

This video came out a couple of years ago, but those longtime fans and subscribers of the Timothy Delaghetto channel will love to see Tim following up with his lovely ex-girlfriend Iliana from back in the early days of his channel. Tim has dropped his old alias, "delaghetto" and uses his real name these days, Tim Chantarangsu, which is a good thing after all, as he's now a grown-ass man, who's married with a couple of bambinos, plus its a little nod to professionism. He's even renamed his old second channel to Tim And Chia Vlogs where they now upload videos about their family, kids, friends, etc, and keep viewers informed about what they're up to these days. But you're here to watch the video with Iliana below, where she appears on his podcast called "No Chaser", so let's take a look. One thing I have to say is shout out to Tim's wife Chia for being supportive and allowing this video to be made, because at lot of people would put th...

I wrote a blog post earlier this month to support JJJacksfilms where he pointed out to viewers than a huge youtuber named DangMattSmith who has been spamming YouTube by uploading the SAME videos continuously. First, take a look at JJJacksfilms' video uploaded today where he shows the 8th time DangMattSmith has posted the same spammy video. If you scroll through Matt's videos you can see the same videos again and again and again. Unchanged, all with the exact same thumbnail and if you look, the same content. As JJJacksfilms points out, this is clearly multiple violations of YouTube's Terms of Service but maybe the website doesn't really care because Matt has a YouTube channel with 15 million subscribers. Wouldn't that lead one to speculate the website might be turning a blind eye because of all that sweet, sweet ad revenue? What say you Google or YouTube? Here's a link to my blog post called JJJacksfilms Smells Spam In DangMattSmith's Video if you wa...

Zombies, baby! Yeah I know that the director of 28 Years Later pooh-poohed calling those unfortunates infected with the rage virus as actual "zombies", that's how I, and lots of others, see them. This 3rd installment of the 28 Days Later "franchise" was released 20 June, 2025 and was directed by David Boyle who also helmed the first movie. Alex Garland wrote both movies but neither was involved with the 2nd in the series "28 Weeks Later", and Boyle has mentioned that movie isn't really considered canon, even though this one follows the same basic timeline. If you're unfamiliar with the franchise, YouTube channel Looper has posted a handy summary of the movies which will bring you up to date with the storyline. I've included their video below, followed by reviews of 28 Years Later from two YouTube film critics I have been following for years, Jeremy Jahns and Chris Stuckmann . Also there's an interview from Rotten Tomatoes Trail...

Yet another annoying "prankster" has been arrested. This time it was a guy named Kyle Vasquez from Long Island, NY, who went by the name of TommyTuffKnuckles on TikTok where he had around 112K followers (here's his Instragram although he now has zero posts: TommyTuffKnuckles ) who has been charged a couple of weeks back for allegedly breaking into people's house, committing property damage and filming himself being a dumb*ss and posting it all over TikTok and this story just came up in my YouTube feed courtesy of Atozy who posted it just a few hours ago. Take a look and weep for our future. And Vasquez is trying to get his followers to pay the court costs for his trial. Hopefully no one will be donating to his GoFundMe because it's time for him to realize when you F Around, you Find Out. This guy is just one of a long line of nuisance content producers masquerading as some kind of edgy prankster but like the recent case of Vitaly who faces 10 years in a Phi...

I watched this absolute brainworm of a video called Nicolas Cage Wants Cake by (the one and only) Harry Partridge years and years ago and it STILL slaps after being uploaded 15 years ago. So I'm offloading it from my head to yours. Hopefully it'll fester in your brain like it has for me too. Watch. And enjoy. I know, WTF did I just watch?! As I mentioned at the top, this little animated ditty came from the fevered brow of Harry Partridge, who along with this gem (which has 17 million views), has provided his loyal viewers a bunch of animated videos. Go to his channel for the adventures of the Starbarians (Kilgar and Hogstrong) and many, many more animated videos. Just in case you're wondering where this twisted animator got the idea for the video above, its based on the clip below from the 2000 movie The Family Man (with Nicolas Cage and Téa Leoni). "Ta-daaa!" - Nick Cage. This video by Partridge started a whole series of copycats who used it to produce...

Everyone who dreams of making a fortune online uploading to YouTube, Instagram or TikTok is interested when someone with monetized content gives you a peek at how much YouTube pays them and True Crime With Alex just uploaded a video showing us how a youtuber, with 10,000-plus subscribers and 393 videos, is doing. Alex, based in Romania, has been uploading videos consistently for almost three years since August 2022 and she has been concentrating on the "True Crime" niche. Whether crime videos interest you or not, sticking with a niche like this is one of those things all those gurus spout off about (before they try to sell you their course you "have to have to make money online and be successful"), but it can work if you put in the work. True Crime videos can do well, and doing the research shows they pay fairly well if you attract the right audience or market. Just ask Ray William Johnson , who has been posting feverishly about True Crime in recent years with hu...

Looks like someone's using someone else's YouTube content without their consent or permission. What's that called again? Freebooting? Content theft? Well let's take a look at the video first before we level such accusations against someone. The video is called "TOP "Bruce Identity Revealed" Reactions! Batman Begins (2005) Movie Reaction" and it was uploaded today, July 17, 2025 by a youtuber reaction compilation curator with the channel named First Time Watching who has uploaded 715 videos and amassed about 74,000 subscribers and over 57 million views since he started his channel, I don't know, probably years ago if he's posted over 700 video, right? Nope. He created this channel January 2024, so he has been cranking these videos out since then. Looking at his upload schedule the Batman reaction video is the 17th video posted in the last 7 days, so you know our guy has been grinding out the content. Its like he's a machine! Am I righ...

Now this is the type of video I like, where the person uploading the video has something say. This first video was posted back in August 2023 but it still has relevance today. Its from The Act Man , a youtuber quickly closing in on two million subscribers, who has 415 videos on his channel and will be celebrating his 10 year anniversary on YT in two days time, uploading his numero uno video back on June 15, 2015 (congrats!). His bread and butter is usually gaming content but he's not adverse to calling out bad actors online and this was what he was doing on this video. He did balance things out by acknowledging some better reaction content (old H3H3 , and the new, at the time, JJJacksfilms ) but he had to give the stink eye to some other youtubers with "less than stellar" reaction content. So a little recognition and kudos to a longtime youtuber for their hard work. But let's take a gander at this video I mentioned earlier. Its called "The Dark Side of R...

Dunno if you know, but freebooting the content of other creators is wrong. What's this "freebooting" you're talking about? Well, basically it is downloading a video someone else made and re-uploading without the original creator's permission and usually without their knowledge and getting paid. Basically its the theft of the intellectual property of others for one's own gain. Many channels make use of this nefarious activity to divert views from the person who posted the video (on TikTok, YouTube or one of many platforms) and slapping on monetization so you get paid, because Daddy needs to buy that new car, bay-bee! I've noticed some of the videos of Soggy Cereal , a YouTube creator with a sweet audience of 314K who has been posting since November 2022. He has 59 videos up as of today and points out examples of alleged plagiarism, fraud and your usual scam artists. Not just YouTube drama but he's trying to shed some much needed light into some of t...

Yeah, the new Spaceballs 2 trailer's a little slim, a little lean in content, but it looks like the movie, the sequel (or it it prequel?) might hit theaters in 2027. Here's the trailer if you haven't seen it yet. Looks like the legend himself Mel Brooks (he's what, 147 yrs old now) is going to be involved which you love to see. No word who from the original cast which be available, but we know, no John Candy (RIP Barf). Still, hopefully we'll get a smidgen of Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) or at least a cameo. There is so much they could do with this movie given all the time that has passed since the original was released way, way back in 1987.  In case you haven't seen Spaceballs (my goodness you've led a sheltered life, haven't you?), here's the original trailer. There's TONS of clips from the first movie all over YouTube that you can watch to bring you up to speed. Also, one of Brooks' other classics from around the same time "His...

Yeah, I guess I am an immature guy after all because even though I carry myself with the self-assured nature of a mature man, I lose it for jump scares or things like air hork pranks. Here are some new videos that hopefully you haven't seen yet that somehow found their way into my YouTube feed. The best is when you're scrolling and stumble into a good air horn prank and you tumble down that diversionary rabbit hole and then you realize as you wipe away the tears of laughter that you've wasted an hour on this stuff. Take a look. And here's some more. I like the compilation of jump scares. This one has a bunch of air horn pranks. This one always freaks me out. A doll that moves on its own would be scary as anything you could imagine. A dang possessed doll? The later ones in the video linked below of grabbing peoples' feet from under their beds I find really hilarious (which makes me sound like the weirdo I guess) but it is funny and I cannot help but laugh at ...