full time youtuber reviews Fake Famous

[@17517319]

“Influencer is the most common answer for “what do you want to be when you grow up”” I wanted to be a singer/actor and most of my friends did too, Influencer is just the new answer

[@Jayfive276]

KZbinrs and such are essentially the new rock stars.

[@alexpaul9678]

Also, we just see the headline that more US kids want to be you tubers than astronauts. Theoretically, those weren’t the only two options and even if they were, I would imagine the reason is pretty obvious. Kids interact with KZbinrs on a daily basis and can engage with a huge variety of subjects (even rocket science!) but how often can they interact with astronauts? “KZbinr” is just such a vague job that i don’t want to make any conclusions about how smart our kids are based on how many kids want to do a job that they have a better understanding of vs something they may not have a real frame of reference for

[@micahcook2408]

Not to mention different cultures and countries value different things. In America it’s what’ll make you the most money so you can be wealthy and happy...... so of course if you see people like Pewdiepie or Kylie Jenner tanking in loads of cash, or you see family youtubers with big houses, of course you’ll want to be that thing. It sucks. You can’t blame children for growing up with what adults put out and/or didn’t fix. If that’s the case our society (or parents) needs to stop valuing money and “working extremely hard with no sleep or food” over everything else lmao when that’s the case there will tons of people who want to follow the hot money maker or cut corners.... foolish.

[@chloemoffett1255]

@@micahcook2408 yes exactly!! kids are smart enough to understand the importance/societal value of money at a young age, so of course they would want to be a youtuber where they could get paid well for doing/talking about something they love

[@solarmoth4628]

Also Technically KZbinr doesn’t exclude any job in particular. Did that survey have sub categories for what type of youtuber? Like the could be a an MUA, Engineer, Doctor, Gamer, Mental Health etc and a KZbinr. There’s so many categories of youtuber that don’t exclude having another job.

[@kurtistownresident9743]

This documentary feels like a high budget fake deep insta video that basically just says phone bad, book good, modern bad, old good

[@Jayfive276]

By the looks of I don’t think they managed even that. I think that COVID just stopped this project in it’s tracks and they cobbled together what they have.

[@micahcook2408]

Or those “how to make more money and work harder!” Ads lmaooo

[@raycearcher5794]

What I get out of it is that this is less a documentary about how celebrity influencers aren't real, and more about how Bilton spent a lot of HBO's money to become a pretty bad social media manager for some poor dumb kids who just wanted jobs.

[@toericabaker]

reactionary thinking!!!

[@moteiangel8315]

we live in a... society

[@liannsmith7317]

“And on Twitter I’m considered annoying” I thought that was part of the terms of use?

[@bodaciousdoggo8971]

I can’t go on Twitter for longer than 25 seconds without being repulsed. Is that just me?

[@ddjsoyenby]

yup also you're not allowed to express emotion aside from anger or d3pr3ss10n.

[@livcaitbff]

You are correct

[@rog2224]

Twitter - the online version of a drunken fight in an alley behind a dive bar, illuminated by a dumpster fire.

[@ddjsoyenby]

@@rog2224 "I WILL END YOUR LIFE!" "but we're on the same side i just slightly disagreed with you" "I KNOW THAT'S WHY YOU'RE MY SWORN ENEMY!"

[@lilbluecaboose]

"Kids want to be influencers when they grow up, we know this because of a survey where they said they wanted to be youtubers!" That's a lot of words to say "I don't know what Minecraft is". Like... I can promise you that the reason elementary schoolers want to be youtubers is because they want to play video games for their job, not because they want to go to the Bahamas with Too Faced or whatever.

[@LP-tf7cy]

Or they are little theatre kids and want to be like thomas sanders, or they like cooking shows and want to do that, or they want to talk about cartoons and movies, or literally any of the thousands of jobs being a KZbinr could be. It's like saying I wanna be on TV, it is incredibly vague and covers almost every job.

[@elenafahmi9955]

@@LP-tf7cy Also, kids just want to be famous in general. Before the internet, they probably wanted to be rock stars, movie actors, stuff like that, but it's the Internet so now it's a problem.

[@gemmamoon5998]

@@elenafahmi9955 I think that’s absolutely what it is. I’m only 18, and even though youtube has existed for a large chunk of my life, the idea of making a career out of KZbin wasn’t mainstream for a while. So most people I know did want to be actors or pop stars. My little sister, only 5 years younger than me, had friends who want to be makeup gurus or KZbin gamers. But it’s fundamentally the same thing.

[@canonicallykayfabe]

Because kids want to do what they love and they see that as an easy way to make money doing it. Not because their mind has been warped into obsessing over likes and all that

[@Roblox-jb2vf]

@@gemmamoon5998 exactly like this 9 year old in my neighborhood was telling me he wanted to be a youtuber because of Coyote Peterson

[@freakette555]

"Kids want to be influencers more than anything else!" Kids have always wanted to be movie stars or pop singers or professional athletes. They like the idea of being famous like the people they see in the media. Kids saying they want to be youtubers is just a modern version of me telling my teachers I wanted to be a singer/songwriter like my favorite american idol contestant.

[@Ross516]

Yeah, I really don't think this is anything new. But the internet is scary and bad, so it's something 50 yr old men can point to and go "Aha! See? Phones bad!"

[@ddjsoyenby]

yeah :/

[@mei1194]

Exactly! Kids have always wanted to be famous, but the only reason why they pointed it out is bc now its influencers and somehow that's suddenly not okay.

[@maurreese]

Exactly!!

[@87idk]

I think the only difference between the celebrity vs influencer for kids wanting to be one is that being and influencer/youtuber/twitch streamer is a lot more accessible than your typical celebrity gigs

[@lulucool45]

danny gonzalez's 2 attempts to fake an identity to become a tiktok star were better planned than this 😂

[@Miyukazukii]

You missed that even if she got that “free” vacation it probably wouldn’t have been actually free, she’d probably have had to post about it on Instagram with certain perimeters. It’s a working vacation

[@SwellEntertainment]

Yes they said she would just have to “document it online for her hundreds of thousands of followers to see” so yes its still a work trip

[@Steampunkfox143]

It's like when Hun bots are all "I'm on vacation and not working but I'm still going to sell you my garbage"

[@calisongbird]

*parameters

[@JustCallMeMeghan]

When a KZbinr who doesn't produce documentaries writes a better documentary than actual documentarians.

[@JustCallMeMeghan]

@@Rikku147 Swell. At the end she says how she would have made this documentary, and it's so much better than the documentarian did.

[@JustCallMeMeghan]

@@Rikku147 Ok. Lol. You're super fun at parties, huh?

[@rachelk6375]

@@Rikku147 How about "The Fandom."

[@harlensdestruction7115]

@@JustCallMeMeghan also D’Angelo Wallace

[@JustCallMeMeghan]

@@Rikku147 Nah sis, I think you're taking this far too seriously. First, I said she WROTE a better documentary in just a few simple words about how she would have done it better. Second, it's really not that serious. I think you should evaluate why you feel the need to tell people they can't say something, (that they actually never said), so much. 🤔 No one here is offended except you.

[@queenofparkinglot]

They should have gone hard core and instead of using real people made CGI influencers to be fake famous

[@Jayfive276]

Oh yeah, create a profile for someone who either doesn’t exist or never shows their face. That’s a more interesting project than “hey look, an attractive girl gets free stuff and folllowers, whoda thunk it?”

[@kalijohnston561]

yeah like that lil miquela girl! that would have genuinely been interesting

[@mybittersweetme]

Like vtubers?

[@43v3rh1d3n]

heres the thing with "kids want to be influencers more than anything" its just like in the 00s when you asked kids what they wanted to be and they said a movie star or i wanna be famous. I personally don't see anything wrong with their answer when kids are kids or even teens.

[@TheApplebanger]

And besides, does it really mean anything that young kids want to be influencers when asked at that age? I genuinely wanted to be a dinosaur when I was 8.

[@AlexandraStubbs]

I agree with you, kids or young teens will feel one way at that time. But as you grow up and mature, you will know more things and opinions do change. Heck, even as an adult what you thought was “right” for you, actually wasn’t.

[@TheApplebanger]

@@AlexandraStubbs Still sad about not being a dinosaur tho

[@edgarnello9165]

Especially in the us where college is expensive af.

[@teddy-1965]

@@TheApplebanger when I was around that age I genuinely wanted to be a part of the pony express and was crushed when I found out it was no longer a thing

[@CyberStockholmSyndrome]

They should’ve challenged themselves and hired a woman of color, a plus sized person, and a thin conventionally attractive person. They could’ve treated them all exactly the same and showed THAT aside of influencer culture. Using three conventionally attractive people is kind of a waste of time.

[@itsclemtime2357]

Why not a plus sized man? That’d do some good. Breaking down stereotypes, I can get behind that.

[@ddjsoyenby]

but hollywood can't do that, if marsha whiterson from white town florida sees someoneone who isn't a white hot girl her tiny brain might explode :O

[@i_ex1119]

@@itsclemtime2357 they said a plus sized person lol.

[@fancifulbread8040]

@@ambassadoroftheandromedagalaxy yea or he just misread the comment. In which case, read something more than once

[@piagebot2943]

Now this would be a great experiment

[@raspberryitalia3464]

This documentary felt like it wasn't trying to make any real point beyond mocking younger generations for our use of social media. It didn't do any of your excellent ideas bc it didn't care about any real message beyond "social media bad"

[@heyseuss3576]

Yeah but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, not every documentary has to "make a point." It seemed like they wanted to look inside the world of Instagram influencing, to start from the bottom and see where it goes. I think Amanda is being too harsh on it complaining about not getting the exact bot numbers for example, as if it was an actual science experiment instead of something that's supposed to capture people's attention/entertain.

[@CyclingUrchin]

@@heyseuss3576 But the whole tone was extremely judgmental. The documentary may not have been trying to make a point, but it had an obvious stance. And the stance was "social media bad"

[@kate-ne]

I NEEEED these people to let Amanda interview them. This documentary sounds like garbage and I am fascinated 💆🏼‍♀️

[@InvestToLive]

Oh yea! Great idea!

[@BlackFairy1751]

I hope she does 😭😭

[@docsmooth]

I wonder if HBO paid for the making of this "documentary" or if they bought it at a discount to put on their new streaming service.

[@caitlynjoy7295]

That’s what I thought too

[@kate-ne]

My bets are definitely on the latter

[@GeorgiaOverdrive]

They definitely just bought it as it was.

[@abbie_joan]

im gonna say the second one they definitely wouldn't risk making this garbage if it could be traced back to them

[@smittywerbenjagermanjensen9809]

TLDR: a documentary exposing influencer culture as "fake" turned out to be fake.

[@asatronaut]

As an aside, all that “study” tells me is that kids feel that being an influencer is more achievable for them, for whatever their reasons are, compared to things like the sciences. And that is society's fault for making education so inaccessible. Also, there's nothing wrong with being an influencer 🤣

[@ositaiza888]

and astronauts have so many physical parameters that even if you're smart could keep you from achieving that goal. kids know that, it's weird that they compared it to a physically demanding job instead of like doctor, where your physicality doesn't take you out of the running for that career (but i do agree that ppl are realizing that edu. is inaccessible and it's changing their views on things)

[@cori742]

@@ositaiza888 yep! I have scoliosis and some ligament problems that mean it is physically impossible for me to be an astronaut. full stop. but if I really felt like it, I could theoretically be an influencer.

[@h.l.211]

Plus, what about the other answers? If 14% of kids in the study said they wanted to be influencers and 10% said they wanted to be astronauts, sure - more kids say they want to be influencers than astronauts, but where's the other 76%? Influencer and astronaut can't have been the only two options, right?

[@sweetpeabee4983]

Omfg so I looked up the survey and...guys, it's so bad lmao. The sample size is 3000 kids, split across 3 countries, so 1000 in the US, 1000 in the UK and 1000 in China. Kids got 5 choices: astronaut, teacher, musician, athlete, or YT/influencer. Except...none of the percentages add up to 100 lol!! For the Chinese kids, the results are particularly egregious -- 56% astronaut, 52% teacher, 47% musician, 37% athlete, 18% YT. (210% total?!?!) Meanwhile the US kids still add up to a number bigger than 100 but are _much_ closer to doing so -- 29% YT, 25% teacher, 23% athlete, 19% musician, 11% astronaut. (107% total.) I strongly suspect there's a bunch of Chinese kids who said they wanted to be an astronaut-rock star-ballerina and got all three choices counted, while most of the American kids were like "oh, I gotta pick one? uhh...I mean, I guess youtuber?" (Which also like, I haven't looked at the statistical significance of these numbers because ew no, but it's really cool that 25% of US kids said teacher imo!) Also, if you source the original "study", it was actually just NASA outreach, working with LEGOs to try and get kids interested in space. Way more was asked related to how much kids know about space, space travel related professions, exploration of Mars, etc. Most important result imo: 86% of kids surveyed said they thought space was cool and 90% wanted to learn more. And then Business Insider just...cherry picks the LEAST interesting part of the whole thing and reports it poorly lmfao. Clickbait and the worst kind. 😂

[@asatronaut]

@@sweetpeabee4983 Lolol isn't that JUST how this works 🤣

[@MrAnder275]

This was a really interesting video. I wasn't aware of this "documentary", but it really feels like they were never able to finish it and they just edited what they had and published it. That's kinda sad, because they could have made a very interesting study about influencers During the BBRT.

[@EmissaryofWind]

A game grumps subscriber, I take it?

[@MrAnder275]

@@EmissaryofWind I see you are a person of culture as well.

[@LeadenSparrow]

Hasn’t buzzfeed done this exact experiment like 800 times?

[@namis6925]

What else would they do? Make Another trivia quiz on 00's shows

[@twinkletoes413]

frrr!! also ayyy nice pfp 😎👉👉

[@hetty5531]

i hadn’t heard of this but i always love a swell video!

[@lifewasawillow]

that's my take on a large number of swell videos, i just enjoy listening to amanda talk!

[@diamondcrystalsj]

“On Twitter I’m considered annoying” I disagree. It’s a constant reminder that I am not alone.

[@samjin4203]

As a kid I wanted to be an astronaut, the job they’ve put on a pedestal and now I’m an art major. Yeah it mattered so much what I wanted to be as a child. I had such a greaaaat concept of what careers were.

[@japansace]

Coronavirus has exposed A LOT of people as selfish narcissists that shouldn't be supported by the rest of us, but that doesn't mean ALL people are like that. It's just that those people, in particular, make the news more often.

[@YoBGS]

So the tl;dr of the doc is "We can make people famous if we make a documentary SAYING we made them famous. Except for the one person who quit but we're just gonna pretend that didn't happen and sweep that under the rug..."

[@reginarodriguez1477]

This was recommended for me on HBO Max, and the way it was presented I thought it was another one of those movies where person gets famous, then they become crappy, they redeem themselves and fall in love with their childhood best friend and/or the person they’ve been in love with forever, the end.

[@johnadams7145]

How funny

[@leileyaravencroft]

I thought it was going to be a pseudo horror movie of some kind.

[@fortywolves]

I gotta say - don't burn yourself out or anything cause I recognize putting out this amount of quality Swell content has to be pretty time consuming and draining - but I am HERE FOR watching a video from you every few days. Thanks for all the interesting vids!

[@thekidfromcanada]

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" is a simple question. Should we be surprised if kids or teen realized this and give a simple answer? people want to be successful when they grow up. "Famous" is a simple answer that kills follow up questions, which is exactly what someone might want when a random crazy person is asking them questions.

[@redandblackdawn]

I don't get why kids wanting to get a job where they're just happy doing the things they like is a bad thing? Wouldn't we go for this if we could?

[@ddjsoyenby]

agreed it's just fun and kids probaly will get a job till their channel makes money.

[@namis6925]

These people also need to realize that education is really expensive in America (I’m assuming that’s where this docu takes place writing this during the video) I know someone that at like 11 said they didn’t want to go to college and just get an office job. AT 11 so yeah depending on what kind of content you make influencing it’s much more achievable and more cost effective than being sucked try with a tons of debt. This is just a high budget phone bad book good bs.

[@mojojojo3212]

@@namis6925 Yh I’ve heard that out of state tuition as like $50k a year omg

[@mustangnawt1]

Just like every single job on this planet, there is also a down side. Sometimes multiple downsides

[@rjdruhan]

Being an influencer vs astronaut is just Cultural vs Science victory in Civilization Both are valid victory conditions

[@ognjensijak989]

A man of culture I see

[@rjdruhan]

@@ognjensijak989 They're all buying my blue jeans and listening to my pop music

[@ct-p6004]

This channel is the perfect case study for the weirdness of the youtube algorithm. Your videos clogged up my feed for months and then when I actually watched them (and liked them) they dissappeared lol.

[@RoscoeWasHere]

That fuse box in the background really adds to the decor *chefs kiss*

[@Siennarchist]

I love how they chose untalented people with pretty faces as the people who "would never actually get famous"

[@edgarnello9165]

What a surprise the pretty white girl got the most sponsors or whatever

[@mekinbah]

YOUR HAIR LOOK AMAZING QUEEN.

[@aceinspaces]

Kids wanting to be famous when they grow up isn't new. Half my kindergarten wanted to be rock stars. How is that a more real type of fame than KZbin?

[@amandahodgins4705]

Still watching, but I appreciate how transparent you are when you talk about what it's like being in this business. I felt some serious secondhand anxiety when you shared the anecdote about your own follower count rocketing up, but I'm also the sort of person who has never, ever wanted to be famous (I always imagine all the downsides and scary parts first). Props to you though for pursuing your line of work! Love your content, and how thoughtful your commentary is. :>

[@katiezellers7106]

The part about anxiety over wanting the exposure and then getting it made me feel very seen! Im not an influencer but I opened an Etsy store and want to succeed so bad that when I got my first sale and a slew of favorites all at once I started dreading the notifications. I started feeling bad for seemingly being ungrateful and it feels great to know this is an actual thing that happens.

[@LollayLivesOnLenses]

Another thing that I would have liked to see if conventional attractiveness has anything to do with becoming "fake famous" dom just happens to be white and skinny and that could have been one of the reasons she was able to "how" the way she had but yes other than that I agree that this documentary was poorly done. great video though

[@ddjsoyenby]

agreed.

[@jasminelambert3753]

Are you wearing blush? If yes what is it because it is absolutely beautiful. If you aren’t wearing blush, you just have god tier skin

[@Emilia-hj5xw]

wouldnt it be more interesting if he had them all post the same content with a varying number of bots he buys?

[@Anna-oq2tu]

not relevent to the video, but just realized how glad i am that i found your channel ( last year with your video about lilly singh). i think you're my fave youtuber. thank you!

[@Posidilia]

I hate when people say being an influencer is like being lazy or you have no job, if what you're doing is paying the bills, then its a job, and you're going to have to work hard to keep it going. People pop in and out of the spotlight so much that you have to work hard to stay in it. Modeling for photos, keeping appearances up, be consistent with content, CONTACTING BRANDS YOURSELF, etc. All takes time and effort.

[@Jayfive276]

Amanda, please make the documentary that these guys should have made that you speak of at the end of the video. Talk to brands about how they got ripped off, talk to those that stiffed the brands for free stuff, talk to real influencers. Cover the stress and burn-out that virtually every KZbin and social media star seems to end up with. The potential to do something critical but fair that this documentary wasn’t and never tried to be is immense.

[@GrizzlyMovieReviews]

I can always count on a Swell Entertainment video every week to help in my procrastination in getting things done in my life or getting ready for work. Thank you for the amount of work you put into making your videos, you are wonderful Amanda!

[@mirandak7242]

"we're conducting an experiment where we take 3 people and try to turn them into influe--" me: a sample size of three is not statistically robust. come back when n=30

[@morfrid4262]

OMG, imagine 😁

[@alexanderf8451]

Assuming that "KZbinr" is necessarily the same as "influencer" (which is the crux of the whole show) is cynical and stupid. I'd like to be a KZbinr because I think what people like Tom Scott and 3B1B do is a great way to get people engaged in learning.

[@wendyheatherwood]

Right? Like I follow youtubers that make videos about how to make 19th century outfits, reviews of early 90s television, two and a half hour video essays about statistical manipulation in academic publishing and 2 minute comedy sketches where they talk to themselves wearing different hats. KZbinr is a pretty vague term.

[@catlady4858]

@@wendyheatherwood Could you link one of those video essays?

[@wrinkleintime4257]

The big people I follow on YT (not counting musicians) are Contrapoints, Emmymade in Japan, Lindsey Ellis, The Green brothers, Caitlin Doughty, Micarah Tewers, Bernadette Banner, The Artisan Geek, and other channels like this that relate to science, historical dressmaking, sewing, fashion, food, video essays,book tube etc. So yeah “KZbinr” is a very broad description of content 😅 there are so many thoughtful and still entertaining content creators on YT, it depends on what you look for. So the whole concept of that documentary is just weird :’D

[@mattheweveland8335]

It honestly highlights one of my biggest criticisms of many modern documentaries, which is that they essentially start on the premise, "I'm right. Now how do I prove it?" And... AMAZINGLY... they very often end up finding out they... were right? SHOCKING!

[@wwlaurenww]

I was *just* thinking about watching this documentary--so thank you for condensing the gist of it and saving me the time lol

[@Tonii080]

I've always said "I don't know" when asked what I wanted to be. I definitely wouldn't go to space though 😅. (I'm getting into Horticulture lol)

[@TexTheBest]

amanda, as an older millenial you are my link to gen z trends, so I beg you to make a video explaining who the hell is Jojo Siwa.

[@batappreciation9661]

She is a girl who was on dance moms when she was younger and she got this reputation after of being this very colorful very bold and very enthusiastic and people make fun of her for that now

[@jayyone6137]

somehow i never seem to see the same hatred of older generations who wanted to be rockstars growing up that this generation does for wanting to be youtubers. being famous has always been a popular profession among kids, its just that the specific type of famous changes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@marzipan2555]

Plus, kids only know of like 5 jobs so of course they'll pick something highly visible

[@winterburden]

Thanks for exposing this ridiculous documentary! 🙆‍♀️

[@Iforgotaboutrain]

Cheers to all of the influencers, KZbinrs and celebrities who stayed home and have been encouraging their fans to stay home and to be careful.

[@__yklim]

isn't fake famous just clout?

[@Jayfive276]

No that’s internet famous.

[@tambarinathethird5496]

I found your channel recently and you’re definitely one of my favorite youtubers Already 30 seconds in you’ve made me laugh. I loveee ur content girl

[@wwk5138]

Nerd city did a far more better experiment with his girlfriend

[@ashko808]

Yes!! Scrolled to look for this comment. I loved Nerd City's take. Super well thought out, super well done.

[@kaemincha]

such a better example of a "social experiment" centered around social media!! they did a much more thorough job than this documentary.

[@duckydae]

Also, I’m not surprised more children want to be youtubers rather than astronauts. Being a youtuber today is really accessible, realistically all you need is a phone and a laptop to edit. Unlike being an astronaut.

[@WhiteChocolate74]

Not to mention that the US doesn't have much of a space program anymore (ignoring spacex). It's just not as glamorous nor as important as it was during the cold war

[@tais-toi-et-tricote]

Your conclusion is SO TRUE! And I am legit interested on what brands would say about influencer fraud...

[@malaikamoon]

"Technology bad, community better" is such a flavourless, lukewarm take, why do people keep spouting it like it's gospel.

[@neicocci]

I like that you talk and bring light to things a lot if not most creators on this platform do not. You do great content, keep up the good work and stay safe and happy ❤

[@HamazingKayliee]

The pussycat dolls didn't release "when i grow up" for these people to think it's only gen z thinking this.

[@cliffnotes8295]

Thank you for the closed captions. very few creators are still doing that ever since community captioning has been removed!

[@tamaradavis1866]

Did I even try? I did, that's why I'm early! I'm a full time commenter!

[@yalldothemost6892]

This is the first video that I watched on your channel and I love your intro 😭

[@meganchambers8108]

1:29 YES This is great. I hate when people dismiss critiques of any work (be it a doc, another movie, show, book, etc) because "Oh if you really wanted to understand it you would have watched/read this, this and this and then you'd get it." Your piece should be able to stand on its own. (Unless it's part of a series, then I'll give it some leeway.)

[@micahcook2408]

I feel like he could’ve explored so much.... race and gender and sexuality with becoming an influencer or the work that goes into maintaining or posting when you don’t feel like it or like you said, the mental health and anxiety aspect when you grow at a quick rate OR how people do buy bots or instigate controversy, etc. Not to mention also, it’s ironic that some of the “real” famous celebrities were also out going to parties and vacationing during Covid too........ like did this guy do his research or???

[@jackt3986]

lillee jean could have been the best example of fake famous

[@dayle6427]

So from your video I get the impression that the parameters and goals of the experiment were never stated which surely should be how to start the documentary so that sounds like to me whatever the goals were originally didn't happen like expected so they just cut it. Your idea about seeing how much money companies lose to influencers with majority bot followers sounds more interesting than the actual documentary

[@bewwybabe8045]

What’s funny is that all the supporters of this documentary hate influencers as much as the director does. There was a great Buzzfeed (I know) article about it, and the commenters just wanted to tear down the actual influencers and shame them for sharing content they didn’t want to appear in the doc. I love hearing your perspective on issues like this

[@zaeemgajani2557]

I got introduced to you through the Lily Singh Video and I am glad that the algorithm led me to your channel it helped me learn a lot I think you know that you are teaching people but in a way that doesn't fully make it seem as if you are teaching them which is basically commentary channels like Drew, Danny, Kurtis, Cody Ko and etc ( can't talk about all of them because there are too many commentary channels ) But I am glad that I got notifications on for each of your videos because they are interesting and engaging just like commentary channels should be. It also makes the audience. It brings them closer like your fans are fans of people that follow many others. So to conclude this ode to you I would like to say thank you to Swell entertainment/Amanda.

[@hommefataltaemin]

Yeah when I was a kid basically everyone including me in my class wanted to be a singer or actor when we grew up. It’s not at all weird that kids now are wanting to be famous online. Obviously the large majority of them won’t be. But it’s always been that kids want to do those sort of things in the future. I’m not sure why I’ve seen multiple shows say it as a bad thing when it’s really not new, just the method of fame is slightly newer, but not much has changed in reality.

[@MangoTalksTech]

Great video Swell! This documentary was built on a flawed "experiment", at the end of the day its all entertainment and HBO Max still decided to air it, such is life. Also SUPER curious of your parameters of the experiment, now that sounds super interesting!

[@candiceleilani4179]

I just watched this and I’m soooo glad someone did a review. Great vid!

[@noodlepoodle3582]

Reasons I, a freshman in a non-STEM college, am more qualified to run this experiment: I know what a variable is.

[@cjb7887]

Idk why but I had to watch your into 4 or 5 times. I love it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@MiaGraceee]

Love ur content, one of the only you tubers I get excited for about new videos!

[@theadventuresofzoomandbettie]

Superb analysis. Loved it. We don't have HBO max here in Australia, so I haven't seen this "documentary" yet.

[@Knap4501]

I'm just going to go out out on a limb here at 4:30 and say that, yeah fewer kids want to be astronauts because the United States wasn't sending people into space anymore. I grew up 10 minutes away from Kennedy Space Center, and every kid in my town wanted to be an astronaut until 2008, when they pretty quickly saw all their dads' jobs at nada go away and said "yeah I don't think I'm going to end up being an astronaut" because no one knew if that was going to come back. It was only just recently with SpaceX launching real human astronauts back to space that American children can once again get excited about being an astronaut

[@beepboop449]

they could have done this doc about lillie jean, but she refuses to admit that she is “fake famous” also random question: are your captions auto generated, self done, or does someone else put them in for you ?

[@TheSimplyCooking]

I thought the exact same 😂

[@piagebot2943]

Who’s lillie jean?

[@000AnnA000D]

whos that?

[@mayrasolis2239]

@@piagebot2943 she’s a girl that bought fake followers and her and her mom put on a fake persona of being an influencer. KZbin her name people have done great videos on it

[@lissq2769]

I’m not sure who does the captions but I’m fairly sure they’re not auto-generated because then they wouldn’t have punctuation and they would come up word by word

[@stringcheese6833]

I mean, to be fair, being a KZbinr is a much more realistic job than becoming and astronaut. Both of them are one in a million jobs, but there are much more people who can survive off KZbin than there are astronauts.

[@dylanc5220]

Your lighting is A+ in the new setup!

[@Seandoestech]

You would have made a great consultant to this documentary. All good points, especially about recapping the experiment at the end with all the deets. They ended it too abruptly, ok, yes covid, but after investing 90 mins into this thing, would have loved a recap like any good documentary would do. Btw, excellent thigh clap at 14:46 (assuming, plz correct me if wrong)

[@alliewithbooks]

I hate that I can only focus on how you’re calling her “Dominic” and not “Dominique” 😅

[@TheNumnutRandomness]

Everyone: Dominique Swell: 👁👄👁 Dominic

[@dominiquemcdowell88]

As someone named dominique I appreciate you noticing that, I’ve literally lived my entire life with a mispronounced name. Dominic is the masculine version of dominique. It’d be like someone named Antonia & her calling them Anthony the entire video.

[@BoosterGauche]

I'm glad you posted this because I started watching it and after about 10 minutes I could tell that this wasn't going to be a very rigorous examination of the topic. I wasn't expecting Ken Burns level quality, but I expected a little more from HBO. Hell, Tiger King was better, and that was biased as hell.

[@spiderboy6150]

KZbin is an extremely broad platform where you can famous for doing a lot of diffrent things; you can be a beauty guru, gamer, artist, athlete, the sky is kinda the limit. So to a kid the idea that you can be famous and wealthy for doing what you like is going to be appealing! I don't understand why that's inherently a bad thing.

[@nathan-fh8hp]

Dude your eyebrows are some of the best I've ever seen

[@renezuo8160]

Documentary could have dove into some genuinely interesting territory and just limped along on some vague assertion instead.

[@VidyaMusicVids90]

No lie. Of all the "Influencers" or whatever. This lady is one of the few I think deserves her actual popularity. If only KZbin truly appreciated actual talent. Always Swell.

[@dannybrown7561]

I don't care if you get 100 million subscribers, you better keep your intro because it will literally never stop being funny

[@Posidilia]

Loved the video by the way! Very interesting! I love how you can spot all the flaws.

[@lailarivero2598]

Am I the only one noticing that Amanda keeps on glowing on every videos she post. ❤️

[@AhavatYisraeI]

Okay wait we had to read his book American Kingpin for my Cyber Crimes class. I can't even believe this is the same person, his book was so good. What the hell happened

[@jaybehkay2438]

Off topic but I love your glasses. The colour plus your eye colour plus the dark hair is just like 😍

[@biancabarber2745]

I’m a psych major taking experimental design and analysis and your experiment idea controls for confounds way more than the documentary did 💀

[@paceyhansen]

The beat part about Amanda’s channel is that she saves us from watching shitty movies, documentaries, and TV shows.

[@bug_ho]

even now, as a younger teenager in 2021, i would much rather be a singer/dancer or artist than an influencer 💀 that stuff just looks like free insecurities and fake personas

[@TheSvj5047]

On Twitter we used to buy bots to start off accounts because if you're funny you won't get any followers if people aren't following you already. We would buy like 10-20,000 followers and then we would get people with real followers to retweet us and we would actually get good followers from that because they thought we already had a following.

[@deanjamesy]

You should get a painting for the safe on the wall behind you. Maybe ask Dom. The painting behind him at 1813 is beautiful!

[@AroAceEnbyTaste]

Ok, but a KZbinr already did this experiment. They went places and replicating famous influencer photos. They photoshoped them to look better. Posted them on Instagram, and then organically gained a shit ton of followers. And that's without using bots. Someone did this on their own way better then this dude with a film budget.

[@EH-rq4lr]

This video is amazing, I love how you point out how truly unscientific this pseudoscience ass documentary truly was. Also, just a P.S., its pronounced domin-eek not domin-ick 😂

[@diamondinmyeye6160]

To your description of the scientific method, it depends on the experiment. If an experiment controls for everything but one variable, then you can get a confirmation of your hypothesis (with repeated successes), but most experiments can only disprove hypotheses with certainty. Based on how open this "experiment" sounds, that's all they could attempt to do here.

[@henriquejambu]

This video was amazing, love how you break down these shows/films ((you should be the one making documentaries not them!!))