You Can’t Say You’ve Made It If You Haven’t Been Hated (The Truth About Haters and Trolls)
I REMEMBER MY FIRST HATERS LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY It was the spring of 2012. I was 29 years old and had just dropped from my all-time high weight of 197 lbs. (at 5’10”) to 156 lbs. (nine lbs. below my weight as a high school junior) before settling in at a very healthy 162-165 lbs.—a feat I’d accomplished in public on my first YouTube channel, which I’d created really as nothing more than a video weight loss...
YouTube is Dead (How Google Killed It and the Dreams of YouTubers Worldwide)
I USED TO BE BIG ON YOUTUBE Okay, well, not BIG big, like PewdiePie big, but pretty big, especially considering that I was working within the confines of what is colloquially known as “the YouTube fitness community”. As Low Carb Cory, I grew my original YouTube channel to over 8,000 subscribers and was pulling in over $600 a month in Google AdSense revenue (from the ads that Google would show before and during my videos),...