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  • this is awesome! well said!

  • Well said! great video!

  • @rji thanks!

  • I think this might be the 10'th time im watching this after hearing something idiotic about youtubers, just to calm my nervs.

    You are SO freakin right about EVERYTHING.

  • @Letmegotowonderland thanks! <3

  • @Crabb90 thanks!

  • Excellent points.

  • @oranse thanks!

  • well said. The Media is pathedic. Because it just cares about Celeberty culture at least as far as I can tell. I just wish it would cover things that truely matter and with honesty.

  • @marchingtroop agreed!

  • hey good stuff sir!

  • @bmcgrew2 thanks!

  • i wouldnt say the mainstream media is becoming youtube... but i would say that youtube is becoming the mainstream media... so shut up

  • GAH, i get this strange rush from watching this. Its so right! really. You love what you do and you are lucky to do it will - get over it media... get over it.

  • :o ghosties!

    00:03, near his right armpit! 00:05, mocking him by going across the screen, 00:06 zooms across his left corner, waiting for someone to notice. 00:08 flies across his face and moons everyone on youtube. 00:12 shows off their awesome flying skills behind him. 00:15 rapes his chest!

    Must I go on? This ghost is clearly having some fun.

  • "popularity either destroys or enchances culture... For example: YouTube is STILL a culture to others (me)... And to others it's just a thing to make money... Those people have no clue that YouTube is/was a culture... YouTube to me is a lifestyle... A place to express yourself and have fun... What do u think of popularity and culture? Especially YouTube..." -Idan Damuag

  • @xTheOfficialOriginal youtube is 100% a culture. but there is a popularity element inside of that.

  • amen!

  • @ItzClara thx for the support!

  • Do you have a link to the article? Because I need it for an english assignment.

  • @dancelover2396 its an msnbc youtube article.

  • @TheWillofDC thanks, I'm looking for it now. She said my introductory paragraph was enticing so that's a good sign.

  • <3 <3 <3 :D

  • @TisbearA <3

  • Preach it brother

  • @joraschannel thx for the support!

  • you hit the nail right on the head!! many kudos to you

  • It shouldnt matter how much money is made on YouTube. Quit hating people.

  • @ThErAmWaNtShAm i'm telling you dude... youre WAY off. even will said it

  • bam! saved to favs. JUST. LIKE. THAT!

  • well all i know is 200,000 subs=500 dollars

    look it up on google and youtube

  • @ThErAmWaNtShAm lol nothing like spreading misinformation.

  • @TheWillofDC i get a quick laugh every now and then. funny the show by the way

  • @ThErAmWaNtShAm youre dumb.

  • @MichaelMusic1 naw do the math, timothydelaghetto 500,000 subs and where he lives rent is about 200-600 dollars

  • @MichaelMusic1 naw do the math, timothydelaghetto 500,000 subs and where he lives rent is about 200-600 dollars and he says he can finally pay his rent with his youtube money

  • This video was fucking awesome!

  • @ScariestStory thank you!

  • Dayum....you TOLD them.

    Love ya Will.

  • @wilsontech1 love right bck at ya!

  • I started clapping at the end of this video.

  • @Sophie996 thanks for the support!

  • that's right take that!!

    keep it going will

  • ummm.............. what?????

  • I'm so lame, I've watched this twice now.

  • why in the world would anyone eant to know how much money a person makes..those people must be stalkers...obviously these youtubers make enough money to live off of...duh. 

  • I love how Rick Roll'd is a related video.

  • go will! go will! go will!

  • youtube PWNS mainstream news

    you a lot of cojones

    rock on willo!

  • @MrKrunoS willo?

  • I like your comforter

  • Awesome, Will... I love your style!... and you are SO right when you say, "Mainstream media just doesn't get it."

  • *cyberhugs* <3

  • Viacom tried, they failed! So what makes them think they can do anything better!

  • Way to stick it to "HELEN POPKIN" and the rest of the mainstream media! You are my friend too!

  • Jumbafund gives you an idea how much a youtuber makes?

  • Nice man, right on. All I could think of when you said youtubers don't want to get to hollywood though are justin bieber, Fred, and Peter Chao. Just a question, so I know I can't ask how much youtubers make, but are you, will of dc, being paid for your youtube contributions?

  • YOU TELL EM!!! DIS IS Y I HATE MAINSTREAM MEDIA!!! (or anything mainstream in general)

  • thats deep man...

  • WILL FTW!!!!!

  • You tell 'em!!

  • You. Are. Awesome. Period. Contradictions. Period again.

  • Aw, go Will!

  • Will, you are awesome. I think it's amazing the kind of support and love you have for this community. Kudos to you :-)

  • Well spoken :)

  • dude thank you

  • I love this video Will, you are the fucking man!

  • PWNED

  • i completly agree

  • machinima commented on this video D:

  • Ok will I'm just going to say that was epic and I take back every gay fag is gay I've wanted to troll you with. Kudos bro

  • Well said, nothing to add.

  • Well said, all points.

  • Good advice man... And to the point. I know at some point I wanna make a few clams myself.

  • Get a proper friggin background. At least make an effort to hang up a $5 white bed sheet from walmart as a background.

    Yahoo is not a "news" site...and you are being presumptuous by speaking about everyone else.

  • who are you to speak for ALL of youtube? an "open letter" to the mainstream media? no link to the article/journalist your complaining about? megalomania much? your not that important, will. keep to speaking for yourself because do you realize how many popular youtube artists would die for a chance to make it in hollywood? just because you'll never make it that big (no talent), doesn't mean the artists you cover in your show won't. i suggest you take this video down, it's misinformed.

  • @wachinanlerning Jealous much? Get the fuck out of here, kid.

  • @TheEvanAdams jealous? why? i'm saying will should stfu cuz HE's talking out of his ass. who is he to say "we are not hollywood, we don't want paparazzi"? i think fred would tell him to stfu right now since his movie is due to release soon. a movie deal he landed from his popularity on youtube. don't get me wrong, i'm no fan of fred but you have to admit he WANTS to break into hollywood, unlike what will would have you believe. i don't sub to shane d. but i think he deserves it too. just sayin

  • @wachinanlerning Also, don't forget about Justin Beiber... he got famous from YouTube. I just don't want my 2 favorite youtubers (freddiew and Mysteryguitarman) to become something that they aren't such as a celebrity and working for Hollywood... their videos are absolutely AMAZING! And I just don't want them to become a "Fred" and fall apart and produce crappy videos for Hollywood.

  • Amen

    

  • michael buckley said he made 6 figures in a interview with him

  • meh. i was with you until you started saying youtube has more views then mass media, or implied a national news organization would get less exposure then a youtube video. youtube in general might have more daily views then a lot of news stations, but no single video even comes close to the amount of people who watch the nightly news. not by a longshot.

  • This video should be posted EVERYWHERE! Applause worthy message, one of the best YouTube videos in a while, well done Will!

  • 3) And finally...You're pathetic. You have no talent whatsoever. I feel sorry for you. That's why you have to talk about stupid shit like this and about what other YouTubers do. Get a life. It's never too late. Plus, who do you think you are to talk in behalf of everyone in YouTube? You could use a Reality Check a.s.a.p.

  • 2) Stop whining about 'Mainstream Media'. All so called 'YouTubers' are to a certain degree famewhoring attention divas. They'd sell their souls to be part of it at least for a second. Including yourself. If not, what's up with the HD cameras, props, and pathetic editing everyone seems to be doing nowadays? This is not TV! If I wanted to watch some stupid little TV show. I'd turn my TV on! Go back to the crappy cellphone cameras...

  • @kublickolla I don't think it's really fair of you to be so harsh on Will. People that make videos on YouTube do it because the like to do it. And when they start making money off of it, then of course they'll want to make their videos of better quality, for the enjoyment of the people that gave them the money with which to buy the new equipment in the first place. Even if there are people that do it for the attention, it's not fair to say that that is the case for all. No hostility here, btw.

  • 1) Get a real job if want to make real money. Leave this for desperate tweens and teens who got nothing else to do with their pathetic little lives. How old are you, man? C'mon!

  • @kublickolla Okay, so you want will to get a real job. Youtube is a real job. Is he being played in Manopoly money? No. He gets paid in American Currency. Or do you mean a 9-5 job where he hates his life and knowing he could be replaced in a second an knowing that he is not unique in any way. Yeah, I would totally want a real job instead of making money off of making videos for fans. And what do you do with your life. You're just jealous of Will and how he makes money Off youtube

  • @jdefuria24 quote philly d much?  it's almost verbatim.

  • @wachinanlerning I know I quoted Philly D. If you know I'm quoting him then you must've seen the video. Than you should know that youtube is a real job.

  • @jdefuria24 woops, my bad. i responded to your comment sarcastically thinking it was another reply from theevenadams.  disregard.

  • Weren't you in Smosh?

  • Wow, right on.

  • *nods*

    I can't remember the last time I watched TV... But it's not hard remembering the last time I watched a youtube video... since I spend about 4 hours on here every day. =P

    (oh, and also, because I just saw yours. x'D)

  • BRAVO!

  • I'm watching this while eating a potatoe

  • I don't understand how Youtubers make money. Why does google pay them? I don't get it...

  • You get'em girl! I mean guy!

    >_>

    <_<

  • I remember 3 years ago when i would tell people about this really cool youtube video they would be all like "?" and i had to explain what youtube was. xD

  • Are we friends? Really? Can you lend me a $1000 please? I need it urgently.

    Your friend.

  • this is seriously the best vid about youtube culture's relationship with the media i've ever seen.

  • Epic, dude. And to the haters who say that you don't know how to write a letter, I'm pretty sure that the one in the descriptions isn't a finalized version with the correct punctuation.

  • You tell them Will! I love YouTube and I think it's awesome that YouTuber's can make money doing what they love! You provide entertainment for millions of people, including me. YouTube makes my day every day. Officially subscribing to TheWillofDC!

  • 2:09

    whys it snowing?

    but yea i totally agree

    i saw the article its completely in the opinion of the old media

    they have to realize we arent the once old media obsessed people anymore

    there has been an introduction of a new style of media and we like it

    it gives us interaction which is something that old media cant do

    and instead of bashing us saying that the very popular partners "suck"

    they should just get over their jealousy and keep it to themselves

  • BAMF!

  • jesus learn how to write a letter dude, no punctuation, no paragraphs, poor spelling, poorly written, you arnt going to take on mainstream media with that garbage.

  • @matchbox555 From the guy that spells aren't wrong.

  • @matchbox555 you retard! you have a limited amount of space in the youtube underbar, so you can't paragraph, you motherfucking bastard ass piece of shit nigger.

  • "we" who is this we. Stop speaking for the community. The community you're speaking for is not the community I belong to. The community I belong to is the one that doesn't use eye catching thumbnails. the community I belong to doesn't use fake tags. The community I belong to, does not use vulgarity to keep the users watching. You do not speak for the whole site You are speaking for the top youtubers hoping they will keep you in their box for a bit of an ego boost.

    and to youtube whores SPDM.

  • @jordieweeds I agree. Will is a kiss ass to Dawson and others because he wants to be in their so called group of friends. Will needs to get a real job, go back to D.C., because he serves no puropse by making videos talking about what other youtubers do. It's pathetic.

  • I'm very impressed Will, this was totally awesome :)

  • As a journalism student and YouTuber, I found this to be pretty fair and pretty accurate. All of the fake errors in the Yahoo! and MSNCBC articles/blogs are just embarrassing. And I am never in favor of bashing, because, like you said, we're not a community, we're a large group of disconnected, interwoven friends.

  • 144 people disliked this. Nothing clever.... they just disliked it.

  • It's a little ironic to have a rumpled unshaven guy in a polo shirt jeer about how irrelevant mainstream media are (while making a video rant devoted to whining about them) and then accuse them of being condescending.

  • Hey Will...where's the article located at?

  • That was so AWESOME!! Wish everyone would watch this...

  • I love this video! Will some very good points especially about how if people would be nice he could post a link and have a reciprocal relationship with mainstream media. Really, everyone could use a few more friends.

  • @baybee35 I meant "Will made some very good points"

  • We love Will

  • how much money do you make?

  • who are u......fag

  • @swoosh1195 Where do I find the article?

  • @StingRay809 Bull shit. That's why all these assholes make collab videos with eachother. For more money and attention.

  • @FreakingLaugher I doubt he makes that much for making 2 videos a week.

  • @Napoliman98 actually, he very well does! he can make around 5$ per 1,000 views! at a average of 1,500,000 a video! = $1,500 a video! so, if he makes a few videos a week (all 3 channels) he could very well make that much! its all about math :D

  • @FreakingLaugher Well they don't deserve it for not working very hard at all and having a good time.

  • @Napoliman98 Of course they do!They deserve all the money for even wasting there lives away by making videos for our entertainment.

  • You go girl.

  • Such horseshit. If you youtubers didn't make money, you would not have this community you speak of. It's a community of wannabe celebrities who like to hang out with each other because you think you're celebrities.

  • @Napoliman98

    That is completely fallacious. From the start, none of the top youtubers made any money money from what they did. They did it because they enjoyed doing it, and they took the risk of putting themselves out there. When given the opportunity to make a paycheck from that, of course they took it. According to your logic, the community would have never been formed, because at the start no one was getting payed for making videos.

  • @MajorPayne92 Bull shit. It's all about the money and these lazy assholes don't even have real jobs either. They just make videos.

  • @napoliman99 So who cares.What are you mad that they make money other then you,by just making videos!

  • @EVERGAMEMASTER Yes.

  • @napoliman99

    Well making videos can apparently keep a roof over their head, so I would call it a real job. I do agree that there are SOME bad eggs in the group who only care about the money, but that is also true in other jobs as well (Pro sports is a perfect example of this).

  • Super Mac 18 already revealed that he makes 3000 dollars a month from Youtube. I am sure that all you known youtubers make more than enough money considering you don't have other jobs. Even you, Will, don't have another job so you must make a nice salary and don't give me that shit that all these youtubers make videos for us. LOL It's all about money and fame. Look at Dawson for example. 

  • Is it so strange that people want to know how much other people make for a living, especially when it's about 'famous' people? Don't tell me you don't read those Forbes lists because you probably do. Do you also feel like defending Bill Gates or Steve Jobs when an estimate of their fortune gets published in mainstream media? Probably not. You are blowing this way out of proportion.

  • <3 Will.

  • go will!!! yay for calling out journialism

  • Preach it brother Will!!!

  • awesome video will

  • Ha Bisky

  • Hey Will, How do you feel about the Google-Verizon proposal regarding net neutrality and how it will affect youtube?

  • Lately I don't believe anything the media says anymore, unless there is physical evidence like a statement or a video perhaps. That article was poorly written and you'd think people that do that for a job would at least TRY to research it before coming up with an assumption of what YouTubers make.

    When you bash one YouTuber, you bash us all.

    I agree with you 100%.

  • will have you been working out?

  • thumbs up for vlogging on the floor lol!

  • wtf???????? 

  • Absolutely spot on in everything you have said here. I for one of sick of every news reader talking about youtube as if it something new. especially where I am from, Ireland, The media seem more interested in what people earn than the actual news. People are dying, and these so called journalists dont care, they just want a scandal. Who honestly cares If you get paid for make videos? heck as you said most of you deserve it! Only just subscribed to you, But I don't regret it. keep it real!

  • Willy Rage.

  • just 10,000 users are partners ?

  • I thru-up after listening to this!

  • Amen Will.....amen.

  • sorri but willofdc as much as I love YT Mainstream Media > YT alot of youtube videos are dependant on mainstream media without mainstream media whatthebuck shanedawnson sxephil would not be able to do their miley cyrus jokes their kim kardashian whore jokes so stop basing mainstream media like you're yt's saviour the mainstream media may be ignorant of YT but you are ignorant about mainstream media

  • Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aay

  • you go will! tell em like it is!!!

  • thank you so much will, for being so damn honest. here in germany it's even worse. it's not like youtube is rarely known, but the mainstream media is just c and p the american news about the "new" interactive web ... it's goddamn fake. but this video shows something, a lot of people apart youtube would never think: the community knows what integrity is.

  • Will I think it's time for me to say I LOVE YOU!!!!!!

  • very well said Will. Two toes up!

  • This is going up on my Facebook.

  • and Everybody says Aaamen !

  • WELL DONE WILL!!!!!!!!!!!!! It makes me so mad when people misunderstand youtube. Like the people on here are less than people who they know and have heard of, when a lot of the musicians, comedians and actors are probably twice as talented.

  • whats with the door opening and closing

  • @Ace0clubs just trying to see if ur paying attention.

  • @jimbovids rwj and ctfxc suck? Do u even watch there videos rwj gets over 2 million views per video. Ctfxc is an awesome couple I guess a cock juggling thunder cunt like you wouldn't know .. Do u even know how YouTube works.... Ooh and ur vids suck ....

  • i dont know about you will but i would love to have paperazi fallowing me around every day taking pictures of me pooping or throwing things or partying lol ..im kidding i think this is a wonderful vlog and im going to spred it to all my followers smooches love always marilyn darling

  • its BAFFLING

    ORLY?

    yes BAFFLING

  • like.

  • @ErmaStrikesBack yay thanks!

  • i dont get it. what is this video about? what happened?

  • My friend, you have kept the gay sassiness hidden for most of this video. And then the end came along. "...you're actually bashing my friends. And no one has ever gotten away with that. And that includes you." translates to "Bitch, stfu." Anyways, love the vid. (:

  • I liked you up till this video. Here, you're arrogant and use YT for self-aggrandizement by exalting yourself as part of a "friendly community" (one that you leeched off of to gain your popularity [MGM], so I don't know what your problem is) that could augment mainstream media. You've got it backwards: you get paid more when mainstream media *decides* to give a shit about YT. Every time YT is mentioned in a movie (like Superhero Movie) your pockets get fatter. So just stop your whining, please.