 Today, Aaron interviews established Grand Theft Auto 5 YouTuber, Swifters, and discusses how he grew his audience to 120,000 subscribers. This episode is brought to you by BenQ, bringing enjoyment and quality to life. What's going on, Freedom Family? My name is Aaron, and today's episode on Impulse, we're going to show you another successful YouTuber just like every Saturday. And this time, it's Swifters. Swifters actually started out Black Ops 2 Zombies and now has turned into a Grand Theft Auto YouTuber, and he's going to show you how just the fun and the passion of uploading YouTube videos actually helped him become successful as he is today. Alright, let's dive into this. Swifters, let everybody know what you found to be the main ingredient that helped you grow and succeed on YouTube. One main ingredient to a successful YouTube channel. I think it's just posting videos that you love and that you enjoy, not what everyone wants to see, just to post content that you like, not content that other people want to see. So as long as you do you and you post quality videos and you're constant with your uploads, I started my channel off with zombies and I was fortunate enough to have the transfer from zombies to GTA, and I was lucky enough to enjoy the game and to have positive feedback and support on my channel from that. Okay, let's do an early random question. What's your favorite pizza topping? That's easy. Bacon. Bacon. Just bacon. Bacon and cheese. My favorite type of pizza is barbecue chicken. It's up from the tomato sauce to the barbecue sauce. That's my go-to. That's my go-to. Interesting. I'm more of a Chicago-style pizza myself, but that's just that point. Anyway, what social media sites have you actually found that have worked along your successful YouTube adventure? I think Facebook. I mean, there is that fine line between, do I really want to post my YouTube channel on Facebook and have people at my school know what I do and know that I make these YouTube videos? But I think Facebook is a small thing that I did. For the most part, it's kind of all just been through YouTube. A quick side note, XJaws, who has almost a million subscribers on YouTube, he's actually my second cousin. I didn't know this. I met him one time at one of my cousin's bar mitzvahs because I'm Jewish, even though I've got this holiday Christmas shirt on. So yeah, I'm Jewish and it was at my cousin's bar mitzvah and I met him and I had no idea who he was. I didn't even watch his videos at the time, but a couple months later, my mom came up to me and was like, there's this person on YouTube who posts video games and he just won this crazy $10,000 and this trip to the Grecian Islands and she said that I was my cousin and it was the craziest thing. So I looked him up on YouTube and I saw who he was and I remember meeting him and it was the craziest experience. So XJaws is my cousin, yeah. Oh wow man, that's really interesting. So you actually are a cousin to a really big celebrity YouTuber. All right, all the big YouTubers are telling me the consistency, consistent uploading is actually a big benefit and it helps you grow. So the question is, do you agree and if you've found that by consistently uploading on a certain schedule that you've had to find certain adversities or challenges along the way? This past summer I've been, I uploaded almost two to three times a day consecutively like every single day. So uploading, yeah, I was pumping out videos as best as I can and this past summer is when I really started to grow exponentially. I mean, I have been since the start of my channel, but challenge was I think it's after I've gotten the habit of posting all of these videos so constantly and so many videos, when I had to take a break, like when I had to go out of town or when I had other commitments in my life that hindered my ability to post videos, I think those were challenges for me because I got in this routine of posting all of these videos and having to stop sometimes, like it sucks because like I just want to make videos and I want to get content out for my followers and my subscribers so that's probably a big challenge that I had to overcome. My most memorable comment I have ever received was actually on my Instagram after I had shouted that out on YouTube so I did my face reveal and I shouted out my Instagram with that so a lot of my subscribers moved from my YouTube to my Instagram and I posted a picture of me with a bunch of donuts because I had just gone and gotten donuts and someone commented on my Instagram photo, don't f*** the donuts when you get home and I couldn't really believe what he said because it was my personal Instagram so people from my school could all see this so I mean I just had to delete that immediately but that was probably the most memorable comment and whenever I tell people that, people laugh so that's probably my most memorable comment. Interesting, interesting. So what is your biggest accomplishment? I bet you have 100,000 subscribers that maybe that big silver plaque that's coming in the mail or maybe you already have biggest accomplishment is probably reaching 100,000 subscribers, I'm sure that's what a lot of people say silver plaque, I'm still waiting for YouTube to contact me about that well hopefully I get that contact soon, I got a nice space on my wall I could go put it up somewhere or somewhere over here, so we'll see Alright last question, guilty pleasure my friend, what in the world drives you insane just this jam, you're feeling it, you're loving it, you don't want anybody to know and find out that you love this jam what is it? Hallelujah from the Shrek movie, that song is my jam Really? Yeah, I want to hear you sing it I heard there was a secret chord, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah Nice swifters, alright guys hope you enjoyed this episode of Impulse make sure you put in the comments below the next YouTuber that you want to see and again the power of promotion knocking on their front door will actually cause them to maybe give me a call and say hey people are telling me that I should show up on Impulse for the interview section maybe I'll give it a whirl Alright guys we do something a little different, I actually know who the next interview is going to be it's Black X Worm, put in the comments below what you think about Black X Worm link for his channel will be in the description below but I want to know in the comments below what you think about him do you like him, do you hate him, do you find him annoying, do you think it's contents ridiculous do you think he's absolutely awesome and hilarious let me know in the comments below and then your comments will show up on next week's episode Alright Freedom Family, my name's Dan, you guys all know and love me make sure you believe in yourself and great things will happen to you See ya Last question which I ask all of my celebrity YouTubers on this show Oh Gary Be prepared it's coming at ya Okay a guilty pleasure based on a song I actually ask this question to somebody and he goes so like a literal pleasure that I feel guilty about I was like no