At 16, he owns two YouTube channels with over 400,000 subscribers. Gather 200,000 hits every day.
I mean ... about four National Arenas full of people come in to watch his Minecraft videos.
Maximilian Ioan is a vlogger and gamer. Online content creator ... with remarkable results. It's part of the charming generation of YouTube.
He is only 16 years old. Is she a star? In the world of like-minded people, yes. Is he a millionaire? For now, in access ... and ideas. Maximilian Ioan is a ... YouTuber by definition, as he likes to call his kids "digital natives". I mean ... born with the nose in the keyboard and the button in the DNA. Max has a vlog and an extremely popular gaming channel. It started ... about five years ago.
"Initially I did this in 2011-2012, with a very, very bad camera, it wasn't even a video camera, it was a camera. Everyone was taking it as a joke, they were laughing at me. Even I laughed at it, I deleted them. I leave, I don't do anything anymore ... "- says Max.
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iLikeIT. Asian phone makers are catching up. The advantages and disadvantages of a smartphone in ChinaA few months later, Max made a wise decision. He invested in a DSLR and reopened the YouTube channel.
"The camera came, let's try again. When I tried it went first, I gathered 500 subscribers on the first day. After that, I started to grow very fast. I had 10,000 subscribers, I couldn't believe it either. then it wasn't that amount now, 100-200 thousand subscribers. "
Today, he is a kid determined to say openly what presses him, what he thinks. The recipe that, in his case, goes like butter. Only 74 videos are uploaded to the vlogging channel.
Instead, it has 226,000 subscribers.
"This is my first video. Now if I look at it I find it awful. I'm ashamed. Probably if I looked at them, I would erase them. I'm 14 years old." - says Max.
He says that he is ashamed because, in Romania, filming for something other than television is considered ... taboo. More precisely, it does not exist for the majority of the population. That's why many don't even consider a career ... on the internet.
"Not necessarily my colleagues. And my family. I would have started filming this too, but there were many who all they did was ruin what I was doing there, discourage me. I can tell you that sometimes I was demoralized. Every day hundreds of comments are also curses, any youtuber is not affected. "
Maximilian gathered around him a real community. In the videos, he talks about the problems of the generation he belongs to. And accept challenges from subscribers.
"It was a moment, I didn't think in advance. I saw the camera, tripod, let's film again. I was filming with the phone. I invested more in gaming. A Nikon 3200, a tripod. I want to buy lights and a microphone. "
But the teenager from Cluj focuses on gaming. He's wearing it. Is required. Looking for. PewDiePie is a Swede who got rich from this activity. It has probably the most popular YouTube channel: almost 40 million subscribers.
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Max is a declared Minecraft fan. It is filmed playing and commenting. On average, 170,000 people look at him every day. It has 236,000 subscribers.
"It's crazy now, if I go somewhere, someone will come to me. Now I'm ok with this idea, then I was scared, I don't leave the house anymore. I was excited. After going to many events, and they all came at once "It's not so wow that you can't go out."
"I don't consider myself a star. I go to school decently. I'm not the worst in the class, I'm 9, 8. I'm going to finish school, I'm going to give the Baccalaureate. I'm not thinking of dropping out of school."
"How hard it is to do that. It's more than it seems. At Vlog it's hard to have scripts, don't stutter, it takes me somewhere around 9-10 hours a day. I'm sleeping, but you have to motivate me tomorrow. It's hard. "
Maximilian has learned two useful lessons for any kid who spends a lot of time online: not giving up and being immune to criticism. Especially when they come from the "trolls".
"There are a lot of youtubers who give up when they don't feel like it. If there are a lot of people, you need to put it on every day. I didn't put so much on the vlog. Once every two weeks. Every day to film on gaming. "
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