YouTube Millionaires: Dangthatsalongname’s Channel Is A Trove Of Memorable Gaming Moments, From ‘Minecraft’ To ‘Among Us’
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Cheaters never prosper, but liars…always win?
Maybe that’s not exactly how the saying goes, but the sentiment has worked out for
Welcome to YouTube Millionaires
, where we profile channels that have recently crossed the one million subscriber mark. There are channels crossing this threshold every week, and each creator has a story to tell about YouTube success. Read previous installments
This week’s installment of YouTube Millionaires is brought to you by Bright – a learning platform focused on real conversations that level up your life.
Every video game fan–young or old, hard mode devotee or strictly casual player–has a place on
RaidAway‘s channel.
If you chat with the New York-based
Call of Duty content creator, it’s not hard to see why he’s so determined to make his content open to anyone: For RaidAway, gaming has always been a space for bonding with family and friends–and somewhere he could go to escape from everyday stresses. He grew up playing
Lilman, who recently passed one million followers on
TikTok and is now focused on growing both his audience there and his audience on YouTube.
When Lilman–who’s 17 and based in Birmingham, England–joined TikTok in November 2019, the app was an escape from real life and the rest of the internet. He’d been trying to get a dance-focused YouTube channel and
Instagram account off the ground, and trying to balance time-consuming, cross-platform, long-form content creation with high school classes was proving particularly stressful.
TikTok was a window out of that stress. It was also, he discovered, fertile ground for virality: By December 2019, he’d found a viral hit in his humorous
And he did. As soon as
YouTube Shorts launched wide to users in November 2020, Baum began uploading videos. The vast majority of his clips are less than 20 seconds long, but they’re laden with eye-catching special effects.
Baum sharpened his VFX skills working as a producer and director for other YouTubers. When coronavirus lockdowns hit early last year and prevented him from meeting up with, well, anyone, he decided it was the chance to kick off his own YouTube channel with a project: every day of lockdown, he would create and post one full, finished video.
The daily uploads (which were also short and VFX-focused) netted him mild returns–a couple thousand subscribers and a couple hundred thousand views.