Hey my name is Rene and I'm from Amsterdam. I was made aware of Steemit by my good friend Angelo @theywillkillyou who is running what is currently one of the newer blogs on this platform. Like Angelo, I am a producer of another YouTube channel called World5List, which is slowly but steadily closing in on 1,000,000 subscribers (it's currently sitting at around 750,000 subscribers right now). I'll be working closely with him in trying to bring our subscriber bases over to the awesome Steemit community. We both see a lot of potential in this new social media outlet and hope to do what we can to raise awareness and make it grow! Additionally, with my years of experience in YouTube and coaching other YouTubers, I'd be very happy to answer any questions to help other YouTubers on this platform.
To give you a little background about myself, I'd been having a pretty successful online poker career for about 8 years, playing mainly heads-up no limit hold 'em (for those of you who know what that means), when a few years ago I went to Vegas and rented a room from a former poker player who got me interested in YouTube. Thus, World5List was born! https://www.youtube.com/user/World5list
One of the biggest benefits of my current job is that it allows me to travel a lot. I just got back from a month-long baseball road trip throughout the U.S. and Canada; going to games in Chicago, Saint Louis, Atlanta, Washington, New York, Boston, Toronto and Cleveland. In the last year alone I have also been to Belgium, Belize, Germany, Miami, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Austria, Croatia, and Greece, all of which was topped off by an awesome trip to Colombia with Angelo.
The trip to Colombia was a special one in many ways. Angelo and I spent 5 days with Pablo Escobar’s former top assassin, Jhon Jairo Velásquez aka “Popeye” in his hometown of Medellín, Colombia, which you can read more about here: https://steemit.com/youtube/@theywillkillyou/escobar-uncovered-5-days-w-pablo-escobar-s-top-assassin-sneak-peek
Angelo and I have both decided to document this trip not only on YouTube but on Steemit as well, providing you guys with details and footage that won't be published anywhere else (including YouTube!). Popeye is responsible for orchestrating over 3,000 murders, racking up a personal death count of 300, for which he served 22 years in prison.
To make a long story short, Angelo was on a few calls with him and then we just dove right in and flew to Colombia without really knowing what we were getting ourselves into, which I can promise you made for some pretty interesting footage and storytelling!
In my first few blogs I will be writing extensively about this trip and when that's done I will decide (with your guys' help), what direction I will be taking this in! Angelo and I have been in talks about interviewing another high profile criminal, so who knows...
Welcome! Great to see you posting.
Welcome buddy! It's fun here :)
Let's see what the fuzz is all about... ;)
Hey Rene, welcome to STEEMIT! As I shared with Angelo on his intro post, it's impressive how far you also managed to get on YouTube. We mostly gave up on our channel as we were about to break 100K subscribers back in 2011, due to all the censorship and demonetization issues we already faced back then (now, as I'm sure you're well aware, more commonplace than ever).
It's also great that you want get other YouTubers to discover the STEEMIT "light at the end of the tunnel" as well! To that end, you may find some of the materials I referenced in my recent "YouTuber's Guide" post helpful for yourself and others as you attempt the still not-so-easy task of explaining to them what STEEMIT's all about. For some, it almost seems "to good to be true" that you can earn money just by posting, and without any adverts whatsoever!
Link: YouTuber's Guide to Re-Monetizing with STEEMIT!
Both of your channels have some really great content, and I definitely see the "cross" influence between your two channels from your collaboration. You'll also find a great and proactive community of people here, as opposed to many of the nasty 12 year olds comment trolling on YouTube!
Again, to both of you, welcome to STEEMIT, glad you've found your way here, and I dunno but if that first "hit" on Angelo's intro post isn't incentive enough to the potential of "STEEMIT", I dunno what else is. Just imagine once you each get to a "whopping" 1000 subs! lol 😎
Thanks for the encouraging words. What was the channel you were running?!
Our main channel was vlogolution. I still have screenshots of our sub and view counts from those days for posterity (one of our videos alone, at the time, had over 30 million views)! lol
I've always wondered how far we could have gotten there without so much resistance from the YouTube "powers that be". But then again, seeing what's happened the past year... like Alex Jones, imagine having budgeted millions expecting a certain level of income from YouTube, and then it evaporates overnight. Of course, all the more "incentive" to "keep your nut low". I actually wrote a bit more about it in a comment on Anegelo's intro post if you're curious.
Why did you delete the channel all together though?!
we didn't delete it. you can click through and see it's still there. we just haven't really posted any new content on it because nearly everything we posted would be immediately flagged down and/or demonetized as "inappropriate". for example, forget about demonetization, they completely pulled our "I'M OUT OF TOILET PAPER" video off our channel (and other videos as well). At the time, that one video was earning around $150/day on average! However, it still exists on a copycat channel (it's our user name but spelled with I's instead of L's)! For some reason, they never felt the need to remove that copy, despite numerous requests while ours was still live on YouTube!
Ironic, though, how YouTube has no problem monetizing Katy Perry's despicable latest video Bon Appetit, now at 152 MILLION views and counting! So much for "inappropriate for YouTube", if that doesn't stick it right to the gut of every other "hard working" YouTuber, I dunno what does!
Hi nice to meet any pointers being on here
Yeah man it's really great nice to meet
Your post was mentioned in my hit parade in the following categories:Congratulations @world5list!
So new to this platform that I don't even REALLY know what that means yet but it sounds pretty damn good! :)
Welcome! I've enjoyed the posts I've read from @theywillkillyou so I'm excited to see what you will bring to steemit!
Thanks a lot. Angelo is one of my best friends. I'm super happy he introduced me to this platform! Like I said before I am currently putting together the first blog on our Colombia trip. It's gonna be about the moral dilemma of interviewing a hit men and providing him with a stage and an audience. I expect to have it ready by tomorrow at the latest. Should make for a fun read and will hopefully leave people wondering!
I'm definitely following! I love to travel so beyond your post about Escobar's hitman, I'm excited to see your travels! I'm actually in Italy right now for the first time, I put up a few posts about our adventures in rome, feel free to take a look if you'd like!
Looks like a pretty awesome way to combine the best of both worlds. Travelling to Rome and writing about it on here!
Really can't beat it, outside of being able to earn steem through the posts, it's an amazing online journal of our travels!
Welcome Rene, I think a few days on Steemit and you would be like... what? who? youtube...? what you talking about?
hahaha...
Getting to that point already! :)
Nice to meet you !
Welcome to steemit!
I am also new to steemit
Checkout my blogs @saurabhgupta related to travelling, tech, poems and India's famous monument I I am sure, you will be interested in all such stuff :)
Warm welcome to steemit Rene. I see that in just 4 days you have already started rocking on steemit. Way to go mate! You could be an inspiration to all the newbies like me on steemit.
Following you to not miss any of your interesting posts. :-)
Welcome to Steem @world5list I have sent you a tip
Great to have you here! If you could verify yourself by replying to my comment that would be great.
I'm the 14th comment.
Edit: If you could do it again as I accidentally deleted the comment :/
2nd Edit :D : Verified
Done! :)
I accidently deleted the comment, if you do not mind replying again that would be great, if not I can understand why.
Putting me to work right away... Done!
Lol sorry for that, great to see another big Youtuber here!
welcome to steemit. I am following your blog. Good luck here on the forum.
Thanks a lot. Much appreciated since I'm just starting out. I will have what should be a fun read up by tomorrow at the latest!
Welcome. Looking forward to see more.
Thanks a lot. Working on the first blog about our Colombia trip right now. It's gonna be about the moral dilemma of interviewing a hit men and providing him with a stage and an audience. Should be out no later than tomorrow.
Hey, just a quick update. I just put up part 1 of the Popeye/Escobar series, which includes footage from the interviews as well. https://steemit.com/youtube/@world5list/interviewing-a-hitman-damnable-or-not
welcome to steemit
Thanks a lot, Hopefully I will be able to keep everyone entertained. Gonna do my best!
Welcome
Thanks!
Welcome to Steemit! Very interesting adventure your having. I used to play poker as well but then at one moment wasn't so profitable and got bored. I wish you the very best and looking forward to your posts :)
Thanks a lot. I haven't played for many years now. I was able to make a living of of it until the very end but I can see how you got bored of it. I did too. Once I stopped, I never played again, not even for fun.
Welcome and happy steeming !
A little late, but thanks a lot never the less!
Its never to late on Steemit!
Welcome! I hope you will do as good him here! Looks like you both have a lot of stories to tell. We are listening!
I was little bit skeptical if even @theywillkillyou is a real person or just some moderator from the channel who stole the identity. But I trust @theywillkillyou now. And if you are his friend you know more than me! :)
Good luck!
Hopefully we'll be able to keep you entertained!
And also if you would like to get some free whaleshares (tokens that you can use to upvote any posts thus increasing its value) and be part of the project, we will see you on the discord - https://discord.gg/uSGNsK Lot of nice guys here. :) See you here!
Hello @world5list and welcome to steemit!
This is a great place and with a great community – Glad to have you @wassa :)
Appreciate it, thank you! It has been a warm welcome!
You are welcome :)
Hallo Rene welkom bij steemit. Ben benieuwd naar je verhalen. Je hebt in ieder geval een volger erbij.
Haha, klasse!
Congratulations @world5list! You have completed some achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :
<p dir="auto"><a href="http://steemitboard.com/@world5list" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link"><img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/70x80/http://steemitboard.com/notifications/comments.png" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://steemitimages.com/70x80/http://steemitboard.com/notifications/comments.png 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://steemitimages.com/70x80/http://steemitboard.com/notifications/comments.png 2x" /> Award for the number of comments <p dir="auto">Click on any badge to view your own Board of Honnor on SteemitBoard.<br /> For more information about SteemitBoard, click <a href="https://steemit.com/@steemitboard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">here <p dir="auto">If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word <code>STOP <p dir="auto">By upvoting this notification, you can help all Steemit users. Learn how <a href="https://steemit.com/steemitboard/@steemitboard/http-i-cubeupload-com-7ciqeo-png" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">here!Great to have adventurers here on Steemit. I look forward to great posts. No pressure! I'm sure you will excel, based off of this post. Welcome!
Kind words, thanks a lot. Good motivation!
Well, I just put up the first one, so I am curious what you and other have to say about it! https://steemit.com/youtube/@world5list/interviewing-a-hitman-damnable-or-not
Welcome to Steemit!
Thanks a lot!
Awesome story already, looking forward to your posts!
Just a hint from one newbie to another, try using the #minnowsunite on your posts. It will help other newbies connect with you and some of the dolphins and whales may spot you there and give a helping hand.
Best of luck!
Thanks for the advice. I ended up opting for some other keywords but I appreciate you going out of your way to try and help me out!
Welcome .
Many people talk about making more money with steemit posts as on YouTube. Love to learn how this will workout for you.
greetz from #Aken @detlev
Will keep the community posted on this!
Welcome to the Land of Steem can't wait for the story .
It's your lucky day ;), I just put up part 1! https://steemit.com/youtube/@world5list/interviewing-a-hitman-damnable-or-not
Hopefully it makes for an interesting read.
welcome, will be following. Youtubers are big for this community.
Hopefully more of the interesting youtubers will find there way to this platform soon!
Welcome to the platform!
Thanks!
Hey @world5list Welcome to steemit!
Thanks a lot. It has been great so far!
Great to see you made tour way to the Steemit community. Let me welcome you as a fellow Dutch Steemian. Glad to. Otice other people see the potential valuu of this community as well! Have a great time here! Greets from Rotterdam!
Dank u!
welcome
Thank you!
Congrats on the huge following! You will do great here. Looking forward to your next posts :)
There already is a next post! ;)
I want to tell you you are genius my friend
Can't get enough of the kind words on this platform :)
Hey there, welcome to Steemit! :) Looking forward to your posts! Upvoted and followed :)
First one is already up in case you want to check it out ( not the intro but an actual post! )
You are cordially welcome to the steemit community where you'll connect with many amazing people from all round the world.
@GLOBALFOODBOOK
Please feel free to check out
Welcome to steemit @world5list. You'll do fantastic here
Let's hope so! The first day has been encouraging to say the least. So much warmer than YouTube!
Happy to have you here buddy :)
Thanks a lot
Nice !! welcome to our community!!
Thank you. You have a pretty impressive following. One day hopefully!
yeah i thin your youtube is bigger :P hehehe
A very warm welcome to you. I look forward to your content!
It has been a warm welcome indeed!
WELCOME BRO AND SISTA!
I also see I am interested in your future posts, so I will follow you now.
Maybe you could check me out(NO HOMO:) @kid4life and see if there is any stuff you would like to see in the future!
Cheers
Welcome onboard Rene!
Thanks a lot!
Welcome to the platform, Rene!
I appreciate it, thank you :)
Welcome to Steemit @world5list. Excited for your future post about your trips.
I'm excited to write about them too! :)
@world5list bienvenido a steemit, te dejo mi voto y te sigo!
Sígueme en https://steemit.com/@jhelbich
I had to use google translate to figure that out but: Gracias!!
Welcome to Steemit! Interesting introduction! 😊
Thanks a lot, hopefully I'll be able to KEEP everyone interested!
Hey Rene! Sounds like an exciting line of work you're in ;) I look forward to your posts about your trip and seeing which direction you choose. It's great that you want to spread awareness about this amazing platform!
Thanks Natasha, yeah Angelo and I both are truly and genuinely committed to help grow this awesome platform, while having a lot of fun in the process!
Hi really great to meet I'm jim hope you have a great day , if you been doing this a while could you tell me more about it I'm a complete newbie says 1 yr on my acc but just used it for first time yesterday
Been at it for exactly 3 days now :), so it might be more useful to read up on other people's tips and advice of which there is plenty to be found!
Welcome to Steemit Rene. Always nice to meet other Dutch people here. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do! :-)
Tot nu toe in ieder geval wel!
Dat snap ik :-)
You did a wonderful introduction, Rene.
"Steem is beautiful" Stop by and take a look and tell us what you think.
I am following, upvoting and featuring you.
Stay Original >Stay Creative > SteemOn Daily https://steemit.com/minnowsunite/@steemisbeautiful/what-makes-steem-beautiful-015
A friendly piece of advice from one newbie to another. The whole thing could be structured a little better. Some of the text was taken out of context and misplaced. The track that you are on I think is very clever cause everyone benefits but the execution can be a little better. I am sure I can improve too in many ways so don't take this the wrong way!
Thank you for your comment. No I am not offended but encouraged that you would want to help me improve. I am new to all of this and intimidated to start but I am so glad I did. I will take another look and edit. If you could let me know what you see that would be good > if you have time. Thanks again.
I don't know if there is some change I am not aware of but what I see is not what I see when I post. I didn't see that problem before. The more I edit the worse it seems to get. Do you have any suggestions?
Editing has been difficult for me too sometimes. Not sure why. I just always delete entire sections and paste those bits back in but I feel like that's some pretty useless advice but after 2 days on the site, that's the best I am able to do :s
Thank you. I've always been able to see what my post will look like. Now it's a guessing game. The post seems slimed down. I will try your suggestion. Thank you.
Welcome to steemit! Considering I am also new to steemit, I'm very happy to see a well known youtuber like yourself using this platform!
It's exciting to be on here as well!