Markiplier

It's super, it's hard to do.

And it could walk the line where some people could call it parasocial.

But I think what I've managed to do and what my fan base has managed to do is create something where they feel like I'm not going to trick them.

I'm not going to suddenly pull the rug out from under them.

And I'm not going to betray that trust in the time that they've given me so that they can at the very least feel good to support me when I'm really trying to do something.

And I think that's very human.

And I think that a lot of people forget that besides the not real numbers, when there are followers that are really in love with a creator or they really enjoy what they make, they're real.

They're real people and they have real passions.

Fandoms exist and fandoms are kind of the backbone of all of these things.

And that's why the studio system sometimes amazes me because when you have an original idea that comes out of the studio, the entire marketing effort is just to build a fan base out of nothing.

From nothing when they've seen nothing.

That's crazy concept.

And yet it was happening for years and it still does happen occasionally.

But yeah, I mean, you can see why sequels and things, remakes always happen because of fan bases.

It's all about the people.

It's always been about the people.

I don't know.

A lot of the numbers I hear are from other people making estimates because we didn't think that we would have

this much success, so of course we didn't plan for any kind of metric tracking.

We didn't plan for anything like that.