Casey Neistat - what's the draw?

Casey Neistat - what's the draw?

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W00DY

15,467 posts

225 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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Orchid1 said:
He does make some good videos that keep you entertained however two things irk me slightly.

First is when he talks about how busy he is during the day and how he starts work before dawn however most days it's as if he goes to his office for all of five minutes then spends the rest of the day getting coffee and playing with his drone.
Or perhaps those are the bits worth putting into a vlog rather than sat at a computer or in meetings. You see 10 minutes or so of his day and those activities are perhaps a couple of hours at most.


As for the viral videos, he doesn't pretend that he's not trying to make them and he does it successfully. They make him money (directly and indirectly) and give him more exposure.


I definitely preferred watching his older stuff which was a bit ore edgy and less corporate, but fair play to him.

Otispunkmeyer

12,557 posts

154 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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gp1699 said:
Orchid1 said:
He does make some good videos that keep you entertained however two things irk me slightly.

First is when he talks about how busy he is during the day and how he starts work before dawn however most days it's as if he goes to his office for all of five minutes then spends the rest of the day getting coffee and playing with his drone.

Second is how a lot of his stuff is just bandwagon jumping eg with the whole pokemon go craze he made a funny little video that went viral of him trying to catch a man in a pikachu costume which is of course a relevant and up to the date thing to do however it's as if he just trawls social media all day looking for what is popular right now and tries to incorporate as much stuff as possible into his videos like someones dad trying to be hip and down with the kids constantly.
And in between all that he runs BEME too! But i dont think that's working too well...
I think I am too old now for some of this stuff. Heck I tried to use snapchat the other day and couldnt fathom it. The UI has no buttons!! I had a look at Beme and as far as I could work out its like vines, only shorter and they upload right away and then people reply to you with "reactions" but these are actual picture of their face reactions? Doesn't seem that great to me. Then again millions use snapchat!

Orchid1

877 posts

107 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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If you want to feel nostalgic check out some of this guys videos.

https://www.youtube.com/user/5ninthavenueproject

He was vlogging with a huge camera in NYC in the 1980's before youtube and the rise of the internet etc. A few hours after filming his last video he died of a heart attack.

weeboot

1,063 posts

98 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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Otispunkmeyer said:
I quite like him.... if only for the fact I find him an easy listen/watch when I just want some background noise.

BTW, that $21k air plane seat video got 20 million views in 7 days and netted him half a million new subscribers. Bloody insane. And he himself is under no illusion that viral stuff like that is almost completely down to luck. (though he does seem to understand about 80% of the ingredients for making a video with a high chance of becoming viral)

I can't figure his background out mind. I am sure I read somewhere his networth was $40m due to parents business/real estate but I can't find that now (perhaps I googled the wrong person). Most bios have him down as coming from being a bit of a deadbeat who got his lass pregnant whilst they were teenagers and he lived in a trailer park. The guys done well for himself.
The wiki page about him has everything you need.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Neistat

Searching google for Caisey Neistat Net Worth returns $1.5m

danllama

5,728 posts

141 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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I watch Adam lz, Taylor drifts, more skids, lowcals, monky London, john hicks, things like that.

But I've never watched a Casey video. I'm at the point now where i can't out of principle biggrin

bazza white

3,551 posts

127 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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His talks like vidcon ect are pretty good, he's pretty wise on what he's doing.


Loads of other vloggers even bigger ones copy some of Casey's style, it makes me cringe sometimes.


Watch some of the American female vloggers and see how long you last, then look a how many subs they have, you soon see what's wrong with the youth of today.


I like Tavel vlogs on top of 'my life vlogs'


Primitive technology is another good channel if you can call it a vlog, bloke has never spoken a word but nearly 3m subs.







red_slr

17,122 posts

188 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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I like him. I like his production style. The one thing that irritates me is how he throws stuff around.

Anyway very clever guy and very polite which is nice.

I know he tries to keep up with any content that mentions his name he might read this thread!

ambuletz

10,690 posts

180 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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burritoNinja said:
I'm into Bodybuilding so one of my guilty pleasures is watching Rich Piana.... right babe. God damn it he is a hard worker and a self made millionaire but he has implants in his biceps and triceps that look awful. Muscle never ever contracts or changes shape.

Casey guy is doing what he loves so fair play to him.

100% agree, MO VLOGS is the best on YT ever. He is soooo cool. Hangs about with his sister and even shows off his 8 polo shirts.... yawn fest.
I can't stand the way piana talks. Not going to bother watching a 45min video of him talking or equal ones of him working out. about the only thing i do check of his is eating videos, his house, cars etc.. I might watch a video if it's been discussed by someone else. like when he got skin cancer. I ignored it but went back to view it after someone else made a video about it.

AndrewEH1

4,917 posts

152 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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red_slr said:
I like him. I like his production style. The one thing that irritates me is how he throws stuff around.
One of his videos he does explain that he is basically using his gear 4-8 hours a day, everyday, so in order to be able and ready to film anything he sees things will break but he does get a lot of life out of his gear. The one thing that annoys me is that he has a massive wall of shame rather than getting them repaired if possible!

red_slr

17,122 posts

188 months

Thursday 29th September 2016
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Boosted board kills me every time he throws it down on the ground. I expect Boosted love it...

red_slr

17,122 posts

188 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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Anyone seen the DHL guy episode? Looks like that 30 seconds on his video has kick started his go fund me in a serious way. Last time I checked it was getting over $1000/min... that's insane.

DannyScene

6,596 posts

154 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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weeboot said:
I enjoy his stuff, along with videos from Ben Brown, Louis Cole, even Roman Atwood from time to to.
Jon Olsson and his girlfriend Janni are keeping me entertained at the moment.. wink
I started watching Roman Atwoods vlogs a few weeks ago, finally caught up on every video of his from day one, really positive guy and usually uploads entertaining content

AndrewEH1

4,917 posts

152 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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red_slr said:
Anyone seen the DHL guy episode? Looks like that 30 seconds on his video has kick started his go fund me in a serious way. Last time I checked it was getting over $1000/min... that's insane.
He threw in $1,000 too. I think Casey is a genuinely good guy, he certainly leads a very interesting life all down to his hard work. I'm not jealous at all!

red_slr

17,122 posts

188 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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Yes very polite and comes across like a nice guy.

5m video just gone live.

ambuletz

10,690 posts

180 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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I find it a little funny really. casey just hitting 5million subs. in 1hour his video has 227,000 views.

EpicMealTime have 7million subs. their video that they submitted on tuesday has 197,000.

Deisel Weisel

2,519 posts

183 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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red_slr said:
Boosted board kills me every time he throws it down on the ground. I expect Boosted love it...
He throws EVERYTHING about, including cameras, yet he's always complaining about things breaking. I don't know if he does it for effect or he's genuinely clumsy. I'm sure he doesn't end up paying for most of these breakages, so I guess it matters not to him.


Edited by Deisel Weisel on Saturday 1st October 20:11

red_slr

17,122 posts

188 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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Yeah pretty sure he does it on purpose "for effect".

jazzybee

3,056 posts

248 months

Saturday 1st October 2016
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Love his videos, and have been watching daily for the past year and a half.

Its his attitude and ability to clearly communicate what he wants to get across.

You need to see some of his earlier videos to see what he is about. Below are my two favorites - the second one was the reason I started going through all his movies and then his daily vlogs.

life explained in 27 seconds

My Kid and me

Ari

Original Poster:

19,328 posts

214 months

Wednesday 5th October 2016
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jazzybee said:
Love his videos, and have been watching daily for the past year and a half.

Its his attitude and ability to clearly communicate what he wants to get across.

You need to see some of his earlier videos to see what he is about. Below are my two favorites - the second one was the reason I started going through all his movies and then his daily vlogs.

life explained in 27 seconds

My Kid and me
Those are excellent! thumbup

Deisel Weisel

2,519 posts

183 months

Thursday 13th October 2016
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He only gets 4 hours sleep a night, in bed for 5 hours, doesn’t explain what he does between 5am-6am. https://youtu.be/ZexvTZ1sV8U?t=205 That’s to recover from days that include 3 hours exercise. Nuts!