He had the goal of climbing the 7 summits a while ago. I think he has done 2 or 3 of them. I always wondered if he was going back to that goal. An everest expedition (with pre-training) takes a long time.
I feel like people get into that and look at Kilimanjaro or something and think “hey I can do this”.
Then they start researching Denali or even Aconcagua and realize the sht is tough. Then something like Everest is next level.
I think starting the hype for his return by having his marketing make this thread.
I honestly never watched much of his stuff on YouTube but this thread prompted me to look him up only to realize he’s been on a YouTube break for 6 months.
Guess I just helped feed the algorithm so that it’s primed for his return.
Symmonds YT channel is incomparably bigger than letsrun. 1.67M subsribers, let that sink in. Letsrun is what, like 100 people?
Probably made more from YouTube than his 800m career😂Seriously it is impressive. I am not sure he really had much to explore but it was a fun watch.
Nick's videos were fun, he did a nice job. I hope the best for him and think it will be interesting to see what he does next, even if it's a less public thing. Honest fan here, I'm not Nick's mom. The fact that I'm curious about him, and care what he's up to for that matter, sets him apart from other retired runners, who I tend to forget about pretty quickly.
He is trying to figure out some type of challenge that involves both running and fishing that innocent bystanders will take him up on. And if they beat him they win 100 clams.
I was thinking that he might be in a WalMart or Mall parking lot challenging two or more old ladies in walkers to race each other in order to win one his products.
I think starting the hype for his return by having his marketing make this thread.
I honestly never watched much of his stuff on YouTube but this thread prompted me to look him up only to realize he’s been on a YouTube break for 6 months.
Guess I just helped feed the algorithm so that it’s primed for his return.
I did notice when he became somewhat rich in the years following that his youtube followers increased alot. I don't have specifics on how much of that was paid for or bought. But there seems to be a high correlation to cash and followers. I remember when he barely got above 10k followers for years and then he became somewhat rich and there seemed to be a huge increase in followers. Not saying he did some type of program where he physically bought his subs but that seems to be one good way to increase a persons following by buying them somehow.
For example. I have put zero money into my youtube page. And my followers have maintained pretty much 385 followers for just about a 10 year period right now. Seems to be impossible to get followers without throwing some type of cash into it initially.. How a person goes about doing that I have no clue.
He is probably still trying to deadlift 500lbs AND run a sub 5:00 mile. He got th 500lbs last year? But only ran a mid 5:20-30? He got pretty thicc in order to pull that.
I think starting the hype for his return by having his marketing make this thread.
I honestly never watched much of his stuff on YouTube but this thread prompted me to look him up only to realize he’s been on a YouTube break for 6 months.
Guess I just helped feed the algorithm so that it’s primed for his return.
I did notice when he became somewhat rich in the years following that his youtube followers increased alot. I don't have specifics on how much of that was paid for or bought. But there seems to be a high correlation to cash and followers. I remember when he barely got above 10k followers for years and then he became somewhat rich and there seemed to be a huge increase in followers. Not saying he did some type of program where he physically bought his subs but that seems to be one good way to increase a persons following by buying them somehow.
For example. I have put zero money into my youtube page. And my followers have maintained pretty much 385 followers for just about a 10 year period right now. Seems to be impossible to get followers without throwing some type of cash into it initially.. How a person goes about doing that I have no clue.
I think starting the hype for his return by having his marketing make this thread.
I honestly never watched much of his stuff on YouTube but this thread prompted me to look him up only to realize he’s been on a YouTube break for 6 months.
Guess I just helped feed the algorithm so that it’s primed for his return.
I did notice when he became somewhat rich in the years following that his youtube followers increased alot. I don't have specifics on how much of that was paid for or bought. But there seems to be a high correlation to cash and followers. I remember when he barely got above 10k followers for years and then he became somewhat rich and there seemed to be a huge increase in followers. Not saying he did some type of program where he physically bought his subs but that seems to be one good way to increase a persons following by buying them somehow.
For example. I have put zero money into my youtube page. And my followers have maintained pretty much 385 followers for just about a 10 year period right now. Seems to be impossible to get followers without throwing some type of cash into it initially.. How a person goes about doing that I have no clue.
Have you never seen the ads from people selling followers?
What I'd like to know is how I can get paid for following accounts. I'd suppose I would have to actually watch the stuff.