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Yassin: Creators cannot truly be canceled because algorithms are emotionless
“There's no such thing as cancel. You cannot be canceled on the internet. It isn't, the algorithm has no emotions. You think the algorithm is like right wing or left wing? It doesn't care. You create content, it's interesting enough, it shows it to people. So y…”
Yassin: More Middle Eastern leaders died pursuing peace than waging war
“In the Middle East, more politicians died From making peace than from making war. I'm gonna say that again. More politicians died from making peace than from making war.”
Yassin: New creators must ditch traditional friends for creative peers
“One, ditch your existing friends, because you're about to enter a whole new industry, and two, surround yourself with new types of friends that are from the creative industry. The ones that don't shame you for screaming in front of a video.”
Yassin: All creators eventually saturate their addressable audience and face decline
“At some point you will not get more famous. At some point you will saturate every single person in India that could potentially like you. Then you'll have this amazing and sad decline, and then the platforms want to show a different face, a different podcast, …”
Yassin: YouTube benefits from cycling in a new MrBeast every five years
“The best interest of YouTube is to have a new Mr. Beast every five years.”
Yassin: Calling for Middle East peace resulted in 100 death threats
“I made a video calling for peace a week ago, and I got a hundred death threats.”
Yassin: Lost $1M brand deal after posting Israel-Palestine video
“I lost a million dollars from making that video from a brand deal,”
Yassin: AI dubbing will match human quality within two months
“In the next two months, it will be just as good. It'll be so damn cheap.”
Yassin: Thumbnails and titles do not matter for short-form video
“On Instagram reels, the title doesn't matter. Thumbnail doesn't matter. In fact, no one should be stressing over this at the beginning. Just stress over the 1:03 seconds of the video. The first sentence that you say in the video. So on TikTok, thumbnails don't…”
Yassin: New creators should avoid starting with long-form YouTube videos
“Do not start your career by making long YouTube videos. It will ruin your dream. There's no discoverability engine. In this, like, just like, this is only when you're big enough. For now, focus on TikTok, Instagram.”
Yassin: Content creators should not be labeled 'influencers'
“There's no such thing as influencing. No one here has done any influence. Influencers are the fathers, the doctors, the mothers, the teachers, they influence children. We've done creating of content. We created content, and it has impacted people. But influenc…”
Yassin: Creators face a platform status hierarchy led by YouTubers
“There's even classism between platforms. If we are a TikToker, a Facebooker, a YouTuber, or an Instagrammer, it's like YouTuber is like class one citizen, then Instagrammer, then TikToker, then Facebooker.”
Yassin: A YouTuber or creator will soon become president
“We're going to have a creator president very soon. We almost did with Trump, but yeah, like a YouTuber president is going to happen.”
Yassin: Most content creators are actually introverted in real life
“Most creators are actually introverted, that I realize, which is shocking. They only like talking to a camera. They don't like talking to humans.”
Yassin: Public backlash means a content creator is finally relevant
“As a creator, if you get cancelled or pushed back, you have cracked it. You are finally relevant enough to hate.”
Yassin: Social media offers 6-7 guaranteed viral crisis events annually
“So unfortunately, in social media, every year there's roughly like six to seven opportunities To go guaranteed viral. Guaranteed. Any video you make about a topic, it will go viral. Unfortunately, a lot of people utilize that just to get attention.”
Yassin: Indian audiences generate one-tenth the ad revenue of Americans
“So if I get a thousand view, a thousand dollars from American audience, I get a hundred dollars from Indian audience.”
Yassin: New creators must start with 59-second short-form videos
“The only and the best way to get distribution today is to make YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels that are 59 seconds exactly, which is the one minute guy. And I think short content gets you reach, and after you get the reach, you should go deep b…”
Yassin: Creators should read tech earnings calls to anticipate platform trends
“You should read the quarterly calls of Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, and from listening to the CEOs of the social medias, you can guess where the tides are going to go, because these guys control the tides.”
Yassin: Starting as an AI or Metaverse creator will pay off
“Like if I was starting a seven year career now, I would probably want to start as like, AI creator or a Metaverse creator, because in six years, you are going to be at the right place at the right time.”
Yassin: Starting as a content creator is purely a quantity game
“When you begin, it's only quantity game.”
Yassin: Creating online content is far more ruthless for women
“It's much more ruthless for women than men.”
Yassin: Nas Daily companies generate $900K to $1M in monthly revenue
“So all in all in all, I think this month, so I have two companies. The combined revenue of that is roughly now 900,000 dollars to a million dollars a month.”
Yassin: 80% of my revenue comes from 400,000 email subscribers
“80% of my revenue now comes from these 400,000 emails.”
Yassin: Major global forums will not invite Tanmay Bhat due to risk
“I'll tell you what, they're not going to invite Tanmay for this. Too risky.”
Yassin: Politicians avoid long podcasts because they expose authentic flaws
“Especially podcasts. It's impossible after one hour podcast. This is who you really are. That's why presidents really don't go on podcasts more than one hour or two hours. It becomes, you know, the third hour is like, that's where you make the mistakes.”
Yassin: Brands immediately drop creators when controversy strikes
“Brands are the first to chicken out when you get cancelled, when you get pushed back.”
Yassin: How/why, superlatives, and paradoxes are the best title formulas
“So when it comes to titles, there's very easy wins, ok? How, why, what. Start the title with how and why, because the average human really wants to know why Greenland is not actually green. The human brain really wants to know how aquariums work, okay? So how …”
Yassin: A creator's first hire should always be a video editor
“Your first hire should be an editor. If you can afford to hire anybody, hire an editor, because that's how you buy back your time.”
Yassin: Living solely to produce content is unsustainable for creators
“If you live to make videos, if your number one goal of living is to make the videos, it's unsustainable because at some point you'll be so tired of this. You don't want to make another cooking video. You don't want to make another travel video. You're done. Th…”
Yassin: Over 30 million Nas Daily followers do not speak English
“Nas Daily has sixty-five million followers. Thirty million of our followers don't speak English. They cannot speak English. We have two million followers in Vietnam. That's two percent of the country, and I don't speak a single word of Vietnamese.”