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Alan Chikin Chow Harnessed Social Media's Geographic Reach To Build A Following In The Multimillions

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4.86 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Awkward moments, dumb things we all do, relationships gone wrong: these are the themes of skits by YouTube Short’s king, Alan Chikin Chow. Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You have that little breakthrough and then what goes through your mind?

0:09.2

How do you keep that momentum going?

0:10.8

Did you think, oh, we'll see if this is a one-off thing or you're planning on,

0:15.4

I got momentum, let's put all these videos out?

0:18.0

Yeah, there were two things that really led to me realizing that this could be a business.

0:23.5

The first thing was after college,

0:25.3

I worked for another creator.

0:26.9

I love him, his name is Markyon,

0:28.4

and I got to see how he built the business

0:31.0

that I worked for from one person, I was the first hire to like 20 people within one year

0:35.9

So I saw that that exponential growth and then the second thing is when I graduated college as well, I volunteered at a school in Indonesia

0:46.4

and I saw that the kids were watching my videos on Tik-Tok.

0:51.6

And I thought, wow wow this is incredible like only in this time in our life

0:58.1

can you make something and it reaches everyone in the world in an instant.

1:03.2

Like that's the most incredible like innovation of our society

1:08.4

when it comes to content and entertainment.

1:10.4

If you do stuff like for example I was on an episode of a sitcom it takes so long for the

1:16.6

distribution to go from America to overseas or even for it to come out but with social

1:22.2

media it's like in their hands like right there and I just wanted to connect with

1:26.2

people all over the world so those are two big moments for me you're

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