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The Colin and Samir Show

The Absurd Business of Being an Internet Prankster (ft. Max Fosh)

The Colin and Samir Show

Colin and Samir

Business

4.9665 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

In our interview with Max Fosh, we talk about how he got his start on YouTube, where he gets ideas and how he sets himself apart from others in the challenge genre. Book a Demo with the Spotter team: http://join.spotter.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I realize people drop off when you say the word...

0:03.0

How much do you make on AdSense in a month?

0:05.0

Probably around...

0:07.0

You are potentially in one of the most replaceable genres.

0:10.0

Do you need to grow out of this?

0:11.0

We've got a volcano guy in every country.

0:14.0

And candidly, what I'll say is I don't think it's funny enough.

0:16.0

If you've got that, you've got a good video.

0:18.0

That's a quick path to a short career. Were there ramifications for that?

0:22.6

I was very paranoid for a couple of weeks or months afterwards.

0:25.6

I can't wait to read this.

0:28.6

I first started watching Max Fosh when he had around 30,000 subscribers.

0:33.6

At the time, he was making a Man on the Street series called Street Smart,

0:36.6

where he interviewed posh people in London. And today, with was making a Man on the Street series called Street Smart, where he interviewed

0:37.7

posh people in London. And today, with over 2 million subscribers on his channel, Max has some of the

0:43.2

best and most unique ideas on YouTube. He ran for mayor of London. He became the richest

0:48.5

man in the world for seven minutes, and he recently, at the sidemen charity match, pulled out

0:52.8

an uno reverse card on a ref, creating

0:55.1

the most viral moment from the game. Now, Max is incredibly successful on YouTube, but what's made

1:00.6

him uniquely interesting to us is that he was able to sell out the London Palladium for his first

1:06.1

ever comedy show. In this episode, we talk about his process for coming up with ideas. We talk about how

1:11.6

chasing virality has impacted his life and how he gained half a million subscribers in China.

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