VIKKSTAR: The Sidemen Almost Ended Because Of Me
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot
4.6 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
With an average of more than 1 billion hours of content watched every single day on YouTube, the platform vastly outperforms traditional television and signifies a huge change in the media landscape.
Vikkstar is a part of British YouTube royalty, the Sidemen. I have always been fascinated with the group and how they've managed to build a YouTube empire from constant content creation, crazy ideas and a strategy that works unbelievably well. I was so excited to sit down with Vikkstar and find out more about who he is and his incredible success.
We cover:
• How the Sidemen were formed
• Why Vikkstar felt like an outcast at the start of his YouTube career and how he overcome it
• The secrets behind the sidemen's success
• The importance of pushing yourself out of your comfort zone to gain success
• Making tough decisions in order to change for the better
• What happened when fans crashed his wedding
He is truly one of the hardest working people I have ever met. His dedication to success, passion for content and the talents that he brings to the Sidemen, is so impressive.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up in this episode of Great Company. |
| 0:02.9 | I started making YouTube videos when I was 14 years old. |
| 0:06.6 | How many hours do you think 14, 15 hours? |
| 0:09.9 | Seven days a week for six or seven years. |
| 0:13.4 | Going to sleep, wake up the next day, do it again. |
| 0:15.6 | I destroyed my health. |
| 0:17.2 | Feeling isolated, maybe feeling lonely. |
| 0:19.2 | Why didn't you give up? |
| 0:22.5 | Dude, that is insane. |
| 0:24.2 | Hey, I'm VIXTA, and I'm in great company. |
| 0:26.2 | Hey, guys, it's me, VIXA, one, two, three. |
| 0:28.6 | Introducing the sidemen. |
| 0:30.6 | He's down? |
| 0:32.5 | I'm shot the fuck up. |
| 0:34.1 | Wake up, make videos. |
| 0:36.0 | You're just a username and a voice. |
| 0:38.3 | You're sort of living in a virtual world almost. |
| 0:40.9 | To the outside world looked like psychosis. |
| 0:43.3 | It's like why are you sat in front of a screen and talking to yourself? |
| 0:46.8 | You have now 22 million subscribers on sidemen. |
| 0:50.2 | It's like a third of the country. |
| 0:51.6 | We've been a group since 2013. |
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