YouTube Mayhem: Dying To Be Famous
Once Upon A Crime
Esther Ludlow
4.6 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast details true crime cases. It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence. |
| 0:07.0 | It is not intended for children. |
| 0:09.0 | Listener discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime. |
| 0:14.0 | These days it seems like if you Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime. |
| 0:23.0 | These days it seems like if you're not on social media, you don't exist. |
| 0:27.0 | That might be a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. |
| 0:31.0 | Instagram, Facebook, Tik-Tock, and other social media apps are actually... not by is the number two most popular social media app second only to Facebook. |
| 0:44.0 | With over 37 million active YouTube channels and over 122 million daily |
| 0:49.6 | active YouTube users, it might not surprise you to discover that crimes by and against YouTube |
| 0:55.0 | stars have occurred now and then. |
| 0:58.2 | Crime is something that affects every industry and social media is no exception. In this month's series, YouTube Mayhem, |
| 1:05.0 | I'll focus on crimes connected to this social media giant. |
| 1:08.0 | Even if you are a YouTube user, and most of us are, |
| 1:12.0 | you may not have heard of the unusual crimes I've |
| 1:14.6 | uncovered that are linked to YouTube. |
| 1:17.3 | In this first installment of the series, a young couple on a quest for internet fame |
| 1:21.9 | records a prank for their YouTube channel with tragic results. |
| 1:25.6 | I've titled this one way to fill that need. |
| 1:45.0 | Some find that merely connecting with friends and family members isn't enough, |
| 1:49.0 | and they begin creating content that they hope others, including random strangers, will be interested in engaging with. |
| 1:55.8 | In this way, they will be seen by many more people than they know in real life or IRL, and perhaps |
| 2:02.2 | gain a large social media following. The people that achieve this are the ones we've come to know as social media influencers. |
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