The best part about this is Asmon is a prime example of being smart about streaming. His appearance looks like joe public, he lives in a regular sized house, the guy is loaded but still comes off as relatable. Well done sir.

Oh no way! I loved the whole reaction, and hopefully you don't have to get to the point where you create your own crypto currency. FWIW I think your conclusion at the end is right considering someone could ironically take that quote and sell it as a poster. "I can guarantee you, you can always find a new influencer, a new content creator that can get the newest freshest crop of morons to give them their money" - Asmon

“They don’t have a lot of money but they’re really stupid with the money they do have!” -Asmon

I just realized why i enjoy watching Asmon rants. I dont play wow, or any mmo for like 10-12 years now, but ended up here in this channel anyway. Asmon is a fking smart guy with very reasonable stand point vs most issues, plus he has really good awareness of himself and things around him. I'd listen to the argument from a respectable guy like this on anything, agree or disagree.

And what I learned from working in finance is that practically nobody young who just starts making tons of money is smart with it.

if you trust an influencer ur already lost..

I just want to say I appreciate how Asmongold does not just react. He thinks and responds with his own thoughts, and new points. Instead of just going through the motions.

Providing value, be it content or products, and communicating its worth to people is what makes someone an influencer. It's not easy to achieve both, but do so and there's no convincing necessary.

Your advice on sales was one of the first things my mother taught me when i worked in her store. If you want to sell some thing, show them that the product will do its task or fulfill some desire. Demonstrations are great, but if you actually use or enjoy the product then you never have to go for a hard sell.

"based off 7 Karens" LMFAO thx for the laugh

My buddy was in LA for business and he met a lot of people in their younger 20s with HUGE trust funds or fat inheritances from family members and lost ALL OF IT! So many of them uprooted their entire lives moved, to LA and tried to start an ‘influencer house’ in hopes of getting a taste of that fame. He met one guy that lost everything and his parents pretty much disowned him cause he wasted all his money on stupid bullshit that never went viral, didn’t accept a full ride scholarship because he wanted to pursue the influencer life. He lost his house and all of his “friends” moved on to better things after using him to get there. He’s hanging on by a thread by working two waiter jobs and just hoping his parents call him back one day with access to the gold car again. Just so he attempt another run at this bullshit again. I get you can be successful without college but if you got a full ride scholarship to an Ivy League school but you choose to pursue this bullshit. Like what 😳 he could of went to school and probably would of gotten viral from just making university life videos on KZfaq to. He fucked up everything. My friend telling me this story and he said I couldn’t imagine being the person in a huge family line of wealthy individuals going back YEARS. But it stops at him cause he fucked up wasted it all trying to be a YouTub influencer.

This is one of my favorite reaction/take Asmon make to a video, many insightful comments that is pragmatic and realistic

I think you aren't realizing that there's a difference between being dumb in a rosy bubble economy vs being dumb in a recession. People become much more wary and much harder to dupe with giving up what little they have during times of actual poverty and dire cultural outlook. You don't seem to believe that the broader market is influenced and changed by ongoing conditions, time will tell whether people grow callous towards any form of advertisement and influence due to the over saturation created by this bubble.

srs the sheer amount of parents i deal with at work that come in an ask for a gaming keyboard cause their kid saw a youtuber/twitch streamer using one is INSANE! 9/10 they return it because it didnt work for whatever console they have and/or the kid couldn't figure out how to use it instead of a controller. same can be said for any other game related things, capture cards, super expensive headsets, etc. like buddy, you're 9.

I've followed Asmon for years because I learn so much from him.. My older brother is Asmon's age and they're very DIFFERENT people. So everything my big bro couldn't teach me I'd come to an Asmon video to learn. I've always been comfortable supporting Asmon with a small monetary contribution because I feel that the exchange value still comes out as a win for me. I've been taught, and entertained by this donkey for years and I've never felt like I was getting ripped off. Hell my older brother watches all his content now too. Keep up the good work bro, love watching your vids. 👍

"you have to tell people a lie they want to believe" that's so true, so bad, but so true, I just think of pharmacy and old people, tell em this pill will fix their health, then mention 10% chance of working in the small text

I worked at Subway during the Jared scandal, and I just have to say that it did hurt business really bad for a few weeks and sales didn't go back to normal for well over a month. I mean it was in the news every day for weeks and continued to pop back up over the course of the trial. Of course business did go back to normal, but the company wasn't going to lose even more money paying employees to stand around doing nothing, so employees got their hours cut significantly. Meaning they possibly couldn't pay their rent that month or afford their baby formula. These are the all too real risks and effects of businesses backing influencers. From the outside in, it may appear that the business is fine. However there are real people, that are not extremely rich, that have real problems that can be exacerbated by a spokesperson doing something stupid.

Great point. There is nothing more boring than somebody online talking about their money. That is the quickest way to make me delete. That is why we love you Asmon. Watching you stream nobody would think you have any money..

Influencer Marketing is so strong because there is nothing more effective at what it does which is speaking to 15-40 year old potential customers. As long as there is nothing more effective it will be the primarily used method. Also what is very interesting to note ist that the people who grow up will still be using online plattforms because its what they grew up with. Of course interests change but the vast amount of different influencers means you will always find someone/something that interests you. This can be seen with TV and its usage of older people (50+) aswell. So it really doesnt matter what problems this guy seems to find for the current marketing method because there is still nothing better out there.

He's literally ignoring production costs of advertising those companies have to put into these commercials. The influencer is doing all of this work for them, taking on these costs themselves.

The hair pause got me 😂

So long as influencers are able to influence, they will make good money.

Bud light’s “real men of genius “ best commercials ever . Creative and funny

There is so many Influencers that will go broke once the next 2008 like recession comes and all the marketing budgets dry up. In 2008 there was no Influencers to this level.

Asmon I’m 40 and watch u almost daily. Ur great cause u don’t put up a front about how much money u have. I really enjoy u sticking to ur roots.

Wise words from mr. rojers "it is dishonest to take the good faith an audience has in you to sell them a product that isn't yours."

Social media made it really easy to figure out what people were interested in. It's like backwards marketing; don't try to make someone interested in something when you can monetize what they already do.

"They don't have a lot of money but they're really stupid with the money that they do have" Very accurate description of many things. $200 basketball shoes, meme coins, meme stocks, funko pops. There is a lot of money to be made from scamming idiots.

The gold rush analogy was pretty spot on.

20:53 Asmongold being absolutely savage to his audience. Good god...

Yeah Crazy Hype right now for sure, I was starting up Twitch, didn't see growth, ended up taking tech stuff and enjoying my time.

the only ads I don't skip are from the dynamic banter podcast

I'll never understand the influencer thing At best, I'd look for recommendations on products (and stumble upon an influencer) then research on the pros / cons If I could, I'd try the product as well I've never rushed out to buy a product simply because someone said it was great

The amount of stock footage is amazing LMAO

Our expert's looking real defensive two minutes in here.

I fell asleep watching KZfaq and woke up with this video playing hungry AF for firehouse subs

Asmon hits the nail on the head. While ads in general that interrupt viewing is disliked, unless the video has been tailed to literally fit around them such as TV ads, if they are well done and creative they are liked. If you go to Game Theory now, whole videos are just sponsored and you wouldn't know it till the very end. MatPat picks up a sponsorship from a consulting client, he then writes a script about one of their games. He does the normal schtick with the video (actually I don't think he does any script writing anymore) - he publishes it, he gets ad revenue, sponsorship revenue, and consulting fees all in one package and meanwhile everyone watched a 30 minute ad. The guys that can't sell are the one's caught selling. True salesmanship is smooth communication, there is no abrupt disconnect, but if done well sales occurs, usually at the 1% to 2% conversion. rate. (2% is considered high by the way.

Great examples of people money didn't change are Asmongold and Markiplier

The problem is that society needs more problem solvers than those who market said solutions. If we place the bigger incentive in selling than creating, in other words if we have more KZfaqrs (marketers), people who actually solve issues have much less incentive to keep addressing the challenges.

Look at the hair! OMG..the hair😂😂

Makes me think of ads like how they had them set up in Minority Report.

I can honestly say that 99% of the time I don't even see the ad on the page. Sometime I reflect after leaving the site on what ads were even on the page and I can't think of a single one. I got pissed because ads were taking up 50% of my screen and left the site, but I have no clue what the ads were. Ads get over saturated and you can't even see them anymore. I am so use to closing ads I close them so fast they haven't even loaded past a blank pop up yet. Just instant shut it down.

I make sure to remember what ads I watch so that I can avoid those products in the future.

It's funny you bring up Papa John's. I used to get pizza from there all the time, but I noticed the quality was dropping and ended up going to some local barely-a-chain (three stores across two cities) one instead that was amazing but had a stupid, generic name (It was Super-Pizza if I remember right, if I don't remember right, it was some similarly tripe name). About three years later all the crazy shit about Papa John and Chick-Fil-A came out. And, to prove your point, even though I cut back on Chick-Fil-A, Chicken Express and Grandies were not up to par, so I still went there, just less often.

There is a guy I sometimes watch that goes at a completely different angle. I do not know how effective it is but when he does sponsorships he usually does something really crazy, like in his raycon sponsorship instead of talking about it he attacked the product with a chainsaw. It definitely adds to the content he makes but in terms of selling might not be that effective.

3:18 I see this timelapse of a mall everywhere on YT, when narrators are mentioning "consumer" something 😆I notice it because I know exactly where it is.

It’s indeed more work not watching ads as time progresses, like every 2,5 years I have to update my Adblock

Social media influencers are just the next evolution of talk show hosts. People flock to a personality. What makes this a bubble is how fast it has grown. No matter how big a company is they can't throw endless supplies of money at influencers without a profit happening from it. IMO a popped bubble just means fewer influencers that are making less money. Sure the investors like to see growth and signs of the company keeping with the latest trends. But at some point it needs to provide some kind of profit or they lose confidence.

jersey mikes is so good

Funnily enough I have only ever bought one product that a youtube was pushing, Some mini wargaming basing supply that I was really happy with.

You best start believing I'm recessions. You're in one!

I love how asmons sees davids house as says "we should do vlogs" like he cant already afford that house and more lmao

IMO, the real reason brands make such a big deal out of withdrawing sponsorship after controversy is that withdrawing sponsorship on moral grounds is a great marketing opportunity. They get to act all high and mighty, improve overall opinion of the brand, and then they'll probably just sponsor them again after everything calms down.

great video again Mr. Asmond

You often will not even realize what you are reading is an app. Articles disguised as news stories are are great ads. Sponsored content is rampent in magazines, network news on tv, product placement in tv shows...adds are everywhere. Its exhausting. Whenever it becomes too much and i need a break i like to unwind with an ice cold Dr. Pepper.

Crazy car, fish lives in a fishbowl hahaha

"I should start doing vlogs" 🤣

Ads can't keep up with trends for long. They started on my space as it died, the moved into facebook and now it's dead, they're in the middle of finding out that the only people who use twitter are people who are yelling nonsense at each other and their bot followers. Every time an ad system kicks in the site it's on dies and a new one pops up. KZfaq and twitch are about the only sustainable platforms for ads and that may only last so long before some alternative pops up.

Charlies is my goto subway replacement lol

Pretty sure putting in the extra work to not watch ads will be more and more worthwhile as they develop techniques to personally target and manipulate the individual psychology.

Internet historian is the best example of perfect advertising. 🥰

Ou, this was so deep. Didnt expect.

Brondo has what plant’s crave

I’m glad there’s someone out there with half a brain educating these kids 😂

It's funny how they compare those mansions to gta as If southern California wasn't a thing until after gta5 came out.

in overgeared they sold sand branded is as "life longevity remedy" and it works lmao

There are a lot of influencers that want you to give them free product but they don’t help you at all.

Subway isn't what it used to be. It has 80% less meat than 80's - 90's. Most of it is bread and lettuce (if you're lucky). And you pay more for it too.

**sees dobriks house** "I think we should start doing vlogs"

😂😂Aaahaaa! So Franklins house from GTA V is a model of David Doberick's house IRL, got it! 😂😂

Would like to say thank you for your content. i recently retired n now pc gaming. im having so much fun n grearful for your content. thank you brother

These 3am streams with Asmon are lit af

I'm surprised that people really don't seem to understand this. People's lives are heavily impacted by ads, I forgot the name of this one study we had to read in an English class I took a few years ago but it said that it's like 60-70% of our decisions are made because of advertising- either good or bad. So even if you aren't buying something based upon what you've seen or heard about a product, other products being perceived as bad, never having seen something before, or a variety of other reasons influence what we buy, watch, and do with our lives.

The movie Idiocracy is a documentary of our future. “Welcome to CostCo I love you”

This is straight facts

Ducati worked for me 😂

This whole video is just Asmongold in his natural habitat tbh

“Yo, yo, yo! It’s ya boy, *Zach* , comin at chu wit anutter video!”

I have not seen a digital ad for an extremely long time, its not hard.

To influence something is a synonym to manipulate something

I think another buisness that may all apart are fad-style businesses (GFuel for example) which once the base has to be tighter with their pocketbooks because they're forced into it, will cut what isn't even really a luxury good but just... a fad product propped up on massive advertising.

People’s view of market is very short term. They think 2008 was bad. They think looking at market over past 10 years is enough. But market is very long term, we are talking about 25-30 years trend. It happens we are heading towards a major down turn and fed rate hike is likely to stay another 6-12 month. We will see a squeeze on everyone.

I work in B2B sales strategies so basically my job is how to sell to competent vice presedents and ceo’s very responsible on every penny they would spend. This video makes me question why am i selling to the harder smarter people, i need to switch to B2C…

"People aren't trusting influencers anymore" isn't the same as "people are getting smarter." I also appreciate you then talking and talking and addressing not quite the statement made, getting further and further away from it. Almost like someone didn't want people to dwell on the statement "don't trust influencers." Another good one is "young people are dumb because the vast, vast minority of people fall for it.'

Where are these clips recorded from? Twitch says he hasent streamed in 2 months, wondering if I am missing a place he streams

Let's Game It Out has the best ads. Never skip any of his ever.

7:08 That confuses me. Is this the sponsored content we see in videos? I thought those weren't a flat rate. Isn't it for every person that uses the 10% promo code, the KZfaqr/influencer would get a % of the sale?

The South Park episodes on sentient ads was great!

what i never understood is , not a single online ad worked on me except mcdonalds xD

Aah bro you're saying it so right, I have my own company for just a little while and already got spooked by the Karens. But I recognized it's just a small minority of the community so I would rather die on my own sword then give in to people that can never pleased.

"impending recession"

This is so facts I'm dying laughing hahahahahahaha

@Donutoperator has the best ads, hes such a goofy fella it just works out. Lmao his Helix ads are best!

Raid shadow legend is a perfect example. You couldn’t watch a video in any section without seeing rsl add.

That is in GTA lol

I aint never seen no plant growin outta no toilet

biggest multi-million scam was and still is actually "plant a tree" thing, really good for somebody to buy land and plant trees to be then harvested LOL

Ironically I found this channel when he vlogged making a great steak

6:25 true

It really isn't a bubble, it's a change of format or media. I'd equate it to radio's transition into television. Those that could not make that transition disappeared, that is why mainstream media outlets are panicked. How does a conglomerate compete with an influencer, way less overhead. This guy spoke of trust but watch news outlets today where is the trust there, corporate narative and guidelines equal trust? People are gullible but also more aware that everything you watch is marketing. What's the difference between a celebrity and an influencer? I think a influencer is more accessible, followers are able to directly interact in one way or another.