“One of the downsides of a YouTube influencer's quick rise to fame is a sudden need for increased personal security.”— Amanda Perelli, businessinsider.com
“thought, 'well, what am I supposed to do, now that I hit a million views? How am I supposed to conceptualize that? What is this YouTube thing anyways, that was once a repository for cute cat videos? What does it mean to have a million views on it?' So I really started to think about it, because ther…”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com
“It was super weird that we were in the middle of an outdoor mall, right next to a Zara.”— Stephanie McNeal, buzzfeednews.com
“Right now it feels like the only way to get help is to have a large following and make a big stink about it, which does not set a good relationship for YouTube and its creators.”— Ash Hardell, theguardian.com
“It is still difficult, at times, to tell where the YouTube algorithm stops and his personality begins.”— Kevin Roose, nytimes.com
“If the repeated harassment in these videos doesn’t cross the line by YouTube’s standards, then your line needs to be moved.”— Joe Posner , Lauren Williams, vox.com
“Be the company you claim to be when you change your avatar to a flag on Pride Month.”— Connor Franta, rollingstone.com
“Age also plays a role. While older people might sneer at the term influencer, to teens, it’s an aspirational job title.”— Taylor Lorenz, theatlantic.com
“Olivia Jade allegedly had someone else fill out her USC application (her parents are accused of paying $500,000 to make it appear her and her sister had been rowing team recruits), so prosecutors could be examining that if she is indeed their investigation's subject.”— Alyssa Bailey, elle.com
“The internet is vast, but it brings like minds together. At its best, it serves to unite kinky freaks, dissidents of oppressive regimes and sufferers of obscure diseases. At the same time, this tendency can serve the cruel or misinformed — giving shared language to Nazis and incels and other bleak d…”— Jamie Lauren Keiles, nytimes.com
“You did it, very nice, and all it took was a massive corporate entity with every song in Bollywood”— Felix Kjellberg, youtube.com
“Without sharing our truth and living in our truth we have nothing,”— RawAlignment, thedailybeast.com
“These disturbing allegations only serve to highlight a startling lack of oversight on the part of YouTube, and they're a wake-up call to any parents who think they can trust the streaming network to provide safe entertainment for kids.”— Ashley Austrew, thestir.cafemom.com
“Don’t think watching someone play PS4 sounds like fun? Markiplier’s 22.4 million YouTube subscribers, with their 10 billion video views of his work, beg to differ.”— Natalie Robehmed, forbes.com
“The most obvious problem with cancel culture is that it rarely has any tangible or meaningful effect on the lives and comfortability of the canceled.”— Connor Garel, vice.com
“The YouTube community has been trying to process what actually happened at TanaCon, and the reactions have been extremely divided.”— Ben Goggin, inverse.com
“None of the influencers advertised were present, and it was unclear who was eligible for a meet-and-greet.”— johanna li, insideedition.com
“When someone asks to use your phone that wave of shame washes over you because you KNOW what's on there.”— Grace Helbig, youtube.com
“It’s easier to talk to an advertiser not just when you have big view counts but multiple platforms that are paying for your content and not just have a card at the beginning of a video, but I can actually run a commercial. It can’t just be hands and pans and say that’s equal to a television show.”— Rich Antoniello, digiday.com