Is the term 'fans' conceited or expected?

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You know how larger channels call their viewers 'fans'?

For me, a gigantic channel (like RWJ or whatever) seems to make it sound less weird than a smaller channel.

There's nothing wrong with 'fans' in principle. But, I wonder, at what point in your subs count is it deemed non-douchey to refer to your viewers as fans? I have always died a little inside when I see someone with 17 subscribers talking about their 'fanbase' or opening up a PO Box address for 'fan mail'.

I personally would feel really odd calling my few hundred subscribers 'fans' or ever having a PO Box so people could send me fan mail and stuff. I prefer to simply refer to my subs as 'my viewers'. But perhaps that's just me!

I feel the same way about people who give their subscriber base a nickname. Most larger YouTubers who have fans with a nickname have not coined it themselves. It's either a phrase they used once or twice and it caught on naturally or its one the subscribers came up with by themselves.

Again I always twitch a little when I see a week old channel (let's make up a name) called 'The Gaming Potato', and calling their 5 subscribers 'Spudlings', with cheesy phrases like 'become a spudling today!' or 'Join the Spudling Army!'

It just seems so... self important.

What do you think?
 
I think people should wait to have at least 10000 subs before calling their 'fans' anything special. That's just me, though[DOUBLEPOST=1375869596,1375869572][/DOUBLEPOST]Well, maybe not exactly 100000, but a lot more than 100
 
RadicalMyth said:
I think people should wait to have at least 10000 subs before calling their 'fans' anything special. That's just me, though[DOUBLEPOST=1375869596,1375869572][/DOUBLEPOST]Well, maybe not exactly 100000, but a lot more than 100
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I agree, I think by the 10,000 point at least people do become fanatics (fans), but before that it's likely just mates, friends of friends, and curious parties who subbed cos your vids were decent.
 
If I am talking with other content creators, I don't mind using the term 'fans'.
But if my audience is present, I refer to them as viewers.
 
Frankie said:
I agree, I think by the 10,000 point at least people do become fanatics (fans), but before that it's likely just mates, friends of friends, and curious parties who subbed cos your vids were decent.
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Exactly. Like you said, curious parties. They sub, they like your stuff what have you. But say, you have 10,000 subs, and they just keep coming and keep coming, people comment about how much they love you or stuff, that's real fans, in my opinion. I am not trying to offend small channels, but if not that many people have heard of you, you can't really have fans. Of course, this is just my opinion
 
If anyone with less than 10k subs started referring to me as a fan I would unsubscribe. You can't have fans unless you have at least a minor celebrity status.
 
RadicalMyth said:
Exactly. Like you said, curious parties. They sub, they like your stuff what have you. But say, you have 10,000 subs, and they just keep coming and keep coming, people comment about how much they love you or stuff, that's real fans, in my opinion. I am not trying to offend small channels, but if not that many people have heard of you, you can't really have fans. Of course, this is just my opinion
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I think some of it is the mentality of 'if I act famous, maybe I'll get famous', but sadly that isn't how it works. Fans have a very bandwagon mentality (that goes for all of us, not one in particular). People like famous people because they're famous. Same goes with popular YouTubers. If you have 10 subs, nobody's going to be a fanatic of yours. Unless they're creepy. In which case avoid :giggle:
 
Frankie said:
I think some of it is the mentality of 'if I act famous, maybe I'll get famous', but sadly that isn't how it works. Fans have a very bandwagon mentality (that goes for all of us, not one in particular). People like famous people because they're famous. Same goes with popular YouTubers. If you have 10 subs, nobody's going to be a fanatic of yours. Unless they're creepy. In which case avoid :giggle:
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Haha, you put my thoughts into words. I try to say what I think and I just totally derp
 
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