![]() ![]() “Someone pointed out to me … there was a video where I’m like, ‘I’m so thankful for 3,000 subscribers.’ And I still am … it has been insane to see, to the point where it’s kind of a system shock,” he said of his humble beginnings and newfound fame. ![]() The channel exceeded the expectations he set for himself as a college student studying biology and hoping to dabble in YouTube on the side. Now he’s just shy of a million fans and has an agent. In early videos, he celebrated a number of milestones - having his channel monetized, scoring a few hundred subscribers and so on. It took more than a year to complete, but what is perhaps more impressive is the way his channel has skyrocketed to popularity now that it is finished. Isaiah’s 21-part video series breaking down a massive 10-level iceberg from 4chan has garnered more than 16.5 million views. As the graphic goes deeper, so do the topics until they become less known (and often darker).Ĭontroversial Internet Figures/Personalities Iceberg from IcebergCharts At the top are the best-known, simple topics. An iceberg chart is a graphic used to break down elements of a certain topic in the same way we think of literal icebergs - a little visible on the surface, but a massive amount underneath. Some of the posts he’s best known for are from his “ iceberg” series. In fact, in an interview with In The Know, Isaiah said that he considers his videos to be “internet campfire stories.” ![]() Most of his videos are simple - it’s just him sitting in a chair in front of a camera, usually wearing a whimsically patterned shirt, discussing some of the wildest phrases ever uttered in the English language (such as “your skin is an alien parasite” and “300 years of world history were just made up”) in the same way someone’s father might share a ghost story in front of a campfire. The words “conspiracy theory” may set off alarm bells in the minds of anyone following the news over the past few years, but the Wendigoon YouTube channel, run by a 22-year-old man named Isaiah, is shockingly wholesome. Another 'airplane' one he told me, which I haven't heard recently, is that the government secretly made all commercial airplanes carry atomic bombs, so in the event of WW3 we already had a bomber fleet in the air which could be diverted to bomb targets.One of YouTube’s most oddly tranquil channels is filled with giants, space eagles, inverted humans and other conspiracy theories. He said that it wasn't new, when he was a boy in the 1930s people said that the government put the drugs in the water supply. Incidentally the 'contrails' one I first heard in the 1960s when my Dad told me that some people believed it. And yes, although we're mocking it it isn't so funny any more. Now sadly they've used the internet to infect other sheeple who in the past were only a little gullible and a little bit dense. If you walked too near one they'd grab you and tell you not to sit too near the radiators as that's where the listening devices were. In the old days the only people who believed, say, that the contrails from jet airplanes were the government's way of spreading mind-control drugs were people who sat in the corners of pubs muttering to themselves. Click to expand.Yes, sadly that is a valid point. ![]()
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