Tyler Oakley Quotes

I've got a few things on YouTube and the most I've ever had is about 8,000 clicks over five years.

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.

I was surprised to know I had so many hits on YouTube.

With social media, if you have a viral video people can like what you do and it's homegrown and very organic.

I ask myself all the time, 'How do I always go viral?'

The truth is that most of your Facebook friends are too busy counting their own 'likes' to pay attention to you for more than a few seconds anyway. Unless you happen to be a kitten who's in love with a baby goat, in which case you should hire a publicist immediately.

I had 60,000 friends on MySpace.

The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

Viral videos aren't just about being funny. They're about identity creation.

Everybody's got their phone up and everybody's taking recordings and posting it on YouTube and whatever and sending it to you, and it gets shown around the world.

I got discovered off of YouTube.

I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.

Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.

Dedicate a lot of your time creating Vines and try to post daily.

When I posted my first video, I remember it hit 700 views after a week, and I was like, 'Oh my God, this is amazing.' I was over the moon.

As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.

I still love my little home on YouTube, really.

I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.

I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.

Me, personally, I don't upload video to YouTube.

I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.

My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.

Just as performers, I think you'd be an idiot not to utilize YouTube.