Adorable Kid’s Dinosaur YouTube Channel Hits 88,000 Subscribers, 2.5 Million Views Thanks To Reddit

By 10/27/2015
Adorable Kid’s Dinosaur YouTube Channel Hits 88,000 Subscribers, 2.5 Million Views Thanks To Reddit

One new YouTuber just learned the internet isn’t just full of trolls. Thanks to a boost from Reddit, a kid’s dinosaur-themed channel dubbed The Prehistoric Channel has reached more than 88,000 subscribers and over 2.5 million collective video views in just a few short days.

Redditor Joulethief brought attention to The Prehistoric Channel after posting one of the adolescent’s videos to the subreddit r/videos on October 23, 2015. Joulethief’s post noted how the channel owner had been making dinosaur videos almost every day since he launched in May 2015. The Prehistoric Channel YouTuber uses nothing more than his large collection of dino figurines to film reenactments, review toys, and generally have fun doing what his channel’s about page says (to show viewers “how dinosaurs and prehistoric life lived, fought, and survived”). Joulethief’s post made it onto the front page of Reddit, and over the course of three days, Reddit users bumped up The Prehistoric Channel’s subscriber count from a mere 22 to a whopping 88,000. Many Redditors just wanted to support the young man’s passion and ambition regardless of the videos’ low filming quality, while others credit the nostalgia of their childhood days for subscribing. Some Reddit users even think the dino-loving kid should be on Jurassic World 2:

It only took The Prehistoric Channel’s owner a few hours to realize he’d gained thousands of subscribers. Overjoyed, he then posted a video after he hit 29,342 subscribers, saying, “I don’t even know if that’s true or not, this could be a problem with YouTube. But if it’s true this means I have hit fame level! And if this is true it is just so huge and for all of you who have subscribed to me, and watched my videos and liked them I would like to say thank you so much.”

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But not all Redditors thought subscribing to The Prehistoric Channel and watching its videos were good ideas. One user with name Primnu warned that these actions were only falsely inflating the young boy’s channel, and that once his view counts went down and his so-called subscribers stopped watching his content, “he’ll be wondering to himself what he’s doing wrong.”

Another user named popedarren expressed concern for the boy’s potential loss of innocence:

However, it seems unfair to base The Prehistoric Channel owner’s future success solely on his “naive” reliance on views, subscriber count, and fame. After all, this kid has thrown his heart and soul into making a video almost every day for the last four months because he enjoys it, not because he was under the impression he’d gain internet fame. The channel’s “about” page even encourages viewers to look at other channels which produce “even better dinosaurs videos.” Plus, this boy may very well know his channel’s new-found fame is just temporary, especially if his parents really are helping mod comments and run his channel. As long as he continues to focus on the happiness he gets from creating content, he may very well continue to find success of all sorts thanks to his genuine enthusiasm.  

This isn’t the first time Redditors have rallied to make a young YouTuber’s day better. Back in February 2014, a boy with the channel name Sir Fedora posted a video showing his excitement at getting the one “like” he asked his audience to give him. A Reddit user found Sir Fedora’s video and encouraged other forum users to give the kid more likes to see his reaction. Sir Fedora ended up with thousands of likes (the video currently boasts over 36,000 of them), and now the young man is internet famous, with more than 38,000 Twitter followers and 145,000 YouTube subscribers.

If you’re a dinosaur person, or just generally want to feel like a kid again, make sure to check out and subscribe to The Prehistoric Channel.

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