Welcome to YouTube Millionaires, where we profile channels that have recently crossed the one million subscriber mark. There are channels crossing this threshold every week, and each has a story to tell about YouTube success. Read previous installments of YouTube Millionaires here.
Alex Ernst is unmistakable.
From shortform video app Vine to YouTube, Ernst has pulled in millions of fans with his signature moves: deadpan voiceovers, off-the-wall humor, and copious amounts of apple cider vinegar. (Luckily — at least, we think it’s luckily — for Ernst, his friends at Collab Creators are working to secure him a lifetime supply of the stuff.)
Ernst joined YouTube in 2009, but didn’t start seriously producing content for the platform until after Vine’s shuttering in 2017. On Vine, where Ernst made content from 2013 till its closure, he garnered nearly a million followers, and had more than 9 million ‘Loops,’ or views of his various Vines.
With his YouTube channel, he’s reached bigger milestones: 15.7 million views and more than one million subscribers, making him an official YouTube Millionaire.
Now, Ernst has set his sights on an even loftier accomplishment, and he’s here at Tubefilter to talk about it — in true Alex Ernst fashion.
Alex Ernst: I need to make a movie now and do it without the help of Hollywood. I want to show people they don’t need a lot of money or Hollywood to make a movie, and hopefully show them they can do anything, for that matter. We can do anything in life, we all just need to see that.
AE: I’ve been making stuff on YouTube since 2009. I started Vine and I think it showed me partly what I truly wanted to make on YouTube, and YouTube truly showed me that I can make anything if I put my mind to it. That’s why I am going to make a movie!
AE: I have an incredible voice. Very nice. Especially when I do voiceovers.
AE: I wanted to make money to fund my movie. So I asked if I could do it.
AE: I AM GOING TO MAKE A MOVIE
AE: That’s all I basically make money from, and brand deals now and again, but I am actually very poor at times. I spend all my money on my art and I’m starting to think that’s how it should be.
AE: I love inspiring people and I know I am.
AE: I AM GOING TO MAKE A MOVIE
You can add yourself to the ranks of Ernst’s more-than-a-million YouTube subscribers at his channel YouTube.com/TheAlexErnstShow.
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