The Story of The Sidemen

on the 19th of october 2013 a group of seven legends came together to create a project that would be of historical significance on the youtube platform what's up guys and welcome to the first challenge video on the sideman channel in the beginning the project had no following it had no notoriety and the name represented nothing but a gta online group created by a few small youtubers however the potential for the group was unbounded they had nothing but they could become anything that they could dream of and what happens when you combine the skills and intelligence of seven creators each of which already at the absolute peak of their field you get a youtube group known as the sidemen the ultimate sidemen would end up becoming a group consisting of seven members ksi vicstar123 mini minter rhodoshore bazinga tobe jizzle and zurker but in the beginning early 2013 the name sidemen represented very little on the youtube platform and each creator was simply doing their own thing with individual channels of substantial size however the creators were certainly already known to each other ksi and mini minter had both attended the same school and therefore had made various videos together in the past while zerka and tobe jizzle had also attended the same school leading to a similar scenario me until went to school together yeah me and this guy went to school together the other three members that would eventually join the sidemen bazinga wrote ashore and vikkstar had met the other four creators in the past through youtube and other scenarios and considering each of these individuals already had their own personal youtube channel they will begin to make videos and play games together such as gta 5. vic let me kill him let me kill him kill him shut up and with uploads such as gta 5 online group fun with zerka toby ksi and bazinga we can see the skeleton of a youtube group beginning to form these collaboration videos between each member would lead up to the release of gta crews in october 2013 at which point ethan aka bazinga would go ahead and create a gta group under the name the ultimate side man dropped and then i thought i went into the making the crew thing i whacked up the gta crew where we could all join called the ultimate seidman the point which each member considered to be the official beginning of the group the words sidemen describes a person who copies everything his or her friend does and is subordinate to the boss of the group when the sidemen group was first created ksi was the biggest youtuber of the seven having around 4 million subscribers and the name of the group began as a joke that each member was a side man of ksi being subordinate and copying him as he was the biggest out of every creator yeah so we're all making the joke though and then the crew right however we have to mention at the time the ultimate sidemen gta crew was far from the sideman youtube group they were still just a bunch of individual youtubers playing games together regardless the group certainly began to build up some youtube notoriety as the sidemen moving into a house together which they nicknamed the sidemen house yes this is the house tour i promise you guys also beginning at the sidemen clothing company on the 30th of december 2014. this was all in conjunction with numerous sidemen group style videos on individual channels such as the crossbar challenge posted on ksi's personal channel and the seidman patience test posted on mini minter's personal channel today they're going to be doing whatever they can to try and stop me sitting here the problem however was that the group didn't have its own youtube page possibly owing to the difficulty in trying to set up a channel with seven different creators however this would change after ksi witnessed the success of kyr speedy's gaming group those youtubers i forgot what their group was called but they had like a little group and we were like oh yeah we should just do something similar and decided that making the ultimate sidemen into a somewhat official youtube group might not be such a bad idea after an assumed planning period of around six months the official sidemen channel would go live on the 16th of may 2016. hey guys and welcome to the sideman channel the seven creators involved in the project had a combined total of around 30 million subscribers at the time and when combining this figure with a shout out from each individual youtube channel we have created a new channel ladies and gentlemen the sidemen the initial growth for the sidemen was absolutely insane within only three days the sidemen had steamrolled past a million subscribers which at the time also gave it the record for the fastest youtube channel to ever reach the seven figure milestone after two weeks the sidemen would post their first video ethan's more of a ethan's more of a skeleton and each upload to follow began to rack up an absolutely insane view count within only six months of launching the sidemen had written their own book which they would promote on a tour launched a football team called sidemen fc we've put hours and hours into repairing everything except what happens in the match that we have no idea how it's gonna go and racked up a whopping 1.8 million subscribers but while the launch of the sidemen was one of the strongest in youtube channel history perhaps it was a little too strong as it wouldn't be long before problems would begin to pop up here and there for the members of the sidemen channel it was like getting to a point where we were like we might have to end this point that's it yeah just like move on from this whole simon thing in august 2017 a little over one year after the sidemen began posting videos together ksi the most popular creator would leave the group posting a video on his channel titled i'm leaving the sidemen title of the video i am no longer with also claiming that his departure was because of ethan aka bazinga mainly because of ethan i'd say he was the main reason i'm leaving can't stand him this claim was backed up by various tweets such as yeah i think it's time to move on from the sidemen the journey has been a lot of fun but it's time to move on to bigger things considering ksi was no longer making videos with the group each of the sidemen just kind of forgot about the project and it was pushed to the back of everyone's mind when i left during that whole period like the sidemen were just like we're just in limbo however there were some benefits to ksi leaving the group it provided an opportunity for each creator to gain views and subscribers off the drama bazinga would post a diss track titled drama aimed at ksi which has gained 16 million views to this day meanwhile ksi also used the drama to gain well over a hundred million views across different videos what are you saying bro all of which surrounding the topic of him leaving the sidemen three months into the ksi sidemen hiatus he would upload a video titled was the sidemen be fake in which he would outline that the whole thing was just a setup in order to gain exposure it was fake now while everyone was thankful to hear that the beef was fake and that ksi wasn't actually leaving the sidemen there was still a fundamental problem that remained for the group each creator had gotten out of the habit of regularly creating content for the sidemen channel during the beef so when ksi announced that the beef was over it's not like they just got straight back into making videos a month passed then two months passed and there were still no uploads to the sidemen channel it would only be in january 2018 approximately nine months after the previous upload that a new video would be posted to the channel announcing the commencement of sidemen sundays well that's gonna be sidemen sundays we're gonna try and upload every single sunday but why would they randomly decide that they wanted to upload every single week after not uploading for nine months what was their motivation well a little thing that was gaining popularity in 2018 by the name of youtube originals and the thing that saved the sidemen was a youtube originals youtuber youtube original saved the sideman ksi explained that the group decided they wanted to make a youtube original series a series that only paid subscribers were able to watch on the youtube platform however after pitching the idea to youtube they were rejected with youtube saying that they'd be happy to do the series but the sidemen weren't receiving enough views to greenlight the project so the sidemen had to come up with an idea to get their view count up so we're like okay we have to think of a plan so we're thinking okay what would work and we decided we'd do videos together every week and post it every sunday only six months after announcing that they will be uploading weekly videos the sidemen would increase their view count from 1 million per month to 35 million per month at which point youtube would accept their youtube originals request and the sidemen released the sidemen show hide your wife i've got a knife now as ksi explained the sidemen show didn't actually do much for their channel as a whole the youtube originals happened they didn't really do much but we gained so much from it but what it did do was get the creators into a habit of making regular videos together and considering they were now receiving around 35 million views every month on the channel sidemen sundays would continue these 35 million views every single month would grow the sidemen to 3 million 4 million and eventually 5 million subscribers in june 2019 at which point they would upload a video that would change the history of their channel forever yo what's up and welcome to sidemen real life tinder we all know how this goes various girls from all over the country will swipe right if they're interested and left if they're not it was ksi's idea in the beginning a bizarre idea of course but an idea that would exceed the expectations of every single one of the members to set up tinder as if it were a real life experiment real women real rejection and a whole bunch of terrible pickup lines hi i'm ksi i'm 25 and i'm rich and famous something about this video resonated with fans better than anything else perhaps it was the comedy or simply the attractiveness of the girls involved in the video but the performance was absolutely unmatched on the sidemen channel in less than a week the video had gained 13.5 million views and in a month the video became the most popular upload on their channel after almost a year of averaging 35 million views every single month the tinder in real life video boosted their average views to 85 million a month then 115 million only two months later at which point they would upload tinder in real life number two your hair is quite nice and you seem like good fun so if i give you this rose will you finger my bum this video once again racked up a massive 15 million views in the first week and has gained a little over 50 million views to this day these videos ultimately boosted their subscriber count passing 6 million then 7 million edging them closer and closer to that 10 million subscriber milestone but in order to cross that milestone the sidemen would have to think outside of the box they couldn't just keep making tinder in real life videos all the way up until tinder in real life episode 63. they needed a new idea that would help the growth of the channel the group would eventually find this new idea however the idea would not come in the form of a video or say a meet and greet but rather in a slightly unconventional event so the fight's been announced today november 9th staples center in l.a how are you feeling on the 4th of september 2019 ksi the most subscribed sidemen of the 7 would announce that he would be rematching logan paul in another boxing match after their first fight ended in a draw and while this was extremely exciting for ksi himself it also began to provide numerous video and growth ideas for the sidemen fight predictions podcast topics and a load of other content all racking up millions of views for the sidemen channel we're going to be talking about the ksi versus logan paul 2 fight november 9th we're going to be giving out thoughts on the build up our prediction of how the fight's going to go ksi would go on to win the fight against logan paul from the united kingdom and it's safe to say that the sidemen were absolutely stoked just ecstatic euphoria relieved it's over the whole process is finally over the event ultimately boosted the growth and exposure for ksi and since he's often considered to be the front man of the sidemen this growth would trickle down to each of the sidemen channels the fight as a whole was excellent for the overall long-term growth of the sidemen channel and in conjunction with a consistent upload schedule the formation of numerous unique video ideas and years of good old hard work the sidemen channel would eventually hit 10 million subscribers on the 30th of november 2020. welcome [Applause] youtube would send each creator a 10 million subscriber button which was somewhat hilarious as only two out of the seven creators had hit 10 million on their personal channels therefore for five of the sidemen it was their first 10 million subscriber play button you've got two others so you don't even care this is my first one since hitting 10 million subscribers four months ago the sidemen have only continued to grow hitting 11 million subscribers on the main channel 5 million on more sidemen 3 million on sidemen reacts and 1 million on sidemen shorts the sidemen have shown that when harnessing the skills and complexity of seven different individualized youtubers the channel that results is certainly something to behold

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Length: 13min 25sec (805 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 22 2021