On: How history/tech YouTube channel Asianometry reached 270K subscribers, $5K/month

[Bayart]

I'm surprised he's got most of his views from Asia. I've always thought of Asianometry as being a window on East Asia for a more Western audience.

[wongarsu → Bayart]

Just like any video about Germany has countless German viewers. I think people generally enjoy an "outside" perspective on their own culture.

[wahnfrieden → Bayart]

I don’t know about his service but I run popular apps for asian language learning and have a lot of non-native immigrants / westerners who’ve moved there and are still learning (often life long), so you could still be right

[swyx → Bayart]

i think just putting asia in the title turns off most people from the west who have no interest. (no judgment, i do it too)

[seydor → swyx]

au contraire, i watch his videos because not a lot of people talk about asia in non-confrontational terms

[shmde → swyx]

Having asia in the channel name doesn't make you want to watch the videos of the channel ?