Jason Nash and Life After David
Summary
TLDRThe video discusses the transition of Jason Nash, a former member of the Vlog Squad, from YouTube stardom to live-streaming on TikTok, where he asks viewers for financial support. The creator reflects on the unpredictability of the online content creator career, the importance of financial prudence, and the potential for leveraging connections and skills gained during one's time in the spotlight. The video also touches on the contrast between Nash's current situation and the lifestyle of David, the Vlog Squad's leader, who has moved on to a life of luxury and leisure.
Takeaways
- 👨👦 The creator is a father now, which has impacted his content creation schedule.
- 📹 Jason Nash, a former Vlog Squad member, is now live streaming on TikTok and urging fans to send him money.
- 💰 TikTok gift battles involve creators competing to receive the most gifts, with the winner taking all gifts received during the battle.
- 🎥 The creator questions the ethics of asking children to send money, likening it to encouraging them to steal their parents' credit cards.
- 🧐 The audience for these live streams is surprisingly mostly adults, contrary to initial assumptions.
- 🚀 David Do, once the most popular YouTuber, has stepped back from vlogging due to various controversies and now focuses on a more private lifestyle.
- 🔄 The Vlog Squad's dynamic has shifted, with members seeking new ways to maintain their careers and income after the end of the Vlogs.
- 💸 Jason Nash's struggle to adjust to the post-Vlog era is highlighted, as he has not found the same success with his solo podcast.
- 🤔 The creator contemplates the longevity and sustainability of a career as a full-time online content creator.
- 🎁 The concept of 'gamification' in content creation is discussed, where creators are driven by numbers and the desire to maintain relevance.
- 🚨 The creator advises fellow creators to be cautious with their finances and not rely solely on the success of another influencer for their career.
Q & A
What is the main topic of the video?
-The main topic of the video is the discussion of Jason Nash's transition from being a popular YouTuber to live-streaming on TikTok and asking his fans for money.
Why is the creator of the video late to the topic?
-The creator is late to the topic because he has become a father and has been busy with his new baby.
What is Jason Nash's former association on YouTube?
-Jason Nash was a member of the Vlog Squad, one of the most popular groups on YouTube.
How does the TikTok gift battle work?
-In a TikTok gift battle, two creators stream live, and viewers send them virtual gifts. The creator with the most gifts at the end of the battle wins all the gifts received during the battle.
David was the most popular member of the Vlog Squad, often behind the camera, and his friends did the heavy lifting in creating content.
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Why did David stop vlogging?
-David stopped vlogging due to a series of controversies, including accusations against one of his friends and a dangerous incident involving another friend. He also wanted to create a safer environment for those involved in his videos.
What other ventures have former Vlog Squad members pursued after the end of the Vlogs?
-Some former Vlog Squad members have started podcasts, while others have found success in different areas, but Jason Nash seems to be struggling the most with the transition.
What is the creator's opinion on Jason Nash's current approach to content creation?
-The creator finds Jason Nash's approach of live-streaming for money without providing substantial content to be concerning and not in line with what he enjoys about being a creator.
What advice does the creator give to content creators based on the situation with Jason Nash?
-The creator advises content creators to be careful with their approach, not rely solely on the success of another influencer, and save money for the future as the career of a content creator can be unpredictable.
How does the creator feel about the potential of TikTok gift battling becoming the next big thing?
-The creator is worried about the potential of TikTok gift battling becoming the next big thing, as it does not align with the creative and entertaining aspects of content creation.
What other career opportunities are available for creators after losing relevance?
-The creator suggests that creators can leverage their connections and skills to find jobs in marketing agencies, talent agencies, social media companies, or work behind the scenes for other creators.
Outlines
🤔 Late to the TikTok Trend
The speaker acknowledges being late to discuss a topic, citing fatherhood as the reason. They mention Jason Nash, a former Vlog Squad member, who is now live streaming on TikTok, urging fans to send him money. The speaker expresses surprise at the adult audience of these streams and criticizes Nash for exploiting his followers' generosity.
💸 The Decline of a YouTube Star
The speaker reflects on the career of David, who was once a prominent YouTuber but has since stepped back from vlogging due to personal issues and accusations. They discuss how David's friends, including Jason Nash, have had to find new ways to maintain their online presence and income, with Nash resorting to live streaming on TikTok for gifts.
🎥 Jason Nash's Struggle with Fame
The speaker delves into Jason Nash's transition from being part of a successful YouTube group to struggling with his solo career. They mention Nash's podcast and his participation in TikTok gift battles, questioning why he doesn't seek a traditional job. The speaker also addresses Nash's financial situation and his reliance on live streaming for income.
📉 The Uncertainty of Content Creation
The speaker discusses the unpredictable nature of being a content creator, using Nash's situation as an example. They emphasize the importance of not solely relying on another influencer's success and the need to save money. The speaker also suggests alternative career paths for creators and the potential for leveraging connections and skills in the industry.
🚨 A Word of Caution for Creators
The speaker advises content creators to be cautious about their career choices and financial planning. They mention David's visit to Nash on Snapchat, highlighting the contrast between their current situations. The speaker urges creators to avoid becoming dependent on another influencer's success and to prepare for the possibility of their career's end.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡TikTok Live Streaming
💡Vlog Squad
💡Gift Battles
💡Content Creator
💡Influencer Lifestyle
💡Relevancy
💡Financial Stability
💡Cringe
💡Swatting
💡Creator Space
Highlights
The speaker admits being late to discuss a topic but attributes it to being a new dad.
Jason Nash, a former Vlog Squad member, is now live streaming on TikTok and urging fans to send him money.
TikTok gift battles involve creators competing to receive the most gifts, with the winner taking all gifts from both parties.
Jason Nash is battling his wife in a TikTok gift battle, raising questions about the nature of the competition.
The speaker initially assumed most viewers of these live streams were children, but later discovered they were mostly adults.
David, a former Vlog Squad member, has stepped back from vlogging due to various controversies and now focuses on a more private life.
David's Vlog Squad friends have moved on to other projects, like podcasts, after the Vlog Squad's end.
Jason Nash struggles to adjust to the post-Vlog era, with his podcast not achieving the same success as before.
The speaker criticizes the lack of content in Jason Nash's live streams, which revolve around receiving money from viewers.
Jason Nash has expressed that he would not be doing TikTok live streaming if he was not in a financial hole.
The speaker suggests that content creators should be careful not to rely solely on the success of another influencer.
Content creators should save money and not get caught up in the influencer lifestyle, as relevance is not guaranteed.
David visits Jason Nash on Snapchat, making light of Jason's new TikTok live streaming career.
The speaker advises content creators to consider alternative career paths within the creator space, such as working for marketing agencies or talent agencies.
Jason Nash has been a stand-up comedian, TV show participant, podcaster, Viner, Vlog Squad member, and now a TikTok live gift battler.
The speaker reflects on the potential for content creators to leverage connections and skills learned during their time in the spotlight.
The speaker emphasizes the importance of not sending hate to the individuals involved, especially in light of recent events like Jason Nash being swatted.
The speaker concludes with advice for content creators to be cautious and prepared for the unpredictable nature of their career.
Transcripts
all right guys I'll admit I am very late
to this topic potentially even like a
month late depending on when this video
comes out but in my defense I'm a dad
now all right I have a baby he's 5
months old I have better things to do
than sitting here talking to a camera
alone in my
room like watching Jason Nash live
stream on Tik Tok all right Sandra thank
you for the money Kevin thank you for
the money can you guys send me a million
dollars turns out I can do both at the
same time though so now I'm here if
you've been on Tik Tok lately there's a
good chance you've seen former Vlog
Squad member Jason Nash constantly live
streaming compulsively urging his fans
to send him money I know I have a lot
this man is constantly live here we go
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it's completely silent for an hour like
me a lot a lot of people were pretty
confused to see this at one time Jason
Nash was a part of the most popular
group on YouTube and now he's battling
the Joker for gifts on Tik Tok what a
way to start the day with Tommy coach
Tommy thank you so much for being here
have you never seen one of these Tik Tok
gifts battles before basically there's
two creators and you send gifts to the
respective creator that you're watching
this bar at the top indicates who has
the most gifts and when time Runs Out
Whoever has the most gifts wins their
prize all of the gifts that they got
during the battle and then the second
place person also wins all the gifts
that they got during that battle so
needless to say there's a lot at stake
this is a live stream Where Jason is
actually battling his wife nav why don't
you come down in the
room I'll let you
in you can come back in the house then
yeah come back in the house man you look
like Batman standing over the city now
hang on if they're married aren't the
gifts just going to both of them what
kind of charade is this now at first I
kind of assumed that most of the people
watching these live streams were
children and I I was like ooh that is
super weird just like asking children
for money you're basically just asking
them to steal their parents' credit
cards in a way I sort of thought of
Jason Nash as like a babysitter but he's
also babysitting a thousand other kids
and if you start choking he's not going
to call 911 cuz he he can't see you but
after tuning into a few of his streams
and actually like clicking on some of
the profiles of people watching I
realized that it's actually mostly
adults which was very surprising to me
guys what are we doing here stop that I
promise you there are like a billion
other better uses for your money than
helping Jason Nash's wife crush him in a
gift battle fun as it may be the reason
I wanted to make this video is cuz I
think that it's kind of a very
interesting look at the career span of a
Creator it's a pretty new career All
Things Considered like nobody's been a
full-time online creator for 40 years so
we don't really know how long this
career is supposed to last or how it
will evolve over time so I think it's
worth looking at why Jason Nash is here
but between the years of 2016 and 2020
David do was seemingly at the top of the
YouTube ecosystem what started as David
just sort of goofing around and filming
his friends as up and cominging content
creators quickly turned into partying
all the time collabing with huge
celebrities huge giveaways and giant
sponsorship deals and if you didn't
watch the Vlogs around this time you
might think that David was like the
biggest part of them but it was actually
more his friends doing the heavy lifting
David was always behind the camera and
sure he was laugh a lot and you'd hear
him laugh but I really feel like the
reason people tuned in was sort of to
live vicariously through David and
experience the goofiness that was all of
his friends so while all of the Vlogs
were on David's Channel and David was
inevitably the most popular member of
the Vlog Squad I really feel like he
owes most of his success to his friend
group but it was a fun time I watched a
lot of the Vlogs back in the day and I
really enjoyed them it felt like you
were a part of this friend group and in
a lot of ways you were like the members
of the Vlog Vlog Squad because like the
members of the Vlog Squad you also were
not getting paid for your appearances in
the videos which is something that I
always found kind of weird David's
friends never got any sort of payment
their only payment was an exposure and
so what kind of ended up happening was
because everybody else around David
wanted to launch their careers off of
David's Vlogs they all started vlogging
too but because they would always be
hanging out together all of their Vlogs
seem to be just like the same situation
from a bunch of different angles and
every was holding Vlog cameras got
pretty out of hand for a while there
eventually though during the pandemic a
bunch of stuff happened that caused
David to take a step back from vlogging
mainly a bunch of scary accusations
about one of his best friends Dom and
also him almost killing one of his other
best friends Jeff Whit by slamming him
into the site of an excavator after
losing a bunch of followers and probably
more importantly a bunch of sponsors
David posted an apology saying he was
going to do better he said he was going
to take steps to make sure his Vlog were
a safer environment for the people in
them and I want to be able to have a
place of checks and balances I want to
have HR if he had to choose between
quitting vlogging or doing it safer with
an HR team he was going to do
that and then he quit vlogging currently
David is still presumably very rich the
only place he really posts is on
Snapchat and from what I can tell he
mostly just goes around and tours really
expensive houses and parties a lot he
doesn't seem to have any Ambitions of
creating more content on YouTube in a
lot of ways he's sort of like the Great
Gatsby of social media now but without
David sort of Manning the ship that was
the Vlog Squad a lot of the other
members basically had to figure out
other avenues and other ways to make
money and maintain their following after
the Vlog ended Zayn and Heath have a
pretty successful podcast now so does
Jeff Whit Carly and Aaron I believe have
a podcast too but I feel like Jason Nash
out of the entire group is having the
most trouble adjusting to the post Vlog
era he has a podcast but it's definitely
not getting the same numbers that his
podcast with David did views back in the
day which David also quit despite them I
think getting a bunch of really great
offers that would have changed Jason's
life David decided to quit cuz he didn't
want to do that anymore he wanted to be
the great gats so Jason has now been
left to fend for himself and it seems
like Tik Tock gift streaming is what he
has turned to you excited to go to
dinner man this is content baby this is
crazy I didn't know all you had to do is
just sit there and stare at your camera
and people will just send you money why
did I write this whole video so a lot of
the response has obviously been kind of
cringing at this this feeling that what
he's doing now is very shady and I mean
he's not really harming anybody I guess
it does seem like it's mostly adults
sending him money obviously there's
always going to be kids online stealing
their parents credit card so that's not
great I do get kind of a shady vibe from
it just because there's like there
literally is no no content for you to
consume except to send him money like
the whole point of this stream is to see
how much money Jason can make without
having to do anything that's like the
point of the stream thank you let's go
and you could argue that Twitch
streaming has donations and you know a
bunch of other live streaming does too
but I would argue that there there's at
least some content behind that someone's
playing a video game or they're doing a
podcast live and the donations are just
a little bit extra on top it's not the
content itself seen a lot of people
wondering like wait isn't David super
generous during his Vlogs he was always
giving away cars he was paying for
people's wedding just like handing out
PlayStations to people on the street
surely he could just help Jason if he's
struggling financially
right wrong from some of Jason's podcast
Clips it seems that that is definitely
not the case but before we get to that
I've got to make some money of my own
all right guys let's get those gifts in
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about a month ago when Jason was in the
thick of his live streaming every day he
posted this podcast where he and a bunch
of David's mutual friends talk about how
different life is now that David's not
vlogging anymore like the thing is like
David's in this like moment in his life
yeah where he can do anything where he
just parties oh no Jason the look on
your face man Jason's like don't look
bitter don't look bitter don't look
bitter where he can do anything perfect
he can do whatever the he wants now
he calls me to play pool and I'm like I
gotta go live and and I don't and I
don't expect him to understand that you
don't expect him to understand that you
have to work to make money you know he
did that too right I wouldn't expect him
to understand that man he hasn't had to
work in gosh what is it 2 years now I
hate to say it Jason I think he gets it
I just don't think he cares like I'll
say things like I'm losing my
house and he'll be like oh but just go
play pool I just don't think he cares
dude Jason haven't you learned anything
from being friends with a popular
YouTuber you just told him you might
lose your house and he invites you over
you think he really wants to play pool
dude he's probably going to Mr Beast you
he's probably inviting you over so he
can like surprise you with a new house
he might make you do squid games for it
but you you have a chance to win a new
house maybe he'll give you a new car or
you know surprise you with his new car
like he did that one time my surprise to
you is that I'm buying myself a car I
know that was cool I will say it is
interesting that David seemingly stopped
doing the extravagant give giveaways
once you stop doing the Vlogs I wonder
what the correlation there is that's
kind of weird there was a great Tik Tok
that he sent which was like some guy
it's just the guy that has like a lot of
money and can't and can do anything all
day he's like oh Dipple is having a
party tonight and like it's literally
like things that David has said David
sent Jason a Tik Tok of a rich out of
touch guy being like Oh my god dude this
is so me dude look at this Tik Tok this
is so me that moment when you're rich
and you're partying with Diplo and
you're talking about how much you hate
Jason Nash and how poor Jason Nash is
guys comment below if you found this
relatable but if you think about it
though from 18 to like what 23 24 oh he
was he never he never Dr I don't think
he ever drank even when we would um
visit him we'd be up to like midnight
just like watching the edits just like
wow he worked hard for 5 years let the
man party dude please do not burden
David's poor gentle soul with your
financial woes just let the man play
pool and play with him for God's sake I
mean look I don't doubt that he worked
hard the the dude posted three Vlogs a
week I'm sure it was a lot of hard work
but you know who also worked hard all
everybody in his Vlogs I mean that dude
just said it himself they all stayed up
with him until midnight watching the
edits to make sure they were good this
was a group Endeavor and I know what
people say they say like well David gave
them the the opportunities you know he
didn't have to make them famous uh yeah
he kind of did that was like the whole
point of his Vlogs was his friends David
wasn't just making famous because he was
a good generous guy he was doing it
because that's what was working they
made him famous as much as he made them
famous now it's like the complete
opposite everyone's like working and
hears him just like hey what are you
doing tonight it's like a Tuesday night
everyone's working yeah man that is kind
of a crazy switch whereas before David
was working and everyone was helping him
now everyone else is working so
naturally David is partying with Diplo
naturally a lot of the conversation
around Jason's live streams has revolved
around the confusion as to why he
wouldn't just get like a normal job if
he was strapped for cash or if like the
social media thing wasn't working out
can someone make Jason Nash a
door Dash account people are wondering
why is he pursuing this career that is
like universally seen as embarrassing or
cringe rather than just getting a 9 to5
and I totally get that criticism because
I do love being a Creator I love getting
to be my own boss I love being creative
on a daily basis working with people
people that I'm really inspired by
entertaining people but if this exact
version of being a Creator stopped being
feasible would I start doing gift
streams on Tik Tok hell no and not even
necessarily because it's like
embarrassing or cringe it's just that
like what I enjoy about being a creator
that does not accomplish there's no
being creative there's no entertaining
people at a certain point you like strip
out all of the fun parts of the career
and you just have only the most
superficial parts of it left just money
and fame so no if I did if like this
YouTube channel didn't work out anymore
there's a a billion other things I would
rather do that would be more enticing to
me than like gift streaming on Twitch
but maybe Jason likes
it he doesn't look like he does but
maybe he does on the other hand I could
say that Jason is also older he's lived
a lot more life he's had a lot more
experience and his career in the
entertainment industry has has gone
through a lot more ups and downs than
mine has from what I can tell Jason has
been a stand-up comedian he's been in TV