top 10 most influential YouTubers

10 DanTDM - old youtuber but really is one of the most influential youtubers in gaming

9 Jake Paul - don't have to talk about him much but him and his bro were influential in the vlogging scene

8 nigahiga - great old youtuber who used to be funny back in the day

7 w2s - legendary youtuber very influential in the UK youtube scene and had impact in a lot of peoples humor

6 MrBeast - OLD MrBeast was more influential imo, his 24hr videos and saying stuff 100,000 times were great

5 Logan Paul - Legendary vlogger, although i fucking hated it back then i miss it now

4 pewdiepie - influential youtuber for gaming and overall everything on youtube

3 Linus Tech Tips - influenced multiple youtube-based companies, influential on the tech scene

2 KSI - influential everywhere, not only in the UK but globally. been around for years and really stayed true to himself

1 ??? - i really couldn't decide who is the most influential, so many people that could be put here.

tell me what you think! criticism on my ranking is welcomed

Post your lists aswell!

list numerical order is bad and also add
Penguinz0

casey?

idk if it was leafyishere who started it but whoever started the commentary genre, which caused tons of drama and cancellations and created an entire new genre of youtubers
edit: thought you were talking about influential to the platform not the world as a whole lol

LTT was actually life changing for me
I was originally going into arts but Linus got me interested in tech and that's how my journey of computer science started

idk how you are putting KSI at second compared to people like Pewdiepie or Mr. Beast on youtube strictly.

1) ishowspeed 🐐

Nigahiga in his prime was the jam.
Ever since the RHPC went and COVID came YouTube became a worse place.
Back in the days, Smosh and Nigahiga dominated with genuinely Goated content

pewdiepie is definitely number 1 for influence.
not all his influence is good but he was the leading figure in alot of the early content styles.

English speaking* and smosh not being there is crazy

nigahiga was a great youtuber... also, TomSKA was great so was CorridorDigital too, one of the first youtube channels to upload videos of 'games in real' life with REALLY GREAT EDITS (And being funny)

There a little list of good youtubers back in the day:

Smosh
EpicMealTime
Ray William Johnson
Fred

lil bro forgot xqc

Myself

t series 🤓

NigaHiga along with Smosh are the real OGs.

You might add MKBHD and Unbox Therapy for the tech genre, these guys literally shaped the tech vids that we see today. LTT is unique in the way that barely anyone copies his style while there many many smaller MKBHDs and Unbox Therapy style channels out there.

SuperWoman or Lily Singh was also one of the most influential for the female side of youtube. Barely had any other female YouTubers before her. Sad that she wanted to escape the YT bubble and go mainstream so badly that it almost ruined her career.

I could name a bunch more but a lot of them have regional influence but some others might be VSauce in the infotainment genre.

Also, KSI is deffo not the #2.

DanTDM, totally agree with, dude used to be one of the biggest channels out there, he along with other creators like Stampy were like childhood to many. I believe most of us grew out of that age though. These channels are dead at this point. Stampy had 10 mill subs since many years and he still has 10.6M. His vids have gone down from 10M per video to barely reaching 100K.

Edit: ERB used to be a thing but if was more polished content and I never got the Youtuber vibe from the channel.

Ok

Stampy?

KSI who?

EDP445

where is Ricegum ?
he was the first youtuber in the world with a RIAA Platinum

dude i miss watching PewDiePie, the last thing i watched was his Minecraft series and it was so entertaining in the pandemic

bro from 8 got the n word pass