Excessive Outdoor YouTuber to Cease Making Movies Partly On account of Fame

Luke Nichols, the creator behind the favored YouTube channel, Outside Boys, is saying farewell to the almost 15 million followers he is garnered by posting movies of himself tenting in desolate situations.

The daddy of three mentioned in a five-minute video revealed Saturday titled “Goodbye” that he’ll cease making content material “for a short time” to spend extra time along with his household.

A part of the rationale, he mentioned, was due to the quantity of consideration he has obtained because of the followers and viewers he is gained simply up to now yr or so.

Nichols began Outside Boys in 2015 and has about 14.9 million subscribers.

The creator mentioned within the video that 12 million of these subscribers got here in simply the previous 18 months as his content material amassed greater than 6.8 billion views in complete.

“The sheer quantity of followers attempting to contact me, attempting to take photos with me, or simply attempting to return up and discuss to me in public could be a bit overwhelming at occasions,” Nichols mentioned. “And my spouse and I, we each have actual considerations about what it will do to our household if I continue to grow my YouTube channel at this tempo. And the time to cease is earlier than this drawback will get so out of hand that my household and I am unable to dwell regular lives.”

Nichols mentioned there are different causes for his determination to step again from his channel.

The creator mentioned he desires to spend extra time along with his youngsters, together with by serving to his oldest son develop his outdoor YouTube channel, Outside Tom. He mentioned he additionally desires to begin serving to different individuals, though he did not specify how.

“I’ve spent a lot time specializing in me and my household and rising my enterprise, it is time to step again and concentrate on serving to different individuals for a change and I am excited to see the place that takes me,” he mentioned.

Nichols mentioned there’s nonetheless a variety of unfinished movies and a few excessive marketing campaign journeys that he has deliberate. He mentioned if he decides to complete them or movie them, he’ll put up the movies on his channel in “one massive dump” on the finish of the yr.

Nichols could not be reached for remark.

The creator economic system has seen speedy grown because the creation of YouTube in 2005. Goldman Sachs estimated in 2023 that the business was price about $250 billion and will develop to half a trillion by 2027.

Nonetheless, some individuals working in business, amassing six to even seven figures from content material creating, have reported experiencing creator burnout partly stemming from the strain of getting to continuously churn out content material to stay related.

MrBeast, the primary YouTuber with greater than 395 million subscribers, recommended Nichols’ determination in a response to an X put up.

“Good for him, to know what issues to him and follow it’s admirable,” he wrote. “Individuals do not understand how draining it may be to continuously be stared at and take photographs out in public.”