[Lucid:]

(It might be relevant to mention that a large portion of my job is sponsoring let's players, so I have a professional relationship with many of them that people who just watch them wouldn't normally see.)

I have a lot of favorite let's players, whether because I like their personality or the games they play. The first person I really enjoyed was Northernlion, who I started watching before I got my youtube job. His Binding of Isaac let's play is pretty much just him talking about whatever he wants and it's pretty funny a lot of the time. The very first time I spoke with him, I could tell he was a really awesome and nice guy.

One of my favorites is Boogie2988. He posts a lot more gaming news than let's plays, but the gameplay videos he makes are all really hilarious. He plays a couple really hilarious characters on his channel, and when he's speaking as himself, he's a really smart guy who has a lot of insight into both gaming culture and the video game business.

A kinda small let's player I really like is AzuriteYT. His original channel was AzuriteReaction and he had about 100,000 subscribers, but the channel glitched out and lost a lot of content, so he had to start over from scratch. He's a really honest guy and is really passionate about the games he plays. He has a really personal connection with his viewers as well. He's really great.

I don't think there's a single person who doesn't like GameGrumps. xD They're pretty nice guys, too, but Egoraptor is really hard to work with. RubberRoss is really approachable and super nice, though. Their content is hilarious and I love to watch them even though it's hard for me to get them to do sponsorships.

Rico, the great thing about youtube is that everybody is looking for something different. There are videos about game glitches that get huge numbers of views because people think that glitches are funny. Speaking english also isn't a huge youtube requirement. I've worked with people who speak Spanish, Portugese, German, French, even Russian, and all have successful channels on youtube. Since it's a worldwide site, people who speak other languages have a strong youtube community. Even people who don't speak at all during their videos can be highly successful if their videos are interesting. Making a channel in your own style is always better than copying somebody else. I say, if you want to make videos, go for it! :D

Chiwi, I'll definitely take a look at NintendoCapriSun's editing videos. I've always been really curious about what kinds of stuff goes into making a gameplay video!