In this shortcat documentary i go over his incredibly fast rise to fame in three main chapters that are WHO IS SHORTCAT, SHORTCATS RISE and WHERE IS HE NOW this video is about@Shortcat321 New discord server: / discord
@astrofnchair I'm a fan of his a well... know why I looked up some Mariokart videos and popped right up as the top 5 videos because the algorithm loves him. Good for him I say
@@ynkybomber I mean sure 'the algorithm loves him'. But it's not that he got lucky, or that he gets favored by youtube. He just creates good content that people stick around to watch. That causes youtube to push the video to a wider audience.
@@ynkybomberthe “algorithms loves him” because people like the videos. If the videos weren’t engaging or likable the algorithm wouldn’t even be there in the first place
@@NeptuneEnergPX wtf are you talking about lol, jperm has rubiks cube tutorials and shortcat has mario kart tutorials, is it so hard to believe they are both effective? i mean ive gotten to 15k vr with no sign of slowing down and i can definitely attribute a lot of my success to shortcat
The fact that he's starting to approach 300k subs is wild! I've been watching him for quite a while since he was a small Mario Kart youtuber. Now he's long past JPG and could be on the road to passing Troy. The speed he's growing is crazy!
Another bit of proof Shortcat is JPerm is On the 6 Rubix Cube rainbow road JPerm video he plays using the GameCube controller & in a recent video Shortcat showed how he’s a GameCube controller user and he owns a few of them
Yeah I do cubing and Mario kart so I would watch both channels on a regular and just recognized the voice then went to j perms channel to compare the voice and thats as much proff I needed
In one of jperms videos he said if he would rather 50 million subs or another option which i forget. In that video he mentioned that he wouldnt choose 50m subs because if lots of people who didn't cube watched him, his channel would decline. And i think (assuming he is shortcat) that's his main reason for being "anonymous". If his 1m cubers went to the shortcat channel and subbed, only a portion of those people would actually watch his vids bringing his videos down. Seeing a ton of people into mario kart not worrying about his identities is really helping his channel because people are actually there for the mario kart.
thats the most reasonable explanation i've been seeing as well. starting with a blank slate gives him the best opportunity to amass a following through his skills and engaging content, rather than seeing an initial spike through the popular support of his already-established community and possibly never seeing growth like that again
My RU-vid shorts algorithm was basically like "Hey I know you've never looked up anything related to Mario Kart this past few months but here's some shorts about this guy teaching you how to be better at a game you haven't played in a while, we think you'll like him" And they were fucking right
they clearly are. he just wants the channels to be seperate. if shortcat wasnt jperm then theres no reason for him to heart and reply most comments but flat out ignore any mentioning jperm
I love shortcat, it’s really fun to watch him play and he actually motivated me to pick up Mario Kart Online again and actually learn the shortcuts and different techniques on winning on all the different tracks. He deserves the blowup :) You’re voice is also very comfortable to listen to! Keep up your work
I spent months trying to find Mario Kart 8 content made by a creator I really liked. It wasn't until Shortcat *finally* was recommended to me that I knew I'd found exactly what I had been looking for. I don't even care for MK8 as much as I used to, but I never miss a Shortcat upload. He's funny, engaging, and just enjoyable to listen to every time.
As a person who enjoys both cubing and Mario kart, I find it so cool how he has two channels for each topic. I just wish he posted more on JPerm channel. :(
i remember when he had 12k subscribers and people were talking about how he was gonna become a big youtuber one day. i said something along the lines of "mario kart youtubers have rarely ever passed the 100k mark. i doubt he's gonna reach that." boy was i wrong.
I think he blew up because he already has years of youtube experience. I have watched jperm for years and i have watched so many of his cubing tutorials, and when i started trying to get good at mariokart i also watched a lot of shortcat tutorials, and i just thought it was so weird that he was a big mariokart youtuber now.
Nice video! Really liked the way you explained everything. I am certain jperm and shortcat are the same person. I've been watching jperm for 5 years now and when I first saw one of shortcat's videos I instantly recognized his voice.
Idk if I've seen it somewhere or heard, but I think he'd got burnt out of making cubing videos and maybe cubing too, he's been doing it for very long time so i guess it's viable. Good to see him back as a person who's been watching him for years and only recently did I see the shortcat channel
havent watched the vid yet but when you already have a channel with a million subscribers, you know how to grow a new one, even if its completely seperate
i actually been watching jperm for years since i was heavily into rubik cubing, now that i’ve made the connection it makes perfect sense especially considering for a youtube channel not even a year old he knows the platform well enough to run the channel im putting my stocks into this theory
shortcat is great, hes helped a lot with my strategy in mk8dx, i always remember his lessons in the middle of the race and adjust my strategy, if i get hit i start gathering coins and wait for the best time to catch up again and avoid the middle of the pack, ive easily gotten to 15k vr with no sign of slowing down now. ive also learned a fair bit of tech from his videos, like the shroomless shortcut in walugis stadium and squeaky clean sprint strats. Shortcat is definitely the youtuber to watch if you want to be good at mk8dx
If Shortcat is jperm, then that's just proof that you can gain a lot of subscribers through skill (similar experiment done by Ludwig) It's not just luck xD (Or he is just super lucky)
Ludwig's experiment is terrible. He mentioned in his podcast that he made a secret channel which lead to people discovering the channel becuase of his podcast and not because of the reaction. Analysis of the video views also show that the only reason the channel gained so many views is because he literally gave a shout out to his secretly channel, completely invalidating the results of the experiment. While it is true that experience and skill does help, it's obviously much much easier to build a fanbase if you do a shoutout. In order to succeed you need both luck and skill. Luck not only for your video to be heavily pushed to the ideal demographic, but also luck to be in the circumstances that lead you to be able to do youtube as a full time job for 10 years, which allows you to build experience.
This might not mean a whole lot but in j perms mario kart wii video that twd98 did, you can notice that in that video he is using gamecube controller, and we know that shortcat used the gamecube controller in mk8dx
One of the biggest hints that Shortcat might be another channel of someone with an already successful channel (e.g. Jperm) is how well he knows to run a channel. Obviously, his content is amazing and that's going to attract views, but he also knows tons of RU-vid tricks and his very first videos were well made and his voice is well practised. This is the sign of someone who has either put in a lot of time before starting the channel or already has the experience. Those who come out swinging in their first channel with such skill and practise are really rare, I'm only aware of Let's Game it Out when it was both Josh and Anthony who put in a huge amount of time. And even then they didn't have great success until Anthony left and Josh was grinding away at it for a while then the algorithm shifted and favoured him. Meanwhile I watched Shortcat's meteoric rise from less than 3k subs to 300k by playing the algorithm really effectively. Compare that to I think Gecko (?) another RU-vidr that started around the same time doing MK8 videos and I think was a higher ranked player, but didn't have the same level of knowledge on the RU-vid game, and I haven't watched them in a while but Shortcat easily overtook them.
I remember watching him and most likely being the first one to make the connection. Around three videos when I first posted it and they all had low comments
shortcat/j perm also has a history of being good at nintendo games, hes mentioned multiple times on the j perm channel that he used to be a competitive smash bros player
Jperm has inspired me to start cubing and continue playing Mario kart. His videos and ideas are so good I would probably still watch him if he started playing genshin or some shit
I don't even play mk or know any mk game (only nintendo game I played was pokemon) but I still watch him because I do find his videos entertaining lmao
Oh yeah, i remember this channel has 583 Subscribers back in April 28th 2023 (i have a screenshot of ShortCat's channel). And then somehow he got many subs. And he is over 20 years old (Not entirely sure) and he is joining youtube so late that he is so anonymous and he doesn't have any public social media at all, and we don't even know anything about how he got money to get a nintendo switch and all of his equipments and more... I'm always curious about this youtuber that he got a biggest luck ever on RU-vid that nobody ever achieved, i think because whenever he says "Shortcut" on every video, he put the text "Shortcat", i think that's why so many subs.
Great video! Crazy and I totally see the similarities 😮. If you continue doing video essay type content (or ig any content in general) one tip is to not start your sentences with "and". Great video nonetheless 😌
I have met Jperm at a few rubik's cube competitions, some larger and some smaller ones. At all of the larger competitions he would always be swarmed by kids asking for autographs and and it didn't seem like he had time to really enjoy himself. The smaller competition that I met him at he seemed to enjoy from what I can tell. I showed him a magic trick but no one there really tried to take his attention for long. I would see why he would stop uploading as JPerm because being swarmed by kids anytime he went out to competition must get repetitive and boring after enough time. Eventually JPerm would sign up to for competitions but then he would not show up. It would only make sense for him to try something new.
I think the reason why he keeps it a secret to his Jperm audience is because the content is completely different so a lot of people are probably gonna subscribe because it’s Jperm but a lot of people might not be interested in Mario kart so shouting his other channel out could actually harm the channel
This reminds me of that Episode of Always Sunny where they hear a family argue the whole episode only to be surprised that they were Asian when finally seeing him
I'm really glad you made a video about this! I was waiting for someone to make this. I do enjoy Shortcats content and he clearly knows what he is doing especially if he is JPERM. I will say he also had a quite of bit luck of his side with hitting the algorithm in the sweet spot, there are tons of Mario Kart RU-vidrs that have been posting content for YEARS and still haven't hit Shortcats level of fame when they totally deserver it. Kart youtubers are now held to a different standard because of Shortcats fame and now get viewed differently even though they were making content before him. In the end I think his content is good and I'm glad you made this video!
