Sobolev is the most charming video blogger suffering from narcissism and having the not-so-pleasant nickname "hypo-eater". You can hate him, consider him a hypocrite and a captain of evidence. This does not prevent him from collecting millions of views and having the same number of subscribers. Who is really Nikolai Sobolev? How much does he earn? How did you get popular?
Childhood
The biography of Nikolai Sobolev began on July 18, 1993 in St. Petersburg. In an interview, he said more than once that his family was we althy and never experienced material problems. By his own admission, he could not work anywhere at all and live comfortably on the income of his parents. This is not surprising, because his mother is a musician at the Mariinsky Theater, and his father is a businessman who owns a chain of souvenir shops. Nikolai graduated from gymnasium No. 56, where he was intensively engaged in economics and linguistics. His knowledge can be judged by the releases of "Youtubers answer school questions", where he confidently took the firstplace among vloggers.
At the age of five, little Kolya began to practice martial arts. Having been injured as a teenager, he left training for a while, but at the age of 16 he resumed classes and achieved good results. After graduating from school, Nikolai entered the Moscow Polytechnic University, where he studied at the Faculty of Economics and Management. From his mother he got a good ear and a great voice. He could have become a singer or a fitness trainer, but fate decreed otherwise. In the biography of Nikolai Sobolev there is even a note about performances in a cabaret.
Rakamakafo
Few people know, but Nikolai created his first YouTube channel back in 2010. But at that time he was a teenager and did not understand quality content. The idea to make a new project came to him already in his student years, after meeting Guram Narmania.
They come up with the concept of their channel together and give it the sonorous name Rakamakafo. The purpose of the project is social experiments and practical jokes. For the first six months, they shoot quite interesting videos and gain the first hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Spectators watch with interest as the guys set up various situations and involve people passing by in them. They staged kidnapping, begging, rape and many other cases. Nikolai Sobolev's girlfriend Yana took an active part in the filming.
Popularity
The first wide popularity overtook the guys after the social experiment, which was filmed in Russia andAmerica. The guys pretended that they felt bad, and looked at the reaction of passers-by. It turned out that Russians were reluctant to help a suffering person, while almost all Americans rushed to help. This caused a great resonance, and the video got into the program "Let them talk." There, the guys were accused of staging and decided that this simply could not be in the cultural capital. But already a few months later, Malakhov himself was convinced that it could and was, when a girl was cut with a knife in front of passers-by and a man trampled underfoot.
YouTube Life
In the wake of the first popularity in 2015, Nikolai creates his own channel. In it, he consecrates in detail the life of the most popular people. Ivangay and Maryana Ro, Sasha Spielberg, Dmitry Larin, Yuri Khovansky and other bloggers became the heroes of his videos. The viewers liked the content, and Nikolai quickly gathered a decent audience on his channel. However, his presentation of the material and many negative assessments of his colleagues led to a conflict with the critic and innovator Larin. Dmitry did not start a war with Sobolev, as with Khovansky, but simply recorded a clip about his new enemy called "Kolya Hater". The song became an instant hit. Nikolai shot a response music video, but it did not arouse much interest among the public. Despite the fact that Larin's clip was negative, it also brought an impressive number of subscribers to the opponent himself.
The Path to Success by Nikolay Sobolev
In December 2016, the video blogger will present his book. This is a kind of guide to creating andpromoting your YouTube channel. Beginning bloggers are described in detail the whole path from shooting videos to editing and presentation. Nikolai Sobolev's Path to Success did not become a bestseller, but 2017 was ahead, which clearly explained to both the author and readers how to actually succeed.
Khaipozhor Kolka
In March 2017, Nikolai was invited to the program “Let them talk” as an expert. The topic is quite delicate - a minor girl was raped by two guys, as a result one of them received 8 years in prison, and the second escaped punishment. At one time, Nikolai, together with Guram, filmed people's reactions to violent actions against girls. Therefore, the organizers of the program thought that he would be able to give an objective assessment of the real event. It was the high point of the video blogger Nikolai Sobolev. He spoke rather sharply in the direction of the injured Diana Shurygina, and then covered this situation in more detail on his channel. Appearance on television increased his subscriber count by 2.5 times.
Malakhov invited Nikolai to the second issue dedicated to Diana. They made a real show out of a dramatic situation. Everyone who touched the Shurygina case got their piece of the pie, but Sobolev grabbed most of it at once. From the side of his colleagues, accusations of "high-eating" and hypocrisy rained down on him. He did not need to work for years on the channel to gain at least 500 thousand subscribers. Sobolev scored so much in a few days. He did not deny that he waspopular due to participation in the program, but did not consider this a merit of a high-profile case. He expressed his opinion, and the public supported him in this with their likes.
In what century was Pushkin born?
That was the name of the issue “Let them talk”, where the already very famous Nikolai Yuryevich Sobolev was again invited. This time, the hype was raised by him and Guram with a survey of students on the streets of the city. The youth did not know the answer even to the most elementary basic school questions. But not everyone agreed that such a problem exists. One of the heroines expressed her outrage on social networks, saying that everything was mounted, and she answered almost all questions. Malakhov immediately joined the game. New showdowns elevated Nikolai to an unattainable height - now the whole country knew him. Truly, the year 2017 began for him simply fabulously and promised many more interesting twists and turns. In addition to fame, he brought him another joy - a girl named Polina. A beauty with a model appearance completely captured the heart of a charming video blogger. Many have noticed that the new girlfriend of Nikolai Sobolev is very similar to Yana, with whom he broke up six months ago.
Sobolev
This is the name of Nikolai's channel now. At the moment, the Rakamakafo project is frozen, although subscribers believe that Guram and Sobolev will make many more interesting videos. The channel still has 2.5 million subscribers. Nikolai himself continues to lead his column and talks about the latest interesting news related to YouTube. He had severalunpleasant conflicts, but he came out of them with dignity. He does not hesitate to ask for forgiveness from those whom he hurt or offended. So, in one of his issues, he recklessly wrote down Ivangay as a drug addict, but then denied this information.
Inexplicable but true
In the summer of 2017, a new channel appeared on YouTube, created by the famous TV presenter Sergey Druzhko. He instantly gathered a huge audience and became a hit this summer. In one of the episodes, the presenter threw Sobolev's book into the trash. The guy did not think for a long time and immediately recorded a music video on Druzhko. The clip turned out much better than the previous one and collected a lot of views. But it didn't sound like a hurtful and spiteful song. The reason lay on the surface - Druzhko was an old friend of Nikolai's family. The good vocal data of the video blogger was noted even by his colleagues.
Interesting facts
Many are interested in how much Nikolai Sobolev earns. In one of his videos, he shared information about the income of his colleagues. However, he did not say a word about himself, which caused a lot of negativity in the comments of the haters. But in an interview with Dudyu, Sobolev mentioned that his earnings per month are calculated as a figure with six zeros. He has an expensive car that he recently bought. Before that, he had a Mazda, which Larin noted in his diss and glorified the car no less than its owner.
Hype Camp
The next wave of popularity was brought by a show about beginner video bloggers. Several well-known personalities, such as Katya Klap, YangGo, Lizzka, Danya Komkov, Annie May, conducted a casting, during which children and adolescents were very harshly criticized. Nikolai could not pass by and made a video about it. A real persecution of those whom he singled out in his release began on the Internet. So, Lizzka, who recently gained her million subscribers, has become one of the most hated people. The truck with dislikes was not long in coming - all the videos of the girl received just a lot of negative comments. She even had to shoot an appeal to Nikolai Yuryevich Sobolev in order to stop the wave of outflow of people from the channel.
Dana Komkov had it even worse. He simply "drowned" in a sea of contempt not only for subscribers, but also for his colleagues. For some time he tried to build himself a tough guy, but he was also broken by the deplorable situation with unsubscribes and dislikes. He also made a video in which he apologized to everyone, including Sobolev. It seems that Nikolai really knows how to manage the careers of his colleagues to some extent.
