SwaggerSouls Biography
SwaggerSouls is an American YouTube gamer and social media personality. Known for his medieval battle helmet wearing avatar, he has gained fame for his YouTube channel where he posts gameplay content, live-action skits, and general updates. He has distinguished himself in the YouTube gaming community for predominantly gaming with strangers.
Based in Idaho, SwaggerSouls set up his channel on May 2015 and began posting content about a year later. Since then, he has accumulated over 1.8 million subscribers and more than 80 million views on his channel. He generally posts videos once a week and each of these videos garner hundreds of thousands of views.
He is equally popular on other social media platforms. On Twitter, he has about 215 thousand followers while on Instagram, he has more than 235 thousand followers. He is also active on Twitch and has attracted about 150 thousand followers on the platform to date.
SwaggerSouls Age
SwaggerSouls born February 24, 1994, is an American YouTuber, comedian, and gamer known for his VRChat and CS: GO videos. Swagger, along with five of his friends, is part of a podcasting group called Misfits. He currently has 3 million subscribers and more than 213 million views on his channel. He is 25 years old as of 2019
SwaggerSouls Net Worth
SwaggerSouls is a YouTube channel run by an American gaming YouTuber. He has an estimated net worth of $400,000. He plays all sorts of games and tries to share unique interactions he has with other players all the time. He approaches most situations from a comedic angle and won’t hesitate to shoot you in the back and zoom in really close on your face afterward for a quick laugh. His content is mainly gameplay of games like Rust, CS: GO, Outlast, Sellout Souls, etc. Read also about Ceeday
The channel has over 3 million subscribers as of 2019 and has accumulated over 150 million views so far. It is able to get an average of 240,000 views per day from different sources. This should generate an estimated revenue of around $960 per day ($350,000 a year) from the ads that appear on the videos.
YouTubers get paid $2 – $7 per 1000 monetized views after YouTube takes its cut. Monetized views range from 40% – 80% of the total views. All these are influenced by several factors like device played on, the location of the viewer, ad inventory, how many ads there are on a video, how many people skip the ads, type of advertisement, ad engagement, type of content, etc. The cost of an ad view is based on an auction between advertisers based on views. Advertisers have to bid a minimum of $0.01 per view.
There is also a program known as Google Preferred where deep-pocketed companies can target ads on the top 5% most popular content. The ad rates here are higher than normal. Apart from ads, YouTubers also generate extra from YouTube Red viewers who pay a monthly fee to view premium content on YouTube plus watch videos without ads. Here they get paid based on watch time on their videos. The longer the viewers watch their videos, the more money they earn.
Rise to Fame
SwaggerSouls set up his YouTube channel on May 8, 2015, and posted the first video on April 18, 2016. Tilted ‘Casual Shoutcasting! | CSGO’, the video shows him playing ‘Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’. As of 2018, it has accumulated over 250 thousand views to date.
As one of the numerous gamers on YouTube, he has encountered fierce competition right from the beginning. In time, however, he established himself as one of the most prominent gamers on the platform. The most-watched video on his channel is incidentally the face reveal video, with over 3.6 million views.
Some of the other popular videos on his channel are ‘”The Therapist” | Rust,’ ‘Let Them Eat Cake” | CS: GO Funny Moments,’ ‘”Steroid Souls” | CS: GO Funny Moments,’ and ‘Highly Illegal CSGO Moments.’ Each one of these videos has earned millions of views.
The gameplay is unarguably the most common type of gaming content on YouTube. Thousands of YouTubers are publishing thousands of gameplay videos every day. In such a crowded platform, the only way to be successful is to distinguish oneself from others. SwaggerSouls does so by playing video games with strangers. The fact that he hasn’t revealed his true identity as yet also adds to his enigma.
SwaggerSouls Girlfriend, Dating, Personal Life
SwaggerSouls was born on February 24, 1994, in the United States of America. His real name is Eric. Presently, he resides in the state of Idaho.
To mark the occasion of reaching one million subscribers, SwaggerSouls uploaded a face reveal video on July 7, 2018. Near the halfway mark of the video, a figure takes off the trademark medieval battle helmet that SwaggerSouls wears and a series of faces can be seen appearing one after the other.
Afterward, it is revealed that one of those faces could be SwaggerSouls’ real face. However, towards the end, celebrity YouTuber PewDiePie makes an appearance, declaring jokingly that he is the real SwaggerSouls. His pieces of information about married, wedding, girlfriend are not yet revealed but stay ready for the update soon
History
Swagger’s first video was uploaded on April 18, 2016, which is titled “Casual Shoutcasting! | CSGO
Face Reveal
SwaggerSouls has never revealed his face, saying, “I wear a knight helmet at all times for my personal safety”. On July 7, 2018, he released his one million subscriber special that included a face reveal. During this video, he displayed many people wearing his signature jacket and chainmail coif, stating “One of the faces shown is mine, or it?” and “The time has come for me to take off my helmet, but some things are just better off not knowing”.