youtuber jump v 0.5

Youtube Jumpchain CYOA v 0.0 						By Eyebrows

you start in 2007

Rules:

By the end of your 10 years' stay, you must have at least 1,000,000 subscribers, or you go home as if you died.
If you get your account shut down for whatever reason (Violating Youtube Terms of Service, Broadcasting illegal things, closing it on purpose, etc.) then you will go home as if you died.
If you artificially inflate your subscriber count either by hacking or by making fake accounts to subscribe to your channel, Youtube will catch you and shut down your account.

Location:

USA
United Kingdom
Germany
Canada
South Korea
Japan
Brazil
Free Pick

Backgrounds: Determine your age by rolling 1d8+16.

Drop-in (Free): no life prior to this, but do whatever the fuck you want

Let's Player (50 cp): make money playing vidja on youtube or on streams, or maybe even professionally

Editor (100 cp): be an editor for someone else's youtube channel, or maybe just make youtube poops or ytpmv

Pundit (100 cp): be a journalist, reviewer, news show, or just a viral video highlight reel

Creator (100 cp): stuff that requires actual artistic merit- speed painting, animation, music, or live-action skits

Demonstrator (100 cp): science shows, cooking shows, how-to channels

Perks:

First! (100 cp, Free Drop-in): Whether it's a new video going up or the latest news, you're always the first to know about it. You're exceptionally good at keeping track of the latest happenings, and so long as something is public knowledge then you can be sure that you'll be one of the first people to hear of it.

Live Commentary (100 cp, Free Let's Player): Simply put, multitasking is hard. Playing a video game and making witty commentary at the same time isn't something that comes naturally to some people, since it essentially requires you to concentrate on two things at once. However, you are gifted with the ability to carry on a conversation without losing focus on whatever you're doing at the time, whether it be chopping up onions or battling a dragon (in a game or real life, doesn't matter).

Video Editing (100 cp, Free Editor):

(100 cp, Free Pundit):

(100 cp, Free Creator):

Untrained Semi-professional (100 cp, Free Demonstrator):  You might not have a degree or anything, but you know what you're doing. Sort of. You gain a general competence in one practical craft- Carpentry, chemistry, cooking, et cetera.

Diversified Portfolio (100 cp, cannot take with Drop-in): Many youtubers make multiple channels in order to broaden their audience, and you're no exception. This perk allows you to pick a second Background (besides Drop-in). Instead of gaining a full set of memories from this background, instead you gain a small amount of experience in your second background's trade. However, Freebies for your second background instead cost 50 cp, and discounted perks and items are 3/4 their original price instead of 1/2 (200 becomes 150, 400 becomes 300, and so on). You cannot take this perk more than once.

(200 cp, Discount Drop-in):

(200 cp, Discount Let's Player):

Abridged Edit (200 cp, Discount Editor): You know how to make communication consice without losing important information (or humor).

That's Your Opinion (200 cp, Discount Pundit): you're harder to piss off

(200 cp, Discount Creator):

How-to Basic (200 cp, Discount Demonstrator):

(400 cp, Discount Drop-in):

Hello, Everybody (400 cp, Discount Let's Player): People just love to hear the sound of your voice. No matter what you're saying, people are more likely to pay attention to whatever it is, because your voice sounds just that good. You could probably read the dictionary aloud and make it interesting to listen to.

(400 cp, Discount Editor):

Thank God For Me (400 cp, Discount Pundit): Gifted with a unique insight into the nature of who's right and wrong, you're basically god's gift to the world. You're of a particularily stubborn mindset- It's incredibly difficult to influence you or sway your opinions or emotions, whether it's with vitriol, money, or something altogether more mystical. It should be noted that this does not prevent you from learning and growing as a person, because you will still know in the back of your mind when you're actually wrong (but it's not that that ever happens, really).

Speed Painting (400 cp, Discount Creator): You are extremely efficient when you put your mind to something creative. Whenever you're undergoing a creative pursuit, then you find yourself working much more quickly than before - You manage to get yourself working up to twice as fast. You're also good at estimating how much you'll manage to get done in a certain amount of time, barring unexpected developments.

(400 cp, Discount Demonstrator):

Fake and Gay (600 cp, Discount Drop-in): People will beleive anything these days. Believe that it's fake, that is. The skepticism of the internet is unbounded, and they are more likely to beleive that something is fabricated, even when it's real. Somehow, you've managed to harness this disbeleif to your advantage. You can basically get away with turning into godzilla and everyone will dismiss it as special effects- So long as it's in a youtube video. Any supernatural events you put onto camera will be dismissed as really good special effects. In person, however, this weirdness censor can only stretch so far- So long as it could be explained by practical effects, nobody will think what you've done is out of the ordinary. Turning into a dragon at a con panel will still freak people out, and your weirdness censor only applies to video, not word of mouth. This is a toggleable effect, so if you really want to you can turn it off.

MLG Pro (600 cp, Discount Let's Player): You're good at video games. Real Good. So good, in fact, that you can play competitively on the highest level and win consistently in whatever game you so choose. You could probably make a living out of playing videogame tournaments. On top of that, it turns out you really do know Mortal Kombat- Playing video games seems to let you learn and practice skills as if you were actually using them. You can even practice supernatural skills in this manner, such as ki manipulation or magic, though you cannot use this ability to learn any supernatural skill you did not already possess.

Hey, Barry! (600 cp, Discount Editor): You have a curious and unique ability- You are able to interact with people in video recordings using video editing software. You can interact with them via visual edits and text, and they will see your text. You can talk to them for advice or for interrogation, but you can only talk to them for as long as the recording lasts (though you can pause it). Once you use this ability on a video, you can no longer rewind it, so once a recording is spent if you wish to talk to them again you will have to use a different recording (though, copying the unedited file will work, assuming you remembered to leave an unedited copy of the file). The recording is just that- a recording, and is completely seperate from their real version.

(600 cp, Discount Pundit):

In the Groove (600 cp, Discount Creator): A lot of creative endeavors require the assistance of multiple talented people, but sometimes those are in short supply. Not so anymore- When you undertake any purely creative or constructive endeavor, you are able to fill as many roles as you need (up to a maximum of twelve) at once. You could play every instrument in a song by yourself, or act out every role in a play at once. It is almost as if a copy of you appears to do the task you need help with, but it's still you doing it- It's weird. Don't question it.

(600 cp, Discount Demonstrator):

Companions:

Companion Import (50 cp per companion): It might help out to have a friend in the industry. Import a companion, giving them any background besides Drop-In for free. They get their background's freebie, and 100 cp to spend.

Youtuber Companion (50 cp per individual, 100 cp per Group): You make friends with a Youtuber or group of Youtubers. A group must be a cohesive, previously-established whole (such as the Game Grumps, Pentatonix, or Retsupurae). If you want to pick-and-choose a dream team, then you will have to purchase each youtuber individually. A Youtuber companion can act as a regular companion, or as a bodiless commentator, and can switch freely between the two roles. Being a commentator does not take a companion slot, but acting as a regular companion does.

Items:

Recording Setup (Free): Everything you need to start up your youtube channel- A competent computer, a good camera and mic, a greenscreen- everything you need to start your youtube channel.

Ultra Mega Cyber MLG Computer (100 cp, Free Let's Player): superpowerful computer

Pundit Podium (200 cp, Discount Pundit)

Drawbacks: You may take 2.

Youtuber Fanfics (+100 cp): Someone keeps writing creepy yaoi fanfics of you with another youtuber- One that you certainly don't find attractive. Even if you're a girl, they will make you into a guy for the story, for some reason. The more you ask them to stop, the more they'll write. Expect (poorly drawn) fanart.

This is Bob (+100 cp): For some reason, your comments sections tend to be drowned in a sea of copypasta and spam. Expect any useful feedback to be buried by pages of useless trash (even moreso than normal).

Original Content Do Not Steal (+100 cp): With every innovator comes imitators and ripoffs, but you seem to attract the worst of the bunch- People who take your videos and put them on their own channels to rake in the views. They don't even credit you! Dealing with these people is fairly easy to do, but it's an annoyance, and as you as you smack one down another seems to pop up...

Youtube Comments (+200 cp): For some reason, whenever someone makes a comment on one of your videos, Youtube doesn't bother notifying you in the usual way. Instead, they are read to you telepathically in a shrill voice, the moment it's posted. While this will not interrupt your sleep, expect a deluge of comments every time you wake up. No, you may not turn them off. Ever.

RIP Headphone Users (+200 cp): You don't really have any concept of subtlety. You ovvereact to everything- Success or failure, you cannot help but let out a shriek that is sure to kill your mic one of these days, and you always talk at MAXIMUM VOLUME. You're also terrible at balancing sound, meaning that even if you don't talk in your videos at some point in every video there's going to be an audio peak that's sure to annoy your viewers.

WOOOOOW (+200 cp): Whatever your channel is about, you're not terribly good at it. In fact, you're terrible at it. Chances are, the average joe watching your video is going to be vastly more competent at whatever it is you do. You can't play videogames without constantly being told what to do, your cooking always ends in disaster, and whenever you report on news it turns out all of your sources are vastly incorrect. The only reason anyone would ever watch your channel is schadenfreude.

Fan Dumb (+300 cp): Normally, having enthusiastic fans is a good thing, but in your fans' case, there's one hell of an exception. You will always have a small but very, VERY vocal subset of your fanbase that will viciously defend you against any perceived threat, whether that be other youtubers, other youtubers' fandoms, or even other members of your own fandom. You will constantly be fighting an uphill battle to impress upon viewers and other youtubers alike that your fans don't represent your opinion, especially that part about women and kitchens. You will never get your rabid fans to leave you, and you will have an equally difficult time explaining to them that what they're doing is hurting your income. Expect not to make many friends.

Social Media Nightmare (+300 cp): Usually, it's just your Youtube comments full of hatred and trash, but now your... most passionate subscribers have infected every facet of social media. Expect constant hatemail, death threats, and flame wars full of bigotry from every social media, email, and instant messaging account you own. Your anti-fans will find your contact information to any accounts you have no matter how well you hide it. If you try to circumvent this by having no social media, then someone will make an account in your name and pose as you, spreading vitriol and hatred that will drive away your other subscribers, and will continue to do so until you make a social media account of your own for them to harass. And lastly, if you do not check your accounts and read every comment on them daily, then they will be shut down for inactivity. Taking this alongside Youtube Comments is... Ill-advised.

Copyright Minefield (+300 cp): Copyright lawyers are cold and uncaring at best, but it seems that they've got it out for you specifically. So much as a two-second a capella rendition of a song will get you a copyright claim, and sometimes you'll even get strikes on your channel for something that wasn't even in your video. If you give something a bad review, expect the spiteful publisher to take a claim on your video just to fuck with you, and corporations will be more than eager to steal your ad revenue even when you're operating under fair use. And remember: Three strikes, and you're out...

There Can Be Only One (+600 cp, takes both Drawbacks): Being good isn't enough for you, is it? You have to be the best, do you? Well, in that case, you no longer have to have a mere 1,000,000 subscriber count by the end of your stay. You have to be the creator (or editor) of the Number One channel on Youtube by the end of your jump, or you lose and go home. Attempting to assassinate your Youtube rivals will invariably backfire, landing you in jail and getting your channel shut down. Oh, and by the way? As of 2015, the most popular channel has 36 million subscribers. Have fun.

SOPAcalypse (+800 cp, takes both Drawbacks): Are... Are you sure? Are you positive you need these youtuber abilities this badly? Well, in that case... in 2012, at the start of your fifth year as a Youtuber, then the Stop Online Piracy Act will be forced though the United States Congress despite every effort made to the contrary. Ultimately, it will be used to burn Youtube, Twitch, and every other video-streaming website to the ground over the course of 2012. Starting at the beginning of 2013, you will have to fight an incredible uphill legal battle to get SOPA repealed, and you will have to do so before the end of your jump- That 1,000,000 subscriber requirement hasn't gone away, and if you cannot bring back Youtube from its ashes then you will go home as if you had died. Good Luck, Jumper.

Notes:

If you take WOOOOOW with MLG Pro as a Let's Player, then your gaming ability will plummet whenever you are being watched or recorded, but you will retain your skill so long as nobody else will ever see you play. Taking screenshots counts.