Simple Pickup gradually became one of the most popular channels on YouTube after they launched Project GO, a community for singles males who are interested in improving their game. On the platform, they taught people how to strike a conversation with strangers, how to build self-confidence, overcome anxiety, and funny pick up lines.
They also upload other contents which cut across social media strategies, vlogging, how to overcome legal issues and creating original contents. As a result, a petition was sent to change. In the wake of that, most of their videos were later deleted. He stopped making appearances in their videos. This left his fans curious and hell-bent on finding out his whereabouts. After a while, it was discovered that Jason had started a new channel dubbed Simple Misfits.
His new channel is dedicated to random pranks. After the channel was created in , Simple Misfits, just like Simple Pickup started getting attention and massive followership.
So far, it has amassed over thousand loyal fans and his prank videos have witnessed over 29 million views. In recent time, reports have it that Jason Roberts has found a new career in real estate. Even though he no longer appears on Simple Pickup, Jason still makes occasional appearances on Simple Misfits while focusing on his new career. Also Read: Top 10 Richest People in the world with full biography and details.
April 9, April 11, April 7, June 12, March 16, Skip to content Does the name Simple Pickup ring a bell? About Joseph N. There's no universal applicability with regards to what they say. But that's what's inspiring. Jesse tells me, "When you're having a conversation, you can literally say whatever you want.
Girls are very forgiving that way. It also helps to have their body language: head held high, strong and confident -- and at the same time, displaying an almost professional sort of disaffection as well, with a shadow of a slouch and laconic, measured smiles.
While the videos mostly show successful pickups, it's surprisingly a reflection of the truth. Most weeks, they film their videos in less than two hours. Just a small fraction of the numbers they pick up in real life are interesting enough to make it into a video. And as for failures? On YouTube, where view count is king, their 16 videos have currently totaled 7. But as a metric to measure Simple Pickup's reach, it doesn't tell the entire story. What's really important -- and where Jason, Jesse and Kong shine in a way no other pickup artists of their kind have -- is engagement with the audience: They read every single viewer comment there have been over 38, and use the spiciest for inspiration.
In July, one fan commented, "pick up girls acting completely gay, if you guys can do that hell I will call you guys my Gods. Drawing inspiration from viewer comments, they wear absurd outfits or take on challenges to inject every video with more personality. They've picked up girls while pretending to be paraplegics in wheelchairs , and only using hip-hop lyrics. The trio maintains an active Twitter handle of more than 3, followers, makes instructional tapes directly answering viewer questions, and diligently responds to every direct message, whether it's a year-old in Oklahoma asking about how to make the first kiss, or a year-old in Denmark sharing an anecdote about how European women are different.
Of course, Simple Pickup doesn't appeal to everyone. Pickup artists tend to cater to a highly focused, highly invested audience. And just by definition, their videos don't speak to half of the human race. In August, female YouTube commenter fylothea wrote, "Ugh…. Give fylothea credit: She actually watched the video. When Simple Pickup first went viral, I eagerly showed it to one of my female friends, thinking she'd be as hooked as I was to their street magic.
A minute and a half in, she turned to me and said, "How can you watch this entire thing? But that hasn't kept the broader online community from lauding their efforts. Action movie star the Rock has retweeted their videos; Ashton Kutcher has done the same.
Klout, the standard in measuring online influence, gives Simple Pickup a score of 46 Justin Bieber is 99 , which is more than "Social Network" star Jesse Eisenberg. Klout defines Simple Pickup as a "Specialist": "You may not be a celebrity, but within your area of expertise your opinion is second to none.
Of course, other pickup videos do exist. SucceedAtDating lays claim to more than videos, one of which has over , views. But their video channels can't boast as loyal a subscriber base, higher average views per video, or a sexier production value than Simple Pickup. And while other channels are marred by the ugliness of commercialization -- from in-video product descriptions to online store links -- Simple Pickup doesn't advertise anything except, well, how to get numbers.
Jason, Jesse and Kong are a paragon of Web 2. Armed with just a Costco video camera and a voice recorder, Simple Pickup may just force a multimillion-dollar pickup artist industry to raise its standards.
The commercialization of seduction began haphazardly. It wasn't until when Neil Strauss' bildungsroman, "The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists" -- made to look like a Bible, gold trim and all -- tipped the seduction community into full sales mode.
After Strauss' book appeared as Amazon. Over the years, a caste system for pickup schools has taken shape. The middle rung consists of successful one-man shops. Most are ruthless self-promoters who have seized the cultural moment to soak up fame: Paul Janka, a Harvard graduate turned pickup artist, has appeared on "The View" and Dr.
Phil; J. The lowest rung consists of two groups: armchair pickup artists and location-specific coaches. Quality is extremely variable. McDonald's for night game -- but most are snake oil operators hawking recycled wares. Watchdog website PUA Hate lists more than of these companies, which means thousands more probably toil in relative anonymity.
Books are pickup companies' cash cows. An overwhelming majority of males seeking pickup resources don't attend events; they read the books. Books are the industry's bread-and-butter: easy to create, easy to disseminate. And yet, for their relative ease to produce, they are guarded zealously.
Most pickup websites contain just two types of pages: teaser testimonials that are the very definition of bombast, vouching failsafe methods for sleeping with supermodels; and a credit card payment page.
These pay walls either exist because a company truly values its intellectual property, or because it is selling horse manure. Without any verifiably genuine consumer reviews, and without well-organized discussion forums, how does the average consumer really know what's legitimate?
That's where Simple Pickup changes the game. Their "in-field" videos capture interactions men can analyze and decode; no more relying on blind faith theories in text. The shift adds tremendous value for the consumer, and yet, none of the major pickup companies have truly embraced video, an approach that is short-sighted at best and self-destructive at worst. Body language contributes 92 percent to a social interaction's success; books regurgitate what was said -- a poor substitute for what's more important: how it was said.
As much as reading creates knowledge, it doesn't instill belief. Simple Pickup's videos bridge the gap between insinuating and emulating; and they provide a solution to the pickup industry's tell-not-show problem. What, exactly, does the viewer learn? Well, let's see. Before talking about what Simple Pickup teaches us, it's worth asking why the videos are so damn popular.
Why hasn't the pickup artist fad withered away yet? Why are something males hanging on to these videos like they've unearthed the holy grail? To help answer that, let's turn to the census data on sexual activity, which showed that 31 percent of the U. That's quite a spread. The promise of 21st century sexual liberation has been primarily enjoyed by a sliver of the male population -- the alpha males, while beta males and omega males feel shut out.
The seduction community is designed for men who didn't grow up with an older brother or sister teaching them the ropes; men who don't think they're attractive; men who are simply too scared to even think about failure.
By telling these men that there's a quantifiable path toward learning how to be good with women, it gives them a tangible action plan, where before there was blind meandering. Pickup discards external glory -- fame, the money of a hot start-up CEO, the body of an NBA player -- for the simple trappings of knowledge and inner confidence. It's a call to possibility; it's a pathway to attracting the impossible girl of our dreams.
Think of Simple Pickup's videos as the male equivalent of the Hollywood hour miracle diet; after all, men gaining confidence may be the closest corollary to women losing weight. By capturing evidence that they can pick up a girl in any situation, Simple Pickup is essentially saying, "I lost 30 pounds in two days!
Here's the proof! And you can too! It wasn't originally simple for Kong, Jesse and Jason. They used to be a veritable dork squad. And Jason — he liked anime. Actually, he still does.
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