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I'm a Facebook gaming creator. And I do that almost every single day as well. Epic Meal Time has made more on Facebook the last couple of months versus what it has made on YouTube. Sometimes the videos pop on YouTube still. We just had one, deep frying 50 times video, getting over a million views within six days. Sometimes they pop, sometimes it'll be in the six-figure realm, you know a couple hundred thousand. But Facebook lately, we've been making videos specifically for Facebook, old meals that we've created by making them more curated for the Facebook type of consumption of content.

And the views have been extremely high. For people just starting out, don't make something because you think it will be popular, make something because you love it.

People love someone passionate about something. I'm passionate about making people laugh and I'm passionate about food and I'm passionate about good times. That really encapsulates everything that Epic Meal Time is. If you're like me and it's eight years later and you're doing something just to get famous or rich, you will not be happy.

You got to diversify. It's not just about the money. It's about the legacy of the brand that you'll have and how much people care for it. So go ahead and get that out there so people have tangible products of yours. They know that you're not just on their mobile phones, you're more than just making people laugh on the phone or on TV. We have the Epic Meal Time cooking set that people were cooking with. I've always been the one to say push it everywhere.

YouTube is everything to us, but I'm happy that we upload to Twitter and I'm happy that we upload to Facebook. We get supplementary income from both of those. If one thing fails, you don't want to have all your eggs in one basket. That once you get paid from it, you'll be happy. That's not true… When you play to the views, you play to the subscribers, you will constantly constantly be trying to fill this void that can't be filled, because even if you have a million subscribers, you're going to want 10 million subscribers.

Eight years ago, Harley Morenstein's career took a wild swerve when he went from teaching high school history to teaching millions of YouTube viewers what happens when you make a pound grilled cheese sandwich or a 1 million-calorie lasagna. Not only that, Morenstein's food-centric streaming video empire is now pulling in millions of dollars each year. Morenstein, 33, is the star and co-creator of Epic Meal Time, the weekly updated YouTube channel with over 7 million followers who click on videos of Morenstein and his friends tackling "epic" food challenges — many of which include cooking and eating meals with enough fat, calories and bacon to make even the biggest junk food junkie do a double-take.

One video, for example, features the "Frankenpig," a bacon-wrapped, spaghetti-stuffed turkey that will haunt your arteries. And that lasagna? It was made from pounds of pork, packages of bacon and eight wheels of brie. With his band of merry food pranksters, Morenstein is building a mini-empire, one that has already spawned a spin-off cable television series and now, a line of food products — from his brand Super Snack Time — ranging from pizza-flavored pepperoni jerky to cheesy bacon biscuit mix.

Between Epic Meal Time's advertising revenue from YouTube and Facebook, along with its other business ventures, including Super Snack Time and other branded merchandise, Morenstein says the business pulls in millions of dollars per year. He also spent his spare time messing around with a video camera and picking up small gigs as a videographer.

Morenstein harbored dreams of performing on camera, having gone to the occasional acting audition around Montreal, only to be told that his six-foot-six-inch, burly frame was best suited to play "a gigantic mutant," he jokes. At the same time, Morenstein and his friends were watching a lot of amateur videos on YouTube where people like them were racking up millions of views doing everything from comedy skits to instructional videos. Morenstein brainstormed content ideas, including comedy skits.

But it wasn't until one night in the summer of , when he was hanging out drinking with a group of hungry friends, that Morenstein finally stumbled on the formula that became YouTube gold. That's how many views the first video got.

Epic Meal Time kicked off its weird internet food party on July 9, , when Morenstein and friend Alex Perrault decided to follow through on the idea from the night before, to create "a pizza more disgusting than we ever thought possible in an attempt to take their taste buds on an incredible journey," according to the text displayed at the start of the video.

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