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Jake Benedict

Content Creator

Jake Benedict is a content creator based in Dallas, TX. Jake specializes in viral content, going from 0 to 1 million followers in just 6 months and generating over 2 billion views in 2025. He has an audience of over 2.1M followers on TikTok, 512k on Instagram, 990k on YouTube, and 55k on X. His content spans gaming, fitness, lifestyle and dating, and more.

Professional Achievements

  • Has generated 5,000,000,000 views across all social media platforms

Favorite Piece of Advice

Be different, be an outsider, be weird. Progression is derived from humility.

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Forum Comments (3)

How to Create Engaging Content for Beginners?
The best way is to learn the hook, because nobody has an attention span anymore. You need the first 3 seconds of the video to convince them to watch more. And based on that, if people watch more of the video, then that's how you go viral. It's all based on the watch time of the video, because these social media platforms want you to be on the app for as long as possible.

When it comes to a hook, anything shock factor where they have to find something out later in the video works well. What has worked well for us is introducing a question right at the beginning and then reeling viewers in. And the best way to get all that watch time is for there to be an ongoing question throughout the whole video, and then you wait to reveal it at the end.

For example, with my 6/7 video, I called it, "POV: when you finally understand what 6/7 means." I think it got 20 million views, but I was trying to investigate what 6/7 means through the video. And my hook at the beginning was literally, "What does 6/7 mean?"
How do people actually make money on Youtube?
Let's say I was selling lemonade – it's a lot easier for me to find people to sell my lemonade for me than for me to go up to as many people as possible and sell lemonade. When it comes to working with brand partners, YouTube is basically just a platform. It's like a commercial. You get paid if you are able to get people and bring attention to their commercial, then they'll pay you.
What Does "Let's Get Sendy" Mean?
This is a trend that basically mocks frat bros who would shotgun a beer. People were posting on social media mimicking the act of shotgunning, but doing it with chicken tenders, with their dog, or other things, just acting it out. And it became a huge, funny trend.

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