Eli Mack's journey from Madden player to YouTube star

What is good, Mac family? It's the one and only Eli Mac. Gang, gang. It's literally my job. I mainly run a YouTube channel. I play video games and do real life content. Hold on real quick. If you hang out with Eli, you're going to be inspired, you know. I'm trying to give you all the real. I made about like $45,000 off that video. That was pretty cool. Shout out to Madden. Everything authentic over here. You know how we rockin'. Check me out, bro. Welcome to my neighborhood. Delray Beach County Police. I'm like, what's happening? Hey, man, it's your boy Eli Mac, and welcome to my creator diary. Let's get it. So right now we are in the room that changed my life. You know what I'm saying? Pretty much. This is my setup. You know what I'm saying? I got my microphone. This is a Sony a7 IV. First, I was using my phone for a long time, but I decided it's time for me to get an upgrade once I hit like 700K subscribers. So that's when I got this mic and this camera, this is called an Elgato for the HD 60 S Plus. Actually the software that you use to record a video. Boom, voila. So yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, levels are good. Turn on the camera, start recording. It's just like this. What is good Mac family? It's the one and only Eli Mac. Gang, gang. We playing a Super Bowl episode. Boom, just like that. I have 983 videos. I mainly run a YouTube channel. I'm currently at 750,000 subscribers. I play video games and do other sports in real life content. T.D. Barrett used to do this thing where he had this thing called Trash Talks. I was like, I'd love an opportunity to play this guy and try to get my music out. That's what I'm thinking. So I blow him up for months and months to be honest if I was trying he probably still would have beat me Because he was really good back then he still is but I really what I didn't want to win I wanted to be able to make that song so I would do intro songs for like T.D Barrett and stuff so when I started my own Series of like face of the franchise and everything like that There's 200,000 views on a fake video game character that people are loving, you know You feel me? So look, you see it's a like R.I.P. Mac Daddy Jr. So this was for Madden 23. They had to make up like fake scenarios, like build a storyline and build something that people like are looking forward to. And it's kind of funny. Hey, Ma. I wanted you to tell the story real quick about when people called the police about when I was recording and we were in Delray. That was very annoying. I get a knock on the door, and I answer the door, and Delray Beach County Police, I'm like, what's happening? I wanted to do a wellness check, and so I took him around the aisle and took him to your window, and I was like, you hear this? Your boy was grinding, man. I was trying to get it right, and it was at the expense of the people living with me at times, you know what I mean? Right now, we're going to take a look at the whip, man. We're going to take a look at my car right here. I used to play Midnight Club as a kid a lot. I want to turn this baby into a Batmobile, you feel me? So that's exactly what I ended up doing everything I did to it is like ten thousand dollars wrapped in matte black have matte purple Accents everywhere carbon fiber skirt one, but we got a purple calipers Here's like a little eyelid thing and if you look at the back and carbon fiber spoiler We could show it cuz it's my name my car gets recognized a lot out here People can like extra know that it actually gives me and when you open that baby You know saying all white interior got my nice car and I'm done. You know, that's all I need cars don't matter We need properties Investments stocks. Yeah Dude, it's crazy. Who's a football sign by? RG3. This is signed by Michael Vick. That's signed by Jamar Chase That's signed by Tyreek Hill. Bro, first time I saw Eli working, I was like damn. It makes sense You know why certain people are successful. I could be uploading every day and then they talk to me It's like damn, I need to upload twice a day. You feel me? If you hang out with Eli, you're gonna be inspired. We in here, man We working. You feel me? I'm trying to get a gold plaque man. You know saying we got to go up So focus on really growth and testing myself You see bro, I'm out here with the Justin Jefferson jersey, bro, diamonds on my... I looked at like the in real life videos, bro, because it's just like, you're just having fun with it. How do you feel about the Justin Jefferson prank video I did that bro? Because he recorded that video. How was that recording it, bro? That Justin Jefferson video was crazy. When we left the food court, everyone was going crazy. Stiff arms from people for real. I thought I was finna, you know what I'm saying, have to start knocking people out. If you notice, man, there's a big whiteboard right here, man. When I first started YouTube, I was just trying to make things on the fly, and that was hard. So I invested in this whiteboard, and I got consistency, work. Everything is profit because I come from zero, so that's just how I see it. The whiteboard is my everything, man. Also, I do mess up a lot. I might stutter. Today, we're going to be playing Superstar K.O. Today, we're going to be playing Superstar K.O. Mode because... It's not all one take, as you guys would think, because I used to think the same thing when I used to watch YouTubers before I did it. But you guys never see that because my editor, shout out to him, he does a great job of cutting everything out. My dog, he's been my YouTube editor since 2020, bro. Probably like 700, 600 videos for me, bro. I love to edit, so it's not really much work for me. You're not this content machine like other people paint out to be. Yeah. YouTube kind of just randomly happened for me. Like, I just kind of stumbled across it and it changed my life. Thousands of subscribers. you know we're almost to 1 million now, bro. So when I did the NFL ban these gloves video, one of my biggest videos. I want to grab a glove. And then I looked. It was on a trending page. And I was like, this is the first time I ever trended. This is insane. I didn't mean to speak on numbers too much, but I'm trying to give you all the real. $45,000 at them videos. Somebody's yearly salary in like an hour and a half. I used to kind of get like, dang bro, why everybody can't just do it? Then I had to learn that this is me. Everybody got their own thing. And I think that's better when we're all doing our own thing. Because we bring our own things to the table. It's just love. We're just all eating in our own way. And it's just so dope, you know? And like just how much YouTube could change your life.