[jaxr]

I'm not sure that translates very linearly. Most of the chess YouTube "stars" are not even GMs. Most of the viewers are hardly good players, so what you can learn from an IM is astronomical. Charisma and good at teaching are much better skills than a 1000 ELO difference imo. To your point, beating Magnus might drag a lot of people to his stream.

[paulddraper]

> Most of the chess YouTube "stars" are not even GMs.

But they have tutorials, put tons of effort into entertaining content, etc.

Hikaru doesn't.

People watch Hiraku because they want to watch a top 5 player.

[lupire]

They watch Hikaru because he is fun while he plays and wins.

Offline, he is #4 is slow chess and #1 in Blitz.

He's not facing strong challenges on Titled Tuesday, and (like all top players) he is so good that there simply aren't enough players and data to make the empirical Elo scale work for assessing his win probabilities.

[drexlspivey]

That’s right, the most popular content creator on Youtube is an IM and the most popular game analysis channel is by an amateur

[TylerE]

That’s nothing new. Many of the books supposedly by GMs are ghostwritten by non-titled players.