Famous Mandarin-speaking Youtubers Part 2

In the era of 5G Internet, everyone has a mobile phone and a laptop. Even amateurs can operate self-media and become Key Opinion Leader. Therefore, many young people gradually regard Youtuber as a career options and even the most ideal occupation.

Then, let’s look at the list of the most famous youtubers in Mandarin-speaking countries. 4.冒险雷探长(Lei’s Adventures) 5.志祺七七 6.小鍾Johnny’s Vlog

4. 冒险雷探长(Lei’s Adventures)

雷探长 means Detective Lei and the real name of the Youtuber is Chen Lei(陳雷)

The channel is famous for its documentaries of travel and exploration. It was firstly broadcasted in Youku(优酷) on June 18, 2014. He has strated his Youtube channel since June of 2017, and he has accumulated around 130 million views.

The main purpose of the film is to visit the unexplored monuments to explore the unsolved mysteries of human beings, and focus on restoring the real events of travel. This documentary shows the unknown side of foreign travels with a distinctive first-person narrator. This brought the audience into a real adventure environment, and it has received critical acclaims worldwide.

Each episode lasts about 25-30 minutes, and each episode is updated every Wednesday. The producer, cameraperson, director and host of the video shows are all “Detective Lei”, sometimes with tour guides in some remote and high-risk places.

Some of classical videos are Bangledesh Adventure(EP 223), Mysteries of Kaesong, the Ancient Capital of the Goryeo Dynasty(EP180), Slumdog of Argentina(EP298), and so on,

In addition to documentaries, he also launched books — On July 8, 2017, the book “冒險雷探長：秘境詛咒Lei’s Adventures: Curse of the Mysterious Places” was released. This book takes the travel route as the main storylines and categorizes chapters by countries and regions, it tells the adventure stories that happened in Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, India, North Korea, Japan, Mexico, Cuba and other countries during the trip, digging out adventure experiences which are not told behind the scenes of the documentary.

On January 1, 2020, following “冒險雷探長：秘境詛咒 Detective Lei’s Adventures: Curse of the Mysterious Places”, Detective Lei continued to release the original book “冒險雷探長2：遺失祕境 Detective Lei’s Adventures 2: The Lost Secret Realm”. This book also takes Detective Lei’s adventure travel route as the main storylines, highlighting the theme of exploration and telling the amazing stories of adventures that happened in the three countries of Caucasus, eight countries of Europe, four countries of Eurasia and three countries of Southeast Asia.

5. 志祺七七

Number of subscribers: 1,180,000 followers

They are updating 7-10 min videos each day at 7 pm(GMT+8 Taiwan Time). The topics of videos cover a wide range of issues in different fields, including “Why Meta is so in trouble right now?” launched on 18th of November 2022, “Shortest serving chief minister in history” launched on 16th of November 2022, “Why do so many Japanese live in internet cafe?” launched on 13th of November 2022, and so on. As you can see in the videos mentioned above, the topics can be business, politics, social issues, etc.

In addition to Youtube videos updated every day, the team is also operating podcast, transfering the video contents into audio materials.

6.Johnny’s Vlog

Genre: Travel Vlog(Africa)

Number of subscribers: 232,000 followers

The Youtuber, 小鍾 Johnny, comes from China. He likes the humanities, loves photography, and respects all kinds of life.He is a backpacker who lives and works around the world, currently working and traveling in Africa.