I welcome guests and regular readers of the site website. So, a video blogger, one of the creators of the sensational project "Rakamakafo" - Nikolai Sobolev was born on June 18, 1993 in St. Petersburg. Parents saw their child in sports, so from the age of five Kolya was engaged in karate and taekwondo.
Martial arts classes continued until the age of 14, until the teenager was seriously injured.
Sobolev leaves sports activities and for some period is fond of computer games.
However, at the age of 16, Nikolai again takes up active image life and recorded in Gym. He managed to achieve impressive results and even began to seriously think about the career of a coach, but fate decreed otherwise.
A young man at the age of 19 went to work as a vocalist in a cabaret. Sobolev became permanent member show programs and has already given professional performances. This activity brought our hero good money, and he thought that he had finally found his calling.
However, in the life of Nikolai appeared, with whom he met at the birthday of a common friend. The guys quickly found mutual language and made friends.
Narmania and Sobolev
In 2013, friends are thinking about joint project, the choice fell on creating pranks for YouTube, since at that time there were no worthy representatives of this genre in the Russian segment of video hosting. Sobolev and Guram decide to choose the topic "social experiment" and on March 8 they register the channel "Rakamakafo". Having bought the minimum equipment, the friends started filming. In the first video, the guys tested the reaction of passers-by to the proposal to engage in group intercourse.
Frame from the video "Group Sex" (2014)
A few days later they release a video where they see if people will intervene in a situation where two guys are beating one.
Street Fight (2014)
The works of "Rakamakafo" were not popular and gained little views, but Nikolai and Guram felt that they needed to continue.
Identified (2014)
Fight with a girl (2014)
After a while, the channel gained its audience thanks to scandalous videos. The presenters admit that the primary essence of the project is the demonstration of relevant public problems. With their videos, the creators urge not to be indifferent to other people's difficulties.
Man feels bad (2014)
Assault on Veterans (2015)
Gay in a rocking chair (2015)
In October 2015, Sobolev becomes the face analytical program"LIFE YOUTUBE" (now the channel is renamed SOBOLEV), where a young man talks about interesting events and video blogging news.
In May 2016, the guy becomes one of the hosts of the Ready Steady Go car show, where the YouTuber, along with Alexander Murataev, shares his impressions of expensive cars.
On June 15, Nikolay challenged "Versus Battle" to a rap competition, but was refused in the form of music video"#kolyakhiter", which went viral on YouTube. Sobolev answered his opponent in his own style, but his video "#DimaNeSSy" received a lot of negative marks.
In the summer, a young man presented his book "YouTube: The Path to Success. How to Get Loads of Likes and Tons of Money", where Nikolai Sobolev shared his experience in creating videos and making money from it.
Guram and Kolya began to practice more and more solo projects, paying less attention to the channel "Rakamakafo", however, on August 10, a video was released where the guys competed, which of them would collect largest number female phone numbers.
Pickup for speed (2016)
In early February 2017, he records a video for his news channel about the well-known incident with the rape of Diana Shurygina.
After this, the guy is invited to the program "Let them talk", first as a guest, and then as the hero of the program.
Since Diana Shurygina was a very resonant person, participation on Channel One brought Sobolev millions of new subscribers, and his personality also became a little more media than it was before.
Nikolai continues his versatile activities on the network, delighting his subscribers with new, high-quality videos that come out with amazing regularity on his resource.
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Kolya Sobolev was born in St. Petersburg on June 19, 1993. Nikolai grew up as a very energetic boy. At school, the boy attended the amateur theater. Among his peers, he stood out with a constructive outlook on life and a craving for public speaking. He also played music, sports and gave concerts in a cabaret.
After graduating from school, Kolya decided to continue his studies at the Polytechnic Institute.
In 2010 he creates his own own channel in the Internet. But his channel never gained fame, then in 2014 Nikolai teamed up with fellow blogger Guram and formed a single prank TV show. On this channel, they created and posted various pranks and social experiments, where they showed their real face ordinary person. They named their program Rakamakafo.
The guys confess that by their own deeds they are trying to convey to people how not to be bitter and indifferent. With the help of videos, the guys demonstrate the difficulties that exist in the current world.
A curious case, a video in which Nikolai and Guram pester passers-by with obscene proposals, was created for fifteen days. And this happened because the guys could not decide for a long time, because they were too ashamed. And so a year later, there were more than one million subscribers on this channel.
In 2015, Kolya and Guram become the winners of the "Top 50" most famous people St. Petersburg. Bloggers also do charity work. In 2016, in a short period of time, they managed to raise more than two million rubles for the fund orphanage. An interesting case, bloggers personally thanked people who donated more than one thousand. Nikolai participates in numerous festivals, among them Vidfest.
Kolya is the host on the YouTube channel. This program is called "YouTube Life", which illuminates the society with various novelties on the Internet.
Kohl has been seen participating in many incidents online. The most famous is the conflict with .
Together with Sasha Muratov, they created a channel in which they create various TV shows about cars and everything that concerns them.
In the summer of 2016, Kolya released his own book. It tells the basic principles of blogging, solving the problems that a newbie blogger has encountered, and the history of the formation of the channel by Nikolai and his comrades.
On this moment The number of subscribers on his channel has exceeded 2.4 million people.
Nikolai Sobolev is a well-known Russian video blogger who is known as the author of the SOBOLEV channel (“YouTube Life”). And as the founder of a project called Rakamakafo Pranks.
Nikolai is a native of St. Petersburg. It has higher education, which he received in the same place, at the SPbSPU Polytechnic University, Faculty of Economics and Management.
He also wrote several books that are very useful and interesting for many, especially for beginners who want to conquer and climb YouTube Olympus.
His books are titled: “Basics of Video Blogging”, “Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions”, “History of Creation of Rakamakafo Projects”.
He became famous in the Russian-speaking YouTube space as a prankster. Through his various social experiments.
Therefore, when he had a question about what topic to run his channel on, he decided to analyze all the niches on YouTube and realized that without options - it would be prank, practical jokes and various social experiments. And I didn't guess. He created the Rakamakafo Pranks project and it brought him stunning fame and money. Yes, yes, it is money, since Nikolai earns very well.
Nikolai Sobolev - full biography, age and height.
Nikolai Sobolev on VKontakte, Instagram and YouTube.
- VKontakte - https://vk.com/sobolevbro
- YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNb2BkmQu3IfQVcaPExHkvQ
Be sure to check out Nikolai's pages to be aware of exactly what he does.
The most popular video of Nikolai Sobolev - Blue Whale
This is the most popular video on Nikolai's channel, with over 6,300,000 million views. Blue whale - dangerous game, which can lead participants to suicide.
Also, Nikolai is a regular guest and participant of the Vidfest festivals for video bloggers, which very often take place on the territory of Russia. He also conducts master classes to promote his brand in in social networks and feels very well thanks to his work and his creativity.
Showman "YouTube life" on the same channel. Prankster, auto-reviewer, writer (!), new-found face-from-TV channels and good old caring-face-from-YouTube. Here, however, we are talking only about the channel "SOBOLEV", and therefore only about the show " YouTube life”and the rest of Nikolai’s activities (including very successful as one of the founders of the Rakamakafo project) will not be touched here. As well as the personality itself, we will only touch on it insofar and to the extent that it will be directly connected with the channel, with creativity, with “content”.
Cons of the show
- Elements of a personal blog.
And platforms for expressing opinions, as mentioned earlier. It turns out that there are two options here:
1) You are an expert analyst in issues related to video blogging, in Internet communication or, for example, in politics. And it is not at all necessary to be an expert in the profession (although it is desirable), it is enough just to strive to delve deeply into the issue. Follow the lead of the first thought that comes to mind, the first emotional reaction(which is what our hero, Nikolai Sobolev, sins for) it’s definitely not worth it for anything. The first reaction was like “Ahhh! What is it done good people! How scary to live, let's publicize the resonance of this case! - certainly does not carry any constructiveness in itself, it makes it difficult to look at the situation fully, deeply, from all points of view. It especially concerns political and near-political issues, where such an approach only hinders common understanding situations. "Especially" - does not mean "only" - in other matters it interferes too. From the leader it turns out sometimes as a result of such "nonsense repeater", which is depressing.
2) You appear before the audience as charismatic, bright personality with his special opinion, with his special position, and in this case response form, herself reaction, may be even more important than the events in question, news, and so on. This is already the format of a personal video blog and many well-known YouTube figures do this. “YouTube Life” by Nikolai Sobolev specifically is about something else. Neither a special position and a special opinion, nor any special form of response and individuality is presented here.
3) [If neither the first nor the second] You are the broadcaster. This means everything that we wrote about above. Less personal reasoning, personal comments and personal attitude. Somehow it works out that way.
- One show, one host.
And no one else. Maybe we, of course, find fault, but for news releases, reporters, experts, or in general anyone who makes news would be nice original. Otherwise, the release of news will be just a repetition and pronunciation of things that are already obvious and known to everyone. Gathering and voicing facts on some issue of interest to the people is, in general, good, but ... isn't it too little?
Yes, Nikolai sometimes takes on some role other than the presenter, sometimes he is an expert and a reporter, or, so to speak, a “supplier of insider information” (about TV shows, about familiar bloggers, etc.). Last role, by the way, it turns out very well and the information we are given is really interesting, but even all of them do not make the weather entirely - they are either not given enough time, or they “recoup” not enough quality. Therefore, it’s probably good that Nikolai sometimes borrows some formats from other shows and channels: “top of the most popular YouTube trends” or “five most hated bloggers on YouTube” or “bloggers before they became famous” - so it turns out at least some - some primary creative processing of information, at least some small novelty.
- Image.
[We here try not to discuss the personal qualities of authors, hosts, show creators, bloggers, even if the content presented here is deeply personal. So it's about the image.]
Selfishness and Narcissism(a little more pomposity and pathos). Regarding narcissism - probably all bloggers have a tendency to this, because. filming yourself on camera and posting on the Internet what happened - there is already something narcissistic in this itself. But other bloggers manage to at least somehow retouch it, at least with the same self-criticism, self-irony, or simply showing some other qualities in the foreground.
But in the case of Nikolai Sobolev, it is narcissism and narcissism that are the first to catch the eye - this, in fact, is the basic component, skeleton of the image. And the image resting on such a skeleton is, as a rule, unpleasant and repulsive. Absolute rejection of criticism and non-recognition of one's own possible errors and shortcomings; the absence of at least some balance and objectivity of judgment when it comes to Nicholas himself and, for example, we are talking about his personal opponents (those with whom he has a conflict at the moment) - here.
Such an image, oddly enough, was not formed from the activities of Nikolai as a leader. And the basic qualities of this image could well be discarded without compromising the content of the show. They grow from another detail completely unnecessary here from the sphere of a personal blog - participation in conflicts. You can even say Nikolai "dirty yourself" such participation, and it doesn’t even matter who actually won there and with whose opinion the audience ended up more in agreement. Dmitry Larin, Afonya, Likey ... - no matter how many dislikes were shipped to them, the loser, in the end, is Sobolev Nikolai (perhaps " And Sobolev Nikolay). However, “losers” means that it’s not the video’s viewability or the “subscription” of the channel that loses - the general watchability of videos And image perception, which, in the end, will hit the popularity in turn.
Well, a small nuance that relates to the same point. This, to paraphrase a well-known acronym: "a sense of the importance of one's own activity", and a rather heightened feeling. If the presenter suddenly did not mention the importance of the topic that he is talking about right now and the importance of the public outcry around this issue, then this leader is definitely Not Nikolay Sobolev. Well, it already is, by the way.
Summary
Watch the show if you are not indifferent to the entire YouTube media scene: all these new trends, projects, faces, vlogger festivals, etc. Wylsacom, Sasha Spielberg, Dmitry Larin, Likey, Ivangay - if for some reason all these faces are close and interesting to you at the same time, then this show is just what you need and its shortcomings are unlikely to confuse you. Maybe.
What to see
News from the life of YouTube. Look at them, it's simple. The more the topic concerns YouTube and video blogging (or specifically pranks and prank-making in general) and only them, the more Nikolai argues and looks like a professional expert in his field. “More” does not mean “just like”, but it’s already something, which means it’s quite watchable if you have general interest on topic, of course.
Sobolev is a hypocrite- an online campaign to discredit video blogger Nikolai Sobolev, who shot a laudatory video about Gorky Park and the mayor of Moscow. In social networks, the phrase “Sobolev is a hypocrite” appeared before, but after another conflict it turned into a meme.
Origin
On July 5, 2018, a video dedicated to the match between Russia and Spain at the 2018 World Cup and rapper Purulent was released on Nikolai Sobolev's channel. From the first seconds, Sobolev begins to praise Gorky Park, hinting that its development is the merit of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
Hidden advertising has caused a lot of controversy. It turned out that similar videos were made by other top YouTube bloggers. Blogger Stas Vasiliev (Max Power) was one of the first released revealing video, in which he indicated the names of the "sold out to the mayor's office": in addition to Sobolev himself, Dima Maslennikov, Max Brandt, Timur Sidelnikov and Kostya Pavlov were on the list.
All bloggers are under contract with the WildJam agency, writes TJ. Within a week or two, veiled advertisements appeared on their channels, in which Sobyanin's activities were praised in one way or another. The conclusion is obvious: the promotion was ordered on the eve of the mayoral elections, in which Sergei Semenovich will participate.
Critical videos against Sobolev were also recorded by other bloggers, including Prince Petersburg, Ruslan Tushentsov and Morgenstern. The video of the latter was called "The main Kremlin-sucker and hypocrite of YouTube - Sobolev."
In parallel with the criticism of the blogger in social networks, a spontaneous action began to discredit him. Users began to call him a hypocrite, a political prostitute and make offensive memes. The phrase “Sobolev is a hypocrite” became popular, and the main antagonist was the no less meme YouTube character Morgenstern.
The largest contribution to the meme war was made by the public “Oatmeal, sir” - only for the period from July 18 to July 19, about 20 memes about Sobolev were published in the community. Public even portrayed opposition of bloggers on their avatar in VKontakte.
Meaning
Memes about Nikolai Sobolev make fun of his venality and loyalty to the Moscow authorities, which is often blamed on the blogger. In addition to the phrase “Sobolev is a hypocrite,” pictures are circulating on the network in which the blogger is exposed as a person who is ready for anything for the sake of money. In many respects, the indignation around the political speeches of Sobolev is due to the fact that in 2017 in interview Yuri Dudyu Nikolai said that he was not going to get involved in politics.
In addition, Morgenstern himself is also found in memes about Sobolev, he is not only presented as the main whistleblower, but also compared with oppositionist Alexei Navalny.
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