Dimitri “Dima” and Alexander “Sascha” Koslowski operated the channel “DieAussenseiter” in the early 2010s on YouTube. However, their immense success also had its downsides: fans waiting outside their door to take photos with their favorite YouTubers.
Who is it about? The cousins Dima and Sascha founded their own YouTube channel, DieAussenseiter, in 2008. On it, they produced comedy content and quickly gained an audience of over 1 million subscribers.
In the 2010s, their channel was the most subscribed German YouTube channel. In 2016, the channel dissolved and Sascha and Dima continued solo on their own YouTube channels, DIMA and Alexander Koslowski.
Sascha seems to no longer be active on his social channels; they are mostly deactivated. Dima, on the other hand, still regularly uploads videos on his YouTube channel. His videos mainly revolve around food content.
DieAussenseiter are among the early pioneers of YouTube. Gronkh also became a bigger YouTuber at that time:
“It was like Pokémon collecting”
That was Dima’s reality: In an interview (via YouTube) with YouTuber Paul Sydow, Dima talks about his life reality during that hype. Resourceful fans quickly figured out the address of their house in a suburb of Stuttgart based on the features in the surroundings.
After moving, he thought he was safe. But fans managed to find the address of the next house as well. When Dima came home from training, several fans were already waiting at his door. Sometimes, according to Dima, there were even people who had been there the day before.
This surprised the YouTuber, as they had already gotten their photo with him. He asked why they were standing in front of his door again and if they wanted another photo. The fans replied that he now looked different, was wearing a different outfit, and therefore needed another photo with him.
In response, Dima said: “It was kind of like Pokémon collecting” (via YouTube).
He further explains that while he could understand the fans’ desire, it was also always “exhausting” and “stressful.” After all, he was also undergoing training as a media designer while wanting to spend some time with the fans at the same time.
He concludes by saying: “That was a kind of: All life is work” (via YouTube).
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