In a recent interview with PokerNews (video) he said he was getting 4,000 new subscribers A DAY! There's just no frigging way there are THAT many brand new poker fans subbing his channel every single day, it's just not fucking possible.
Poker is popular, but it isn't THAT popular that ANY poker channel is going to get legitimate tens of millions of views on their short-form content. And when his long-form content tells the true story (i.e. all these adoring fans suddenly aren't turning out to view that content anywhere close to the level of his shorts) it really does look like it's bots making him appear more popular than he really is.
I haven't found anyone that thinks he's some amazing poker mind, so he's not appealing to the high-level players who consume content. I've heard he shouts BANG a lot in his videos, some like it, some don't.
I just don't get how we're supposed to believe Wolfgang is suddenly more popular than Dnegs and Brad Owen, the former front-runners for youtube followers in the poker niche. I'd bet my last dime if you pitted Wolfgang against either of them in a competition to see whose MUG had a better turnout he'd lose against both of them.
So many content-producers in a variety of spaces these days just fake it til they make it, and he's seemed to do just that. One of his shorts paid him $3,700 and he's pumping them out like crazy, allowing him to buyin to bigger stakes livestream games and further fuel his growth in the space.
I guess kudos to him for duping folks and cashing in, but I just don't buy it.