On YouTube, we almost only laugh among guys (and we own it)

Published on June 7, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. , updated on June 7, 2025 at 9:31 a.m.

Amixem, McFly, Squeezie and Carlito. YOUTUBE, SIPA, AFP-MONTAGE “LE NOUVEL OBS”

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McFly and Carlito, Squeezie, Amixem… At the top of the ranking of the most important French YouTubers, we find almost exclusively men. Women are absent from more than 80% of the videos produced in 2024. Enough to fuel a male insularity.

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These are YouTubers proud of their virile origins. McFly and Carlito have more than 7 million subscribers and celebrated the tenth anniversary of their famous song "Il a mis son sexe" at the end of January. This hit is at the origin of their success, a period when "everything changed" for them, as they like to tell it in videos . They were then known for their obscene humor. Their "tops at the time in terms of jokes" , recall McFly and Carlito ? Showing his testicles to " not at all consenting people" during a birthday party or defecating in the open space trash can , for the former. Parading in meetings with his penis exposed , for the latter.

It was "the same stupidity [as today] but even more illegal ," Carlito continues. Now, the video duo reigns supreme on YouTube. In May, an average of more than a million people watched their videos on Google's streaming platform alone, according to statistics aggregator Social Blade . This is an audience level that rivals the numbers of a mainstream television show. And that, without s…

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