Chris Van Vliet Explains Decision To Start A Clips Channel, Recalls Karrion Kross Clip Going Viral

Chris Van Vliet loves the clips.

As of publish time, Vliet’s clips channel on YouTube has 1.2M subscribers. Ironically, this number is significantly higher than Vliet’s regular channel, which has 814K subscribers.

Speaking with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp for a new interview, the popular interview host talked about starting his secondary channel.

“On both ends, there’s definitely been that. Some that I’m like, ‘Oh, that one didn’t perform and that one out of nowhere did.’ The reason I started the clips channel is because I understand that if I were to text you a link and go, ‘Man, this podcast is amazing. You got to check it out,’ and you click on it, and it’s an hour and 14 minutes. You’re probably not even going to start. But if I send you a clip from that same interview and it’s 36 seconds, or I send you a clip that’s two minutes, good chance you’re probably going to tune in.”

Vliet then recalled one clip from Karrion Kross that scored millions and millions of views across multiple platforms.

“The one that I just was reminded of was a 10 second, 15 second clip with Karrion Kross. It was the workout that we filmed, we were doing arm day, and everybody knows where I’m going with this. He pulled out the most perfect Jesse Ventura impression. It was four seconds in like a 30 minute workout video. ‘Don’t tell me you don’t have four more reps.’ But that clip blew me away. Like 1.2 million views on my channel. However many millions of views from everybody that’s shared that across all platforms. By the way, if there’s ever a clip you see of any of my interviews, feel free to steal it. Feel free to clip it out. I don’t care at all. If you could tag me, that’d be nice. But like, I don’t care. Have it. Please clip it out. I love when I’ll put an interview out on Tuesday morning and about three hours later it’s all over X and I’m like, ‘I’ll retweet all those all day.’”

Elsewhere in the interview, Vliet talked about viral interviews and how he frequently gets tagged in old clips. Click here to check out his full comments.

Fans can check out Fightful’s full conversation with Chris Van Vliet in the video linked at the top of this article.