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Doug Sharpe has 445k followers on his Instagram page, where he shares short fun facts in video format. He posts daily, usually one fact a day. He has even more subscribers on YouTube – 508k as of November 2023. Doug also has a Twitch channel where he streams the creative process behind his Fun Facts videos.
For those who want some more in-depth knowledge, he's also got you covered. You can find longer format videos on his channel that delve more deeply into topics like the history of the Michelin star restaurant rating or a story about a Native American war chief who helped defeat the Nazis during WWII.
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We've already featured Dougie Sharp on Bored Panda and spoke with him twice before. The Fact Guy started his career on Instagram in the summer of 2021 and went on TikTok in October 2021. By October 2022, he was posting daily videos with fun facts on TikTok, but by April 2023 he was mostly focusing on content for YouTube.
Doug told Bored Panda that he made these kinds of videos "on and off" from 2018, but mostly only for family and friends. "I posted a couple on Instagram in the summer of 2021 and they had pretty good views and I was like ‘Oh cool, maybe I should make more of these'," he told us in April 2023.
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Dougie told us previously that making videos about fun facts filled a hole when he just had nothing to do. "I started posting on TikTok daily on August 1st, 2022 and have been so happy people have enjoyed the facts as much as they have," he told us back then. "It's crazy to see where all my accounts are at today. I'm just really stoked people like the content," the creator gushed.
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Doug takes his work online seriously. Back in 2022, he told us that he spends almost 2 hours researching a fact and bases it on at least 3 sources. "It's been a really long process to get my production to where it is today," he said. "The fun facts were not good at the start but they got better and better with time and practice. I'm really happy and grateful everything is where it is today."
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Dougie also previously shared with Bored Panda that ideas for his videos come from simple curiosity. "I wouldn't be able to go through the rest of my day if I had a question sitting in the back of my head. If I have a question or someone near me has a question, I NEED TO KNOW THE ANSWER, I'll become obsessed with the question if I don't learn the answer. And sometimes that leads me down deep rabbit holes," Doug admitted.
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Researching and writing the scripts for videos is the best part for Doug. "When I'm researching, I get to treasure hunt the best parts of the fact. I usually use 3-6 sources and will pull the best piece of information from each and use them in my script. I like that I can highlight what I think is most cool, interesting or funky about the fact," he told us back in April.
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Doug posts daily on his Instagram page. That requires an always-present flow of creativity. "Creativity can get stagnant at times," he told us in April. "So many people have a pet project they’ve been working on forever because it has no deadline. I like the constant movement of the creation process."
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You'd think that with that kind of output, Doug has excellent time management skills. However, he says it's the opposite. "I have very poor time management skills so most of the time when you see a fact posted, I more than likely just finished it. It’s a constant push to create and be consistent in my creativity," the creator says honestly.
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Another skill that Doug has honed through this work is expanding his vocabulary and improving his sentence-building skills. Naturally, creating bite-sized pieces of information requires him to present the facts in a concise yet entertaining way.
But Doug says he likes the challenge. "Building the scripts, especially when I have a minute [to fit] twenty minutes worth of material and have to figure out how to piece it into a one-minute video, is very satisfying," the creator told Bored Panda in April.
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Now, six months later, Doug also posts longer videos on YouTube, a few of which are up to 10 minutes long. While you’re there, you can also find videos of his time in China where he worked as a stunt double for the movie "Seventy-Seven Days." Doug is also a professional snowboarder and mountain biker and shares some snippets of his adventurous life on all of his social media accounts.
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