Episode 190: @thep00lguy - TikTok Sensation and Swimming Pool Engineer Miles Laflin
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Episode Summary
Today, we speak with British TikTok sensation Miles Laflin, aka “thep00lguy”. As of this conversation, Miles has over 12.3 million followers on TikTok, 220,000 on Instagram, and 500,000 subscribers on YouTube.
Miles started recording pool content in May 2020. His first video went viral right away, garnering a quarter of a million views in a single day. His best performing video of all time hit 130 million views, becoming the third most-viewed TikTok video in the UK.
Miles speaks with us about his dramatic rise to fame almost two years ago, his content creation process on his various social media, his collaborating with celebrities in his more recent videos, and how he plans on scaling his business in the near future.
Topics Discussed
01:31 - An introduction to Miles and how he got into the pool industry
06:19 - Miles’s typical working week
08:57 - Why Miles decided to start recording his jobs
12:48 - Going viral on TikTok
19:24 - Miles’s favorite video
22:14 - Miles’s recording process
27:16 - Dealing with trolls
30:33 - Collaborating with celebrities
42:49 - Miles’s overall goal as thep00lguyml
46:29 - Miles’s responsibility as a content creator with a huge audience
49:51 - Number of followers on social channels
54:47 - What’s next for Miles
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Key Quotes from Episode
Sometimes, you’ve just got to keep it raw. What I went viral for is what people like to see.
Every video I put out, I’m expecting it to do well. I’m not just posting it for no reason.
