Comedian La Bajon remembers the first time the YouTube counters of one of his comedic pastilles got carried away.
A success arrived thanks to a parody featuring the lawyer of Penelope Fillon, which would not have pleased the wife of the former presidential candidate.
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With more than 60 million views to date, La Bajon is one of the phenomena of French YouTube.
The comedian, guest of Anne Roumanoff, has however long undergone the castings which limited her "to the roles of beurettes" and empty theaters.
She remembers her first success on the web, thanks to a video parodying the lawyer of Penelope Fillon.
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"You precipitated the defeat of François Fillon"
This first success came in the middle of the presidential campaign, with a video published on February 1, 2017. "The first peak of view is with this video on the lawyer of Penelope Fillon who made 14 million views in the week, so that made me weird, "recalls the comedian.
"It's been like a hurricane coming upon you, but a hurricane of happiness."
La Bajon was surprised by certain returns, particularly political ones.
"What I know is that his lawyer saw him," she explains, keeping a mystery on any possible exchanges between them.
"I have had reports from journalists who have gone so far as to say that I had precipitated François Fillon towards defeat," she adds with a burst of laughter.
"It's giving me a lot of importance."
The comedian does not know, however, if Penelope Fillon has seen his video.
"I don't know if she looked at her, but in my opinion it didn't make her laugh too much," she imagines.
Low-cost videos
La Bajon admits that this audience, as strong as it was sudden, has turned the rest of his work on YouTube a little upside down.
It monitors the platform's statistics each time a new video is released.
"I watch for the first 24 hours, but then I pick up. Otherwise you can quickly become crazy," she laughs.
"But of course, I watch the start-up and the first few comments. It puts pressure on you, but when you're proud of what you post, it's fine."
This sudden success has also earned La Bajon criticism, which she decides to have fun.
"I say hi to everyone who said we bought views," she smiles.
"We already can't afford a sound engineer, so we're not buying sights!"
These small means explain that its YouTube subscribers sometimes have to wait a little before seeing a new video.
"Some videos take me very little time. But those with different sets and actors take me longer, a month at most," says La Bajon.
The comedian now has 244,000 subscribers.