{"id":535164,"date":"2026-03-12T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535164\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:49:09","slug":"australias-fuel-crisis-how-vikkstar-built-a-youtube-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535164\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s fuel crisis + how Vikkstar built a YouTube empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Australia running out of fuel? With the war in the Middle East disrupting the global supply of oil, the government is asking people not to panic-buy. We take stock of servo prices all over Australia right now, and ask: are prices going to go even higher?<\/p>\n<p>And Sidemen creator Vikkstar takes hack behind the scenes of his YouTube career. We hear how his obsession with making content affected his health, what he thinks of &#8220;addictive&#8221; algorithms and why his latest hustle has left him feeling a bit of impostor syndrome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Listen now:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>02:03 &#8211; The price of petrol where you are<\/p>\n<p>05:10 &#8211; Does Australia have enough fuel?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>13:20 &#8211; Becoming one of the world&#8217;s biggest YouTubers<\/p>\n<p>Guests:David Leaney, international supply chain expert, Australian National UniversityVikkstar, YouTuber and content creatorGet the whole story from hack:Follow us on <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/triplejhack\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@triplejhack\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a>Subscribe to the hack podcastListen on the <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/triplej\/app\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">triple j app<\/a> or on your radio live every weeknight at 5:30pm<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Australia running out of fuel? With the war in the Middle East disrupting the global supply of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44317,130870,75037,5575,12241,44,265650,4153,44318,265649,3973],"class_list":["post-535164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dave-marchese","tag-fuel-prices","tag-hack-podcast","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-sidemen","tag-the_latest","tag-triple-j-hack","tag-vikkstar","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}