Is IM Levy Rozman the best IM?

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ExtremeMountain77

im ExtremeMountain77. Generally I like gotham as he explains the mistakes that us beginner's do and how to prevent it. I also think he can become a GM

tygxc

No. He is rated 2322, not even top 1000 among IM.
https://ratings.fide.com/profile/2039877 
The best IM is rated 2567.
https://ratings.fide.com/profile/44599790

Uhohspaghettio1

He barely scraped the IM title and is going to face a tough battle to get a GM one. He says he trained very hard for the IM title and soon after fell back to barely a FM rating. He's trying to go from a very weak IM to a very weak GM.

He's doing well but highly unlikely still to get a norm in this tournament. As he is making it his mission now and creating a series about it, trying to keep people hooked with it, there's definitely a good possibility he might actually get a GM title eventually.

This may sound strange initially, but I'm not sure getting a GM title would actually be the best thing for his brand in the long-term. I mean think about how popular Jeremy Silman became, this IM who was one of the wealthiest and best-selling chess authors of all time, if not the best.

If you're a no-name IM then it's going to be tougher than being a GM to get recognized and status etc. But if you're already very well-known I think it probably flips, it's probabl ybetter to be the one IM in a sea of GMs, it kind of indicates something special about you apart from the title why people are watching.

FM is a little too low, there's some FM youtubers around, don't think any of them are really huge. But when you think IM is vastly beyond the vast majority of people's ability, while still being in some sense relateable. GMs are harder to relate to. IMs have that vulnerability, that character flaw that people like.

I'm not saying his channel will be over if he gets GM, just that then he'll be like one of "them", you know. I genuinely don't know if it will happen. If he really goes for it and even does all the little non-chess related "hacks" like finding tournaments with elderly GMs and that sort of nonsense, it seems inevitable that sooner or later he'll crack it. Whether he really should is another thing.