00:00It all kind of happened by accident.
00:02I didn't start off thinking I was going to be a YouTuber.
00:05I started a YouTube show called Uhhh with my friend Katya, she's dead now.
00:10She's not dead.
00:11She's dead to me.
00:12I actually moved out to LA to be an actor and I was trying for like a year and a half
00:15and didn't get anything.
00:16I decided, hey, maybe if I make something, somebody will see it and put me in a movie.
00:20One of them took off and been doing it ever since.
00:30I think probably the most frequent, incorrect assumption that I see is that they don't
00:40think it takes very long or very much effort to make a video.
00:43What they see from the final version is like, we did that all in one take and usually it
00:48takes multiple takes.
00:49It takes a lot of planning.
00:51There's so much production.
00:53It's really like running a TV show, you know?
00:55There's so much that goes into it, the writing, the producing, the shooting, editing, all
01:00of it.
01:01Every bit of money that I make from the internet goes right back into my production value.
01:05You know, that's a whole crew that's there that I'm paying.
01:08So we still live in this world where traditional media doesn't necessarily see YouTube, doesn't
01:13treat it with the respect that it deserves.
01:16But YouTubers over here are building real studios.
01:19They're creating feature length content, TV length episodes.
01:23They're hiring dozens of people at a time where Hollywood is laying off lots of people.
01:29So much of television is waiting for like older white straight men to understand what
01:32you're pitching.
01:33And with YouTube, you can be anybody and be passionate about it and you can reach your
01:38audience.
01:39That's like point A, B is YouTube and there's C. It eliminates so many steps.
01:44There is no gatekeeper.
01:45There's no barrier between you and your audience.
01:48So I think the biggest misconception is that YouTubers are not studio builders because they truly
01:53are.
01:58Worst advice I've gotten as a creator, post every day.
02:02Can I say something really controversial?
02:04I think that is the number one way to hit burnout, forcing yourself to post even when you don't
02:09want to.
02:10That's this, I think personally, my opinion, this toxic grind mindset.
02:14Go get a real job.
02:15It's not a real thing.
02:16You're not going to make money off it.
02:17There's no career in it.
02:18I feel like low key listening to the comments too much.
02:23Because sometimes, first of all, there's so many different opinions in the comments section.
02:27And then a lot of times they'll want something very niche and specific.
02:32And then if you try to cater to all of them, they will just fall apart.
02:35I do read my comments, but I mean, I feel like I have a pretty, I mean, my comments are very
02:41nice.
02:42My YouTube comments are, I have a really nice community on YouTube.
02:45I read all the comments for better or for worse.
02:47I get very excited to see our audience feedback.
02:50I do read comments, but I do have a developed skill, which is separating useless comments
02:57with useful comments.
02:58I think when you sign up to be an internet creator, you need to be aware of what you're
03:02signing up for.
03:03I also think that the cost of community is being annoyed sometimes.
03:09I've gotten some pretty crazy comments in the past.
03:11But yeah, one time I had to take my mom's account away because somebody had wrote, you're
03:16not funny.
03:17And then she's like, my son is funny.
03:18And then the guy was like, oh, you're his mom.
03:20And she's like, yeah, I am his mom.
03:21You want me to prove it?
03:22And they just kept going.
03:23It was a huge thread and everyone was liking it.
03:26I had to delete the whole thread and take away her phone for a month, but she's back now.
03:33The biggest tip that I would give any creator starting out is know what you're doing it
03:37for.
03:38Like, what is your mission?
03:40Why do you want to start a YouTube channel?
03:41Why do you want to make work that is potentially, hopefully seen by millions of people?
03:47What is it that you actually want to say?
03:49The key to success on YouTube is authenticity.
03:53Really be yourself.
03:54If you're passionate about something, a particular topic, then that's going to come through in
03:59the content that you create.
04:01So above and beyond everything else, above and beyond the tricks of the algorithm or how
04:06you shoot the camera or thumbnails or what have you, be yourself.
04:10I really think the key to success is to keep going.
04:13Not just do the same thing every day.
04:15But do something, try it, see what worked, see what failed, and be willing to be humble
04:20to critical feedback to get better at something.
04:24Try new things.
04:25A lot of it's trial and error.
04:26Be careful who you take advice from because not everybody knows what's best for you and
04:31not everybody wants the best for you.
04:33Who would play me in a movie?
04:37Easy.
04:38Robert De Niro.
04:39A lot of people say we look alike when he was younger.
04:41And I think he's just, to me, he's my favorite actor.
04:44Scarlett Johansson.
04:45I'm a big Marvel fan.
04:46I'm going to, like, contemporary, like, Michael B. Jordan types just because action figure
04:52hero feels appropriate, so I'll just go with that.
04:55Shawn Mendes.
04:57I love Shawn Mendes.
04:59He can play me.
05:00I get to meet him, though.
05:01Maybe Natalie Portman?
05:03Who would play me?
05:04Probably Pamela Anderson.
05:06Probably Pamela Anderson or, like, Holly Madison.
05:08But more realistically, it's Trixie Mattel out of drag.
05:11My default used to be Sydney Sweeney, but I don't know anymore.
05:14I would hope I would get to play myself.
05:16Where I see myself five to ten years from now, the biggest filmmaker that there is.
05:24Having a full-blown studio completed.
05:26I want to create premium films, movies that you would see in the theaters, comedy films
05:32on my channel.
05:33Even if I quit drag, I think I would take YouTube with me.
05:36I love making videos.
05:37I just, I love it.
05:38It's my happy place.
05:40Sitting and talking to no one.
05:42Sometimes I'm so good at it that I'm like, what's wrong with you?
05:46Why are you able to have prolonged conversation with no one?
05:51But we're not, we're not gonna, you know, don't look in the mirror that long, you know?
05:55Don't stare into the abyss.
05:57Just be happy your mental illness permits you to sit in monologue.
06:00nier, but I will do the same thing.
06:07Take care of yourself.
06:09By the way to work, let's go.
06:10Thanks.
06:11Subtitled.
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