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Behind the Screen: The Real Life of a YouTuber · Fjaftermidnight

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to FJ After Midnight, the
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  Speaker 1: show where we get into the stories, the people, the creativity,
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  Speaker 1: and the experience that makes the world interesting. I'm your host, FJ,
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  Speaker 1: and tonight we're stepping into the world of YouTube. Think
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  Speaker 1: about it. Millions of people watch videos, and every single day,
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  Speaker 1: some people watch gaming videos. Others watch comedy, reaction music, challenges, travel,
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  Speaker 1: paranormal investigations, or everyday life. But here's a question. How
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  Speaker 1: much do we really know about the person behind the camera?
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  Speaker 1: What does it take to start a YouTube channel? What
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  Speaker 1: happens when a video suddenly takes off? What happens when
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  Speaker 1: a video doesn't get the attention you hoped for? And
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  Speaker 1: what it really is like to turn a creativity passion
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  Speaker 1: into something that other people watch. Tonight, we're going behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes to find out. I've got a special guest
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  Speaker 1: joining us. A YouTuber, Justin, who he will... talk about
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  Speaker 1: their journey, their content, their experience, and then lessons they
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  Speaker 1: learned along the way. We're going to talk about the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: the creative process, funny moments, challenges, and audience relationships, collaborations,
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  Speaker 1: and what's coming next. So get comfortable, turn up the volume,
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  Speaker 1: and join us for another episode of FJ After Midnight.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to FJ After Midnight. Welcome to FJ After Midnight.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get this conversation started. So first of all, welcome
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  Speaker 1: to FJ After Midnight. I'm glad we could make this happen.
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  Speaker 1: Before we dive into your YouTube journey, I want to
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  Speaker 1: give you, our listeners, a chance to get to know you.
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  Speaker 1: So with us, guys, here today is Justin, a YouTuber.
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  Speaker 1: And hello, welcome to the podcast, Justin.
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  Speaker 2: Let me rephrase it. Hey, FJ, thanks for having me
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  Speaker 2: in your podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so we're going to have some questions here. Hopefully,
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  Speaker 1: just answer them the best you can. You ready? For
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  Speaker 1: people who have discovered your channel yet, who are you
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  Speaker 1: and what should they know about you?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so I am the Iron Justin on YouTube for
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  Speaker 4: the first part of the question. And for the second
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  Speaker 4: part of the question, I want people to know me
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  Speaker 4: as a LEGO set collector slash reviewer, a video reactor
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  Speaker 4: on trailers and also some other things.
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  Speaker 2: Well, actually, mostly just trailers. Then I do some mobile
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  Speaker 2: device gameplays, well, mostly for Marvel Contest of Champions. I
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  Speaker 2: could do some other ones since I'm still Addicted to
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  Speaker 2: Marvel Contest of Champions is one of the best Marvel
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  Speaker 2: mobile device games that I've ever played. And I also
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  Speaker 2: do some Marvel Legend figure reviews. Well, I know it's
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  Speaker 2: been a year since I've done that in December, but
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  Speaker 2: I will continue doing that this December if I get
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  Speaker 2: any for Christmas this year. And I also do my
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  Speaker 2: non-spoiler TV show and movie reviews as well. And for
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  Speaker 2: the content for it is for Marvel, Star Wars, Ninjago,
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  Speaker 2: Jurassic Park, sometimes DC and Transformers as well.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So how would you describe your YouTube channel to someone
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  Speaker 1: who has never watched your videos?
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  Speaker 2: I would say that if someone is like a huge
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  Speaker 2: Marvel slash Star Wars fan like me, they may or
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  Speaker 2: may not see like if I reviewed or done a
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  Speaker 2: news video of a LEGO set that has been shown already.
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  Speaker 2: And what I do is that I always do like
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  Speaker 2: the news videos when every time that product has been
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  Speaker 2: officially leaked and when it gets officially revealed, it like
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  Speaker 2: sometimes in the past, well, actually like sometimes in a
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  Speaker 2: couple of months is what I meant to say. I
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  Speaker 2: want to rephrase that. And I also... I want people
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  Speaker 2: to know that I always talk about some good movies, too.
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  Speaker 2: And I want people to know how I've done my
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  Speaker 2: work with some of my reaction videos, like how I
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  Speaker 2: added each footage, adjust the volume, and also editing, too.
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  Speaker 2: And what editing software do I use to make that
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  Speaker 2: magic happen.
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  Speaker 1: All right. What type of content do you enjoy making
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  Speaker 1: the most?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's hard to pick, but you know what? I
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  Speaker 2: would say Marvel because I'm a huge Marvel fan and
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  Speaker 2: I'm totally obsessed with it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. That's cool. How would you describe your personality away
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  Speaker 1: from the camera?
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  Speaker 2: I have a great personality because everyone knows that I'm
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  Speaker 2: such a nice guy. and they always love my great
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  Speaker 2: sense of humor. Some people call me the master of
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  Speaker 2: zest because I have a very zesty energy. It means
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  Speaker 2: I have a great sense of humor because I am
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  Speaker 2: a pretty funny guy all the time since I've always
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  Speaker 2: been a goofball myself. I've always been a funny mess.
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  Speaker 2: I would say that I always make people's days up
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  Speaker 2: and I have always cracked them up because of how
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  Speaker 2: funny I am.
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  Speaker 5: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: Is the person you see in your videos the same
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  Speaker 1: person that would meet in everyday life?
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  Speaker 2: Well, not particularly because it can be different sometimes because
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  Speaker 2: that's what I'm thinking. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: What are three things you enjoy doing when you're not
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  Speaker 1: creating content?
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  Speaker 2: The three things I'm enjoying is that I get to
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  Speaker 2: be around with my loved ones, watching some good movies
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  Speaker 2: and TV shows when I have my whole house to
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  Speaker 2: myself and sometimes when the family's with me if they're
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  Speaker 2: not doing anything. And I also enjoyed some pretty... awesome
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  Speaker 2: place that I get to do like going bowling and
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  Speaker 2: also going to some awesome dance recitals too in Roswell.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, cool. What inspired the name of your YouTube channel?
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  Speaker 2: Well, technically the name of my YouTube channel, well, I
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  Speaker 2: would say this. It's inspired of my favorite Marvel superhero,
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  Speaker 2: which is Iron Man.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Was there a particular person, creator, or experience that
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  Speaker 1: influenced your style?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would say that I always watch other people's
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  Speaker 2: videos on how they've done some editing. And I always
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do some editing on my YouTube videos because
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  Speaker 2: I used to do record. Let me rephrase that. What
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  Speaker 2: I meant to say was, I used to film my
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  Speaker 2: LEGO set reviews just one footage at a time back
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  Speaker 2: in the mid and late 2010s during my pre-teens and
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  Speaker 2: my teenage years, well, just my teen years. And then
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  Speaker 2: back in five years, my OT therapist showed me how
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  Speaker 2: to use iMovie, so I could make my videos a
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  Speaker 2: lot better as I expected because it's... perfect to do
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  Speaker 2: it on iMovie because I like how I edit my
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  Speaker 2: own footage and it is very fun to do and
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  Speaker 2: all that inspired me to let me become like a
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  Speaker 2: very awesome filmmaker because I'm really into film to be.
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  Speaker 1: Honest okay what's something about you that might surprise your viewers.
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  Speaker 2: What surprised me is how I talked about all that
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  Speaker 2: good content, and also I showed them the leaked pictures,
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  Speaker 2: and I always get a lot of views. And I
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  Speaker 2: surprised them because of what I just said about the
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  Speaker 2: leaked pictures of any LEGO set in general, like right
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  Speaker 2: before it was officially revealed. And I was feeling the
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  Speaker 2: same way as them because when I looked at a
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  Speaker 2: thumbnail on some other person's YouTube lego video on their
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  Speaker 2: youtube page i was surprised by that because of some
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  Speaker 2: of the cool sets i always wanted to build review
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  Speaker 2: and add into my collection so i feel like i
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  Speaker 2: do like the same thing on my channel i inspire
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  Speaker 2: my viewers too with all the cool leaks and rumors
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  Speaker 2: about some new things going on for any legacy or
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  Speaker 2: any other movie tv show and that explains why i
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  Speaker 2: get like a lot of views and subscribers as well
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  Speaker 2: as some likes well let me replace that part what
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  Speaker 2: i was saying is that that explains why i get
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  Speaker 2: a lot of views likes comments and subscribers.
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  Speaker 1: If a new viewer could watch only one video to
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  Speaker 1: get to know you which video would you recommend.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good question. I would say that Lake
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  Speaker 2: of Marvel set link that I posted two years ago
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  Speaker 2: when I was 21. Okay. Which is like one of
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  Speaker 2: the most popular videos that I ever made on my channel.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's cool. Alright, we're going to get to this
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  Speaker 1: next part soon. It's always interesting to discover the person
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  Speaker 1: behind the content. We see the finished videos but we
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily see the journey that brought someone to this
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  Speaker 1: point let's go back to the beginning so how's the
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  Speaker 1: youtuber journey began every creator has a starting point maybe
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  Speaker 1: it began with a camera a phone a gaming console
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  Speaker 1: or a simple an idea that wouldn't go away i
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  Speaker 1: wanted to know how your story started when when did
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  Speaker 1: you first decide you wanted to become a youtuber.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would say that I mostly asked my dad
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  Speaker 2: to create a YouTube channel for me, and same thing
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  Speaker 2: with my younger brother, too, since he's also a YouTuber,
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  Speaker 2: is what I meant to say.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: So what I meant to say was I asked my
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  Speaker 2: dad to create a YouTube channel for me, and the
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  Speaker 2: original name for it was supposed to be Justin Stark,
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  Speaker 2: but instead, if I have a better name for it,
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  Speaker 2: which is Iron Justin, as I mentioned, and I just
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  Speaker 2: go with it. And I thought it was a pretty
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  Speaker 2: cool name since I always wanted to make my own
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  Speaker 2: videos about my own toy reviews, toy news, and also
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  Speaker 2: movie slash TV show reviews and some gameplay videos or
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  Speaker 2: just mobile device gameplay videos because I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: to like create like a footage from a regular video
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  Speaker 2: game as some Other YouTubers did. Well, I watched the
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  Speaker 2: previous ones, like I watched the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 gameplays
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  Speaker 2: with the Brainerd D suit. But at least it still
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  Speaker 2: gets the job done, and I always wanted to be creative, too. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: What was the first video you ever uploaded?
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  Speaker 2: The first video that I uploaded was... The LEGO Avengers
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  Speaker 2: Age of Ultron Iron Man vs. Ultron set review. It
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  Speaker 2: was originally like the old Hot Toys news videos that
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  Speaker 2: I've done when I was a kid. But turns out
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  Speaker 2: I stopped doing that because I wanted to change it.
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  Speaker 2: Because I noticed that I usually don't review Hot Toys
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  Speaker 2: action figures on my YouTube channel. So what I did
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  Speaker 2: is that I changed it up. I made the Iron
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  Speaker 2: Man vs. Ultron LEGO set based off of Avengers 2
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  Speaker 2: from 11 years ago. as my first YouTube video that
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  Speaker 2: I posted on the channel. Oh, cool.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember how you felt before publishing the first video?
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  Speaker 2: Well, honestly, I just did my own thing. Well, technically,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't feel anything. It was right before I was
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  Speaker 2: getting used to all that content since in 2015 was
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  Speaker 2: the first year that I started becoming a YouTuber since
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  Speaker 2: I've been doing this gig for 11 years now. And
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  Speaker 2: I was just learning how to do all the footage
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  Speaker 2: and also how to post it on my channel because
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  Speaker 2: I was just feeling like, how am I going to
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  Speaker 2: do all this? But my dad taught me the features,
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  Speaker 2: how I could post my videos on YouTube. My channel.
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  Speaker 1: Were you nervous about friends, family, or strangers seeing your content?
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  Speaker 2: Well, not really, because, well, except the stranger part, which
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  Speaker 2: I will get to after the first part that I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to answer for your question. So, my family members
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  Speaker 2: know I have a YouTube channel, which is both of
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  Speaker 2: my parents, my brother, and also some of my other
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  Speaker 2: family members from both my mother and father's side of
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  Speaker 2: the family, too. And they notice I've done a very
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  Speaker 2: good job, and my old OT therapist knows I'm a YouTuber, too,
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  Speaker 2: and even my previous ones, too, and even my speech therapist, too,
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  Speaker 2: as well as some of my friends from Georgia State,
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  Speaker 2: the LEND program, and also some of my old schools, too.
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  Speaker 2: And as for strangers, well, I feel like they just
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  Speaker 2: were like, ask me for something that I'm not very
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  Speaker 2: comfortable with. But at least for my friends and family members,
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  Speaker 2: they're still proud of me for what I have accomplished.
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  Speaker 2: Like I made to a lot of subscribers and also
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  Speaker 2: all the views that I made, they were just very
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  Speaker 2: impressed by it. Even though they gave me some guidance
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  Speaker 2: to help me with some parts of it since I
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  Speaker 2: still needed some support. But at least they are still
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  Speaker 2: happy about my content as always.
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  Speaker 1: What did your recording setup look like?
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  Speaker 6: Well, before I get used to sitting up in my
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  Speaker 6: own area in my room, I used to film my
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  Speaker 6: YouTube videos downstairs at my own house in Sugar Mill.
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  Speaker 2: Since I used to do some of them in my
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  Speaker 2: dad's own office. And then I used to do some
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  Speaker 2: in my kitchen where the holidays, and even that glass
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  Speaker 2: table we still have too. And then like one year
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  Speaker 2: later in 2016, which is 10 years ago, I started
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  Speaker 2: filming my own legal set reviews in my own room
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  Speaker 2: since I needed to make some space as always. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know how to edit videos when you started
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  Speaker 1: or did you have to learn everything from scratch?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was right before I learned how to edit.
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  Speaker 2: So once I have true, well, back in 2018, while
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  Speaker 2: I was 14, right before I turned 15 in June,
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  Speaker 2: I had some issues going on publishing my videos on
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  Speaker 2: the YouTube app. So my dad fixed that up by
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  Speaker 2: adding like a YouTube uploading setting on the photos app
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  Speaker 2: so I can post my YouTube videos on it. And
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  Speaker 2: then it will leave all that to my YouTube page,
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  Speaker 2: which it totally worked.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's interesting. Okay. What was the biggest challenge during
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  Speaker 1: your first few months?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I have a bit of a challenge. Basically, what
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to say is that the smallest challenge that
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to say, well, I'm just going to say
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  Speaker 2: smallest challenge, is that trying to keep my storage on track.
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  Speaker 2: Because I have some videos and photos I always have
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  Speaker 2: since it is connected to my Apple account for both
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  Speaker 2: of my iPhone and my iPad because I usually have
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  Speaker 2: my YouTube account on my iPad so at least I
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  Speaker 2: deleted all the photos and videos that I have so
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  Speaker 2: just in case if I can free my videos from
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  Speaker 2: iMovie so it could be 100% successful.
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  Speaker 1: Okay did you ever consider giving up early in your journey.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but everyone keeps telling me don't give all
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  Speaker 2: that up because they always keep telling me to figure
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  Speaker 2: it out and I still needed some support because I'm
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  Speaker 2: still just learning as always. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Who supported you when you were first starting out?
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  Speaker 2: Well, my parents, my speech therapist, and even my OT therapist.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: How did you choose your original content niche?
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  Speaker 2: My original content niche for my page? Yes. So, since
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  Speaker 2: I am a huge Marvel fan, and I always like
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  Speaker 2: to collect some Lego Star Wars sets, I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: add that to my YouTube page. Before I add some
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  Speaker 2: other different things on my YouTube channel, because in the
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  Speaker 2: past couple of years, I always make videos mostly about Marvel.
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  Speaker 2: But then, I wanted to add some other franchises that
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  Speaker 2: I like onto my YouTube channel instead of just one
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  Speaker 2: thing at a time. Since I just wanted to, like,
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  Speaker 2: change it up a notch, too, since I wanted to, like,
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  Speaker 2: level up my audience.
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  Speaker 1: Very cool. Was there a moment when you realized you
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  Speaker 1: generally enjoyed creating videos?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Like, I enjoyed using iMovie to add the footage
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  Speaker 2: together and edit them. And I also use Canva to
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  Speaker 2: create these thumbnails for my YouTube videos to make it
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  Speaker 2: even more better. So my OT therapist showed me how
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  Speaker 2: I can use Canva since in five years when I
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  Speaker 2: used to do my OT speech sessions. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: What was your first memorable comment from a viewer? What
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  Speaker 1: was your first memorable comment from a viewer?
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  Speaker 2: Well, from a viewer, they asked me if I could
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  Speaker 2: make more videos, and I said I will. Because after
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  Speaker 2: I posted my previous video for like a week ago,
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  Speaker 2: since I started taking a break from posting, because I
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  Speaker 2: usually posted 13 videos per month on my channel. since
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  Speaker 2: I usually do that. And I would say that I'm
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  Speaker 2: still going to keep going. I was just taking a break.
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  Speaker 1: Holy moly, that's a lot of videos.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Can't you blame me? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: How did it feel when someone you didn't know watched
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  Speaker 1: your content?
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  Speaker 2: You say, how do I feel if somebody didn't know
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  Speaker 2: about my content?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, or watched your content.
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  Speaker 2: Well, technically, well, if it's a new person, if they
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  Speaker 2: didn't know anything about my content, I would love to, like,
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  Speaker 2: explain it to that person to know, like, what do
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  Speaker 2: I do on my channel? What type of videos do
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  Speaker 2: I usually post on it? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: What was the first milestone that made you proud?
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  Speaker 2: I'll say that the day that I reached to a
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  Speaker 2: thousand subscribers this past And then back in nine years,
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  Speaker 2: I made it to 100 subs while I was a teenager,
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  Speaker 2: right before I started high school in 2017. And then
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  Speaker 2: I made it all the way up to 200 in 2018.
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  Speaker 2: And during the pandemic, I made it to 300. And
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  Speaker 2: then like five years, 400. And also four years, 600. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: all the way to 1,000.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, congratulations with 1,000 subscribers. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I can't believe I've done that after all
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  Speaker 2: these years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's something that I'm hoping for.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Dang.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could do that. It's hard, though. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: if you could go back to the day you uploaded
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  Speaker 1: your first video, what advice would you give yourself?
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  Speaker 2: I would say that... I don't have to repeat myself
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  Speaker 2: because I always repeat myself every single time since I
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  Speaker 2: had to say one word at.
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  Speaker 3: A time, slow it down when I'm talking since I
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  Speaker 3: always talk too fast, and make sure if I have
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  Speaker 3: the right angle for my footage, making sure if it's
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  Speaker 3: focused on the actual subject, like a.
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  Speaker 2: Mini figure or an action figure or their accessories or
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  Speaker 2: even the builds. And also make sure if I don't, like,
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  Speaker 2: talk too quickly, like, when I don't, like, don't match
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  Speaker 2: up with one of my reaction videos, because I always
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  Speaker 2: mess it up just as much sometimes, because I want
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: to check to see if I timed it right and
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: make sure if I already got the part.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Imagine you could sit down with the version of yourself
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: who was just starting out. What would you tell that
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: person about patience, confidence, and learning to create.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I would say that just be patient after you publish
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: that video to wait to see if you've gotten any views, comments,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: and likes, as well as more subs. And I would
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: say that, like, you're not going to mess this one up.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: You've been doing this gig for 11 years, and I'm
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: pretty sure you know exactly what you're doing, and do
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: what you gotta do just don't let yourself down you're
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: an all-star and make sure you still got the part
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: like you've always been doing and make sure you still
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: have everything right like you've always been doing all the
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: time okay.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Cool um Can you describe their first video from beginning
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: to end where they filmed it how long it took?
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: And what went wrong and how they felt after uploading it?
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so the beginning you gotta check to see if
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: some of the things are like They're actually they're like
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: if you Say the right title of like a movie
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: or a tv show Make sure that you haven't forgotten
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: some parts of, like, one of the footage from a
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: trailer for both of a movie or a TV show.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: And make sure you don't, like, forgotten some parts, like,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: if it's, like, a play feature from a LEGO set
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: or any other accessories from, like, an action figure, too,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: or what gimmicks do they do. And for the end,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: make sure you, like, adjust your storage first before you
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: start adding the footage and editing them on iMovie.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: And also make sure you have enough lighting, too. I
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: used to film my YouTube videos in front of the
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: wall because it was 100% better like that because right
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: now I film it from a sticking window, which is
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: not something that I don't like. But now we just
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: moved to Norcross, made the family, moved to Norcross since
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: last year, but that is something that I had to accept. Well,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: even though that spot is not a good area for
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: me to film because of a window, because I don't
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: get that much lighting like I used to, but I
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: use my phone. You know how iPhones have the flashlight feature? Yes.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: So I use that as my new backup lighting for
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: when I get some good lighting for when I review
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: a Lego set, if it's like big, small, or medium.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Alright, that's a great reminder that every established creator once
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: had to start somewhere. Nobody begins with every skill figuring out.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Now let's talk about what happens between having an idea
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: and actually putting a video out into the world. So
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: when viewers watch a finished video, they might see 10
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: minutes of content. Behind those 10 minutes could be hours
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: of planning, recording, editing, and fixing mistakes. Let's pull back
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the curtain. And let me ask Justin some of these
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: questions here. Where do your videos' ideas usually come from?
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Well, to be honest, I always follow them. Like if
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I see like somebody make a video of their own
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: content about some new things going on, like It happened
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: during San Diego Comic-Con, D23, or New York Comic-Con. I
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: created my own thumbnails first on Canva. And then, whatever
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: days I pick, like if I do it in the
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: mornings or right after work on Tuesdays, I start making
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: my own videos for that content. And whenever I buy
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: a Lego set, like if it's the cheapest one or
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: an expensive one, I review that set right after I
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: started building it like in the past few weeks or
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks. Well, it depends on how I
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: do it. So after all that happens, I started making
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: my own videos for those type of contents. And then
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I just make the footage I mean, not read the footage.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: What I meant to say was if I added the
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: footage and added them online, would we download them on
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: the Photos app, restore my apps, and then download my
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: thumbnail for my video? And then later, before I start
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: publishing those videos, I check to see if some parts
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: of it are good enough before I publish it after
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: I put the thumbnail on it and make a title
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: for it too. Okay.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Do you plan your videos in advance or prefer to improvise?
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Well, I usually check them to see if they're fine.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Like some parts of the videos, if they're good or not.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Because I usually do that before I start publishing it.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, cool.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: And then after that, I will remember that in the future,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I will like take care of that error because sometimes
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: some parts of them may or may not have any
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: errors that I can deal with.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Walk us through a typical video creation day.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: So I posted my YouTube videos like three days a
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: week because I usually posted them three weeks a day
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: since I usually do that in the beginning, middle, and
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: the end of the month because I usually save them
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: for the upcoming months just in case if I have
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: something that I would like to post on. Okay.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: How long does an average video take you to complete?
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Well, it depends on, like, how long do I film
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: each footage. Like, they always go up to, like, 14
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: minutes to, like, I would say, like, 22 minutes if
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: it's for a legacy review. And sometimes when I do
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: a news video, it goes, like, up to, like, 27 minutes. Well, actually,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I only have one video that has lasted 27 minutes,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: which is, like, the doomsday news videos for the new
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: LEGO sets that they revealed for this year's San Diego
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Comic Con, this past San Diego Comic Con.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: What's the most time-consuming part of your creative process?
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: The most time-consuming part, like, what is, like, the longest
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: video I've ever done?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Uh, yeah.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: I would say that LEGO Avengers Doomsday News video, because
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: I did mention that video is 27 minutes long.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: What equipment do you.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: I always am good at making long content. Just believe me.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: What equipment do you use to record your videos?
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Well, I use my iPad holder since I bought that
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: in the beginning of 2024, which is in two years
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: during New Year's Day. And as for the flashlight for
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: my phone, I use the phone holder to get some lighting.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: And I always be through on my iPad because I
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: usually film things on my iPad by using the camera app.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: So I don't have any much equipment, but except for
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: the holders for both of my iPad and my iPhone
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: since I bought those separately off of Amazon.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Okay. What editing software or tools do you prefer?
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: So let me do this in casual order. So first,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: when I do like a movie slash TV show in
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: a reaction video, I use this app called Spring. It's
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: like an editing software for videos too. I used to
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: use the GoRecords app for my reaction videos, but back
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: in two years in December, it had some issues going on.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: So I switched it. Before I used Spring, I used
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: to use CapCut, but during January of last year, they
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: just cut it off, but then they brought it back.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: So I used Spring as like a backup plan. But
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: now since I've been using that app since a year ago,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: it's pretty fun. And then after that, I mostly use
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: iMovie to do the editing for my footage, just like
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: my editing software works.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I love CapCut. My movie's good too.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're the best.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Do you edit your own videos or do
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: you work with someone else?
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: I edit my own videos because I did say I
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: wanted to be a filmmaker because I wanted to act, direct, produce,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: and edit.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: How do you choose your video titles and thumbnails?
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Well, And they're creative with them. Since I was doing
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: my own thing and I designed them in my own way,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: make sure they are good enough for the lettering, for
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: the bit of the name of the video that I'm
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: going to make for my channel. I like to make
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: sure that the angle for the picture is good because
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: of how some parts of it turns out. if it's
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: like in a bright lighting look, if I made the
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: colors of those letters like in yellow or in blue. Well,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: I mostly use blue that often because I do use
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: yellow coloring sometimes.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Okay. How much thought goes into the first 30 seconds
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: of a video?
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: How much thought you say?
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thought.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Like for a 30 second video? Well, for a thought,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: I I always do some short Contest of Champions game points.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: I always do mostly a minute sometimes. Actually, I mostly
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: do a minute and sometimes I do two minutes or three. Okay.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Have you ever recorded something that seemed brilliant at the
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: time but didn't work in the final edit?
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Have I? I'm sorry, can you repeat that?
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure. Have you ever recorded something that seemed brilliant
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: at the time but it it didn't work in the
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: final edit?
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Well, if I got that role, and I always talk
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: so stubby sometimes, like when I was trying to get
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: the perfect look for one of the footages from my
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Lego set reviews, I always messed it up because I
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: always talk so childish and stubby because I always do
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: that since I... do that again like a couple of
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: times to make sure I already got the part. And
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: then at the end for the final verdict, I always
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: been talking so stubby sometimes, but once I got the line,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: just like one time or a couple of times, I
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: got it right. Cool.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: What's the funniest mistake you ever made while recording?
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Like, the funniest mistake is that I always freeze in
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: the middle of a sentence and I always talk so
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: goofy sometimes. That's cool.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: How do you know when a video is finished?
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: It depends on when I finish at the right moment
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: for my final verdict for my legacy reviews and also
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: how I set all that up on iMovie. I use
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: it as like a editing software, as I mentioned, it
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: depends on how I edit my own footage. And sometimes
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: I just need the footage to be when they're perfect enough.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: And then I just download it, the video itself, and
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: then it's all set.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Okay. How do you stay creative when you feel like
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you run out of ideas?
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, so I always stay creative like I always, like,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: think of something that I could plan out for my
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: next YouTube video. And then for my out-of-idea situation, I
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: always think of something. Like, I usually buy some new
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Lego sets, like, in person at the Lego store or
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Target or it depends on where I'm going. And I
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: also like to shop online since somebody like my mother
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: keeps telling me to, like, go easy on it, which
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I don't blame her.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: So.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: I will think of some other ideas, like if I
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: could do another Contest of Champions gameplay or do something
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: else where I can figure something out if I can.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Very cool. What's one behind-the-scenes detail your viewers would be
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: surprised to learn?
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: The behind-the-scenes is that I could show them how I
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: set up my desk. I added two Lego base plates
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: on it.
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: If I do a legacy review or a Marvel Legends review,
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: and I show them how I film each footage on
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: my iPad, how I set it up with the holder,
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: or I'm just putting it down on the case right here.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Let's say you have an idea tonight and want to
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: publish the finished video tomorrow. What's the actual process from
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the first idea to the final upload?
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: So the idea itself, like, if I could, like, post
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: the final video of the month, which is, like, the
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: 13th and final video of the month I'm planning on doing,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I would say that if I do, like, a news
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: video of, like, a rumor of a reveal for any
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: other Marvel TV show or movie with the concept art,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: I could save that best for last because I... I
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: always like saving some of the good stuff best for last.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I save some of the other things for next month.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: And then I can make that as the final video
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: for the month itself. It depends on how I do
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: it because I always like to save the good things last.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: To invent a YouTube video idea in 60 seconds, have...
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Can you do a title, description, and the thumbnail and
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: explain why people would want to watch it?
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Well, even though I don't do descriptions that often as usual,
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: but I mostly do the titles, the thumbnail, as always,
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: like I have been doing since I was just typing
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: in the title of the video so people can see
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: what the video is about and... when they look at
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: the thumbnail, they'll be very interested in that video that
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: I'm posting. But again, I usually don't type any descriptions well. Sometimes,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: but not that often.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: We talked about the creative side, but there's another part
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: of being a youtuber getting people to discover your work
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: let's talk about building an audience every creator hopes that
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: their videos will reach people who enjoy them but building
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: an audience can take patience experimentation and a lot of
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: learning let's talk about what growth has looked like for
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: you what was your channel's early growth like.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: So for my channel's early growth, it is that I
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: was getting used to how I can do the settings
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: for it, how the features work for publishing the videos,
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: typing them, and also adding to whatever playlist that I
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: can add for its own content. I was just getting
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: used to how I can do all that in my
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: preteens because like I said, 2015 was the first year
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: that I started this gig. Okay.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Do you remember reaching your first 100 subscribers?
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Yes. Like, back in, like, I'm assuming in 2021, back
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: in five years, since it depends on, like, one of
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: the best videos I ever made that reaches, like, the
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: highest views and also get, like, a couple of comments
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: and likes. So, Everyone was inspired by it and they
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: wanted to subscribe to me. That's the main reason why
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: I've gotten 400 subs already after I received 300 during
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: the pandemic. Cool.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: How did it feel when you reached your fourth major
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: subscriber milestone?
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: I feel proud of myself since I always keep thinking
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: when I get some more subs, I always think that
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: I was getting some good work, but someone told me
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: it was part of all that hard work, which I'm
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: still learning how to do all this YouTube and gagging.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: I was getting used to it since I understand that
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: it was all that hard work that I did. So
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: I was very proud of myself for what I did
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: and what I accomplished.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Have you ever uploaded a video expecting very little attention
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: only for it to perform unexpectedly well?
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I usually do reviews on legal sense action figures
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: and also movies and TV shows. And I also usually
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: do mobile device gameplays only and some reaction videos too.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Cool. What do you think makes viewers return to your channel?
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I know I've been told for the let me
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: rephrase my sentence so for your for the answer for
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: your question that you told me is that people gave
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: me some good advice like how i could do it
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: like i just want to make sure if i want
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: to like talk a lot of more consciousness i don't
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: want to give out way too much detail but i
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: just want to give some detail for like whatever videos
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: i posted to reach more subscribers to like what my
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: audience like grow and inspire. So I just wanted to
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: make sure if I can upgrade my content a little more,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: but don't want to give out way too many details,
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: but I just wanted to make sure if I was
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: doing this right, because I just want to remember all
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: the good advice that people gave me so I can
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: inspire my audience and keep track of it. And I
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: just want to make sure, I just want to do
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: it for them.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Cool. How important are comments and community interaction to you?
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: I would say for good comments, that would be pretty
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: good since everyone keeps telling me to keep doing my
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: content because they love my content very much and they
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: also love my energy too and they always keep telling
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: me to keep it up. which I still am, and it's, like,
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: a serious look, like, if they gave me, like, some
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: good tips, I'll definitely do that, because some parts of
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: it I will definitely understand.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: How do you decide which viewer's suggestions to turn into videos?
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: I'll say, like, if one of them is, like, telling
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: them to, like, for, like, the thumbnail situation, I could, like,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: adjust it a speech, and for The area that I'm
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: filming right now from, the window, is not a good one.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: I know I wanted to do that, but unfortunately I
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: can't because, like I said, I just moved to North
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Cross a year ago, and I couldn't do anything about it.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: But some parts of the other things that other people
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: said I can't do. Okay.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Do you pay attention to your analytics, such as watch
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: time and audience retentions?
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I do, but I always check to see how
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: many views, likes, and comments do I have, and even
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: how many subscribers do I have. And I always check
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: to see if all that is still on track, because
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: it can go off just a bit sometimes, but I
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: just want to make sure if I was doing a
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: nice job keeping it on track on the YouTube Studios app.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: That's cool. Has audience feedback ever changed the direction of
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: your channel?
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Well, for the way you say it, not as much,
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: to be honest, because I don't get that much comments,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: but not as much.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: How do you balance following trends with making the content
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: you personally enjoy?
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Well, I just want to make sure if I keep
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: it on track. I've always been told by the people
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: that I know and love And I want to stay
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: on track at that because I still want to remember.
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: It.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: And I also wanted to make sure if I do
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: what people always keep telling me to do with my content.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: So I make sure if it's not off track, I
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: want to keep it on track as always. I like
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: to see if I can get all the views that
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: I truly deserve just like everyone else.
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: What have you learned about titles and thumbnails?
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: What do I do for titles and thumbnails?
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Well, what have you learned about titles and thumbnails?
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Well, every time I look at a video, I see
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: the name of it to see what the name of
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: the video is about so I can watch the video
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: to see what the whole content is about. And as
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: for the thumbnails, I really like how cool they are.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: And I'm curious to know, like, How do people add
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: this to a YouTube video? So I get to learn
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: about that from my OT therapist when she showed me
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: the features for the YouTube studios after five years.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Okay. Have you experimented with shorts, live streams, or other formats?
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: I mostly do regular videos.
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: How do you promote your videos outside of YouTube? How
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: do you promote your videos outside YouTube?
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: Outside YouTube, I usually make some videos for Instagram, like
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: how I used to do for the JS for Georgia
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: videos when I used to do some work at 23Eats
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: before I was employed there since last year. And I
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: also make some social media shorts for like their Instagram
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: page for one of my tasks at my job since
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: I am a social, well, I am a marketing associate
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: and I also do social media.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool. What is one growth strategy that you
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: found useful?
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: What's useful is that honestly, not that much right here.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: For something useful, like if some videos are like a
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: little bit lackluster, I feel like fix that up like
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: for the video so for also in the future sometimes.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Okay what advice would you give someone who wants to
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: start a channel but is afraid nobody will watch.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Well I can tell them that to like to be
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: confident in themselves just like my speech therapist always keeps
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: telling me because I want to give that advice to
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: them because It's still stuck in my head. It's a
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: pretty good advice. Don't get me wrong. But I just
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: wanted to tell them to have faith in yourself. You
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: got this covered. And just handle it like a champ.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: And also, you are still... a great person with very
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: good content and a great person to inspire.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Everyone okay some people focus entirely on subscribers numbers others
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: care more about having a smaller audience that generally enjoys
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: their work what does success mean to you What it means.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Is that I want to be supportive to other people's work.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: I always respect and support people with their content and
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: also everything else that they teach. It's like how I
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: support them with their presentations, their work, and everything that
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: they do. Okay.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: We covered a lot of ground, so we're going to
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: take a short break. But when we come back, we're
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: getting into funny stories, unexpected moments, the difficult side of
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: being and the opportunities that can come with creating content.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to FG After Midnight. If you're just joining us,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: we're talking with Justin about life as a content creator.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: We're discussing how the journey began, the creative process, and
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: what it takes to build an audience. Now, we're moving
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: into the stories that make this whole experience memorable. Because
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: sometimes the best moments are ones you never planned. Are
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: you ready to get into some of the funniest, strangest,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: and most memorable moments from your YouTube journey?
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: Just.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Alright. Let's do it. Every creator has at least one
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: story that makes them laugh when they think about it.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: something went wrong during a recording, maybe a video took
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: an unexpected turn, or maybe the audience reacted in a
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: way they never expected. Let's hear some of these stories.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: What's the funniest thing that ever happened? Wait, hold on.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: Let me erase it. What's the funniest thing that ever
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: happened while filming?
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: So you're going to love to hear this, Frank. So
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: I have a couple of things that are the funniest
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: parts that happened in one of my videos. Back in
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: 10 years ago, after I was done filming my action
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: figure review of the Captain America Civil War Marvel Legends
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: 3 pack of Spidey, Cap, and Iron Man, and after
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: I was done filming it, I said, oops, after the end,
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: which is pretty funny. A lot of my friends from
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: middle school noticed that. And then, My mom accidentally opened
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: the door to see if I wasn't doing anything. And
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: she noticed I was just YouTubing in my room. Well,
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: just make a YouTube video. I just like to see YouTubing,
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: which is pretty good. But yeah, it was funny how
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: she opened the door. And sometimes she texted me while
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: I was in the middle of it. Well, technically, she
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: mostly didn't know about it. But while I was doing
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: a reaction video, she was like, I was like talking
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: to myself, but no, I told her I was doing
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: a reaction video. It was pretty funny. Like it was
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: when I was like talking to myself.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty funny. All right. Have you ever accidentally
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: left in an embarrassing mistake in a published video?
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: Well, I would say that for the embarrassing parts, I
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: would say that.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm still thinking. For the embarrassing part for my video,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: I would say that I always make some weird faces
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: when I always talk too weird since I don't want
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: people to think I... I'm a weird person because I
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: know I'm a disabled person with autism. So I do
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: not want people to think that I always have weird things.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: They would say like, what is going on with you?
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: What is up with your face? Why do you make
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: your lips like that when you're talking?
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Okay. What's the most unexpected thing that happened during a
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: live stream or recording?
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Well, since I don't do that much live streaming, I
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: would say this for a regular video. So what happens
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: is that I wanted to make sure if I didn't
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: do anything wrong, I don't want to get copyrighted every
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: time I try to post a video of me doing
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: a reaction of a movie clip for whatever movie that
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: they did for Marvel. And I got copyrighted for my
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: video and it was blocked.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that sucks. I'm I've gotten a bunch of copyright
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: strikes before and I was like, I have to delete
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: the video now.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and speaking of that, while I was trying to
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: do my reaction video for the second Wonder Man series,
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: the one that I streamed on Disney Plus this past
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: January before it actually streamed on Disney Plus, it was blocked.
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Have you ever laughed so hard during a recording that
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: you couldn't finish the video?
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I do. I was saying that actually, with something
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: funny is that I would say the funniest thing is
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: that I forgot to add something else for my label
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: set and I was checking to see if that is
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: the whole thing. But it turns out I always keep
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: forgetting like, some of the minifigures for it. And I
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: was like, oops, I did it again. And I also
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: forgot to get my phone for the whining, too, since
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: I was like, oops, I forgot about the whining, which
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: is funny sometimes. I always do that sometimes.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: What's the strangest comment you've received that you're comfortable sharing?
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: The strangest comment is that I would say the strangest
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: one is that someone asked me if I could do
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: a trailer reaction on some movie that I don't even
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: know about.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be a strange comment because you're like,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: if you don't know the movie, how are you supposed
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: to do it?
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know who these characters are, the storyboard,
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: or whatever is going on.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. Have viewers ever surprised you with a
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: creative idea?
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: For a creative idea, I would say if I make
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: my own movies, I would love to add some special
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: effects sometimes. Even though I usually don't use special effects
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: in my videos, if I watch a stop-motion video I
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: was like I would love to make my own stop-motion
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: videos on my channel because I subscribe to people who
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: Do like us their reviews and stop-motion videos for them.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: Okay What's the most memorable interaction you had with a fan.
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: My most interaction with the fan is that I was
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: just Very impressed about how good the content really is.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: And I was like, this guy is really nailing it.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: And I'm very impressed by it. Okay.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Have you ever met another creator and discovered they were
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: completely different from what you expected?
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: Well, when someone used to comment my videos back in
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: the late 2010s, like, it was like the late... who
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: actually was like a legal YouTuber, I would say that
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: like he or she is impressed with my work and
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: say thank you so much because we always communicate with
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: each other sometimes when we used to.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: What's a video that was much harder to make than
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: viewers probably realized?
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: Well, Sometimes, like, I know it's not hard for me
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: to do, but sometimes the way it gets harder, like,
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: I just want to make sure if the footage itself
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: is not the one when I review a very big
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: LEGO set with all minifigures, a few side builds, and
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: one big large building. If it's like the Avengers Tower
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: or the Daily Bugle that I have in my collection.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: Have you ever had a plan go completely wrong but
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: ended up with a better content?
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: Sometimes. Well, if I was running out of storage, I
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: adjusted pretty well. And then sometimes it goes off just
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: one time. But when I do it just like once
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: in a situation, well, situated, excuse me, it worked out perfectly.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: And sometimes I always do it before I start adding
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: the footage together on iMovie. Okay.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: I love this night crushing. What's the most unusual location
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: where you filmed a video?
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, so let me do this in casual order. So he...
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: Unnecessary location when I film a YouTube video is that
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: my kitchen sometimes, because it is not like an actual studio.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: So again, I was just learning how to get used
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: to that YouTubing. It's like all that YouTubing life that
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: everyone is doing, like how everyone's getting all that situated.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: Because again, I'm just learning. So it's right before I
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: have my own room past the studio. Museum is where
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: my mom caught because of my Lego sets.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: What's one moment you wish you could relive?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, that is a good question. You're going to love
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: to hear this. The one moment that I would love
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: to relive is that I would love to use iMovie
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: as an editing software, create my own in an outro,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: and also set up my room as like a video
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: space area is what I like to call it, but
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: mostly on my desk because before I actually used my
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: desk to make my YouTube videos, like filming them and
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: making them, I used to use my dresser to stand
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: up and film the Lego sets before I actually used
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: a desk as a better spot to do it.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 5: Cool.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: What's a moment that made you think, I can't believe
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: this is happening?
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I always talk so weird. Forgive me. So
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: what I meant to say was, it's the moment I
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: reached 1,000 subscribers this past April. Like in early April,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: after I posted my trailer reaction video for the second
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: Supergirl trailer, Oh, yeah.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: I still want to watch that movie. I haven't watched
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: it yet.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: It's obviously going to look squirrely. It's on HBO Max now.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I definitely got to watch it then. I
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: just got HBO Max.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: If your YouTube career were torn into a comedy movie,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: what would the funniest scene be? Let me rephrase that question.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: If your YouTube career were torn into a comedy movie,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: what would the funniest scene be?
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: The funniest thing would be like, if I, okay, I'm sorry,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: I had to think. So the funniest thing.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 8: If I made it as a comedy movie, I would
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 8: say that like, I could do some filming while I'm
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 8: not wearing a shirt on or say some funny things
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 8: too for like, if it's like a PG-13 movie or
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 8: an R-rated movie.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. What's one story from your journey that you
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: haven't had many opportunities to tell?
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: Like, I won't say that much, but for any opportunities,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: but if I thought when I could, like, do some, like,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: stop-motion animation for some of my Lego sets, like, I
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: can do, like, a stop-motion speed build, to be honest.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: I wanted to hear the full story. Set the scene
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: for us. Where were you and what were you trying
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: to do and what happened next during your videos?
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: For the story, I always get up every morning to
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: start doing my YouTube videos because I usually do that
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: every morning and sometimes after work later on that day.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: I started to get myself settled up. If I find
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: a different video for a reaction video, or set up
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: my desk for one of my Lego sets for any theme,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: especially Marvel. And then I just like get my iPad
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: off the charger, grab my phone for like some lighting support,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: which is lighting in general. And then I usually send
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: my usual line like, what's going on guys? The iron
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: just here, which is the usual line. And I say,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: whatever it is, type of video that I send, like,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: and I'm going for, like, whatever content that I'm doing, like,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: if it's for Lego, if it's for a reaction video,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: or all of the above. Okay.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Alright, we're going to simplify this question because it's kind
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: of going to be a hard one. Can you tell
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: us three short stories, one funny recording disaster would be
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: the first story?
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: So the funny disaster is that, like, When my mom
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: comes into my room to see if I'm not doing anything,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: and she always doesn't know that I'm in the middle
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: of making my YouTube video, which is pretty funny.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: Cool. Let's go to the second story. One unexpected wonderful moment.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: The full moment is that I get a little tense
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: when I always have to deal with my storage, which
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: is the annoying part. I have to take care of
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: it since I always can do it, but sometimes I
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: always go off track at that.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: And our last short story would be one moment that
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: taught them an important lesson.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: After I was trying to post a video of me
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: reacting to the internet trigger after it was blocked thanks
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: to YouTube, the important lesson is that I had to
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: like just delete it and make sure if I don't
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: like it, copyright it again. And same thing for those clips,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: like one for Thor Ragnarok and one for the 2018
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: Black Panther movie. So I deleted those since it was
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: banned from Disney since I remembered that I won't do
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: it again because I learned my lesson. Oh, okay.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: Those are the kind of moments that make up a
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: creator's journey unique, but the internet isn't always funny or
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: easy to navigate. There's another side of the experience that
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: deserves an honest conversation. That's going to be challenges, criticism,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: and life online. Creating content can be rewarding, but it
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: also means putting your work in front of an audience
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: that may have different opinions. I want to talk about
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: the challenges without making this conversation unnecessarily negative. The goal
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: is to understand what creators learn along the way. What's
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: been the biggest challenge you've faced as a YouTuber?
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: The biggest challenge that I've faced as a YouTuber? The
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: biggest challenge, well, there aren't any that much challenges that
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: I've faced as a YouTuber, but the biggest challenge is
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: that I could, like, I have, like, sometimes the other
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: things that I could post on Instagram, I already did
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: a LEGO set review, and there aren't any other sets
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: coming out until the past, well, the upcoming few months. Well,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: in a few months is what I'm about to say.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: So I always figure something out if I can, but
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: if not, I was just like, hold on off just
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: a bit, because I want to make some other new
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: videos for my channel, because I'm trying my best to
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: figure something out, and I just want to make sure
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: if I can stay track of that. Okay.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: How do you handle criticism of your videos?
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: Like, if there aren't any comments, I'm just going to
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: let it slide because I always post videos. I mean,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: I always post my YouTube videos, excuse me, like every day.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: And I just need to slow it down up a notch.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: How do you distinguish constructive feedback from comments that aren't useful?
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: If it's a good comment, I would say thank you.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: Let me rephrase that. I would say if someone supports me,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: I could say thanks. That means a lot to me.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: And if they give me some good tips, I could
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: use some of that good advice and use them to
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: add it to what I want my YouTube to be,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: to make it more very successful.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: Have you ever had a video misunderstood by a viewer?
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: Not as much.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: Just a bit, but not as much.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: How do you respond when a video doesn't perform as
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: well as you hoped?
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: Well, sometimes I try again and sometimes I just delete it. Well,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: I mostly try it in again because it wasn't going
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: to give up that easily. Okay. But if not, I'll
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: try it again on the next day. Cool.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: How do you avoid comparing your channel to other creators?
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: I don't do that as much, but if they have
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: the good amount of views, like, want to do the
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: same thing as me because I want to keep track
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: on that still because I just want to make sure
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: if I get a lot more subscribers as well as
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: more views, comments, and likes.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Have you ever experienced creative burnout or needed time away
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: from uploading?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: Well, technically, after I posted my 13th video for every
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: single month, I always take a break from them to
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: be easy with the apps I usually use for my
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: editing software.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: How do you balance YouTube with work, school, family, or
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: personal commitments?
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: Well, for work, well, technically, let me start over. And
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: I don't go to school anymore because I'm already a
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: college graduate from Georgia State. So for school, I'm trying
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: to make sure if I decide not to get too
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: distracted on what I'm planning for my YouTube videos because
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: sometimes I easily get distracted even if I had to
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: work on a quiz or a test or any other
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: assignment that I need to deal with. And as for family,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: I know I have some things going on with the fam,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: and if they need my help with some important things
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: that I can help with, and I just want to
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: make sure if I'm not doing anything else, like if
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: I'm not posting or anything like before or after that.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: And as for work, you know, I always go to
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: work at 9 a.m. in the morning, so I usually
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: do my YouTube videos after I'm done working. If it's
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: like a new trailer for a movie that has shown
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: up there, I was like, I got to post this. Well,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: even though I can be distracted with this sometimes. And
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: after that, I could just actually do it while I just,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: let me see if I stay focused on school, my job,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: and also everything else that my family needs my help with.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: All right. How do you decide which parts of your
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: personal life to keep private?
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: Well, I just want to make sure if I don't
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: like expose some of the parts that is going on
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: in my life, because I like to keep things private,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: which is like my name, my regular name, and also
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: some parts of my life, like my therapy life, my
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: family life, and also whatever things I have going on
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: in my regular life, excuse me. as well as outside
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: of my YouTube life. Because in my YouTube life, I
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: just like to keep things private.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 6: Cool.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: What boundaries do you maintain with your audience?
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: So I just want to be sure if I want
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: to give them what they wanted to see on my
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: YouTube videos. I just want to keep my content on
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: track so they can be inspired and interested in my work.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: How do you protect your privacy while being a public-facing creator?
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: I just wanted to keep my regular name private as
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: well as everything else in my regular life too because
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: I don't want to get hacked and also I don't
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: want to expose everything else going on in my life
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: because I don't want to lose all my subs and
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: I just want to keep things private. So I just
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: don't want anyone else to find out everything else in
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: my regular life. Okay.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: Have you ever needed to change your approach after receiving feedback?
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: Sometimes, but not as much.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: But when someone asks me if I can add some
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: new things, I can't. But everything else, I always keep
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: the same as usual.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: What's something people misunderstanding about being a YouTuber?
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: Like, if they, like, get the content mixed up and
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: people would say that, what is this content about exactly?
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: And what type of title is this? And what kind
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: of video is this? Like, they want to know, like,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: what is this video about? Because they want some more
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: explanation about the title, the thumbnail, the description, and what
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: the YouTuber is talking about in the video. Okay.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: How do you maintain motivation when growing feels slow?
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's a little tricky for me to keep it maintained.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: I always have some issues going on with my range
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: with it, and I'm just trying to keep it under control. Okay.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 5: Cool.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: What has creating content taught you about yourself?
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: It taught me to, like, how I can make whatever
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: things I want in my own life. And it shows me, like,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: I can use all that stuff that I've learned to
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: become a filmmaker. Because being a filmmaker is one of
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: my other dream jobs. And it inspired me to do, like,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: all the cool things, like how I can edit, how
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: I can talk when I was doing some acting performance
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: for my own acting classes in Georgia State. Well, at
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: Georgia State is what I meant to say. And also
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: how I can design some of the footage for my
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: own filming classes and also how I get creative by
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: using some parts of those for my YouTube videos on
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: my YouTube channel.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: Okay. What's one lesson you learned through experience that you
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: wish somebody had explained to you before you started?
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: I would say that I want people to help me
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: explain what type of features do I get to do
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: because I'm just getting used to it by learning them
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: and even I just want to know how I can
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: keep my content on track like making sure the video
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: is good for how I can do a better job
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: with editing and make sure that the subject is focused
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: while the background is blurry and Excuse me, I have
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: to take a breath again. Even though I just wanted
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: to make sure if I wanted to say what I
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: got to say in a clear way instead of just
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: repeating myself. Okay.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: I think it's important to remember that a creator is
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: a person, not just a channel. Behind every upload is
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: somebody putting time, thought, and effort into their work. You
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: can appreciate an audience while still having boundaries. You can
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: accept constructive criticism without allowing every opinion to define your confidence.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: Let's shift to the business side of the conversation.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: Right, and what I meant to say was I just
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: want to make sure I had to have faith in
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: myself and make sure if I was doing a better
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: job doing all the features as a creative person with
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: all the different features that I meant to say.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, you're good. I know it was a lot. Let's
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: shift to the business side of the conversation because for
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: some creators, YouTubers start as a hobby and eventually open
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: doors they never expected. All right, let's talk about the
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: opportunities that can come with creating content. We keep this
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: focus on your experience rather than asking you to disclose
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: private financial details. Do you see your YouTuber primarily as
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: a hobby, a business, a career goal, or a mixture?
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: Easy. I would say a hobby because it's usually one
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: of my hobbies that I like to do in my life.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: Okay. What opportunities has creating content opened up for you?
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: Like, every time I watched a YouTube video, I was
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: inspired by other people's work. And When I want to
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: add some new things, like use iMovie or create some thumbnails,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: or even in an outro on Canva, I would love
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: to do that. Because in my 10 years, I would
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: love to make my own intro for my YouTube channel.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: So I've gotten some help from my OT therapist to
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: show me how I could do it.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: Have you worked with other creators? What did you learn
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: from those collaborations?
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't work with other creators that much, but
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: when I used to be in Internet 23 East group
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: back in three years, before and after I turned 20,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: I get to learn about storyboard and also how I
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: can design things on Giva, but in a different way.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: And also I can do like some graphic designs too,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: like how I made my own Iron Justin logo.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, cool. What makes someone a good collaborator?
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: Like how they can have faith in themselves for like
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: what an amazing job they can do and also make
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: sure their content is still inspiring so people can support
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: that person.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: Good answer. How do you decide whether a brand partnership
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: fits your channel?
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: Well, when I look at other people's brands, they really
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: inspired me to, like, have one of my own because
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: I just wanted to, like, get creative with my own brand.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: But at least I got some help from one of
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: my co-workers who I used to be an intern. Because
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: I did mention that one of them did help me to, like,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: create a Iron Justin logo and also some Iron Justin brands,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: like merchandise, like some clothing.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: What advice would you give a creator who considered sponsorships.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: I was saying you should definitely keep up all that
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: work because imagine if everyone could like notice and remember
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: you with all that sweet content that you did and
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: they would love to come up ask you like how
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: do they do it and you said i've always been
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: taught and told about all the good content that I've
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: been working on and I always wanted to keep track
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: of that because what if someone could learn something from
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: that person if they like if they were like their
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: friends or a family member or someone that they just
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: met if they notice you like if they already have
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: done like a face.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: Reveal what do you think beginners should understand about the
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: business side of youtube.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: Like, they should understand, like, how much money do they
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: need if they do it as, like, not as a hobby,
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: but as, like, something that they can make money off of. Like,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: if they're, like, a famous person, they can make, like,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: gajillions of dollars for doing all that hard work when
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: they post a lot of videos with a bunch of views, like,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: a million or a billion amount of views because... they
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: still inspired everyone about all the good content that they did.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: Cool. How important is it to diversify your content or platforms?
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: I would say that, like, making sure if they are
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: always good enough since people still want to keep track
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: on that if they still want to inspire their audience.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: And they also, like, wanted to make sure if there
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: aren't any issues for their content, too. Okay.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: What skills have you developed through content creation that are
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: useful outside YouTube?
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: Like, if, okay, let me rephrase. I'm afraid I'm going
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: to lose my voice. For that, outside of YouTube, I
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: would think that, like, When I created a new film
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: project for one of the disability communities at work, one
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: of my coworkers showed me a different feature, how I
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: can edit those footage that I'm working on. Instead of
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: just like the usual slide-away work, like how I can
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: split them in half by double-clicking on like the middle
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: section for each footage. Cool.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: If you could come up.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: Let me finish that up. So if it's like I
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: could do like a behind-the-scenes video or like how I
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: could do like an interview video that I just did. Okay.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: If you could collaborate with any creator, who would you
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: choose and why?
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: I would choose the Ashwin Brickfield because he is an
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: anecdote Lego set collector like me. And he loves building
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: Legos just like me as well.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: That's cool. If a new creator wanted to approach you
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: for a collaboration, what would make you interested in hearing
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: their idea?
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: I would say that I would love to be a
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: part of it because it would have been awesome if
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: I was working on some new YouTube videos with another
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: YouTuber and we could do like a collaboration between both
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: of our work, like all of our video content and
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: It would be very awesome if we actually made that happen.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. I'm a YouTuber too, so.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, imagine if you and I actually did that
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: for you.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be cool. We're getting close to the
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: end of your conversation, but before we wrap it up,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: I want to have some fun. It's time for the
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: After Midnight Rap Fire Round. So we're going to have
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: rapid-fire questions and future plans. This round is all about
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: quick answers. Don't overthink them. If you need to explain
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: an answer, I'll give you a chance afterwards. So long
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: videos or shorts? That's the question.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: I would say all of the above because I usually
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: post short and long YouTube videos.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: Recording or editing?
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: I always record them when I do a Windows review,
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: and then I edit them sometimes when I want to
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: make the footage as good as possible.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: Planning everything or improvising?
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: I would say planning on everything.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: One perfect video or ten experimental videos?
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: I would say one perfect video because, like I said,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: I always post three videos a week, just like in
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: three different days. Cool.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: Your favorite video you ever created?
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, since I made a lot of videos for each video, oh,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: what the heck, I'll just say the Lego Marvel Weeks
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: video guy posted two years ago.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: Cool. Your favorite creator to watch?
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: The Austrian Brie fan.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: Your favorite editing tool?
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: I would say iMovie.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: The best advice another creator gave you?
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: By making sure if you add a little bit more
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: detail to my own content.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: A content trend you love.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, can you repeat that?
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: A content trend you love.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: I would say Marvel, because again, I'm a huge Marvel fan.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: It's one of the best contents I know.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: A content trend you're ready to see change.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: Like, I could add some new things. I could add
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: DC to the list.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: A video idea you haven't tried yet.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: Stop motion. For Lego videos. Speed build videos. Lego set
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: speed build videos for stop motion.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: Your dream collaboration.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: I want to make sure if I can reach as
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: much subscribers as I can.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: A skill you love to master?
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: I would love to, like, do some creative designs on
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: Canva and still keep doing editing.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: One word that describes your channel?
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: Like, It's mostly, like, game Marvel, basically, because I posted
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: a lot of Marvel videos.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: Uh, one word that describes your journey so far.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: My journey so far? Um, like, I would say that, like,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: my journey, um, like, just being sweet and very popular. Actually,
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: just very Sweet and always confident too. I'm just going
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: to say very sweet and confident.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: What goals are you working toward over the next year?
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: Just keep posting some of the same videos like I've
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: always been doing since in the past 11 years. Well,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: actually just 11 years. And also finish what I started
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: with it too. Okay.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: Is there a new content style or series you'd like
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: to explore?
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: I could do a stop-motion Waco speedboat series and also
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: talk about some new movie rumors. If there's some set
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: going on, or I could still do some trailer reaction
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: videos and some non-spoiler reviews for every movie and TV show, too.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be cool.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you said it.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: What would you like your channel to be known for?
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: I want it to be known like a Lego set
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: collector and action figure collector and also mobile device gamer
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  Speaker 2: and talk about some cool new rumors about movies and
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  Speaker 2: TV shows.
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  Speaker 1: How would you like your community to grow?
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to grow like very good since I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to make sure if my content is good enough
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  Speaker 2: for all the good things that I've been doing for
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  Speaker 2: my YouTube page like I did before. And I just
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  Speaker 2: wanted people to like Remember me when I always do
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  Speaker 2: all that hard work to accomplish some of my goals,
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  Speaker 2: like making more views. Well, actually, I'm going to freeze
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  Speaker 2: that part. I just want to make sure I get
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  Speaker 2: a lot of subscribers, views, comments, and likes. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: When people look back on your journey in five years,
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  Speaker 1: what would you hope they'll remember?
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  Speaker 2: Don't remember all the legal, some reviews that I've done
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  Speaker 2: and also some of my reaction videos too. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Out of all those goals, what's the one you're most
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  Speaker 1: excited about right now?
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  Speaker 2: Like making sure if I could still continuing on being
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  Speaker 2: a YouTuber. So for a little bit since like a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years and, um, I could redo it again
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  Speaker 2: as like a, don't do it in a way because
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  Speaker 2: I want to like an Avengers Doomsday base look.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I love hearing about what comes next. The exciting
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  Speaker 1: thing about creating content is that there's always another idea,
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  Speaker 1: another story, and another opportunity to learn. We're reaching the
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  Speaker 1: final five minutes of this episode of After Midnight. Justin,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for talking and taking the time to join
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  Speaker 1: us and share your story we'll talk about your beginnings
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  Speaker 1: the creative process growing your audience and funny moment challenges
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  Speaker 1: collaborations and your plans for the future before we close
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  Speaker 1: I've got three final questions sure.
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  Speaker 2: I am very happy to answer it all the way
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  Speaker 2: and thank you again Frank for having me so anyways
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready for your three questions so Let's start with
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  Speaker 2: the first one, and I'm ready to go when you are.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: What's the biggest lesson YouTube has taught you so far?
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  Speaker 2: Making sure if I don't do some copywriting on the
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  Speaker 2: actual clips for any Marvel movies or TV shows, even
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  Speaker 2: just the trailer itself, just want to make sure if
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: I can be very careful with some parts of that content.
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  Speaker 1: What would you say to someone who has an idea
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  Speaker 1: for a channel but hasn't had the confidence to start?
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  Speaker 2: I would say that you've got to have the confidence
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  Speaker 2: in that idea because I would say it would be
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  Speaker 2: a great idea since I could help with that person
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  Speaker 2: and I just want to give him or her all
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  Speaker 2: the support that they can get.
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  Speaker 1: Where can listeners find your channel and follow your work?
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  Speaker 2: Like, if they see a picture of One of my
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  Speaker 2: videos for the thumbnails themselves, they can just click on
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  Speaker 2: the link and see all that sweet work that I've
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  Speaker 2: been doing. And then they'll just go over my channel
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  Speaker 2: to see all the cool things I've been posting for
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  Speaker 2: all these years.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. And I just kind of added this question, but
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  Speaker 1: do you have any other guests you think that would
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  Speaker 1: be wanting to be on my podcast?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good question. I could bring my girlfriend
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  Speaker 2: Ari along with us if she's available. I know she's
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  Speaker 2: busy and I don't blame her for it, but I
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  Speaker 2: would love to bring her along too for our other podcast. Well,
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  Speaker 2: your podcast since you're the one who started all this
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  Speaker 2: awesome podcast and I'm very happy to be a part
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you again for being part of the
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  Speaker 1: show and to everyone listening, if you're enjoying this conversation,
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  Speaker 1: go check out Justin's YouTube channel, watch their videos, leave
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  Speaker 1: a thoughtful comment, and support the creators whose work you enjoyed.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a creator yourself, remember that you don't need
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  Speaker 1: to have everything figured out before your beginning. Keep learning
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: to find your own voice, respect your audience, and make
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: content that gives you a reason to be proud of
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  Speaker 1: what you're creating. And if you're listening to FJ After
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  Speaker 1: Midnight for the first time, welcome to the community. I'm FJ,
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  Speaker 1: and this has been another episode of FJ After Midnight.
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  Speaker 1: Until next time, keep exploring, keep creating, keep asking questions,
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  Speaker 1: and remember, some of the best stories begin after midnight.
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  Speaker 1: Good night, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Frank, for having me. Thank you.