welcome to the ask a youtube channel
thanks for coming i know everyone's
super tired at this point because it's
been a four day con
are you guys excited to ask youtuber
people things
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first of all how many of you are fans of
kp specifically
yay
how many of you
are youtubers
i i know it's like every that's kind of
where everybody has a channel but you
don't know if you can technically call
yourself a youtuber how many people want
to be youtubers
there we go
do you want to introduce yourself
uh sure my name is cell specs i'm
technically crashing her panel she was
nice enough to let me do so after i
decided at the very last minute to come
to this convention
yeah i'm coming hope it's okay
so um basically
you know thanks again for coming guys uh
because it's a really chill panel you
guys can ask multiple questions just
make sure you ask
one question at a time before getting
back in line that way everyone gets a
run through before we move on to new
people and then um for good questions uh
in this disney park bag i have
some dollar store prizes so i think i
have some coloring pages i have
a bunch of uh face like
screen masks that i have that you can
have if that's something you're
interested in um
let's see what else i have i have those
little um
what is it the the thing did you add
water to
i have no idea okay
and it's like an image and then it
expands so i have some pony ones and
some disney ones and stuff
uh but yeah if you have any questions
i've been doing this for
eight years years she's been doing it
longer
my first video i came out in 2009 oh
okay um
so my first video was the was a review
of the movie night
and then that channel actually got taken
down like in the early
2000s
and then i just launched another one in
2013 and that one's still going
all right so um the
q a mike's in the center you guys can
start asking your questions um
you know
to ask
basically anything
also for people who don't know us and
don't know what we do we may sleep we
talk about animation we're animation
youtubers we talk about animated movies
or animated shows
oh before we start um
as a thank you for coming to our panel
i'm going to give her this folder is
going to come around
i have coloring pages in here and
stickers you guys are welcome to have
and i think some autograph prints or
something this is also um this is a
commission that no one picked up that
was already paid for so if someone wants
a picture of doc then you can have
picture of dog
so i just felt i figured i would ask the
panel before
we throw it out because you know or the
person that got that commission might be
here
i think they would have said so by now
right i don't know did anyone get they
have your personal contact
business card
anyway um so can someone grab come up
and grab well dog is looking made foot
so
thank you and you guys are spaced away
so just make sure it gets through
everyone um so again if you don't know
us i love kim possible a lot and she
sells sex we do cartoon
stuff on the things okay go ahead okay
so i have to take one okay
my first question is what is the biggest
contestant someone may have about being
a youtuber
um that you get paid lots of money
i feel like
um you know it's very much you make your
own
you're making a business and you rely on
donations and that's
not stable in out itself and the people
who are making you or are doing youtube
as a living uh usually are in the 500k
or plus ranges so
uh but you have more experience with the
paid model right right now i i don't
know what you're about are you just yeah
we're just non-profit for now okay yeah
so i have i
youtube does make up the dominant amount
of my income which is not a lot and i
have
two hundred thousand
except uh and that's still it is
basically just enough for barely
skippable living if i live in a
cheap
uh one-bedroom apartment in the midwest
certainly not if i wanted to live in l.a
um
and that completely depends on output so
that com that's dependent on the
algorithm and so that you have every
bracket of youtuber now will have
various
amount of money that they'll either make
from ads a lot of youtubers especially
small ones usually get more money
through patreon
than they will through ad models i get
more money through ads than i do through
patreon
because my numbers happen to feel that
way but even then i still like
just at
being able to live basically and not
necessarily thriving
um and that's from someone who's
when i first started in 2009 like i was
basically just a video
i wasn't regular at all i basically was
making maybe a hundred bucks
every
six months
and then it wasn't until and it started
to get a little bit more i started
getting a couple hundred every month in
2015 when my videos were starting to get
more regular it really wasn't until 2017
when
uh when
the views really took off and it started
to become livable money but that was
also because in 2017 i was in a car
crash and i broke my leg and i literally
had no other way to make money
so that was what i did
the second one and then
eating him with the meat against thing
and if so what are you doing to compound
oh kappa
yeah
and that's been going around i haven't
um but i i i think we both curse in our
videos so
you know even
i think that's a big detroit not
not to be made for kids i feel but i
don't know how the automated system
works so
uh generally i haven't been hit i have
had two videos get hit by papa and i
haven't really disputed them because
they're not videos that anybody watches
but apparently yeah they can just decide
for i they can technically get to decide
for whatever arbitrary reason that
reviews of animated movies technically
can just be qualified as for kids i
probably could dispute it i just haven't
um but i don't have any experience for i
don't have and i do think that like
there was that huge scare when it first
popped up i don't know anyone personally
how if that's devastated them oh all
right
i can tell you that so when you get hit
with me as a kid like because if you
really drop it against me monetize so if
you're if you're incoming like the lion
on youtube and your videos are getting
hit with me because like
bam that that that can hurt a lot no
i've got people performances
yeah i know the videos basically get no
money um i just don't know how often
people have gotten caught
because
usually they have very specific things
that they're looking for when stuff is
obviously made for kids particularly
when it actually has kids in them
um
but again i don't have any experience at
how devastating that how that was how
devastating it has been just that
um i feel bad for the people who have it
just hasn't been us
um youtube as a platform isn't really
creator friendly from what i've heard
you know a lot of uh newer creators
can get really
damaged by their practices and just you
know making backup channel after backup
channel they don't make a lot of money
from ads all these other issues do you
think that
youtube is going to stay relevant as a
platform for very long
um i think so because it's still a
monopoly as far as long-form content
what
ultimately needs to happen i've talked
about this a little bit on the news
is that
youtube purposely doesn't have a center
that you can call about videos because
they want to have full control
over
you know what's going on and kind of
have it in the shadows as is to for
legality of reasons essentially so
youtube is going to change when there's
a serious competitor that
makes them change and people are
switching to uh the other competitor but
it's hard because you know a lot of
subscribers are old
you know people have to
learn a whole new you know layout
essentially so
we'll see but right now it's really like
people love tik tok from what i can tell
but you can't really post long videos on
tin talk so like we're if we're doing
like analysis of you know media like we
are where the videos are 20 minutes long
there's there's no other way so
right and
uh also youtube wants shorts yeah so and
shorts has been doing actually pretty
well for them um it's not and
at least from the last time i checked
youtube is still up there and the top
used websites
um and it's still the one that again
people are used to
so you're either someone who's been a
creator for a long time and has just
learned to kind of take youtube's
punches and deal with it
or you're and again but again you're
exactly right it's way different now
than when i started where it's much
harder especially because there's a lot
more
people
uh to compete with to get views so it's
way harder now for new people to get
started
um
and they only really even care about
their biggest
view getters anyway but that also
technically means that sometimes when
you're a smaller youtuber sometimes you
can get away with things because they
don't even know you exist but then you
also have the possibility of getting hit
um so it's very hit or miss but at the
same time youtube as a platform
i'm always prepared for the possibility
that it might go down anytime and i
might have to get a real job
uh
it's like i mean i've had it i've been a
teacher before i could do it again uh
but
uh for the moment it doesn't seem to be
going anywhere and it probably isn't
dying at least in the next two years but
we'll see
so
um feel free to grab a prize for ask the
question i think we can just do that
have fun yeah you can you can grab one
too
um who else has questions we're only 10
minutes in the morning i'm really
starting writing that much 15 minutes
okay
um
a technical question okay and then i
have just a sort of a general question
so
would you want technical first or
general questions
okay
whatever okay so um i have just a like a
regular youtube channel just just sort
of personal like put pictures of my kids
up and that kind of stuff but i've been
asked to create professional content for
my business
like leadership professional development
you have a suggestion for me as far as
um
create you know launch it from my own
personal account where it's merged
together separate
i'm definitely separate i think yeah
it's just it's going to get confusing um
like short term basis in the long term
then you have people that are looking at
your business or trying to you know
or will find pictures of your kids which
i'm sure you want yeah some separation
from and then as far as just um from my
understanding you're gonna probably just
need like b-roll and stuff like that of
your your building you know
yeah so i think it it's not really a
matter of who sees it um it's more of a
presentation for your website than
anything but usually from
my understanding no one's
looking for that kind of stuff being
like oh it's nice firm because they have
nice footage on youtube they're not like
googling that on youtube they're gluing
that like on just google yeah
okay and then my technical question is
what would you suggest
for editing software
oh um
we use premiere um adobe premiere is or
avid of the industry standards if you
care about that um hitfilm hit film is
free um open source and that does pretty
much whatever you know premiere like it
can't do the complicated stuff after
effects scan but for simple editing it's
mine from my understanding okay uh what
do you use
um i've used final cut for the past
at least six years
and that's the benefit of that is i
don't have to pay monthly for that
but at the same time i know there's the
whole thing about premier stuff being
paid monthly and stuff and how
frustrating that is the one thing i do
get is that when you do it monthly
you're getting probably technical
updates with that and i'm probably i
paid
i want to say 200 to 300 for final cut
which i like but at the same time it's
even for that it still has its
limitations but it's very friendly but
only if you have a mac
uh
but it's
um but i also always worry like enough
years go by and then you worry the
technical specs aren't going to be up to
snuff as much but at the same time it's
a one-time
in a downl then sure do a monthly
subscription and just work
for one month
but i obviously use it all year round
so that's better for me but more it's
more i don't even not even saying that
final cut is the best one there was one
time where it was praised as being the
best and it's not really anymore i'm
just used to it okay um yeah the advice
i usually give people is like
um see if you like the actual workflow
so you can try to just film you know
then you can start seeing the
differences between the models and
choosing one out of that but you know
just getting started it's just about
putting something out there
i don't even know do programs even
software you have trials anymore
i mean i just tell people who get hit
field because it's free yeah
yeah no problem
if you want fries you can get advice
sure
if you want a mask or something
uh
so question back to you so do you watch
the content now or you only did you just
come
um
you know well for me specifically it was
always about you know the character
discord and that was where my passions
lie and everyone else just kind of fell
into that so like that's why i made
pony content in general to kind of
understand the world that you know he
was around and you know um so you know
there was no point in new generations
there's no discord i mean i think he's
in the comics he might be one of the
comics coming up but that's the extent
of that um
but you know i just knew that i still
wanted to make content
you know regardless and not depend on
the pony stuff especially because
um pony fandom sometimes has not been
very kind to me to work quietly um
so i just started doing videos that i
think people were interested in people
things that i was interested in like we
did a video a video about a video game
um
that
i really like that i'm sure no one
watched but i just really wanted to make
it so we made it so it's just about kind
of just seeing putting things out there
and just trying to attract like what
will appear to appeal to the general
animation fan like you know
top tens are pretty easy easy to consume
and people expect that you know that
kind of stuff so just finding an angle
but it's always just finding an angle
what is it like what kind of wood bike
would you give
people expect
you to do something specific and then
they they don't get that specific thing
and they're just like oh man uh why am i
watching this but you know that's
that's the reality you can't there's no
way to minimize it you just gotta kind
of do it and just
like
figure out if you're going to go through
you're just going to do one and just
kind of pursue that one thing you know
consistently and you lose people but you
also you know ideally people too
right i mean i've done
mine is primarily movie reviews and i've
kept wanting to do other things and
every once in a while i do every once in
a while i have a different topic that i
want to talk about but it's obvious that
a lot of my major views are still coming
from reviews so i've been reluctant to
stop those all together especially since
my money depends on it so i have to kind
of care about that but at the same time
it's helpful that movie reviews don't
need to be super complicated yeah and
sure and i still have plenty of time to
work on the other stuff i just need to
actually like commit to it
um
but in that matter yeah it's always
scary and at some point and especially
like it's easier if your money doesn't
depend on that kind of content if you've
got reliable
patreons that will patrons that will
follow you no matter what you do then
that's much easier though you could
always lose them as well but for view
counts it's obvious it's much riskier
um
sorry that's also a thing that like
every major creator like even famous
people
um are always afraid that they're always
going to be known for that one thing and
they're not going to care if they
suddenly go off and do another thing
like i'm a comedian but i want to do
something else i want to be drama and
take it seriously i want this but i want
to do something else everybody has that
fear that's not something that's not a
magical formula that everybody's taking
out it's just a matter of like taking
the leap and it works or you take the
leave and it doesn't it's just a matter
of
how do you have a safety net if it
doesn't yeah yes
right
all right
i guess my question kind of goes with
that um
your channel evolving over time like i
want to start a youtube channel
about creating a comment and my channel
starts with saying hey i want to take my
comic book
follow my journey on me create my comic
book
well assume the comic book will be done
now do i say hey okay
um this is the software i use right your
write-alongs or drawings follow my
journey so i guess the question is
um how do you go about enrolling after
you know that first thing that catching
them
is done
i mean the reality is people are either
going to stay for the content that you
make or they're going to say for you the
personality and there's not really any
control over that
so
you know it's all about you know you can
have some kind of
algorithm where the like pull or
something like that to kind of gauge
what people want to see going forward so
you're not just shooting in the dark but
beyond that like so you know
i if you want to stay like around comics
like maybe review other people's comics
or something um and you can do that but
beyond that it's just gonna be
people are gonna you know like i'm sure
i lost people who
wanted me to do only pony stuff but you
know
i don't want to just do funny stuff
forever and only pony stuff so
you know
well technically if you don't care about
view counts you can do whatever you want
yeah
uh but
um do you know are you do you
specifically have something in mind that
you want to do or is it that you don't
know what to do next
i have in mind something left to do but
like i said um after the comic is done
do what like i was thinking maybe read
along you know maybe like
sit down and explain the future projects
and things like that but you know
sometimes after the
here are ideas for drawing and stuff
that might catch them but just talking
about it
well a really big thing about of course
is that you're always going to work a
little bit better if it's something that
you personally want to do and you care
about so especially if you don't if your
whole thing has been doing this one
comic that even your viewers don't
really know what to do next so the best
thing is for you to do what you want uh
just if only for just getting something
out there and keeping your loyal
followers and basically just going video
or and just experimenting and going
video by video and just seeing
how does the audience respond what are
the what are your are you have your view
counts drastically shifts what's the
comments like how do your viewers feel
about it and from there you can kind of
adjust and see
uh
if you want to keep doing that or change
something in the future
oh feel free to get the prize person who
has a question
also someone tell me when it's 4 30
it's 4 27 oh wow okay
uh yeah i was wondering what is your
guys favorite uh
movies based on cartoons
oh um
i don't know i don't know the top of my
head um like you mean live movies based
on cartoons
um
i don't i don't like very many of any of
the live-action ones based off cartoons
at least on the top of my head i'm i'm
blinded by just i just saw bob's burgers
and i'm a really big bob's burgers fan
so um which isn't like literally just
came out this weekend and i really
really like it um but again i'm also
specifically a bob's burgers fan so i
really like that and right now the only
other movies based on cartoons that i
can think of that are at least
theatrical releases as simpsons and teen
titans go
i know there's been others
yes that one's you yeah oh that was that
was just okay
that was okay that was uh
the but
bob's burgers has just taken up my mind
and i'm really happy with that one it's
not always successful and also when a
lot of them have movies they don't
necessarily go to theaters so if you're
specifying just movies in general or
uh
um then yeah bob's burgers is still the
only one that comes to mind i
it's probably probably if anime is
thrown in there that's a whole other can
of worms
sure
okay
you can get a prize for sure
i also admit that that's always an issue
whenever somebody comes on the spot and
asks me what my favorite something is
and it's like oh my god i have to go
through my memory and go through the
entire database of every movie that
exists in every movie that i've seen and
i can't do that necessarily like on the
spot it's like okay give me a list of
stuff to choose from because i can't
remember all my favorites right now
uh so as far as making money being a
content creator or like saying artists
um
there doesn't seem to be a solid
direction that i've seen from like um
any you know online articles other
content creators
people trying to give you advice on this
subject uh
because you know i've seen advice like
you know start patreon you mentioned
that
um
you know tick tock uh
do commissions um go to cons and sell
artwork just like
just like an overwhelming amount of like
suggestions but no like solid
this platform works along with your
platform like youtube works on patreon
or patreon
pretty universal um is there any
specific like advice for say you know
being an artist because mostly i've seen
just try everything and get lucky
um yeah i guess i'll answer this one
because i also aren't um
yeah essentially uh so it's you have to
think of it as like a business like
anything else and um
you you as you are a specific entity as
a creator that is different from every
other creator so every so things that
work for other people's aren't
necessarily going to work for you
so um
my
business model if we want to call it is
you know i just do stuff for fun and
when i go to conventions i make money by
doing getting commissions of people like
no one will buy like
maybe like five percent will buy big
action
people will buy things actually
associated with my youtube channel so
that's why we give a lot of it away
honestly um
so you have to kind of go with that in
mind um and just know like if you wanted
to do art then you'd probably just do
speed paintings and then you sell stuff
at tables and you know it also depends
if your personality too like are you
talking or people coming to you
to um
yeah i got it okay i'm just making sure
you know um
are people coming to you to hear your
thoughts or people coming to see your
process so you know uh
there yeah there's a different there's a
bunch of different things you can do um
but the streamlined way is patreon and
do
that convention appearances if that's
something that's in your route
and
that's really it for art
right and i've i got i mean you do art
art yeah um and in terms of me i start
again i like i basically already said
this said this i started in 2009 i made
i uh youtube in 2009 i didn't start
making you know just only a couple of
hundred a month with youtube after six
years of being on it
um and then i didn't start making good
money until three years after that and i
had other jobs before then so i honestly
still really don't have any advice
outside of try everything and get lucky
because at least when you're not
monetarily dependent on you are willing
to try
lots of different things and sometimes
that's a really good creative outlet and
it's also incredibly stressful
it's incredibly stressful no matter what
you believe me i wish there was a
crystal clear answer too
all i can say is at least from one
perspective is that if you're working
with movie reviews at least as long as
movies keep coming out you still have
stuff to talk about
um but then again that's true about life
in general as long as you just have a
topic and that topic doesn't die out
then
then you still got at least something to
talk about
okay
i'll go first
um i just i started uh in again i
started in 0.9 and i basically i started
it when i saw other movie reviewers
um but i didn't want to i didn't want to
show my face because i don't like
i just didn't want to and also you have
to deal with you have to have a good
quality camera and you have to care
about lighting and i don't know anything
about any of that stuff so i just
started uh editing trailer footage
around audio clips
while talking about movies and i did
that for and i did that for a little bit
but i didn't do it very often um but
that's how i generally got started and
then at that point it was just a matter
of doing it regularly enough that people
started to actually
see my stuff
um
but again it took a really long time for
that to get going but i just kept at it
and eventually and again just got lucky
in the algorithm picked it up one day
um yeah essentially the same thing um i
we were talking about this earlier so i
have a tumbler and i was making um
i was talking about my little pony there
and then i was like i'll do a q a and
then i downloaded a program called
camtasia studio which is like the most
obscure program ever but it was a small
editing program and that was enough to
kind of get me started so you just need
like you don't really need a lot you
just need a very basic editing program
and you know a camera and hopefully
interesting content so
and just something to talk about
something to talk literally anything
you literally never know what kind of
topics people are suddenly going to
become interested in there are literally
just random things all the time that
just get random boosts from the
algorithm for no reason whatsoever and
you know so again this notion of just
try everything because you literally
don't know it's just gonna randomly
burst out
uh and jump up and for whatever reason
um
so i hope that answers your question a
little bit come get a prize little child
can you reach do you want me i don't
know okay
no you don't get a prize anymore i'm
sorry you must be this tall
did you ever
um i actually have a two-part question
okay uh the first um
question is uh are there any other
uh
animation channels that you guys have
collaborated with or
um i probably do the most collabs and i
try to rank her to do collapse too but
she needs to be wrinkled
um anyway um
i've done
um just about like i don't know i've
done stuff with terrific
um not lately um
a channel called next best thing uh next
yeah next big thing which is like
general animation um you know lists and
stuff like that i'm basically open to
collab with what wherever it's just a
matter of who
returns my email essentially but you
know every like around my subscriber
range
but you know it collabs are tricky
because um you don't want to feel like
you're using another person for like a
boost you know and whoever has the most
subscribers the other person they might
feel like the other person is using them
and
you know
i try really hard to come off as genuine
as like i want to do this because it's
the creative process is fun and
collaboration is fun and not just like
whoa you have more subscribers than
below let me let me set them up so you
know that's that's really important but
it's really hard to get that across
especially via email too
all so
and i have at least as far as i know
outside of
that one time i was doing that group
react
uh which stopped pretty much after
ponies
were done uh only collabs with her
and that's just because she asked
us if she wanted to and
i do and we get along yeah all right
we're like the same person no one else
is first of all no one else has asked me
but also i haven't asked anyone else
because i'm just not very communicative
as a person on the internet i just i
don't update social very often i don't
take videos very often and
i just and again the first step is that
somebody needs to ask and that just
hasn't happened in my direction either
way so great
and my second question is do you think
that over the years that the stigma that
um
you know like anime animation and
cartoons are for kids i think
yeah i mean even like i mean it just
it's just america really and what's
gonna happen in probably the next like
50 years like the reason it became a
niche for kids
in general is because budget animation
was a thing and saving money on
animation was a thing and kids were
more willing to overlook these errors
than adults so then that's kind of what
had a barbaric capitalized on so that's
how it kind of started um but even now
like you know it's
becoming like even shows like the
simpsons which has been around since a
while since it won't ever end but like
even rick and morty
you know it just depends what
people are being pushed in their face
but it also just depends on like old
boomers being open to it and sometimes
the old boomers aren't open to it and um
it really um rustles by jimmy's that you
know people that are in the actual
academy for the academy awards were like
whoa innovation is for kids i'm just
like what are you doing your whole job
is about reviewing art like
go back to school
but
so long story short it is changing it's
probably going to take a little bit
though before it's universally accepted
i feel
well it's also definitely fascinating
because there's a difference between
uh honoring animation that is made for
children as well as just increasing
animated projects into adult content we
are definitely seeing a lot more
animated content being made for adults
and so that itself has become a lot more
popular and people are starting to
recognize the value of me or gain was
the biggest thing on netflix for at
least a period of time but it was also
obscenely expensive and netflix just had
a big dive and so they cancelled a
handful of projects because of this so
it's hard because and it's one of those
frustrating things because like they
the whole afford deal this is so
complicated a topic i can talk about it
forever but like the four deal for
animation project uh deal is going on
right now by animators feeling very over
under appreciated and overworked because
a lot of people they like animated
content but they
don't always regulate how expensive it
is and how hard it is to work so a lot
of animators don't make a lot of money
which is what the whole protest is about
and then
so even while animation under audiences
is definitely getting more appreciation
and it's technically gotten some of the
companies better that there's more adult
content being made still not enough that
they're paying everyone in the same
level there was even the thing about how
scripts for animation and scripts for
live action despite the fact that it's
literally the same job are just
automatically paid less because they're
animated so we still have a while to go
but it's definitely more than it was
because again there was the whole
panorama thing but now we have the kids
that have been raised in the 90s from
animatics and simpsons so it's
definitely getting bigger but we still
have a ways to go
and also between the people who are like
it's okay to be an adult and watch
animation but only if it's adult content
but you can't be an adult and watch
you know my little pony my little pony
amphibia even if it's amazing yeah so
rude
you can get a prize if you want
oh okay well you want to okay
hi
okay how many applications does it take
you to make one video like how many
different programs do you choose oh god
we're just having like vietnam
flashbacks
um well i don't make the videos all
about myself anthony's next say hi
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so he does
the things i write the scripts but i
know how the process works
usually we need photoshop but we do
complicated stuff
you know we'll lose things in after
effects and fancy
hobby glue
yeah so it just depends on how
complicated you want if you just are
making like a video of your face then
you probably just need a camera and an
editing program or
you know not even the editing program
because i know youtube has its own
editing thing
so uh we use premiere we use photoshop
we use after effects sometimes we use a
lot of different things so
at least three and then that doesn't
count the actual animation stuff so yeah
like the puppet thing because
i really like all these videos oh yeah
yeah the puppets um that's not really
animated i mean i guess we put a blink
cycle on it recently so but that just
art that is it's fake animation it's not
like frame by frame animation but um
right those are all arms
isn't it basically it's a collection of
stills for me yeah main collection is
still strange yeah it's flexus stills
where uh the mouth just moves natural
expression and we have all the skills
pre-made so
uh the editor can match whatever the
script says so it's not done the other
way around or else nothing would ever
get done
all right and i just use i have audacity
for
video or audio recording which is you
just need a decent
usb mic that you can get
yeti's are usually reliable as like the
most basic thing that has okay audio
quality but audio quality is also both
the mic and the environment you recorded
it which is an entire other two hour
long conversation um yeah editing
program
and
um
and then of course either a photoshop or
if i have a free i use a free photoshop
equivalent to basically do the
to do the puppets and to do thumbnails
and then you need a program for
getting the video content i have to be
able to download the youtube videos um
and i use 4k
use 4k downloader to get videos off of
youtube and what you do i don't know
what people do
a lot of times we use reports and stuff
we need stuff directly all right
is the most reliable and one almost all
computers these days have screen
recording software in them and that's
the most reliable way to get anything
off of everything although certain sites
have been blocking screen recording like
crunchyroll which is very annoying but
it's smart but it's very annoying
it's like i could get it legally if i
could get it illegally if you block
screen recording so
and that sounds relating to the youtube
video i think it kind of is but are you
going to do another collab video with
lilly orchard anytime oh me
uh i really like that
um yeah lily's like is really easy to
get a hold of for me she likes me a lot
so i just haven't thought of what to do
i guess again um because we already kind
of beat the the horse as far as mental
health but usually if i want to do a
collab with writer's ass we're just like
sure so it just matters like
oh yeah
she's cool um i think it's just a matter
of like i have like five different big
projects that we're trying to wrap up at
this time uh so we're working on
the unfinished treasure planet which we
have still have some missing assets from
um and then we have this big lion king
documentary that means that i need to
re-review the final edit for and stuff
like that so maybe after all that
stuff's done
maybe
but i just don't want to take on more
than that right now or else i'll die
yeah thanks for your question
if
it weren't for trying to confuse and
making money
what what would you change about your
channel
what would you do differently now that's
a you question because i just do what i
want oh that's true if i didn't i would
probably abandon movie reviews
altogether honestly if i didn't have to
worry about money i would focus i would
constantly want i have literally a very
long list of video topics that i've
wanted to do that keep getting sidelined
i admit a lot of it's sometimes my own
motivation but then sometimes i
literally have to stop that project to
do a movie review because i have to get
a video out that month because i need to
pay rent
um i also have been wanting to
learn how to animate to actually make an
animated short i actually do have an
idea for an animated short where i've
actually outlined like the basic
storyboard but again i actually have to
learn how to animate but that's the
whole long process but
it's i that's only so much you can use
that as an excuse because the movie
reviews
honestly all things considered don't
take that much time but i and a lot of
it is my own motivation but
it's also still something i need to pay
attention to because i also can't rely
on movie reviews to get the view counts
i need every month so
that's the hard thing to
kind of keep in mind to try and find a
way to make those videos still
interesting and exciting because
sometimes i feel like i'm phoning it in
if you're just doing it for money and
you're not passionate about it anymore
um
but at the same time every once in a
while i do something different and then
the twist villains video happens and
that lets me go to japan next year
what would you say is a good workaround
for
someone who wants to put more time into
their
careers such as youtube and comics but
you know could have a pretty busy
schedule because i've tried
i've tried you know setting aside a time
for certain things but sometimes i find
that it's quicker to just try to get it
in is whenever possible like just bring
a little device and just um
for me i have a similar problem where
i'll like i'll go through periods of
really big productivity and then really
like
like i'll do like a million things then
i'll be depressed for two weeks and then
i don't want to do anything so i feel
you um
i try to just kind of listen to like
what my body's feeling like and if i
feel productive
um then i'll do it so
i take advantage of that energy but if i
don't feel productive then if i
sit down and force myself to do it i'm
just going to get drained really easily
so it's also a matter of just kind of
honoring your center and all this this
stuff um
but that's what i've had i've gone
through some not fun trauma um last
couple of years so that's kind of what
i've had to do to make sure i'm
not
i'm being healthy about it but i guess
the other aspect of it too is just
like it might be like a gym path where
if you have a buddy that
can hold you accountable
and or some kind of structure that can
hold you accountable so that way you
know
you can't be like oh i'll just do it
later and it's like well what about
steve who's gonna work on my art with me
so that's just a matter of like you know
joining discord communities or whatever
and finding someone who like doing an
art stream or something where you go and
you know
people know people know
from you and i don't know
sorry there's a theme song that i didn't
remember um
yeah yeah sorry i'm rambling go ahead um
when it comes to promoting your work
like i said once again whether it's
youtube or comics for instance um
i i haven't really found a i know there
isn't really a direct route but would
you say like social media advertising
you know maybe chipping in everywhere to
try to get the word out about your stuff
would help
all right
spreading the word with hashtags um
hashtag so um
i
i honestly i'm not even that much on
social oh i know that definitely can
help
i know that there's tons of people who
have literally gotten
famous just by
twitter or literally just
being on twitter and being good on
twitter if that's even a thing they
managed to do that so that it can work
i'm not particularly good at that i've
literally just been a whim of the of the
algorithm and whether my thumbnail was
attractive enough
and sometimes experimenting with
thumbnails works apparently worked for a
content work worked well enough um i
bought this program called what is it
called
this is the one it's the video editing
program all the youtubers have been
promoting i don't know if you try this
called filmora i
no premiere isn't free well audacity is
free but it's an audio software it's not
good for video
um it looks like i'll just warn you it
looks like it filled out the pay wall
but it's by nomination so just just say
you don't
yeah
all right is it uh
five more minutes questions
yeah i'll help for it
from my little pony possible well i was
always impossible i always always i
looked impossible a lot um which was
confusing to people but they didn't
remember me um and then you know as we
the pony fandom the show ended and stuff
we just started getting before disney
asked stuff and that was it so you know
i read
you know it was just me making pony
videos enough and then
that's how people knew me and then i
just
squeezed on out of there and now it's
still impossible a lot
cool
how do you deal with the craziness of
fandoms in general
i am used to it um i've done i i've done
like 30 pounds or something like that so
i'm really used to like this spaghetti
that cons can bring out
um just like anything else as far as on
the internet unless you're being
targeted uh which is not fun then it's
just then you're always gonna get some
haters as like as the kids call them but
it's just a matter of
you know treating them out and um
you know making sure that you know like
usually why people are doing that is
just so they feel better about like what
you're doing so just don't give them any
attention don't need the trolls you know
besides that just
take breaks
do healthy things and that usually helps