What is Emoting?

[Zatzzo]

someone thinks he's jim morrison

[4monkiman4]

This is awesome... like kassem g but more poignant.

Title your vids like kassem, and have similar video stills, and you got yourself a hit.

[asterismxx]

So basically 'emoting' is your word for 'thinking'. Ok...

[SexyTheDyke]

These things are so hilarious

[Projection1234]

Sup?

[Projection1234]

Dude, where you at?

[ImmortalDragon]

@Projection1234 Venice Beach (from the tags)

[Projection1234]

@ImmortalDragon Thanks. I knew the location of the video. I was asking how much longer will it be before Ian uploads another video.

[Posthuman7]

hahaha ian your awesome

[Projection1234]

What is the safety dance?

[johnnycrisp22]

Biggest clown on youtube.

[Projection1234]

What is ennui?

[Projection1234]

What is not posting?

[deweygalaxy]

She is sooooo in her head!

[leslieKbp]

Just watched all 3 on the street interviews, and I absolutely Love them. People are amazing in their responses to you. Great 5 stars!!!

[leslieKbp]

Just watched all 3 on the street interviews, and I absolutely Love them. People are amazing in their responses to you. Great 5 stars!!!

[dougzuckerman]

I'm not sure that I agree with your definition of emoting, but I do think you do a very good job on the street as an interviewer. I enjoyed watching this.

[HeidiSaid]

The kid takes you down! Awesome~

[RottenCorpseStench]

You should have done this 2 years ago. YouTube is getting so bad that it may be too late.

[IanCrossland]

@RottenCorpseStench YouTube's just a website for video hosting. It is much about the quality of the video.

[Drstrangelove17]

This is great, Ian! You've been busy. It's hard to go out and talk to strangers, but it is a lot of fun. Good job, man.

[taylorhippie]

"speaking in your mind is how I infer it" Ian "instead of saying of saying words, you think em" Ian "So no gestures or anything else, just thinking them in our head" Random nerd with deftones shirt on, Ian nods... goodness, there's a nice pick for an interview haha. They did make me laugh, three dorks... anyway...

So far your totally miss using the word... Emote: verb- Portray emotion in a theatrical manner.

But then at the end, you do start gesturing etc... what the hell is going on?

[jforjeenius]

How are you so pale....

[RobMcCarthy88]

I had no idea KassemG invented Interviewing the public..... :o

I love KassemG but he's hardly ripping him off.

[RBurn90]

dude you suck this was not funny

[ruckersucker]

Oh my gosh.....when did they let Ian out???????

[thisisrobertb]

Mixing Lenos "JayWalking" and Kassems shtick = shight

[ceciley]

I love that little boy!  He's adorable.

[JonTricky]

She doesn't know

[myvidutube]

not...funny..

[pash91]

dude your only gunna get kassem g rip off comments so get used to it cus you suck

[rathgirl2009]

kassemg is way better. sorry.

[gemini06081997]

kasssem g is so much better and way much funnier

[ashleeeiswhereitsat]

i dont get it.

howver.... that kid with the ice cream dripping down his hand and then rubbing it all over his shirt. win.

[GamerLifeTV]

@Riiivinn Yeah, but your a fan boy, so..Your opinion doesn't justify.

[Riiivinn]

@GamerLifeTV I am a "fan boy" (PS. It's fanboy) because I like KassemG better?

[GamerLifeTV]

2:10 - Dude with the Deftones shirt :]

White Pony

[GNoodle]

that kid with the melting ice cream was awesome.

[TYjohnson098]

I thought emoting was the smiley face thing too! hahaa

[qubainoc]

haha that confused girl was sexy,

and nice job,

this was great

[Djohnjohn]

the ice cream is MELTING!!!!

[caligurl3414]

um...i don't know either.

[lxvlx]

i dig that chick at the beginning. a good sport. and cute :)

[cedry123]

I've always understood emoting to be a projection of emotion. Communicating emotions. through gestures and tone of voice while speaking.

[ChristianInHollywood]

I see a lot of lead in these videos.

[zanzaba78]

if you were a bit nicer and helpfull to the people instead of making them feel like idiots i would definitely pay more attention next time. the high-5's were nice moments, do more of those :)

[zanzaba78]

this is a rip off of Kassem G california on

[beloitrose]

it IS smilie faces on yahoo messenger LOL!! smart kid!

[Bugsykato]

girl in da orange, gotta luv clueless hot chicks.

[ooimagineo]

u present well dude

[Jackielove1279]

ok hottie, I am sooooo emoting right now....love yah.... :)

[butternut86]

I looked up the definition of emoting and it says "to display exaggerated emotion, as in acting; behave theatrically" It doesn't say anything about thinking how you feel. I think its more expressing an emotion in an exaggerated way.

[144Heidi]

Props to the little kid who gave the best answers....even though he didn't know what you meant

[novanine]

Ok, after catching up with the rest of this series I'm taking it off my channel page. I mean, it's entertaining and all and I'll keep watching them but I can't really promote it to people I respect.

You're a strange fish Ian. I feel some kind of weird affection towards you but I also want to be mean to you. It's VERY confusing.

[novanine]

This is ingenious, hilarious, just fantastically entertaining yet still manages to retain your trademark 'slightly demented'.

In all seriousness, I love it. I may sound sarcastic but really, I love it and am going to feature it on my channel page.

This works, stick with it for a while.

[cragus2004]

your no fucking Tom Green thats for sure

[GoogleSuperstar]

I hope you got her number :)

[Charlesdance]

How you guys can inject so much drama into something so lighthearted is great. It's a fun video, enjoy or baggar owf.

[Napalmbl00t]

mushroom Mushroom MUSHROOM

[paul1967uk]

I managed to get to 0:27

[Milanotjuh]

have you ever seen an italian talk ? I noticed I talked with my hands a lot when I moved to the Netherlands

[sadvipran]

one of those internet twitter/facebook things

[GeekTracker]

I love this series. Keep it up dude.

[FILMTHISTHISISTELLY]

lol you fucking idiot, you're going to get attacked in the street you nut!

[BizkitProductions]

A little bit of advice: Try and move away from the "California On" format and try doing something more unique. This just isn't going to work -- it's too much of a copy-cat format. I like where you're heading, but I think you need to change some things around to make it more "you" this is too much like "kassemg"

[IncidentalShine]

@BizkitProductions I agree but in fairness Kassemg hasn't been posting that many California on videos lately, there's a demand for these kind of videos but you're right it is far too similar

[hinjufilms]

@BizkitProductions KassemG didn't invent the man on the street interview. I've been developing this concept since before he started California On. We're not copying him.

[BizkitProductions]

@hinjufilms I'm not saying that kassemg invented the man on the street concept, I'm just saying that your way of executing the concept is almost an identical replica to Kassemg's "California On". There are many ways to make "The man on the street" concept original, and unique, and something that is more true to Ian... this feels pretty much like your molding Ian into something he is not, It feels very fake.

[BizkitProductions]

@hinjufilms Even the location APPEARS to be identical to Kassemg's. I think you need to go to a new location where there are more intellectual people as well which would suit Ian more. SOmething like downtown los angelas. And I'd like to see Kassem interview more intellectual people like professors or lawyers or business men or something, I think it would be much more hilarious to bounce these concepts off them than lets say a teenager or a 10 year old... Just my 2 cents. Just some small changes

[novanine]

@BizkitProductions I think it's great as a starting point but I agree that it's not all that new in the grand scheme of things. I think Ian could move it along by trying to talk his imaginary science with working scientists. THAT would be entertaining, for a while.

[thedailyenglishshow]

Hilarious. The kid was awesome. Black t-shirt guy on-to-it. And I love the I-don't-know girl's top.

[Beentakenaway123]

for your next "what is" do it shirtless!

[novanine]

@Beentakenaway123 Brilliant! =D

[RottenCorpseStench]

You're doing amazing work here, but it makes me too uncomfortable, so I'm going to go quest like a tribe and build some West Bank settlements. Wish me luck.

[xo3velyn]

i want to get high with you.

[blc341]

that kid won the contest, but do u really think you are sookie for trueblood? with that telepathy stuff. its not relaly true. i def get it though.  you couldnt communicate with someone without actually saying anything, its kind of hard.

[withoutleaders]

@blc341 not if youre on shrooms. hard not to.

[michelle2chat]

The coolest part of that video was the kid.

[engeljakob]

the kid FTW!!!

[blc341]

that's called throught broadcasting, schizophrenics think that is happening.

[NLPNVC]

What beach did you shoot this at... Venice?

[aomduck]

we're emoting all the time....

[Pawsz]

that kid woon

[thedakkster]

Alright, I gave this a shot, but after watching a few "episodes" and thinking about it, I've come to the conclusion that I can't stand it. It's not you, Ian. This is someone plastering a concept on you that is not YOU. You have a shitload of videos talking about being real. This is not being real. Big, huge disappointment. Meh...

Yeah, I know I'll be labeled a whiner for the millionth time by the other people here, but fuck it. It's just what I think.

[andthentherewasham]

@thedakkster

AH.. think of it this way. Comedy can be more true than any other genre because it can attack or address what normally could not.

[thedakkster]

@andthentherewasham I guess... but Ian has always been comedy even if he didn't indend it that way himself. Also, he's never had any problems addressing anything. This is just spiffy editing with spiffy music and Ian being weird among regular people, spouting his usual nonsense that would normally be contained to his YouTube viewers.

[MarshalNey13]

@thedakkster

What is emwharton up to?

[lxvlx]

@thedakkster which is what makes it great! - we get to see the confuzzly expressions on other peepies that we would normally miss out on.

[bellagoestohell]

@thedakkster

totally

actually if i didn't watch ian before, these videos might be fun. but they feel very fake.

and in one of the follow up videos they talk to their assistant, or whatever she is, poor girl. that other guy asked her something about porn, ah, jesus, I can't articulate it, but it's just all so blah. I hope you are feeling what I'm emoting.

[lxvlx]

@bellagoestohell nah man.. this stuff is great.. tis lovely to see some freshness injected.

[klocke]

the acid question is always the worst part about these IMO... it just seems really immature & awkward & off-topic

[klocke]

the little kid was the smartest one you talked to

[Supersecretfilms]

they are idiots,they don't know what showing an expression with body language is?!?

[lxvlx]

@Supersecretfilms makes it kinda hard when Ian gives them the wrong definition in the first place :-/