 Hey guys right here for movie nerds. It is a brand new year and a very exciting moment happened for us today And that was we surpassed 1,000 subscribers, which is pretty awesome. It's taken us Quite a long time to get there, but it's still pretty exciting for us nonetheless So there's a thousand of you here a thousand three. I think at this point who knows what it is right now Subscribe to this channel, which is unreal. We've had a hundred and twenty seven thousand views over videos over that time Which is awesome our most popular video of this date is the interview I did with Quinn Tarantino about about a year and a half ago when we first started the So is it any good website? We're now labeled as movie nerds. So that changes, you know kind of happen So for this video, I really kind of just wanted to give you a bit more of an in-depth Basically an idea of who we are as movie nerds and what we've been doing what we've done over the past two years of This site and and what we started as and how we got to where we are right now And if you like this video make sure you tell us because I can do these videos all the time I can tell you how we got certain places got certain interviews how we got to certain things So yeah, let us know in the comments below and I can definitely do that Anyway, so basically it started out, you know, four years ago. I was writing for a gaming website called impulse gamer love doing it love doing movie reviews for them and And game reviews and that was all based tech space and no video or anything like that and While I was enjoying it the It was never really going anywhere. It was not progressing the way I wanted it to So instead of waiting for that site to catch up to how I wanted to do things I decided that I would do it my own do it by myself and do and do it how I wanted to and that's where I created a little site a little blogging site that I had called isn't any good and On that on that site. I was doing movie reviews and just all tech space My first review started off being in time with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Siegfried. Hey did that movie Don't know if you've seen it if you have what a waste of time that film is honestly You all should feel bad if you made that movie you should feel bad It is a terrible thing on but anyway start on that little blog It was I did that on blogger.com and then I moved that to a main website And I was trying to get the name isn't any good, but I couldn't it was pretty annoying anyway So I decided to add the so in front of it to make it a bit more Conversational so it became so is it any good and while that absolutely is a gob full of words I'll get to that a little bit further on so from that name I decided I'd build a website that we originally did game reviews and movie reviews But I found that doing game reviews at the same time with such a small team There was a team of four or five of us at that point It was just becoming too much so I built the site from there to doing just movie reviews And we got a small following about 400 people 500 people in the first couple of months And when we got to a thousand roughly We started contacting Different distributors in Australia So people like Warner Brothers and Sony pictures and all that kind of jazz and just saying hey, we're a movie blog We want to do movie reviews. Can we jump on your press screenings and that went really well We never never hardly had any issues getting on board with most of those the only one we had an issue was Disney That's whatever we still have issues with them, but you know Disney Australia Disney itself. It's all a little bit hard So yeah, we did that and then we moved on to doing Some video-based stuff our first video-based stuff was our interview with Quentin Tarantino I don't know how I got that It was complete luck. He was out here doing the movie The Hateful Eight and he was here with Kurt Russell and Simile Jackson and They were gonna do a press screening and then also do some press junkets And so I got a hold of somehow for the press junket. Don't know how I did it swing my way into that one and that was awesome and then from there we Started blowing up because in that interview We got a we asked a question of you know as he ever thought about making a movie in Australia And he said yes, he actually he has a big idea of making movie in Australia and that little snippet went Global it was over on sites on slash film It was on collider collider movie talk talked about it and then from there our site and our Facebook kind of started going up We went to you know thousand to two thousand or three thousand or four thousand to five thousand our YouTube views started going up crazy, but we didn't actually post anything on YouTube. It was a very small Single video and then a few trailers would keep putting up the trailers weren't working for us didn't really understand YouTube at the time So at that point we kept this is gonna be a long time at that point we kept going with the site and then we did a Leaked couple leaked images for Alien Covenant if you've seen those they were released by us I'm not gonna tell you how we got the images probably bit dodgy wasn't us They were given to us, but anyway and then from there it kind of blew up again and You know, it's kind of just been getting bigger and bigger ever since and so the name movie nerds why we switched from so is it any good to movie nerds is Basically, so isn't it good is really hard to say to someone if you walk in and just say hey I I run a movie website. It's called. So is it any good? They were saying they'll if the instant reply is sorry What'd you say? Well, it's so is it any good and it just became too hard So I was like, well, let's work out something else and we're currently doing a small podcast they didn't really go anywhere at the time called movie nerds and It just made sense to change it to that name as that is more what we are defined as really We're a bunch of guys that love talking about movies And we're super nerdy about it. So movie nerds make sense and Yeah, from there we made we've started making more progress on our Facebook Last check we just made forty seven thousand followers on Facebook I'm sorry forty seven thousand likes and fifty nine thousand followers, which is just bonkers and for YouTube We're still trying to build our audience We've been doing movie reviews and And interviews and stuff like that some red carpet stuff But we haven't but we haven't really been putting out any original content anything that's you know No one else is kind of doing so that's what this year is about we're gonna start putting out original content you're gonna see a lot more original content here on this YouTube channel and We hope you guys are gonna be excited about it because we're stoked about the first video series will be called the collectors It's gonna be coming out in two weeks time We have six episodes jam packed with that Our first episode is gonna be with cosplay Chris if you don't know who cosplay Chris is I'm putting a link down the bottom with this video. He's an awesome youtuber that does custom toys He buys a toy from say Kmart or big W and takes it home and just Smashes it to be something unreal. You can see behind me that I'm a collector myself actually Those cabinets are really bare right now because I'm moving but you know normally they're full with stuff and I'm sure you've seen some of the videos before this and They're quite full. Anyway, so that's kind of where we are with movie nerds and souls any good And yeah, so basically I just wanted to sum up this video. Thank you so much for subscribing to the channel a thousand subscribers is Bonkers, we're very excited about that. We want to keep going with that and hit the next milestone of 2000 and then you know get to wherever we want to get to by the end of next year and Is this unreal? So, you know, as I said, we want to build a community So comment below and let us know what you want to see if you want to see us do something or see Let's review a particular movie that you've watched and see what we think about it Then please let us know because we happily do it And you know, thank you again for subscribing to the channel. This is absolutely unreal and it's only just getting started with us We're gonna have a whole lot more original content once again starting with the collectors coming up in two weeks Which is gonna be unreal. I'll tell you a bit more about that later on and if you like this video comment below and let us know and Hit the like button and if you haven't already hit that Bell notification so you don't miss any videos from us So thank you again. Mine is Ryan. I'm part of movie nerds and until next time. See you the cinema