 Alright everyone, get ready for another Nintendo Prime Live, our first Nintendo Prime Live of the month of March of 2024. Today we're going to be talking about what it took for Nintendo Prime to become a full time YouTuber asking your questions. Go ahead and drop your favorite emojis in the chat and welcome in your host. Doing today, how we all doing tonight, I hope you're having an amazing time. We're going to be talking about how I became, not really how I became answering your questions on how I became a full time YouTuber. Any questions you guys kind of have or let's just realize, I forgot to say, I said YouTube, I guess how I made it on YouTube is just fine. Alright, so any questions you guys might have, you got to add Nintendo Prime in the chat. You can super chat your questions in as well. We also have some questions that were sent to me beforehand, so we might get to some of those as well. It's going to be a good fun time stream. We are taking some requests, $2 for the first request, $5 after. However, today during this stream, we're going to keep it just strictly video game music. We're going to try to avoid the copyright bug. We're hoping to keep this video up long haul for anyone who ever wants to go back and read the questions and are just curious about my journey on YouTube and like any advice and stuff that people might ask me questions about when it comes to being a full time YouTuber. Now, the first thing we do have to do though, since this is our very first live stream of the month of March is we need to come up with new names for Valon Prime and Cupid. Valon Prime is our top super chatter or donator of the stream. Cupid is our top gifted member person of the stream. So it's the month of March. So that's first thing first chat. What should we call? What should we rename these two? What what should be? What should it be in the month of March? I see pot of gold. I see pot of gold thrown out there. That's the only one I see thrown out there so far. It's pot of gold. Any other ones? Any other ones? This is switch last breath of the while birthday month. So I think it would be cool if it was related to that. Could be. Again, you guys are going to decide. So what do we got? Right now I see Lucky Charms. See pot of gold. The Lucky Charm. Okay, let's let's start with replacing Cupid. Let's start with replacing Cupid. All right, let's start with replacing Cupid. I'm going to take some of you guys as options here. See here, what other options do we have? What other ones we got here? Right now we're taking suggestions right now to rename Cupid quick. Let's get this out of the way quick and see here. Let's look at first suggestions for renaming our top gifted member of the stream for the month of March. Let's see here. Easter Bunny. Isn't that in April or is it Easter this month? I can't remember. Is it this month or April? I'm forgetting. It's the same prime. Usually don't do. I mean, it's kind of a jokey reference, right? It's at the end of March this year. It's on the 31st this month. Jeez. Um, let's see here. So Easter is also apparently this month. Damn, let's go. Isn't it usually in April or am I just going crazy? I feel like it's usually in April. What if it lands on the 31st? It lands on the 31st. It is what it is. Yeah, it usually is. I was going to say, it's usually like the first week or second week of April, but hey, how are things lined up is how they line up this year. It is a leap year too. So let's see here. Let's go. You know what? There wasn't a lot of names really thrown out. We're just going to rename Cupid. It's going to be one of your guys's names, of course. Hold on, let's slide up here. We're going to rename Cupid to the one that I thought made the most sense that was thrown in the chat. We didn't have a lot of options. We're going to call it Lucky Charms. So whoever gives the most Lucky Charms is our top gifted. What are we renaming Valorant Prime to? By the way, we clearly got changes of colors on that. What are we doing? That can't be. Yeah, we got to go with like some green up in here. There we go. I like that. I like that. Let me see here. Replace Cupid with excellence. So now, so what are we going to replace Cupid with or Valorant Prime? Valorant Prime. Valorant Prime. This is our top Super Chatter of the day, or of the streamer. I guess I should say. Should say. Let's see here. Top Super Chatter name. See here. They're magically delicious. Let's see here. Look at some of the suggestions we had. I like this one as a possibility. Put this one in. We got to have more than just one suggestion. We haven't had a lot of things really thrown out there. I mean, yeah, you guys, you guys make the suggestions. I'm not seeing any. Come on, guys. My chat could do better than this. What are we going to rename Valorant Prime to? What are we renaming it to? Our top Super Chatter. What are we doing? Throw some ideas out there. I got one. I can add like two or I can add what? Three to four more options to this poll. It's more fun when we have like options. Right now, we don't really have anyone. Oh, no, no. Yeah, I like this. The divine beast of the stream. I like that. So that's a nice little breath of the wild reference right there. The divine beast of the stream. The leprechaun of the stream. Okay. I guess I used to have a leprechaun. All right. One more suggestion. One more suggestion. We don't have any Easter suggestion now. We got to have an Easter suggestion in here. I feel we got to switch launch Zelda suggestion. We have a couple, uh, you know, St. Patrick's Day suggestions. We have an Easter suggestion. Let's get, let's get, yeah, let's get an Easter suggestion in. Let's get one Easter suggestion and then you guys can vote. Finally changed my YouTube display name. It's been a long time coming. Wait a second. Who is this? Is that Sam West? Tall show? Are you, wait a second. How am I supposed to know who you are now? I don't know who that is. When people rename themselves. I don't know the peeps. Who's the top peeps of the stream? All right. I like that one. We'll throw that one on there. Who's the peeps of the stream? Ah, how do I know? You know what's the tingle emoji? That's what's giving it away. Damn tingle emoji. All right. It's gonna be so weird not to call you Sam West, but not your tall show. Got it. All right. You guys, you guys voted the poll. What's it gonna be? The divine beast of the stream. Wait, sorry. The options were pot of gold of the stream, divine beast of the stream, leprechaun of the stream, peeps of the stream, which is going to win the poll. So we can rename our valent prime, rename our valent prime. What are we doing? What are we doing? Ooh, this is a, this is a tight poll. Divine beast is taking a lead briefly, but there's not that many votes. This could be swung. This could be swung right now. This could be swung easily. Leprechaun pulls into a tie. Leprechaun pulls ahead. Watching this in live when there's only 18 votes. No vigorous turtle. No, there's no, come on guys, get the votes in. If you have like 50 people, we'll close it at, at, at anywhere above 30 votes. Anywhere above 30 votes is when we'll close it. Anywhere above 30. We're at 20 votes right now. I voted, I voted, I voted 22. Oh, peeps is making a comeback. Look out. Oh, Leprechaun might just hold on. Leprechaun might just hold on. We'll see. Oh, oh, oh, this is tight. This is, this is coming in hot right now. Oh, no. This is, this is so tight. It's neck and neck. What is happening? It's neck and neck right now. Team beast. People want the divine beast for the anniversary of Breath of the Wild. Anniversary of Breath of the Wild. The divine beast of the stream. Leprechaun dude. Oh, it's so tight right now. Oh, no. Oh, no. We're at 29 votes. Who's going to be the deciding vote? Yeah, Breath of the Wild's anniversary. There's so many things going on. Switch's anniversary as well. Obviously. There it is. We hit 30 and buy like a single vote. Divine beast took it with like a single vote. Divine beast it is, baby. All right, let's go ahead and get that relabel to the divine. Wait, that's all right? No, duh. That was for the vine. The bomb beast. That's how you spell divine beast, isn't it? I have no idea. Divine. Pretty sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. The divine beast of the stream. Now we got to take care of the colors here. We're not going red. Come on now. Come on now. You know what color this has got to be. You know, I feel like, is that, is that like the correct blue? Is that the correct blue? It was a different shade. Yeah, the Sheikah blue. I feel like that's not quite the Sheikah blue. That's not quite the Sheikah blue. Isn't it more like this? A little lighter? Yeah, is that good? So we're going light in the white. I think that's, I think that's, that's more divine beast. Yeah, yeah, I think that's more divine beast right there. I'd have to pull the game up quick and kind of look at the color side. We can adjust the color too as the month goes. We don't have to keep it this shade of blue. We could, we could change it as I get out, you know, the game and actually kind of look at it. There we go. We got our divine beast, our lucky charm. I don't know who's going to be the first divine beast and lucky charms of the, of the month. But there you go. We got our labels out of the way. Perfect. So we have a beast test. We have a peace test coming in. Taylor McNeil. Coming in. He wants to be the beast. The first divine beast of the stream. This is going to be sick. I can't believe I get to say that like all month long now. Whoa, whoa. Five dollars by Taylor McNeil. He is our divine beast of the stream. Five dollars. Make you holler. Hell yeah. Thank you so much, buddy. I appreciate the five dollars. We need a beer for that. We need a beer for that, man. You know what? I'm going to go grab a beer because we need to celebrate. Right back, guys. Be right back. Sorry to make you guys wait there. If we're going to grab a beer, it is the weekend. We are going to a friend's birthday party after this stream. So, so, you know, how to make sure. Get a little bit of pre-drinking in a bit. It is happening at a bar to a bar with our friends. So all right, well, thank you so much, Taylor. Stream will be probably like another couple hours. But I'm probably going to get all right. So if you have any questions about what did it's like to be a full time YouTuber and everything, that would be fantastic. Otherwise, we'll get to some of the questions that we had happening before. And let me get, let me get these questions up here. I got to refresh the page. We have a lot of questions. Our first question is going to get answered in its own video, but I will show it anyways because it does come from Sky Sword, Alyssa. So assuming that this all works. Hey, who knows, it works. Sky Sword, Alyssa says, I would love to see the process of setting up live streams, adding other sources for audio like music on top of vocals and potential gameplay, scheduling streams through other software and some of the hardware you use. You have shown some of these before. The cool deep dive would be interesting. You explain things very well and I feel I could learn a lot from you. That is awesome. I love that question. Unfortunately, at this moment, I'm not going to be able to show that in a live setting anyways. So I will probably make a separate video about just that to go up on a random weekend when we don't get much going on because there's a lot to go over. Like all the software I use, how everything is set up, the equipment that goes into it because you asked about the hardware we use and my streaming setup is going to be like changing. So I don't know if I should wait for my stream setup changes because we're going to be building a streaming PC here in like a month or two. And so the streaming setup is going to change again. So I don't know if I should do it before the change or after the change. You know, it's one of those things that I have to debate. Our next question here comes from Nathan Byberg who says, I have two questions for you. I hope they make the cut. Well, here you go. They are in the cut right now. What's the best and worst thing about being a full-time YouTuber? Let's start with that question. The best and worst thing about being a full-time YouTuber, I think they're like the same thing, which feels like a cop-out answer, but I'm going to explain. The best thing about being a full-time YouTuber is I'm my own boss. I make my own hours. I work when I say I'm going to work. I take off when I'm going to take off. I, you know, get to decide to work from home. It might not always be the case, but right now I get to choose that I'm working from home. Maybe someday we have a separate building I work in, but right now that is not the case. I get to decide who I hire, who I'm going to pay for things, what I'm going to do, like am I going to buy some thumbnail, am I going to buy video assets, am I going to do this, am I going to do that? I get to make all of my own decisions, be my own boss, and there's no one above me, and that is awesome. Like there is so much creative freedom and just freedom in general when you are the boss. It's also the worst thing about being a YouTuber is being your own boss and being the boss, especially when you're a solo content creator where you don't have other staff. Maybe it's not as bad when you have other staff. It could be worse, but it's because when you are your own boss and you are the only, you are the only reason your channel is successful or not is basically based on what you do. You have to wear many hats. Okay. I have to, I have to be a video host, an on-camera host, or even if you weren't on camera, you still have to talk into a microphone, right? So you have to be some sort of host like ability. You have to be able to be a researcher and a writer. I think those kind of go together, but you have to be able to write scripts, be a researcher, be a writer, and be an on-camera personality. You got to be able to edit videos. You have to be able to have a little bit of knowledge at least of image work and Photoshop and stuff like that. So you can make thumbnails and all that stuff and any images you might need for your actual video that you're doing, you know, whether you need graphs or just cropping certain image or custom image work done. You need to be able to, let's see here, be an accountant. That's a big thing that no one ever talks about. You have to be an accountant. You literally get sent to check by YouTube or if you go through another network, it doesn't matter. Either way, you get sent to check. There's no taxes taken out of that check. You're not a W2 employee. You are a business owner. You are a 1044 sole proprietor, unless you have registered your channel as a business LLC. So unless you've incorporated to an LLC, which is also a whole another thing, you are a sole proprietor. You are a legal business. Whether you register or not, you are now officially a legal business. If you don't register, then your legal business is just your name. If you do register, then your legal business is whatever your legal business is. You don't technically have to register to be a sole proprietor. You just need to be being paid like a sole proprietor it is. So, and that's how YouTube pays you. So you got to manage all your own taxes. You got to manage all your own business expenses. You got to manage all of that stuff and to be a full time tax accountant, 24, 7, 365 for yourself is a very, very difficult thing. And then on top of all that, you have to be a video producer. You have to learn this is a camera. This is a real professional camera. I have to learn how to actually be a video producer. That is very difficult. I have to learn how to be a professional audio producer to for this microphone on the audio setup. And obviously, as like Scott Alissa asked earlier, the stream deck and all the other stuff that goes into live streaming in the equipment you use, you have to start to become a professional at all of that, at all of that. And that is a lot. So there's a lot of benefits and there's a lot of negatives. And you got to at some point decide if the benefits outweigh the negatives because it's very difficult. And I'm not like a master at any of it. I'm just proficient enough to do what I do. And I'm constantly getting better. So but it's a lot. Like professional outlets will have like one person for each of those things. And I I'm a solo creator. I got to do it all. It's it's just a lot. And then the second part of this question said, what was your favorite video or stream you've done on YouTube so far? Give me a moment, actually. I want to see if I could bring this one up. I can't remember the exact title. But this was also there's a double whammy with this one. I think it was called I see here. See if this pops up when I search for it. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. This is it. This is it right here. Got it. So it's funny because I did a follow up for it. This video six years ago. What if the Wii U was the we HD and released in 2010? It's my favorite video for a number of reasons. One, it was a scripted video, one of my very first scripted videos. And I put, you know, several weeks of work into it. It took off. This was my largest video I had ever released at the time, besides the Reggie, my body is ready thing, like way, like way back in the day. But since we became Nintendo Prime, that was the most successful video I had at the time. And and on top of that, in terms of working on it really hard and having this really cool idea for a video, this video springboarded my channel growth. This video is what started Nintendo Prime growing. So it's a special video in channel history because it is the video that springboarded my channel. And on top of that, it was also one that I put tons of work into. And it's very amateurish compared to what I do today. But man, that is my all time favorite video because it was an original idea, not like a news video or something. And I obviously it springboarded the channel. It's going to be one that I always remember, in other words, like there's not there's not it's just special for a number of reasons. All right, so we don't have too many questions from the chat yet. So we're going to keep going with the questions that we had had asked ahead of time. Again, if you guys have any questions about YouTube stuff, you can just add Nintendo Prime in the chat. And that'll be all cool. But let's go ahead and get to the next one. This is a this is a nice deep question. Are you happy? Says Grant, are you happy? That is a very fundamental question that goes well beyond YouTube. Yes, I love what I do. I love myself. I'm losing weight. I you guys might not be able to tell, but I'm down. I'm down a full 15 pounds from Monday of last week. So what, you know, almost two weeks in and we're down 15 pounds. We're doing really well with our diet and our exercise. And so I'm loving myself. I'm loving what I do. I love my children. I love my fiance. I love where I am in life. It's not exactly where I want to be. There's places I want to go, but we're already heading there. So I'm I'm just I'm happy. Yeah, I would say yes. I am fortunate to be happy. You know what I mean? Remember to add Nintendo Prime if you have questions in the live chat, guys. All right. The next question we had preselected here was a Super Star Wars fan 67 at the bottom there says, what's the best way to find your niche and grow from there? So number one, to find your niche, you need to know what you're passionate about, right? What drives you to want to make video content? What is that thing that you are really good at or really passionate about, passionate enough to get good at? Then take that thing and start doing a lot of research. Dig around on YouTube, search for things. You search terms you think you would use to find the kind of content that you want to make and then see what's being made. See how much competition there is and then go figure out there are services like vidIQ and others that will tell you how much those terms are being looked up is something other people are also looking for because if nobody's looking for it, then you're going to make it for an audience of no one. So lots and lots of research and then we're to grow from there. But that's a whole long journey. Super Super Star Wars fan 67 to get into like how to grow from there. It all just starts by doing. You do it and you do it again and you do it again. Big thing is don't jump in headfirst trying to go full time and do crazy stuff. Do it as a hobby, have fun on the side, learn from it, make every video better than the last and see where it goes. Just lots and lots of research and you know, sometimes some dumb luck. That's that's how it goes sometimes. Let's see here. We have a question coming in from honest Stabe 16 stab 16. I have no idea honest Abe 16. I just got that. Oh, what do you love most about YouTube? What do I love most about YouTube? It's a good question. What do I love most about YouTube? You know what? It's the communities. It's the communities. I love making content. I love live streaming. I love everything I do on my YouTube channel. But why do I love it? You guys, you guys are why I love it. You know what I mean? Without you guys, there is no community. So I you guys just are sometimes the motivation. I want to go live on today because of you guys. I want to make this video because of you guys. You guys are amazing and awesome and make me smile literally every day. So that I would say is probably what I actually love the most about it. Next question we had here. Just want to say you're doing great. Thank you Game Junction Media. We had we had a couple of so JLo says why is Charles the best mod? I just want to know I don't play favorites of mods. I don't play favorites of mods. So I think all my mods are wonderful. JLo is a mod. Honest Dave 16 then said what keeps you from getting burnt out? So YouTube burnout comes essentially from one place. All right. When you start to make YouTube content for money and you stop making YouTube content because you love to do it, you end up making choices that are just about the money and not about how much you love making content anymore. And when that happens and you make those choices too many times, you burn out, you literally burn out entirely because now you're no longer making content because you love it. You're making content because you need to because it's now your paycheck and that's how you're paying your bills. So how to prevent from getting burnt out? Always be looking for new avenues of content to get into. Always be looking for for ways to expand your channel into other passions you have and always make sure that you're making content for the love of it, not because you feel obligated. People always kind of this is like a criticism and a praise of my channel lately. Oh, you do a lot of rumors. You're a rumor channel. So all we do actually, but it is what has been a common theme the last few months. And people are like, man, you're just the same channel all the time. Am I? How many people in the chat right now? How many people are on the comments if you're watching later? Know that I do YouTube shorts, live streams, playing video games and recently beat Ocarina of Time. Now I'm 100% majority is masked. I mean, a Hogwarts legacy up next. How many of you guys even knew I did that? Remember, all I do is cover rumors. I don't do anything else on my channel. Absolutely nothing. I do no other content on my channel. I just post switch to rumors. But that's not true. We recently just diversified into YouTube shorts, live streams. We also occasionally put up YouTube shorts. I actually have a meeting with a person to figure out how we can make our YouTube shorts even better because I want I want our YouTube shorts to be you know, top quality shorts. And then on top of that, the YouTube shorts are not gaming facts and stuff. They're totally not switch to stuff. And then on top of that, we have our Nintendo Prime podcast every single week. That's another piece of content we do every single week where we get a bunch of YouTubers together and we talk about video games. It's awesome. And then on top of that, I have my other live streams that happen three, four times a week where I'm streaming at night and answering questions and having fun with all of you guys. And yeah, sometimes we'll talk switch to sometimes we'll talk Nintendo Direct. Sometimes we'll talk Zelda or Mario or Splatoon or whatever we happen to fancy Pokemon when we had a Pokemon presents recently. So it's it's one of those things that like I actually have a pretty wide range of Nintendo related content. But if you only pay attention to one segment of what I'm doing, then you might only feel like I only do one thing. And that's what helps me for not getting burnt out, is that I'm not just doing one thing. I am doing lots of different things and most of it every single day. There's a lot of diversity in what I'm doing. So that's one way like you just don't get burnt out because I love doing all that. So I love playing video games. So I not find a unique way to play games on your YouTube channel that doesn't interrupt your normal content or reaches new audiences. YouTube shorts, livestreams, you know what I mean? Like you just got to always look for that next thing. Let's see here. This is this is an awesome one because I get criticized for this. But this is somebody who loves loves it. When it comes to being a Nintendo YouTuber, let alone a rumor slash leak or lover, you guys know I love my rumors, AKA the best kind of Nintendo YouTuber. See, there are people that think that think it is the best type of content. How do you make connections for solid sources? Oh, there's a good one. So I don't have a lot of rumors that you could tie to me. There's like less than four or five in the history of my channel. But when I have those sources or have them, a lot of it's just my chance. Went to E3 three times, met some developers, still know them today, still know them on a first name basis, still have their phone number. Was actually just chatting with one yesterday. Can't tell what we talked about, but literally met a game developer at a game developer place, meeting people at PAX East, making connections there. A lot of it's in person. Now, there's a couple of connections I've made where it was all online. They were basically just fans of my channel. They reached out to me privately. And a lot of time when that happens, it's fake and you should ignore it. But they prove themselves. They verify themselves. They provided useful information. I let a lot of it just happen. A lot of it has come true, and then that leads to them being trusted sources. But my thing is, is I don't like to be the source for rumors. I'd rather the rumors come from elsewhere. So the biggest thing is when you're covering rumors is making sure you're trying to cover rumors that are one really interesting. You want them to actually be of interest to people. Like there's a lot of rumors out there that just aren't recovering. And they might be true, but they're very boring. They're not worth talking about, you know, like rumor. Oh, yeah, there was a rumor I heard that Oh, Nintendo might have maintenance on Nintendo Switch Online in like three weeks. OK, but it's not really even that interesting. And it's going to get announced ahead of time anyway. So why would we even make a video on rumor? Nintendo is going to have maintenance in three weeks. Like who cares? Like it's not it's not worth covering. It's not fascinating enough. So you want to focus on some of the known names in the industry. You know, the Nate, the Hates, the P.O.R.O.'s, the Necro Philippes, the what is it, the Jeff Grubbs of the world, stuff like that. You kind of pay attention to first off some of the known entities. And then vetting all the all the new ones is very difficult. You just look at track records and even that can fool you. Like Samus Hunter's track record back in the day fooled me and got a lot of credit and stuff for things that she shouldn't have to turn out she was stealing leaks from places like family boards. So you have a lot of that stuff tied in there. And to me, the biggest thing is do not be afraid to screw up. You're going to cover rumors and leaks to end up not being true. And all it's going to end up doing is end up weeding out people like Samus Hunter, weeding out people like Tommy Bear knows and others and people who fell for the wildly nose account, which was actually John. You guys know that whole story. Any of that stuff will all weed itself out and end up making you a better content creator covering hopefully more reliable stuff. Now, if you continue to cover things that you know are not reliable, like if you're someone today that can honestly look me in the face and tell me you legitimately think Zippo is legit after all of his misses, he's got like 15 misses in a row. If you think he's honestly legit, I want to hear your reasoning because I can't find one and we no longer cover him. That's what I'm talking about. You're going to have misses and you're going to get criticized for it. The big thing is learn from it and improve and don't run away. Admit that, OK, I probably shouldn't have covered them in hindsight, but I did. Now I won't. We'll just make sure we focus on this select group over here for the foreseeable future. So that's that. What's that? Let's see here. I'm just looking at the live chat right now, see if there's any questions in it. Let's see. Go ahead and make sure the chat's actually loading properly over here. I know I have to reset it for that. Yeah, sources can be right and get the story wrong. Absolutely, that does happen. Let's see here. Yeah, there's probably somebody interested in YouTube maintenance announcements or switch maintenance announcements. It's kind of weird. Remember, guys, you need to add Nintendo Prime if you want your questions answered. We're not getting a lot from the chat. So we're just going to keep this going. We have a question here from Honest Abe 16. Again, he put like five questions in or something like that. What is the hardest thing about YouTube? The hardest thing about YouTube. Look, there's a lot of different avenues you can go with it. There's the pressures. Once you're a full-time YouTuber, there's like the pressures of, hey, I had to make a certain amount of money to pay my bills every month. A lot of pressure with that. And at some point you don't want to be like paycheck to paycheck. So like you actually would like to make more and have a savings. And so there's there's that aspect of YouTube. But for me, that's not even the hardest part, because like you can just go part time. You never need to do YouTube full time. So I would say the hardest thing is the mental drain of handling negative comments, whether it's actual criticism that's intended to improve the channel, but comes across in a very harsh light, or whether it's just pure negativity. The bigger your channel gets, the more of these comments that will exist. And they stand out like a sore thumb. Most people that enjoy your video aren't even leaving comments. Most of the comments will still be positive. But let's say there's 150 comments and 140 of them are positive. That's a majority of the comments. So what comments seem out of place and stand out more because they're out of place? The 10 negative ones. And that is maybe the hardest part is dealing with that and not letting it destroy you mentally. Because man, oh, man, oh, man, oh, man, oh, man. Uh, it can they can break you. That's what they're trying to do. Anyways, they want you to break. So and they know it works. They know it can break. So that's maybe like the hardest thing about YouTube is dealing with that. Because when you're starting out, it's all fun. You get like no criticism. It's nothing but love. It's nothing but positive comments. You get a thousand views on a video and you're just super happy. Oh, my gosh, I got my first thousand view video. I mean, you're excited with a hundred view video and then you get excited with a thousand view and you have like a dozen comments and you're just like, this is awesome and everyone's so happy and this is such a great thing we're doing. And then all of a sudden you get to where you're getting at least 5,000, at least 10,000, sometimes 50,000. And before you know it, you're getting a hell of a lot more negative comments and you don't really know why when you weren't getting it, when you were only getting a thousand views. It's very grating and very mentally challenging. So that is definitely something to consider. We had a question from the chat from T said, at Nintendo Prime, if you weren't doing YouTube, what kind of job do you think you'd have? Thank you for the question. I'd be working in IT. I was working in IT literally up until I went full time YouTube. So I'd be I'd be working in IT. Let's see here. Here's a question that we had preselected at a time from AJ Savage 11 says, did you start as a full time content creator or did you begin as part time? I'm considering doing a little bit of part time content creation on the side of college, but it'd be easier if I knew if it was a more standard path than diving right in the full time content creation. It is, it is literally the standard to do it part time. So let me do it part time while they're in college, while they're in high school. Mr. Beast did it part time while he was in college. It is very much a thing you do on the side for fun. It needs to first be a passion project that you do when you can afford to on the side. And then it might blow up and develop into something, but it might not. So very much it is a thing you start on the side. When I started doing content creation, I still had another job. I still had another source of income. And that's been true literally all the way up to November of 2022. Besides the two month period when I was laid off for the two month period in 2019, I was laid off. Otherwise I had a job all the way up to November of 2022. When I went when I went full time, I was doing YouTube. I still made some money from it. It was always on the side, but I had another job. And now this is all I do one second. Let me knock at my door quick. I guess I must have misheard it. It must have been coming from upstairs. Uh, boo mini, like someone just knocking on the ceiling or something. I've had phones on. So they're not noise canceling, but they can sometimes confuse me. And we're I think I'm just a knock on the door and really it's just the ceiling. We had a gifted member come in. Thank you so much, boo mini with the one gifted member. He has become our first lucky charm. And that lucky charm is 10,000 noodles is now Mr. Nudes over there has become a lucky charm. Look at that, our first lucky charm of the stream. Thank you so much. Cheers, man. All right, we had another question here from Kappa says, I'm sorry, if you already mentioned this before, one exactly. Did you start being a full-time YouTuber November of 2022? I will note, though, I didn't make a full I didn't make. Oh, how do I put this? I went full time in November of 2022. I did not make a full time liveable wage. Until March of 2023. I was living entirely on savings for three months. I took a risk and I was almost, I literally had a job offer on the table in during March and March is when we made it. So we haven't looked back since. But I technically a full time November of 2022. All right, let's see here. Let's get to our next question. How do you deal with the pressure and stress of constantly needing to make new content says Zerat 5302? It starts first off by like not viewing it as pressure. You got to view it as you want to do it. So, yes, there's obviously like you want to get new content out. But I'll give an example this past week. I've had a lot of stuff happening in my real life. So there was a couple days I didn't get videos out. We saw like a live stream or something like that, but we didn't get videos out. And yeah, that affects revenue and everything. But the you can't stress about that. The biggest stress will come from like you drop a video that you put like multiple days of work in and everything's all good. And all of a sudden that video barely gets any views and barely makes any money when you're a full time YouTuber and you're just like, man, that sucks. I get you can get really down on yourself about that. But honestly, if you're making content because you love it, then the pressure is not really there. Like if I have to skip a day of making a video, I'll just skip a day. It's OK now. No, no, no, no, there's a reason I can skip a day and I'll get into that because my success on YouTube, I feel like is a little unique. And we'll probably get to that a bit later because I'm not entirely reliant on revenue from videos. Let's see here. The bit block. Good old Josh Thomas, who used to be a very successful YouTuber. But then, you know, dude, you've had like a billion things happen over the years. Good old Josh Thomas says, what advice would you give the bit block to rebuild audience? Man, coming back with a of the previous successful channel with a previously successful YouTube channel and then trying to come back and make it a success again. I mean, it's tough. I mean, you always have that initial smaller audience that's always going to come back for you, the one to two, three thousand people. Maybe they'll they'll be like, oh, yeah, I remember you. I remember you, man. I missed your content. Yada, yada. I mean, first, remember what made you successful in the first place? Like, what were you doing that made the channel successful to begin with? I feel like with your channel and I don't know every single in and out of your channel and every single controversy ever in your channel history. Like, I don't even know you that well, man, but I do know things like, you know, you've promised a lot of things that you haven't delivered on. And that is a problem I used to have that I would promise things that I didn't deliver on. And this was many years ago and that is not that that that just creates audience distrust. So like now I don't I try not to really promise things I just do. Like if I have a unique piece of content coming, I'm just going to drop it. I'm not going to tell anyone it's even happening. I know I want to I'm excited about it, but I'm just not going to because if that content falls through, I'm just letting people down. And my some of my audience will know some of the content I used to promise in the past and then it would fall through. Like it's just not like I wouldn't, you know, don't do that. And then like now obviously like now is not a bad time to get back into Nintendo content creation because there's a new system on the horizon probably in probably next year, right? That's that's the way everything point to is 2025, early 2025, first half at least. So it's a great time to get back into the Nintendo content creation because there's a new wave. There's going to be a new wave of searches happening like crazy on YouTube for switch to content. So like maybe my advice would be, you know, start building up some of that audience trust with some of those games coming out this year. I know you happen to really like the lineup this year. There's not going to be a lot of content creators hitting Princess Peach really hard hitting endless ocean luminos very hard, right? So I would suggest like focusing on those games that you already are really excited for anyways and hitting them pretty hard with content because there's not going to be a lot of people doing it and that's going to help you gain some of that niche audience for that stuff that could help springboard you into maybe one big game you might be excited for with switch to, I don't know if it's 3D Mario. I don't know if that's what you're into, but hopefully one of the games, one of the bigger Nintendo IP games that gets announced for switch to something that gets you excited because obviously you got to love the content like you know, Josh, you've been at this game longer than me. If you don't love the content, eventually you're going to fall off and you can't just make content to get views got to make content you love. So you're just like getting back on that wagon and kind of prepping your channel for hopefully grab it onto that switch to hype train and letting it just take you to the moon man. I'm not going to get into too many more specifics than that because I'd have to go examine your channel more and I don't really thought to examine other content creators. I respects channel before I probably should. Um, let's see here. I had another question from Kappa. Let me get that question up here. Saying, uh, did you in a way feel a sense of relief after the hype of tears of the kingdom ended when you're still able to and you were still able to do this full time? I say this because tears of the kingdom days were glorious. So the tears of the kingdom days were the pre cheers of the kingdom days, even even like a few weeks after we're obviously huge for my channel, right? Um, we were getting 50,000 100,000 sometimes 200,000 views on a video and we would drop like two, three videos a day and all of them are getting 50k plus and just do an amazing and help blow the channel up. And yes, there was definitely a big sense of fear that when that ended, so would my YouTube career. Um, because I knew I wasn't a Zelda theorist. So we weren't going to keep it going with Zelda theories and I knew eventually the news would dry up because we're a news channel and we weren't going to be talking about Zelda news anymore, uh, at least until a new big Zelda game came out. And so I was worried, um, but turns out I didn't need to be worried and that's something we'll get into later, but I definitely was scared and it's really nice now that it's been a not a year since tears of the kingdom stuff ended, but almost a year since it ended and we're still able to do this full time. Pretty crazy. It's pretty crazy. Thank you so much for that question. It's in the next serious question. Um, this comes from honest Abe 16 in our community section who said, what is the easiest way to gain subscribers while still doing what you find fun on YouTube? Ah, look, the easiest way to build subscribers is YouTube charts. Period. Whether you're making shorts, whether you're doing YouTube shorts, live streams, YouTube shorts live streams, get a really big audience. Uh, that's like the easiest way to gain subs. If you just want straight up subscribers, YouTube shorts, if you don't enjoy making YouTube short content or YouTube shorts live streams, well then there is no easy way, but that's the easy way. Um, so yeah, like there is no easy button for success on YouTube. I can tell you that right now. There's so many different avenues to it. YouTube, there's no easy button. If you just want to gain subscribers, that's the easy button, but if you also also want to have fun and you don't enjoy making that content, then there isn't, you know, there is no easy button and gaining subscribers doesn't guarantee anything. Views matter more than subs. They matter way more. Uh, let's see here. I'll get a question. Make sure you at in the chat guys at in the chat my name, but I'll throw this one up anyways and underscore E 2008 says, what games do you plan on live streaming in the future? Well, we're already doing majority mask right now on YouTube shorts. Then we got Hogwarts legacies up next after that. I don't know what we're going to do after that after Hogwarts legacy. So there you go. Um, let's see here. This is a fascinating question. I think it's the last of the honest Abe questions. Honest Abe 16 says, why did you choose to make videos about Nintendo over the other passions you have like sports and other technology? This is a fascinating one because look, I'm obviously a big Milwaukee Bucks fan. I love sports making videos on sports is easy. You know how much sports news there is. You can just you can do a whole channel on one team and be able to make a video every day, let alone the whole of sports. The NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, you know, you have soccer slash football, you have golf, tennis, you know, swimming, Olympics. There's so much stuff you can even cover cover some WWE stuff if you want AEW. There's so much stuff you can do as a sports channel that if I had a successful sports channel, it would almost feel easier because instead of me not, not having me worrying about, oh, what if there's no news tomorrow? I get to, I get to actually just pick from a plethora of stories that I want to cover and do content on and that's awesome and you could focus on one sport even one team, multiple sports, etc, etc. So that's cool. And then you guys know I love tech. I love tech. Most of the channels I watch on YouTube are tech channels, minus tech tips, Jays two cents bit with Paul's hardware. Hardware Unboxed, Gamers Nexus, a ton of hardware channels, technology channels. So why did I end up choosing Nintendo over all of those other things that I love? So they just said a sports channel would actually be easier. A tech channel would be kind of crazy fun and I love tech and I'd probably never be bored and there's an infinite amount of news. Unlike technology, unlike sports and I love sports, every major moment in my life, major decision, major point of change, major drama, major something always had a massive, super exciting Nintendo game come out right when it happened and that game got me through my in real life for lack of a better word. Shit. So I have this connection to Nintendo for the last 30 plus years because my life is kind of defined in moments and all of those moments happen to have Nintendo there to help me through. That's crazy. It's crazy. Another way to look at it too is I love watching sports. I love playing sports. I don't play for the Milwaukee box, but I do play Nintendo. There's just a deeper connection, right? So I'm just really passionate about it. Really passionate about it. Let's see here. Corey Boehm. Corey Boehm comes in one of our moderators and says why doesn't Yulia come on stream more? She doesn't like being on camera. So simple answer. That's the truth. She doesn't like being on camera. Anything I would do different for Prime Gaming Fest? Well, one we're never having one again, but let's say set aside Prime Gaming Fest. Let's say we do a massive giveaway event again. What I have discovered after doing two of them, well, not three technically, I have learned over the last year that I can hire entire companies to handle my shipping for me. So what I can do is I can get all the physical product. I can hire this company to come pick all the physical product up. They will hold on to it. They will itemize it for me. They will give me a nice spreadsheet with it and they will ship all the products for me and just send me one fat bill at the end of the month. And so what I've learned is if I ever do a massive physical prize giveaway again, that's how I'm doing it. Even though it's going to cost more. I don't have to manage it myself. So that would be nice. That's that's what I've learned. Then he says is Charles your best mod? What's that one? Do our mods like have a favorite here? I think our mods have favoritism going on. I think our mods are picking favorites. It's a little a little weird. All right. Crazy. Our mods are playing favorites. I'm not playing favorites. All right. Next up we have this in from this goes in the opposite direction already a little criticism where Alex XB 85 says doesn't feel tacky when you report that someone has corroborated a rumor that you are talking about when really they are obviously just talking about it because you and other clickbaiters started the rumor. I responded in kind well not a question related to actually being a full-time youtuber. I'll gladly answer this in the video as it addresses a common misconception about rumors and how they start in the first place and he said thanks. So so first off. You know the claim here is that we're talking about it because you know we're clickbaiters and we started the rumor. Look we didn't start the rumors. I understand why people think that though. Right. Everyone assumes the place you heard the rumor first is where the rumor came from. Oh I didn't know about this rumor till I saw a Nintendo Prime video. Nintendo Prime is just full of shit. But but I the rumor isn't from me. In fact I show it on the screen and I link it in the description. But there's an association right if you hear about something first somewhere you associate said thing to that place that you heard it. So it's a mental thing. No when when when Jeff Grubb comes in and corroborates a rumor by I don't know let's say Andy Robinson a video game Chronicle. No that has nothing to do with me that has to do with those people in their professions which are different professions in mind corroborating those things together. It's got nothing to do with me. I'm just a video gamer talking about the things that already exist. The rumor is already out there. I might be highlighting it. I might even you can argue amplify it right amplify the attention it gets but I'm not the source of it. So does it feel tacky when I report on a corroboration of a rumor I've already covered? No, I think it's important that let's say let's go with the most recent biggest one out there right switch to had an internal delay to 2025 and that was by this guy that goes by Brazil online. It's actually like Pedro Henry Kay Luda Lipe or no or Lipa Lita. I don't know. I can't pronounce as well. He's got four names from Brazil. He's a Brazilian reporter who's been really accurate on stuff in the past. He was the source on something and then video game Chronicle Chronicle corroborated it and then Eurogamer corroborated it and then Bloomberg corroborated it. I think it's important to add in that additional context with an update that things have been corroborated and unlike a traditional news website. I can't update the original video. So I had to make a new one. The new video is the update. Now maybe I can do a better job of going to the old video and throw you a bunch of links in the pinned comment and the top of the description saying Hey, there's been an update to this. Here you go. Here's the latest. I probably could do a better job of that. But I don't think it's tacky. I think it matters that if I'm up more up to date on something that I let my audience be as up to date as I am. So no, I don't find it tacky and look, we can talk about click bait and stuff all you want. Well, welcome to content creation. All right, you got to get people to click. People don't click and you don't have a job anymore. And we're going to ignore that comment. See, I hate comment. Well, we're not done. We got more questions here. Because I also put this out on Twitter and we have this guy Gundam phone x fire saying actually. Yeah, what are some of the biggest unforeseen challenges and how did you find your voice and all the chaos? I know playing to the algorithms, the big part of the strategy, but I honestly don't know where to begin. Where to begin is just make content. Just make content. You just got to make it. You can't start if you can't go anywhere if you don't start. And what are you are today? Five years from now, your content is going to look so much better and sound so much better and be so much better than five years prior. So what are some of the biggest unforeseen challenges? Man, YouTube clicks and I don't mean like people click it on your video. I mean literal like clicks of people. You know high school, how you have like these little groups of people everywhere, right? You guys all know like if you get to any kind of school anywhere, like there's there's groups, there's groups of people right? You have groups of people clicks as they call them. Maybe they don't call them that today. I have no idea what they call them when I was younger. YouTube has that as well. Now you would think all of us want all of us to be successful and that's just not the way it is. There's a lot of clicks and that was completely unforeseen. Lots of groups of YouTubers that kind of just go together and sometimes they want other groups of YouTubers to not be successful. And that's very weird to me because there's room for all of us to be successful. But for some reason, there's just this thing where people wish ill on others and there's some weird behind the scenes BS that ends up leaking out at times to different clicks and it's very, I did not see that ever when I became a YouTuber. I didn't think I need to worry about anything like that. But here we are and it's very much a thing. So and it's just a challenge mentally. It doesn't have to stop you, but it is a challenge. Like when you know others think ill of you and it leaks out from private conversations and then you get rumors behind the scenes and you don't want to cause drama. Nobody wants to cause public drama and it's just a whole thing. How do I find my voice at all the chaos? Well, being confident in myself, constantly improving seeing what's works for other people and not and just being myself. Here's the biggest thing. This is why my channel successful. People like me. That's it. Yeah, I covered news. I cover cool topics. People like the person and it took me years to figure out. In the YouTube space, the you actually matters more than the rest. That was very weird for me. The you in YouTube. Why oh you is what matters the most. People come to YouTube because maybe they need some tips and some guides fine. But when they're coming to a talking head channel where we're talking about news, they want the personality. So people like me and it's weird for me to even say that out loud because it's kind of cocky and condescending and I don't like it. But it's the truth. So like why am I successful on YouTube? Look, my last video. I'll show you right now. My last video that I have revenue numbers for because I don't think yesterday's video has revenue numbers yet. Well, let me show you something. Here is the revenue on my last video. Okay, 40 bucks. Now look 3932 that's decent money. That's not bad. That's not bad. But you know, let's do I got three kids, right? So let's do some quick math on that. Let's bring up the calculator. Bring up the calculator. So let's presume I made 40 bucks a day on videos, which I don't, but let's say I did. I'm 30 days a month and I made a video every day. That's only 1200 bucks. I'm not surviving on 1200 bucks. That's not going to cut it. So you look at that and you go, man, well, why does it matter if people like you? Let me show you. Let me show you my last, uh, my last live stream, uh, which I believe is this one here. Let me show you my last live stream. Now that I want to be clear, this is not a typical live stream, but this happens usually at least once or twice a month. She might have lost a couple subs $554.79 on 1.2 K views. This is why it matters that people like you. I don't beg people for money. We're doing this live stream. We've made like $10. I'll beg people for money. People super chat. They don't people. Gift memberships. They don't bother me. We are doing shots and drinks for super chats. We're pre-drinking here before we go with friends. Um, but the point is that, uh, the community, people like you. They support you even when you're not asking them to. So it's very important. It's very important to, uh, that people like you, like you, you for you. So be you build an audience that likes you. You know what I mean? It's really important. You build an audience that likes you. Uh, let's see here. Yeah. 10,000 new noodles. Like if I had money, it'd be going to you under surgery. You got, it's about the person got to like the person. Right? Seriously, it's a really big deal. Like you got to like the person. Um, so, uh, we have that and then we go here and we go. Uh, yeah, so that like, that's that's the voice. It just don't be a free. Don't be afraid to be me. Don't be afraid to be you. Like you need to build an audience that likes you for who you are because that audience can be the very thing that carries you to enable you to do what you do and sponsorships as well. Obviously, if you want to throw that in there, but I don't get a ton of sponsorships, but that might change someday. But for right now, uh, this is a good question from Cameron Hansen says, what's it like having to manage YouTube and your kids altogether? I imagine it's like this for any adult with a full-time job and multiple children. A nightmare. It's a nightmare. It's awesome working from home until your kids won't leave you alone when it's time to work. Love my kids. They're awesome. But it's hard and I might even go into how I do it because I don't even know that how I do it's the best helps having a fiance though that loves you and supports you and right now like she's the one with the she's the one with the boys right now. So I'm upstairs with them taking care of them while I'm doing the stream. So a question comes in from Scott says, what do you what do you say the most important factor for someone starting out is consistency or quality? The important factor for starting out is just do it, man. Bottle that phrase from Nike. Just do it. No matter how high quality you think your video is today, it's going to be 10 times better five years from now. Just do it. Just do it. Like you're doing it part-time. You do it when you have time. Consistency is important. Sure. But what's more important is that you have consistent quality that you think is quality. You unless you're already a videographer or have all these skills to make a super professional videos at the gate. Chances are your video is going to be very amateurish even when you are proud of it and you put your best work into it. It's still not going to look very good compared to other people and that's OK. Welcome to YouTube. That's how we all started. That's literally how we all started. Very few of us started out on YouTube already making professional quality videos. You just do what you can. So you just got to start. That's the most important thing and that's all of the pre-selected questions that we had. Is there any more questions from the chat? Any more questions from the chat would check with Julia here. Let me see here. Rarely handle your brother's kids. Kids are awesome. Kids are awesome. But damn that was inspirational. I don't know what was inspirational. I'm just I'm just doing my thing over here. I also have the chat for us again which that happens. Go refresh it quick. Chris Lancer says what do your kids think about you being a YouTube star. Well I'm not a star. I'm definitely not a YouTube star. But one they all think it's awesome. There isn't a single one of my kids that doesn't think it's really cool that I'm a YouTuber. Even though I'm not the kind of YouTuber they want to watch. They think it's really cool like they do. My sons are almost more invested in my view count and my subscriber count than I am. At the end of every month they're like how many views did you get how many subscribers are you at. They're like more obsessed with it than I am. And maybe it's because they're bragging to their friends about it. I don't obviously know what they're telling their friends but it's they think it's cool. All I remind them when they tell me because one of them wants to be a YouTuber and all I keep reminding them is you see how much your dad works. Now ask yourself if you want to make a huge chunk of your life about working because when it's all reliant on yourself you do spend a majority of your time working. That's how it goes to make it. I'm not going to lie. It's a lot of work. And make sure that if you decide to do YouTube I would never tell you not to that would be hypocritical of me. You start out like I did where it's on the side you have another job you have another path in life and you veer to YouTube when it makes sense. Don't just assume you're going to make it. But they think it's pretty cool. Wiley Tiger said how do you verify view count is there a third party company involved. No that's all YouTube YouTube's the only one that provides the data. So there's no way to like verify what YouTube tells you but all that matters is the money. I mean the money per views you know the CPM does the CPM line up to your views if it does then cool. That's all that really matters in the end is that you're getting paid for the views that it says you got. Yeah there is no way to verify views views are just if YouTube tells you you have to assume it's correct. And yes YouTube has bugged up before and the views have been inaccurate and they do let you know they'll tell you like what day YouTube bugged out and so you can't trust the views it never affects the revenue somehow that's what they claim I doubt it so like I can verify whether it affects the revenue or not but there are some days you'll you'll get this error message on the back and be like oh February 22nd all your view data is inaccurate for that day we're sorry and it's like well okay I don't know what that really means for me but thanks you we already have this question earlier but I'll answer brief for this time how do you keep from getting burnt out while still doing what you love if you love what you're doing you don't get burnt out it's that simple people get burnt out on YouTube because they start doing it for the money rather than doing it because they love it that's the answer if you start doing it because of the money rather than because you love it money's great but I mean like money comes and goes you got you got to enjoy what you're doing and if you can't do it full time enjoying what you're doing that's okay you got to be okay with that like I have to be okay that I may not be a full-time YouTuber my whole life and that's okay I accept that but I think we got places to go I think we're I think I think we've only begun 10 years from now we're going to be and there's going to be branches and it's going to be beautiful and we're going to have a nice little prime tree growing see it will we get there I don't know and I got a vision hopefully we get there um style 7a says how long did you mull over the decision to go full-time as a YouTuber were you nervous to make that leap how long did I mull over it so it was a weird situation I wasn't making enough on YouTube to be a full-time YouTuber to be clear and not even close and my job and cut my hours really bad and I was already looking for another job and then after cutting my hours my boss called me and asked me to work a few hours in the middle of the night for free and I'm like no I mean thanks for asking but you know you can volunteer your time you can always volunteer your time your time is your time but I'm like you just cut my hours now you want me to work for free yeah that's not cool um I looked at my savings account and I saw that I had you know what I had in it and I said how I had a conversation with Yulia and I mulled it for about a week and then I said you know what I'm going to try to go full-time on YouTube what happens if I go full-time on YouTube so what happened after I went full-time started making YouTube shorts immediately saw instant success with YouTube shorts which lead into massive growth which then led into tears of the kingdom and then tears of the kingdom is where we got even bigger growth and that's when the real money started rolling in so we ran out of money right when we started taking off on YouTube so it was like the perfect mix of where our savings just got depleted right as we just started making enough on YouTube to cover our bills by the way we still haven't replenished our savings maybe we will someday because you know we want to save up for a new car and some other stuff so maybe we'll replenish the savings someday when we get there but we're making enough to get by and we're living comfortably and that and that's important for me and my family so how long did I mull over the decision to go full-time YouTube or it was it was about a week and it was a pretty rash decision that I always knew might fail and I had a plan to just go get another job and was I nervous I was nervous that I was going to blow all the money make no progress and then just be back to work in another IT job and then maybe regretting that we blew our savings when I could have got a job three months earlier I was definitely pretty nerve-wracking very nerve-wracking I'm not I'm not going to lie it was pretty nerve-wracking but I was always okay with going to get a new job but Yulia told me something that I'll never forget as did my grandmother shout out to both of them if I never took a shot at it I would regret it the rest of my life we could afford it so we took a shot if we don't make it we don't make it it's cool we made it so there you go I love when Pete a one a one comes in says yawn you came into a stream that that that is about people asking questions about making it on YouTube and stuff and you're you're yawning did you not know what kind of stream you clicked on um jack sagan I already answered that question earlier so I'm I'm going to leave that question yeah I dude I don't I'm not going to get into the particulars of that company I worked for because I'm pretty I might still be under NDA with them I'm not sure I'd have to double check my the contract I have with them but I'm I I'm I here to bad talk companies look dude there's been rough times in the economy for many companies especially since the pandemic and it's it is what it is it is what it is so I put in my two weeks notice with them and then he basically told me don't bother clocking in tomorrow because I was working from home one reason why I could even do YouTube part time and then he told me not to bother clocking in and I'm like okay now could I have claimed unemployment that I don't know he I wasn't laid off felt like it because I come my hours so much yeah we took a chance and it worked out didn't know if it would all and it wasn't like it was a a leap I couldn't recover from it was just it took a chance and I knew I knew tears of the kingdom was coming up and I knew that I make a lot I'm really passionate about Zelda so I was like man if we make it the tears of the kingdom maybe something happens if if nothing happens then then alright and sure enough we went from YouTube shorts blowing up to tears of the kingdom blowing up to now we just kind of been sustaining ever since and now we're growing again so kind of crazy man it's kind of crazy how it all works because I'm not like a big channel look we're streaming to 76 people right now that's not very big we don't have a very big channel like relative to the rest of YouTube our channel is not very big but even a channel at my size we're able to make it and a lot of it's community driven so I said like the community is just amazing you guys are awesome without you there is no Nintendo Prime YouTube channel so I appreciate it even this livestream that I don't know we only made $10 so what 10 more bucks of my pocket sell the channel before this one right this was this all the channel and it was part of a bigger company than I didn't own part of Zeldin former I was just editor in chief but I didn't own Zeldin former I negotiated when I left the company April 30 of 2017 I negotiated to get the YouTube channel because they the the people that bought them out and had all the stuff was the dungeon they already had a big YouTube channel and I keep the YouTube channel my face is like all over it over the years and said yeah just rebrand it obviously newt says I'd work unpaid if I thought there was a payoff for the business and we were all close in it I mean you can like that to like Eric right Eric has done some some work for me Eric has done some work for me on my channel that was unpaid is just as my personal friend he's he's legitimately done some work for me um and he knows there's a big and the things he's helped me with have led to payoffs in the bit like he helped me in ways that enabled me to do this full time as well for free just because he's my best friend um and so obviously that's different because that's like a close-knit partnership also Eric wants to work for me someday he wants to officially work for me we've already had the conversation so he was investing some of his time because he wants this place to get so successful and he's not cheap but I know he'll bust his ass knowing what he already does occasionally for me for free imagining what that guy is going to do if I pay him geez man our channel is going to a new level our channel is literally going to hit next level it's going to be awesome but we're we're a long ways away before we start talking about hiring someone full time especially since he'd probably be the first hire and I know I know what his cost is because we've already talked about it and will that be the same ask he's asking for two years from now next year two years from now and whenever I possibly could afford him is his ass going to be the same ass that I know to edit before I started YouTube Nope no idea didn't know what I was doing movie maker baby that was my extent of editing experience movie maker you know the Reggie my body is ready meme that's on my channel biggest video movie maker Windows movie maker man and see here oh we had a mean comment Oh Dirk you said my channel is boring and you don't like my videos that's all right here's here's the thing but my channel is not for everyone right my channel was for everyone I'd be like what Mr. Beast and even his channel is not for everyone so now my channel I'm not here to make my channel for everyone that doesn't make that doesn't make sense doesn't even make sense it literally doesn't make any sense my channel my channel shouldn't be for everyone oh I do gotta look something up quick what time are we supposed to be at the birthday thing you can see here I forgot I'm invited to the birthday thing where is it trying to find the group it was a Facebook invite thing I did either and then try to find what time it was that oh well or there it is I got the reminder there it is yeah it's an eight okay yes so it's an hour from now your channel isn't as born as that guys if it were he would be here you'd be making videos you know so I'm I hear to judge people what's up Paul Gale chill how you doing buddy like like my do jacket things this I've lost I've lost weight doesn't fit can't return it either so I'm gonna see if it's Eric might become Eric's that's way too big I mean it was ordered before I was doing the diet thing so Paul we order this like two and a half weeks ago three weeks ago it just got here today and because of my weight loss it's too big oh better put it back on I'd rather just buy a new one that smaller how did you first get to know saffron and the two inch destroyer so the so Jake Randall I got to know Jake Randall this was years ago at this point probably three years ago he was doing doing all that PS5 stuff back in 2020 2021 and I just randomly reached out to him because I heard about assistive fibrosis and everything and I just said hey man you want to come on a podcast sometimes I've reached out lots of content creators come on the podcast how I met some row nation on just restart all the rest I just reached out and asked him to come on the podcast and that led one thing through another he had a really good time he came on again like a month later and he came on a couple more times and I don't know just kind of hit it off and then we met at PAX E slash year and you've just been good buddies ever since so they literally just was just how I get anyone I reach out so hey would you like to come in the podcast he said sure madam and just kind of from there saffron was brought to the podcast by Jake Jake discovered saffron city then I talked to her then we got her on the show now she loves it and she's coming on again this this week so coming week it's going to be saffron city another first time person you guys have never seen on my channel before so that's going to be fun Eric is actually going to be here this week because I'm also going to be serving some punishment finally the bets I lost to Jake at the end of last year are being served on the next podcast episode I get to pay the pied Piper and Jake is beyond excited his exact words is exact words were today who who heart lots of hearts going to be a lit show going to be a lit show so it's going to be lit up in here I jakes interact is what it is I lost I lost I lost bets it is what it is when you lose you lose still don't know what brick dot means Google's your friend 10,000 new ooh litty on a stack for real for real for real no cap Oh God what are you doing what are we doing right now what the heck is con bond while con bond while con ban while what are we doing I'm literally Googling this is sort of slang the other one you said the first I read off I've heard before Oh it's a Japanese word we know it's not we yes it is good evening okay yeah but ooh litty on a stack for real for real no cap that is like listening to my kids talk or bussing they still say bussing all the time wondering bussing is going to be replaced there's been slang for that meaning that there's like seven different ones in my life wonder what the next term for is going to be who came up with bussing was it like a pop culture reference from a song or something like where did it originate from where did that slang originate from you just copy the kid I don't know what the who means I've never understood that one what does the you W you mean we've say it right cute face okay I I and it actually makes sense okay okay this one actually makes sense this actually makes sense it's an emotion depicting the cute face and why because look at the face it looks like a you W you okay okay I I get it I that okay that is one of the first slang of today that I get it it actually makes sense okay I don't mind slang when it actually makes sense but when we have slang and we already had slang for it why do we need more slang for it but for that one I okay I actually I get that one that that's that's when that makes this pairing that was that's all right love this dog yeah that's another good one it's another good one dressy Casper has seen it yeah I think we're middle school to came out something like dude I don't even remember when did when when did dude where's my car come out dude where's my car really stayed 2000 so yeah I would have been towards the end of middle school because I I went to high school 2001 I think wait yeah I would have been 8th grade for me would have been 8th grade for me when like when that when that one came out yeah was right at the end of middle school right before I hit high school yeah because I went high school 2001 graduated 05 yeah yeah I had I was trying to remember when I I know when I graduated I was like well when did I actually start high school 2001 oh see here wasn't that a Nickelodeon movie no that was a full movie wasn't even in movie theaters I think that was even in movie theaters that movie could have been made by Nickelodeon but I don't I don't think it was was it um totally different dude worth like a dude scary movie rips things from all the movies that's what's funny about scary movie at times at times ashen smashing Bruce will this is lady that's great back that dude Bruce will this is the bomb kind of sucks you know how the end of his life is going and did you did he was the man back then man Bruce will is great dude fifth element that's one of my all-time favorite Bruce will this movies man fifth element great movie grab my strong hand and there was like a mini spoof of that on uh on family guy with quag wire when he brings out his other arm and it's fucking massive because they spoofed the we're strong anyways alright guys that's gonna probably wrap it up I gotta go get ready to go hang on my friends I got some stuff to put on uh I'm dressing up as a panda that's right and da don't ask me what kind of party we're going to actually just the theme is black and white the theme is black and white so I'm dressing as a panda you really is dressing to be fun you guys have a good night catch you later guys