 This video is sponsored by Squarespace. Stick around to the end of the video to find out more. Hello everyone, welcome back to my second channel. This is my second channel where I like to get goofy and wacky and silly. If you thought this was my main channel, it's not. This is my second channel where I like to get funky and crazy and wacky and drink LaCroix. This is actually kind of a special episode because I've... This is a flavor of LaCroix that I've never tried before. It's... Pestic? Pesticube? A.k.a. watermelon. I've never tried this flavor, so this will be my first impressions of this flavor that I will be drinking today. Not my favorite flavor. Not the best flavor of LaCroix that I've had. In fact, uh... Pretty disappointing, honestly. It... It kind of tastes like the rind of a watermelon. Like, not the red part, but the, like, green shell. Well, maybe it'll grow on me. Today we're gonna be doing a little Q&A. I had people tweet at me questions. I said specifically ones about being a YouTuber if you want. So, hopefully there's some good questions about being a YouTuber and then just other stuff in general. So, let's hop to it. Let's have another sip of this LaCroix, see if it's gotten any better. Nope, it hasn't gotten any better. Oh, also, this is, uh... This is part of the new merch. You may have seen other videos where I wear a Daddy Boy shirt. This is a parody of that shirt. I can't sell shirts that say Daddy Boy because that's probably someone else's slogan that was on that shirt. I got it from a thrift store, so I don't really know what Daddy Boy is. But this shirt says Danny Boy. So I can sell this shirt because it's got my own name on it. And my own gender. When did you know you have transitioned to someone who just makes videos to an actual YouTuber? Like, what triggered the realization that it's a job? Um, it was probably honestly just the moment that I started doing it full-time. I had a job for a while while I was doing YouTube. And then the moment I decided to, like, quit my job and just do YouTube full-time because I was making enough from YouTube to treat it like a full-time job. For me, at least, that's when it became a job and not just a hobby. I feel like I did, I always tried to treat it like a job because, you know, dress for the job you want, not for the job you have. So I always tried to, like, work on it as if it were my job. How long are your videos unedited and could you post an unedited video? An unedited video, well, is usually anywhere between, like, 40 minutes and an hour and a half. Let's see, let's see how long my most recent video about the Joker was before I edited it. 52 minutes was the Joker video. That includes me sitting down and talking, all of the green screen sketches, and then the ad read at the end. So all of that was 52 minutes. One thing I found while I'm editing is that my video will usually turn out to be about a third of the total time that I film. So if I film for an hour, which is 60 minutes, the video usually comes out somewhere like 20 minutes. Most of the time that gets cut out is just me saying the same line over and over, trying to get it to sound right in my head. So as for your second question, can you post an unedited video? Absolutely not. That would be so embarrassing. I think that in one of my old videos on this channel, the one about how I make a video, if you scroll back and find that video, I show some of an unedited video where I'm, like, saying the same line over and over. And also I go through the whole process of making a video. So if you're interested in that, go check that out. It's on this channel, which is my second channel where I like to get goofy and wacky and drink like, wow. Do YouTubers have health insurance? That's a fun question. That is an interesting question. I guess not a lot of people would think about that. But it's kind of a funny coincidence because yesterday I applied for my own health insurance because I just got kicked off my parents' plan because I just turned 26 this month. So to answer your question, I would assume that most YouTubers do have health insurance, but it's not, like, because they're YouTubers. We have to get our own health insurance, basically. So I just got it through healthcare.gov. Shout out to Obama. Do you need a following in order to start a YouTube channel? I'm trying to figure out what that means. Do you need to already have subscribers on YouTube to start an account on YouTube? Or, like, do you have to be famous somewhere else before you can start a YouTube channel? Yeah, actually, unfortunately, in order to start a YouTube channel, you actually have to have 10,000 followers on Instagram. But as we all know, in order to start an Instagram account, you have to be verified with 100,000 followers on Twitter and in order to make a Twitter account in the first place, you have to have a million followers on TikTok. And in order to even get a TikTok account, you have to be cast on the show Riverdale. So it's really tough to break in, but once you do, it's pretty much smooth sailing from there. So being a YouTuber always sounded fun to me. Is it ever really stressful? Why or why not? Being a YouTuber is definitely really fun at times. It's definitely really rewarding, especially if you post a video that you worked really hard on and it does well and you get a lot of positive feedback on it, even people that you know in real life are like, hey, that was a really great video. That's, like, the really rewarding side of it. I would say the stressful parts, for me at least, is, like, trying to come up with new ideas. That's usually the most time-consuming part and the part that I still second-guess myself about the most. Deadlines can also tend to be pretty stressful. Brand deals usually have pretty hard deadlines that you have to meet. And if you sign up for, like, to do a brand deal for a specific month or a specific week, then you end up not having a good idea for that week. It can be really stressful trying to, like, pull something together and get it done really quickly. Have you ever considered drinking LaCroix on your main channel, not your second channel, where you get a little bit goofier and wackier? Are you insane? Drinking LaCroix on my main channel? Are you trying to make me lose all my subscribers? My second channel is where I get goofy and wacky and drink LaCroix. If I tried to pull any of that shit on my main channel, I'd be cancelled within the hour. LaCroix is just too wacky for my main channel. You know how serious I am on my main channel? There's no goofing around over there. I think the problem with the watermelon is that LaCroix's whole thing is it has no sweeteners. It doesn't have sugar or even artificial sweeteners. I feel like the taste of watermelon relies so much on the sweetness that when you take that out, it just tastes kind of bitter and nasty. The flavor of a lime LaCroix just kind of tastes like sour and that's the good part of a lime. It doesn't really need to rely on sweetness, but I feel like watermelon does and it's really letting me down. Do you think your location affects your career? If you move to another state, would that impact your channel or anything? I don't think so. A lot of people actually assume that I live in California because I'm a YouTuber. They just think that all YouTubers live in LA, but I live in the suburbs of Illinois. So I would think that if it was going to affect my career, it would have by now, but it hasn't. I used to live in California. We moved in 2018 back to Illinois because this is where my family lives and I never really felt like I got that much out of living from LA from like a career standpoint. We just wanted to be closer to our family so that's why we moved back to Illinois. I don't really feel like it's hindered me that much. It's not like I do collapse that much on my channel and even when I do collapse, it's usually not with people that even live in California. I don't particularly think that there's one specific location that's like amazing for YouTubers and you have to live there to be a YouTuber. Any fun memories from high school? Oh yeah. Actually, I've got a lot of good stories from high school. I've got, man, so many good memories. I mean, we used to get into a lot of trouble. We used to have a lot of fun in high school. Man, those were the days, huh? All right, next question. What's your favorite crazy wacky thing to do on your side channel that's too crazy and wacky for your main channel other than Drink La Croix? Uh, probably this. What are your political personal opinions on hamsters? Photo for reference. Okay, thank you for the photo. So that's a hamster, huh? Personal and political opinions on hamsters. Personal opinion, I think that they seem like nice little animals. My sister used to actually have a hamster when we were kids and it seemed pretty chill. As for political opinions specifically about hamsters, I am far right. Very far right about hamsters. Alt-right even. This might be too serious, but it's about being a YouTuber. How do collabs work from a monetary point? If all the revenue goes to the one that uploads the video, does that person pay the other one one for each kind of deal or is it just for fun? Okay, this is a good question. This is why I wanted people to ask questions about being a YouTuber because this is something that like, YouTubers don't really even think about. But I've never heard of another YouTuber paying a YouTuber for a collab. It's mostly just like for fun, at least in like my circle of people that I've talked to and I know personally I've never heard of anyone paying for a collab like that. So it's usually just for fun. Sometimes there's kind of an agreement like we're hanging out together, we'll each do a video if we each have a good idea but sometimes like each person doesn't have a good idea for a collab anyway. But that's not really for monetary reasons. It's more like if you're in town and you're visiting me we should get as much content out of it as possible and each make a video. What are the best and worst things about working completely from home and on your own time? The best things are probably everything that you would expect. I don't have to like drive to work every day so I don't have to commute. I get to set my own hours and do whatever I want. I can set my own deadlines. I'm not really beholden to a boss so what I post is pretty much my decision. Downsides are kind of all of those things but the bad version of them so I don't have to go to an office every day but that also means that I don't talk to anyone all day. I get to set my own hours but that also means that I don't have a time that I'm supposed to stop working or start working. So I can sometimes accidentally work too much and I can sometimes accidentally work too little and it's because I have no schedule. I also frequently forget what day it is. In fact, before the pandemic, the only way I knew what day it was is when Laura was gone and when she was at home but now she's home all the time and I don't know what day it is. What do you want to be when you grow up? Hmm... Spider-Man. Could you give me a senior quote? Yeah, I could. I love coming up with senior quotes. How about something fun like, Congrats, seniors. We did it. Have a great summer. The person below me will die on March 23rd, 2037. Kind of fun and also kind of ominous. How do you feel about me morphing you with Drew? I don't like it. How do you decide what to put in a thumbnail? Okay, that's a good question. I don't know if I've ever really put it into words so it might be kind of hard for me to answer but usually the first thing I do is find a screenshot of my face from somewhere in the video, usually looking at whatever type of way the video made me feel so I don't know like concerned or confused or angry or silly. Then I try to find clips from whatever I'm reacting to and there's a couple of different things that I look for either like the most visually attention-grabbing image that makes you like think like, What is this? and then you have to click on the video to figure out what this is. Or even something like a movie that I know a lot of people have seen. I try to pick like a recognizable part of that movie. That way people recognize what I'm talking about right away and I feel like they're more likely to click on a video if they're like, Oh, he's making fun of a movie that I've seen before. That's cool and hip. It's usually a combination of those things and just messing around with it until it looks good and also looks good from like far away. You usually want to like zoom out a bunch and see if it looks good small because usually thumbnails are pretty small on people's screens or on their phones. So yeah, I've usually found that having your face and everyone's face be pretty big in the thumbnail is good. That way your subscribers recognize that it's you right away and any emotions on your face or on anyone else's face in the thumbnail are really clear. How did Laura take it at first? That you were a YouTuber? Well, we were already together by the time I started making a living off of doing YouTube. So that wasn't really a surprise to her at any point. But I liked that this question phrases it like it's something like a deal breaker that I really had to break to her. Like it's a Hannah Montana moment where I put on a wig and I'm like, I know we've been dating for the past three months but I just got to tell you that I'm a YouTuber. I've been a YouTuber this whole time. I hope that doesn't make you see me any differently. I hope you still like me. But no, she's cool with it. She likes it. I never had to break it to her. Your thoughts? Oh, it's a LaCroix cake. And on the bottom it says cheers to baby. Happy first birthday, baby. We made you a LaCroix cake because you know how all kids love LaCroix? Actually, it's got no candles on it. So maybe it's the baby's zero birthday. It was the day this baby was born and they made a little LaCroix cake. It is really pretty though. 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