 with my help I think one set one of the autism shows didn't we? Yeah I think I feel like I've met you twice though but maybe it was the one it was the one time when I just kind of like I don't know but we definitely yeah we definitely met in Manchester a couple months ago. Yeah that was nice man it's uh it's always good to put like see people in real life after seeing them on the screen for so long. It really is. So yeah I mean one thing that I want to ask you before we got into it is you know because because you've you've you've done so well on YouTube I mean how long have you been running your channel and what kind of thing like encouraged you or motivated you to start it in the first place? I mean I did good questions so you know I've been running the Ask We Will YouTube channel now since 2013 but I have been going full hammer on it since 2017 maybe 2016 because like you know I upload my first video in 2013 but I didn't do anything until like you know 2016 probably you know like where I was like oh this is what I'm gonna do and then like I was I finished university in 2017 and I was like that's it you know I'm just gonna go full hammer on YouTube so yeah since then I've been kind of doing it so it does take a while you know it takes but you gotta know what you're doing there's no there's no luck involved YouTube it's definitely a it's definitely a strategy but in terms of what made me do it was I was diagnosed in 2013 with Asperger syndrome as it was back then and ADHD and some other bits and pieces and then I was like oh man I knew nothing about autism or Asperger's or anything like that so I was like oh geez so I went online and I'm obviously dyslexic as well so you know reading blogs and things wasn't really my forte so I was like dang it I'm gonna go on YouTube so on YouTube type in like Asperger syndrome and I couldn't really find anything most of the stuff I saw was just like these dudes are really depressing like Asperger syndrome and everyone hates me it's like oh geez man I just felt like you know I'd felt worse after watching the videos and I thought Jesus is just so crap then I thought to myself hey maybe I could like make videos that were like you know fire videos that people could watch and be like dude I'm the same but also my life doesn't suck so bad well you know it sucks sometimes but isn't so all the time or hey maybe I can talk about the cool things in my life to make it entertaining or maybe you can talk about the bad things in my life make it entertaining and help people or about that so I did that and um my first video sucked but like it gradually got better you know after you do like 50 videos it's okay develop them over time yeah exactly like that's the that's the kind of key there but you know and I'm glad I did because like um I was like the first person to do it it was like nobody there was no like autistic kind of YouTubers there was none so I was like you know sorry I'll do it and then and it was it's amazing because there's so many now I'm like whoa I love this you know I love the fact that like I inspire these people to do this stuff um well I hope anyway I'm laughing at something my dear like you know years apart well it's it's the same kind of thing with the um the the like social media communities like I mean the one that I'm most involved in is the one on Instagram and um like when I started off it was hard to like find people to like message in DM and like try and get them on the podcast yeah now oh my god it's just like it's flooded with accounts and people I'm like oh Jesus and they're not even like little accounts so I every every odd day that I find like uh um new and budding in in Instagram influencer yeah this Instagram is is actually responsible for like uh uh the I think it was something like in 2020 it was responsible for like 90 of the millionaires that were made in America because the it's just such a big business opportunity on Instagram you know the land grab is crazy but um but you're absolutely right I think like so many people are telling me to Instagram now because obviously there's more opportunity with video um and it is a great platform it there's something about Instagram which is very kind of like um it's very relatable to everybody and I really like that I do like Instagram I actually just had a video go viral on Instagram I've got like half a million views on a video um the other day uh what was that it was I did a video on um just a just a real dude you know we're talking about how like the flickering of light uh yeah yeah what's just a good you must have seen that one yeah I've seen it yeah yeah and then um and I was just in the toy store right like 609 000 views so I was in the toy store and I was like dude I said to my my girlfriend I was like can you see this light she's like no and I was like oh my god like this light it's like doing my nutting I can't stand and see that it's happened all the time and she's like I can't see it I was like what so I randomly had my camera open on my phone and it picked up the light I thought I can explain this because I can show the flicker on the camera because the camera was running at 24 frames a second or 60 frames a second obviously the frame rate was different so it was able to pick up the the the flicker so I did that and uh I put it on TikTok first and then it just blew up on TikTok again like half a million views on TikTok and I was like oh so I put it on Instagram same thing half a million views on Instagram I was like holy s-