 Oh my god Welcome to freedom partner interviews. My name is chrome aren't today I am joined by hollow point an MGM partner part of the freedom family introduce yourself hollow point Hey guys, my name is Ray or as my friends over on YouTube know me as hollow point or hollow And I make YouTube videos and put them up on the internet I specify my channel mainly on call of duty news tips tricks and daily gameplays I've been on YouTube for about 11 months and I'll be making my first year on YouTube next month on May 3rd And I am about to hit 20,000 subscribers. Nice. Do you think you're gonna hit that number before your one-year anniversary? Uh, I think so man things are going pretty good. I think so. Yeah, you heard the man's sub hurry up. You haven't tell me third Did you get into YouTube and what are your long-term goals? Well chrome are I've been playing video games since the age of five I am now 24 years old. I've been watching YouTube gameplay videos for over seven years now I also back in the days used to you know get a lot of gaming for my magazines And I would stay hours and hours on IG and comm and other news websites And sometimes I would find myself having news even before big youtubers did and then that's when it hit me Maybe I could do this too. I also found myself explaining tips for call of duty to my friends Very well and very detailed. I felt like I could you know share this with an audience So I decided to go ahead and give it a go. No my long-term goal now is to hopefully one day Have a subscription base large enough to you know do this for a living I mean, I think that's what any youtuber's dream is at this current moment. You know whose channel is actually growing Although at first that wasn't my intention You know, I just simply started to just upload videos and have fun But honestly, I think I've exceeded my own expectations quicker than I thought Yeah, so you're just kind of messing around and it actually turned out to be successful So you said wow I can actually do this. Yeah, man. It did happen. You know, it happens if you put in time It'll happen. Yes Speaking of putting in time you have a pretty crazy upload schedule like more than once a day on average How do you maintain a kind of schedule? How much time do you put in? Yeah, um, honestly chromar I sometimes surprise myself. I think I have to do with the fact of how much do you really love doing this, you know How much do you you know really enjoy doing this? You know sitting down in front of a computer screen and editing because the fun part is playing But if you don't love editing you'll just lose yourself playing and playing and never save quality time to actually edit your gameplays or tips or news videos Right so moving on into wildcods here We have two wild cards and those are primary gunfighter for you know an extra attachment for my primary weapon Which is the k5 in this case and a wild card too Which is a perk three greed and this will allow us to have two perks on the perk three slots When your YouTube channel starts growing you should treat it like a responsibility, you know I mean if you really want to make it grow, you know If you look at my channel for 11 months I have 500 plus videos and of course do it for the right reasons, you know cuz you enjoy I Sacrifice a lot to be honest guys. Um, you know, but I do have to thank God for my fiance She supports me and actually pushes me and believes that this could happen for me So no thanks to where I am able to spend endless amounts of hours Obviously the older you are the harder it becomes, you know the more responsibilities you have if you're younger Then time management could be a little bit easier So basically to summarize it all up for you guys on my days off I wake up at about 9 10 a.m. In the morning Start recording and playing finding news making tip videos for the next day or two by the time the day is over I'll spend about 10 to 12 hours obviously with some breaks in between. I know I know I'm obsessed But I think that's why I've grown so quickly, you know your subscribers will see your ambition and they'll follow you on your journey So you primarily do Call of Duty and other similar FPS's and I have a question about the current gen games And you've been playing Advanced Warfare for a while What's your opinion of it now that you've playing it and are you looking forward to Black Ops 3? No, that's a very very good question. Chromar, you know I myself have been a part of a vast majority of fans the thing that Call of Duty itself is dying Advanced Warfare is it's nothing like older cards and I think they went this futuristic route to be different You know and to try and pick up the franchise back up But there's there's more people leaving than staying right now, and I think you just learned to play the game You can learn to love it as well. It's not my favorite Call of Duty to be honest with you guys But it's not the worst one either I think Black Ops 3 could be a hit or miss am I excited for the game? Yes most definitely I'm just concerned about the whole futuristic feel to it simply because of double jumps and things like that I like me personally. I like my soldiers to be on the ground I think the whole double jump messed up the map flow in Call of Duty in general That's trying to shoot me Coming That's oh my god the same guy back-to-back. We're the merciless as far as Black Ops 3 goes The game is too far into development at the current stage, you know to change everything But I think or at least I would want to think that our track will do something special for their fans You know they have so far. We will have to see how the how the trailer looks this Sunday What is your favorite call of duty you mentioned you mentioned you had a favorite my favorite call of duty is modern warfare 2 If you could cover another genre besides FPS, what would it be and what games would you play? Oh, man? You know, that's a really good question to be quite honest my favorite game of all times It's actually an RPG and and that game is Kingdom Hearts And it's quite funny because all I do is FPS on my channel But definitely I would like to do some Kingdom Hearts I also like action games some you know like Uncharted God of War and of course some survival horror games Resident Evil I tried our last, you know for a few episodes on my channel and people just simply loved my reactions as Well as when I played a five nights at Freddy's itself. Yeah, there's a big tonal difference between Kingdom Hearts and Call of Duty from Machine guns. Yeah. Yeah, so your channel is pretty successful and I'm curious What would you say to the YouTube gamers out there who are struggling to get off the ground the ones who really want to make it? But just aren't moving and what mistakes do you think that people make the most often? Well, the first thing is to do it because you love it or enjoy it whichever one Don't do it for the fame and quotation marks or the money because to be quite honest with you It won't work out. It just simply will never work out for you. Always be positive YouTube is the biggest You know to me is the biggest roller coaster ride ever You know one day you can be super happy with your views and you know and likes the next day You can be as low as you've ever been, you know, so just keep uploading and things will come Some you know some people make it quicker than others But just remember that the ones that make it are the ones you know who keep going and never stop That is the main key now also you want to make sure you connect with your subscribers Ask them from time to time, you know to give you feedback on the videos, you know reply to as many of them as you can I till this day have replied to almost 100% of my comments if you go over to my comments you guys will see I'm always replying, you know make your subscribers feel like they're part of you You know at the end of the day without them your channel is simply nothing Also tips and news tend to help, you know people are always looking out to see what's new pick up on things that are Trending and just run with them, you know, don't self advertise. These are the don'ts You don't want to self advertise, you know on other channels or social medias Twitter Instagram things like that That will only get you hate and and trust me it will because I know a lot of people that are hated because they do that and Possibly reported on YouTube if you go and advertise on people's YouTube channel in the comments section People will report you and you can put your channel at risk, you know of something much worse Do not do sub for sub that's a big one I see a lot of people doing you know subscribe for subscribe on my Instagram everybody's always subscribe for subscribe and I did that once when I first started and it was you know, it was plain dumb and the reason why I don't agree with it is because You know if you tell somebody to suffer sub on social media, you know people will go to your channel They will subscribe but the only reason that they're subscribing is simply because they want you to subscribe So whenever you post a video, they're really not gonna go, you know watch your channel They're just in your channel so you can subscribe to them So that's why I think that sub for sub is a way to get dead subscribers If you get dead subscribers, you're not gonna get any views at the end of the day Your channel is gonna grow depending on views and ratings and things like that Yeah, the subscriber count is definitely overrated as a measure of success So if you're if all of your subs are active than real subs then it counts But doing silly tricks like that that just inflates a number and doesn't help you at all Yeah, definitely will never never help you It'll just it'll it'll actually frustrate you because you don't look you actually look at your sub count and It's not really adding up as much to your view count and you will get frustrated and YouTube is it's once you treat it like a business It's something that if you get frustrated your videos your you know your production how you make your videos everything It's just not gonna be you know, so it's full potential and that's something you don't want to make out of your videos Yeah, for sure. All right. Well, that's all for today. Thank you for joining me hollow point You guys can check out his channel. The link will be in the video description below and we have a few clips here and there for you To check out as well. Thanks for joining me guys. I'll see you next week on freedom partner interviews. All right, you guys