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  1. 0:00if you knew what I knew you could get 10
  2. 0:02million subscribers within 6 months your
  3. 0:04first video is not going to get views
  4. 0:05subscribers don't matter views don't
  5. 0:07matter I mean they do so stop sitting
  6. 0:09there and thinking for months and months
  7. 0:11on in and just get to work and start
  8. 0:13uploading everything you want as a
  9. 0:15Creator comes for making the best videos
  10. 0:17possible and thumbnails Mr Beast shares
  11. 0:18his best YouTube Vice all the way from
  12. 0:20title and thumbnail secrets to growing a
  13. 0:22channel on YouTube it's much easier to
  14. 0:25get 5 million views on one video than
  15. 0:2750,000 views on 100 videos you also
  16. 0:29reveal how he's able to hook in viewers
  17. 0:31in his videos and what he would do if he
  18. 0:33started over from scratch what advice
  19. 0:36would you give yourself when you were
  20. 0:37starting out your videos suck you think
  21. 0:39your videos are good but they suck you
  22. 0:42know they just do um and the sooner you
  23. 0:45learn how to make good great videos that
  24. 0:48people actually want to watch the soon
  25. 0:49you'll get views um I think is the
  26. 0:51biggest takeaway cuz like when I was 14
  27. 0:53I thought my videos were the best in the
  28. 0:55world they weren't they were terrible
  29. 0:56many people were making way better
  30. 0:57videos than me but I didn't think that
  31. 0:59and I think you you know to be
  32. 1:00successful you kind of have have to have
  33. 1:02a little bit of that ego where you're
  34. 1:03like you know my content's great you got
  35. 1:04to believe in it but also like if you
  36. 1:07have sub a th000 subscribers like
  37. 1:08there's a good probability your videos
  38. 1:10just suck they just do and you need to
  39. 1:12make hundreds of videos or a 100 videos
  40. 1:14I don't know depends on the difficulty
  41. 1:15of your videos improve something every
  42. 1:17time and just like get to the point
  43. 1:19where they don't when you make good
  44. 1:21content you'll blow up it's you it's not
  45. 1:22the algorithm it's not anything it's
  46. 1:24just like most me and most people who
  47. 1:27are in my position you just make
  48. 1:28terrible videos and that's that's okay
  49. 1:30because you got to make a bunch of
  50. 1:31videos and improve over time to be great
  51. 1:33like you don't just pick up a baseball
  52. 1:35and become an MLB level athlete within a
  53. 1:38year you know it takes many many many
  54. 1:40years and YouTube's kind of the same way
  55. 1:42a lot of people get analysis paralysis
  56. 1:43and they'll just sit there and they'll
  57. 1:45plan their first video for three months
  58. 1:46and I I'm any of you listening if if you
  59. 1:49especially if you have zero Vios on your
  60. 1:51channel your first video is not going to
  61. 1:52get views period it's not your first 10
  62. 1:55are not going to get views I can very
  63. 1:56confidently say that so stop sitting
  64. 1:58there and thinking for and months on in
  65. 2:00and just get to work and start uploading
  66. 2:02like all you need to do this applies to
  67. 2:05people who have not uploaded videos but
  68. 2:06have dreams of being a YouTuber is make
  69. 2:08100 videos and improve something every
  70. 2:10time do that and then on your 101st
  71. 2:12video we'll start talking like maybe you
  72. 2:13can get some views but you know your
  73. 2:16first 100 are going to start there are
  74. 2:17very freak cases like liac Koshi or Emma
  75. 2:20Chamberlain who have really good
  76. 2:21personalities and it doesn't take them
  77. 2:23so as many videos and it's just like
  78. 2:25people who are 7'5 and making the NBA
  79. 2:28like yes there are free cases you can
  80. 2:29find but for the average person like us
  81. 2:32you know who don't have these
  82. 2:33exceptional personalities and you know
  83. 2:35backgrounds in film making just make 100
  84. 2:37videos improve something each time and
  85. 2:38then talk to me on your 101st video how
  86. 2:41do you improve something each time the
  87. 2:42second one just I don't know put more
  88. 2:45effort into the script the third one try
  89. 2:46to learn a new editing trick the fourth
  90. 2:48one try to figure out a way that you can
  91. 2:50have better inflections in your voice
  92. 2:51the fifth one try to you know study a
  93. 2:53new thumbnail tip and implement it the
  94. 2:55sixth one try to figure out a new title
  95. 2:57there's infinite ways that's the beauty
  96. 2:58of content creation on life there's
  97. 3:00literally infinite ways from the
  98. 3:01coloring to the frame rate to the
  99. 3:02editing to the filming to the production
  100. 3:04to the jokes to the pacing to every
  101. 3:06little thing can be improved and they
  102. 3:07can never not be improved there's no
  103. 3:09there's literally no such thing as a
  104. 3:10perfect video what YouTube wants is they
  105. 3:11want people to click on a video and they
  106. 3:13want to watch it like at its core that's
  107. 3:15what it is now you can like draw little
  108. 3:17lines and go as deep as you want into
  109. 3:19how to get people to click and how to
  110. 3:21get people to watch I mean essentially
  111. 3:23by studying the algorithm you'll learn
  112. 3:25that you're more studying human
  113. 3:26psychology right what do humans want to
  114. 3:28watch you anytime you say the word
  115. 3:30algorithm just replace it with audience
  116. 3:31and it works perfectly like the
  117. 3:33algorithm didn't like that video no the
  118. 3:35audience didn't like that video
  119. 3:36literally that's it if people are
  120. 3:37clicking and watching then it gets
  121. 3:39promoted more and that's literally all
  122. 3:40the algorithm does is reflect what the
  123. 3:42people want 2 at and If you deny that
  124. 3:45you just make terrible videos and are
  125. 3:47trying to find a scapegoat what what
  126. 3:49makes for a good title short not just
  127. 3:51short it's also if someone reads it are
  128. 3:54they like do they have to watch it is it
  129. 3:56just so intrinsically interesting that
  130. 3:58it's just going to with them if they
  131. 4:00don't click it you know I mean ideally
  132. 4:02it's a title also that you know the
  133. 4:04titles don't live in a vacuum right so
  134. 4:05it has to lead into the content so
  135. 4:07ideally the title represents content
  136. 4:10that you would want to watch for 20
  137. 4:11minutes so if it's a 20-minute video and
  138. 4:13the title is I stepped on a bug the
  139. 4:14click the rate is going to be much lower
  140. 4:16than if it was like a 5-second video
  141. 4:18like even nuances of the length of the
  142. 4:19video based against the title will
  143. 4:21affect whether people want to click it
  144. 4:22cuz sometimes they just don't add up I
  145. 4:24mean it's that yes ideally you want it
  146. 4:26below 50 characters because above 50
  147. 4:28characters on certain devices you run
  148. 4:29the the chance of it going dot dot dot
  149. 4:31so like I took a a light pull and I saw
  150. 4:34how many dollar bills I could stack on
  151. 4:36top and then it would just go dot dot
  152. 4:37dot cuz it's too long and it can't
  153. 4:39finish it and that's the worst thing
  154. 4:40because then people don't even know what
  155. 4:41they're clicking on and so it's going to
  156. 4:42do even worse short simple ideally and
  157. 4:45just so freaking interesting they have
  158. 4:47to click and it is a good segue into the
  159. 4:49content and it represents the length of
  160. 4:51the content the more extreme the opinion
  161. 4:53typically the higher the click through
  162. 4:54it if you can like pay it off in the
  163. 4:56content then it just supercharges it so
  164. 4:58like oh so you have a kind of estimate
  165. 5:00of the extreme like this this water
  166. 5:02right you're like Fiji Water sucks yeah
  167. 5:05that would do fun but if you said Fiji
  168. 5:07Water it's the worst water I've ever
  169. 5:08Drank In My Life way more extreme
  170. 5:10opinion would do way better but you have
  171. 5:11to deliver yeah but then you have to
  172. 5:13deliver cuz the more extreme you are the
  173. 5:15more extreme you have to be in the video
  174. 5:16I heard you guys talking about um
  175. 5:18autoplay on YouTube and I've never
  176. 5:20considered it I've always thought about
  177. 5:22the thumbnail but now on YouTube videos
  178. 5:24automatically play of course so before
  179. 5:26you do you film a video what is the
  180. 5:28thumbnail what is the video and then
  181. 5:29what's the first 5 seconds and then
  182. 5:30what's the first 30 seconds you know by
  183. 5:32the first 5 seconds it's like goes with
  184. 5:34the thumbnail because it's possible that
  185. 5:36people Open YouTube and they don't they
  186. 5:39don't especially for us because like for
  187. 5:40so many people have watched hundreds of
  188. 5:42our videos when I upload I am first on
  189. 5:43your homepage so like you you just
  190. 5:45literally don't even see the thumbnail
  191. 5:47cuz it auto plays so quickly so like the
  192. 5:49thumbnail is irrelevant I have to like
  193. 5:51visually convince you to click on the
  194. 5:52video wow that's so interesting yeah
  195. 5:55that's why we go so hardcore dude that's
  196. 5:57so crazy so do you consider also cap in
  197. 6:00those first 5 Seconds aring everything
  198. 6:03everything yes 100% wow so those first 5
  199. 6:05Seconds that hook is now even more
  200. 6:08important than it ever used to be oh
  201. 6:10100% yeah before it was important
  202. 6:11because you had to convince people to
  203. 6:12watch now you have to convince people to
  204. 6:14click and watch at the same time W with
  205. 6:16the first 5 Seconds that's driving CTR
  206. 6:18now too 100% I bro I roast the lot of
  207. 6:21people who like have boring first 5
  208. 6:23seconds it's brutal your title and
  209. 6:24thumbnail set expectations and at the
  210. 6:26very beginning of the video to minimize
  211. 6:28drop off you want to assure them that
  212. 6:30those expectations are being met you
  213. 6:32click on a video where you know uh of
  214. 6:35his where it's like tether is a scam and
  215. 6:37then at the very beginning he starts
  216. 6:38talking about literally anything else
  217. 6:40then you are like oh this is bull this
  218. 6:42is what I clicked on but if at the very
  219. 6:44start of the video you go tether is a
  220. 6:46scam and I'm going to teach you why then
  221. 6:49it's like okay you match the
  222. 6:50expectations so at the very beginning
  223. 6:52match the expectations and then you want
  224. 6:53to exceed them so you want to assure
  225. 6:55people that what they clicked on is what
  226. 6:57they're getting and then blow their mind
  227. 6:59and be like but you're also getting even
  228. 7:00more that's how you you lower drop off
  229. 7:03which a lot of people it sometimes it
  230. 7:04takes them like 20 seconds to really
  231. 7:06meet the expectations and so you lose
  232. 7:09like that's where you're going to lose
  233. 7:10everyone everyone's videos start like
  234. 7:11this and then it levels off so you want
  235. 7:14to reduce the amount of people that
  236. 7:15click off on the audience for T graph I
  237. 7:17hope you're popping up graphs while I'm
  238. 7:18saying this so so it's easier for people
  239. 7:20to visualize we really should drill this
  240. 7:22home because like the number one thing
  241. 7:24is like retaining as many people as
  242. 7:26possible at the start cuz like Envision
  243. 7:28a chart where you lose 35% of your
  244. 7:30viewers in the first 30 seconds and then
  245. 7:31a vision one where you only lose 20%
  246. 7:33that's 15% more people that are watching
  247. 7:36you know throughout the video than not
  248. 7:38and it's not like you made the whole
  249. 7:40video like uh a bunch better you just
  250. 7:43had a more strategic intro that hooked
  251. 7:45them I'm I'm struggling to put this into
  252. 7:47words and like to really impose how
  253. 7:48important that is but like that 15%
  254. 7:50difference in viewership really does
  255. 7:52make the difference between
  256. 7:53hypothetically like 2 million views on a
  257. 7:54video and like 10 in my head the thing
  258. 7:56people undervalue the most is literally
  259. 7:58the first 10 seconds of the video like I
  260. 8:00can almost I think I can quote it uh I
  261. 8:02tied up an FBI agent and I have $100,000
  262. 8:04in this bag here's a knife good luck and
  263. 8:07I just run away like it gives you
  264. 8:08everything you need no wasted words
  265. 8:10short concise and then tension you
  266. 8:13basically want to remove every dull
  267. 8:14moment you probably want to find the 10
  268. 8:16most critical people you know make them
  269. 8:18watch the video and just roast it you
  270. 8:19know certain things like if I just talk
  271. 8:21to a camera for 10 seconds without a cut
  272. 8:23like a lot of people will just like get
  273. 8:25bored or they lose interest so like
  274. 8:27having a bcam and a ccam and just you
  275. 8:29can just talk for 10 seconds but three
  276. 8:31seconds in cutting to a bcam and then a
  277. 8:33ccam like now it's more interesting even
  278. 8:36though it's essentially the same thing
  279. 8:37and not that crazy but you want to have
  280. 8:38good pacing typically having a payoff at
  281. 8:40the end keeps some right last s Circle
  282. 8:43wins 10 grand if there is a low moment
  283. 8:45halfway through you're going to watch to
  284. 8:46the end because you want to see who wins
  285. 8:47the 10 grand um so having a good payoff
  286. 8:50at the end how do you keep viewers
  287. 8:51watching and you know happy with a video
  288. 8:53I would say just give them why they
  289. 8:55clicked tell them why they should watch
  290. 8:56and then just stick on topic like that
  291. 8:59right there isn't even super complex but
  292. 9:01I would already put you in the upper
  293. 9:02echelon of YouTube uh it's it's hard for
  294. 9:06a lot of people people for whatever
  295. 9:08reason like they just drag it out a lot
  296. 9:10of Vlog channels do it it's like eating
  297. 9:12$100 ice cream and they'll be like I'm
  298. 9:14going to eat a $100 ice cream but first
  299. 9:16and it's like earlier in the day and
  300. 9:17it's just stuff that has nothing to do
  301. 9:19with what you clicked on it's like them
  302. 9:20birthday shopping for their mom and it's
  303. 9:23like that's that's not why I came here
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  321. 10:00going to be okay let's get back into the
  322. 10:02video what's interesting is the longer
  323. 10:04people watch something the more likely
  324. 10:05they are to keep watching so you don't
  325. 10:08have to try as hard in the
  326. 10:10hypothetically back half of a video as
  327. 10:12you do in the front like even right now
  328. 10:14we're so deep into this where a lot of
  329. 10:16people listening are probably just going
  330. 10:17to keep listening relatively close to
  331. 10:19the end unless we just have a really
  332. 10:20boring part of this conversation cuz
  333. 10:22they're just they're just in it they're
  334. 10:23they're immersed um and so a big like to
  335. 10:27really boil it down to a simple level
  336. 10:28you just want to get people where
  337. 10:30they're immersed in the content and then
  338. 10:31just kind of hold them there the thing
  339. 10:33is it's all knowledge it really is and
  340. 10:35like every time I say this people debate
  341. 10:36it to the end of time on Twitter but I
  342. 10:38don't care like I could start a new
  343. 10:40channel tomorrow with not using my face
  344. 10:42or my voice like without ever promoting
  345. 10:44it and in 6 months have 20 million
  346. 10:47subscribers I just could it's purely
  347. 10:49knowledge like if you knew what I knew
  348. 10:51you could get 10 million views a video
  349. 10:53and you could get 10 million subscribers
  350. 10:55no matter where you are right now within
  351. 10:576 months it it really is just knowledge
  352. 10:59and I can already tell you 90% of people
  353. 11:02watching they they don't agree with that
  354. 11:03they don't and everyone has excuses and
  355. 11:05they're always like YouTube just doesn't
  356. 11:07work like that Jimmy you don't
  357. 11:08understand but I I Mentor a lot of
  358. 11:10people I've see it even to this day I
  359. 11:12still see it all the time uh it is
  360. 11:14possible it is simply knowledge and the
  361. 11:16second you accept that it is knowledge
  362. 11:18and you start your for me 10,000 day
  363. 11:21journey of learning for you whatever it
  364. 11:22is if you want to be less hardcore but
  365. 11:25and like actually figuring out you know
  366. 11:27what makes a good video what does my
  367. 11:28audience how can I Elevate and then you
  368. 11:31take that knowledge and you just you
  369. 11:33just assume that I will never understand
  370. 11:35what the perfect video is and every
  371. 11:36single day I just need to be devoted to
  372. 11:38learning as much as possible and
  373. 11:40improving as much as possible and I got
  374. 11:41to proove every video as much as I can
  375. 11:43then there you go there are tons of
  376. 11:45viral ideas that people can do that
  377. 11:47don't require money it does not require
  378. 11:49money to go viral like at one point one
  379. 11:51of my most few videos was like spending
  380. 11:53um 24 hours in the desert we just
  381. 11:55grabbed a tent some stuff and we went in
  382. 11:56the desert and it got like 60 70 mlion
  383. 11:59views I have so many videos where we
  384. 12:01spent hardly any money like the uh no
  385. 12:03food one or uh I'd have to pull up the
  386. 12:05channel and go through it that have
  387. 12:06gotten tens of millions of views and
  388. 12:08they would have gotten 10 plus million
  389. 12:09views even on a small channel so people
  390. 12:11who say oh well I could be mrbed if I
  391. 12:14had money well a I didn't start off with
  392. 12:16money I was poor I had no money and it
  393. 12:18took me like seven years just to buy a
  394. 12:20camera saving up from YouTube and B some
  395. 12:23of our most few videos literally like
  396. 12:24anyone could do the best way to get
  397. 12:27views in my opinion I think it's better
  398. 12:29to really really focus on quality if
  399. 12:31you're a very small YouTuber and you can
  400. 12:33upload a video a day and like all the
  401. 12:35videos be average and like none of those
  402. 12:37videos will really stand out none of
  403. 12:39it's like epic enough where like the
  404. 12:41algorithm's going to go oh this video
  405. 12:43like this video is good like we need to
  406. 12:44spread it feel like a lot of small
  407. 12:46YouTubers they just post like videos
  408. 12:48that aren't bad but they're not great
  409. 12:50and they just do that and and none of
  410. 12:52them ever pop off so they never get an
  411. 12:53audience where it might be better to
  412. 12:55like you know upload half or a third or
  413. 12:58even like a fifth of the videos but make
  414. 13:00the videos you upload so freaking good
  415. 13:02that like the algorithm has to promote
  416. 13:04it and that you know it has to find
  417. 13:05audiences for it cuz it's such an
  418. 13:07interesting and good video when you like
  419. 13:09set a consistent schedule and you're
  420. 13:10constantly having to upload videos that
  421. 13:12aren't as good as you'd like because you
  422. 13:13got to hit oh this Monday I said I'd
  423. 13:16upload every Monday you know like that's
  424. 13:18a dangerous trap because then you know
  425. 13:20the viewers notice that the quality
  426. 13:21isn't as good and it makes them less
  427. 13:22likely to watch and I think it hurts
  428. 13:24your longevity a lot of times people oh
  429. 13:28boy it's like they think their videos
  430. 13:30are better than they are honestly and
  431. 13:33they tell them Jimmy tell them I mean
  432. 13:35they do and and you have to like you
  433. 13:37have to that and they have horrible
  434. 13:38friend groups cuz you really are like
  435. 13:40the type of YouTubers you hang around
  436. 13:42and so like a lot of times I'm just like
  437. 13:44what you're saying is wrong who told you
  438. 13:45this they're like oh this guy and this
  439. 13:47guy and it's like well they're wrong
  440. 13:49it's not true you there's no such thing
  441. 13:51as a perfect video like someone should
  442. 13:52always call you and it on your video cuz
  443. 13:55it could be better like that's because
  444. 13:57imagine if someone does that every video
  445. 13:59and you upload hundreds if not a
  446. 14:01thousand videos over the next 10 years
  447. 14:03and every single time someone's
  448. 14:04critiquing you and you're applying what
  449. 14:05they're critiquing like Imagine The
  450. 14:07Compound Effect over that time span it's
  451. 14:09it's invaluable people think it's like
  452. 14:11oh well um it's all like CTR and stuff
  453. 14:14like that but a big thing that everyone
  454. 14:17underestimates is it's what what was
  455. 14:19your experience with your last video If
  456. 14:21people loved your the last video of
  457. 14:22yours that they watched they're more
  458. 14:24likely to watch your next one for the
  459. 14:26YouTubers watching this when people
  460. 14:27watch your video they go okay that was
  461. 14:29good but like that's enough of of you
  462. 14:31for the day like it was it was all right
  463. 14:32right whereas what you want is them to
  464. 14:33go holy crap that was crazy oh my God
  465. 14:36what's that holy crap that was crazy oh
  466. 14:38my God and they just and they watched 10
  467. 14:40videos that's what you're going for that
  468. 14:42data can't describe and like I don't
  469. 14:45I've never heard anyone talk about that
  470. 14:46but that that is it that's how you get
  471. 14:48these High View counts because people
  472. 14:50watch 10 videos not one you know it's
  473. 14:52okay to draw inspiration from me but
  474. 14:54just don't do what I do to a te it's not
  475. 14:56like $1 versus blank I'm the first
  476. 14:59person to do it but I just you know saw
  477. 15:01that format and I was just like how can
  478. 15:02I do that 100 times better how can I put
  479. 15:04100 times more creativity into it how
  480. 15:06can I I level up the editing by 100
  481. 15:08times how can I spin blah blah blah and
  482. 15:10that's always my mindset how can I like
  483. 15:11if I get inspired by something how can I
  484. 15:13do that but a 100 times better and make
  485. 15:15it my own whereas a lot of people are
  486. 15:16just like Oh Mr Beast did that I'm just
  487. 15:19going to do it yeah how do I make a good
  488. 15:21thumbnail how do I get people to click
  489. 15:22my video you want it to be simple you
  490. 15:24want them to be able to like when
  491. 15:26they're scrolling through their
  492. 15:27suggested or homepage or whatever touch
  493. 15:29point you want them to instantly be able
  494. 15:31to understand what you're conveying and
  495. 15:33and you want them to feel some type of
  496. 15:35emotion you know what I mean the way I
  497. 15:37like the phrase it is you want to make
  498. 15:38it so interesting or or Spike their
  499. 15:41curiosity or whatever emotion so much
  500. 15:44that like if they don't click it they'll
  501. 15:47wonder you know when they're before they
  502. 15:49go to bed like what happened you know
  503. 15:51what I mean like like an example would
  504. 15:52be like if you uploaded a video I wrote
  505. 15:54a skateboard with 1,000 other people on
  506. 15:57it and like people are falling off the
  507. 15:58side or whatever I'm envisioning like a
  508. 16:00giant skateboard and people like hanging
  509. 16:02on the side of it um maybe it's like
  510. 16:04about to go off a big ramp if you don't
  511. 16:05click that you're going to like be so
  512. 16:08curious it's going to be on your mind
  513. 16:10you know later in the day when you're
  514. 16:11daydreaming you're going to think like
  515. 16:13huh what happened what happened to those
  516. 16:15thousand people on that skateboard
  517. 16:17that's kind of the mindset I think you
  518. 16:19should have when making thumbnails how
  519. 16:21often do you change a thumbnail on a on
  520. 16:23a video is that something do you usually
  521. 16:25just stick with one or you try different
  522. 16:27so I think we we get better at making
  523. 16:30thumbnails every year so it's more when
  524. 16:32I upload a thumbnail I usually think
  525. 16:33it's good and I don't change it most of
  526. 16:35the time but what happens is like 3
  527. 16:37years later I look back and I'm like oh
  528. 16:39that's a horrible thumbnail and so it's
  529. 16:41usually like every two years we just go
  530. 16:43back and update a lot of our older
  531. 16:44thumbnails just cuz they're terrible um
  532. 16:47just with like the new knowledge we have
  533. 16:48and what we've learned and funny enough
  534. 16:50that actually usually does help quite a
  535. 16:52bit when we update the thumbnails on old
  536. 16:53videos that they usually do see a little
  537. 16:55bit of an uptick cuz they're just you
  538. 16:57know if we take an old thumbnail where
  539. 16:58it's like uh seeing if whatever like uh
  540. 17:02a thous 100,000 magnets can stop a car
  541. 17:04and it just looks terrible and then with
  542. 17:06the new stuff I know we zoom in a little
  543. 17:08bit so it's a little more visible and
  544. 17:09make things look better then magically
  545. 17:11it starts doing a little bit better cuz
  546. 17:12now people actually understand what it
  547. 17:14is cuz I'm not as uh much of an idiot
  548. 17:16anymore in 10 years YouTube's going to
  549. 17:18be bigger than television ever was for
  550. 17:19culture in America at least in my
  551. 17:21opinion and so I think a lot of people
  552. 17:24underestimate that and people I don't
  553. 17:25think people really understand just how
  554. 17:28like to be a one of the top creators on
  555. 17:31the biggest social media platform and
  556. 17:33that and that will also be the biggest
  557. 17:35in 10 years during that whole time like
  558. 17:37the amount of value and how crazy that
  559. 17:39is like you don't need a network you
  560. 17:40don't need um you know to go through
  561. 17:42people you just are you can and you can
  562. 17:44do whatever you want and you can
  563. 17:45influence people how you want it's just
  564. 17:48wild it's mind-blowing and you can
  565. 17:49leverage that to build businesses or you
  566. 17:51know like do things like beastful
  567. 17:52anthropy or whatever I think like people
  568. 17:54don't realize just how much influence
  569. 17:56the top YouTube channels have no one's
  570. 17:57ever going to do what I do better than
  571. 17:59like it's just not it's not even humanly
  572. 18:01possible like I reinvest every penny I
  573. 18:02make I work every hour I'm awake I
  574. 18:05devote every atom in my brain to solving
  575. 18:08this I hire the best people on the
  576. 18:09planet I've been doing this for 14 years
  577. 18:11and I think in decades not years so I'm
  578. 18:13going to be doing this for another 2030
  579. 18:15years not two or three so no the next me
  580. 18:17isn't going to be me because no one's
  581. 18:18going to do what I do better than me
  582. 18:19it's not possible if I thought someone
  583. 18:20was doing better than me I'd just start
  584. 18:21sleeping less so I could work even more
  585. 18:23like I figur it out the barrier to entry
  586. 18:25to be you is extremely high yeah right
  587. 18:27especially where you're at I'm all in
  588. 18:29I'm crazy like people shouldn't be me I
  589. 18:31don't I don't have a life I don't have
  590. 18:32work life balance I my personality my
  591. 18:34soul my being is making the best as
  592. 18:37possible entertaining my fans as best as
  593. 18:39I can like that is what exists on this
  594. 18:40planet and I don't recommend it you know
  595. 18:42I mean like you should have work life
  596. 18:44balance you should not devote your
  597. 18:46entire life to this one thing like go
  598. 18:48have fun like you know I'm miserable a
  599. 18:50lot of times I I have a mental breakdown
  600. 18:52every other week cuz I push myself so
  601. 18:54hard like I don't recommend it you know
  602. 18:56what do you think gets us to a million
  603. 18:58subscribers well subscribers is an
  604. 18:59arbitrary number that Milli views no you
  605. 19:02should ask me what helps us make the
  606. 19:04best videos possible that's the only
  607. 19:05question you should ask me subscribers
  608. 19:07don't matter views don't matter I mean
  609. 19:08they do but all that comes everything
  610. 19:11you want as a Creator comes for making
  611. 19:13the best videos possible and thumbnails
  612. 19:15uh but it's easier to you know make
  613. 19:17thumbnails the video part is the hard
  614. 19:19part and that's the thing that you're
  615. 19:20known for ask how can I make my videos
  616. 19:22better do that every single day for
  617. 19:24years and then you'll probably get views

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