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you doing my friend How you doing but

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Ladies and

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gentlemen, welcome to TwitchTok.

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I'm your host Skylerguns. And

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today I have here with me a

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guest Call of Duty Warzone

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trick, shatter sensation.

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Sometimes he has pain sometimes

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he doesn't hit his trick shots,

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but he's been perfecting them.

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So fast couple months just got

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picked up by full squad gaming.

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16 year old full time content

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creator, AznBoi How you doing?

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Doing good?

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How about yourself

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doing good. First off, I want to say thanks for being here. Full Time 16 year

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old content creator, there was

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another person I had on the

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podcast. He was also 16 and it's

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just crazy to think about. Um,

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but before we start talking

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about all of that and your

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growth and where you how far

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you've come. I mean, you've

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exploded in growth. I want to

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say what 350,000 on TikTok now

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somewhere around there.

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330 Yeah, around there.

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333 4330 and

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and climb

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Yeah. And then twitch on

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the 70k mark. I'm trying to get

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into YouTube, YouTube's the next

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big game. But solely going no

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everywhere.

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For sure. Yeah, YouTube's a different beast altogether. So I want to start

1:46

off how do you how did you get

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your name?

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I'm actually originally

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My name was little Asian. But

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when I tried going to find the

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name on Twitch, it was taken

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soon. I was like, Okay, what

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works? Little Asians, but too

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long. I was like, Alright, Asian

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boy. Cuz

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Did you always have

2:11

the AZN spelling?

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Yeah. So I used to watch

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a show called Sri outlaws my

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dad. And one of the like, the

2:17

characters on there was named

2:20

easy. And I'm like, all right.

2:20

roll with it. So like my Steam,

2:24

everything like that. It's just been Asian.

2:28

It's pretty cool on

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your communities called Asian

2:30

nation as well, which I find

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pretty cool. Yeah, nice little

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rhyme right there. Um, so talk

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to me about your your background

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and how'd you get into streaming

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and all that.

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So I grew up like you

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know, casual ps3 ps3, console

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gamer got like a laptop played

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Minecraft. Um, I've always had

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like a kick for like, streaming

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all those watch streamers

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growing up, but like, I didn't

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really have the harshest said

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like that, like the computer

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internet to even start sharing.

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Till like, recently in COVID,

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when I was like, forced in my

3:09

room, and like, I, I got my

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computer. I really have nothing

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better to do. So I'm sitting

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here like, mid summer, playing

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cod for like, five, six hours

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doing whatever around the house.

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And I was just like, screwed.

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went for it.

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Wow, that's crazy.

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What are some of the streamers

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that you that you watch and kind

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of inspired you when you were

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younger? So, um,

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I grew up in the CS

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scene. So I watched a lot of

3:38

shroud and scream. And like, you

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know, watch a lot Tim tatman

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before watching his Overwatch,

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as well as like, I was like,

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really big into like, Overwatch

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and CS. I used to play on my

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laptop. So that like really like

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sparked it for me.

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Okay, yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, Tim, Tim has been along around for a long

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time. Same was. Um, so that,

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yeah, that's pretty cool. I mean, you've come quite a long way. And it's, it's crazy for

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somebody so young to make it so

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quickly. And, you know, I, you

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know, if you're, if you're a

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young person trying to get into

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streaming, that's the best time

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of all, I mean, a lot of the

4:14

time doesn't. Yeah, I mean, you

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have so much time, you'll never

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have as much time as you do

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right now until you're already

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retired. And, you know, there's

4:24

some there's some older folks out there that are getting the streaming career, which is

4:26

pretty cool. But I constantly

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wish that I started a lot

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younger than I did. But how does

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it feel to be I mean, you're

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basically already at a full time

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income. I mean, everybody has

4:35

different standards for what

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they consider full time. You

4:39

know, you have to pay your bills

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and all that and you know,

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you're 16 so I don't know what

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kind of bills you have, if any,

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but the level, you're basically

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already full time with the amount of subs that you're getting, and I'm sure ad revenue

4:50

might play a part in that. So

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how does it feel knowing that

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you don't really have to go into

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the working world if you don't

4:57

want to you don't have to go to

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MCI or anywhere, really.

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I mean, it was kind of

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like a situation like pre COVID.

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Like, if COVID didn't actually

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even hit, I would probably be,

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you know, working like a nine to

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five, like COVID hit, it was

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like, there's no point risking B

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and on my family to go work a

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nine to five wound bless for my

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parents table like to support me

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without be having to work. So I

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was like, I was like, if I

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wasn't even doing this, it was

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fine. But it's just kind of like

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a nice thing to do.

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Yeah, definitely.

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Definitely a good cushion there.

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Did you have any plans for

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further schooling? Like college

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after high school?

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I am going to college.

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Yeah, from my parents. But yeah,

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I really, I'm not I have like,

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I'm still like a gray area,

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like, why I want to do or like

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what I want when I'm major in

5:54

for college. But I still have a

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kind of a year to decide. So

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it's like, for the next now to

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the next year is like pure grind

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time where I can like, be able

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to take it to like the peak. And

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like ride that throughout

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college. Kyle what Sam's doing,

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but yeah,

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sound what's Oh,

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yeah, makes sense. How do you so

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how do your parents feel about

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it? Did they? You know, I'm sure

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most parents they don't think

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that, you know, their kid could

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be a full time streamer. Because

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it's such a wild dream, but

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people do it. So how do your

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parents feel about it? And is

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them like, you going to college?

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Is that plan to like some of

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their expectations? are they

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telling you that you still got

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to go to college?

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Yeah, they're there for

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most my life. Um, so even school

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first. So as long as my grades I

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like for this whole, like,

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junior year, I've got the four

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point. So if my grades are good,

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they really don't mind what I

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do. So if my grades are good, I

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have good grades, but I'm stuck

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in my room. So they don't really

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care what I do.

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Well, that's good.

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I mean, are they supportive of

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it? Do they like understand the

7:04

level?

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At the start? They're

7:08

like, you know, they kind of

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just understood that as like,

7:12

alright. Alright, he's playing

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video games in his room slam be,

7:16

then it came to a point where

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I'm like, so and so like, car

7:20

dog came in. He's the one that

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paid for my go XLR stream deck.

7:25

Second PC, when they see these

7:31

things like arriving at our

7:31

door. They're like, What is

7:34

going on? Where is this coming

7:34

from? What What is happening?

7:39

What do you what do you do? You

7:39

know? And then they start

7:41

getting into it and they start

7:41

understanding that okay, I

7:44

started making TikTok videos, I

7:44

stream and assigned to

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understand like, like, the

7:48

social media aspect of it before

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they were like, pretty, like

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they were like on the blind side

7:55

of things and kind of genuinely

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knew I did but not really

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at all. Do they

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know how much money you're

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making?

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Ya know? My mom was the

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one that helped me set up the

8:05

LLC for buy this so I can tax

8:05

write off stuff. And she was

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been the one to help me like

8:10

even most of it. Cool.

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Yeah, that's awesome. Is she Are your parents pretty? Like financially savvy?

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are they helping you like make

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the right decisions with it? Are

8:19

you deciding what to do with it?

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Whether it's retirement or

8:22

upgrading streams? Um,

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my parents are are

8:26

really really great with that.

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Since I've we've came from like

8:30

a background because the

8:33

Philippines is relatively you

8:33

know, poor not very well off.

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And we came from like a spot

8:37

where we really had to save

8:42

every dollar we had to to get

8:42

by. So I get Yeah, they're

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really great with money.

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Yeah, I mean, cuz I

8:50

know like, I mean, thinking

8:53

about it. I mean, there's, you

8:53

know, streamers around your age

8:56

that are like Minecraft

8:56

streamers. Like Tommy in it is

8:59

how you say his name. But it's

8:59

crazy to think about how much

9:03

money he's making and it's like,

9:03

what do you even do with all

9:06

that especially at that age? I

9:06

wouldn't even know what to do

9:08

with that. I

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mean, I think for me, I

9:11

since I don't really have any

9:16

bills. So it's like the only

9:16

things I really spend money on

9:20

and it's like, you know, given

9:20

back to the other streamers like

9:24

gifting subs, you know, someone

9:24

like my mods helping back with

9:28

my mods or failing you like in

9:28

your keyboard or mouse of the

9:31

malo upgrade, help him out

9:31

without no problem. It's like,

9:35

most of it is just like, just

9:35

like putting away savings.

9:41

Because like, at certain point,

9:41

like, I mean, like couple months

9:44

ago, I was off like a headset

9:44

microphone and a little

9:48

heartbreak squad cast. At a

9:48

certain point, there's not much

9:51

you need to upgrade, you know?

9:51

So I'm just saving, saving,

9:56

saving.

9:57

Was there anything

9:57

super lavish that you bought

9:59

yourself? That's not really

9:59

related to streaming at all? No.

10:07

But lately I've been

10:07

looking at his life for like,

10:10

probably two years.

10:13

Oh my god.

10:15

Every everything I

10:15

bought to share me, yeah. Are

10:18

you planning on buying a car

10:18

soon? Maybe? Um, depends.

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Depends on how like school goes.

10:23

Because if I'm online for next

10:27

year what's the point?

10:29

That's true? Yeah,

10:29

I'm not. I'm not sure where you

10:33

live. I don't know if you want to stay or not. I mean, Michigan, Michigan. Yeah. I

10:34

mean, depending on where you are

10:37

a lot of people, like don't even

10:37

need to buy a car, like in

10:40

really urban cities, but

10:43

I have my life. I've had

10:43

my license for a year, and I

10:45

still haven't used it. So I'm

10:45

like, this is really I mean,

10:52

so I mean, I guess

10:52

there's not really anywhere to

10:55

go. I mean, the stream so much,

10:55

man, the day that I got my

11:00

license, I was, yeah, my

11:00

driver's license. I was 16. I

11:04

broke my foot. I broke my foot

11:04

that I had to use for my gas

11:07

pedal. So couldn't can drive for

11:07

like, three, four months after I

11:11

got it. What a waste. Horrible.

11:15

I want you know, after

11:15

it's like, it's been, I've been

11:19

like, hard quarantine. Like, I'm

11:19

like, only time I really go. I

11:23

was like, if I'm going to go and

11:23

get groceries or whatever. But

11:27

like, for the past year, like, I

11:27

can't just like, even with like

11:31

school people. I've kind of

11:31

like, I've kind of just like

11:36

went like this past year, I've

11:36

just focused on myself. Just

11:39

like, okay, I've gotten the

11:39

mindset, I'm like, I don't care

11:43

what really what people think of

11:43

me. I don't care what people

11:46

like. They think this would be

11:46

if they say this about me. Like,

11:49

what's the point of carrying

11:49

someone's opinion? If you know

11:52

what you're doing makes you

11:52

happy? And you can continue to

11:56

do every day. Like, so you

11:56

should care about.

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Yeah, that's a good

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mindset to people at school,

12:02

like not necessarily your close

12:02

group of friends, but do other

12:05

people at school that you don't

12:05

really know, do they know the

12:08

level you're at and talk about

12:08

it? Um, started quarantine.

12:13

I'd probably around like

12:13

2030 Canon TikTok, right. And

12:16

the school yearbook came to

12:16

reach out to do stories on

12:22

people that went viral over

12:22

quarantine. But other than that

12:27

people have like, you know, I've

12:27

reached out to my snapchat and

12:29

they're like, Hey, I saw your

12:29

video. I saw you on my for you

12:32

page. That's cool. You're doing

12:32

this? And like they start

12:34

supporting and like, some people

12:34

know, but like, I don't I don't

12:38

sit there and tell people what I do.

12:40

Yeah, for sure. I,

12:40

I don't know. Like, it's, it's

12:43

weird. I just don't really like

12:43

talking about TikTok or

12:48

streaming with people. I don't

12:48

know. It's like,

12:52

we sit here every day

12:52

interacting with like, hundreds

12:55

1000s people. Sometimes when I

12:55

when I'm off stream, I'm

12:59

socially drained. I just want to

12:59

sit down lay down listening

13:02

music. Do something else off

13:02

social media.

13:07

Yeah, that that

13:07

brings up a good point. Like I

13:10

think with COVID, a lot of us

13:10

became hermits after because we

13:13

had nowhere to go, nothing to

13:13

do. But now it makes me wonder

13:17

if a lot of us in that position

13:17

that started streaming and

13:20

started doing social media. But

13:20

part of it is because we're so

13:23

active in social online, and

13:23

that by the time that we're

13:26

done, we just don't even want to

13:26

do anything. Maybe it's both I

13:29

guess

13:29

it's probably both but

13:29

like, I feel wasn't. I mean, if

13:34

COVID wasn't a thing, I don't

13:34

think this whole cod talk, or

13:38

any of this would be even as big

13:38

as now. I feel like it would be

13:43

a different scene. Because pre

13:43

COVID I was mid lacrosse season.

13:49

So if it wasn't, you know,

13:49

streaming, how could we be in

13:53

the gym right now, you know,

13:53

working out playing lacrosse,

13:56

but it's crazy how the world

13:56

works.

13:59

Yeah, I mean, as

13:59

crappy as COVID is, I mean,

14:01

there's definitely some good

14:01

stuff that has came out of it,

14:03

that's for sure. And Tick Tock

14:03

is just a life changer for so

14:07

many people. I mean, people are

14:07

practically celebrities now.

14:15

I've always never, I

14:15

kind of don't really look at

14:18

myself as people come up to me

14:18

and they're like, You're famous.

14:22

I'm like that now I just, you

14:22

know, just, I don't know. I

14:29

don't I never really looked at

14:29

the numbers and it really is

14:32

like when you sit back and you

14:32

realize like 100,000 people

14:37

follow you. That's That's a lot

14:37

of people 100,000 you just don't

14:43

it doesn't really like click in

14:43

your head that that many people

14:45

sit there and follow you for

14:45

you. Oh

14:50

yeah, I'm the same

14:50

way. I mean, like I just I don't

14:54

like talking about in person

14:54

with especially like strangers

14:57

like if it's like friends of friends that know about it or like oh, like talk Got this and

14:59

I'm like, I just, I don't want

15:01

to talk about it. I just feel so

15:01

awkward and like the same way

15:04

like, I mean, I'm on a smaller

15:04

level than you are. But I feel

15:07

like no matter how big me or you

15:07

get, like, I just feel like a

15:10

celebrity feeling would never

15:10

really come at all.

15:15

I guess it comes with

15:15

like streaming because like, I

15:19

guess you don't want to have

15:19

that persona of people thinking

15:22

like, you know, like you your it

15:22

won't be like, you know, I mean,

15:26

it doesn't really change the

15:26

fact. Like, I think,

15:29

respectfully, people in the cod

15:29

community, a car talk, at least,

15:34

they have a certain sense for

15:34

like, no one's really better

15:37

than anyone. numbers don't

15:37

really mean much. It's really

15:40

about the person.

15:42

Yeah, for sure. And

15:42

then a big thing too, is like

15:45

you no matter how many followers

15:45

you have on Tick tock, that

15:47

doesn't always translate to

15:47

twitch either. So it's always a

15:50

tough position. But you've

15:50

you've had some you've had some

15:52

very good conversion. And I

15:52

believe that I mean, I'm sure

15:55

that a lot of you're following

15:55

on Twitch isn't even solely from

15:58

TikTok. To and just more organic

15:58

reach as well. Because I mean,

16:02

350,000 and then 70,000. on

16:02

Twitch, it's that's an insane

16:06

conversion, which a lot of people struggle with.

16:09

I feel like some people

16:09

struggle with is okay. They're

16:14

there. They're so self

16:14

conceited. That's pointing the

16:18

right way. They're not willing

16:18

to branch out, meet new people.

16:23

Because I like if you, if you

16:23

network with people, you become

16:28

really good friends with people,

16:28

you like your community in their

16:31

community is gonna like they're

16:31

going to link and they're going

16:34

to start, you know, that

16:34

community is going to start to

16:36

merge with another one. And it's

16:36

just a W for like, for you and

16:40

the other person because there's

16:40

not much to lose. You both are

16:43

gaining. No. I look at it.

16:48

Yeah, networking is

16:48

a huge part when it comes to it.

16:50

That's for sure. And, you know,

16:50

people always get stumbled upon

16:54

that. They're like, I don't know

16:54

how to network. But I mean,

16:56

honestly, I feel like it's just

16:56

building a friendship. You know,

16:59

most of the people that I

16:59

reached out to it's never with

17:02

the intention of like, Oh, I

17:02

want to network with this person

17:04

and LIKE, SHARE communities. No,

17:04

it's just like, I want to play

17:07

games with this person. This

17:07

person is really cool. As easy

17:11

as just as simple as that, to be

17:11

honest.

17:14

I mean, like, it just, I

17:14

guess yeah, cuz it's like,

17:18

Alright, cool, Heisman, other

17:18

homie on in, you know, bring a

17:21

game every day we do our things.

17:21

We're in the same realm. It's

17:24

just cool.

17:26

Now, so talk to me

17:26

about TikTok I guess one thing

17:33

that has been on my mind is with

17:33

with TikTok. A lot of people,

17:38

you know, usually have to, you

17:38

know, adapt and change the stuff

17:41

that you're doing if something's

17:41

not working. And something that

17:44

I noticed about your account, I

17:44

was following you since you had

17:46

like 5000 followers. I mean, you

17:46

were like, on the same level for

17:49

the longest time, and you just

17:49

exploded all of a sudden, and

17:52

you just been climbing ever

17:52

since. I remember one of your

17:55

first viral videos, but you

17:55

know, you you had the same

17:59

format. And it was, you know,

17:59

really nasty clip that you got

18:02

on Warzone intro in the

18:02

beginning and then roll the clip

18:05

was your your motto. And you did

18:05

that for every single video,

18:08

which TikTok loves consistency.

18:08

But something that I've wondered

18:13

about is like, you know, for the

18:13

longest time, you weren't seeing

18:15

that much success, you were

18:15

getting a couple 100 views,

18:17

couple 1000 views until you

18:17

know, you really started to blow

18:20

up. So what was your reasoning

18:20

behind sticking to the same

18:24

format, even if it wasn't

18:24

working in the beginning? And

18:27

how did you know to keep doing that?

18:29

So funny thing is, all

18:29

my friends Benny told me start

18:33

doing TikTok like, way back

18:33

then, I started doing TikTok as

18:37

a joke. So I used to, I used to,

18:37

um, like free I would used to

18:42

like go on YouTube free editing

18:42

software, founded Vinci. Vinci

18:46

has been like, you know, my

18:46

editing software since I would

18:49

take twitch clips and just

18:49

upload it. But like, I found it

18:55

super organic and easy that I

18:55

was able to just just be me, you

19:00

know, I didn't want you know,

19:00

like, you know how some people

19:03

would want to put on a persona,

19:03

like Doctor disrespect, or like

19:07

BenJammins to great content

19:07

creators. I just found it easy

19:11

that I'm like, I didn't really

19:11

think about it back then. But

19:15

it's like thinking about it now.

19:15

Like, the way I play, like the

19:19

least on eyes, right? Like, if

19:19

I'm able to do this

19:22

consistently, I'm able to put

19:22

out consistent content. So if

19:26

that's what they want, then I'm

19:26

able to do it easily. Then, in

19:31

my head, I was like, Alright, if

19:31

they see this on my TikTok and

19:35

the only link in my bio is my

19:35

Twitch. Then they gonna click on

19:38

it and they gonna be like, Whoa,

19:38

he really does this. And he does

19:42

it consistently. So they can

19:42

continue watch and continue

19:44

supporting. But like that's only

19:44

like I thought I like recently

19:48

got it wasn't from the start.

19:52

Yeah. Talk to me

19:52

about your first your first

19:55

viral video that you had if you

19:55

remember cuz I feel like you

19:58

know you've been hit Nasty clips

19:58

for the longest time and then

20:01

just for some reason, one of

20:01

those finally exploded and it

20:05

snowballed. Um,

20:07

I was actually just

20:07

doing this on my stream, we were

20:10

looking back arrow TikTok it was

20:10

the M, had a crossbow clip that

20:18

I had like a, like a 400 meter,

20:18

crossbow clip and warmups that

20:22

was doing I was doing, I used to

20:22

play in the amateur league. And

20:25

then the next one, my first ever

20:25

million view video was an M 13

20:31

video that I didn't 10 minutes.

20:31

class was about to start and I

20:37

was like, Alright, cool. I'm

20:37

just gonna cook something up

20:40

real quick, nothing serious,

20:40

okay, cuz like back then I was

20:43

averaging probably like 510 510

20:43

k views. Alright, if it's a 10k,

20:47

I'm Gabby, I turn my phone off.

20:47

I wake up at the end, like when

20:52

I get our class. I'm sitting

20:52

there, like, there's 750,000

20:57

views in this video. And I'm

20:57

just, I'm just like, whoa. But

21:03

like, I didn't really think much

21:03

of it. Because, you know, like,

21:06

people were like, Alright, get

21:06

your three seconds of fame. And

21:09

just move on. I didn't think

21:09

much of it. So I just kept on

21:12

doing it. Like, more and more it

21:12

started happening. I was like,

21:16

whoa, whoa, that's kind of cool.

21:19

That's funny you

21:19

say that, because I always feel

21:21

like the ones the videos that

21:21

you post that are just a one off

21:25

video they think nothing of

21:25

those are the ones that always

21:28

end up going viral. So I'm a big

21:28

believer in like, post anything

21:32

that comes to your mind to be

21:32

honest, because you never know

21:34

which one's gonna be hit.

21:37

I mean, I guess I guess,

21:37

for my case, I'm kind of like a

21:43

one off because like, being Polo

21:43

talks about this a lot. It's

21:47

like, there's not a lot of

21:47

people that will sit here and

21:50

like, consistently hit clips,

21:50

unable to, you know, like, have

21:55

sick clips to post. So it's

21:55

like, I guess it's I'm gonna

22:01

like a lucky spot where I'm able

22:01

to just like mass produce it.

22:04

Yes. Firefox accessing,

22:06

unless you fake

22:06

your clips. Let's not even talk

22:12

about that. So, you know,

22:12

speaking of which, you your

22:18

TikTok pretty much is only

22:18

Warzone. And I know that there

22:21

was a time where, you know, some

22:21

of you guys may not know this

22:24

that are listening. Asian boy

22:24

did get banned from Warzone for

22:28

a short period of time, which I

22:28

kind of want to talk about too.

22:32

But my question I'm going with

22:32

is during your time that you

22:34

were banned on Warzone, I saw

22:34

that you're playing a little bit

22:37

of apex, but you never posted an

22:37

apex video. So why not? And what

22:43

are you going to do if you get

22:43

tired of ozone or Warzone dies?

22:46

Possibly See?

22:49

With Tick tock, tick

22:49

tock is super, they don't like

22:54

changing your content at all.

22:54

Because if people people follow

22:58

you for they see one video on

22:58

your 40 page, and they follow

23:00

you for that video. They're not

23:00

gonna want to see anything else.

23:03

But that video. So if I posted,

23:03

I was afraid that if I posted a

23:09

post clip of me like, you know,

23:09

doing my thing, I just didn't

23:13

think it was like, was gonna do

23:13

well.

23:18

Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

23:18

it's so weird, because some

23:22

people I see are able to post

23:22

anything and everything. And

23:25

some people have to stick to one

23:25

specific format. It's, you know,

23:28

I know that Sally, Sally is a

23:28

dog had that same issue because

23:31

he mostly posted only wars on

23:31

content. And I'm pretty sure he

23:34

got I think he got tired of

23:34

Warzone at a point in time, but

23:36

he just started playing a lot of

23:36

Minecraft and he started making

23:39

Minecraft TikTok on those blew

23:39

up. So I don't know, I guess it

23:43

just depends on how you go about

23:43

it. But I mean, I honestly,

23:47

Yeah, go ahead. For the game

23:47

part.

23:49

I think the best way to

23:49

go about it is, you know, you

23:55

see the big people like Nick Tim

23:55

cloak, see whoever they, they

24:03

take charge of what people

24:03

really want to see. So if that

24:07

group of people are like the

24:07

nuke squad, they are gonna

24:11

they're gonna, they're gonna

24:11

take control of what games

24:15

people are going to want to see.

24:15

So if they want to, like if Halo

24:20

comes out with new br or like

24:20

bows, who comes up with a new br

24:23

right? And like, all of them

24:23

shift over that. Everyone's

24:29

gonna want to watch that. And I

24:29

think that's the time where us

24:33

as like content creators can be

24:33

like, Alright, this war zone

24:37

thing is slowly dying out. Maybe

24:37

you can be the first one to jump

24:42

the gun on battlefield Halo.

24:42

That'd be the perfect time in my

24:46

opinion.

24:47

Yeah, for sure.

24:47

I've definitely have seen that

24:50

backfire. And scenarios too

24:50

though. I've seen some concrete

24:52

content creators jump from their

24:52

main game, to you know, this new

24:57

popular game that looks

24:57

promising and you know, of

24:59

course Have you jumped to a new

24:59

game your viewership is gonna

25:01

fall a little bit, but that's

25:01

not the biggest problem. I've

25:04

seen it happen where that game

25:04

that they're they choose to play

25:07

in Maine ends up dying in a

25:07

couple months because it just

25:09

wasn't a good game, whether it

25:09

be like, you know, games like

25:11

hyperscale, or rogue company. So

25:11

that's always a risk. But I

25:16

mean, it's just with streaming,

25:16

it's like I, I've gotten to the

25:19

point, I'm tired of war zone,

25:19

and I, you know, I'm not having

25:23

as much fun and I want to play

25:23

the games that I want to play.

25:25

Because at the end of the day, I'm streaming because I like video games, and I like you

25:27

know, my community, not because

25:31

I absolutely love war zone. So

25:31

even though it's been a

25:34

struggle, not playing war zone,

25:34

you know, at the end of the day,

25:37

I feel like I'm happier

25:37

streaming to so you know, has

25:40

its up and ups and downs. But I

25:40

think that kind of comes with

25:42

like, looking at things from a

25:42

business perspective, rather

25:46

than looking at things from a

25:46

personal or hobby perspective.

25:51

So, you know,

25:53

I think I mean, I feel

25:53

like these times where, like,

25:57

you're not on your main game, is

25:57

the perfect time to build your

26:01

community. Because like, for

26:01

when I was like, banned, I found

26:07

the people were like, are gonna

26:07

take that, okay, no, no, I'm

26:12

good. I found that people who

26:12

are like, Alright, I will watch

26:16

you for whatever you do. No, I

26:16

played, I played GTA for six

26:22

hours, averaging like 150 200

26:22

people. Okay, some people in my

26:27

community will literally see

26:27

here and watch anything. Some

26:30

people, you know, some people

26:30

enjoy, apex. Okay, I stream

26:33

apex, averaging, I always, from

26:33

day one, I've had my viewer

26:37

count off, because that meant

26:37

that is mentally draining,

26:41

seeing your count, your view

26:41

count go from, you know,

26:44

fluctuate, higher, lower,

26:44

higher, lower day to day, it's

26:48

just saving worth it. So like,

26:48

but I feel like, these are those

26:53

times where like, where, like,

26:53

I've seen like, Stan Stan has

26:57

talked about it. And I've tried

26:57

to implement, doing just

27:00

chatting to start Rand off your

27:00

streams is so important. Because

27:06

maybe you'll gain that extra one

27:06

to viewers, I will stay for the

27:10

long run. And those wanting to

27:10

add up over time.

27:15

Wow, that's really insightful. I've never really thought about that before.

27:19

So I mean, like, Stan's

27:19

community's saying? Like, they

27:23

will watch him play whatever.

27:23

It's just like all about

27:25

community because like, without

27:25

community, technically we're

27:28

nothing then you know, for sure.

27:31

Yeah, definitely.

27:31

Meaning human community is what

27:33

makes a streamer, that's for

27:33

sure. And, you know, the way

27:37

that you foster your community

27:37

is how you know other people are

27:39

gonna portray you. So you know,

27:39

make sure you communities not

27:43

toxic to because you know,

27:43

there's some streamers that have

27:45

those like toxic communities.

27:45

But that's like the type of

27:48

streamer that they are. So I'm

27:48

speaking of the Warzone ban, the

27:54

infinite infamous Warzone ban.

27:54

So how did you get banned? And

27:58

how did you get unbanned?

28:00

So I didn't get unbanned

28:00

Actually, I'm off a new account.

28:05

So I'm assuming was, I was

28:05

checking my emails. Um, there

28:09

was a login from the UK. So what

28:09

I'm assuming was my account was

28:15

hacked and he was playing he or

28:15

she, whoever was playing on my

28:18

account with illegal skins

28:18

because the banned wave was for

28:24

an unlocked tool. So you can

28:24

like unlock skins whether but

28:29

like, when I was playing, I

28:29

didn't have any crazy skins. I

28:34

didn't have dark matter didn't

28:34

have the mask is I had Navy's

28:37

crazy skins that like I wasn't

28:37

meant to have. So it was kind of

28:40

like, What do I do? But then

28:40

it's like, you read the TLS it's

28:44

like, it's it's your

28:44

responsibility to keep your

28:48

account safe. So I'm like, can't

28:48

do much great. So just made just

28:54

made a new account.

28:56

And like, I mean,

28:56

obviously nothing's happened yet

28:59

so because I got shot. I got

29:01

shouted down last week.

29:02

Oh, wow. I was

29:04

14. So I did a sub with

29:04

on because it was like second

29:09

there's like mid spring break. I

29:09

was like I'm gonna do something.

29:14

Um, by the end, you know, five

29:14

minutes, five minutes left on

29:16

timer. People are getting like

29:16

crazy subs. Alright, after it

29:20

caps, like I had to do the full

29:20

15 hours of 14th hour when I was

29:24

loading in. So when you know

29:24

your shadow bands when you cue

29:27

into a game and your ping goes

29:27

from 50 I mean, I stared at this

29:33

for weeks child loading the game

29:33

5126 and 350 so you know you're

29:37

shutting down. So I had to wait

29:37

another week where I played on

29:42

the mods account. And like just

29:42

did all that I just sit there

29:47

and explain to people every

29:47

single day you go Shadow

29:53

Man Ah, yeah, I was

29:53

shadow banned as well. For some

29:56

reason. I didn't know the shadow

29:56

banning was a thing at the time.

30:00

I was like doing mad googling

30:00

and I like I have a fuckin I

30:03

have a 1.7 Katie I have no idea

30:03

what the hell I could have been

30:06

shadow banned for so and that's

30:06

one of the reasons why I'm just

30:11

like over wars on between all

30:11

the broken weapons horrible

30:14

updates, you know getting banned

30:14

hackers rose skin that I do run

30:18

myself. It's just there's no

30:18

like I just can't i can't enjoy

30:22

it anymore. But I mean props to

30:22

you for having that mental

30:27

willpower. I mean, I don't know

30:27

if it's just a matter of like,

30:30

you know, you want to keep

30:30

grinding that game or you

30:32

absolutely love the game. Maybe

30:32

a mixture of the both, I guess.

30:37

Um, I was more like, I

30:37

was I'm gonna. I'm weird. So

30:43

like, even if the game sucks,

30:43

it's like a love hate

30:46

relationship. I can just

30:46

continue playing. So like I have

30:49

so many games for like valorant

30:49

like started valorant got the

30:55

beta and grind into a mortal

30:55

game sucks. played Minecraft for

31:01

lovino Everyone has their

31:01

Minecraft kick for two weeks. I

31:05

play a bunch of Ross still have

31:05

play rust every now and then.

31:09

But like, I don't know, like, I

31:09

enjoy game. There's always

31:13

little things I enjoy that I can

31:13

just continue doing. So Warzones

31:18

were one of those.

31:20

You still haven't been in war zone?

31:22

Yeah, actually, um, with

31:22

the, with being unbanned because

31:28

like, I mean, I did take like a

31:28

week break, technically. So it's

31:31

like, okay, I can grind again. I

31:31

have new stuff to grind. It's

31:36

like there's always little

31:36

things you can do new little

31:39

techniques that you can start to

31:39

learn and master that like sort

31:43

of slowly pick up on

31:46

Yeah, yeah, I'm

31:46

sure it's been a grind trying to

31:48

get all the weapons back to and

31:48

attachments. I would not have

31:52

the mental willpower for that. I

31:52

probably just bought a cat with

31:54

everything unlocked.

31:56

See, I just I didn't

31:56

even want to do that. Because

31:58

like, I would be like to be

31:58

like, how did you get the master

32:02

so fast? How did you is that so

32:02

fast? I was like it. I have

32:08

nothing to hide. Like, okay,

32:08

check my task manager. I put a

32:12

Mario Mario cam on October 30

32:12

Bama Mario cam on it. I just had

32:18

to really I just want to because

32:18

eventually the point. People can

32:22

be like, he's not cheating.

32:22

Maybe just good game. That's

32:26

just the point of waiting for.

32:28

Yeah, yeah. I mean,

32:28

it's crazy the amount of

32:31

accusations that you get, but I

32:31

mean, you are really nasty at

32:34

the game. So it makes sense.

32:34

It's a nasty shots. Um, so talk

32:39

about if you want to talk about

32:39

a little bit about a full squad

32:41

gaming is the the org that you

32:41

signed to. So how did that come

32:45

about?

32:46

How did that, um, I had

32:46

no idea about anything. I

32:52

checked my business email, like,

32:52

Oh, what's this? Like, alright,

32:57

we want to sign you. I'm like,

32:57

I'm, you know, I'm like, kind of

33:02

skeptical. It's like, I'm, you

33:02

know, I'm just, I don't really I

33:06

haven't really dealt with with

33:06

business. So I'm like, Okay, I'm

33:10

gonna go into business meaning

33:10

like, Okay, you guys got like, a

33:14

content team. Basically. I'm

33:14

like, whoa. This is like, this

33:18

is where it clicks on my brain

33:18

like, Whoa, it's like really

33:21

getting serious. Like, this is

33:21

like turning to something like,

33:25

real. So, yeah. But um, I mean,

33:25

it would have been a little bit

33:32

cooler experience if I flew out

33:32

and like, got to meet all the

33:35

other homies. But I mean, do Tom

33:35

will be them.

33:39

Yeah. If you guys

33:39

didn't see the announcement,

33:41

full squad gaming. They've been

33:41

signing a bunch of tech talkers

33:44

like Sally's dogs, Tony Stark,

33:44

Mike. Oops, a couple other

33:48

people that aren't Warzone

33:48

related. And they have a content

33:51

castle in San Diego, Santa

33:51

Monica, Santa Monica.

33:57

Unfortunately, Asian boy was not

33:57

allowed to be a part of that

34:01

because his parents would not

34:01

let him fly out there. But maybe

34:04

maybe next time, maybe next time

34:04

you get to take part. Yeah.

34:07

Yeah. Um, other than that, I

34:07

mean, that pretty much covers a

34:11

lot of the stuff that I was

34:11

curious about. You know, we

34:14

talked about your your grind and

34:14

how you got here and tick tock,

34:18

is there anything else that you

34:18

want to talk about that we

34:20

didn't get a chance to discuss?

34:20

Um,

34:23

I think that Tick Tock

34:23

wave is a little too late to

34:25

join. Unless you you seriously

34:25

have, you know, you seriously

34:29

think you have something that is

34:29

because everyone has seen

34:32

everything on Tick tock, a

34:32

warzone. loadouts the glitches I

34:38

guess it's kind of cool for

34:38

people that like, are new to it,

34:42

and they're like, okay, you

34:42

know, get some followers

34:45

wherever, but like, I feel like

34:45

people should start jumping on

34:47

the YouTube shorts. shorts. And

34:47

like, I personally haven't

34:52

touched shorts because like, I

34:52

think my YouTube is solely for

34:56

people who wants to be like,

34:56

offline, you know, they don't

34:59

want The live interaction,

34:59

because I built my twitch off,

35:02

people wants to be there for the

35:02

live interaction live gameplay.

35:06

So I just didn't touch shorts.

35:06

But I think people who are

35:10

wanting to get into it should

35:10

really, really look into shorts.

35:16

Because I think they'll find the

35:16

same success that we have found

35:19

on shorts.

35:21

Yeah, I agree. And

35:21

I if anybody's listening to

35:23

that, that is gonna take that

35:23

advice. Do you definitely don't

35:28

have to reinvent the wheel with

35:28

that either. You know, because

35:30

you could take your tiktoks and

35:30

just upload them straight to

35:33

YouTube shorts. You don't have

35:33

to change anything. Obviously,

35:37

keep the raw file so you don't

35:37

have the TikTok watermark. I

35:39

don't know how much that affects

35:39

it, but might be just a good

35:42

idea. Because I've actually, the

35:42

funny thing is that my most

35:46

popular YouTube short is like

35:46

1.7 million views right now,

35:49

which is pretty good. But a part

35:49

of the reason I feel like it

35:52

blew up is because the first

35:52

sentence I said in the video

35:56

was, Hey, TikTok I need your

35:56

help. And I just sent that

35:59

straight to YouTube. And I had

35:59

so many hate comments being

36:02

like, this is an TikTok Get out

36:02

of here. Fuck this guy. And I

36:07

was just so funny. And it was

36:07

hilarious. But I mean, if if a

36:12

video where I straight up said,

36:12

Hey TikTok and I posted it to

36:16

YouTube shorts got 1.7 million

36:16

views. I'm pretty sure that you

36:20

could just take your TikTok and

36:20

upload them directly to YouTube

36:24

with no no editing difference at

36:24

all. But yeah, now that makes

36:30

sense. Yeah, I know. BenJammins

36:30

of course, was on the podcast

36:33

talking about YouTube shorts. So

36:33

he had some good insights on

36:37

that. But yeah, I definitely

36:37

agree. definitely agree. And

36:39

honestly, like just not even

36:39

just keeping all your eggs in

36:42

one basket. A lot of us started

36:42

out on tik tok and we only focus

36:48

on tik tok, because that's

36:48

really all that we had, you

36:50

know, had, but um, you know,

36:50

doing tic tocs and seeing

36:53

success, I think it gave me the

36:53

confidence to be able to pursue

36:57

other aspects of content

36:57

creation, because, I mean, if

37:00

you can get a following on Tick

37:00

Tock and your your contents good

37:04

enough, I mean, then it is going

37:04

to be good enough on other

37:06

platforms, it's just more of a

37:06

grind. TikTok is definitely the

37:09

easiest to grow on compared to

37:09

other platforms.

37:13

Yeah, hierbas I mean,

37:13

for now, I think for people like

37:17

us, we need to focus on like, we

37:17

I continue using TikTok as a

37:22

tool to just just feed all of

37:22

our other socials, because at a

37:26

certain point, you know, TikTok

37:26

may not be the craziest added

37:31

point is gonna be so so

37:31

saturated, it's gonna be like,

37:34

super hard to grow at that

37:34

point. But like, at this time, I

37:37

think it's so great that like,

37:37

we can still like, bring

37:40

everyone to twitch or like

37:40

YouTube, whatever platform you

37:43

want him to.

37:45

Yeah, for sure. I

37:45

think the biggest thing with

37:47

TikTok The problem is that

37:47

there's no like community

37:50

engagement at all. with YouTube,

37:50

you know, you have the community

37:53

tab. So if you have like

37:53

something cool you want to share

37:56

or anything you can, you can

37:56

have that post, it'll go out to

37:59

your subscribers, twitch has go

37:59

live notifications, Twitter, you

38:03

can send out a tweet, which is

38:03

pretty straightforward, but

38:06

TikTok you have no way to

38:06

capture any engagement from your

38:12

followers, unless the only thing

38:12

you can do is post a video. But

38:15

it's very well known that you

38:15

could post a video and you have

38:18

no matter the amount of following that you have that video can get like 50 views,

38:20

which it's weird how TikTok

38:24

works like that. It's like the

38:24

only platform that will actively

38:27

not push your content to people

38:27

that want to see your content.

38:31

It's a Yeah, I mean, it

38:31

still gets the other way flipped

38:36

around, like everything else how

38:36

you said but like, everything to

38:40

talk related. It's just like for

38:40

you page. Like, if you go on

38:43

analytics and some of your

38:43

videos, it's gonna be like 99%

38:47

for you page 1% following I'm

38:47

like,

38:50

cool.

38:52

Yeah, crazy. Well,

38:52

other than that, I think that

38:56

i've you know, I've learned some things talking to you. You had some very insightful information

38:58

that made me think and i think

39:02

that you're you know, you're a

39:02

good inspiration to a lot of

39:04

other people that want to do the

39:04

same thing. You know, biggest

39:07

thing is that you've got the

39:07

personality as well you know,

39:09

you could be as nasty at a game

39:09

as you want to be but it's kind

39:12

of come with a good personality

39:12

too. But yeah, I mean, if you

39:16

want to take a moment and plug

39:16

whatever you got going on if you

39:19

have any new projects coming out

39:19

or just plug your socials um

39:23

I mean, the only social

39:23

I really care about is my twitch

39:26

live every single day have been

39:26

live. I'm trying to go for the

39:29

year I i've been lying for like

39:29

276 days straight. I haven't

39:35

missed a single day since that's

39:35

like the like that's like pride

39:39

for streaming and everything

39:39

about like that's all I really

39:42

care about.

39:45

The Yeah, Asian

39:45

boys twitch will be in the

39:47

description and all his other

39:47

social social media links if you

39:50

guys want to check it out, but

39:50

it is AZ and boi, Asian boy on

39:56

Twitch merge drop at day 365

39:56

maybe

40:00

I was actually working

40:00

at doing merge, but like,

40:04

something's happened. So I mean,

40:04

my mercy is delayed. I had some

40:07

really cool ideas.

40:09

Maybe one day, I'll

40:09

cop a piece. Alright guys, thank

40:12

you guys so much for listening

40:12

to TwitchTok I'm your host

40:15

Skylerguns Today I had Asian

40:15

boy, check him out on Twitter to

40:19

twitch TikTok all those cool

40:19

places live every single day.

40:22

I'll see you guys next time. Thank you.

40:24

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