What today's creators want aspiring creators to know

Inspiration is the most valuable currency that people have

and some people really, really just need inspiration to be able to go the next step and make the next thing

If I can show that, that makes me really happy. How's your VidCon been

Oh, it's been amazing, but in equal parts overwhelming. Yeah. How many times have you been to VidCon

Zero. Oh, so this is your first time? Just to be around other people who are doing a very similar thing

although we're in our own little world, whatever it is, There's a shared mutual interest, so it's great to surround yourself with that

Now that we're offline and in the real world, it's changed how we see everyone now in person

I guess to see real faces behind the screen is we're like, oh, we are still doing this for these people

It's crazy to see just the vibrancy of the creator community. I mean, I remember coming to some of the first VidCons and Playlist Lives

There would be a room with 30 creators. That was the whole thing

After 15 years of trying to be a content creator, failing, posting, failing, posting, understanding

the business, understanding the output a little bit more, it worked. And now I've been a full-time creator for, oh my God, almost five years now, which is

awesome I feel like a lot of people don start because they like oh well I don know if I have the perfect idea I don know if I have the perfect editing software I don know if I have the perfect title

You don't need it. You should just start. Over time, it became clear that what I was doing was really meaningful to people and could turn into something

How can I use my personality and infuse the things that make me me into a content that would speak to other people as well

I think in visuals, like if someone were to watch your story of my show and they only saw 15 seconds

is that like a captivating visual that makes you go, oh, that's interesting. What's happening? I want to see that show

With short form, it's get the audience hooked the first three seconds

Yeah. And I think that still applies to long form. With some long form, I can kind of be like, this can be a bunch of different short ideas that I can stitch together

I feel like the comments mean more than the views do. Yeah. Just seeing how we affect people

There have been so many times when I've talked about topics where people have like called me, And I've been like, hold on

And I've listened to it. And ultimately, then it has, in my opinion, improved my content

Everybody's going to have different advice and everything. But like my whole thing is I'm like, make stuff and do stuff that you like

I'll get like messages of people saying how I impacted their lives. And for like 15 seconds, I'm like, wow, maybe it is a thing