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The Power in Knowing Who You Are [Guest: 1Hero]

• Jermaine Pulliam • Season 1 • Episode 30

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Dive into the gaming universe with Im1Hero in this lively podcast episode. From VHS gameplay to an anime-inspired webcomic, Hero shares a mosaic of tenacity and creativity. Uncover the intricacies of collaborations, the challenges of independent publishing in a pandemic, and the unwavering spirit needed in content creation. Explore Hero's content creation saga, navigating game choices and the rise of live streaming with an improvisational flair.  Join us for a candid exploration of the streaming landscape, and leave inspired with valuable insights to fuel your own creative pursuits. 

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Speaker 1:

Welcome. Welcome back to another episode of Uploaded and Unfiltered, the podcast in which I, your host Jermaine, interviews another content creator in regards to their journey thus far. Tonight, as always, I have a special guest. I'm going to go ahead and read his bio and get him introduced so we can have a lovely conversation tonight. My guest for tonight is I'm One Hero. With his content, you find a home for gaming and entertainment with a dash of positivity, humor and originality. Hero is the number one hero in gaming. Streamer, content creator, video editor, community manager, founder of SuperDopeDuper, writer and musician. Everyone joined me in introducing and welcoming my guest for tonight. Hero, thank you for doing the podcast. How are you doing this evening?

Speaker 2:

Yo, whatcha know, it's your boy, one Hero. And today I'm back with Crypt on the unfiltered, Uploaded and unfiltered, uploaded and unfiltered podcast. So thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Yeah, no, no problem at all, I'm glad to have you.

Speaker 1:

I say this a lot and people are going to get tired of it, but I don't care. When I started this podcast, you were definitely somebody on my list and I don't even. You probably don't remember this, but this was from back. I think I first saw your content on TikTok and it was like I don't even remember what you were talking about, but it resonated with me and I'm like, oh yeah, this dude's dope Followed you there. Did I stalk you on Twitch? And then I'm like, oh, we know some of the same homies. Yeah, all right, cool, and I've been here ever since.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I appreciate that. I haven't had the chance to be on many podcasts so I appreciate any time that anybody develops or brings out to give me that time of day, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, no problem at all. I'm glad to have you. And with that I'm going to go ahead and ask my favorite question what is Hero's origin story when it comes to content creation?

Speaker 2:

So, funny enough, this dates back way beyond where I used to do things like record wrestling matches or even the one-on-one competitions I would have with my brother, or when I would have all my friends over for Perfect Dark on 64. We used to record those things on VHS, on blank tapes, on VCR back then. It was really fun to do, but I was always more of a person that was interested in creating more than gaming. Me and my cousin would play games like San Francisco Rush, but we would act like we were playing Grand Theft Auto before Grand Theft Auto came out.

Speaker 2:

And we were getting out of the car to go to the beach, to Mac on the ladies or whatever, or going to get a burger and fries from the restaurant. So I've always been having my hand in creating, whether it was with content for gaming. But originally what started me on the internet for creating was my manga, my webcomic that I made.

Speaker 1:

Oh, okay, nice. So can you speak on that a bit? How long did the webcomic run for, or is it still?

Speaker 2:

running. It's not running anymore. So I had come up with this idea one night, when I was sitting in the Xbox party, of what if I just told a story? Because I was a big fan of anime. And I thought to myself, what if I told a story from my perspective on some of the things that I know and love? You know, avatar and Naruto were some of the bigger influences at that time. So I thought, well, how hard it could really be. And little did I know it would be very hard to do. Okay, but it's funny enough because I had a friend of mine at the time who no longer is a friend of mine for this specific reason. He looked at me and said how do you think you're going to be able to do that? Wow, in what world do you think that you could pull that off? And those words seeped into my veins like venom from a snake and, out of spite, I said I'm going to show you.

Speaker 1:

And I sure as hell got up on it.

Speaker 2:

I got on the internet, I went to DeviantArt and I scoured for hours, no rhyme intended, until I found a person by the name of RZA.

Speaker 2:

They were in Malaysia. They helped me to get some of the things started with planning out the pages and then, long story short, because of the massive monsoons that hit, they were always delayed. So I had to find somebody else and this is when I was led to the team of Tanya and Carolyn AKA Beardarotto. I worked with that team, exclusively together, and their first time working with anybody to do a manga or webcomic, and it was very, very good up until Carolyn AKA Beardarotto, who was the main artist, started losing sight in her eye. Oh no, I didn't find out about it until it was too late and she was willing to back off and leave the product. So I was trying to do a weekly webcomic with multiple pages to keep the readers coming in, and it was very, very a trying time. But it was a well learned lesson where I took time over myself to practice drawing and that simply taught me hero, stop being an a-hole and asking these people to do the impossible within a few days.

Speaker 2:

And I learned my lesson and they put me in my place. I humbled myself, but I was also humbled by them and I told them I was appreciative of you putting your foot in my butt to let me know that you were asking for the impossible, regardless if I was paying for it or not. So I loved that experience. I loved that moment and that got us going closer. But I think that at the time, the fatigue of trying to do something like that for them being their first time, caught up which led me to find Sebastian and Sio.

Speaker 2:

Sio also talked to this day. Sebastian we ever cool it was. It was weird just a little sidetrack that every artist I worked with from my very, very first artist to help me develop the characters by the name of Leah Pirone Pichon she's now married with child so she doesn't do commission work anymore, so I did lose her. But it was the first person that believed in me and took a chance on me and helped me create my character and bring her to life.

Speaker 2:

I'll never be. I'll never forget that and I'll always be eternally grateful for her. But I had a person that was following behind me trying to work with every artist that I did, because they had a hard time.

Speaker 1:

Wow no.

Speaker 2:

Actually I turned them down now. Funny enough, right? I work with Sebastian, I work with CIO and CIO had a whole art studio, so I was working as a full-on production company out of my own pocket, out of my own house, trying to make this happening. We're gonna get GameStop as a what a SGA or whatever you want to call a senior game advisor with $600. Okay, I'm gonna make a comic. So I was really making. I was rubbing pennies together to try to make it down.

Speaker 2:

And we finally got the things done. It took four years, four years. It took four years. 150 to 150 pages, seven chapters book printed and I've sold over a hundred copies today. That is amazing. I have a copy right next to me as well, yeah that is so dope.

Speaker 1:

I love that. And what's the name of the webcomic here?

Speaker 2:

It's called infinite the journey it's. It's basically Never place limits upon yourself, because you never know how the upper tension can be infinite. And it follows a story of a kid named KO, who didn't believe in himself and gets trusted into this world of adventure where he has to become a hero to help the guardians of Zoria save it from destruction. But he's like the person, the worst person to pick, because he doesn't believe in himself. He's only duty is to be to his family, his brother and sister, and meanwhile you've got the guardians going. If you don't help us, then the big bad is gonna come for you and then kill them and kill you, and then we're gonna be dope.

Speaker 1:

So we need you, type of thing right, yo, that I vaguely remember in my snooping that you had a way webcomic. But the backstory on that is amazing. People dream of trying to get the Pieces of art together to put it into a book form and you. It took four years but you get that.

Speaker 2:

You got it done two to four pages a month when we started out, till I actually got a decent paying job, and then I was able to do like Five to ten pages and things like that. And then eventually I got to the point where I tried to Kickstarter. The Kickstarter failed. And then when I finally got the book done and everybody was ready for volume to that same art, that same person trying to get their story done, following up behind the artist.

Speaker 2:

Yeah just so happened to be friend, an NBA player who had a lot more money than me and took Sebastian, the artist, from my production team Are you Serious? Then went on for a year with him to produce. Basically this guy had a lot of money, he was in the anime. He basically just came in and bought up all the artists to work on his stories, not theirs. Once his stuff was done and he was ready to pitch it to try to get it to Netflix or whatever, then he let them. He let them do their story stuff and I was like, oh, that's pretty interesting that you let that happen.

Speaker 2:

But then after that they come knocking on my door you still want to sell infinite, and I was like I'm not selling it. They said, well, we'll give you money to bring it on board and we'll publish it. I said, sure, that lasted about three months because I got no production and, like I told you earlier, I'm a type of person where I don't sit idling by and wait and if I smell BS is coming I'm gonna call BS.

Speaker 2:

I'm gonna call and you gonna have to show me your cards. They show me the cards and it was pretty much like a sympathy thing, like sorry we took your guy but you wanted to help you out. First of all, I don't need money or a handoff from you. I did that for four years by myself, out of my own pocket. I ran a business by myself and published a book. You can't take that from me and nobody ever will, but I'll take the Thousand dollars. You're gonna give me dough for my book and I'll go ahead and highly in my contract to keep it moving. Here you go. Is that company still thriving? I'll let you find out, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Hey, hey, if I had an air horn, this is where I would put the air horn.

Speaker 2:

That it would go right here, because that was ridiculous, man yeah and I don't want you to think that I'm being arrogant or whatever. It's just that I've had that. I've had that in my life where people think that I'm this arrogant, cocky, prick, yeah, and it's just like if you knew what I went through, if you know what I've had to work for, you feel the same way because nobody's ever gonna step on you exact listen.

Speaker 1:

You're talking to someone who's been called cocky or overconfident, so I understand like it's just you're confident, who you are, you know what you want out of life and you're not gonna settle for less, like that's something to be admired.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and I'm pretty I'm. I'm hoping you can understand this. I'd rather you, or anybody that's ever come across me in my life, know exactly how I felt, how I thought the right then and there. That way you could never sit back a year from now and go damn, I ain't know how hero thought about me or felt About me, or how I'd rather you know, so that way you can illegitimately hate me or legitimately respect me and love me.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I. I just had a conversation yesterday on a podcast about finding people who are genuinely there for you and, like you said, being straight up in, honest from the get-go is one way you can weed out the people that don't really rock with you and that's. It works every time. It's so rare that's that skill to be like hey, this is who I am, no BS.

Speaker 2:

It came. It came from my high school days, as I was dating. Quite often I would tell a girl that I know how to describe everything like it's this I know how the I know the blueprint to my plane. I'm gonna hand it over to you. I want you to observe it, aka, while we're dating, to see if you can fly this now. If you can fly this, or if you're willing to Give it a shot, then cool. But if we crash and it's because you were being careless, then we have a discussion, we try to pick it back up and keep flying, and when I was ainting that, they're like so, basically, you're telling me in a metaphorical way you understand what you want to need in life from your significant other, and you're gonna tell me and and help me Understand and learn these things, and then, if I choose to do it, good, and if not, then you go. I'm like yes, I want you to know what you're saying no to, and know what you're saying yes to, and, and that that transfers over to any and everything.

Speaker 1:

Every relationship.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely Friendship business ship. You better be a any Twitch ship.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And.

Speaker 1:

Twitch yo. That needs to be a thing. If that's not a thing, that needs to be a thing. A Twitch ship, because there's a lot of those out here. Hi man Hero, that was dope. Thank you for diving into that awesome tale of your origin story and that bonus of the webcomic. I'm excited to read it. I'm gonna go ahead. I can still buy it, right.

Speaker 2:

So basically, covid messed up everything with printing, so I don't know if they're back yet, gotcha. And I haven't checked. I need to check with them because I know that it's basically print on demand. If I have people go I want 10 of your books, okay, then I'll put in order for 10. You pay for them, I get them shipped and I ship them out to you. Gotcha, gotcha, all right? Well, if I made this my last little thing, if you will, I apologize.

Speaker 1:

Now go ahead.

Speaker 2:

I started playing Call of Duty Black Ops 4 summer of 2019. I enjoyed it a lot and I was having a lot of great clips. I was having a lot of great moments and I'm like, all right, bet, this is the game and I would try to use the theater mode to save my clips and my moments. What happened was the game would always crash or it would never get the clip that I needed. So I'm working 11 to nine or nine to seven in a furniture store. I had very little time. I said so, I can't record this stuff to put on YouTube. I'm gonna stream it that way from now on, if I have a dope moment, I don't have to worry about it being missed. And that's what started my streaming journey from Call of Duty.

Speaker 2:

Beforehand, I did 2K when I was the top 100 crew with my creative character, with my other friends. We did all of that. Then I came back to do a double make cry DMC the one people don't wanna talk about I used to make. My stream name was Dante makes a double cry. And then I did Apex one time, which I actually have that VOD saved still and then Call of Duty and then everything else, because I couldn't do Overwatch. My computer couldn't do it. If I had my, if I could do it all over again, I would have started with Overwatch, then Call of Duty, then on to where we are now. Just so you know, sorry.

Speaker 1:

That's awesome. So basically you started streaming because you was like I can't catch these clips.

Speaker 2:

As long as the VOD's there, the clips will be there I'm telling you man, and then I started streaming and I got a lot of them clips and then yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

That is awesome. I love that. I love that. That's probably. I have yet to hear someone's origin story be the same. There are always some weird variation of oh, my boy gave me this computer and I said, hey, you can stream, I guess we'll start streaming. It's like what, how you started, Right.

Speaker 2:

Cool Welcome. It helped me lean more into it too, because I was doing improv before all of this over in Canada with my ex-girlfriend. But then we broke up. She took the PlayStation. I came back and I was like you know what Streaming could probably help me sharpen my skills too. So it's like and now I get to do a lot of improv currently with the current project too, which, if you ask about that, we can talk about that then.

Speaker 1:

Yo, we definitely gonna get into it. But let's do this, let's jump into current mindset In regards to the content you're making now, the content you wanna make in the future. What is your current mindset like? What does that look like for you?

Speaker 2:

If I'm being honest, I think for me I've let go a lot of the extra baggage that I created for myself when starting, because the pressure was put on me that I was a caliber of a person to make it to be famous, to be partnered, and every day people come in and go. I don't know how you are, how you are, how you're not. Then I'm like I could sit up here and come up with a million reasons. Covid happened.

Speaker 2:

We had an N plus, we had a surplus of 1.5 million streamers that took over the world and now it's hella saturated. Nobody wants to hear that, because then I'm the A-hole for selling the truth, but it's reality that the 100 viewers that you could use are all spread apart everybody that we know, and it is what it is. We can't tell people to stop streaming. We can't tell people to stop doing this. So long story short, my mindset had switched from focusing on the things that I couldn't control to what I could control and being more appreciative of the community, the family that I've built here on Twitch, and my mindset has been focused on that. And I will say this to my last day that I ever stream if I ever do is that I don't care about having a check mark on any platform.

Speaker 2:

I'm partnered to the community that shows up for me. They are my check mark, I'm verified by them. They're the ones that go to comment, they're the ones that are in the stream, they're the ones that give money out of their hard-earned paychecks to me on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a semi-monthly basis. So I am partnered to them because there's one thing that I have always put in my mindset from now on. There's not a damn platform that can tell me my worth, not a single one. And there's not a single number. I don't care if it's, I don't care if Ninja kicked in the door and said you're trash cat, I'd be like to you, I'd be like to you, I am. But to everybody else, to everybody else that's in this room right now, I'm just as dope, I'm the Ninja to them, and I respect that and I admire that and I will always appreciate that and be grateful for that.

Speaker 2:

So I went away from looking at numbers to looking at the people that are around me and if they can make me feel like they're in this room with me and there's 30 people in this room with me that makes me feel like it's 100, 1,000, that I'm happy and I'm at the current mindset right now that creating what I'm creating and doing what I'm doing with the people that are around, I'm grateful, I'm appreciative and I'm happy, despite all of the other BS that I've had to deal with over the four years, from the backstabbing to the lying on my name to the misassumptions, to all of that stuff. I would do it all over again and face those same foes, villains, obstacles and everything else to be where I am right now Cause I wouldn't think. I didn't think I was gonna be here. I was ready to quit streaming last November, wow really.

Speaker 2:

And be done with it all together. Yeah, I just I was doing rumble verse. Rumble verse was doing great, but the developers were favoring the higher viewer streamers and I'm like they don't care about the game, they want the paycheck, exactly. And I'm tired and mentally, as a creator, I'm tired of having to deal with watching people tell me that I'm not good enough for them, even though I'm putting out the same quality. Same thing I told Cobur. Cobur didn't get invited to the WWE 2K24 event and he has a higher viewership than the one of the yeah, I'd invited kick rock.

Speaker 2:

I don't care if it's me, if I don't care if it's about who you know and all another gibber-gabber, gibber-jabber like those days are over with. Of the big streamers that can control things right. Grip, you're just as good as them. You have the same quality of a better voice. You have everything that you need to be a partner level streamer. They just need to give us a chance to find a way to do it over, do a YouTube nothing like. At the end of the day, when it comes to the extra BS and the fluff of streaming, I'm done with it. Be real with me, be up front with me, or or we don't have nothing to talk about, because I'm over it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I agree, and I'll to your point, to rumble verse, like what you were doing with smooth Johnson, like bro I'm. I tell you this from from the outside, looking in. I thought she was working with rumble verse. Everybody did bro, from the quality to the story lines, to the the oh like I didn't, even I. I this is where I was at I didn't give a damn about that game.

Speaker 2:

I was on a person.

Speaker 1:

I didn't care about it at all, but your content came up on my tick time. I'm watching this. Oh, smooth Johnson's here, but it was hilarious. Oh, that that's up. That upsets I don't want to say it upsets me, but that sucks. That they didn't do what they were supposed to pull you in and who knows what would happen.

Speaker 2:

I had to fight for a custom access key. They didn't believe in me until until the community manager came over to my tick tock and saw me streaming it. He's like does that number say ten thousand? I said you damn right, that's ten thousand yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I plan with me, bro, and he goes. Can you give me the? Can you give me the stats on your tick tock streams? I said yeah. He looked at them and said oh. I said yes, every streamer you promoted for all the verse, I'm doing better than.

Speaker 1:

Exactly.

Speaker 2:

I'm doing max a million dude numbers on twi, on tick tock for rumble verse and y'all playing with me like I can help you and no, I'm. And then they're like, well, in, honestly, rumble verse. It wasn't even their decision. It was the lead guy that was.

Speaker 2:

It was in with all of the fighting game people and then it was epic, epic, like we don't care who you are you don't have a twitch presence, we don't care, gotcha, until he showed the numbers and they were like, okay, we'll give him the access code, but then two months later he goes out the game. So I'm like. I'm like you didn't give max a million dude, you didn't give northern line, you didn't get none of the big streamers that access. You give it to your best friends and what do they do? Are they still streaming to this day? They quit streaming once that happened. And I'm just like that's what I meant when I said I was done. I was like I'm ready to go.

Speaker 2:

Yeah you're telling me my content and what I do ain't worth the damn and I'm gonna deal with that and that's what I got to deal with. Or I got to like put up and shut up all the time. No, I'll go be a monk and Find my zen. Anybody else tell me I'm not worth it. Yeah, I'm done with all of that for years. I know what I'm doing and I'm a damn good at it, so y'all need to recognize it, or not?

Speaker 1:

right. You know what? This is a perfect segue to lessons learned, because I For one if I have nobody else's, I'm sure your community has told you this. I didn't know it was that dire in November. I'm still. I'm glad you're still doing what you do, because your voice is needed, your content is great and that it's gonna pay off. So I appreciate you and the work that you're doing. But lessons learned what have you learned During the course of your content creation? I know this is gonna be fire that you have taken maybe into other parts of your content creation or even into real life.

Speaker 2:

A Lot of my lessons that I've learned have been hard learned. Trusting people Surrounded myself with more streamers than I did. Viewers is a big one. I would tell that to any aspiring streamer that it's very fun to have a lot of people around. But you have to understand two things If you go that route. One, they're not always gonna be able to be there. And then two, you think any Hollywood director is friends with a bunch of directors and then inviting them to watch the movie on the arch day, they can't, because guess what they're doing making the movie, the director in their own movie. So I was like, okay, that's a lesson that I learned is that it's not about the expectation of the streamers being there. It's just being realistic with yourself on what expectation is gonna happen. Being friends with a lot of streamers, too, would be to. It's very important to stay in your stay, in your focus on what you want to do, because if you try to do what everybody else is doing oh, I see a lot of the black streamers that are trying to get partnered on YouTube, so I'm gonna go do YouTube. What if YouTube isn't your thing? Mm-hmm, yeah, what if streaming isn't your thing?

Speaker 2:

A lot of people are spending a lot of time trying to become a streamer because it's fun to do, it's easy to do the bit. The door to entry is is low, sure, but what if you're missing out on being one of the world's best writers or best doctor or best mechanic Because you want to do the easier route? So for me, it's like I've learned through this. I love video editing and creating. So if I find any game that allows me to do that like on Movers did, that's what opened the door for me to realize I love editing. So if I were to take anything to be a for a job, for me it would be to edit or to Create and manage something like I'm doing right now.

Speaker 2:

I EOV wrestling show like Holberg does I right. Yeah, and then I found out from that actual holster or shoutcaster was like you'd be really good at shoutcasting. So I'm like, oh well, here, here we go, like my improv.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I am prop comedies coming back into play with me being able to be a shoutcaster. I just gotta find out how to, where I would go and do that and stuff like that. So I would say, just try everything and then be honest up at the end that if it's for you, it's for you, and if it's not, it's not, and that's it's not the end of the world.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, exactly, I think to your point. Trying everything is how I got to this. Basically, like, yes, streaming is dope and I enjoy streaming, and now I have put streaming in its Two-day slot. I know those days I'm streaming and when I'm not streaming I'm not thinking about it. Because I love talking to people, I love getting people engaged in conversations and for the most part, I love like and everything you've been saying is things have been on my mind. I love when people realize they're worth. Like when you realize that Nobody can tell you anything. Negative comments, like negativity. You're not hearing it because you know who you are and that's so hard to come across. Like, once you finally realize this is who I am, there's the content I make.

Speaker 2:

Nothing anybody can say is gonna stop you want to know what movies solidify that for me and it's funny that I don't think many people were actually like I look at movies differently from messages. Same thing with games the greatest showman.

Speaker 1:

Okay, oh yeah, that movie was great. Well, hugh Jackman.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that message alone was you can go through all the all ups and downs or whatever, but yeah, the main song, this is me. But he went out, he got everything and he went out and found out, he learned his lessons and everything like that, and he pursued his passion and it and it worked. Yeah, but he did it to be happy, not to be famous, not to find that, and when he tried to go for fame, look what happened.

Speaker 1:

Mm-hmm, that's dope I didn't even think about. I love that movie. Didn't even correlate that lesson right there. All right, hero, we're gonna jump into it. I'm a new streamer, or I'm somebody who's just started, or I've been doing it for a few months and I'm getting a little discouraged. What types of advice would you give either one of those people? The same person, who do you want to speak to, and what advice would you give to him?

Speaker 2:

So I have. I've had this conversation with the most recent streamer, that's a partner streamer. He was asking me about if I started over, what would I do differently and Two things that I didn't think that would really work or that could really be good for you. Starting out, one Committing to one game. I people tell you all, play what you want, absolutely if you don't care about growing which is a hundred percent true if you do not, you are okay with sitting there with ten viewers, five viewers, fifteen One, and you're enjoying yourself. Mm-hmm, give zero f's about what the world thinks and what it looks like. Enjoy yourself.

Speaker 2:

I did it, no matter how many races came in there and made names and called me that because I beat them in calling duty. I was having the time of my life I didn't mm-hmm.

Speaker 2:

And then, when I realized that this could be a thing, the two things that I didn't do was one Niche niching down on a game, because what happens right is yes, yes, you're limited in growth, I, but you're sharpening your skills how to talk, to chat, how to rechat. And then, on top of that, the second part of it is making content off stream. No 18-hour streams, no eight hour streams, because you could make more money passively doing less work on YouTube than streaming 18 hours on Twitch. Easy and it's evergreen content. It's, it's. It's literally I my my final fantasy 14.

Speaker 2:

I started a final fantasy 14 YouTube and I said I'm gonna dedicate Straight up 14, only nothing else. Okay, I said I'm gonna try this, I'm gonna try this. I haven't done it, I was against it, I'm not gonna worry about it. It caught my main channel of four years in one year. It it in view and watch hours and interactivity on the stream and everything on on the YouTube itself. It has surpassed. It had one video pop off for 18,000 views after three weeks of me posting it and then, ever since then, it's been non-stop nice, just going great. It's that like 500 something subscribers where I have the other one, that 800, but it's dead as a doorknob. But what I learned with the other one, I did too many Variety things right when I, when I niche down the overwatch, when I was trying to get back into it, and I did the overwatch updates and things like that, those videos and shorts are still popping on that channel Even though it's dead and discombobulated, so it lets me know on.

Speaker 2:

You know you niche down specifically, find a category that you really love and do you can do it. Same thing on tiktok. I did. Rumbleverse I did. I'm going all in on smooth John's tutorial content and it carried me to 7,000 Followers, over 1 million views. It worked. That's awesome. So if I had to go through all the extra fluff, if you made it to this part, I would say one don't stream as much. If you really really enjoy and want to grow, make content off the platform that you can be proud of that you will love, no matter how good it will do, because that will bring people to you and Then play what you want on stream or focus on one game and allow that to hone your creative skills as a creator and then you move on to the next game and the next category until you tried everything. Like we said earlier, try everything. Main theme song for Zootopia, by the way, for the parents out there that have kids that like.

Speaker 1:

It's called try everything yeah it's secure.

Speaker 2:

Try everything yeah.

Speaker 1:

I have not seen that move. You know what I'm gonna ask the kids tomorrow? I'm seeing Zootopia, yeah. I won't give up, I won't give in.

Speaker 2:

Yes, it's like it's literally telling you just try everything.

Speaker 1:

That's dope. I like that. That's a good message. I you got that. Listen, you put a bow on that. I feel like starting over Neaching down and then moving. Trying everything is something I didn't do when I first started, and that's definitely, if I Lost my mind, was I almost started a new Twitch channel. That's exactly what I do. I pick one game. This is what I'm playing for six months.

Speaker 2:

Oh stream on YouTube oh true, I don't care what anybody says, stream on YouTube. Anybody, you see that. Make partner. They streamed on YouTube and they won't tell you that. If they won't tell you that, I'm telling you that that's how they got it. Because those, because your Twitch vods don't carry your YouTube stream vods, they do and they go into the algorithm.

Speaker 1:

Mm-hmm, like, do this, like take whatever your Twitch streaming is for the week. Do that over in YouTube.

Speaker 2:

Well, you can restream now. Yeah, you can restream. Now. You all getting in trouble. You can literally set, and it's free, it's not even though it says it's paid, it's free. You can set up restream and you can stream both to. You can stream to both of them Exactly, and you can switch it. If you have free channels, you can switch it in restream. I want to stream Final Fantasy 14 this day. I want to stream WWE this day. I'm a variety channel. I'm just f'ing off playing Zelda, wind Waker or Super Mario Sunshine. I'm gonna switch it over there.

Speaker 1:

Jim's cuz. Once you look at the vibe on YouTube and you know, you realize that, oh, this is getting traction. Two, three, four weeks yeah, I did the live and that goes to your watch hours I say, get again. That's how you get partner. Ah, oh, my goodness, yo yo. But this year I'm gonna see a lot more of y'all content creators Stepping outside of Twitch and start looking into putting your content elsewhere, because it's Very cuz you see social media and in nope, I'm not gonna say it, no.

Speaker 2:

I have this. I have this very side of me that I feel like if I ever just like, really just like, remove my unfiltered, if you will, yeah, I would get canceled because I just there's a lot, there's a lot that I see, there's a lot that I Witnesses, a lot that I watch, go on, and there's a lot of people blind to it, and it's especially among our people and it bothers me to this to this day, and I'm just like, if I say anything, I know I'm gonna get crucified on Twitter, because that's what's happened to people in the past when they've spoken up and just ask a question or said something, and I'm like, why is it that the other, the other walks of life, don't have this issue?

Speaker 1:

Mm-hmm, I'm not. No, where can the people find your content here?

Speaker 2:

So right now I'm doing Basically my main content is wrestling. Wwe 2k23 is, by the name of era of valor, wrestling Mm-hmm. I do that on my main channel, twitchtv slash. I am one hero, but that's that one. And then it's EOV wrestling TV on YouTube. But then I also have I am one hero on tiktok and then the hero of lights on YouTube as well for Final Fantasy 14. But if you go to my Twitter, which is I am one hero underscore, hmm, you can find my media kit. That has pretty much all of my links right there, because I have a lot of different channels and, like I said, I'm trying everything.

Speaker 1:

so yes, good, good, go get yourself invested. Go check out his wares again. I would Recommend going to the media kit, because I has everything and then you can just be nosy like me. Also, let me go ahead and get my shout out to the podcast. If you know any other creators out there who could benefit from conversations like these and more, please share the podcast with them, uploaded and unfiltered. I'm on your podcast catcher of choice. Leave me a review, let me know how we're doing, and if you know anybody who could like be a guest on this show that's super dope and entertaining to talk to, hit me up. Let me know who they are and I will get them on, other than that hero. Thank you again for this conversation. All right, everybody out there, remember, protect your mental, keep creating content and I will talk to you on the next one. Peace.