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Creating Community and Empowerment Through Streaming [Guest: OoeyGooee]

• Jermaine Pulliam • Season 1 • Episode 67

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Discover the vibrant world of streaming with our dynamic guest, OoeyGooee, a variety streamer who has turned her passion for gaming into a thriving career. Starting her journey with a simple desire to play Call of Duty, she faced unexpected challenges like a temporary Twitch ban but didn't let that halt her ambitions. From her beginnings in 2019 to her rise as a key advocate for underrepresented creators, Ooey shares how her unique name and bright personality have helped her build a warm and inclusive community.

Experience the evolution of content creation as Ooey transitions from solo gaming to crafting comedic skits that focus on humor and collaboration. She reveals her strategies for building a network and why conventions like TwitchCon are crucial for forming strong connections and securing partnerships. Through her experiences, she emphasizes the importance of consistency and the collective effort necessary to support fellow creators, all while fostering a space filled with laughter and shared experiences.

Our episode further explores the significance of authenticity and mental health in the streaming world. Ooey opens up about the power of being genuine and how embracing one's true self can resonate deeply with audiences. From filming in casual attire to maintaining respectful interactions on live streams, she underscores the importance of self-acceptance and respecting boundaries. Join us as we celebrate the unity and empowerment found in networking and collaboration, leaving listeners motivated to continue their creative journeys.

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Speaker 1:

Welcome. Welcome back to another episode of uploaded and unfiltered podcast in which I, your host, interviews another content creator in regards to their journey thus far. This week, like we did last week, we have a special guest. Before I get her on the mic, we start having a conversation. I want to read her bio to you so you can get a bit of information about her before we get started. Ooey gooey is your go to variety streamer, serving up laughs and epic adventures in RPGs, action games and GTA five roleplay. Unique blend of humor and focus on mental health cultivates a welcoming space for the community. When she's not venturing through games like Elden Ring, she's hosting co-working and mental health streams, while also advocating for people of color, lbgtq+ and neurodivergent creators like herself. I'd like to introduce everyone and welcome to the podcast. Uygui, thank you for being here. How are you doing today?

Speaker 2:

I am doing absolutely amazing. I am doing great. I hope you're doing good as well.

Speaker 1:

Hey, I can't complain. The hurricane came through, we still have power, everything is good, the family's good, so I can't complain at all. We're in a good spot.

Speaker 2:

That is beautiful.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so let's go ahead and get things started. How in the world did you get started in content creation?

Speaker 2:

Oh Lord, some people might make fun of me for this, but I got started. This started when I first started playing video games, back in 2019.

Speaker 1:

I got an Xbox because of a guy I wanted to play.

Speaker 2:

Call of Duty with him. So I was like, ok, I'm going to get the Xbox and get Call of of duty. So I got the xbox, got call of duty and I started playing. And this is when I was in, uh, college. So when I was not in class, I ended up like really loving cod and like playing for like 12 hours a day, oh yeah. And I was like, okay, this is lit.

Speaker 2:

And then, uh, someone in one of my business classes was like, oh, I stream on twitch. I was like what's that? Classes was like oh, I stream on Twitch. I was like what's that? I was like, oh, they're like explaining it. And I was like, oh, ok, like that's, like I want to see. It's kind of messed up. I was like, I wonder if I can get more viewers. So I was like, ok, let me see how well I can do if I try this out. So then you know, I was already playing 12 hours a day, um, on xbox. Back then you could just like, uh, just go live through the xbox by itself. So I like, plugged in a webcam, um, and like, just click, go live. And like, I started getting in viewers, like immediately, like I hit affiliate within a week.

Speaker 1:

Okay, yeah, it was wild. And then I got banned.

Speaker 2:

So then I went over to mixer and I was streaming on mixer until they shut down for like eight months and then uh came back to twitch, so unbanned. It was a, it was a short, it was a temporary ban, but like why did they?

Speaker 1:

why did they ban you?

Speaker 2:

uh, they said it was for, like, sexually explicit content, and I didn't. Yeah, look, I didn't understand why. So I I emailed them back and I'm like, hey, like, can you actually like specify the reason, because I don't see, like I don't see what was wrong right and they like, they replied three months, it was a three-day ban.

Speaker 2:

They replied three months later and they said oh, you're already unbanned, there's no reason to go into further detail. I was like wow, I was like let me understand why. So I could not do it again, whatever it is I was doing. So, yeah, I was like I don't know. So I got into that, through that and I just ended up loving it and building a community. And um, now here I am, five years later.

Speaker 1:

So that is awesome. I love when the origin, your origin story. I'm not, not petty, that's not the word I want to think, but you went in with some inspiration, that's all I'm saying. Yeah, I like that I had inspo that was, uh, that was dope. On the same vein, I gotta ask. I told you I'm gonna ask you this but how, ooey Gooey, how did Where'd that name come from?

Speaker 2:

Let me tell, ya, let me tell ya.

Speaker 2:

Well, originally my name used to be like Smokestorm198, because I was like oh, I'm smoking hot, I'm gonna like my name's Smokestorm. But everyone thought like it was crazy because I played COD. So everyone thought like it was crazy because I played cod. So everyone thought I just smoked weed. So people thought I was a pothead with that name. So like they always thought I was high or something, yeah, and I was just like I don't smoke, I'm sorry like it was such a disappointment and let down when I like would tell them the origin of my name.

Speaker 2:

And then I switched it over to, uh, toxicity and um, because I was a very toxic cod player, because other people were toxic to me, so I was toxic to them. So I was like, okay. But then, like a couple years later, I'm like, okay, I don't, I don't like the branding of this. I can't really go off of that for a lot of things that I'm trying to brand myself with. So I'm like, okay, we're gonna change it up. So I was like, okay, I wanted something simple.

Speaker 2:

And but I was like, okay, what relates to me the most and relates to my personality, uh, what I like, etc. Etc. And I'm like, okay, well, I'm a very this is not what I tell brand, so brand. You hear this? This ain't true, yeah, um. But it's like, okay, like I like I used to be, I used to be very flirtatious and like super duper, like sexual and stuff. When it came to like just like my comp, my sense of humor, when it came to my sense of humor, and that's that's honestly how like my audience was built too through that like funny, comedic, sexual jokes and sense of humor, yeah and um, so I was like, okay, well, I'm ooey and I'm gooey, so I would have never guessed.

Speaker 2:

I would have never guessed yeah, we don't tell too many people that yeah, yeah, you know what this is cool.

Speaker 1:

So what do you tell the brands like? What do they think? A candy or some shit?

Speaker 2:

yeah, well, I tell them I just like playing with slime and like I like gooey things.

Speaker 1:

That's like oh, that works.

Speaker 2:

I'm known for playing with like gooey things, like slime cookies with chips. I don't know that makes sense I like it. I like that that is hilarious.

Speaker 1:

All right, that was, that was dope. I wasn't expecting that. But here we are. All right, let's go ahead and slide into our next section. We're going to talk about our current mindset. This is the part where I like to just dig into the brains of my guests, just to see what you think about your content, how you feel about your content and where do you think you see yourself going in, like the next three to six.

Speaker 2:

OK, I mean, for now I'm actually changing up my content a lot. I used to mainly do gaming content and I'm trying to get out of gaming content, which is kind of frustrating because a lot of the like companies I'm partner with they're like okay, like you do gaming content, so let's do more gaming content.

Speaker 2:

I'm like right but I'm like I need the money, but I'm also like I don't really want to do that, you know, but it's whatever. But, um, I'm trying to go towards more um, like I o irl content, more comedic content. Um, outside of live streaming, I do comedic skits and interviews at conventions and, like, my aim is to mainly focus on comedy. Okay, and I want to do that with my live streams as well. So, like hosts, like collab streams with other content creators, where the focus is funny things and comedic things and, you know, interacting with other content creators and bringing content creators together as well, which is not typically what I've done in the past. It's mostly a lot of solo play and solo gaming and shooters and role play and other things like that and I I want to build this community where content creators can come together and laugh and also give give my audience a good laugh as well and see, oh, these people aren't just like people who play games.

Speaker 2:

They're real people and they're funny. So through this transition right now it's a lot, it's hard. It's so hard to change, like to change what your content is.

Speaker 1:

But through this transition.

Speaker 2:

I'm hoping in the next three to six months. I'm like deep into that and I am doing weekly collaboration streams with other content creators I have. I'm creating a show um, a show that I'm going to create um, where we do like. Every friday we'll have like. It's a specific format where we like we drink every time like we told each other jokes and you have to like, you have to just like like. I don't know if you've ever seen those videos?

Speaker 2:

yes, yes, I want to bring that to live streaming you do that, and every time you laugh you got to take a shot yes, that is going.

Speaker 1:

I've been watching those videos for like the last like two months.

Speaker 2:

They are so good they're so good and I would love to bring that I want to bring that show to live streaming. So bring in other content creators and do something like that and I know so many funny content creators well, this will just be fire and create clips from that to post on YouTube for short form content. That's where.

Speaker 2:

I want my content to go and I think I can be successful. I have a lot of resources, I have a lot of. I have a huge network of people. I just have to put in the work. Yeah and uh. That's where I'm hoping to see me in the next three to six months doing that and uh, being consistent, that's my biggest thing being consistent yeah, I don't want to talk about that, but yeah, it is like gotta be consistent.

Speaker 1:

That's dope I.

Speaker 1:

I, like you said you've been doing, you've been streaming for five years yeah, for five years and I don't know I'm not an expert, but I feel like two to three, five years is a perfect spot, especially if you were just streaming, like if that's all you did I'm not saying that's all you did, but if you were my primarily streaming to start pivoting into that content, like you already have the chops of live streaming and talking in front of people. Now you're just gonna meld that into things that you enjoy. That's gonna be dope. So we talked about, uh, procrastination. Um, a little bit that procrastination being uh, consistent. You have mentioned I peeped and I've actually I met you at twitch con at a sponsor and I was like, uh, the homie, push play. The dj was like yo, you got to get to know ui and I'm like all right, let's go sponsors. How did you fall into that realm? Did they come to you or did you go to them, or is it a mixture of both?

Speaker 2:

it's a mixture of both. Initially I um like my first couple like partnerships and sponsorships with companies was through reaching out myself and through networking. So I got a couple of partnerships with brands through networking at pax east.

Speaker 2:

I've actually got most of them actually through networking at nice, okay, which is interesting um, but like the first time, I would just go up to them, you know, pitch myself, talk to them, um, you know I have my own strategies and stuff which I'm happy to share with talking to brands. And then it was like okay, like emailing back and forth, back and forth, signing contracts and then working with the brands and then going forward also just networking with people I've worked with in the past and other content creators, going to other conventions, and now those people and my friends are pushing me to their people that they're partnered with.

Speaker 2:

You know, I'm saying it's all networking really, and it's like, oh, you got to meet this girl. Like this is ooey gooey, like she does this, this, this and this. Y'all need to check her out. And that's gotten me a couple other brand deals, which has been really nice through other people pushing me and I made sure to do that myself at twitch con this year. Yeah, oh my gosh, I was pushing all my friends. I was like, hey, you gotta meet this person. Yo, that's my honey.

Speaker 2:

They make great content you know I just try to do the same as people do for me and what I want to see in the world as well. So I try to give it like, do that. And then also just like some companies, most recently, like companies reaching out to me directly and asking me, hey, can we work together? And then I'm like, okay, well, here are my, here's, my prices, here's, here's what I try like, here's what I can do for you and working out contracts through that. So, um, it's kind of it's. It's pretty much been a mixture, but more so over the past year has been more in the past year than I have.

Speaker 1:

Gotcha, that's dope, and I like that. You highlighted your network of peoples. I say this all the time Content creation is hard. It's as hard as you let it be. So if you have a tight network around you, though people who are not only pushing for you to make your content, but are actually pushing you in front of brands, like that, makes this so much easier and shout out to push. I keep shouting this dude out, but that is my, that's my dude. Like I learned so much from him. Like not just this which con, but past which time we have conversations. He is just go, go, go, and I'm like I need that energy yes, 100, and that just remind me too.

Speaker 2:

I'm like damn, someone was pushing me to talk to somebody about a partnership. I need to do, I need to send an email after this yes, all right.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, right now. All right, we're slipping into the lessons learned section of our podcast. What lessons have you learned because you started creating content?

Speaker 2:

That's a good question. I have learned a lot of lessons, ones that I apply in my personal life and then ones that I apply in my content life. I would say a big lesson I've learned, and that I would also give other creators, is when things get hard or difficult or it just seems like you're not going to be able to achieve what you're going to achieve, you know, just keep pushing forward, it'll happen eventually. It'll come with time, and you got to change your mindset and that's a really big lesson I learned. You have to change your mindset to think that you're going to actually achieve whatever goal you're aiming for and it's like no, I will get that goal. You know what I'm saying. I will be able to do this, I will and I am going to be consistent. I will and am going to do these type of videos. I will and I am going to reach this milestone. I just got to do the steps.

Speaker 2:

And a lot of times, something I recently learned a lot of times it's not the plan, it's the execution, and you have to execute in order to achieve your goals and a lot of times we fall short on our execution and we blame the plan or we blame other factors when, in reality, it's our own execution that's causing the issue. Reality, it's our own execution that's causing the issue and I will say that's that's. The biggest lesson I learned is I gotta reorder how I execute because I'm like well, I'm not, this is not happening, I'm not growing. I'm reaching this many viewers and I'm realizing no, it's my execution. Because when I did execute consistently, when I did put forth the plan and actually execute that plan, I saw growth. I saw growth within, I saw growth within my community. But then, when I stopped doing that, the growth stopped.

Speaker 2:

So, it was a problem with my execution, and you know, if you do execute and you're not seeing results, okay, now let's go back to the drawing board and let's revise our plan, and then we can now execute that plan and see what works and analyze afterwards to see what results we're getting. You know what? I'm saying so don't give up, just try to execute. You know what I'm saying. That is the biggest lesson I've learned.

Speaker 1:

I'm sitting over here trying to not yell at my mic. I'm chilling. But, like you said, that lesson took me years to learn, and I would even add into that when we hear the word failure, we always negative connotation goes off in our head. Now, when I hear the word failure, I'm like, all right, I get to either pivot or I get to reevaluate and figure out how can I do this better execution? How can I execute this idea better? Can I do this better execution? How can I execute this idea better? And then, with that in mind, like anytime I fail or I only streamed the five people today, all right, how can you get that up? Like what's the excitement coming from you trying to figure out the next plan? That makes it so much. It doesn't make it like easy, keep easy, but it makes the journey so much more fun because you're you're learning stuff on the fly. You're you're learning stuff on the fly.

Speaker 2:

So yeah, you're learning stuff on the fly and a lot of us don't know. Like also, like, what's your marketing strategy? Like is your marketing? Is it a good marketing strategy? And are you executing that marketing strategy consistently to reach a higher audience yeah and it there's many different factors into it. You know, and are you also reaching out to people who are, who are being, who are successful in the field or who are also doing the same things? You're doing to and getting advice from them? A lot of people like your advice, you know, just ask.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think another good lesson is ask. Don't be scared to ask for help. Yeah, that's how we progress. Like if somebody did something you're trying to do, why try to redo the blueprint? Ask them for help.

Speaker 2:

Oh, that's a really big one. I would like to point out to literally anyone, everyone hearing this network.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes.

Speaker 2:

Work. I swear to God, I struggled so much with not only growth but getting certain like getting certain things met or even learning things about the business and other things, because I was, like just a lonesome streamer, I just only played. I played solo games or I played multiplayer by myself and or I didn't, like you know, talk to other content creators and I just kept to myself and kept within my circle. No, you need to actually network and reach out to people outside of your realm. Talk to other people, talk to other content creators, learn what they're long share, share the knowledge that you have with them. You know what I'm saying like join groups, join communities. You know you have to network in order to grow and that is something dan clancy, the ceo twitch, pointed out at dream con this year. He was like, during one of twitch's panels, he like stood up and he was like everyone needs to understand.

Speaker 2:

Look at the top content creators on the internet right now. What do they all have in common? They all network with each other. They don't all, they don't create solo content. They create content with each other. You know what I'm saying. They, they feed off of each other. You know they share communities, they, they, they interact with each other if like, if like, if you want to grow, you need to network with other content creators, and that is a really big lesson that I had to instill in my head like that, because I I wasn't for networking before. Um, I didn't network a lot before this year, to be honest. So you, so you got to network.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, when I first started streaming, I was too a solo. I only played games by myself. I had zero interest in talking to anybody else. And looking back at that, I'm like how did I expect to grow Like? How did I expect to like do anything that I thought was like just flashing a pin? I'm like I'm going to be the next big. No, you definitely have to reach out and talk to people. It is honestly. You will meet some people that like there are people in my life now. Had I not networked, I would not have this blessing that I could just call up my ayo what you up to. It's crazy to think that, but yeah, they're in my life because I decided to say something one day yep, exactly, exactly, exactly, and most people and I actually just posted a tweet.

Speaker 2:

I need to reply to some people on the suite and quote tweet it. I made a tweet the other day and I'm like like what, if you don't reach out to other content creators or collab with them, what is the reason? Is because they have two little followers, they have too many followers, are like more followers than you. That's what the reason a lot of people were like it's because they're too scared to reach out to bigger creators, because they think that they're wasting their time or they think that, oh, like I'm not good enough or I'm not at that level yet, like it doesn't matter. Bro, like a lot of the times they they want people to reach out.

Speaker 2:

A lot of people, a lot of creators that I like. I know some. I know a good amount of big creators who are like no one reaches out to me or no one tries to. I've been like I don't have a lot of friends to play with because people are too damn scared. But no, like people like they want to be reached out to, they want to be asked to do things, they want to be asked to do podcasts, they want to be asked these things and if they, if they don't have the time, then okay, you for your, thank you for answering me, or thank you for your time and I'm gonna move on.

Speaker 2:

You know what I'm saying, but it doesn't hurt to reach out and ask, even to ask for advice. I've asked for creators for advice when it comes to brands, when it comes to content, like it's okay, like most people want to actually help. You know what I'm saying. And if they don't, yeah leave them alone.

Speaker 2:

But if a lot of times they do and you can get like we ain't gonna talk about those ones. A lot of times they do, and you can gain some great, great advice from learning from people who are that, you see, are achieving a level of success that you want to achieve yourself yeah, I think the thing that excites me the most about being more successful than I am now is reaching back and helping people.

Speaker 1:

I don't like to not help somebody. The people who don't want to help help somebody the people who don't want to help people blow my mind. It don't make sense at all. But your point of just asking I think I'm in the mindset of with everything I do. Now I'm going to ask and put it on them to say no, I'm not going to tell myself, oh, they're just gonna, they don't have time for me. I don't know that Like, I'll let them say that and if they say that, I'm like cool, but if not, then I get a interview with somebody I never thought I was going to talk to. So just push forward and don't be scared of the nose. I promise you they don't hurt.

Speaker 2:

Exactly, you just move on no-transcript.

Speaker 2:

Oh, a big. I want to give a piece of advice to people who are just starting out in their content creative journey. Something I see all the time and I hear people say a lot, is that they want to wait until they get a certain piece of equipment or a certain amount of equipment before they start recording the videos or before they start posting the videos or before they start going live. And I'm like, no, go live with what you got now, make that video and post it now. Edit it on your phone. You don't need this camera, you don't need the specific mic, you don't need this specific like, the specific like stream deck or go xlr or keyboard or whatever. You don't need all that to start your content journey. There are people and this is something I realized before there are people like you go on TikTok, you go on Instagram. You see all these viral videos.

Speaker 2:

They have the lowest quality shit I've ever seen and then they got millions of views, millions of followers.

Speaker 1:

And they're out here editing on their phone.

Speaker 2:

This, this crazy blurry and I'm like that's crazy. People don't care if they can relate to you.

Speaker 2:

They can laugh, they can chill with you. That's all that matters. I went live and I built my community from just streaming from my xbox with a logitech c920. Okay, I did that for like like two years before I even, like, started upgrading my equipment. You know what I'm saying. You can build your community Now. You were waiting to do all that. Now it's like a year later, two years later, you just wasted that entire year or two waiting to do that, when the other person who just started doing it with the base stuff. Now they have two years of building their community. You have nothing because you didn't put put it out there.

Speaker 2:

So my biggest piece of advice you don't need to wait to do stuff. You can just do it with what you have. There's always workarounds. There's always the getaway of doing it. Just look it up. There are if, if you have a phone, if you have a console, if you have a laptop, you could like you, you don't, even you don't need that much stuff to create content just do it, like, just just do it, bro, like that's, you just gotta just find the workaround.

Speaker 2:

It doesn't need to be perfect, it doesn't need and that's the big one, it doesn't need to be perfect it doesn't need to be high quality, and you're gonna learn as you go. So again, on this, nothing it doesn't need to be perfect, okay I know a lot of people it does not.

Speaker 2:

Even they will not post a video or not finish editing a video or something, because they think it needs to be perfect. Oh well, that's not. I want it to be higher quality and I want it to be like if there's no right way of creating content, the right way is the is anyway okay, like anyway, because there's a, there's literally infinite ways to create whatever content you want to create.

Speaker 2:

You know I'm saying infinite way, so just just do what you want to do. If it's not how you want it to be, it's okay, post it anyways. Now the next video do you learn something new? Edit it a little bit, post that anyways. You know, you grow like no content creator, no youtuber. You see out there, no live streamer.

Speaker 2:

You go back to their very first videos garbage. Look it's, it's, it's they. They improve so much and that's exactly how you have to be. Learn as you go, you grow as you go and you get better as you go. But if you never start, there's no getting better, there's no growing, there's no way to create perfect quality content. And again, that time you wasted trying to perfect it before you posted it. It's time you could have been growing your audience and having your audience grow with you. You know what I'm saying? That's time you could have spent building yourself up and learning new things. And now you, just now, you wasted it because your ass was too scared, because you thought excuse my curse and my bad no, you could, you could say whatever, because you were too.

Speaker 2:

You were too scared to post uh, things that were imperfect when it's perfect yes, it is I promise you, there's so many videos on my tiktok like I see the imperfections.

Speaker 1:

Nobody ever says shit about it, ever.

Speaker 2:

No one cares, nobody cares, nobody cares you create a 30 second video, brody, ain't it's already egging? Nobody care. You know what I'm saying, it's 10 minutes on youtube bro no one gives a crap.

Speaker 1:

Okay, there's 50 million other videos like if something like you're gonna attract your audience and they're gonna grow with you and just do it just do it like when you say it, when you say it out loud and I'm hearing it like I know this, but like it's so like straightforward, it's like yo, there's literally 50 million videos on youtube.

Speaker 2:

They're not even gonna see your shit, relax literally and it's fun and and even if people do, people don't care about the quality people and let me. Here's a huge thing too people don't give a about how you look. Okay, you don't need to lose a certain amount of weight first. You don't need to have your hair did first put on a bonnet and call it a day. I was looking good for a video, I was doing right and I was like damn I recorded it, went to edit it.

Speaker 2:

No audio yeah I was like ain't no mother, and this was after. I was so mad. I was so mad and I like I already had my bonnet on, I already had my nightclothes on, I was like damn. And I was like you know what I'm gonna re-record it with, with my bonnet and my night clothes, and the video got a crap ton of views and I'm talking about.

Speaker 1:

It don't matter how you look, right, exactly none of that matters.

Speaker 2:

Just post it, bro. Just film the content. No one cares, bro, no one cares. You got people out here looking like crackheads, bro, you can do what you want.

Speaker 1:

Do what you want no more excuses, more excuses. Stop being scared.

Speaker 2:

Stop being scared, just post it. And I understand it's hard, trust me, I get it. I felt the insecurity myself we all do. But once you just start posting it, you get used to it and now it's nothing. Now you just like I just need to get this video out. Boom Video, boom Video, boom, boom video, boom. Live stream. You know, just do it. Yes, do it. I'll be doing my hair. Y'all, y'all should see my. I take down my hair on stream and I'll be washing it and I'll be doing it and they, they see me. I literally look like a homeless crackhead bro. Okay, when I do my hair and I do it live, I stop caring people. And guess what? And I still have the same people who are chilling with me when I'm playing my game.

Speaker 2:

They chill with me while I'm doing my hair. They don't care. And plus, they also like seeing that, because they get a other side.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's like a whole nother. You're a different person, like, oh, you play cod and you're a human. That's crazy. And then it become really a factuated you know, like I love this community and they just want to hang out with you. This is how you build a community. You got to show all sides not all sides, I don't want to say all sides most like a different side don't, because you'll get to us, yeah, to us, exactly oh god, oh god, they really ain't um, before we get into call to action, I wanted to swing back to.

Speaker 1:

You mentioned that you do co-working streams and mental health streams. I'm definitely stealing the co-working stream I did when I moved because I like I was in I think it was one of yours you was like cleaning up your room or something. I'm just like this is chill, like everybody's vibing, you're getting work done and you're still streaming. I like that. What does your uh mental health streams look like?

Speaker 2:

so my mental health streams, which I'm actually bringing them back, they, they. I paused them um a lot of this year because I needed the break. Um, but my mental health streams look, I have a. I started off by talking about my own mental health and what's going through my head and things I've been dealing with recently and stuff like that. And then we go into um where we have. We open up a google form where people can come and they can literally talk about anything in their mama, as long as it's within tos yeah trauma dumps.

Speaker 2:

They can talk about death. They can talk about happy things. They can celebrate with us.

Speaker 2:

They can they can talk about their own mental health and what they're going through, and it's a way for people just to be able to let things out and have a community to be around them and support them. And we give advice. We if they, if they, if they just need to vent, we let them vent. If, like, some people just need to let it out and we used to, we, we used to do it every sunday and we're bringing it back to do it every sunday as well where people can just talk about the stuff going on in their life and have a community with them. So, um, yeah, and we and we've had, we've had so many things um, come up, it's, it's people asking for advice on how to make friends while they're in college.

Speaker 2:

That's actually a really common one. Um, people talking about deaths in their family, or people talking about a breakup, or people celebrating a new job they just got, or, yeah, like different things like that. And people can just talk about it because typically, and and what the rule is and this is for everyone's stream do not come in someone's stream in trauma dump. You know what I'm saying that's true, that is not only it throws off the vibe.

Speaker 2:

You don't know if they're ready to hear something like that. You don't know if the chat is ready to hear something like that. Don't do it. Keep it to yourself, which is hard, and I know what people are going through, real life things. So I wanted to have a space that I could create where people are able to do that in a time window where it is appropriate, and then everyone knows what's going on, so people in chat are ready for it. People in like knows what's going on, so people in chat are ready for it. People and like I'm ready for it. Like yeah, we have. This is the.

Speaker 2:

If you need to talk about something, this is the time. If you want advice about something, this is the time, and we call it sunday support, and I also. I call it sunday support because it's not just about mental health, it's also people. I tell people if you need advice with because I don't have a lot of free time. So if you need advice with content, if you need advice with stream, put your question in there. I will show you how to do something. You know what I'm saying I will bring up my obs.

Speaker 2:

I will show you exactly what I do, like you want. You want to know how to talk to sponsors, how to talk to people? Just ask me right then and there, and I I will explain it to you. We'll go over it because I I really don't have a lot of time in my personal life right now to be like taking people aside. So it's like, okay, if you need, you need advice, you want to just just let it go in there. You know I'm saying so. It's a way for people to express themselves and get off with their chest and you can do it anonymously. You don't have to give your username, you don't have to tell us who you are. It's I don't see who it is who submits them, unless you put your username in there. I don't see your email or anything. You just go ahead and submit the form and we're going um next sunday and um, I'm really excited because I was always. It was a really nice thing to have. Should I have people confess their love for me in there like I don't know who?

Speaker 2:

the hell it was. It happened a couple times.

Speaker 1:

I'm like damn that is. I like that idea I've always wanted to have and I'm still playing with the idea having like a mental monday or like my. I really want to do a morning stream where I come up with some affirmations, talk about it, maybe break down what it means and then get people started on the right foot because like I can't handle too much trauma dumping, like I can do like one-on-one but a whole fucking chat I'm like yo listen that's why I took a break.

Speaker 2:

I had to take a break because it was a lot like we've had like literally like hundreds of submissions over the years that's awesome though, which, which is great, because we've been able to help a lot of people and I've had people come to me thanking me for for doing them, so it's like I really love doing them.

Speaker 2:

It was just I just needed the break myself um life was getting really chaotic for me, um like personally, so I had to take the, I had to step away, but now we're bringing them back. Things are settling down and it's something I want to be able to give to my community. So it's something I saw was very helpful and I want to bring back and I have the mental capacity again. So we're bringing it back and excited about it now, do you do these?

Speaker 1:

is it just you on the uh mic answering everybody, or do you got people okay?

Speaker 2:

yeah, it's just me because having multiple, having other people, some people are yappers. Okay, I'm sorry, how do you handle?

Speaker 2:

I can't do it, it's just it's just me and I and chat. Can people in chat can give their advice and people in chat do give their advice. You know, everyone is able to chime in as long as there's respect. We'll have a very strict rule. During those I was like there's not even there's. No, there's, I'll give you, I'll give you one warning and then it's a perma ban from the channel no deals, so that like that is a part of the like. I'm usually more lenient during other parts of my stream, but during that specific segment there's no leniency.

Speaker 2:

It's a, it's a tolerance on respect, like you need to be respectful. So you know people in chat gives their advice and everything and everyone's able to chime in.

Speaker 2:

But I won't even bring friends up to talk because I love my friends, but sometimes people are just gaffers and they will go on and on and on and people also tend to like when someone else is talking about their story, they they tend to and I don't think people realize it, but they tend to make it about themselves and talk about their personal stories, which is great because you can relate to people on that.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

But it gets off topic too much. It's kind of hard for, it's hard for me to try to bring it back, and I don't want to regulate other people, I just want to.

Speaker 1:

I can regulate myself and that's all I need to do, exactly, just want to. I can regulate myself, and that's all I need to do, exactly, exactly. All right, well, that was dope. I can't wait. I've never experienced one of your sunday supports. I'm definitely going to be there next sunday. Uh, what time does it usually go off?

Speaker 2:

um, the plan is to start them around 5 30 pm, between 5 30 and 6 pm eastern standard time. So, um, I'll I'll announce it. I make announcements on twitter and uh and in my discord channel as well all right.

Speaker 1:

Well, while we're here, we're at the call to actions place. Let's go ahead and shoot off all your websites so we can see all your content and everything at yeah, so you guys can follow me anywhere.

Speaker 2:

Literally, uh, if, if, if it's a major social platform, I'm on it and you can find me at ooeygooey it's spelled O-O-E-Y-G-O-O-E-E, not G-O-O-E-Y, g-o-o-e-e, and you can literally find me Twitter, instagram. Let me stop, let me stop. Let me stop, let me stop. Oh, here it goes, bro. That'd be wild, but not not there, not? No, all right, so we got tiktok, tiktok. Instagram, youtube. Check out my youtube channel because I'm trying to grow it. You know, I'm trying to get monetized you know I'm saying twitter slash x trying to get monetized.

Speaker 2:

We're trying to make that money. You know what I'm saying? Twitter, slash X, and then Twitch, which is my live streaming platform. So Twitch, I'm on there as well. So come on through, birdie, come on through.

Speaker 1:

Hell yeah, all her contact and not contact. All her social media links will be in the show description and description and if you haven't already, go ahead and subscribe to the podcast, uploaded and unfiltered. We do this every week as we started. This is episode 66. I believe we haven't missed a week yet. Consistency, and I'm gonna tell you this. You know I'm like I'm every once in a while, I, I suggest everybody, if you hit a milestone or you do something that you get excited about, share that shit. Like, just tell people. Like there will be people who are like Ooh, who gives a fuck? But there'll be more people who are like that's awesome and you inspire them to do the same. So get your shit together, start making the content, and I I always say to start scared, like I started this podcast not knowing how to do 90% of it and we're here now and I feel confident as fuck to start. I promise you it'll come out another end.

Speaker 2:

That is amazing. Oh my God, you said 66?.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, 66. I think, yeah, I think you're number 66. And it's mostly been guests. Every once in a while I have to do a solo podcast, but I like doing that too, because you know I get to talk about whatever the fuck I want.

Speaker 2:

So, if you don't mind, 66 weeks, right?

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

So you just motivated the crap out of me dude, because I'm so scared I'm not going to be able to be consistent, but you know if you can do 66 weeks straight.

Speaker 1:

I can do it too. So my cheat code to do this is A just start and you you are gonna make mistakes on the way. Like you said, just fuck the perfect part, just put it out, but develop a system. I have a system for my podcast. I email the or I'll send a message to the guests, I give them a survey. I have a things like checklists, like upload, download, edit, like it's all everything for the podcast laid out. So when I do it, I just click it, go on to the next one, so I don't ever have to guess what I need to do and it's always right there. So there'll be times where I don't feel like doing shit, I'll look at the checklist. I'm like I could do that real quick. I can make this, I can make this uh album art real quick. So figure out a system for yourself and then just knock shit out. I promise you it makes it way easier think that, think that there as well.

Speaker 1:

We we have reached the end of our conversation. I had so much fun. I don't think you realize. A bunch of stuff you were talking have been things I've been thinking about for the last six months, so it's awesome to hear other people thinking the same. Thank you for being here. I appreciate you.

Speaker 2:

Thank you for having me. I appreciate being here. Thank you for even asking me to be on here. I feel honored, to be honest.

Speaker 1:

Listen, I knew you through peoples and then I didn't know you were in TwitchCon and, like I said, the homie Push was like what are you doing, go? And I'm like, alright, you're right, you're right, you're right. So shout out to Push, play the DJ for being my, my spokesperson, to get me to talk to people and whatnot. But thank you again. We have, oh so good. So this is not the end of our conversation. I definitely think there's some things that I have had, some ideas that I want to. I'm going to shoot them your way and you just let me know what you think about it. You know, because, damn, like the words that you were speaking, more people need to hear like us as people.

Speaker 1:

Everybody at the top is networking, they are collabing, they are working together. Us, as black people, are very good at grouping together and making dope shit. We should do more of that. That's all I'm saying and that's that's one of my goals. That's what I'm trying to do, exactly. Yes, yes, when we get together and we have a like mind and we are entertaining or we're pushing to like get something done, like nobody can stop. So my goal is to figure out a way to unify like we don't need to all like we. I feel like this would be a bunch of us just taking over shit and I'm excited for that. So we thank you again for sparking a bunch of ideas in my head and anybody who's listening. If you were either motivated or you have questions, definitely hit up the podcast and we'll get them situated. But other than that, I appreciate y'all. We're going to go ahead and end it. As always, protect your mental, keep creating content. I'll see you in the next one, peace.