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The Minty Chronicles: When to Quit and When to Persevere

• Jermaine Pulliam • Season 1 • Episode 91

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Ever wonder what happens when a creator's journey takes unexpected turns through traumatic community experiences, content shifts, and finding their true creative voice? TheRoyalJosh_ joins Jermaine to share his six-year evolution from teenage school storyteller to Monster Hunter content specialist.

Josh's story begins in 2016 with candid videos about high school drama before he found his place in the Sims community. After several productive years creating Sims content, a deeply negative experience forced him to step away, reassess his path, and ultimately discover where his creative passion truly belonged. His transition to Monster Hunter content demonstrates how creators can successfully pivot when following genuine interests rather than chasing trends.

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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. Today I have a special guest, and before I get him on the line to ask him a bunch of questions about his content journey so far, I'm going to read his bio so we get some information on him and then we can get started. My guest is a 23-year-old cancer, black, lbtqia, non-filtered content creator. Some might call him funny, since he says whatever comes to mind, even if he ends up regretting it sometimes. His favorite color is mint and he's attached it so well to his branding.

Speaker 1:

At At this point he goes by Minty, minty. If you could spell Minty, he probably will accept it. So get creative and other variations that you could think of. He's been in the streaming and content game for around six years, though he takes breaks when he's not feeling it, something he's always open about with his friends and followers. He used to be really attached to the sims community, but recently has branched off and started heavily focusing on monster hunter content with the release of wiles, and with that I like to introduce my guest for the evening, the royal josh josh. Welcome to the podcast. How you?

Speaker 2:

hello. Oh my god, I am so excited to be here. I was nervous, like I've been talking to myself in the mirror like you'll be okay, just don't slur your words. You got it, but I am so excited to be here. I'm super nervous First time doing something like this. So, I'm really, really, really excited to get into it. Awesome Well.

Speaker 1:

I'm glad to be your first and hopefully it's a smooth ride.

Speaker 2:

You're popping my. Cherry bruh, You're popping my cherry.

Speaker 1:

You're popping my cherry. Bruh, You're popping my cherry. He said it, not me, John. I always ask this. This is my first question I ask my guests is how did you get started in content creation, aka, what is your origin story?

Speaker 2:

Ooh, okay. My origin story stems back all the way to 2016.

Speaker 2:

Oh, my God, I was 15 years old when my first video ever. The way my back is cracked thinking about that. But I had this channel. That was my name. I think I have it privated now because it's embarrassing.

Speaker 2:

But I usually just record little story times about what I did at school, what happened to me at school, who I hated, who I was beefing with at school, and obviously that came to bite me in the butt sometimes because I was talking crap about people that were sitting right next to me. But I started with that and then eventually I got so I don't know, I think I got enveloped in the idea of being a Sims tuber, you know, posting these LPs and making these Sims and building these houses and all of that. So I started to try to do that in like 2019, I believe, and I did it for like maybe three years, three years, around three, four years of my journey here and a situation happened. I won't talk about it, but it was very traumatic for me. It kind of tainted the view I had, I guess, of a lot of the community Still amazing people in that community. I have made so many amazing friends from it that I still have to this day.

Speaker 2:

That's kind of where, like those breaks that you mentioned in my introductions, that was like the main one. I was like I have to distance myself from the space, figure my stuff out, heal from you know the event. And then I came back and I was kind of lost. I felt a little lost. I didn't know what I wanted to make. I was just playing games, doing whatever, still trying to play the scenes. It just didn't feel the same to do as content.

Speaker 2:

And then, eventually, with the lead up to Wilds, the closer and closer we got to Monster Hunter Wilds, the more and more inspired I became to do Monster Hunter content. I started consuming it nonstop. I started watching every single video possible Just trying to, you know, see, not really see like how people do their content, but like you know, like just to see what's out there. Yeah, just see like what kind of content maybe I could make with this game, but when it released.

Speaker 2:

I was like like might as well, let's go. Yeah, I started lp. I'm working on guides right now. The only problem I'm having is that it's just me, so it's a lot of editing and I get overwhelmed and I just uploaded part 10.

Speaker 2:

I know I'm just going into a whole lot, I know I'm yapping, no, you're good, you're good. I just uploaded part 10 of the lp and that's like a milestone for me, because every of the lp I've tried has died at part nine. Okay, it got to 10, that's what's up. So I'm just really, really proud of myself for that. Um, but yeah, that's that's. I guess that's me and my journey so far. But you know, cliff knows obviously I wouldn't spend another five hours so I could go more in depth, but that is also I.

Speaker 1:

I have a question because we've been playing a lot of Monster Hunter lately like every damn day it feels like. So I get to be in the hunt with you and watching you play. Is this your first Monster Hunter? No, it is not.

Speaker 2:

It is my third.

Speaker 1:

I did not think so, alright, because you move like a vet and I'm like the here that you just now making content for. It is inspiring, because I also got that bug too. I'm like I like the content that I want to make around is different than what's out there, but that's, that's not a problem, like that's probably what you want to do Exactly. What about this game is like making people want to make content. But it's dope to hear that you already had history with this game, so what pulled you what made you want to make content for this one?

Speaker 2:

What made me want to make content for this one? Because I love Monster Hunter. Probably, right next to the Sims is Monster Hunter. I guess I'll probably tell you how I got into Monster Hunter. Right, I got into Monster Hunter because of those big magazines they used to send out.

Speaker 2:

They don't send them out anymore, but those big magazines where they would be like upcoming releases In 2018, my to send out they don't send them out anymore, but those big magazines where they would be like upcoming releases, or yeah, in 2018 my mom had randomly found one of those, not even in, like next to our mailbox. It wasn't even there. Somebody just threw it out. The driver and just kept going and she opened it and I think, on maybe like the third, fourth plate who you know who guys was this game called monster hunter world and I was like what's this? But she showed it to me and I'm like you know what? Whatever, it's probably going to be another RPG that I play for like three minutes and put it down because I'm crashing out, because I'm overwhelmed.

Speaker 2:

And it almost did happen. Yeah, I bet, because Monster Hunter is not easy to get into at all, but especially not when you're starting by yourself. You wilders, y'all are lucky because y'all got people like me. I didn't have me. I didn't have me to help me out. So I learned everything I know about Monster Hunter now by myself, and that was the one that crashed out.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's why I stopped playing Worlds. I even had people who played. I remember Bossy told me that and I was like no, I'm not playing this damn game. It was overwhelming.

Speaker 2:

Too much. It's so much to learn. You gotta learn. You know stats, weapons, low it out. That's not even starting to learn monsters. It's so much um. But I should tell you how much I love my son.

Speaker 1:

It's like I pushed you that exactly you pushed through that and now you're making content for it and like, had I not, like it's like I said, playing during the week, like I could tell that you love this game? Because, no, like you would not put that many hours. What level hunter rank are you right now? Like 200 or some shit? Yeah, no, you good, keep that to yourself. Y'all want to see it come through a stream? Yeah, okay, all right, you know what? Next question I usually this is a random question I'm going to ask you. You don't have to, you don't want, but, but where'd the name come from? How?

Speaker 2:

did you come up?

Speaker 1:

with yours, the royal josh. How did you come up with your screen name?

Speaker 2:

this again dates back to me being a high school.

Speaker 2:

Like a lot of me, I think I peaked at high school low-key, but I used to just be super upset for like history classes and learning about, like you know, kingdoms and just the whole royal like guards, and I used to just anytime in history classes we got to that subject, I was straight a's having blast, can't wait to get the class. That was me, and so when I started making content, I was like I started trying to think like what could be a good branding that I would be passionate about, while also knowing a little bit about enough to like make my different roles and you know where your guard, where your night, where your court. I'm like me and he's called so, like that kind of thing. I kind of wanted to tie it back to my passion for, you know, the court system and the royalness and that stuff. Yeah, okay, I originally was king josh sims, but again when I oh yeah, I got you in the sims community, I had to yank that sims out. But now I'm the Royal Josh underscore, don't forget it.

Speaker 2:

All right, love it Dope, don't forget the underscore because there's another imposter out there apparently there is on Twitter somewhere that's dope.

Speaker 1:

All right, we're going to switch gears and we're going to talk a little more about your current output, but, specifically, my question is how are you feeling as far as the direction of your content right now? How's that feeling, mindset wise, and in like three or six months? Is there anything that you're looking forward to be working on?

Speaker 2:

Okay, so currently I am having such a good time with content creation. Again, it's only me, so the videos come out slower than how I like them to, but I feel like even though they come out slower, it allows me to put myself into them more, if that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, totally. The only downside about ContraCulture now that I have for myself is that because I'm in college, I can't focus and do as much as I want to do. For example, today I wanted to edit but instead I'm stuck doing projects. I can't stream as often because I'm stuck in live classes. That's like the only downside. But as far as like being able to put stuff on YouTube and you know, like my friends just doing it for my friends Now shout out to you, just seeing them in the comments, you know laughing at me, reacting to me or whatever, you know it makes me happy. So I mean it makes me happy that I can make them kind of happy for a little bit, I would say maybe who knows?

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

But it kind of makes me happy that I can, you know, put some stuff out for them to, you know, watch and giggle, and yeah, that's how I feel about it. Okay, that's dope, I like that. And then you said three to six months.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, what do you think you're going to be at content-wise like, or what do you envision you'll be doing at that time?

Speaker 2:

hopefully, hopefully still doing it, hopefully, I can, you know, maybe grow a little bit. I figure out. Honestly, I think my main goal for right now is to refine what I'm doing now because, like, I'm doing a lot of different ideas, like I said, I'm working on guides and things like that and obviously this is my first time doing content for my center, so I don't have any experience in it, so I feel like that's where I really want to be. You know, down the line is more experienced and able to produce better content and quicker because of that experience yeah, no, that makes total sense.

Speaker 1:

And like, shout out to you for thinking like that, because so many people want to hit that gas and just go, go, go, go. But you got time to refine your, your craft. Yeah, get it to where you want it to be. So I, I like that. That makes me happy, thank you. Um, damn well, we're here. Lessons learned. This is specifically a lesson that you have learned because you started creating content and I you said you have many and I can tell just the fallout Cause. Okay, I'll say this I'm a little, it's a little tangent. Um, not everybody goes through this, but a boss for sure did. I did. When you get into a group of people who are like-minded making content, you see different shades of people yeah, it has informed me and bosses like move through this space. We move differently now because of it. So I'm I'm dying to know what lesson have you learned? I?

Speaker 2:

learned that when people burn their bridges, you don't gotta stand on that side, that they burn with them. Please don't, please don't speak up. That is my biggest thing that I regret not doing is speaking up and against. Because, yeah, don't stand on that bridge, bro, walk off with the walking to the fire if you have to get off that bridge because you like.

Speaker 2:

Honestly, even though what I went through was super traumatic for me, I think about it and I think about the after effects and how, you know, without that situation, I wouldn't be in the communities I am today with all my friends that I love, love so much. That person was not nice at all. Yeah, he was really mean. It's just really toxic for a lot of people around. So when I left that space, it allowed me to meet, you know, colbert9, balls2u, like all these people Blue, like so many people that are just so nice and loving, and you know, we all want to build each other up and grow, and this I didn't. I didn't experience that on twitch before. I, you know, left that space. That I'll probably be the number one lesson I will learn if you don't feel you know what's going on is right or whatever, speak up and get out, because you are blocking your blessings exactly that you spoke on like just having a community that is loving and uplifting and like wants to see you do your best.

Speaker 1:

Not many people get that in life like, and so they're. So they're used to people shitting on them and being shitty, but like when you run into those people you're like, nah, you gotta stay close.

Speaker 2:

Sorry, right can't go nowhere, buddy, sorry, yeah uh, that is dope, all right.

Speaker 1:

Well, moving right along. Words of advice. If you had to give a piece of advice to someone, who would it be, and what would that advice be?

Speaker 2:

My piece of advice would go to the people who want to quit. I have been there so many times. I would have to say if you want to quit, it's really up to you to know if you really do. But I would say, don't, maybe that break. Take that month off, take that three, three years off. No, the only person that is timed is you. If you feel up to it, you do it. If you don't, you don't.

Speaker 2:

But if you quit and you know, you crash out and delete all of your socials and all your because listen, I was there, I was there. I was there at one point in my life deleting Twitter, youtube, twitch. Everything was about to be gone. But if you do that and shout out to one of my friends for telling me that but if you do that, you will delete years of your life, your hard work, your memories, the friendships you made, whether they're still here or not, you'll delete them and those are valuable, at least to me. Those are valuable, at least to me. Those are valuable.

Speaker 2:

So you know, take that break back up. Take, go into the road, go touch some grass. You know I hate that saying a little bit, but it's true. Go live life. You know, focus on something else, just play games. To play games, don't even think about content, just play, do stuff.

Speaker 2:

You know, just take a step back and then come back and you'll realize like maybe I was crashing out a little bit too much, huh, maybe I was a bit dramatic. And then if you don't realize that and you realize like no, I really just don't connect with the space the same way, then you'll make a more agitated decision on like okay, well, it's time for me to back up and, you know, leave forever or whatever. But if you act on your initial like I just what is the word? Like it's not instinct, it's some, it's somewhere, like gut reaction, yeah, if you, you, you, you react on your gut reaction of, you know, feeling wronged or hurt, or like you're not being loved, whatever is, whatever's going through your mind and it makes you want to quit consecration, you'll make, you're probably end up making a mistake and you'll end up regretting. That's, that's my advice yeah, I agree.

Speaker 1:

I almost quit several times and every time I got to the point I'm like, well, let me just shift how I'm looking at this Right and this person doesn't exist. Do I still want to make content? And the answer was always yes. So I always come back, exactly. So I agree. I feel like if you started, ever thought that I want to make a youtube channel and you went down that path, then this path is for you. You just need to log in on that right. You wouldn't have the idea if you couldn't do that shit you're speaking of that.

Speaker 2:

That's a good point too. Focusing on what made you start. Did you want to be alive? Did you want an outlet to talk like what made you start?

Speaker 1:

that also helped me like realize you know what I'm here for yeah, exactly, and I was about to say going back to doing this while in college what is the biggest? What would you be the the biggest um setback? Is it just the time frame?

Speaker 2:

uh time frame and, honestly, I feel like I'd be feeling left out sometimes because, like for example, this week, this week is Mouse Appreciation Week, yeah, and I want to stream for it. I just can't, I don't have the time. Yeah, I don't have the time. I can pull up tabs when I'm, you know, in classes and stuff, but I can't chat as often as I want to. You notice, the only time I'm really active on social media is late in the day, because my days are taken up by college. That makes sense. That's like the biggest setback, because I want to be more involved in spaces, but I just can't anymore yeah, um, well, it's dope that, like, your community knows that you're in college.

Speaker 2:

They know what you're doing full-time, so they probably give you that grace when you gotta like switch things around right, that's that, and I appreciate them so much for that, because I'd be feeling so bad my mind be overthinking so much. People are going to leave me. They hate me, nah nah, nah, nah, nah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that that thought process like you'll get out of it. Trust me, the people will always show up for you, and the ones that don't, they wouldn't really there. Well, josh, we have reached the end of our episode. I appreciate you for doing this, and before I let you go, I'm going to make you brag about all the things that you're doing. So I hope you're prepared to let the people know where they can find your content.

Speaker 2:

Brag. This whole thing wasn't a brag, I mean it's okay. Okay, well, okay, I'll do more direct this time. You can find my streams over at twitchtv forward slash theroyaljosh underscore, don't forget it Over there. We are not PG at all. Westlot, we shoot a lot. That is not PG space at all. Versus YouTube, it's more PG. I do curse on my videos, but I censor them. So PG Right? Is that how that works?

Speaker 2:

yeah, exactly, no, that's it but yeah, on youtube we do our monster LP. I currently on part 10. Part 11 is in the works. Also working on the bow guy for those who want to play bow, I'm a bow main so obviously I, you know, can make a god on that, so you help people out. Stop the same me for inspiring me. But yeah, that's my content. That's what. Those are my main two contemplators. You can follow me on tiktok. I gotta actually purge that tiktok and redo it a little bit. You can follow me there so you can be ready when I do it, because it's gonna happen.

Speaker 2:

And yeah, youtube twitch twitter. I guess you're gonna see me. Yeah, announcements discord too. I post my announcements in there when I go live youtube videos. Same with twitter. So those are my two socials, all the royal josh underscore. So, yeah, that's me on my spaces hell.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, all his links will be in the show notes of this podcast and, as always, if you haven't already shared the podcast with your creator friends, what the fuck are you doing? Yeah, what are you doing? Loaded and unfiltered the podcast for creators by creator. I just want to get the word out and get us talking more, because I think it's vital for people who think like we used to think, like we were the only ones, like in this dark corner and like no one's out here.

Speaker 1:

There's tons of us out here who want us all to grow anyone yeah, exactly, and I I believe what my whole chest like if we are all in the same accord and we're all thinking positively and moving towards the same goal, like that's just gonna happen. So right, so we're a matter of time. But other than that, again, josh, thank you for doing this.

Speaker 2:

It was fun as hell thank you for having me and I appreciate you for considering me, even though, like man you just watch.

Speaker 1:

I'm going to show you the numbers. When the podcast come out you'll be like what I'm like. Yeah, people were looking for you man so keep up the good work, uh, and hope. When's college done? When he? I don't want to think about it. Never mind, never mind, never mind, never mind, never mind. I was like never mind. Appreciate y'all, thank y'all for listening and, as always, protect your mental, keep creating content and I'll talk to you the next one. Peace you.