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Uploaded and Unfiltered: Real Talk on Healing, Creativity, and Mindset for Black Creators
Finding Your Voice in the Streaming World
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Black Gold Roger shares his journey from fighting game enthusiast to Twitch streamer, revealing how content creation unexpectedly helped him discover his true self and open new doors of opportunity.
• Started streaming during COVID after focusing on competitive Tekken 7
• Began with a makeshift setup – a PS3 mic with no foam protection that required wearing a skull cap
• Accidentally discovered his talent for conversation when viewers preferred his chat interactions over gameplay
• Created successful in-game car shows on Need for Speed that inspired upcoming real-life car content
• Named himself after One Piece's Gold Roger, combining his love of anime with part of his real name
• Learned two major lessons: content creation helps you discover yourself and your circle matters tremendously
• Advises new creators to make content they personally want to see
• Recommends looking to childhood interests for content inspiration
• Emphasizes that success doesn't happen overnight – his first few months of streaming were very quiet
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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 the journey thus far. This is episode 101, and I know that because yesterday, or actually today, I just uploaded episode 100. And yeah, that whole episode, if you haven't listened to it yet, it's me congratulating myself because it's important for you to celebrate your wins, and I definitely did on that podcast. So it is what it is.
Speaker 1:But tonight I have a special guest. I, this guest I have seen a lot, especially I was, uh, came across him on TikTok and just the content he was putting up, I was like, okay, I'm going, okay, I'm going to shoot my shot and see if he wants to do an episode. Luckily, he said yes. So before we get him on and start this amazing conversation, I'm going to read his bio, flawlessly, and then we'll get this thing started. Critically acclaimed, internationally accepted, virtually respected captain of the SS, mental Johnson, fighting game enthusiast and just chatting, extraordinaire. And with that I'd like to introduce my guest for the evening, black Gold Roger. Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 2:How you doing today, man, I'm doing good, feeling good man, how you doing today bro.
Speaker 1:Hey man, I can't complain. I woke up, everything was good. The kids are having fun, wife is having fun, I'm having fun, I.
Speaker 2:it's great man I love to hear it, man. Thank you for having me, bro. Hell yeah, congratulations on a hundred episodes yes thank you, people try like they don't understand. A hundred episodes is a feat.
Speaker 1:I don't care what it is in, but like a hundred videos, a hundred different conversations, yeah you, uh, you, a miracle worker, bro, because, hey man, I try hey, I'm going to keep saying that until they see it because, like, if I'm being honest, there is a formula to getting it done and I think you mentioned something before we started, knowing that you like what you're doing. Like, once you're locked into that, okay, I like doing this, like everything else is like, yeah, all right, oh, this kind of broke, but I still enjoy this. I'm going to go through it. So that's a secret. And you got to listen to the other podcast and hear the rest of the secret. That you will do for sure. But yo, bgr, before we get started started, I need to know what is your origin story. How did you get started in?
Speaker 2:this thing we call content creation, and content creation came at a very interesting time in the world. Uh, y'all know, just off that phrase alone, you know what I'm talking about. Oh yeah, exactly first hit the states man. Yes, at that time I was trying to perfect my craft and fighting games.
Speaker 2:So I just began entering local tournaments. I was a harangue main in tekken 7 and I was trying to test the field out, right, okay. And then COVID hit and I needed to figure out something to do because we were all locked in the house and my brother and my roommate always mentioned that they think I would be good at Twitch. I didn't understand it at first. I hate to say this right, hey, it is. What is it?
Speaker 1:I did not get strewn yeah, I'm guilty of that too, bro, like I'm like, you want me to watch people play a game hell, no, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2:And now here we are yeah, but my brother had put it in perspective. He was like yeah, because I watch you play the game, I watch you play the game all the time, so exactly you say it like okay, I'll try my hand in it uh, and then I uh started streaming actually around his birthday, birthday.
Speaker 1:I'm streaming now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly that's how it was like oh, we can't go out, but guess what I could do. I can stream. I'm doing this for you. Yeah, man. So I started streaming. Anniversary is like, uh, may 6th, so it's been five years now. Officially started streaming tech in first, uh, on my playstation 4 with a playstation 3 mic.
Speaker 2:No, camera okay, yeah, no camera. Yeah, mike had like no foam on it so I had to, like, wear a skull hat so I can protect my ears. My goodness, yeah, I wore a skull hat in summer, spring, like as long as oh my hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1:you might have won the most original setup when, first starting, you had to wear a knitted cap. Basically, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because it was no fun, it was just pure Mike. Hell yeah, I'm not putting that on my ear. I was like I grew up in the era where your older cousins, uncles, would pull up to the school parking lot blasting tubes.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you can't hear anything, man, my ears aren't, I'm not doing that. So I started off doing that and I got into. It was all accident. It was all accident, right. I was streaming a game called Yakuza Okay, all accident, there's no accident, right? I was streaming a game called yakuza okay, and I would always like have like people not always, but when they first started, people would come in and we talked to the chat and I started to catch myself not playing the game anymore. So my character would be standing straight up by the telephone booth by the whatever for an hour, because I'm just talking to chat now. Yeah, and that's where the term like just rogering came from, because my community created it I love that yeah, let's, that's them.
Speaker 2:when they say oh, he's just ro Roger, I'm not playing the game that's hilarious, okay, and so that started to pick up.
Speaker 1:And five years later, man, yeah, congrats on making it to five years. That is a huge accomplishment in itself, because some people like two, three weeks and they fizzle out, but you definitely found something that you enjoyed, so salute to you on that. Thank you, bro. Thank you, hell. Yeah, alright, something that you enjoy, so salute to you on that. Thank you, bro. Thank you, hell. Yeah, all, right now that we're here and you, you kind of alluded to it, but maybe not. I don't know what is the origin story of your name.
Speaker 2:I need to know so you know, funny enough, um I, I wanted a name that I can relate to with one of my favorite animes, which is One. Piece and.
Speaker 1:I knew that Mostly because I don't know much about anime, but I know the yellow and red. I see your homie in the back, Luffy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, luffyville, and then I have my own wanted poster. That's dope. Where do you see that? Yeah?
Speaker 1:180uffyville, and then I have my own wanted poster. Oh, that's dope. Where do you see that? Yeah, yeah, 180 million. Sir, what did you do?
Speaker 2:I wish I could talk about it. Hey, you know what? Not on this podcast. I'm not trying to have people come after me, listen man. I'm not trying to catch a case. There's enough cases out there going already.
Speaker 2:Exactly case, and there's enough cases out there going already exactly. But like so it started off with, just I guess. I guess let me start over too. Um, you as well probably saw this with coming up on like bibo and myspace. Right, we were that era where you would see people put black in front of a certain name. Yeah, example this is a Lil Wayne song called Bill Gates. I knew a homie who called himself the black Bill Gates.
Speaker 1:Of course, yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:So, like the black, this the black that, and black is actually part of my actual name, so it you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:I was like oh, this is easy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is easy. So I wanted to find a pirate or a character that I can like relate to in a sense, and so I went through the roster. I'm like black zoro, I was like I don't like that and I tried a black beard, but someone else already had the name. Yeah, okay, I kept going through, I kept going through and I'm like I don't want none of the. I won't spoil it for anybody, but I wanted a old school pirate name and I was like, what better name than the king of the pirates?
Speaker 2:and so it just fell together black gold. It was enough, syllables it was enough, you know. I mean like it was long enough, but not too long, like okay, I think I have a name here. They took it to a tournament, my first tournament locally. Okay, it was like black gold roger and I hear him on the mic right. He pushed the mic. What he was like. That's a cool man yeah, I was like yes, yes, so I, I ran with it and I can't see myself changing hell, yeah, that's dope.
Speaker 1:You know what I love when somebody finds a good name for themselves.
Speaker 2:Man, that is awesome yeah, because you know you go. You just go through circle, through so many different names and oh yeah, and none of them really stick, but they just get you to where you need to go exactly like I finally have found something that I can be proud of and, hell yeah, just been around me ever since I love it.
Speaker 1:I love it, man. All right, let's go ahead and switch it to our next section. It's going to be a current mindset. Uh, this is where I ask my guests what is their current mindset in regards to their content they're making now, and, let's say, three to six months from now, what do you see yourself as far as content creation?
Speaker 2:so, as far as content creation, I in my journey right, I think I hit like a wall, okay, when it came to my content. This is recently, too, where I found myself in a rhythm as far as, like twitch streams go, and the out, not the, I would say the rhythm of the stream was getting to the point where I needed to refresh it for myself not necessarily for my community too. Right, but it was more so like they're enjoying it, they loving it, they pulling up, they. You know it's a good time every time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I also needed something, so I was just like I think, I think I'm getting stale, okay to a certain extent right recently I with with rediscovering, like my passion for games, because that's what really brought, you know, me into twitch and into streaming content curation. I also discovered another lane that I was thinking about going into, which would be car content. Oh, okay, yeah, so, like my family, we used to go to the racetrack growing up all the time. Yeah, my family drag race bikes. For what? Yeah, like they drag race bikes, and I mean my uncle, his daughters, yeah, the whole nine. They trying to keep going right. So I'm like that lane is literally right there, right, yeah, 20, 30 minutes away from here. I'm like why don't I try making car content? And I'm going to be starting this summer, nice to get into it.
Speaker 2:And another thing that kind of led me to it is that we had a car. We had a car show actually on twitch with need for speed what? Yeah, so we used the need for speed game. We had a car show. People brought their cars out. It was the whole thing.
Speaker 1:We met up certain location.
Speaker 2:It was a contest. I had judges. Yeah, we rated each one. We had.
Speaker 2:Yeah like it was a legit like yeah, that's dope and we we gave money to the winner and cashed out to them. I think it was a cash up or gift card, whatever they wanted. That was also another spark. I already did it. I can do IRL car content. They drift, they do drifting at the racetrack. They do drag racing. I don't know about I don't know about nascar, but they they got a circular track, so they're using it for, yeah, exactly. So I've been thinking about going into uh, making car content, that is still yeah, yeah I'm like it's been here this whole time, just right in
Speaker 1:front of me hey, man, sometimes it'd be that stuff that, like you know, you have intimate knowledge about and you're like, oh, I want to go try something new at least that's how it was for me and then I look back and I'm like I could just do this and like still have fun and enjoy what I'm doing, but like be super knowledgeable about it and bring something new to the table. Like I don't think, like having a car show in freaking need for speed. Like when you said car show, I was like man, you had a real car. Oh, in the game, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, like. So it's like just just how it's just sitting in front of you, like you said. Yeah, I wait, I can actually I can do this. Yes, before I get here, I could actually start here and start the process, and I I was started with that car show. We had folks asking for us to do it again, nice. So I'm thinking about trying to, you know, bring it back and another format to it, maybe doing a different game.
Speaker 1:Right. But like I want to do like.
Speaker 2:IRL content I want to live stream, like the car shows, the car events, the race. Like a lot of folks don't get to see this world Right and I'm seeing more and more people who, like us, get into it Like yeah exactly, I'm just thinking about him yeah, like t pain, he has a drift team now. Yes, he does. He has his own garage down in it.
Speaker 1:I think it's in atlanta I think so yeah yeah, and he, he's making car content like that's crazy, would have thought right, exactly like that's the funny thing, like I don't know shit about cars, but I watched him like dripped around the track like I'm. I was like damn, this is actually like I want to kind of try this one day, not in my car, but you know, somebody else's, yeah, yeah they, they break cars, they break cars a lot so uh, but yeah, like getting introduced to something like I like, and now you're about to start like I would have never even known and I was about to give myself away.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you after. I'll tell you after the show about some stuff, because, okay, some listeners listen, they're like you. This motherfucker almost said it anyways right, yeah that's offline. That's offline.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that's currently where I'm at. I want to explore car content. I actually thinking about it having this conversation now. I remember there was a Corvette club that came by. That's crazy. They had a show and I remember sharing the stream of the show in Discord with some friends.
Speaker 1:That's fire.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were like hey, roger, what you up to today. I'm walking down the street. I showed them like look at all the cars.
Speaker 2:They're doing like an exhaust battle. They try to see who got the loudest. It's like it's a whole thing. Yeah, they would never have known about this had I not, like you know, they did. They didn't ever seen it, they didn't know it was available. So it's kind of like let me show them this and this is just not a regular part of my life, but it's been a part of my life. Hell yeah, where to go and find the stuff while I find the events. Yeah, like, let's try that, like that's the camera, you know.
Speaker 2:So it's like let's go see what happens yes, all right, cool.
Speaker 1:I like new and exciting things and you seem excited about it and just hearing you talk about it like I know you know what you're talking about, so I can't wait to see that first piece of content. That's gonna be dope yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2:I'm I'm geeked about it too, like good, because it's it's just always been a part of my life, and I didn't realize that that's just a lane. I could be, I could go into this and this can be another avenue I take on this journey.
Speaker 1:Yes, I can't wait. And then you're coming back, you buy a man. I got a hundred thousand followers on YouTube because of this car thing I did and I'm like see, listen, follow your dreams, follow your dreams.
Speaker 2:That, yeah, we that's funny.
Speaker 1:All right, we're going to go ahead and slide into some educational information lessons learned. What is a lesson that you learned? Because you started creating content?
Speaker 2:Hey, one of the biggest lessons I learned through content. Right, there's two of them. Really I won't nice I won't be too long-winded on it now you got it, man, because I know listen, you and me both, we can talk this is true, this is true your episode will be four hours long.
Speaker 1:yeah, I'm like hey, man, this is a three-parter Cut that thing up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I try to keep it. I try to not be as long-winded, right. The first lesson that I learned was that through content creation, I learned who I am. So like. I feel like the content that I was putting out was also a direct reflection of how I see my vision of content. Yeah, Like, what is the message I'm trying to convey? What am I trying to do? Who am I? You see that in a 30-second clip from Twitch.
Speaker 1:That's dope, I like that you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:So I feel like I learned more about myself. I gained confidence. So I feel like I learned more about myself. I gained confidence. The friends that I built not friends that I built, but the friends that I met yeah, the community that I built. There we go.
Speaker 1:I'm not building friends, I'm not building friends, right, I was like damn.
Speaker 2:All right, but like I got to know myself more, yeah, I discovered parts about me that I didn't know was there for sure. I was never a person who I thought I could like be on a stage and and do any of this. I always thought I was like the kind of like the background person who, yeah, you know production like just working on production.
Speaker 2:You know, make sure that this is here, this is their black outfit okay, I don't exactly, I don't need to be on stage, and streaming was like no, we're going to put you on the front screen. Yes, sir, start off. However way you want to go out there and go and do it. Yeah, I learned that I I do have a mouthpiece. I can't have a good conversation.
Speaker 1:I didn't know I could talk like this, you know that's dope.
Speaker 2:I didn't know I could talk like this. You know that's dope. I didn't know that with the conversations that I would have on streaming it will build like an influence and become relatable to people. Yeah, with that related ability comes accountability. I became more conscious of my actions.
Speaker 1:Yes, all right.
Speaker 2:You got to be careful what you're saying in the message you're trying to convey. It makes you be more intentional? Yes, and I feel like through content creation I really discovered who I am with the help of my friends too, because they all poured into me as I poured into them, and so I learned lessons through them, and I never thought I would be the person that I am today if I did not hit that. Go live that is wild Yo.
Speaker 1:That is dope bro. Like I can't even like. When you went into this, did you even want to influence people? Did you even want to, like, get to that point, or did it just naturally happen as you went along?
Speaker 2:I'll tell you straight up, like this right, my vision, my original vision. Here's the thing about your vision and god in the universe's vision, for you yeah right my vision was like okay, I'm going to win combo breaker, I'm gonna go to evo and go to evo Japan and I'm going to just beat everybody with my wrong rap. I'm going to beat everybody, then I'll start streaming, then after that, then just the viewers and just everything that comes with it. It's just going to be a natural transition. That's what I had envisioned in my head.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Nah, nah, transition. That's what I had envisioned in my okay, yeah, nah you're like nah, that's not, that's not your line.
Speaker 2:You can enjoy fighters, you can enjoy fighters, but that's where I'm at now. I enjoy them, but I'm not willing to sacrifice certain things when it comes to trying to get good at fighting games.
Speaker 1:I'm sure you heard about tournaments too, bro so when I was in Florida, I went to. I went twice. Did I play in it twice? Oh, I did the first year. What the hell is a comp? It's in Daytona CEO, ceo, yeah. So I went to CEO one year for KOF. Like I was playing with the homies Basu and I, chris Panda, when we was doing FNF, and like I wasn't. I wasn't even the best in our friend group but I was like, fuck it, I'm going to go, I'm going to go into this little tournament, got washed, got worked, and I was like, all right, that was fun, like it was my first tournament ever, cool A few years was it last year? Damn, it was last year. I went and played tech and eight and I was I feel like, and they're probably gonna come at me, but I feel like I'm the best one in our friend group right now so I was like I'm gonna go try some shit.
Speaker 1:I got the first round, got murdered in the second round, got murdered in the third round and I was like they are way better than me. It's not even like we're not playing the same game. So I was like I don't want to dedicate what is needed to get to that point. I was like I'm not. No, it's not happening.
Speaker 2:Listen hours sleep showers. You have to sacrifice.
Speaker 1:Yes, friendships, loved ones, sometimes Loved ones. You got to be dedicated.
Speaker 2:Yes, sometimes like ones you got to be dedicated.
Speaker 1:yes, you go to work and then, after you go to work, you go home and you practice.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah, hit that lab, you hit that lab and you play until it's time to go to bed. If you decide to, go exactly, no bro whole thing, and I'm like you know, and then for them it comes down to numbers too, that's true, they know they know what's plus, what's minus, which, if you grab with your left hand, if that's a one or two, it's like they see it before it even happens.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I still don't bro.
Speaker 2:I still. I play king and I still get grabbed up Like what. What is this? So, like I tell you, I similar experience, because I feel like that's just when you enter your first couple tournaments, right, it someone's gonna go oh into, oh yeah, for sure someone's gonna go. Oh yeah, it may be you, it may not be you, but someone's going on exactly this is your first one. It usually happens. Happens like that.
Speaker 1:Same with me.
Speaker 2:I went on my birthday and I had got washed. I had got washed. It was cool because I got to see where I was quick. Sometimes it's not you, sometimes it's the bracket, I don't know about you but my bracket look is not that good I always get the former champion or the former runner up and I get them in the first round yeah, no, that's messed up instant clap to the point where they come out after the round and be like, hey, let me show you something real quick.
Speaker 2:I'm just like, oh wow, I'm gonna get coached.
Speaker 1:Yeah right, you know what? Honestly, I would have appreciated that, because the dude that I fight he was. Everybody came around, oh, he's the best brian in the world. He's like number two brian and I'm like I was being cocky and I was like I don't give a fuck, like I'm here to play man. I play Victor man. I'm my. I got a whole bunch of cheap ass moves. I didn't touch this dude, I think I. I didn't take a round from him at all. I hit him half health once. I wasn't even mad, I was just like dude, you are playing a different game. I don't understand what's happening right now.
Speaker 2:You're playing a different game. They see numbers differently. Yes, like I said, they're calculated. Yeah, and they'll follow a rhythm after they get their rhythm going, and sometimes it's just inevitable, man.
Speaker 1:Like.
Speaker 2:I said I got washed too. So, boy and listen, it happened quick and I was like friends, come back. Hey, when you start, when I start, don't you mean it's time to go.
Speaker 1:It's already ended like we, you missed it.
Speaker 2:You missed it, grabbing snacks like so man, it happens it happens. But like, yeah, that's, that's what I envisioned, yeah, myself, and that was not the journey that was made for me. Gotcha, I was supposed to go through everything that I went through and I'm grateful that I am, because I would not be here today.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, if it beat me, if any of those trials and tribulations beat me so like exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like that's how I envision coming into streaming.
Speaker 1:That's not what I that's dope that is dope. All right, well, hold on. You said you had two lessons oh yeah, um.
Speaker 2:The second lesson was your crew. Yes, your crew matters. Who you have, your circle with matters, I. I think you you may have had these lessons as well, where you hear something you you're cool with this person. You don't know them fully, but you're cool with them. So via the internet y'all are really close friends. You know, I'm saying in everyone else's eyes and then a scandal yep and then you're like I was just with him yesterday.
Speaker 2:Exactly he did what he did, what Then? You see the ban list. You're like oh my God, it's a whole Twitch. Politics is a thing. Yep, yes it is, it is a thing, right. But your crew really does matter, the friends that you make. Sometimes it's a reflection of you, sometimes it's not. It's right. I don't stand for nothing that that person did exactly it sometimes it don't matter, it's by association.
Speaker 1:They saw you very much so it's a wrap.
Speaker 2:But, like I learned that, having a crew around you, people who believe in you, people who have the same values as you, it's hard to find, but when you do find it, oh they are gems. They are true gems. Hell yeah, bonds are formed for real, because now we can have real conversations, we can talk about the world and I know where your values stand and on certain points, exactly then we go, meet out, we go I fly out to your city, you fly out to my city, like a real friendship, an adult friendship exactly is formed, and those are already hard to form I don't know how you would and like.
Speaker 1:Thank you internet and thank you that I do content creation, because I don't know how people make real friends in the real world, like what.
Speaker 2:No, like you don't know what you're getting, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:Like look, at least at this point right, especially with content creation, I can go look at your last three or four streams and like say you know what I think this person is? Let me go check them out. Go watch 20, 30 minutes. You know what I'm'm saying. Come up with my own conclusion after exactly. Maybe I see you go live. Maybe I'll pop in and lurk to see make sure everything match up. Now I'll pop in the chat and like just go off of that. Like yeah, the creation does give us that lane but, just trying to meet people at the bar.
Speaker 1:No, as a skill set.
Speaker 2:I don't have anymore, so yeah you just don't know what you're getting exactly everything is just you just don't know. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, so that's, that's the second lesson. Is your crew matters? Hell yeah, crew wisely and support each other and love each other. Yes, for the moment, because not everybody can go Exactly, everybody can't go where you're going.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Once you learn that lesson, it makes things a little easier. When you see that one that can't go, you're like all right, bro, listen, I can't hang out with you. I think we have different values, yeah have different values.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like we're in different lanes right now and you're driving like 90.
Speaker 1:How fun, reckless. You're driving 90 into 30 exactly. I can't. You don't care about your light, bright eyes.
Speaker 2:I don't understand what's happening I don't want to be in the car with you, you don't. You don't wear your c belt. I don't want to like. I know who you are if you put your seatbelt on.
Speaker 1:I saw you touch the seatbelt and you said no.
Speaker 2:So nope, we're not doing that your seatbelt is already in when you hop in the car, so you don't hear the no, I'm good, I ain't playing this game too old.
Speaker 1:Alright, roger, we got words of advice. This is I don't have any advice for anybody this week, except for consistency. No, I'm good. All right, roger, we got words of advice. This is I don't have any advice for anybody this week except for consistency is amazing. You should look into it. But who would you like to give a piece of advice to, and what would you tell that person?
Speaker 2:I would say I would you know what? Originally I was going to give advice to newcomers, right? Hey, now you got to give it to both of them. I'll do both right To the newcomers and the people who may have quit because they're not where they believe they should be right. Newcomers, first up stream. If you're streaming, if you're creating content, I won't just keep it to streamers, that's just.
Speaker 1:You know, that's where my mind goes to first.
Speaker 2:Okay, but you say you want to create some content. Right, think about what you enjoy, think about where you stand on how content is made, and do exactly that Create what you want to see in the world, if you feel like, like talking about the car content, hey, it's not like I know how to swap engines or anything like that right.
Speaker 2:So like the car content I'm going to be making is not going to be focused on any particular uh group but it's going to be for the folks who I know I just contradicted myself but like it's coming from a perspective of someone who doesn't know how to do all of the fancy stuff, who doesn't know how to have those upper tier level conversations right to talk about a ls swap from a 94.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about. What is the LS?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Break down the terms for me. Okay, don't tell me. Talk to me about this twin turbo that you're going to put in this Pontiac. I don't know what the turbo is going to do, like you know. So that's. That's based off the perspective of someone who just enjoys, but it's not necessarily a super nerd, super professional on the topics. This is going to be like, if you didn't know, this could be in your area too. No, I'm not saying I do it, but look at this, you could be doing it if you want to. Here it is. So create the content that you want to create.
Speaker 2:That's going to take some soul searching. You're going to have to experiment, experiment. You're probably going to have an influencer or two that you already watch, so watch their formula and create something based off of that. I'm not saying copy right pace, but use it to inspire. Yesed, you know what I'm not taking this, but I could use this concept and apply it in a way that fits for me Exactly Cool, go, do what you want to do with the streamers themselves.
Speaker 2:Stream the games you want to stream. Please Do not. Do not think that a game that just came out, a game that just came, what game just came out? What?
Speaker 1:is it?
Speaker 2:Obscure.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Expedition 33.
Speaker 2:Expedition 33. Thank you, yeah, do not think that on the day it drops you and your two viewers is going to help you blow up. They're not even thinking about you because they're going to market the biggest or the most influential people who stream in that game currently however if you decide to stream a playstation 2 game like the warriors or slide paper you may pull your particular audience because someone's gonna say oh shit, yes, the warriors I haven't seen that game.
Speaker 2:Hey, let me talk to this person. Yeah, hey, did you know that? You know I'm saying like, and then you're gonna have a conversation and that is how you ultimately build your community. They may come back, but they may not. It's okay. Either way, you did something that you never did before and you got the experience that you need out of it. One create the content that you want to create, to stream the games that you want to stream. Do not expect to blow up overnight, because I don't crypt, I don't know about your journey, right, but the beginning, the beginning, that ps3, that ps3 mic, right yeah quiet, quiet for a good two to three months.
Speaker 2:Yes, affiliate was not easy to get this. Not for me either, bro you. You say three viewers, right, I, there's three viewers, yeah really, six months later I'm like oh my god it was rough, it was rough, but that's where.
Speaker 2:That's where you pick up the skill of learning how to talk to yourself yes, I have to explain exactly what's going on and what you are doing exactly you have time to practice and notice this stuff and you don't get that if you automatically have four, five, fifty, sixty viewers, you don't get that training, because when you do go down, because it's a roller coaster, content creation is a roller coaster.
Speaker 2:We was talking about that earlier with the views on TikTok Sometimes you'll have a 600 view video, 6,000 view video or six view video. It's a roller coaster and most of the time it has nothing to do with you. Exactly All you can do is control your output. You can't control the outcome, so do what you want to do at the very least, right, yes? Second piece of advice for the folks who want to get back into it or get back into content creation, but don't know exactly what they want to do Think about your childhood, right. Think about the things that you enjoyed doing growing up, whether that was build sandcastles at the playground, whether it was playing kickball or going to the batting cages there's a lane for literally anything that you liked or enjoyed.
Speaker 2:For me personally, again, I looked at gaming. I was like, oh, I could stream. But now I got to the point where I was just like, hmm, I'm feeling kind of stale. I don't know how to get back into it and enjoy what I enjoy doing Make car content. My family used to take me to the tracks all the time as a kid. How did this not hit me sooner? You know what I'm saying. So now I'm thinking about, I'm going back to my childhood and I'm like you know what? There's other things that I enjoy doing that.
Speaker 2:I could bring to light today. Like I didn't do this, but like my brother, for example, used to build model cars. Oh OK, the model car kit, you know? Oh yeah, people still, they still have those on websites that you can go check out and buy yeah, build a model car. Is that what you used to enjoy? Think about what you used to enjoy as a kid and bring it to life. As an adult you're surprised. That's a cheat code right there like we all used to just have.
Speaker 2:Hey, yugioh, if you play Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid and your parents or your siblings used to say put them Yu-Gi-Oh cards down, you need to go play basketball. Do something, let that go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pick those Yu-Gi-Oh cards back up Exactly.
Speaker 2:Pick those Yu-Gi-Oh cards back up Magic cards back up.
Speaker 1:I saw a content creator. She heard of pokemon cards but never got them as a child I think she said she was 33, 34. She's now building pokemon decks and like, tick-tocking, she's putting up videos, shorts about it and she's doing well and she looks like she's having fun and because people have that nostalgia of having pokemon cards, they're getting to watch her have fun and like, provide her with some information and live vicariously through her. I was like this is dope. I don't know shit about pokemon cards, but I love this content well like because you get to enjoy their joy.
Speaker 2:Yes, and you know the smile on their faces. You, like you're doing exactly what you want to do exactly, and that's inspiring. Let me think about what I used to want to do. Maybe try it on my own content, because you'd be surprised that original thought will take you to where you need to be hell yeah create what you enjoy, man.
Speaker 1:Okay. So everybody who heard that you have zero excuses to be putting out content I know y'all used to do some dope shit when y'all were little get to it yes, liz.
Speaker 2:Our parents, you know, hey, they had their good uh, they had good intentions. They told us to put that stuff down. That's right now. Is your responsibility to pick it back up.
Speaker 1:Yeah hey mom, look what I'm doing now.
Speaker 2:I took apart the vcr again.
Speaker 1:He's like what?
Speaker 2:hey, taking stuff apart taking that was me yeah taking remotes apart. My brother did that all the time used to take the remotes apart. Couldn't put it back together, right yeah, that was me.
Speaker 1:I was like is this broken forever?
Speaker 2:I'm gonna take it apart, and then it will be, so you better tell me now hey, somebody on tiktok will watch you break down a remote control and never put it back together. They just want to see the deconstruction.
Speaker 1:I kind of, I kind of want to do that now. I gotta see if I have a remote around here, just because, like in that, like the most random thing is like today, we're going to take apart this remote control. Yeah, take it apart and just be like that's it, just leave that shit in pieces I didn't say I was building it yeah, he's like. I've done this before, I don't know how to exactly enjoy the instrumentals and actually the asmr the screws coming out.
Speaker 1:Man, I'm writing that down. It might not happen, but it's on the ideal list, so we'll see.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because the lane of content man is just especially like Twitch in general, like it used to be just focused on gaming, but it's so much more than just gaming.
Speaker 1:Right, it's all over the place now and I just realized there's so many more tools to help you do streaming from Twitch, like there's a whole uh. Is it like stories, like Twitch stories? I was like what the fuck? This shit didn't exist like three years ago, let alone when I first started. But I'm like you know what? It's cool. It's cool. I just hope y'all are utilizing it, cause it is. It is a good tool to get people into your stream.
Speaker 2:It is a good tool, and then think about it like this, because I didn't discover it. I ain't going to say I discovered it, but it didn't hit me until I was just scrolling through my phone one day. We try to stay. I ain't going to say relevant, but we try to put something on the story to let people know hey, I'm still alive.
Speaker 1:I may not be streaming, but remember this clip?
Speaker 2:Remember this clip? There you go, look at this clip. Remember when we did this. But then I think one day I went to the concert Currency Currency is my favorite rapper Okay, hell, yeah. And I went to a currency show with my girl and it was smoked out and everything, because that's what you expect from a currency show and everything, because that's what you expect from a currency show. But I was like wait, do I have to put just gaming clips on twitch stories? I clicked on like a 30 second video of the concert and I was like, why did you think about now?
Speaker 1:I'm just putting anything on the story, I'm just putting anything on the story? Now it's not just gonna be gaming content.
Speaker 2:No, you get it all you get it all and you can explore like that, like yes, there's so much you can do, it is hell yeah well, roger.
Speaker 1:Uh, we have reached the end of our conversation. This has been fun as hell and, like you said, I I had to keep looking at the clock. I was like we could go for another hour, I feel. But I'm to reign this in because I definitely want to have you on a future show. I know what we'll talk about. We'll chop it off about something. I like the things you guys are saying. I think more people need to hear it. So if you're down to do another episode, I'm down to have you on yes sir.
Speaker 2:Yes sir, I would love to be on man.
Speaker 1:I appreciate the invitation.
Speaker 1:No problem, man, that's it I was like baby, baby, I got a plan to go on the podcast. I'm glad you feel that way, and I don't know like I'm a firm believer in telling yourself what you want the world to come out as. So I've been telling myself that everybody that I reach out to is going to be excited to do the show, and so far it hasn't played out that way. So thank you for, again, your enthusiasm, and the messages and the knowledge that you have dropped have been inspiring, to say the least, and I got an idea out of it.
Speaker 2:So let's fucking go hell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bro, all right man where can the people find your content? Where are you streaming? Are you doing tiktok? Where are all your socials? And I will have a link to all his stuff in the podcast notes. But, uh, let let the people know. It's your time to brag upon yourself.
Speaker 2:So you can find me. I'm pretty consistent. You can find me pretty much anywhere Black gold Roger, except TikTok. Somebody stole the name. I'll be honest with you. They weren't even black, so I was like what is going on here.
Speaker 1:I was like wait, wait, hold on.
Speaker 2:I saw the profile picture, I'm like that's wait, okay, all right. I'm like that's Wait, okay, all right. I don't know what happened. Maybe someone hates me, but he found me on TikTok as the real Black Gold Roger. I couldn't figure out anything else. Got you but Black Gold Roger and everything I predominantly use Twitch, but TikTok has been. I've been having a lot of fun with TikTok. Tiktok has a lot of different tools. I appreciate them. Coming back and cap cut as well, because, right, I didn't see that. I didn't think cap cut was gonna go exactly.
Speaker 2:That was crazy I was like oh, my shit's okay, it's like, wait what I'm gonna edit with yeah, but uh, yeah, you can catch me every everywhere. Black girl, roger, um, but on twitch, predominantly is what I'm using. I'm trying. I'm trying to upload more videos on youtube because I got just a you probably in the same boat just a shit ton of content that was created but never published.
Speaker 1:So I was just thinking about that like two hours ago. I was like I still have this video on my computer. I'm just just going to throw it up. It's going to be raw, but fuck it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you just never know, you may be someone's favorite content creator Exactly and you have no idea Exactly. Every view counts and you just don't know who's watching?
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's where you can find me. Hopefully I'll do the car content pretty soon. Um, they got a ton of different events out here maybe. Maybe you may catch me on a saturday night 11 o'clock at night. Just go and you'll be like where is he? Is he at a street meetup? No, I'm at the racetrack it's gonna be loud. I can't wait man, I'm geeked, I'm geeked. I never, never did streaming.
Speaker 1:So this is going to be nice. That's going to be dope. As I said, all his links will be in the notes of this podcast and, if you haven't already, go tell a friend about Uploaded Unfiltered. We talk to other content creators, we hear about their journey and in the result, to inspire you to do the same, because I feel like everybody has a story to tell. Everybody has something in them that would make a dope ass piece of content, and who knows what that'd do for your life. At the very least, it's a nice stress relief. Uploading Unfiltered every podcast catcher of choice. We do this every Tuesday and I don't see any signs of stopping, so I don't think I'm going to Other than that. Black Gold Roger, thank you, thank you, thank you. I know I've said it like 40 times, but I don't give a fuck. Thank you. I appreciate you being here and I can't wait to see where your content goes in this next level that you're taking this.
Speaker 2:Keep up the good work, dude. Hey, thank you, crip man, thank you for having me, thank you for sharing your platform, your stage, with me. Bro, I'm truly grateful about this and, uh, you know, I'm looking forward to supporting you, looking forward to hearing all the advice you drop in that 100th 100th episode. That is a huge milestone, man hell yeah your work does not go unnoticed. I'm seeing you on the tiktoks.
Speaker 1:You inspired me to buy a product hey, sometimes you know I'm trying to do the yo tiktok shop is fun. I was just, if you haven't got that affiliate link, I honestly don't know how I ended up with it, but it's, it's fun. Sometimes you get some samples. You know, buy shit, you're gonna buy anyways and I'll get to make a dumb video about it. So no, I appreciate the love and the kind words and, yeah, I'm gonna keep doing this until I can't do it anymore and, like I said, I don't see when that's gonna be. So y'all are stuck.
Speaker 2:See my face hey, man, we love to see you, man, hell yeah, yeah, I just got a friendship.
Speaker 1:Anyway, let me chill. Other than that, thank y'all for listening and, as always, protect your mental creating content and I will talk to you on the next one, peace.