The Secret Strategy to 40K YouTube Subs in 28 Days | Juicy J DSH #677

You to stream, they want you to create content, but because there isn't a lot of value in you just being good at the game,

there's value in people

watching you, becoming fans of you, and then becoming fans of the organization of the team.

Yeah, because

that's when the advertisers for the organizations can be like, okay, yeah, this is this is good.

All right, guys, we got Juicy J, one of the most known Clash Royale players in the world, I'd say, right?

Yeah, I think probably one of the biggest content creators right now for streaming, anyways, for sure.

I saw you post on Twitter.

You were like number one on Twitch or something for Clash players.

Yeah, I think especially now.

I stream on TikTok, YouTube, and Twitch.

For English, especially, like, I'm definitely at the top for streaming.

Wow.

Dude, whenever I go on my TikTok, you pop up and you'll have thousands of people in there.

It's crazy.

Yeah, usually it'll range from like two to four thousand.

That's insane.

and then on youtube see i started streaming on youtube shorts instead of regular youtube and then it's like tick tock too like so i'll get like two to three thousand on there wow and then it's kind of like a double funnel to my twitch stream i didn't know youtube shorts had live yeah they it's kind of like well they started a while ago but recently they started pushing it more so like you could literally be scrolling youtube shorts and a live stream will pop up that's crazy and yeah it's really good if you're trying to grow i think i've gotten like 40 new subscribers on YouTube in the last 28 days.

Incredible.

Just from subscribe or just from like YouTube shorts.

I got to look into that.

Can you even read all the comments?

Because that's 5,000.

No.

No.

And then on Twitch, then I got another 1,000 there.

I always try and tell people to come to the Twitch channel because I try to read those.

But yeah, it's a lot of comments.

You're going to need to get some moderators.

Oh, yeah.

I got a lot of moderators.

Oh, you got some?

Yeah.

Shout out to Oizi and Laddie.

Nice.

Yeah, because 5,000 people commenting at once.

It must get hectic.

Yeah.

Yeah, I wouldn't be able to do it it with moderators.

Plus, you're like mid-game, so you really can't even lose focus.

Yeah, I mean, I, whenever you're playing any game, if you get good enough at it, you know, like when the right time is to look at the chat, yeah, with to like not lose.

But, um, yeah, it's pretty tough.

Yeah, double elixir, you're not looking.

No, double elixir, definitely not looking.

Triple elixir, I mean, yeah, if you look up for a second, you're gonna be you lost.

Yeah, what's the highest rank you've gotten in Clash Royale?

I mean, on ladder, I've been number one multiple times.

Wow.

The highest finish I got was like 33.

Holy crap.

Number one, that's crazy.

Yeah, I mean, I think back in the day, like the highest peak players are like 100 million.

I'm not sure what it is nowadays, but it's definitely like not as popular.

With the updates, though, like I think there's a lot of people that come back to the game.

Okay, so it kind of lost its touch, like Fortnite for a bit?

Yeah, for sure.

But, you know, right now they're introducing like card evolutions.

Like every certain amount of times you play a card, it'll like like get buffed out of nowhere.

And they added new tower troops.

Like,

you've played Clash Trail.

It used to be always the Princess Tower, but now there's the Dagger Duchess and the Cannoneer.

And it completely changed the game.

And I think it's brought some people back to play because it's like, okay, what the hell is this?

Right.

Yeah, it did feel kind of repetitive at a certain point.

But now with that, there's more variation.

So that could be fun.

Yeah.

Yeah, because certain decks, I mean, I mean, you're probably playing like six hours a day or something.

Yeah, usually I start my stream around 12 to 1 p.m central time and i'll stream usually to like six seven eight p.m like i usually stream like six to nine hours a day holy crap yeah i don't know i mean i started streaming when i was like 15.

damn so i and i just loved it and um i just kept going until you know at one point i even quit clash real i started playing call duty warzone I mean, that's another discussion.

I have the number one win rate in the world for Call of Duty Warzone.

Holy crap.

Yeah, I had an 88% win rate over like a thousand games.

That's crazy.

Yeah, but you see, I had like less than 10 viewers during that.

And then I came back to Clash Royale because I saw a bunch of my friends like blowing up.

Yeah.

Shout out to Cashman.

He was like blowing up on TikTok.

I was like, I got to do this.

And when I came back to that, then I started popping off.

I dropped out of college.

I was like, this is what I'm doing.

And it was probably the best decision I've ever made.

Wow.

So you always wanted to be a streamer when you were a teenager?

Yeah, I think like Tifu and maybe, you know, when Fortnite was blowing up and streamers, like you could like really see that it was actually a job.

Like at that point, like that kind of influenced me when I was younger.

Dude, I used to fiend over Tfu videos.

Like as soon as it dropped, I'd be on it.

Yeah.

That was the guy during the Fortnite PD.

Oh, yeah, sure.

And he kind of stopped, but he had a good run, man.

I mean, he got to like 10 mil on YouTube in like a year or two.

Yeah, I mean, the grind of just like streaming every day.

And I feel like having like a team backing you up, if you're like posting like YouTube and other content is also like really important.

100%.

Do you ever get burnout?

Um,

you see, I would say I get burnout

for maybe playing Clash Royale,

but like I said, I feel like streaming really is my passion because I could be, I could literally stream every day and I would never get bored of it.

Like, I feel that, yeah.

I, I mean, I've been going for over two years now of basically streaming every day.

I think I streamed like 310 days last year, And my goal this year is trying at least 330.

Jeez, you're not even taking weekends off.

No, yeah, usually

maybe I'll take a Sunday off, but that's it.

That is crazy.

You're locked in, man.

Yeah.

That's rare at your age, I feel like, to see someone like that.

Yeah, I'm turning 22 in like six days now.

Crazy.

Yeah, that'll be fun.

Yeah, because there's a lot of distractions your age, and I feel like people aren't grinding as much as you.

So do you think that's kind of what separated you from other content creators?

Maybe.

I don't know.

I've,

I think,

well, I got into the Clash Reality League when I was really young.

And people have always told me that I am like mature for my age.

And I've never been super interested in,

you know, the college life, frat life, or drinking or going out.

Like, I've always wanted to.

I don't know.

I just, I feel like I've always had this ambition in me.

I've always

felt like I was

meant to do more than just go to school.

I don't know.

I always hated school.

Really?

Yeah, I really hated school.

Yeah, gamers usually don't do well in school.

Yeah.

I mean, I did fine.

I never, like, in high school, I had one seat.

Okay.

Other than that, I had like A's and B's all the way through.

Not bad.

But I like hated homework.

I just hate tedious tasks.

And I never studied for anything.

Dude, I still have nightmares about school.

I literally had one last night.

Dude, yes.

Like, I have a reoccurring nightmare where

I have a reoccurring nightmare where I was told from my old principal that one of my grades, like it wasn't, it didn't like work, and I had to go back to high school to do one class.

I was like, I had literally have a recurring nightmare of that.

It's awful.

Yeah, I straight up have PTSD from high school.

I literally still dream I'm in high school class getting tortured.

And you don't realize how kind of traumatic it is when you're in the moment.

You just think it's normal.

Yeah.

It's pretty weird.

Yeah, I was not meant for school, man.

Yeah, and then I tried college, but you see, I thought college might be different.

Like, it might be a little bit more challenging.

But at least the first like year and a half, it felt like it was just high school 2.0.

I feel that.

Yeah.

Did you end up dropping out?

Yeah, I dropped out about two and a half years ago when

streaming started to pick up a little bit.

Okay.

Like I started making enough money where I could like move out.

And I was like,

yeah, I'm done with college.

And my mom was like, okay, well, if you stop doing college, you got to pay rent if you're going to stay here.

I feel that.

Because she wanted me to stay.

But I was like, all right, fine, I'll pay rent here.

And then, you know, a year later, I got my own house.

Savage, shout out to that mom.

No, yeah.

Good lesson, you know.

When she told me to come on here, she was like, you better give me a shout out.

Because, I mean.

Especially being a pro player and like having to go to China and like LA and these other places, like you need a mom that supports you if you're a minor.

Like you can't go on your own.

So, yeah I definitely wouldn't be here without her for sure that's cool how how was China you went there recently right no I went there in 2019 okay when I was 17

I was a solos world champion damn for clash royale there was like a team tournament and a solos tournament and I wasn't in the team tournament at the time so they had this qualifier for this solos tournament it was the world cyber games If you look it up, it's kind of like the Olympics of esports.

Like they have a bunch of different games.

They'll give out, you know, gold or silver, bronze medal.

And I was the youngest American, I think, to ever win a gold medal for the World Cyber Games.

Wow.

I was the only American to win the gold medal for any game that year in 2019.

That's cool.

So that was really fun.

The funny part is my mom was more nervous than me.

Like it was like big stage, thousands of people in the crowd, broadcasted to like all these Chinese television stations.

And I mean, you can look the video back, but I was just sitting there.

I was just trying to stay calm.

I was taking deep breaths.

My mom was in the bathroom throwing up, she said.

Yeah, she was like, because it was like 50 grand on the line to who won.

And then the loser only got 20 grand.

So it was like a 30 grand difference between first and second.

Dang.

Yeah.

Plus, you had to pay for your flights.

It was probably expensive.

No, they flew us out.

Oh, they flew you out.

Okay.

Yeah.

But, I mean, 17 years old, I mean, 50 grand is a lot.

That's like being a millionaire, honestly, at 17.

Yeah.

Like, what are you going to buy at that age?

You can't even buy a car.

Yeah.

I mean, I've never been one for buying stuff, though, either.

Like, I

don't know.

I feel like that's the other thing about people my age.

If they're in my position, they'd be buying cars, watches.

For sure.

But, I mean, I just save my money and I invest real estate, stocks.

But I don't know.

I just, I feel like my goal is to, you know, make my parents and my sisters like, like, I have a list of, like, things I want to buy them.

And,

you know my future family i just want to set them up right that's cool so you never went through a materialistic phase at all no yeah i the only thing i buy for myself is food i i do i do eat a lot of food i i like good food um

door dash is my biggest enemy probably i need to look at how much i spend on postmates because it's got to be over 10 grand a year yeah it's it's probably pretty bad but you see i

I justify because if I'm on stream, then they'll only do it if I'm still streaming.

Because it's like, okay, you know,

if I'm streaming, you know, there's a lot of people watching me.

I'll stream a little bit later if I if I DoorDash, I don't know, Sims Chipotle or whatever.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I used to eat Chipotle daily, man.

Yeah, that was that was so good.

Where you grew up, like, was it normal to become a gamer?

Streamer?

No.

So, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Um,

yeah, I would say a lot of the teachers or the kids and the teachers were jealous growing up a bit anyways it felt like that because I mean I'd even get picked on a little bit it's like oh you're going to LA because when I was 16 and 17 so I think

yes sophomore and junior in high school

I spent part of the school year living in LA

I was on team liquid for CRL season one and team misfits CRL season two and you know they set us up in a house out there everything's paid for and they also paid us a monthly salary just to play the game.

So I feel like a lot of kids were a little jealous of the fact that I was able to do that during the school year.

And

yeah, I mean, there was nothing else like that in Nebraska.

Yeah.

You know, so it was, it was definitely a little weird.

I could see that.

I mean, getting paid to play video games, that's such a new concept.

Yeah, it is.

For most people, like, your parents probably were like confused, honestly, growing up.

Yeah, I would say my mom overall was like like pretty supportive but my dad was like a little like okay ipads gotta be on the charging station by 8 p.m bed by 10 p.m and i'd be sneaking down to grab it because like end of season ladder for clash royale on like you know every month like every sunday goes to like 3 a.m yeah because it's like based on like finland time or something and yeah i i definitely had some uh ipads sneaking oh yeah i used to sneak down in my basement to play i was a pc gamer yeah growing up, so I used to sneak down there.

But it's cool to see that you're versatile.

You said you were good at shooters too, FPS games.

Yeah, so growing up, I mean, this is a good story of how I got into mobile gaming.

Like growing up, I never had a console.

And then I got my first phone when I was in sixth grade.

So I was always playing outside and stuff, but I got my first phone was in sixth grade, and Clash of Clans was like big then, right?

So I was into Clash of Clans.

And then seventh grade, or maybe eighth grade,

when I was 14, Clash Royale came out, and i was immediately hooked so i was grinding clash royale and i basically never stopped ever since then um but yeah that's why i never really got into like console games or anything like that but you know when i won the world finals when i was 17 i you know i got some money i was like all right it's time to drop some money on a pc yeah so i got a pc and when covet hit A lot of the Clash Royale tournaments kind of stopped at that point.

Like, there's no more live events or anything like that.

So during COVID, I quit Clash Royale for one year and I played Call of Duty.

It was my first PC game ever.

But I don't know if it's like talent or what, but I was like, I like 4.6 KD.

I was playing on mouse and keyboard, not controller.

Like, controller aim assist is the same for that game.

And then,

yeah, I was like,

I, you know, I met some people, and I had like the number one win rate for Warzone,

88% over a thousand games.

And then I got bored of winning.

So then I went to Rebirth Island, and I would think I was like one of you know, maybe the hundred or a thousand maybe mouse and keyboard players that would had like over 40 kill game

on rebirth.

Oh, it was fun.

I mean,

yeah, I don't know how I or why I got into that game, but it just kind of happened.

That's insane.

Did you ever get in the Fortnite wave?

Because you'd probably be filthy at Fortnite.

Yeah, I mean, so when Fortnite was like huge, I was like actually in LA a pro player for CR.

So I didn't have a lot of time to play it.

But I've always thought that I could actually go hard at Fortnite.

I've always said if Fortnite ever comes out with a first person,

like if they come out with a first person no build mode, I would be all over that.

I feel that.

I play no build right now.

Yeah, no builds.

I'm actually top 5,000, which I don't know.

Oh, that's fine.

I mean, compared to you, that's.

I mean, top 5,000 out of how many players, though.

Yeah.

That's like 0.001%, probably.

Yeah, I think it's 0.1% or something.

Yeah, my KD is like 18 in trios, trios but there's a lot of bots in fortnite so that is actually crazy kd though yeah but it's not all real players sure they i think literally half the games are bots it's pretty crazy that's actually kind of wild yeah i don't know why they do that yeah i think clash rail is just now getting into like putting some bots oh there's ais playing only in like the low arenas so they can like get up but like it's just an interesting concept i guess they always like I guess they do it for two reasons.

Like they want to make it so that everyone has a chance to win.

Yeah.

And then they also do it so you don't have to wait for a match too long, I guess.

But that makes sense because there's like eight-year-olds playing Fortnite that want to kill.

Yeah.

And if there's no bots, I mean, it's tough.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Any eyes on other games?

Are you all in on Clash right now?

Right now, I mean, I think it'd be silly to step away from Clash just because of

like the growth is pretty crazy.

Yeah.

Like, I think two days before I came here, I had my first Twitch stream where I hit over 2,000 concurrent viewers.

so and that's kind of unprecedented for clash really like before i started stepping into clash uh especially for english i mean there's like morton he's like one of the only pro players that actually does content too like he usually if he streams clash there'll be over a thousand concurrents yeah but when he's not streaming the clash category is like dead like there's like maybe some sometimes less than 100 viewers.

Wow.

But

when I started getting into it, I started taking some things that I learned from Warzone because there's a lot of Warzone streamers that stream on TikTok at the same time.

I was the first person in the classroom category to stream on Twitch and TikTok at the same time, which is why I absolutely blew up Twitch-wise.

Because, I mean, Twitch has no algorithm.

The rich get richer on Twitch.

Like, whoever's highest on the viewer list is going to get more viewers.

Right.

So if you can stream on, like, I was streaming on TikTok and Twitch before Twitch even technically allowed it because now they actually allow it.

But yeah, I started doing that.

And, you know,

first stream on TikTok, the discoverability is insane.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, I'm good enough at the game.

The first stream, I had over a thousand viewers.

Wow.

The second stream, I think I had my all-time highest of like 10K concurrence on TikTok.

It made no sense because

if it's your first stream on TikTok, all you have is the camera.

I was literally pointing my camera at my monitor, at OBS.

Like it was insane.

But, you know, come to the Twitch channel.

And, you know, if they stay on Twitch, then they'll stay a little bit longer.

Like, my, I think my

viewer

retention on TikTok, like the average time a viewer will actually watch is like 60 seconds.

Wow.

Like, they watch 60 seconds.

So they're in and out.

And they scroll.

But if you get them to the Twitch, then it's like 17 minutes or

longer.

I don't actually know.

Yeah.

And that's more valuable.

Yeah.

Wait, because you can build a community.

Yeah.

And I mean, obviously, you want people to watch as long as possible.

Do you want to sign a streaming deal one day

um

i would say i would it depends on if it's worth it yeah um i'm not opposed to it but i think there also is merit in um being on your own for certain things yeah because like if you're on a team and they have certain categories of sponsors filled up, then you're not going to be able to do that with someone else.

Oh, okay.

Like, let's say I sign a deal with

so when you say streaming deal though, you mean like with a platform?

Yeah, like Ninja did it.

Oh, okay.

Aiden Ross.

Yeah, I was thinking like a Connor created a deal with like a like an esports organization.

That's different.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, but I mean,

I think, for example, if I was offered a kick deal, like obviously if it was big enough, I would probably say yes.

But,

I mean, I don't know.

Like I said, I've been streaming on Twitch and I was 15.

Yeah.

So, I mean, I feel like

it's home, but I feel like there's a lot of people that watch me there, too.

Yeah.

So I don't want to lose the like super solid community I've built.

I feel that.

Aiden just left Kick.

Did you see that?

Aiden just left Kick?

Two days ago, yeah.

No way.

Yes, he's going back to Twitch.

Oh, he is.

Yeah.

That is going to be pretty hype.

Yeah.

That is actually wild.

Yeah, they turned.

I don't know what happened, but he had a big deal there.

I heard it was like 100 million and then something happened.

Yeah.

I mean, I wonder.

Yeah.

I'm going to have to research that.

That's wild.

That's crazy.

These, these numbers, I mean, XQC, have you seen these contracts?

It's crazy.

Yeah, I mean, I think XQC made more than messy.

Which is, it makes no sense.

Like, that is wild.

But

I don't know.

I feel like the world and the internet in general is just like, if you bring in people to watch, advertisers can sell to them.

And it's just...

The money is just crazy.

It's a new era.

I really respect guys like Nick Mercks who were streaming before the money was there.

And then he came into like a huge deal.

Like, cause you too.

You were grinding for years.

Yeah.

I mean, when I was streaming Warzone, I had less than 10 viewers for a straight year.

And most people would have stopped there.

They would have been disheartened by that and just gave up.

Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, I don't know if it's like the interaction with the people that want to watch me or

I don't know.

Maybe it's just because I have ADHD and it's all flashy.

Yeah.

I don't know.

It's just, it's really fun.

And now you see kind of two sides.

You see the money from the pro gaming side and then the streaming side, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think that,

like, for example, Muhammad Light, probably the best player for Clash Royale in like two years.

He's over $500,000 prize winnings, which, I mean,

especially for his age, like, that's a lot.

Yeah.

But

I think a content creator can be a lot more lucrative because there's no cap to how many people will watch you if your content is becoming better and better.

Right.

And to be a pro player, you have to be number one

to like

really

make a lot of money like that.

But like me, like when I was a pro player, you know, I was a solos world champ one year, but other than that, like I don't have like a crazy record when it comes to like playing pro.

Like I wasn't making like a crazy amount of money.

Because when it comes down to it, even if you are a pro player, a lot of these esports contracts nowadays want you to stream they want you to create content right because there isn't a lot of value and you just being good at the game

there is value in people watching you becoming fans of you and then becoming fans of the organization of the team yeah because

that's when the advertisers for the organizations can be like okay yeah this is this is good that makes sense yeah if the top player in the world is only making 500k i mean it's going to be tough for anyone else to even make money at that point.

Yeah, and then,

yeah, that's the one thing, though, about like Fortnite.

Like, if you're a pro Fortnite player, you can really stream it a lot and you can

do both.

But like, for Clash Royale, there's like one person like Morton.

Like, he's been to the world finals every year.

Like, he's super consistent.

And he's very good on YouTube and

Twitch and streaming all that.

But he's like the only one that does it because if you stream yourself playing Clash Reality, you can give away tactics, yeah, and you don't want to stream yourself practicing because then you give away what decks you're using as well.

So it's really hard for pro clash reality players to get into content because of that, right?

Because you got to practice for like eight hours, six, eight hours a day, but you can't stream yourself practicing.

Yeah, it's like a couch 22.

Yeah, and then Muhammad Lai also is like a full-time college student too.

Oh, wow.

So that's crazy.

Yeah.

The fact that he's number one being a full-time student is nuts.

Yeah, it is.

He's got to be one of the people that have the most work ethic that I've met.

He's super nice, too.

That's cool.

So at your level, like, you're probably all about the same skill level, right?

So does it come down to the actual decks?

I think that when it comes to pro players playing against each other, decks do matter a lot.

And I think for the longest time,

people that's actually one of the reasons I quit pro clash real

is because back in the day, like maybe two, three years ago, that was what people thought.

We thought that it only comes down to the matchup and their skill was leaving the game.

And then about two years ago, Muhammad Light,

I mean, I was, so now I'm not a pro.

So we talked about pro player and we talked about content creation.

But Super Soul actually hires me to commentate their matches now.

So I'm one of the casters at the World Finals.

Nice.

So.

So yeah, I watch all these pro players play.

And so in 2022,

Muhammad Light, there's monthly finals.

And if you win, you get a golden ticket to make it to the world finals.

Muhammad Light won every single monthly finals that he played in.

Wow.

And he basically proved that it's not the decks.

He's actually that much better.

Like he was winning every single one.

And he wasn't getting the golden tickets because he qualified already.

But he was just taking the like, I don't know, like every month there was like a 20 grand prize, like 20 grand.

He was just 20 grand this month, 20 grand this month.

It's like, gimme, gimme.

Like he was just actually winning every event.

And yeah, I was very impressive.

So he's just him.

Like he's the guy.

Yeah.

I mean, this is turning into him.

Obviously, you can tell I'm a Muhammad Light pain boy.

Like this is turning to Muhammad Light podcast.

But no, yeah, he's really good.

And to get back to the question, I think he kind of proved that it's not the decks.

If you're good enough, like you're going to win.

Wow.

That's interesting because I would just tilt sometimes, honestly, when I used to play.

And when I would see like the perfect counter to my cards I would honestly give up.

Yeah, when I was younger, I got so mad about losing to like matchups like that and growing up and also seeing him, but I think it's like maturity too.

Like I don't really rage as much on stream.

Yeah.

It's like, all right, it is what it is.

But it's like, you know, I could have played better there.

I could have played better here.

I mean, you either.

you either win or you learn.

Like if you go through a match and you lose, and this applies to anything, like if you are are losing and you're not learning something, then what was the point?

Right.

Always either win or learn something from that loss so you don't do it next time.

Yeah, I've never seen you rage on stream.

I've seen you rage.

That's good.

It happens sometimes.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

But usually it's if I'm doing like a crazy sub-athon.

I used to do a 24-hour sub-athon

every month.

And I stopped doing it because of like health reasons.

Like, especially like going to the gym, like you're dead for like a week after that.

Like your sleep schedule is dead.

They say you're actually a little drunk when you stay up that long oh yeah the symptoms are very similar wow i i think like the biggest symptom of streaming like staying up that long is one thing but streaming with bright lights and like being active for that long it's so mentally tiring i i mean i've talked to my friend auxlet who does subathons like this too i think one of the biggest symptoms is everything

that you do you second guess if it was okay or not yeah like you're actually paranoid like if you're doing the right thing.

And then even like past mistakes will like come up in your mind and you're like, oh, like you just feel like, is this okay?

Am I doing a good job?

It's kind of like weird.

Do you start losing rank when you're playing that long?

When I play that long, I stop playing rank.

Like, because I know I will.

Yeah.

Because Clash for Howell is a game that for three to five minutes, you have to have 100% complete mental focus.

Right.

Like.

Even streaming for six hours by the end, it's like, I can't, like, I'll be losing.

Like, I cannot be this locked in.

I feel that.

Yeah.

That's how I am with Fortnite and even, like, with podcasting, because I'll film 68 episodes a day.

But near the end, I could see myself losing a step.

Yeah.

And people are like, why are you tired?

Because I'll come home after like filming.

Yeah.

And they don't get it.

It's like a different type of tired.

Yeah.

I mean, I think chess players, if they use, they sit down

because they play chess for like seven hours, right?

Yeah.

They can burn like 10,000 calories literally with like their brain.

They're not moving.

And I feel like, I don't know, there hasn't been studies on streamers, like there has been like with chess players like that, but it is very fatiguing mentally.

Like you're not physically tired, but by the end of a long stream, like mentally, you are done.

Yeah, and you said you eat a lot earlier, so there's probably some correlation there.

Yeah, it might be.

Like, I feel like I would be fat

with the amount of food that I eat if I wasn't like burning some calories sitting there.

Yeah, there is that typical video game stereotype of fat person, mom's basement.

yeah

yeah really nerdy like yeah but you're breaking the mold a bit yeah i think after the so this is a funny story on this like uh after i won the world finals uh in 2019 i came back home and there was like news articles like local news articles written and then the local radio station had wanted me to come on and when they came on when i came on the first thing they were basically saying was like oh we expected you to be like a you know the stereotypical like you you know, chubby, uh, like, super, super socially awkward, nervous.

But I was just like, yeah, here, I don't know.

I was just, I was just chilling.

Yeah.

It's one way or the other.

It's either a super skinny kid now or just a super fat person.

Yeah, that's interesting.

Like, all these teenagers that are playing Fortnite are super skinny.

That's interesting.

Have you guys?

They probably don't eat a lot.

You're just locked in.

You have no time.

Sure.

When you're playing Fortnite, because you literally need both hands.

Yeah.

I think when you're playing, can you kind of?

yeah.

No, yeah.

That's like one thing that's actually a meme in my channel.

It's like, how is this guy winning while eating?

Because like, I'll be sitting there with like a burrito.

Like.

And like

I'll be like playing like top ladder.

And my chat's just like, this guy plays 10 times better while eating than I play walked in.

That's so funny.

Chipotle needs to sponsor you then.

Nah, yeah, I don't know why I'm referencing Chipotle.

I mean, I would be down for sure.

Oh, man, Chipotle's good.

What are you working on when you get back?

You're here for a bit?

Yeah, I'm going to, I think we're leaving tonight.

Okay.

And then I'm getting back on my stream grind.

Back to streaming?

Yeah, I don't know if it's like, I don't know if I'm addicted to streaming or what, but like, if there's, if I'm more than one day without streaming, it's like, I feel like I'm not being productive.

Like, I feel like

I feel like I need to get back.

I took like a week-long vacation with my my family

like last summer.

And like after three days, I was like, I want to go back home.

Like everyone was having fun, but I don't know.

Alcoholic, I guess.

I can't do week-long vacations anymore.

Yeah.

My max is like four days.

Yeah.

I relate to that.

Cause if I'm not working, I get anxious.

Yeah.

No, I 100% agree.

And that's the thing about streaming, though, is like if you're a YouTuber, you can pre-record things and have things be posted.

And that's the other thing about streaming is just like you need to stream every day.

If you're not streaming every day, maybe you take one day off a week.

If you're not doing that, you will lose viewers.

They will find other people to watch.

And I mean, part of that's just because of how competitive it is.

I mean, every little kid used to grow up back in the day.

Oh, I want to be an astronaut.

I want to be a firefighter.

Now it's, I want to be a content creator.

I want to be a streamer.

So it's just like the most competitive like thing in the world.

Yeah.

There's so many on TikTok now.

Yeah.

Like I just keep scrolling up and it's non-stop clash videos.

And I used to watch Surgical Goblin, but he stopped.

So then I switched.

And yeah, it's easy to switch.

Yeah, Surgical Goblin.

He's my teammate.

Oh, yeah.

For CRL season one.

Oh, nice.

Yeah.

He back then he was grinding YouTube videos and stuff.

I think he still does post videos, but I think he switched to Fortnite last time I saw.

I don't know if he switched back.

Yeah, I think.

Yeah, you're right.

He did switch to Fortnite at some point.

I think he switched back to Clash now.

Okay.

But, you know, now he's got a, he's got a kid now.

Wow.

Yeah.

Dude, we're getting older.

Yeah, we are.

I can't believe that.

Yeah, wow, good for him, man.

Oh, I was on your Twitter.

You had a personal goal to read a non-fiction book.

Yeah, I mean, I think starting maybe a year or two ago, I went on this self-improvement journey, like trying to work harder, number one, which I've always done that.

But I started going to the gym,

started trying to eat healthier.

Also, just like spiritually, like tried to go to church more, try to, you know, try to, you know, do service more.

But I think if there's one thing that I don't do, is I don't read.

Like, I do find myself scrolling TikTok, like, at the end of the day, and I would love to supplement that with like a self-improvement book or even like a psychology book.

Um,

kind of, I've always kind of wanted to read the 40 laws of power, 48 laws of power.

Yeah, Robert Greene.

Yeah.

Um,

I don't know.

I just saw TikTok once.

It was like he was, it's banned in prisons or something because of like the manipulation aspect of it.

Yeah.

But

then I saw more of like his stuff where, you know, it's not really manipulation.

It's more of just understanding like how the people around you view you.

Yeah.

I think that'd be a good book to read.

I agree.

Yeah.

It's tough these days with our attention spans though.

Yeah.

TikTok has drained our attention spans.

Yeah, I agree.

I'm more of an audiobook guy for that reason.

If I like pick up a book, it's just so hard.

Yeah, I think the last book I read, I was probably like, I don't know, fifth grade.

I was, I read the whole Harry Potter series like

twice, but I've never actually sat down and read a nonfiction book.

So that's why it's a goal.

I feel that, dude, it's been fun.

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Thank you.

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