You've been at the company for quite a long time, right? Almost five years.
Almost five years, crazy. Today we're gonna go down memory lane and see what kind of videos you've worked on
since starting at the company. What we have here is actually your first video
that you worked on. Nice, that was a bit of a nightmare.
It was sponsored. Colton helped me out quite a bit
because he was still in charge of the business team. Wow, that's good. 570,000 views, which for back then,
it's not very good. I remember they were super unhappy with the video.
They were like, his kids aren't using it enough.
I don't know how much I'm allowed to talk about sponsorships and brand interactions and stuff,
but yeah, they wanted like 20 changes or something,
which is a lot. Most brands are like, here's five things we'd like you to alter.
Video, they basically gave me the box that Clickbot comes in and I took it home
and I played with it a bunch and I was like, yeah, this is kind of cool. I could see how it's a neat toy for kids
and I can see how you can learn how to code a little bit using it.
I think he used Java, I can't remember, but there's a little bit of scripting so that you can be like,
Clickbot, go here, do this, turn around, come back, stuff like that.
What was really interesting actually was, this was my first video filming with Linus
and I'd come from games, like I'm used to meeting head of studios
and stuff, it wasn't a big deal meeting him, but going to his house and interacting with his children
was like such a weird first shoot,
but now it's like normal. I don't know, I've been to his house tons of times and met his kids lots, they're nice.
They're so much older. I think that's like, me and him were both looking back at this actually the other day
and the first thing we thought of was like, wow, like look how young his kids are here.
Cause it's been like five years and that's, you know, it's where all the growth happens. So yeah, just crazy, our time flies.
And see what our newest family member can do.
That was me, I was the newest family member. This is also back when we did the intro in every video.
Oh yeah. And he asks his kids, like, which one do you want to build? And they chose the wrong one.
Cause we like really wanted to build this other one.
I had kind of planned for us to do the other one first. Can you look at Linus?
Yeah. We'll do back first? Yeah. The best part too is the kids were like there,
just chilling and I was waiting for Linus to finish talking to his mother-in-law or someone.
And so I was like showing that to them and everything
and like, oh yeah, that's cool, whatever. And he's like, I wanted candid reactions.
Like I wanted you to show them the stuff on camera. I was like, ah, I'm sorry.
It's not the first time I've done that. It probably won't be the last. For the record, his kids kind of liked them.
He took them with him home after I had taken it back
to the studio for B-roll and stuff. Cause his kids wanted to play with us some more.
It's a lot better than G-Bo. I'll tell you that much. We lost our G-Bo sponsor now.
We lost our G-Bo, we ripped G-Bo.
They're in shambles. Yeah, but like, I don't know. They genuinely were having fun.
We had a good time. It's too bad the video didn't perform. But also like, it's literally just Linus and his kids
playing with a clickable robot. So I kind of get it.
I kind of understand why it didn't perform super great.
Yeah, here's some of the programming stuff. It's got like, yeah.
Wow, look at it go. Look at the dance. Is that a TikTok layout?
I don't know. Like, comment and share or download. Yeah, hey.
This is like, yeah. Cause this is like pre-TikTok, I think.
Oh my God. Let's start. Like 2019.
Really, it was out that early. I thought it was like 2020s. No, 2020s when I blew up because of the pen back.
Right. Do you look fondly at this video? Do you think it's like? I don't look, I don't remember this video fondly at all.
It was such a nightmare. And I remember being like so afraid. Cause it was one of my first videos.
And I was like, you know, talking to Colton. And he's like, oh yeah, so the brand kind of sucks.
And there's a lot of stuff that we got fixed with it. And I was like, great, you know.
So what is this a failure of a video? And then it comes out and then I got like,
this is after years. It did do most of those views day one,
but like to then, you know, have your first video release and it's like really poor performance,
especially for the time. It was a little disappointing. Probably scary cause you're also probation.
Yeah, exactly. Like I'm on probation three months, you know,
who knows if you're going to get fired. And me and obviously, no, I didn't.
And it's like, this isn't going to get you fired. But like when you don't know those things
and you're new to the company, it's scary. So what's the next video?
Thanks, I hate it. Oh! You're part of the time lapse.
Yeah. This, okay. So I was technically on probation.
This is the desk that Jesse put together.
Jesse's no longer at the company. They still do their own thing. They're doing fine.
But yeah, I remember they needed help because they were younger than me.
They were, they were pretty young. And I think they were like 21 when they started here. And they hadn't done a lot of like,
I don't know, I guess around the house maintenance or like carpentry classes and stuff.
I'm a little handy at least. I know, right? That's me.
Yeah. So I guess because, you know, we were wearing masks and it was a sped up footage.
They're like, ah, whatever. We're not going to blur everyone, even though we were on probation.
This is like month one or two. But like, yeah, if you watch this, like let's see how much it looks like.
I'm doing everything. And Jesse's kind of standing around, following orders.
Good job, Jesse. And then I took off and they finished it. And yeah, it's a, this was the desk.
I don't know. I don't have many feelings. It wasn't really my video.
It was neat being in a video. It looked so like different.
And like, you don't see a side and stuff, but like I can tell it's you.
Cause I know, I know it's you, but it's like it's, you look a lot younger.
That was five years ago. It's five years ago.
Also I've gained like at least 40 pounds since starting this job.
It's not the job. It's moving to Surrey away from downtown Vancouver
because I used to walk everywhere. And so I didn't have to worry about working out all the time
or watching what I eat because I was literally walking around all the time.
As soon as you move to Surrey or somewhere else, you get a car, you start driving.
The convenience of fast food is suddenly even more convenient because you're already driving around
once I drive through, so you eat more fast food. And like, yeah. So that's definitely why I look younger
and healthier in this video. This was like our, one of our first,
like not scorpion chair, but like our one of our first like desk chair videos,
I think they might have done one prior to this, but we kind of did a few after.
This was cool. I remember it being set up and like people just going and trying it.
Like I went and sat in it for a while. It was pretty neat. We put like an odyssey on it.
And so it was just jiggly. It's shaking, cold. Yeah, I barely supported it.
Yeah, this was fun. Oh my God. All right, what's next? The next one.
No gaming PC, no problem. Oh, the gaming phone roundup.
Where'd you find this one? Yeah, this video also bombed. I bet you, look, it's only 190 likes on full,
playing with five dislikes. That's terrible. Our like, the Dislegration on full plays
is usually pretty good. Let's check YouTube. What was a, I've done a couple.
Yeah, why do you gaming phone 900,000? And that's four years ago.
But you didn't write this, right? No, I did write. I think I did write this one. We can double check.
To be honest. It was. And you're off probation. Yeah, right, or Nicholas Poof off probation.
I think this was one of my first videos that I was off probation for.
Yeah, the video didn't perform super well. And this was one of the videos that basically made us
to like stop making LTTs about phones.
At least ones that like dig into them and check them out. Yeah, cause I did another video,
the 10 foldable things, 10 things I love about foldables.
And it's at 1.3 or four now. Didn't do very well out the gate.
I think it was just cause it was like post controversy. So it was a little...
I mean, post controversy also, it's a foldable phone. I know they're cool and they are used for a lot of things,
but like, I don't even own a fold because I think they're a waste of money. They're like, what, $2,000 Canadian?
How much are they married? Like $1,500 American or something? They're like $3,000 Canadian.
I think for like the newest... Yeah, for like the newest ones, like that's why.
Like phones shouldn't cost that much. I don't care if it can fold. I just don't.
It's a fun gimmick. Yeah, it's a cool gimmick. Look at me gaming.
Playing Call of Duty on the phone. I don't mobile game really either.
That's really not me. I got a big, big old gaming PC at home.
There he is. There I am gaming. Skinny. Yeah.
Yeah, skinny, for real though. God, like even with a mask on, I can tell I'm skinny.
I got my yellow days hat on. That hat got yellow after a while.
I actually love this blue sweater, but I don't fit it anymore. It's just like a blank, blue hoodie.
It's super comfortable, but it's in my closet.
I got that big, you know, yeah, that's right. I won the game, my acting debut.
All right, and then we got two more here. Yo.
This is your first official segment in the video. I remember, so as RTX, a complete waste of money,
there's a comment on YouTube, not on Floatplan. They say something like,
wow, of course Emily got them all right, but who's this blue guy? I don't know, he probably was guessed.
No, I knew what I was doing. Not that hard usually, if you know what to look for.
Wow, even sound younger. There's David as a shooter.
Yeah, David shooting. Sorry, man. I know I'm so quiet and relaxed.
I am quiet and relaxed, that's very true. Linus always scares me because he wants more energy.
Man, that bird's got a really long tail. Man, that bird's got a really long tail. Yeah, that was fun.
Well ray tracing is good. I like that comment, but here, hold on. I gotta find the real important bit to this video,
the results portion. Cause yeah, I can tell when RTX is on.
I had bought a 3070 specifically because I wanted to experience ray tracing.
But I didn't get a 20 series card cause RT was not really baked yet
and DLSS was kind of garbage still. But when 30 series came out,
there were a bunch of improvements, both in performance and in like DLSS too,
he'd either come out or was on the way. And so yeah, I was pretty familiar with RTX
and I felt very comfortable spotting it in videos.
And it turns out I could.
Oh, here it is. Yeah, that's right. Ploof with all of them, that's right baby.
And I'm pretty sure in almost every other either display
or like graphics kind of testing video,
there's only like maybe that foveated rendering one that Emily also did.
I think I didn't guess correctly on all of those, but like DLSS three and frame gen and stuff.
Yeah, it's cause they game and I try it out, I turn it on, I enable the feature and I'm like,
all right, I like this or I don't like this. And then I turn it off or I keep it on.
DLSS is good these days. Frame gen, I'm still not sold on it. I really wanted to be in it
because this was like a hundred percent my idea. And it had been my idea because I had bought that 30, 70.
And I was like, well, like is RT a waste of money?
I don't, can't be, there's a whole other video that Elijah's doing. I don't know, you'll see it.
We talk about at length, whether we think RT is worth it or not.
All right, and we have one final video. It's your most recent appearance.
Wow. Same sweater. Hell yeah.
Same hat. Same sweater. Get the Lilac crew neck LTT Store.com.
It's actually really nice. Really, the pink can look great on guys too. Don't be afraid to color my friends.
So this was frustrating. No, okay.
I mean, it's really, yeah, go for it. Go nuts.
I told Linus, I remember measuring it or I remember getting the Labs measured it
and then sent me the results. And I was like, okay, so it's like fine,
but also it has like 3000 dimming zones or like 3,500 dimming zones or something.
And we're like, that's not, your TCL has 20,000.
Like this man loves OLED because OLED has millions of dimming zones
because it's per pixel. And he's okay with going with the giant TV.
That's not OLED because it's giant TV and it's super bright. So it's like, okay, sure.
But his TCL has 20,000 dimming zones. That's a lot. Even on a modern like high-end mini LED,
you're still only going up to like, I don't know what the latest Braviar or whatever does,
but it's probably something like two to 5,000 zones. And even then that's a lot,
especially on a smaller TV, it scales by TV size as well.
But I told him, I was like, you're not gonna keep this thing. I think the TCL is better.
You shouldn't plan on installing it. And he's like, no, I'm gonna, I love it.
It's so good. It's RGB mini LED. It's new, it's cool. It's bigger, it's an inch bigger.
And I was like, no man, you're not gonna do it. And then of course, as soon as he sees the two TVs side by side,
as soon as he sees them, he's like, oh crap.
What do we even make this video anymore? How do we change it? How do we fix it?
And I was like, I don't know, man. So he threw me this whole, I wrote like a whole review where it was like more positive
because that's the way he wanted to lean towards it. I mean, and it's a good TV.
Like we weren't lying or anything like that, but he's like, oh, I'm gonna pick this one. So we have to like have the good reasons for why I'm doing that.
And then we had to just completely scrap that and change it on the fly and be like,
okay, here's some of the review though, cause that's the review is all correct.
But we had to change like intonation, you know, and like had to add a few addendums.
Like that's good, but like the TCL does this. So who cares?
But yeah, that was a fun video to shoot. I liked doing the big TV videos.
They're just, that's fun. You just unbox a big TV. You're a big TV guy.
You're a big partner guy. I'm a big TV kind of guy. Yeah, my name is Ploof
and I do in fact own multiple displays. What I think is crazy is we all own displays.
I love that. Do you remember your first ShortCircuit unboxing? I was just, I just thought about that.
We should probably look that one out. That's a good question. What was my first ShortCircuit?
Oh, Nicholas Poo, someone actually made it. Yeah, Satori, I'm pretty sure they've done it
for like all the hosts though. Let's see if it, it's up to date though.
Wow, you did a lot. Wow. I've done a lot of videos.
Is it the booting one? No, it's way before this. I don't know if the Q1 was my first video.
Wow, maybe it was. I look so young, holy shit.
My favorite thing I did that like multiple of my friends have commented on
and like multiple comments on here said was,
wow, this guy just like carry switches around. I'm like, no.
See, it's hard because some of this stuff, I remember it because I was a fan.
So I was like watching some videos after I'd been hired.
And so it's hard for me to like remember videos like that I was watching versus ones that I was in.
But yeah, James has done a couple of keyboards at this point. So I think that it was, there we go.
Wow, joystick like control on a keyboard. The Wooting 2 HE.
Oh yeah, and that fight shirt, someone else commented like, I've got that same fight shirt.
I came from a game, a game Loot Crate like years ago.
Yeah, I bought that at work. There's a bunch of us who chipped on Loot Crates
for like months when I worked at EA. And so I got that fight shirt out of it.
And if you're looking at the camera here. Yeah, it takes practice looking like directly into it.
It's funny because I've done a ton of public speaking. So I've absolutely zero problem like speaking to a crowd
in a room, whatever. Being on video and speaking directly into a camera
was kind of weird to me at first. Yeah, that was durable, like 90 words per minute cries
in less than 40 words per minute. Yeah. Which WPM now?
It's only like 120. Thought it was Lou from Unbox Therapy.
Oh yeah, this is when people were comparing me to Lou. I remember that as well.
Oh wow, this is wild. Yo. Hippie time.
Okay, so this is either my first, I think this one was the first one.
I am so thrilled. Finally got a keyboard guy. That was actually like one of the times
where I actually felt like I finally, you know, kind of belonged.
Here was when I started seeing a few of those comments on SC's like, wow, this guy actually knows
about keyboards and stuff. Instead of just Linus talking about the next brown.
I've met hippie now. We've talked on Discord a few times. Like I got to meet so many of my like hero creators
in the space. Like I met Glarses as well. Never got to meet Tejo types or whatever.
But I really liked Nicholas as a presenter. He has both great knowledge of keyboards
and great delivery skills. Would love to see him on camera more often.
Thanks Mr. Morekki one hell yeah. So refreshing.
Is he someone in LTT deep in the custom keyboard rabbit hole?
We can do a little type test to call it. You're gonna do a typing test to finish it off?
Oh, okay, let's see how this goes.
No, oh. Generational fumble.
That was like, that was like one of my best runs in a long time. I was gonna hit 130 words a minute.
Holy fuck. To be fair, that's without like any capitalizations.
That's without any punctuation. That's without extra characters or anything like that.
But you know, the thing is, is I'm thinking like three words ahead. So I'm reading it and I'm typing the word before
as I read the next one. I can't do that. It's just muscle memory.
Like when I was a kid in computer class, that's literally all I'd do. I would just like do the typings.
Like as soon as we're done, whatever task we're supposed to learn, I just like go play typing games.
I'm gonna embarrass myself. I'm actually really excited about a, the last sentence or final sentence or whatever.
Oh.
That's the words you make when you start thinking about it. No.
Okay, that's not bad. It's not bad.