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Boy, it feels weird being on this side of the camera, like, straight up.

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All right, Addy, how's your day going? It's going great. How's yours?

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Not bad, not bad. It's good to hear. So, we finally get to do a Meet the Team

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on the guy that does the Meet the Teams. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, you've done a couple Meet the Teams, too.

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That's just been all of me, but... Yeah, no, it's good to have, I guess, one of us on the other side of the camera.

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So, I guess, for those who don't know, give us a quick introduction of who you are and what you do at LMG.

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Hi, I'm Arthur. Some of you guys might know me as Artie. I think that's what most people around the office call me nowadays.

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I'm the social media manager. So, I'm in charge of the social media team.

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We do things like posts, memes, tiktoks, reels, YouTube shorts.

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They're all kind of the same, I guess. And we're in charge of flow playing exclusives.

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So, basically anything you guys have watched, done by us,

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or at least has run through us, something like that. Awesome. Now, tell us a little bit about how you got to LMG.

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What made you join? How I got to LMG. That's a good question.

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So, I've been watching LMG for a little bit now.

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I think I was most in tune around, like, 2015, 2016, 2017.

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That's when I was, like, really, really into tech. I started really getting into PC building.

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I built my second PC, and I really felt like the first one,

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I didn't know what I was doing, but the second one, I tried to do my research.

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LTT was obviously one of the places I want to kind of try and figure that out.

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Always thought it'd be a really cool place to work, and I knew that they were very close to where I lived.

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I remember way back in the day, funnily enough, we have our Christmas party today,

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but way back in the day, watching that one Christmas party

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that we made an LTT video on that Linus was giving everybody razor blades.

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I thought that was the coolest thing ever. So, I thought it would be a really cool idea to work here.

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It just so happens to match up with what I've kind of done

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throughout my life, essentially. I've been creating content since I was a kid.

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I've been on YouTube since, like, what, 2006, 2007,

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since I was, like, eight years old. So, I've been really, really in tune with everything that's been going on.

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And I just wanted to kind of, like, take my skills to the next level. Obviously, I've been doing stuff for myself.

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I've been able to get a little bit of a following on my own. Nothing on the same level that I'm able to reach here,

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which has been an amazing experience so far.

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Awesome. So, I know when I first joined here,

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you were still a social media coordinator, just like me.

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How does it feel different to finally be, I guess, the manager instead of the coordinator?

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Like, I've seen you grow into the role, but what was the biggest change for you during that transition?

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Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I mean, it was a big transition, in my opinion.

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You know, I had a lot to learn. You know, I had done, like, leadership positions in the past.

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Just really small ones with, like, my university and stuff. But, yeah, actually, you know, being in charge of other people,

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it's a lot. Like, you're worried about so many other things.

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As a social media coordinator, you're kind of just worried about, you know, are my posts good?

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You know, are people interacting with them? You know, am I proud of what I'm putting out?

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But as a manager, you're also trying to figure out, you know, is your team good?

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Do they feel all right? And just making sure that's all good?

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Also, helping them kind of develop their skills with, you know, whatever experience I've learned throughout the years.

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There's a lot of new things that you have to do as a manager

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that I could not even imagine doing when I was a coordinator.

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So, easing into that and learning those things on the way,

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it's been a big challenge, but, you know, so far, I feel like it's been really fruitful.

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And I've been able to learn a lot of stuff, especially from the other managers and leaders here.

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Absolutely. And hey, now we have a team of four people,

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you're putting yourself. That's correct, yes. As someone who works in social media,

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you're probably expected to be on top of all the trends

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and be on top of everything now, I guess, what we call Gen Z as well.

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How do you deal with this? Does it come naturally to you?

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Is it a lot of effort? I'm sure a lot of the audience wonders how we come up with our stuff.

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Yeah. So, it requires being essentially online all the time.

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It's a blessing and a curse, you know, I'm always in tune with what's going on in the tech space,

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you know, even outside the tech space, just like in general, what's going on.

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But it's a curse in the sense that, you know, being online all the time can't be healthy for your mental

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with as much good that there is on the internet.

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There's a lot of bad. There's a lot, a lot of bad.

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So, you kind of have to see all of this and, you know,

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you do your best to kind of filter out the bad stuff and just, you know, focus on the positives that are happening in the world.

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You know, it doesn't get difficult, but that being said, I really do enjoy it.

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I mean, you know, as a kid, I've always been online. This is kind of where I've thrived and kind of where I've learned

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and I've almost grown up funnily enough. So, it's fun and I don't know.

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I just feel like it's natural. Like I've always been in tune with what's going on online.

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And, you know, I'm getting older. I'm willing to admit it.

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Like I'm 25 now. So, I'm not like, I'm just on the edge of Gen Z.

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You know, I feel like for a lot of other parts of my life, I'm a little bit more millennial.

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But, you know, I try and try and do my best. Try and keep up with what's going on.

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You know, follow other pages and follow other creators are younger

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than me and see, you know, what they're up to and kind of learn

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and figure out why they're interacting in that way.

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That's kind of how I do it. Okay, so let's step away from LMG for a second

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and go into some things you've dabbled in in the past.

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So, in the last year and a half, I've gotten to know you a little bit.

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And I know you do some other things like you make music.

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Yeah, that's true. Yeah, you make music.

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You make YouTube videos on your own channel.

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You also run a cooking TikTok. Is there anything else?

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Because I feel like to me, that's like a lot. Yeah, so, I mean, okay, look, it sounds like a lot and it is a lot, right?

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But that being said, I don't really focus on all of them at once.

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I'll have a couple of months where I'm really focused on making music, for example.

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I'll have a couple of months where I'm really focused on making TikToks,

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you know, cooking and food related. And I'll have a couple of months where I'm working on a YouTube channel.

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So, you know, I feel like my attention is kind of split in that sense.

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I'm always thinking about these things, but I don't really like fully, you know,

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put myself into all of these things at once.

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It's just whenever the inspiration or the motivation comes that I kind of go out and do that.

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What would you say is your absolute favorite, I guess, side hustle?

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Oh gosh, my absolute favorite. That's very tough because I mean, I love content creation and I've done it my whole life,

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like I've mentioned again. So, I'd like to say that, but now that it's basically my whole life, you know,

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I'm doing it here, I'm doing it on the side, doing my own thing.

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I'm not going to lie, I do get burnt out sometimes. So, I would say right now, the thing that I'm really, really passionate about is actually music.

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I feel like it's just a way to decompress and, you know, get my mind thinking creatively

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and something that's completely different from content. You don't have to worry about the algorithm.

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You don't have to worry about engagement or analytics or anything like that.

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You're kind of just worried on making something that resonates with you and hopefully other

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people can resonate with. Also, when did you first start making music?

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How did you get into that? So, I started getting into music when I was like 11 or 12.

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I downloaded a program called MixCraft. I'm not sure if any of you guys have used that in the past.

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It's very similar to like GarageBand and I just played around with it and I thought it'd be really cool.

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And around that time, I also started getting into electronic music.

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So, Dubstep was kind of like my first love, you know, Skrillex, Mount Eden.

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People like that who were popular during that time just kind of inspired me.

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I was like, maybe I can try and do that. So, you know, I started dabbling in more production, downloaded FL Studio as well, totally legal.

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And yeah, I don't know. I just learned how to do stuff over time. I started getting more into EDM.

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So, I started, you know, branching out into genres like house and stuff.

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You know, started following way more DJs, way more producers around like the golden era of EDM.

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Some would call it like 2012, 2013, 2014, around that time.

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And then I kind of eased off of it. I never really, you know, did anything that got too many listeners or anything at that time.

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I was just a kid playing around with stuff. But I started to take it a little bit more seriously when I went into university.

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and started making music that actually started getting some listens,

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which is crazy to me because I listen to some of my music sometimes.

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I'm like, I could do this way better. There's way better music out there.

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Like, I don't know why people are listening to me. But yeah, that's kind of how I got my start in music.

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Okay, let's talk about your YouTube channel now.

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Okay. I know you make content about rollercoasters, right?

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At least I'm trying to. So, I started with a YouTube channel about theme parks.

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Mainly, you know, I've always had a dream of visiting as many theme parks,

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museum parks as I possibly could. Rollercoaster Tycoon was a huge influence on my life and a huge influence to,

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you know, who I am today. You know, it kind of got me into gaming.

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It even got me into computers because, I mean, as a five, six year old kid,

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that was the way that I used computers. I would hop on rollercoaster Tycoon and just build rollercoasters and stuff like that.

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So, it's always been a huge part of my life. So, I've always wanted to visit all of these parks that, you know, I've seen throughout the years

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when I was a kid and, you know, I couldn't travel anywhere.

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So, yeah, I'm just making a channel about traveling to different theme parks,

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riding different rollercoasters and kind of living out my dream. What's your favorite theme park so far?

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Islands of Adventure is a very, very good theme park.

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I haven't been in years now, but to me, it's like the perfect blend of theming,

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perfect blend of thrill rides. You know, you've got, like, really high tier rollercoasters.

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I haven't ridden it yet, but there's a new rollercoaster called the Velocic coaster

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based on the Jurassic World series.

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It's literally one of the best rollercoasters in the world.

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And they theme it in a way that, you know, makes you feel immersed,

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at least, you know, what I've seen from videos and stuff like that. Which you don't get from a lot of those high tier rollercoasters

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where they kind of just plop something down in like an open piece of land

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and, you know, they build the biggest, baddest rollercoaster, whatever.

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This one kind of, like, interacts with, like, the paths.

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It interacts with different rides. And yeah, they just put a ton of detail.

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I know it was very expensive too, so... Awesome. Where is this for those who don't know?

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Yeah, this is in Orlando, Florida. Oh, awesome. I'm looking to visit again soon

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because they're also opening up a new theme park called Epic Universe

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and I'm really, really excited to visit that. Okay, and lastly, let's talk a little bit about, I guess, cooking.

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Yeah, I know you're a pretty decent cook.

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I'm okay. Like, I'm not a chef.

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I'm not even like, I wouldn't even consider myself like a very, very strong cook.

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But I can cook some things decently, I guess.

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The reason why I got into cooking during the pandemic.

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I mean, I feel like everybody was kind of picking up different hobbies around that time.

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Cooking just so happened to be the one that I did. I started just documenting it on, like, TikTok and stuff.

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You know, me basically trying out different dishes and, you know, learning along the way.

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You know, again, I wouldn't say I'm a good, a really, really strong cook by any means.

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But yeah, I know I enjoy it. That's pretty cool. I mean, even if you're not making content about cooking,

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is it still something you get to do often? I mean, I'm not going to lie.

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It's something that I probably don't spend as much time as I'd like.

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just trying to get back into things. Again, like, going back to me, you know, being full into different things

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for a couple of months or like, I guess cooking was like, you know, a couple of years or whatever.

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It kind of faded away and I'm trying to rekindle that passion that I got for that, yeah.

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What's your favorite cuisine? Favorite cuisine, that's a tough one.

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Probably Japanese food. I mean, growing and living in here in Vancouver, we have some excellent Japanese food here.

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A lot of innovation here actually happens.

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California roll, ever heard of it? Apparently it was made here.

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I can't verify that with 100% authenticity, but apparently it was.

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Okay, so now let's pivot back to LMG now.

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What is the favorite meme you've ever made here at LMG?

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Oh gosh, there's so many. There's so many.

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Probably during the hackening, I kind of just went buck wild with the memes during that time.

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Let loose and, you know, I thought they were pretty funny.

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My favorite one is probably that RuneScape one where, you know,

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can we just pop it up on the screen? I don't want to describe it, but yeah, it's like how we lost the channel

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and somebody doing like one of those classic RuneScape scams.

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It's just like, if you say your password backwards, it'll censor it.

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And then Linus says, I don't know, you know.

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Yeah, that's the Tech Tips 123. Exactly, yeah, that's the one.

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But I really like that one because a couple of my favorite content creators settled.

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If you guys are into old school RuneScape or RuneScape in general,

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you probably know him as a Swatman. He even retweeted and interacted with it.

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It was really, really cool. Ludwig like showed it off on his mogul mail and, you know, I thought that was like,

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to me, I was really proud of that meme. And just in that moment seeing, you know, these huge content creators that I look up to,

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you know, react positively to it. Speaking of which, how does it feel to obviously working at a company like this?

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You get the opportunity to interact with other big creators online to some degree at least.

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Yeah. How does that feel? Like is that something you'd ever imagined was possible?

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Oh gosh, yeah, no, it's surreal to me. Before all this, like, you know, I always viewed like these huge content creators as celebrities.

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And then rightfully so, a lot of them are, right?

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Even Linus in the next room over right now.

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But then you start to get to know and just talk to like big content creators.

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And you start to realize that, you know, they're just people like us, right?

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So to me, it's surreal, but also it makes me feel grounded in a sense that, you know,

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these big content creators, they're just any ordinary person that has a huge following online

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and loves to create content. So it is, it is cool.

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It is cool for sure. What is your most memorable Linus moment?

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It's a good one. I'd probably have to say when I first started and during that time, I got to work with Linus

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very closely to develop three YouTube shorts a week, which is absolutely insane.

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But with his help, you got me through it. I got to learn a lot about how kind of he viewed content, how to flow one thing into another

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and just create something that really like engaged with people.

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Those YouTube shorts, they started off pretty slow, but over time got a lot of views.

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And I started to realize, wow, like learning from this guy is new.

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Learning from this guy is nothing I would ever think I would be able to do.

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And that grind, just getting through all these YouTube shorts, it was pretty memorable for me.

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I don't know. I guess on that note, when it comes to Linus, what surprised you the most about him?

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Oh gosh, this guy's so busy. How does he get anything done?

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I don't know. Like, it's actually wild.

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Like, I know he spoke about it on the WAN Show recently, but the guy gets like, what,

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like three hours of sleep at night or something like that.

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Yeah. You know, he's always on.

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If you show up in his office, he'll always respond to you.

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He'll always make time for you. I just, yeah, I don't know how he does it.

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It's crazy. I think I could agree with that. Like, no matter who messages him from the company, even though we have like 100 plus employees now.

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It's getting crazy. It was still, you know, obviously it might be a bit later in the day because he's busy with truths or whatever,

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but eventually he'll still respond to you and help you out with whatever you're looking for, which is pretty cool.

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Yeah, absolutely. Okay, cool. I'm going to now semi-rapid fire some questions your way.

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Okay, let's do it. Let's do it. One thing you wish to learn more about during your time here.

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How to make some really, really good shorts.

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I think I've gotten a lot better over the time that I've been here.

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And you guys can watch some of the early 2022 shorts to now.

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I feel like we've gone there a little bit, but I still think there's a lot more to learn.

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And there's a lot of creators I look up to, and I hope to go get to their level.

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Who's the funniest host at LMG? Oh, gosh, it's got to be Riley.

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He's just natural at it. Oh, you know what?

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Adam's low-key really, really good too. This guy, I mean, he does improv, so he's just really, really fast with like the star key remarks or whatever.

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But Adam and Riley, those guys are really, really funny.

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I'm most likely to swear during shoots. Jake, for sure.

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Jake Tyvi. There's been so many times where we've had to edit like Flo Plain Extras or anything like that.

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And we'd have to bleep like every other word.

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It's crazy. I can attest to that.

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I still love him though. What's your favorite work trip you've ever been on and why?

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Probably the first time I went to VidCon. This was back June 2022.

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And it was my first time like really being in an environment with just creators everywhere.

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Watching people like Prank vs. Prank go to VidCon and stuff like that, Roman Atwood, guys like that.

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And just, you know, as a kid, being like, I want to be there.

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I want to be there so bad. It looks so fun. And getting the opportunity to actually go there.

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It was a lot of fun, but I think the main thing is I learned a ton.

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What is your proudest moment at LMG?

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I feel like my proudest moment, and I say this because it's probably the most difficult thing for me to kind of learn and get to the point is

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probably just, you know, having a team that it seems like everybody, you know, we're all chill with each other.

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We're all friends type of thing. And, you know, we put in some really hard work, good work.

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And there's like a nice balance there. You know, that's what I'm most proud of.

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I hope that Argent behind the camera, you know, you've had a great time on this team and stuff like that.

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Absolutely. Hopefully you've learned a lot and you're able to, you know, take that on, you know, with whatever you do, like within this space.

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And likewise with other guys on our team, I know you guys don't see them often.

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Steven Chu, he's our community coordinator.

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He's usually the person that's responding to you on Twitter, Reddit.

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He's LMG community, if you guys ever see that around.

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And also Sammy, Sammy Yu, who's the newest addition to our team.

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He used to be an editor here, but he switched over to the social media team and he's been doing some really, really good work.

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Some of the more recent flow playing exclusives, a lot of those ideas and a lot of the camera work and editing is all him.

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And that's why you've seen like a nice increase in quality more recently.

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So, yeah, I mean, this team is probably what I'm most proud of.

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I've been here for a year and a half now and I think like for a year of that, you're our manager.

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But honestly, even before you had the title of manager and it was just you and me, you pretty much led everything.

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You taught me everything. You brought me up to scratch.

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And he's been a great leader and I'm sure our entire team can attest to that.

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What's the most valuable piece of advice someone's ever given you?

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It's very simple. I feel like the most valuable piece of advice I've ever gotten is just, you know, don't be too hard on yourself.

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You know, obviously you want to put in great work and you want to, you know, get results and stuff.

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I mean, you only have one life. You got to live it. You can't just be solely focused on work or, you know, anything like that.

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And there's more to life than just, you know, views or engagement or anything like that.

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And something that I try to carry on even today, but obviously it's hard to not focus on all that and stuff.

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What is your favorite game? I have a couple. I mean, I already mentioned Roller Coaster Tycoon.

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Goaded series. Literally, I can't believe like you could play it today and still be like, wow, this is like still fresh. It's still good.

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And I feel like it was a big opportunity for me to be creative as a kid.

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You know, just building amazing parks and theme parks. Super, super fun game.

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But also RuneScape. RuneScape was a huge influence on my life.

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That's where I grew up, you know, in the streets of Lumbridge, streets of Verrock, man.

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Like, oh my goodness, lots of good memories on that game and probably the game I have the most playtime ever.

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Oh, damn. Okay. Wow. Crazy. Yeah.

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I thought you would have mentioned Civ 6 some way there.

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Okay. Civilization. Amazing series. And more recently, it's probably one of my favorite games.

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But before talking all the time, I got a shout out Roller Coaster Tycoon in RuneScape.

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Civ, still awesome. Still awesome. And I could sink so many hours into that game.

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What do you think is one thing that's very unique about working at LMG?

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The people here. You know, you hear it a lot and I know other people and our other meet the teams have mentioned it.

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But the people here are genuinely great. Like, you know, there's nobody that's really very difficult to work with or anything like that.

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Everybody is generally very friendly. We're all very busy.

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But, you know, if you need to talk to somebody, they'll give you their time.

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And yeah, everybody's just fun to be around, like even outside of work hours or stuff.

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I'm always happy to hang out with people because it's just like, I know I'm going to have a good time.

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What's something you'd like to see at LMG in the coming years?

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I mean, since we have a pretty tight production schedule, you know, release videos pretty frequently,

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I'd like to see some projects where, you know, our writers spend a little bit more time.

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So instead of just having a week or two to finish a video, maybe they could have a month.

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Maybe they could have two months. I think we have some really creative people here and they would be able to come up with some really, really fun, exciting ideas.

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And to wrap things up, what's one piece of advice that you'd give to other creatives or social media people?

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You definitely got to be passionate about the things that you're doing.

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You can't just go into content creation, you know, for the sake of money, for the sake of clout, for the sake of views, anything like that.

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You'll find something that you're genuinely passionate about and go and create content about it.

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Find what makes you curious about that subject and try and share that curiosity with other people.

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I think that's really the big thing. And the more I've grown up, I've tried so many other different types of content creation in the past as well.

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The things that have always stuck with me is always the stuff that I've been truly passionate about.

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So that's probably it. Awesome. Cool. Thanks, Addy.

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Yeah, for sure. By the way, the origin behind the camera here is probably the last flow plane exclusive that he's going to be filming.

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So I just want to say it's been a pleasure working for you over the past year and a half.

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I'm going to miss the times that we've had and I feel like we've grown a lot together here.

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So yeah, I just want to give a shout out to him.

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Again, a lot of the content that you guys have been watching over the past year and a half has been produced by Origin as well as me.

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So, you know, I'm going to miss them.

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I know some of you guys are going to miss them too. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That means so much.

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And thank you for being a great manager and a friend at work. It means a lot.