WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.840 My name is Jake Belvance, but I'm more commonly known as Belle, because there's just so many 00:00:03.840 --> 00:00:10.000 jakes here, and I am a channel manager slash a producer for ShortCircuit, and I guess I'm a 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:15.600 host now too. I've been working here for just over two years now, which is wild. It feels like 00:00:15.600 --> 00:00:19.600 it's been way longer. It's going to sound cheesy, but my favorite part about working here is the 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:25.760 people I know, blah, blah, blah. It should be something better, but genuinely some of my closest 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:29.600 friends are people who work here, who I've met through here. I even lived with Jeff and Chase 00:00:29.680 --> 00:00:34.080 at one point, and you don't do that with people you don't like, and yet here we are going to concerts, 00:00:34.080 --> 00:00:39.120 doing stuff together, and living our best lives. Other than the comment section, man, 00:00:40.160 --> 00:00:43.360 I don't know if there's anything that's truly that bad about working here, other than the fact that 00:00:43.360 --> 00:00:48.960 we just released a lot of content. I'm responsible for posting all the Short Circuits videos and 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:52.560 making sure they get shot, so it can be quite a bit of a workload, but even then I don't think 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:56.880 it's a bad thing. It's just something to be aware of is that we work hard and we play hard, 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:02.320 but we work hard. I mean, at first it's very scary. He's the CEO. I wasn't even a huge fan of LTT 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:07.840 when I started working here, but still knowing that this is the guy. This is the lioness of 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:11.920 lioness tech tips. It can be a little daunting, but once you get comfortable in a position and he 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:16.880 starts to get to know you, he's a great guy. When he's outside of his persona of on and getting ready 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:25.280 to be on camera, he's super generous, super nice, and usually intense a little bit when he's filming, 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:29.760 but I think in the way of wanting to be constructive and get things running the best they can do, 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:36.000 he farts a lot just constantly. I used to be the WAN Show producer and always farting. Short 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:50.800 circuit, always farting. And he knows it's true. Otherwise, it's just that passion for the craft 00:01:50.880 --> 00:01:55.920 can sometimes seem blunt, but again, once you realize that it's because he wants to grow and 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:59.280 things to be better the next time and it's not actually directed at you, it is more frustrating 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:04.000 about the situation, you realize that it's not that bad, but the guess is that bad. I was employee 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:09.840 number 50 and now we've doubled that. It's crazy. We have a different building. I've gone from working 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:14.080 on the business team, writing the ad spots and selling those spots to now directing and managing 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:18.480 a channel and working with Labs to launch a new channel. And it seems like there's just big push 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:26.000 to just do bigger and better, which is great. And I cannot wait to see what we're able to do next 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:30.560 because I think this is only the beginning of the changes. And yeah, there's a lot coming. 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:34.960 I think what people get wrong about working here is that, you know, it is loud and rambunctious and 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:39.840 that we're kind of crazy influencer stuff all the time. But a lot of time it is just like quiet 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:43.680 people with their headphones on writing, people quiet with their headphones on editing, things 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:48.800 like that. Though we like to have fun in our off time and enjoy the lounge and go and do stuff, 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:53.440 there's also an awareness of like, we are a business trying to make 17 plus videos a week, 00:02:53.440 --> 00:02:59.600 which means a lot of time we're just grinding, which I mean is like any workplace and people 00:02:59.600 --> 00:03:03.680 probably just don't realize that how much goes into making these videos that you're watching for free, 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:09.440 or if you're my best friend or watching on Floatplane. I would say that we need more 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:14.560 ShortCircuit merch. I think there's not enough appreciation for it. But more realistically, 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:20.880 I think just adding more people and personalities and getting to show more vloggy stuff. And that 00:03:20.880 --> 00:03:25.200 can be hard with something like Linus Tech Tips, the channel itself, because a lot of it is about 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:30.720 Linus or about tech tips. And I think having an opportunity to show off some of the great people 00:03:30.720 --> 00:03:35.920 here that the camera, the audience doesn't get to meet that are really awesome people that we 00:03:35.920 --> 00:03:39.040 we needed a chance to showcase them more. And that's what was really great about the Intel 00:03:39.040 --> 00:03:43.440 upgrades and hopefully the AMD upgrades if it continues going on. So we could see these people, 00:03:43.440 --> 00:03:51.120 but I think we should continue to raise up the new or next generation of hosts and personalities. 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:55.520 I started working at LTT because I used to watch the WAN Show and tackling those are the only two 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:59.600 LMG things I ever watched. It's because I just like wanted an update on the news. And I was watching 00:03:59.600 --> 00:04:03.760 the WAN Show working an accounting job from home. And they were like, we're hiring a salesperson. 00:04:04.320 --> 00:04:10.000 And I thought YOLO being a YouTuber sounds fun and started working here and happened to get the 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:16.000 job and work under Colton. And it's been an absolute blast. And I think my lucky stars every 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:20.000 day that happened to be watching the WAN Show and that they announced it because I did not want to 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:25.280 be sitting in my dark dank room during the heat of COVID, just crunching number numbers all day 00:04:25.280 --> 00:04:32.240 when I could be instead doing what I love, which is entertaining people and working hard and writing 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:39.600 and changing processes. And it's a lot of fun here. I worked as a bookkeeper for a 00:04:40.400 --> 00:04:46.640 accounting startup. So they used AI to track all of the business's expenses so that your 00:04:46.640 --> 00:04:51.120 bookkeeping would just be done automatically as you use your card. So I was a guy checking to make 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:55.440 sure everything was correct. And then I helped them launch their banking division where they 00:04:55.440 --> 00:05:00.080 actually had their own debit card. So I was on the team launching that, which is very different 00:05:00.080 --> 00:05:06.640 from selling ad spots, writing, and then directing and producing content for YouTube. 00:05:06.640 --> 00:05:12.880 But luckily I watch a lot of YouTube, which is my greatest skill set here. I just watch 00:05:12.880 --> 00:05:16.640 so much YouTube. It's a sickness. The weirdest thing I've had to do here, there's a few. There's 00:05:16.640 --> 00:05:21.920 the ASMR build guide in parentheses that everybody hated. The most offensive video title, that was 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:25.680 my first video. Then a couple of channel super funds. There was one that never aired, but it was 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:31.200 the tester for the ice block challenge one where they had to find the keys to unlock brief cases 00:05:31.200 --> 00:05:38.160 to get a prize. We did one at what was lab one originally before we had HQ2, where we had to 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:43.200 get keys and unlock stuff and we filmed it all, but it never aired. And I got covered in gold paint. 00:05:43.200 --> 00:05:47.120 I painted a Mona Lisa, which has been on the ShortCircuit set and other places that were 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:51.280 in the office. It's a good time. There's a lot of weird B roll shots. You'll just see me in 00:05:51.280 --> 00:05:56.240 shouting China joy in the background pretending to be businessman. You never know what you're 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:59.440 going to do any given week. I think that if you want to work here, it's really important to know 00:05:59.440 --> 00:06:05.680 again that we work hard. Content is fun. A lot of these ideas are a lot of fun and executing 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:10.480 them is a lot of fun, but there's the pre-planning stage. There's the writing stage. There's the 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:16.400 getting sponsors. There's the calendar planning. There's the meeting with people to make sure this 00:06:16.400 --> 00:06:21.200 idea works. There's a lot of things that go into a fun idea that you're not really aware of until 00:06:21.200 --> 00:06:26.240 you're in it. Even this video would have a ton of meetings going through a lot of back and 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:30.640 forth to make sure this works perfectly that you just don't really imagine. You just kind of think, 00:06:30.640 --> 00:06:34.640 oh, I want to build a fun PC. I'm going to build one. But no, it goes through a group of people. 00:06:34.640 --> 00:06:39.760 It goes through a writing stage and a review stage and revisions to then editing and guidance. 00:06:39.760 --> 00:06:44.000 There is a lot of stuff that goes through it, but if you put in the work, you will be rewarded. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:49.360 And I think I luckily get to be a poster child of that from starting a business with no experience 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:55.040 on YouTube, to showing a passion for creating and changing processes, to then being the WAN 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:59.840 show producer, to ShortCircuit producer, to now working with Labs for things that will be coming 00:06:59.840 --> 00:07:04.240 soon. It just shows that if you're really willing to put in the work, you will be rewarded, but 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:10.880 it's a lot of work and you need to put in your time to get those opportunities. 00:07:11.520 --> 00:07:15.680 The first time I met Linus, I was actually at a grocery store in Vancouver and I was just shopping 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.960 around. I was like, that's Linus Tech Tips. Like even not as a fan, you know I'm from the memes and 00:07:18.960 --> 00:07:23.280 such. And I saw him and I was like, hey man, I'm a big fan. I don't want to be rude and ask for a 00:07:23.280 --> 00:07:28.080 photo or anything. He said, oh, be rude like you're being now. And I was like, huh? And he said, 00:07:28.080 --> 00:07:31.360 huh, huh, huh? And he started snapping his hand in front of my face and I was like, 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:36.640 okay, and I left. And as I was leaving, he chuckled and I was like, that's weird. 00:07:36.640 --> 00:07:43.920 So anyways, I finished up my shopping and everything and I was kind of thrown by it, but as I was leaving, I saw he had like 15 milky ways in his hands as he was trying to 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:47.440 leave the grocery store. And the woman was like really, the employee was really nice and she's 00:07:47.440 --> 00:07:50.960 like, hey, sir, you had to buy that. And he pretended to like be tired and didn't hear 00:07:50.960 --> 00:07:54.800 as he had like all these milky ways. He was like juggling and dropping. But eventually he went back 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:59.920 and started scanning them. And she kept trying to like ask, like, you know, she tried to scan them 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:04.400 all in. And he said, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't scan one multiple times. Like I want you to scan each 00:08:04.400 --> 00:08:08.720 individual Milky Way bar. I don't want any electronic in veterans. And then he like turned 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:13.840 around and he winked at me. And I don't even, I don't even think electrical in veterans is a word. 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:20.560 But anyways, he just then threw cash at her and left and it was just a really odd experience. But 00:08:22.880 --> 00:08:25.440 hey, that's an influencer life.