WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.280 My name is Arthur. Some of you guys might know me as Artie, but I am the social media manager. 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:09.920 I've been doing this for only a couple of months now. I've been a social media coordinator for 00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:15.840 the longest time, but I've been at LMG for about a year and a month now. I think for me, 00:00:16.560 --> 00:00:21.920 I mean obviously the big thing is just working with tech all the time. I've always been really 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:26.880 interested in it. I'm maybe not on the same level of enthusiasm as some of you guys here, but 00:00:27.840 --> 00:00:34.960 I've learned a lot and just being able to absorb that knowledge and really dive 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:40.800 into the whole tech industry, it's been really, really fun. Also, I've been creating content 00:00:40.800 --> 00:00:46.560 since I was a kid, so being able to do that here on obviously a much larger scale has been really, 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:53.600 really fun. The smell. I don't know, there's like a really specific smell here, isn't there? I'm 00:00:53.680 --> 00:01:08.960 kidding. What's the worst part about working at LMG? Probably how everything changes. We try to 00:01:08.960 --> 00:01:14.400 schedule things, but obviously things fall through the crack or things go on longer than they can. 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:22.640 Obviously you guys know from the WAN Show, but it's really hard to predict when things are going 00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:28.720 to happen accurately, so being in the right place at the right time, it's hard to coordinate that. 00:01:28.720 --> 00:01:33.840 I'm really impressed how much of a machine he is when it comes to just being able to 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:40.080 deliver content in such an engaging way. It's second nature for him. Obviously he's been doing 00:01:40.080 --> 00:01:49.760 this for more than a decade now, but when I think of last year, around mid-2020, I was tasked with 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:54.800 creating three YouTube shorts every week on top of basically everything else I do, 00:01:55.600 --> 00:02:01.520 which was pretty tough, but I felt confident because whenever I went up to Linus with any 00:02:01.520 --> 00:02:08.000 type of short idea, he would help me flesh that concept out, get it done in one or a couple of 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:13.200 takes, which I don't know. I don't know anybody else that can do that. That's probably my favorite 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:19.920 part about working with Linus. Learning from him too. I don't know. Sometimes it's a little 00:02:19.920 --> 00:02:27.840 intimidating because to me, he's still a celebrity. I know we work together. I'm able to talk to him 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:37.040 whenever, but to me, he's that guy. I feel like that just getting over that barrier has been 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:42.320 the tough part about working with Linus, but it's not like you're working with somebody that's rude 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:48.480 or inconsiderate or thinks that they're better than you. I feel like he genuinely takes my feedback 00:02:48.480 --> 00:02:55.840 in and it does its best to make it seem like we're on the same level, if that makes sense. 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:01.840 I feel like people forget we're a business. We're obviously here to try and grow and make money, 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:08.240 so I feel like people lose sight of that a lot. I feel like one thing that people misunderstand 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:13.680 about Linus Media Group, I know it's tough because YouTube is my favorite thing in the world. 00:03:14.880 --> 00:03:19.280 The thing I literally do, I don't watch movies. I don't watch TV. I literally only watch YouTube. 00:03:20.640 --> 00:03:26.880 As a viewer, I understand this, but sometimes people lose sight that we're people too. We have 00:03:26.880 --> 00:03:33.440 feelings. Whenever people have criticism, obviously we take it in, but sometimes people 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:37.760 aren't so constructive about it. We have to see all the nasty. We see the good, but we also see 00:03:37.760 --> 00:03:45.280 some nasty. Most of the community is great, but obviously there's a few in there. No, they're not 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:51.280 good. No, they're not good. It happens a lot on Instagram specifically. I don't know why, 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:56.640 but you have to moderate it especially for the first hour or so that you post something, 00:03:56.640 --> 00:04:02.240 just because there's a ton of bots and it's pretty bad. Same type of deal with Twitter 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:06.640 and TikTok and stuff though. For the most part, our community is pretty great. They're really 00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:12.640 enthusiastic about tech and I see that at the end of the day, they just want us to be the best that 00:04:12.640 --> 00:04:19.360 we can be. I just graduated university. I was looking for a job and I graduated from business 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:25.200 school. Kind of the normal thing to do is just go through your connections, see if anybody's hiring, 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:32.480 look at corporations, but one day my friend sent me over this role, a social media coordinator 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:38.480 role here. I knew Linus Tech Tips from when I used to watch them back in university. It was like 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:42.800 first and second year. These were the types of videos that would get me through the day. 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:51.440 It gave me something to look forward to. I took a shot and I applied. I definitely knew I wanted 00:04:51.440 --> 00:04:58.080 to work in some sort of capacity within the creator economy. I just didn't know that it 00:04:58.080 --> 00:05:04.720 could happen right out of university. I took the shot, applied, and got an interview. I started 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:10.800 working here. To me, it was really, really exciting, but also there was a little part of me that was 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:17.280 like, oh man, I haven't been really up to date with tech and stuff. I knew I had to get back on it, 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:24.720 but within a couple of months, I feel like I'm a little bit more in there when it comes to 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:32.480 uh, technology, technology, yes, technology, technology, technology, knowledge. 00:05:34.080 --> 00:05:38.640 If I could change anything about this company, I wish we were just in one building. I haven't had 00:05:38.640 --> 00:05:44.240 to travel too much between the two buildings yet, um, because I'm still here in the main building, 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:50.400 but as soon as the social team moves, I feel like it's gonna be, the workflow isn't gonna be as great 00:05:50.400 --> 00:05:55.200 as it was before. I'm sure we'll figure it's something out like down the road, but I don't know. 00:05:55.200 --> 00:06:01.120 I wish we had planned for everything to happen, at least within like the same complex. You gotta 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:07.520 be passionate about what you do. I don't think it's enough to, you know, just want to work out a 00:06:07.520 --> 00:06:13.040 place because you think it's a cool, cool idea. You want to, you need to have like a legitimate, 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:18.640 like drive within you to, you know, see things that you think you feel like could be improved 00:06:18.640 --> 00:06:24.480 within the company, um, and execute on them. I don't know. Uh, and also, you know, just having 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:30.320 like a real passion, uh, obviously for, for technology. Um, but you know, even the YouTube 00:06:30.320 --> 00:06:35.600 space, um, I feel like there's a lot of growth within there. Um, and there's a lot to learn. Um, 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:42.080 which is why I joined. Um, but yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, um, if you do want to work 00:06:42.080 --> 00:06:47.200 for Linus Media Group, uh, you got to be passionate about what we do and what your role will entail.