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