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I'm Maria, I am the thumbnail artist, and I also take pictures for the merch store.

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My favorite part of working at LMG would be working on my tube fashions, which are photography

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and graphic design, and also that my work is seen by millions of people.

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The worst part would be that I don't understand anything about GPUs, CPUs,

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champi-us, no. Yeah.

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Is it a tough one, we give you a bunch of words for a thumbnail and you're like...

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Yeah, sometimes I'm like, what? Please explain to me what's all of this.

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Yeah, I mean, I have learned a lot because before working here, I didn't have that Photoshop

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skills that I have now, because I was more into graphic design, but like packaging and

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other stuff. But it has been really great to explore different things and like, yeah, learning a lot basically.

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And it's not as bad as people think, like, oh, you are just doing thumbnails every day,

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that should be super boring, but it's not that bad.

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I really enjoy it.

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He's like working with a very distracted person sometimes, but also really, really creative.

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He's very energetic, he always wants the best of the best, and that inspires you to do the

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same. He's sometimes, as I said, like really distracted, so when he does like the thumbnail reviews

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with me, he's like, he sometimes says something like, one day he told me like, oh, why do

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you have my eyes blue, like, and I look at the thumbnail and I was like, I didn't turn

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your eyes blue, like, what are you talking about?

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Like he's in his own world and he's very busy.

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So I think he's like thinking about a lot of things, and sometimes he gets distracted

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and, yeah, like brownish, like, yeah, like, I mean, yeah, I'm sometimes I brighten his

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eyes for the thumbnails, but not like turn them into blue, of course.

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I will have a better snack bar that the one, like the one in Kivicity has and he's a studio,

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definitely. Yeah, yeah, especially drinks, because we only have Red Bull here, yeah, basically.

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So I arrived to Canada recently, and I was looking for a job online and just appeared

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like, oh, graphic designer, Linus Media Group, and my husband used to watch Linus's videos.

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So he told me, like, okay, that should be a great opportunity for you, like, to work

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there and see what it's like, and, yeah, that was basically I arrived to Canada one year

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ago. How's it been living in Canada?

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I love it. Special Vancouver is not too cold.

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Well, a lot, because I was a freelancer before.

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So I was kind of my own boss, and I work with a lot of different companies, like small businesses,

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and now it's a totally different environment with where I can just be with other people.

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I'm doing just like one single job for one single company, so it's totally different,

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but it's worth the experience, because that helps me learn a lot when, I don't know, in

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the future, if I own my own company as well, graphic design studio or whatever, like, yeah,

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and working with along other people and teams also, it's very good and different from what

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I have done before where I was alone at my home working.

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Oh, definitely taking pictures of my boss in underwear for LTTsr.com.

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Nice. Like, that we as employees use all that high tech, like recent tech that we always review

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in videos and show in videos, and it's not like that necessarily, like, obviously we

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have really cool gear and stuff, but it's not like the last monitor that released yesterday,

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you know, like, I think people think we use a lot of that stuff in the day to day, yeah.

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So on my trial day, I used the Windows, and I took like double the time to make things,

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because I was like so confused.

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So Ed told me like, okay, maybe we should get a Mac set up for you so that you can work

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easily. Yeah, that's nice. That's kind of stressful the first day, and you're like, no, I swear, I'm good at this.

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Yeah, definitely. One thing that they need to know is that this is a very fast-paced environment.

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We release videos every day, so we have to work a lot, non-stop, really, really fast,

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so basically I think that will be what they need to know.