I'm Maria, I am the thumbnail artist, and I also take pictures for the merch store.
My favorite part of working at LMG would be working on my tube fashions, which are photography
and graphic design, and also that my work is seen by millions of people.
The worst part would be that I don't understand anything about GPUs, CPUs,
champi-us, no. Yeah.
Is it a tough one, we give you a bunch of words for a thumbnail and you're like...
Yeah, sometimes I'm like, what? Please explain to me what's all of this.
Yeah, I mean, I have learned a lot because before working here, I didn't have that Photoshop
skills that I have now, because I was more into graphic design, but like packaging and
other stuff. But it has been really great to explore different things and like, yeah, learning a lot basically.
And it's not as bad as people think, like, oh, you are just doing thumbnails every day,
that should be super boring, but it's not that bad.
I really enjoy it.
He's like working with a very distracted person sometimes, but also really, really creative.
He's very energetic, he always wants the best of the best, and that inspires you to do the
same. He's sometimes, as I said, like really distracted, so when he does like the thumbnail reviews
with me, he's like, he sometimes says something like, one day he told me like, oh, why do
you have my eyes blue, like, and I look at the thumbnail and I was like, I didn't turn
your eyes blue, like, what are you talking about?
Like he's in his own world and he's very busy.
So I think he's like thinking about a lot of things, and sometimes he gets distracted
and, yeah, like brownish, like, yeah, like, I mean, yeah, I'm sometimes I brighten his
eyes for the thumbnails, but not like turn them into blue, of course.
I will have a better snack bar that the one, like the one in Kivicity has and he's a studio,
definitely. Yeah, yeah, especially drinks, because we only have Red Bull here, yeah, basically.
So I arrived to Canada recently, and I was looking for a job online and just appeared
like, oh, graphic designer, Linus Media Group, and my husband used to watch Linus's videos.
So he told me, like, okay, that should be a great opportunity for you, like, to work
there and see what it's like, and, yeah, that was basically I arrived to Canada one year
ago. How's it been living in Canada?
I love it. Special Vancouver is not too cold.
Well, a lot, because I was a freelancer before.
So I was kind of my own boss, and I work with a lot of different companies, like small businesses,
and now it's a totally different environment with where I can just be with other people.
I'm doing just like one single job for one single company, so it's totally different,
but it's worth the experience, because that helps me learn a lot when, I don't know, in
the future, if I own my own company as well, graphic design studio or whatever, like, yeah,
and working with along other people and teams also, it's very good and different from what
I have done before where I was alone at my home working.
Oh, definitely taking pictures of my boss in underwear for LTTsr.com.
Nice. Like, that we as employees use all that high tech, like recent tech that we always review
in videos and show in videos, and it's not like that necessarily, like, obviously we
have really cool gear and stuff, but it's not like the last monitor that released yesterday,
you know, like, I think people think we use a lot of that stuff in the day to day, yeah.
So on my trial day, I used the Windows, and I took like double the time to make things,
because I was like so confused.
So Ed told me like, okay, maybe we should get a Mac set up for you so that you can work
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.
Yeah, definitely. One thing that they need to know is that this is a very fast-paced environment.
We release videos every day, so we have to work a lot, non-stop, really, really fast,
so basically I think that will be what they need to know.