#27 - How To Keep A YouTube Channel Alive for Almost 15 Years w/ Ryan Higa

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🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Ian and Mari sat down with Ryan Higa before VidCon to talk about what it’s like keeping a YouTube channel alive for almost fifteen years, the pressure of having to be the representative of your culture in media, and whether or not Ian & Ryan they regret the cringey movies they made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bramble.
0:01.0	Hey guys, so this is a very special episode.
0:03.6	So I got the chance to interview Ryan Higa of Niga Higa fame.
0:07.0	I consider him a good friend, a great guy, and an awesome YouTuber.
0:11.6	And I got to interview him right before we went to VidCon, which was about a month ago.
0:17.4	And yeah, enjoy.
0:18.4	And by the way, shout out to Upstart.com for sponsoring this episode.
0:23.0	Let's get to it.
0:25.1	Literally every girl, YouTuber, or influencer that I've talked to has had serious stock
0:32.8	or problems.
0:33.8	People that are messaging them constantly.
0:35.5	Some people get hundreds of emails a day from the same person.
0:39.4	If I were to restart everything, if I started today, I know for a fact that nobody would
0:43.2	see it without some kind of collab or some kind of help, there's just too much out there.
0:47.5	The vocabulary is, oh, we never announced it.
0:50.7	Like as if you have to announce, it's like what do you announce usually?
0:54.4	It's like, you're not in a wedding, right?
0:55.4	You don't have to be like, I'm announcing to the world, this is my girlfriend.
0:58.1	And it's weird that that's a position that a lot of people find themselves in.
1:02.0	Angry Birds is pretty good.
1:03.0	Yeah, that's how I was like, oh, yeah, it's getting sequel.
1:05.8	I know, which I was not invited back to.
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