Hey, everyone. Welcome to this emergency podcast. It is one of the biggest weeks in YouTube history.

We are not in our studio. We are in Montana. It is not in fact an emergency. We are fully safe. We are fine.

Okay, but this is a episode that we felt like, or just a conversation we felt like we had to have because of the magnitude of what's happening with YouTube creators

in Hollywood right now. The YouTube revolution has officially come for Hollywood.

Backroom's the number one movie in the world right now. It's a direct result of doing this work

on YouTube. You have Kane Parsons with backrooms. You've got Curry Barker with obsession,

and before that you have Markiplier

with his film Iron Long. All of these films have exceeded expectations and shocked people at the box

office, and they're all made by YouTubers. Now, to add to this crazy week of YouTube in Hollywood,

exactly one week ago, we threw the Hollywood Creator Summit on the Fox Studio slot. We had 630 creators

there, all talking about the future of Hollywood. We had people on stage like comedian Tom

Seguera, as well as Markiplier, to talk about the success of Iron Lung.

We also had the UCLA band, as well as a guy from Red Bull who almost ran over Samir.

Show business.

This conference had everything.

Now I bring that up because we are going to be releasing the stage sessions on this channel,

including our conversation with Markiplier, which is about this topic exactly.

Okay, so let's go through all three of these milestone films, talk about

their stories and what we've learned from the success of these films. Number one, Kane Parsons

and Backrooms. For people who don't know, give us a quick rundown of how backrooms came to be.

Okay, 2019, someone posts anonymously on Forchand. They post a photo of a furniture store in Wisconsin undergoing renovations.

If you don't know the story of backrooms, that's a really strange place to start.

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