How Corridor Crew Made One of the Internet’s Favorite Shows

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Thanks to Lexar for sponsoring this episode On this episode of The Colin and Samir Show, we sit down with Niko Pueringer—co-founder of Corridor Crew, the minds behind VFX Artists React, one of YouTube’s longest-running and most beloved formats. With over 16 million subscribers across their channels, Corridor has cracked the code on how to blend filmmaking, format creation, and internet culture. We talk about how they stumbled into their viral hit, the creative philosophy that powers their work, and what it really takes to build a sustainable creative business on YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome back to VFXR's React. Roll the clip.
0:04.0	Right now it feels like YouTube saturated, right? There's so many people making stuff.
0:07.0	But it's not saturated at all. It's always been easy to break out on YouTube.
0:10.0	As long as you can...
0:12.0	Ooh, let's talk about that.
0:13.0	20,000 views, 28,000 views.
0:16.0	60,000 views in one day? What? That's crazy!
0:18.0	No, no, no. It's not the first principles of youtube it's not even the first principles of filmmaking it's the first principles of being interesting the biggest
0:24.4	category was perspective on AI and if you're aware that you've alienated a portion of your audience based
0:30.4	on your perspective on AI I have a lot of feelings about AI because this is how you hook people into
0:34.2	watching somebody do anything the first thing is today on the Colin Samir Show, we're joined by Nico Parenthier.
0:39.6	He's one of the founders of Corridor Crew, which is a group of filmmakers and VFX artists
0:43.7	who have been building one of YouTube's most creative and long-lasting channels for the past 15 years.
0:49.0	The Corridor takes movie magic and special effects, and they break it down in a way that's
0:53.3	fun, funny, and accessible.
0:55.9	Their most popular series is called VFX Artist React, where they sit on a couch and they
1:00.7	analyze the best and worst visual effects in movies and TV. And they've had major guests join
1:06.7	them on that couch to react to VFX. They're also artists themselves. They actually started
1:11.6	with this channel called Corridor Digital, where they made short films, viral skits, and they're
1:15.8	still doing that to this day. Between the two channels, Corridor Digital and Corridor Crew,
1:20.6	they have over 16 million subscribers. We had such a good time talking to Nico because he's this
1:24.8	YouTube veteran who has gone through a lot of different iterations to find what works on the platform, has found this format, but also still retains space for these creative experiments.
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