Name: What happens after YouTube fame fizzles out? - BBC
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When people say it's a character I reject out, I think it's one of the great performance pieces of all time.

And now I don't really have a career in Hollywood anymore.

It could be my partner, the girl who sits next to me.

I used to be extremely famous on you to 16th.

Most subscribed of all time it Somewhere along the way, something went wrong.

My career dried up, and I'm 27 working as an ice cream man, I wrote a book about working at an ice cream shop, which is this place right here.

But now it's closed down, and I just started a job at a sushi place down the street.

It's December 6 2006 and well, let me just start by saying I'm happy to see you.

Um, yeah, I don't remember exactly how I discovered YouTube, but once I discovered that people were making video blog's and like talking about their life and stuff, it just sounded appealing to me like if I was frustrated about something, I would come home and I would say, uh, like, I get all angry and talk about it.

All of a sudden, one day one of them went viral overnight.

Then all of a sudden, there's this group of very supportive people amongst a massive, angry people also.

So I remember I message I just sent him a message on YouTube thinking, You know, I don't know what the business cases here, but like clearly this person is talented.

It was this kind of crazy period where on the one hand, everyone was using this thing at the same time.

I didn't YouTube videos very intensely for like, a year and 1/2.

I think I made 100 and 50 videos in that period of time, and I was getting for a while maybe a 1,000,000 views a week or something, which is a whole lot back then and then I stopped after a while because it just felt like a lot of pressure and felt weird In a way, it felt like there was making, making friends and connecting with people.

But then you don't stay in touch with, you know, they're not there in your room.

Then, after I turned 18 I got into a movie called Project X through open casting call Project X and 21 Jump Street.

Both premiered within two weeks of each other.

I think in February 2012 you walk on a red carpet, which is really weird, but kind of fun.

And then you go back to your hotel and sleep.

Yeah, I thought I thought, Yeah, I can only go up from here.

I got really close to landing some really big roles and some really big movies, but then they didn't pan out.

My agent eventually dropped me, but I just got a new agent a week ago, and he wants me to take some head shots and see if he can revive my career.

You look back at the kinds of numbers that tax was doing in 2007 in 2008 and they're still pretty impressive.

So it gives you a sense of just like how big he was in a relatively small pond.

You didn't have the same pay rate that it does now.

Celebrity wasn't a real celebrity back then.

But nowadays it is now your real celebrity.

If your YouTube celebrity, I have a girl.

You said it was a long like, how real with it.

Once I started to get attention on me and stuff I would like exaggerate, Huh?

Uh, in a way that felt like once you start to notice what gets attention, uh, you might leave into that more when people say it's a character.

I reject that because that it applies that the things I say happened and it happened.

Uh, but yeah, you still have a lot of people who really I like your stuff.

But maybe they leave if I started posting about things, so I have to keep it good.

The reason I'm going to meet up with the inventor tonight is because I might potentially be able to make money.

Or it could just mean some fun time with a new person.

I don't I don't want to take money from someone if I can't offer results, but at the same time, I don't wanna undersell Might Valley.

I said that I knew that this would be your garage because it just looked like inventors.

24 years of my life I've done isn't doing this is what what I've done is build stuff.

But I've never interacted with people at a level that you have, so I don't know if any right now, I'd have a good idea.

But then we'll just talk about it and brainstorm and then see if anything sounds right.

Oh, um, so I never know what I'm gonna do or not, which is why I don't get paid to do it.

Because I can't really tell people if I'm gonna do it or not doing me to autograph any of them.

A couple of these are at least three lease.

I'll just think about it and see what I can do.

Always like making things, but I don't know what when I'm gonna make something good or not.

I think I want to do it for the money, but I don't have any ideas.

The Rise and Fall of Tax Laid, the rise of the rise and fall life after you to fame and then Rice.

If I'm able, If I think I'm confident that I could make something for me, then I'll try to do it.

I usually and more funny unintentionally, I would say, What is it about?

You know, what does anyone like about making some left?

I think it's one of the great performance pieces of all time.

It's almost like if you could put it in a time capsule from from the early days of YouTube.

He covers his face in Scotch tape, and then he rips the Scotch tape off, and he just has this look of like sheer like It was like he thought it would be funny and didn't realize how horrific Lee painful it would be.

It certainly only adds to the humor to not know whether it's real or not.

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