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  • Both: Three, two, one, Happy 10 year YouTube anniversary!

  • Martina: That sounded smoother in my mind, but when we said it, it just went out forever.

  • Simon: So, on May 30th 2008 is the day that we landed in Korea

  • Simon: To start living overseas as teachers and it's also the very first video that we've ever shot

  • Annyeonghaseyo!

  • Martina: We're here in Korea and we're enjoying our first meal even though it's like 9 o'clock at night in Canada

  • Simon: What I have here is a kimchi soup and

  • Simon: And... it's spicy as hell but it's some of the most delicious kimchi soup I've ever had

  • Martina: The very first video we ever filmed we had just gotten off the plane and then we went for soondubu jjigae

  • Martina: Oh my god, you know what's funny is, I recently tried to imitate that video and I can't even fake that bad of an accent.

  • Martina: I'm like "an-nyeong-has-eyo!"

  • an-nyeong-has-eyo!

  • Martina: But, even now, I'm saying like "...haseyo!"

  • Martina: Like I've got the...

  • [playing around with saying the word in different intonations]

  • an-nyeong-has-eyo!

  • Martina: Oh my god. I have no idea that that video would go up online and be viewed

  • Martina: By anyone outside of like Mom, Dad, Nicole and like your family. That's it

  • Simon: So in our 10 years living overseas and in our 10 years of creating videos of YouTube, we've seen a lot change

  • Simon: We've grown a lot and a lot of different things have happened

  • Simon: so we want to spend this video rambling for a very long time about

  • Simon: many of the different things that we've learned from these 10 years of YouTube because our

  • Simon: Perspective is going to be very different from other people that might be a lot newer to the platform whenever we think about YouTube and the state

  • Simon: That it's in right now. We think about like the whole 10 years and let me tell you back in the days

  • Simon: It was grim, boy. There was no YouTube app. There was no notification bell,

  • Simon: There were no playlists there were no annotations

  • Martina: The comments couldn't be like you couldn't block or hide or

  • Martina: like all the things you can do now the listing of ordering from like newest to..

  • Martina: I mean, there's just so many things

  • Martina: You know what strikes me though as the thing that I recall the most

  • Simon: What was the biggest thing that changed on YouTube?

  • Martina: Oh, I think the biggest thing was for two years for two

  • Martina: years

  • Martina:There was no ability for us to make a single penny. That's right

  • Simon: Adsense was not available in Asia for two years and we were making videos. So we were just making videos

  • Because we enjoyed making videos. It was fun

  • We didn't go into YouTube to think that we're gonna make a career out of this.

  • We just had a quirky little hobby

  • We were doing this to connect with our families

  • and we were doing this also to connect with a lot of the community of people that were moving to Korea as

  • Teachers a lot of our first videos are about like how to use your washing machine

  • How to make lesson plans

  • How to, like, throw out your recycling

  • So, you might remember a couple of videos ago, we showed you our brand new super cool cellphones

  • Hi guys, I'm a T-money card

  • So, this acts as a re-loadable card for the subway, or the bus

  • And people have told us that it also works for a few taxis

  • So, this box is going to be right here, and right here

  • So back then it wasn't like a business idea was just for fun

  • What I was gonna say was not only was it not a business idea

  • It wasn't like a "hmm maybe in the future we could make money" because it wasn't even like an inkling of possibility.

  • So like nowadays, I think a lot of people that will join YouTube will go "this could be a career"

  • Like, "maybe if I try hard enough or I work hard enough this could be a career"

  • and then as things start getting rolling for them

  • it's kind of like starting a part-time job and then maybe one day ad-pocalypse happens and then you're like

  • Furious because what you've been paid has suddenly changed but for us we're like, "is it better than getting paid nothing for two years?"

  • For real, anyone that's complaining about demonetization. You haven't gone two years with zero dollars

  • So yes

  • Demonetization is an issue for a lot of people but for us we will always remember those

  • Hungry, hungry 2 years that we had. Nothing will feel as bad as that time

  • Simon & Martina: Fun fact!

  • Did you know that we used to make our own music from scratch because there were no YouTube library

  • Yup

  • Currently we pay for academic sound which is why our music library has changed a lot because we're actually paying for like incredible artists

  • Yes, the music's a lot better quality than what we used to make on our own. So we started using GarageBand Martina had a little keyboard, as she would

  • doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo

  • doo-doo

  • baaa- baaa- baaa- baa daa baa daa

  • Here are my favorite hit songs

  • [Light base tune]

  • [Beatbox-y rhythm]

  • This week's Music Monday is the godly edition with JYJ's "Ayyy Girl"

  • [upbeat trumpet sequence]

  • Okay, so welcome to our first episode of TL;DR Thursday's where we answer all your questions in video format the wonderful treasure find of

  • The wonderful treasure find of the week(week)(week)

  • [nautical piano theme]

  • [pixelated whimsical tune]

  • [Fast-paced xylophone sequence]

  • Spudgy! Spudgy, boy. You want to go outside?

  • *bark!*

  • Okay.

  • Spudgy be nice to people come on.

  • kids want to say hi to you come on

  • [groovy playful electro-synth]

  • Welcome to this week's kpop chart update

  • So this ties

  • into the question that we asked for our sponsors in the community tab happy hauser wound up asking have there ever been times even

  • Now we felt that continuing a career on YouTube could possibly no longer be a viable option

  • For the future of the company and for us the answer is every damn day

  • Every day I keep on expecting

  • YouTube to just like shut down not because of I'm noticing any trends in YouTube that make me think that way but I just

  • Remember there not being anything like this before

  • So if things go back to the default of 0 ad dollars and zero possibility, really. Yeah, it figures

  • Yeah, we kind of feel like we had a good run

  • Yeah

  • you know never thought never thought we'd go this way so we could so I think that's why that whole

  • Stressful side that's happening with newer creators

  • like I think that that stress that they have is because um

  • It was kind of locked in the mode that

  • YouTube will succeed and YouTube will always be there, but because we entered in before there was YouTube possibility

  • Then it started happening if we were like, whoa, this is pretty cool

  • Woah! Holy smokes!

  • We've always been like strap on the helmet. We're gonna enjoy this bumpy ride

  • And that mentality sticks with us to the stage a lot of our opinions of YouTube are going to be tainted by that so

  • They might not be fully applicable to you or to other youtubers

  • But maybe this could offer a different perspective as opposed to what you might be hearing online

  • Tuesday, we are moving out of Bucheon into our new apartment, in Seoul.

  • We just have so many places here that take care of us for so long

  • Simon: Are you crying already?

  • Simon: Ducky!

  • We have our *Korean* shop, and the *Korean* place.

  • and the Japanese restaurant, and the

  • And we have to say bye to all of them

  • I know we're not even leaving Korea, but still...

  • Don't be afraid to change

  • But it's scary

  • It feels scary to change.

  • Because for those of you that have been watching us for a long time

  • You've seen very many changes with us including like how we physically look like back when we started

  • I was like a dorky looking pudgy little teacher with glasses and a little

  • like crappy hair and then like I had a red mohawk and I shade the side of my head and then I became like a

  • Twig and I was super skinny. I like a 180-pounds and then after the red mohawk, I went to the struggle bun

  • do you remember me holding on to like my hair and then I

  • Accepted my baldness and I shaved my head and now I have a big beard

  • I've changed so much fun fact back when I had a red Mohawk, male demographic was only 7%

  • So small, but since I started growing my beard the male demographic went up to 40 percent

  • I think we know what that means. Hey, boys. You like my beard. Yes, you do. Oh you meant

  • Hey men, don't unsubscribe. Like this!

  • and when we say don't be afraid to change

  • we're not just talking about like physical appearance because obviously

  • Everyone's gonna change in like a 10 year span right when we're talking about don't be afraid to change your contents

  • Yeah, when we first started doing YouTube videos

  • We were really focused on the X hat community and then we started to get into music reviews

  • Right we started to do kpop reviews and that was actually for our students. Yeah

  • A lot of people don't know that

  • Yeah

  • It was really hard to connect with our Korean students because at first they were really excited that you were there that you're like an English speaker

  • Uh-huh

  • But then that fun wears off after like three weeks when they realize that you have to actually teach them something so we got into

  • Kpop for our students and then we started making these reviews and then we show our students these videos like Acts

  • at the end of class and it was in English and when we were doing these k-pop videos who did it for a while until

  • Afterwards when we learn more about the kpop industry how dark was how people are being treated terribly

  • We just kind of started falling out of love with it and it was a big move for us to say

  • Hey, I'm not passionate about this topic anymore

  • I don't want to do it and we stopped and there was like people that were pretty upset about it

  • But that didn't mean the end of our channel

  • We kept growing we kept trying to change we kept on trying new things and it's so scary

  • I know if you have a

  • formula that you've got down pat you think this is what my audience likes but sometimes if you don't feel it in your heart you

  • Can't keep pushing yourself to do it. It's like people feel like well, it's working

  • So I guess I'll just do that and you know exactly what I mean

  • When I say this, you definitely see if there are some youtubers that you watch that

  • You know that you see that the love has died from their eyes

  • and they're just churning out their videos because they think that's what their audience wants and

  • then when people stop watching them when their numbers start dropping or their

  • Subscribers start dropping. Here's the next thing they start blaming the algorithm for it people get bored of content

  • It's natural like we've had favorite TV shows that we like like we used to love 30 rock

  • I watched like three or four seasons of it and afterwards I'm like, yeah, I get it

  • It doesn't it's not really that new for me more on Brooklyn nine-nine

  • Yeah, and then after was like man, I've had enough of Brooklyn nine-nine. That's not the algorithm

  • Sometimes you just need to change and so you have to accept that you're not maybe everyone's cup of tea and so for us

  • When we started doing kpop we enjoyed it

  • We loved it and then it started to get really dark and it started to drag us down right we got bored

  • And we change and it was scary. Scary. People told us like 'Oh, everyone's gonna leave your Channel, right?' 'Okay

  • well if they do, they do' because I don't want to be making videos that I don't wanna do it

  • Right and then two and a half years ago we decided

  • Hey, let's stop making Korean videos all together and move to a new country. Let me tell you that's terrifying as well

  • We had a coffee shop. We had a studio we had staff

  • we got rid of all that so we could come and try something new and a lot of people have noticed in the coments that

  • We look a lot happier. Yeah, there's a joy in her eyes again. There's a spark you have to be true to yourself and not

  • Just make videos for a machine

  • Be yourself, be yourself

  • My snow globe collection. I dont want to be myself

  • No one no one's seen it? Fun Fact: Even though we're often talked about for reviewing kpop

  • We also introduced less or no Korean indie music from February 2012 up until when we left for Japan

  • During the Korean indie playlist and then later on during Martinez mixtapes

  • honestly

  • It's always disappointed us that Korea only pushed kpop while ignoring the super talented Korean musicians and artists that they have right under their noses

  • If you're sick of kpop but you still love good music

  • I really urge you to check out our past Korean Indie playlists to discover some new musicians

  • And we have a very, very special edition for you. Because it is

  • I think the biggest weakness that we've had in our 10 years of YouTube

  • Even to this name we struggle with it is how we handle negative comments. I feel like we're such a strong couple

  • Otherwise, we're so driven and we work hard but negative comments are just so tough to handle

  • We are a lot better at it now than when we first were because I remember like when we first started getting negative

  • comments

  • we actually wanted to

  • Just delete our YouTube channel and move back to Canada and live in the woods away from society

  • Because I thought that everybody in Korea had seen our videos and had little prison shives and they were gonna stab us in the streets

  • Yeah, we did not handle the criticism well at all. Oh my gosh when Shinhwa made a come back. Oh my god

  • We just simply said Shinhwa even though we immensely respect them for doing all that they did back in the past are more relevant back

  • In the past not so much right now in the era of kpop boy bands Shinhwa is more of a man band

  • And so when this song came out on the kpop charts, it only got sixteen hundred votes

  • Which is good but compared to in Lhasa and EXO. They got around nine and ten thousand votes

  • You see what I'm saying here. So I think that the noonas are totally digging the song but younger people

  • I'm not really all too sure. Now, please correct me if I'm wrong here

  • It's just that

  • Shinhwa didn't crash our site and take down our server the way SHINee did let us know what you think in the comments

  • so if you haven't seen it yet check out Shinhwa's Venus coming up next

  • I mean, the death threats rolled in

  • I was like, "we can't leave our house"

  • No, we were still living in Bucheon. Yeah, I was like we can't leave our house

  • We were looking out of our Window like, "does anybody know where we live? Are they looking at us?"

  • Are there any like..." it was weird like, we were not comfortable with the negativity at all

  • And I think that something that really woke me up and kind of like shook me out of this

  • Perspective was actually my friend Jackie

  • Yep and I was ranting to Jackie about how scared I wasn't help said I was and I mentioned the word tumblr and she was like

  • What's a tumblr and I was like, I'm sorry. What what do you mean? What's the time?

  • What's a tumblr and so I realized right?

  • there's a divide between

  • The real world that everyone functions in and the internet world and sometimes you need to take a step back and go

  • This is not your life

  • not a

  • Representation of the whole it's not a representation of people who care for you or your friends or your audience members that like you this

  • is a representation of something on the internet that's like

  • It's a program that you can close. I can close Twitter. I can log off of time I could walk away

  • I could go have a meal somewhere to talk to my friends. I could go play some baseball

  • yeah, they're like

  • it just feels like hard it felt for us because we were just like

  • Starting and we were growing and like our careers depend on this

  • It makes us afraid that we're gonna be able to keep on going and we're not that way anymore

  • Yeah, we stepped back from that kind of a fear. Yeah

  • The very first time that we actually went to a Google office and we met YouTube employees was back in Google Korea

  • And I remember when we stepped in there. I felt like I was invited to the Oprah show

  • Yeah, I felt like this is it I've made the big time

  • This is back when we had only like 20 thousand subscribers

  • And the first thing that we were discussing with our partner manager at the time was how do we handle online trolls?

  • Yeah, it was literally the first thing like I don't know what to do this person to say negative things about us

  • We wrote back to people and we used to be really rude. Sure. I mean, I regret that so much. Nah. Yeah

  • ruh-roh root of our

  • University Souls, you know tear people down for their commentary

  • I know and it was me and we were really firing back and then they were like just ignore him

  • What do you mean, huh? It means a signaler them after talking to a partner manager

  • We realized if you're only taking care of the weeds in your garden

  • Like if there's this giant thorny, you know dandelion growing up and you're watering it and you're taking care of it

  • It's gonna grow and it's gonna take over all your beautiful flowers and all the great things. So we really said, okay

  • Well, why are we focusing on these negative things in our garden, right?

  • why don't we focus on the amazing commenters that are leaving positive comments a big step in this is

  • accepting that people are going to have negative opinions of you and you can't change that and you

  • just have to be okay with yeah the effort that you try to put

  • Into changing somebody's mind often time goes on her teaching them a lesson oftentimes won't change your minds at all

  • They'll probably even see the Commodore even respond to it

  • Not probably like most that like we've read along cause they don't even look at it now

  • You can't let that affect you and after 10 years

  • We're not perfect yet

  • But I feel like we're in a lot better place than we were when we first started and let me tell you up

  • Stepping away from talking about kpop has made things a lot easier because they nobody mad about a cheese sandwich

  • But people sure are mad when you talk about their favorite singers

  • Sure. Sure

  • Sure

  • Fun fact our McDonald's delivery video was our first viral video. Yep. I wish there was some

  • Magical way I could have McDonald's just pure doorstep

  • And I remember we went to sleep uh-huh after posting up that video yeah woke up and there were so many views it was like

  • 50,000 views on the video overnight like what?

  • what has happened here?

  • and we saw the comments and everyone was like 'this is not true'

  • American this is alive and no one knew even though in the video

  • We were like delivery in the Korea! people were like 'this

  • is a lot' and it was the first time for us to ever experience a really negative comment, right?

  • It was our first experience with troll. Yeah, and we were so shocked. Yeah, we were gonna remove it

  • I know this is terrible these people they say all these now were used to it

  • So whenever we wake up in the morning and I checked the comments. Yeah, if I see three angry comments in the row

  • I'm like, we're probably on the track. I look like yep. There we are

  • You're so ugly kill yourself you can tell now just by the comments if you're on the trending page

  • Speaking of being true to yourself. Here's another one for people that are looking to make a career online

  • Hey don't say yes to every single brand deal that comes your way. A lot of them aren't necessarily good for you

  • They're not good for your content and they're not good for your audience

  • we have said no to

  • many more than we've said yes to I think one of the things that people are afraid of is when you first get approached with

  • A brandy like for the first time ever there's a few times you think this is amazing, right?

  • If I don't say yes, then nothing will ever come my way again. Sure

  • but if

  • Someone is coming your way or if there is a deal coming your way

  • Odds are you're gonna have more it sounds like it's a fluke like we're gonna give you this money and then no other brands ever

  • gonna put exactly I I want to be able to look back on my career whether it was as a teacher or as a

  • Youtuber I want to be able to know that like everything I've said yes to that

  • I'm like, yeah, I'm glad I did that right?

  • I don't want to look back and have regret or

  • Or feel like I was selling something to you guys that I didn't believe in myself

  • Exactly whenever we do a sponsorship is usually for something that we believe our audience is gonna like

  • It's something that we believe will be useful to you

  • And it's also something that we think we can make a fun video on

  • Yeah, if it doesn't meet that criteria, we don't want to work with them

  • So there's a lot of brands that we've worked with before and when they give us a contract or when they discussed firms with us

  • It is very rare that we ever just okay to it. We'll say things like

  • well, we don't really do this approach. Like can we do it this way?

  • I prefer to do it that way and we've had a lot of people be like, especially now that u2 is become more popular

  • but we've had people say things to us like oh, well we work with

  • You and they don't make these requests and then we go. Okay, then I guess it's not gonna work

  • And then they're like wait. Wait. What do you mean? What do you mean? No, I'll give you a real quick example

  • Yeah, if you knew how many plastic surgery clinics messaged us in Korea Korea. I mean we could have 100% retired

  • I'm aware of my facial flaws. Yes, you know not have made that extreme. Don't worry

  • You've told us exactly how I blue you are

  • We know every single week our bodies just as well as you got it still don't want plastic surgery

  • It's not for me

  • And I don't blame that's a message that I want to share with other people that plastic surgery is your thing fine

  • That's not my thing. That's not something that I want to endorse for other people

  • So we turned it down multiple and many many times

  • we were really excited to be able to work with brands that were able to accept us for who we are and we were really

  • Happy to reject brands that don't want us to be ourselves and I hope that the videos that you see that are sponsored you enjoy

  • That it doesn't get in the way of you enjoying the video

  • Yeah and we always make very very sure to disclose every single brand deal that we have just in case you feel that we're being

  • Dishonest which we never will be I at least want to give you that extra bit of information so you can make the decision on

  • your own

  • Small tip that you should probably consider

  • That's a very important one if you ever get approached by a company read your contract

  • Make sure you read who owns the video rights. Make sure you read how the payment is going to be done

  • Make sure you read what their requirements are and don't be afraid to make amendments. Just read your contract

  • I can't believe how many people we've spoken with that

  • Don't read the contract and get trapped in really bad situations. And what I will say is that contracts are made to be confusing

  • Yep, when we first started reading contracts,

  • I was like, I don't know what this means when they're like the worst therefore now referred to as hit their two

  • Client's incredibly long run-on sentences, it can take us weeks

  • It can take us months and can take us a long time to read to these contracts, but that way yeah

  • We never have to get in trouble or have problems with something that we don't like if they are

  • Really complicated and you can't read it. You need to hire lawyer here and there are levels of lawyers

  • There are ones that are like made for people that can't afford lawyers

  • like us!.. and I know that some people will say like well, I don't want the money to high lawyer

  • Okay, but you won't have the money to anything after you sign your life away on this contract

  • Yeah, there is no rush have patience

  • Balance.. Zuko you must have balaaAaAncEee

  • Speaking of terrible contracts here's a very important one do not join an

  • MCN an MCN is a multi-channel network

  • You might have heard of some of them before which I'm afraid to name right now because they seem I try to see

  • But they are these like different networks that like own a bunch of content from different creators

  • Like they'll approach and be like hey, do you want to join our network? We'll give you higher CPM

  • so will give you brand deals every single youtuber that we've spoken with small and even

  • Profoundly bigger than us have had terrible

  • experiences with MCM I think the appeal with an MCN is that um

  • When you first start making YouTube videos you kind of feel like you don't know how to handle all the working parts

  • Right and a lot of people when they first join on YouTube and start doing that

  • It can feel overwhelming

  • Sure

  • and then MCN will come along and say hey you're growing fast or you're growing well and like

  • We want to help you get bigger. We want to help you do more. Its a lie. It's also

  • MCN will promise you like attention and they're gonna promise you helpful

  • We know so many people like I said profoundly bigger than us yet that have been very much neglected by their MCN

  • yeah that the MC ends take a big portion of their ad revenue and give back very little our approach was if we wanted a

  • Manager, we just decided let's separate some of our own revenue and hire our own manager that could take care of things

  • Exclusively for us and if you want to go that route

  • I highly recommend that the position that we're in in Japan is a different one

  • We're not with an MC and we're with an agency. So the agency doesn't control our videos

  • They don't have a say in what we must say or do in our videos. They don't control our ad revenue

  • That's ours if we do want to work with another company if you want to work with another Prefecture

  • Then they will help work that out because we can't speak enough Japanese in order to speak with open government

  • Yeah, maybe there's a story of somebody you heard that's doing well. We've been in this for 10 years. We've heard many many many words

  • It's time for food adventure program for awesome people the meat soup edition On February 29

  • 2012 we debuted our very first food adventure program for awesome people make it called the fat fap

  • And the reason that started was because I broke my ankle rescuing orphaned kittens from a building that was on fire

  • You broke your ankle dancing. I wrote Michel dancing on a club

  • They see me rollin they hatin *da da da da* cuz I'm white and nerdy

  • Wah wah

  • Jump dance the best kind of dance jumping in the air and this drunk person who's like rah

  • and then I landed on their foot so they broke my ankle, but it led a

  • fodd adventure

  • Program for awesome people. It's thefat fap. And now we go race you there last one. There's a rotten egg

  • When we usually come here it just us when it comes to foreigners or like older generation never seen another for and if you're a

  • person those that we've invited

  • Yeah

  • And I think it's because though it can be kind of scary and usually a lot of the menus are in completely creative and its full in korean

  • Yeah, and the soups aren't something that necessarily look like easy to understand. Yeah, look at the picture

  • It just looks like a bowl of mess and you have no idea what its gonna be all of delicious

  • hot mess some of this mess is

  • Have changed so much over time as well like you start with a formula and now we're doing fat that's on a very different way

  • With different camera angles and different approaches and we're trying high in fat BAPS and low in fat

  • Speaking of YouTube it's not a faceless corporation. It is made up of people

  • I do think that

  • One of the biggest misconceptions that's kind of floating around on the internet after any change happens ya know

  • Is that people visualize YouTube as like this big rich person or like five rich people City?

  • madmen, like just tending their fingers and they're like

  • Logarithm of your wallet are they few YouTube as very evil, but from our experience

  • That's not true. We've met over this past decade many people working on YouTube and they are without a doubt

  • Yeah

  • Some of the smartest most interesting most capable people we have ever met in our entire lives not to mention

  • Extremely hard-working and you know if there's a new feature that comes out on YouTube

  • there will be teams of people that are trying to develop it and they're not trying to develop it because they want us all to

  • Suffer as creators right there

  • They think that oh, like I think this will be really good or like I hope this new feature works out

  • Yeah And a lot of the time they will contact

  • Different youtubers like it happens with us as well and we say 'we really want ur feedback on this. We're thinking of changing this

  • What do you guys mthink' and we're capable of living our totally honest opinion, right? You'll say to them

  • Oh this is pretty real. we like this or we'll say we

  • Absolutely hate this right or we'll say this is really buggy or this is what our audience told us like when we started doing sponsors

  • With you guys sponsorship program, You guys told us things that were problems like it wasn't available in some countries, right?

  • Where the panel wasn't working or the community tab was like not working for a while and we speak with you too

  • Tell them hey, this is what needs to be fixed this of what needs to be changed

  • Here's how it could be made better. There are lots of people working on YouTube to try to make this a better thing

  • We don't see it as evil as some people make it out to be there's eNOS who we will always consider our YouTube longer

  • There's David there's bum Hugh

  • There's Jason

  • there's Jess and there's a long list of people that if we keep on naming the Oscar music will probably tell us to get off the

  • Stage but these are all really great. Really nice people

  • The reason we say that is because these people were people who believed in us

  • Well, they were there they saw us as people were more like U B U like I like what you're doing

  • I like what you're creating

  • We just had a really warm relationship with people and I think that everyone has forgotten that YouTube is made up of both creators

  • Which are people. And people working for YouTube which are people and recently there

  • Was that really terrible shooting in San Bruno?

  • and and it was the first time that I think in a long time the internet kind of remembered that YouTube was made up of

  • real human beings

  • Yeah working at a headquarter and not just like evil people set out to destroy a particular channels

  • YouTube has become this huge platform. So it's being run by tons and tons and tons of teams all around the world

  • This isn't to say that YouTube is perfect and we're gonna give them a pass for everything

  • YouTube can definitely improve and we see trying to improve but I'm not gonna believe that they're terrible

  • You just can't convince me. No. Simon&Martina fun fact!

  • Ok, so welcome to our first episode of TL DR Thursday's where we answer all your questions in video format our very first TL DR

  • Which means too long didn't read and those are the ones where we do like informational programs

  • I don't like this one

  • First one we ever put out was May 19

  • 2011 and a lot of people don't know this but there's Simon and Martina, which is our main channel

  • Yeah, and then there's Simon and Martina

  • Bonus bonus in which we have like some bloopers from our videos

  • We do some like live streams there also, and before we used to do arty on your segments

  • Eventually, we put it up on our main channel

  • We actually uploaded 62 videos to Simon and Martina bonus on since 2011

  • And we went on to do a lot of like really really deep topics not including mistakes

  • We made in Korea being a foreigner in Korea

  • modesty Korean versus North American beauty standards bullying in South Korea crime and safety

  • Sexism teen pregnancy and we tackled a lot

  • So for those of you looking to like dig into more information about Korea head on over to Simon&Martina bonus

  • we're gonna end up this video by answering pazi's question again from the riba a lot of support on the communities have

  • And she says where do you think your channel is headed in the next 5 10 maybe 20 years an answer is we don't know

  • We we're terrible at predicting things

  • We thought we'd be in Korea for one year and the Japan for one year and we were really wrong on both

  • Ends, we're not good at predicting. What we want to do is to let inspiration take us wherever it is

  • the reason why we're so interested in food videos here in Japan is because there's a whole new level of

  • Detail and passion that we're noticing in chefs. That's

  • Inspiring us to ask more questions and when we lose an inspiration and we start looking somewhere else

  • we're gonna keep following that for as long as we possibly can and I really hope that you could come along with us for the

  • journey

  • You guys have been looking forward to more of those like TLDR segments where we answer more questions about the country were living in sure

  • And I'm sure we're gonna do that in the future

  • But as you saw it was 2011 when we started that in Korea, so it was 3 years before we started doing that

  • So we still need to get to know Japan as well before we start digging into other stuff exactly

  • We can't really predict what we're gonna talk about yet

  • We're gonna do I just hope that it's something that still gives you guys a smile

  • I want to make sure our videos make you guys happy

  • Yeah, and I want you to be able to know that if you watch one of our videos say alright

  • This is gonna help me build

  • My ladder. This is gonna help me like keep going or have a great week

  • and that's basically the only perspective that I have all of these we're just gonna keep on making videos because we like them and I

  • Hope that you're gonna watch them

  • but even if you don't we'll keep making them in our 50s and 60s when we're

  • Puttering about in our gardens in our rocking chairs. Like we enjoy what we're doing. This is fun

  • It's hey, Martina is gonna read you a passage from her favorite book

  • Simon is it Simon is this and focus a little?

  • Focus and this thing on is this new friend angle thing on Simon. We love you guys

  • Thank you for staying with us. If you're new to our channel. Thank you for coming with us on this current new little journey

  • We're on and yeah, he thanks for being with us and seeing I um be silly. I might end this with a montage

  • Whoa, we've been to you for a long time and I am NOT the sprightly energy that I had of yesteryear

  • I can't offer this long without *inaudible* my nap

  • this

  • is time for us to go to sleep time for sleep adventure program for tired old people sounds like old people

  • Anyeosaeyo (anyeonghaseyo)

Both: Three, two, one, Happy 10 year YouTube anniversary!

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