Interview with Josh

The person started making skits in fifth grade after being inspired by another kid's video. Ideas for skits come from inspiration and watching funny things. Their family was supportive of their social media platform. Gaining followers was overwhelming but expected due to the effort put into each video. The advice for growing a platform is to study successful creators and learn from them. All right, thank you for that. So what got you into making these skits? Was it your idea or did something or someone inspire you to start filming? Honestly, I started when I was in fifth grade. I saw some other kid make like a little skit in iMovie, and I watched it and I was like, that is just the funniest thing I've ever seen. And I knew once I saw that, I was like, I want to do this, like, I need to be making these videos because it's hilarious and I love it. Nice. And do the ideas just normally pop into your head or do you have to think about them? How do they come to you? Sometimes they pop in. Honestly, that's pretty rare, though, that a good idea will pop in. Most of the time, it's, you know, inspiration from something, something else that you watch or something that you see is funny and you're like, oh, I can spin this and kind of make this into a funny video, you know, or I can do this cool idea with some special effects. So most of the time, it's inspiration from something. Right, right. And I know that growing a platform, especially in, like, our society today can be, a lot of people have a lot of different thoughts on it, so what did your family think about it? Honestly, my family, my parents didn't know much about social media, and all of my siblings are younger than me, so they didn't know much about it either, so I was kind of the only one. But they were cool with it. They were always super supportive about it, and they thought it was cool. All right. And then for you personally, what did it feel like to gain all these followers? Did you ever find it overwhelming or kind of scary? Yeah. It was nuts, honestly. I remember the first night that I kind of started blowing up. It was super surreal, and, you know, the adrenaline rush is always crazy when you get that first million views, but I was also kind of prepared for it because, you know, each video that I make takes hours to make, so it's not, you know, it's not really getting lucky and just posting something and blowing up like a lot of people do. It's very calculated, and, you know, I was kind of prepared for it because I feel like when you really work at something for that long and you really love it and you're really passionate about it, you're bound to succeed at some point if you don't give up. And then for anyone who's interested in making videos and growing a platform on social media, what advice would you give to them? I would say, you know, keep going and definitely look at what's succeeding and, you know, think about what kind of content you like to make and then think about, you know, people that are already succeeding in that field and... I completely lost my train of thought. Let me restart. What was the question? So, what advice would you give to someone interested in making videos and growing a platform on social media? Yeah, I would say keep going and definitely look at people who are already succeeding in, you know, the type of content that you want to create because that's how you'll really learn what is succeeding and, you know, learn what gets views and gets engagement. And, honestly, try to almost recreate some videos that they're making, not completely copy and just post their content, you know, but obviously just look at the formula that they have, look at specific things that they're doing, and just, you know, learn as much as you can and watch, you know, YouTube videos, look at what's trending and stuff like that and try to, you know, cultivate your content from there. All right. Well, thank you so much for sharing and best of luck in filming in the future. Awesome. Thank you.