” YouTube has always been a diary for me. I’m here to share what I do, share my life, and if people want to watch, more power to them. But regardless of my intention, if people are looking at what I do and am treating it like I’m a role model, it doesn’t matter whether or not I want to be. “
” When I first thought about leaving the traditional route of a 9-to-5 career to pursue full-time YouTube, it was terrifying – not many people were doing it. The thought was I have to have money saved up, because this very likely might fail. From the start, I had to give it my all for it to work. “
” Narcissism has existed for a long time, social media is just a new outlet to express it. Anybody who is going to record themselves and put that on the Internet, hoping people will watch, there is a degree to which that exists, yeah. I don’t know if I would call myself a narcissist. I don’t necessarily identify with that label. “
” Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search ‘coming out,’ and they’ll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story. “
” I feel like everybody, whether you have one follower or a million followers, has an opportunity to either positively or negatively affect people. “
” People just want to watch people live their authentic lives and share the good and the bad. You can have fun and be a positive influence and have a good impact. And it can still be entertaining. “
” To me, what’s really an important difference between traditional entertainment and digital – on YouTube specifically – is that people thrive when they’re authentic about themselves. “
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