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When we all started at school,
they would laugh at us.
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They would say, "Why do you sit at home
and talk while you play games?
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That's so weird."
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And to now where you say,
"I'm a YouTuber. I'm making videos."
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people go, "Ah! That's so cool."
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If you told me ten years ago,
we're gonna be here,
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I would've laughed.
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Ten years ago, I was just this kid
in my bedroom with a dream thinking,
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"Oh, it'd be cool
to just make a few videos online
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and see where it gets me."
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Hey, guys. Ah, and…
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… welcome to The Sidemen Channel.
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The Sidemen are a group of YouTubers
that are just smashing it right now.
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The Sidemen pioneered the idea
of a YouTube group.
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I don't think there's anyone
doing it bigger or better than them.
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They get 300 million plus views
every single month.
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They get over a billion impressions
every month.
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244 million followers, and that is huge.
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It goes to show
how powerful a group can be.
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The feds are gonna lock us up.
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-They're gonna lock us up.
-We're totally getting arrested.
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You can't plan relatability.
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It's a group of friends
organically having fun on camera.
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Here we go!
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Something that you can't fake.
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You have this group of seven young men.
They all have such distinct personalities.
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When they all come together,
it's just this amazing magic.
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Say it again!
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We had experts come along
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and the one resounding thing
that they always say is,
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"Everything we do shouldn't work."
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It shouldn't work, but it does.
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The highest earning video is $587,000.
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It makes sense. It is on 92 million views.
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-Shout for KSI.
-Making way for the Sidemen.
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The fact that KSI has blown up
is really helpful for the Sidemen.
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Thank you for having me.
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-Ultimately, it's a great marketing tool.
-KSI!
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A lot of people
want mainstream acceptance,
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and they want acceptance by Hollywood.
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But who the hell cares?
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If you're a YouTuber getting
20-30 million views a video,
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you're getting more views than, you know,
the last ten movies to come out to buy.
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Who cares what Hollywood thinks?
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Yo.
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For fuck's sake.
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Everyone recognises that people
are watching channels on YouTube.
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They're not watching
the TV screens any more.
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Behaviour changed
because technology changed
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and kids are the first ones who adapt.
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Do you think that the Sidemen Sundays
would be as popular if they were on TV?
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-No.
-No.
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TV's dead.
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An online creator is able to give you
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as much or as little of themselves
as they want, and it's not filtered.
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And that is a level of engagement
that hasn't ever existed before.
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I've been running myself into the ground
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till like 4:00 or 5:00,
and like I do not feel okay.
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What the Sidemen have is so much lore.
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We've got ten years' worth of experiences,
emotional ups and downs,
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where they're falling out
or not getting on as well.
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…but I'm going home.
I'd rather get in the cab and fuck off.
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Or the dynamics in the group are shifting.
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I am no longer with the Sidemen.
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But again, it's still content.
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Bro, what is this?
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It's a bit mad with fans,
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like there's places we can't go.
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We've kind of been swarmed
and locked in a little bit.
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They're gonna hate me for saying this,
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but it's like the One Direction
of YouTube.
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Yes. You might watch my videos,
but no, you're not invited to my house.
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We had some kids run in
and kind of interrupt us mid-filming.
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I don't know
how much more mental it can get
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and I don't wanna find out,
to be honest.
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We're dancing, bro. Jeez.
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-How you doing, man?
-I'm good man. Good to be back.
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-What you been up to since the…
-What have I been up to?
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Bro, I've been, erm, well,
I went Seychelles for a little bit.
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Er, about nine days. That was quite nice.
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And now, I'm out here at Sidemen,
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and, er, we've got a crazy shoot
Takeshi's Castle style shoot.
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-Mmm-hmm.
-And, er,
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I've seen a few of the sets.
It looks mental.
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All right. Oh, my God. Oh, my God, bro.
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Look at this set.
It looks so much better in person.
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Bro, our production.
We keep going up, bro.
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Come on.
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-Brother, how you doing?
-Welcome on set.
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You have lost a little bit of weight.
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-Yeah. Can I play in the charity match?
-No.
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No, no, but…
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-Like…
-Being strong.
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-I've been trying.
-Fair play.
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-Thanks, man.
-Jeez. This looks incredible.
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Yeah, I know.
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It looks sick. This looks very sick.
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Lovely stuff, mate.
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This isn't green.
This is a bit bougie, innit.
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Yeah.
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We levelled up a little bit.
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Me, Vik, and Tobe are together on
this one. They're collaborative efforts.
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It's our most expensive
and largest video ever.
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Not too bad. Looks pretty good.
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I disagree with what he's saying.
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Oh. Nice to meet you.
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Nice to meet you, too.
What are we filming for?
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-Er, this is our doc, right?
-Oh, really?
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We've always had our eye
on Takeshi's Castle for the longest time.
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We grew up watching it as a game show,
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and this was the most fun thing
that we could land on
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that would kind of mesh
what MrBeast does and what Sidemen is.
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So hopefully, it all works out, erm…
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Well, thanks for the life story, Vik.
I appreciate that.
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We're making…
We're making a long-form video, Harry.
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-My honest opinion.
-Go on.
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I wouldn't have chosen this one.
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Fair.
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Well, it was a balance between
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what can we build without it
costing another hundred grand,
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and what will be entertaining to watch.
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To be fair, this actually cost a lot.
This floor cost like 50 grand.
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What? What? This?
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-It's all printed, like…
-It's a mat.
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No, hang on a minute.
I could've print this for half the price.
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Twenty grand.
He would've hand-drawn it.
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You can do that next time.
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Oh, I bloody well will.
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-Okay. Something like that.
-For 50 grand?
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-Forgive me if I'm wrong.
-Fifty grand?
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-I can see the seams.
-TP.
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It's not even lined up.
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Okay, guys, all cameras rolling, please.
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Three, two, one, go.
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Awesome. Yes, now.
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-Is this, er…
-Round two.
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We're doing… We're doing… Sorry.
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No. It's all right. It's all right.
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-I just wanted to cut him off.
-What was your question?
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I was gonna ask is this how it goes
or is the flow better for you guys?
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Oh, no. No, this is… This is always…
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-It's always fucking…
-Okay, good.
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It's always a shit-show.
No. No, mate.
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Go Sidemen.
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When we started Sidemen Sundays,
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they were pretty much always in our house,
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and there may have not even been
a cameraman.
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Now we have productions
with tons of staff on,
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have whole sets being built.
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There's green rooms.
There's catering.
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There's all sorts going on.
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-Ooh!
-Oh!
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There's a big hole.
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So now it feels like
it's a fully-fledged production
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where before it was kids with cameras.
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Tobi, eight. Take two.
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See that's so surreal.
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I used to fake that as a kid, like,
emulate what I see on TV
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and now it's happening. Fuck.
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Mum, I made it.
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The core Sidemen members
is me and Tobi who went to school together
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and then you have JJ and Simon
who went to school together.
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Me and JJ were friends through YouTube.
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Funnily enough,
I was beating KSI at one point.
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I've got something different.
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We're doing a set-up video
for the first time ever.
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Josh was one of the first
OG YouTubers.
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He was getting crazy views,
and, yeah, he was seen as that guy.
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He was the person I looked up to.
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I was like, "Whoa,
it's Josh, like Zerkaa HD."
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Hey, what?
Why's he taking that down? No.
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-Help.
-No. No.
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Me and Josh
used to play FIFA together.
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He was, like, top 200 in the world.
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The numbers were astronomical
for that time.
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100,000 people watching your stuff.
It was mind-blowing.
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I heard of YouTube so late,
and it was because of JJ.
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Word kind of got around
that he was posting videos,
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but no one could really believe it,
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'cause at school he was, you know,
this very quiet, shy, reserved guy.
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Then you'd go on YouTube…
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He's there going
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It was just surreal to see.
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Grade Five, motherfucker.
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I met Simon through school.
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In Year 7, we hated each other.
We would always be fighting.
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Then for some reason, in Year 8 onwards
we just were cool.
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We forgot about everything,
and we were bless.
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Ethan comes into that story,
this was, like, 2012
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and on my birthday
I was watching Twitch streams,
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and he was streaming FIFA and enjoying it.
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You could tell like,
"Oh, he's, like, a London lad."
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It was good vibes, good fun. He's fun.
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I got on with well very quickly.
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There's a lot of, like,
common interests we had.
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People didn't care about
how many goals we scored in FIFA,
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they cared about the commentary
and the fun and the jokes.
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♪ I'm playing FIFA ♪
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One night,
something's wrong with YouTube,
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and when things go wrong,
me and Vik would talk.
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But at the time, I was
in another Skype call with the other boys.
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And we were chatting about it,
and Vik was chatting to me, personally.
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So I was like,
"Oh, Vik, just come in the call."
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It's bizarre when you think
you can pinpoint individual sentences
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that changed the course
of the next ten years of all of our lives.
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Harry joined the Sidemen
because he was blowing up crazily.
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Ah.
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He was a superstar before the Sidemen.
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He was the young FIFA guy
that made his own comment.
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Oh, my fucking… What the fuck! I am done!
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Oh, shit! Oh, that's properly fucked.
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My unique selling point
was that I was really bad at the game,
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but I enjoyed
the whole video-making process.
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He came and he stuck and, erm,
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he's like, sort of,
forever been under the wing.
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At the end of the day,
we were just friends.
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People ended up connecting with us
'cause of our connection on screens.
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It's quite cute, really.
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The first Sidemen house
is a fun one.
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It's just of me, Simon, Vik and JJ.
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And from the get-go the attitude was,
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"We're here. We're working.
We're going for it."
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Kitchen! Fridge!
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-Zebra in a box.
-Hello.
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The first Sidemen house was known by many
as the factory.
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And believe me, that was…
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that was an assembly line of content
all hours of the day.
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We'd eat dinner, film, finish filming,
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go downstairs,
film something else in the kitchen,
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wake up, edit, edit, edit.
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And then go back into that same routine
every day.
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These guys are sitting in every day
playing video games.
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I just couldn't believe what I was seeing.
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Like these guys continuously working.
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And, yeah, I… Look, I don't think
it is healthy to work as much as they did.
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These guys are confined in their rooms,
sitting, playing video games non-stop.
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But you could argue
like that was the difference maker
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between them being where they are now
and… and maybe a different outcome.
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You boys have no life!
You don't do anything!
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You sit in your bedrooms
all day, getting old!
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Your… your lives withering away!
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What are you doing with your…
go do something!
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Why? Why? You can't just stare at a screen
till you're 60?
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Live! Experience the life!
Visit a country. Do something.
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I can't.
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Do anything, bro. Go on a hike.
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At the start,
I didn't see it as a job.
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I was, literally, posting every day
because I wanted to.
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I'm literally living with my best mates,
and everything I'm doing is fun.
252
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So why not just do that all the time?
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Best episode is definitely the one with,
er, the--
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What the fuck? For fuck's sake.
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Do what?
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Oh, shit. Oh. Ah. Ah.
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It was relentless. It didn't stop.
But everything was paying off so well
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and the space was, compared to now,
it was so unsaturated,
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that the more content we could make,
the more views we were gonna get.
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There was no level of quality
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that had hit the platform
in the same way that it has now.
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So, for us, it was a win-win-win.
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It was fascinating
to be part of YouTube early on
264
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and seeing those talented young people
creating the future back then.
265
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And many people didn't understand,
including myself.
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It was unique.
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It's seldom you have that feeling.
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When something is created
that is beyond those people creating it,
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they didn't even understand
what they were creating.
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The main difference
between YouTube
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and the traditional media companies,
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it's an issue of control and gatekeeping.
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So the broadcasters would always,
in the past,
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have been the people who would decide
who's on TV,
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what they're doing on TV.
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YouTube completely turned that
on its head.
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It effectively said, there's no barriers
for you to get your content out there.
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You can do what you like.
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There's not gonna be a producer
or a commissioner
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telling you exactly how to do that.
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That's where things have been interesting
over the last 15 years.
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It was like a perfect storm really
283
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because every success you was having
was new.
284
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It was exciting,
and you was on the treadmill.
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But when you're on it, it's so natural.
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You could be on the fastest setting,
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and you're going,
and nothing can stop you.
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You're just going, going, going.
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The Zerkaa name
holds a lot of weight.
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If we're taking about Sidemen stuff,
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I wanna hear what Josh thinks about it
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'cause I just feel like he's a very
tuned-in guy about that kind of stuff.
293
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He's also just a nice guy.
He's a friendly guy.
294
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Josh has been the same
for as long as I've known him.
295
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Very fun, but at the same time
very calculated and smart
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and he thinks about everything
that he does.
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One thing that nobody knows about you.
298
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-Oh. One thing.
-Nobody though?
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Nobody. You're revealing a secret
to the world
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-for the first time, exclusive…
-We know.
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Premiere.
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Things you don't know about me.
Erm, ah. I suffer from crippling anxiety.
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I… sometimes have panic attacks
in the shower 'cause of fear of death.
304
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My anxiety,
it's a mixture of things.
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It makes me very hyper-aware
of everything.
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I'm very calculated in what I do.
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But that doesn't come because I want to.
It comes 'cause of how I think.
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It works for me,
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but, obviously, it's not an ideal thing
to be doing I guess.
310
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It's weird though, right?
311
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Like, it's a weird discussion
'cause obviously like,
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"Should I feel bad about that?
Is it a good thing?"
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I… I'm very anxious,
so it made me very good at work.
314
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The way that I've always dealt with things
is… was through gaming.
315
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It's like a whole world
you can go and escape in.
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And the greatest example that I use
is the reason why I'm here today
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is because, when I was younger,
my parents got divorced
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and when there was arguments going on
or stuff going on,
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sat in my room,
played Call of Duty all night
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which led me to go down the path
of playing Call of Duty competitively,
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which then led me to be a YouTuber
which is where I am today.
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So, in the weirdest way possible,
323
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those arguments and my parents
breaking up,
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was one of the best things that happened.
325
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-It's mental.
-It is insane, innit.
326
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-Actually insane.
-Got a little inside theatre.
327
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Bro's got a cinema in his house.
328
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-This the master bedroom?
-Yes.
329
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So if you want tonight, er,
press the button, put the shades down.
330
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It's actually scary.
I know everywhere here way too well.
331
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You've picked the locations
'cause of GTA?
332
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Yeah.
333
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Do you know how sad it is
that I know GTA road names off by heart?
334
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-That's pretty--
-Like the whole city. It's fucked up.
335
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I tried to catch the spares,
so I don't catch nothing.
336
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-Harry, anything?
-I'm ready to have a great day.
337
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All right, guys, gather up.
338
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Maybe, just saying,
we just get the shot and then
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we'll just cheat it in the edit,
so it looks like at the same time.
340
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-Ready?
-All right. Let's get it.
341
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Welcome to LA, boys.
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This time, we're in America.
343
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Basically, we're trying to get
that MrBeast American audience.
344
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I feel like we've had everything but that.
345
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We've definitely conquered the UK.
We've smashed it in Europe.
346
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We, kind of, just need
that American audience
347
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and this is a great way to do it,
us being out here,
348
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showing, you know,
the love that we have for America
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and also making good videos out here.
350
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I'm excited, man. I feel like
this is gonna take us to the next level.
351
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It's finally here.
352
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Okay can you… bro.
353
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-You don't know what we're doing.
-What do you mean?
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Like we don't know what we're…
what this is?
355
00:19:25.520 --> 00:19:28.880
Oh, what you do?
Walk up, say your name, your age.
356
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Ten shakes, ten guys.
357
00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:32.720
-Do we have to make up the lines?
-Yeah.
358
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-I've gotta get to work, bro.
-Why'd you have to work?
359
00:19:35.320 --> 00:19:36.520
-I…
-What do you mean?
360
00:19:36.600 --> 00:19:38.000
I don't have any lines, dude.
361
00:19:38.080 --> 00:19:41.800
The US trip was something.
We filmed like three videos out there.
362
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Er, I'm KSI, 29 and, er…
363
00:19:45.520 --> 00:19:47.200
Okay.
364
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Spent something around
half a million dollars on that trip.
365
00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:54.720
So there's a lot of money
going into these projects
366
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which is, in return,
a lot of pressure to deliver.
367
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It'd be in Hollywood.
It'd be near our hotel.
368
00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:02.240
Mate, and also,
the quicker you get stuff done,
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the less traffic there'll be coming back
from Venice Beach to Hollywood.
370
00:20:06.280 --> 00:20:07.280
All right.
371
00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:10.720
So just make sure
they just don't go mope about…
372
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Yeah, that's good.
That's good content, anyway. All right.
373
00:20:13.360 --> 00:20:14.840
Er, I'm just tired.
374
00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:17.520
-No one's had any sleep.
-No one's had sleep.
375
00:20:17.600 --> 00:20:20.640
It was all a bit like chaotic and…
and crazy.
376
00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:23.880
It's a ropey one. It's, er,
a lot of pressure on this video.
377
00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:26.480
And you think, "Oh, yeah.
LA's a great place to film."
378
00:20:26.560 --> 00:20:28.080
Erm, turns out it's not.
379
00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:31.160
America is a, sort of, awkward place
to film 'cause they all know.
380
00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:35.600
They get it. They understand filming,
so like, "Right. You guys earn money.
381
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We will charge you this much, use this."
382
00:20:38.120 --> 00:20:40.440
And it's just ridiculous rates
all the time.
383
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Whatever happens, you roll
with the punches and make it work.
384
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That's what we do.
385
00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:46.960
We make stuff work
regardless of the circumstances.
386
00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:51.160
A lot of people underestimate
387
00:20:51.240 --> 00:20:53.960
how hard it is to be successful
as a creator.
388
00:20:54.040 --> 00:20:57.520
And I get really frustrated with
how dismissive people are of creators
389
00:20:57.600 --> 00:20:58.760
thinking, "Oh, it's easy."
390
00:20:58.840 --> 00:21:01.200
They're in their bedroom,
and they just talk nonsense.
391
00:21:01.280 --> 00:21:03.000
That is rubbish.
392
00:21:03.080 --> 00:21:08.000
It is so hard to get cut-through,
particularly on a platform like YouTube
393
00:21:08.080 --> 00:21:11.040
where there are 600 hours uploaded
every minute.
394
00:21:16.600 --> 00:21:20.360
I do think it's good. How are you?
Jump in the middle.
395
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Okay.
396
00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:24.520
-Thank you, man.
-Thank you, guys. Thank you.
397
00:21:28.520 --> 00:21:30.320
Nice to meet you guys.
398
00:21:32.280 --> 00:21:34.640
Oh, my God.
I don't wanna make you feel old,
399
00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:37.440
but back when I was younger, dude,
I still watch y'all today.
400
00:21:37.520 --> 00:21:39.840
-I'm kind of shaky, so…
-Thank you very much.
401
00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:41.920
You know, thank you. Thank you.
402
00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:46.720
Fans feel like they know us better
than traditional celebrities
403
00:21:46.800 --> 00:21:48.960
'cause they are seeing us as us.
404
00:21:49.040 --> 00:21:51.120
When you see a footballer,
you see them kick a ball.
405
00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:52.440
You don't see any personality.
406
00:21:52.520 --> 00:21:54.560
When you see an actor,
they're being someone else.
407
00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:56.640
When it's us, you're literally seeing…
408
00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:58.760
you know, you're seeing Tobi be Tobi.
That's it.
409
00:22:03.040 --> 00:22:05.040
-How are you? Feeling good?
-Good.
410
00:22:05.120 --> 00:22:06.480
Good man. Good chilling.
411
00:22:06.560 --> 00:22:09.080
-Yeah. Can I get a picture?
-Of course you can, brother.
412
00:22:10.040 --> 00:22:12.360
-Bet you didn't expect to see me.
-Yeah. Nope!
413
00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:14.800
Honest… Honestly no.
414
00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:18.640
-You filming YouTube?
-Yeah, bro. We're doing a road trip.
415
00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:24.280
-I'm in the middle of the desert, bro…
-And someone's clicked you.
416
00:22:24.360 --> 00:22:25.800
That's so crazy, man.
417
00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:28.480
You lot are crazy.
I fucking love you lot so much, man.
418
00:22:37.560 --> 00:22:40.360
They're running to me.
This is not safe.
419
00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:41.600
Ah.
420
00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:43.080
Hello, everyone.
421
00:22:43.160 --> 00:22:48.000
Our first event as the Sidemen Insomnia
was a real eye-opener.
422
00:22:48.080 --> 00:22:49.960
It legitimised what we did.
423
00:22:50.040 --> 00:22:56.040
It turned those numbers and those comments
into real faces, real people.
424
00:22:56.120 --> 00:22:59.720
It really started to make us understand
the power of the Sidemen brand,
425
00:22:59.800 --> 00:23:02.320
more so than we did up until that point.
426
00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:08.000
The one, the only the Sidemen.
Sidemen, everyone. Whoo!
427
00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:30.200
That was the first time, I think,
we realised that it was like a big deal.
428
00:23:30.280 --> 00:23:32.720
Felt really weird
'cause we do everything online
429
00:23:32.800 --> 00:23:35.880
and then you go to this place
and you're meeting these people.
430
00:23:35.960 --> 00:23:37.480
It was really weird.
431
00:23:37.560 --> 00:23:39.120
And back then, that was mental.
432
00:23:42.360 --> 00:23:46.040
They ran a merch stall
at Insomnia, and they ran it as cash only.
433
00:23:46.120 --> 00:23:48.560
This is… this is how humble
their background was, right?
434
00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:51.920
They literally had printed some t-shirts
and hoodies, took them to this event
435
00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:55.080
and Josh said he had a rucksack
with £100,000 in cash.
436
00:23:55.160 --> 00:23:59.880
It was at that moment, for me,
I was… you know, brought to my attention
437
00:23:59.960 --> 00:24:03.080
how powerful these guys are
in that community.
438
00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:06.240
All right. That's the end of Insomnia!
439
00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:11.720
Yeah. Thank you, guys.
440
00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:14.240
That's a wrap.
441
00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:20.800
In the early days,
442
00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:26.920
monetisation made it possible
to create this industry.
443
00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:30.520
I was a broke-ass uni student, right?
I was living off of Subway points.
444
00:24:30.600 --> 00:24:33.800
I promise you, like my Subway card
was the most valuable thing in my wallet.
445
00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:36.880
When I'm seeing that the stuff
that I'm doing on YouTube
446
00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:39.400
has the potential to get me some money
447
00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:43.400
that I can use to pay off these expenses
that I have while I'm studying,
448
00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:46.000
I'm like, "Okay, cool.
That is a motivating factor."
449
00:24:46.080 --> 00:24:47.600
It was like, "Hang on a second.
450
00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:50.000
The more I can crank
this number of views up,
451
00:24:50.080 --> 00:24:52.960
the more money I get in my bank
at the end of the month.
452
00:24:53.040 --> 00:24:55.280
The more validation this has,
453
00:24:55.360 --> 00:24:57.800
the more cool things
that I can buy and do."
454
00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:01.640
You uploaded these videos
on a weekly basis,
455
00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:03.240
and you got more and more audience,
456
00:25:03.320 --> 00:25:05.520
and suddenly, the algorithm recognise you
457
00:25:05.600 --> 00:25:08.600
and you start making money on advertising
that YouTube was selling.
458
00:25:09.720 --> 00:25:12.760
And the big ones were making millions.
459
00:25:15.560 --> 00:25:18.320
I got a bloody Lambo
when I was like 18
460
00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:21.280
'cause I was making decent money
back then.
461
00:25:21.360 --> 00:25:24.680
Obviously a horrendous
and fiscally irresponsible idea
462
00:25:24.760 --> 00:25:27.120
because the insurance itself
cost more than the car.
463
00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:29.080
Look what I've done already.
464
00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:31.080
It was ridiculous.
465
00:25:31.160 --> 00:25:34.960
I bought a pair of shoes that was $30,000.
466
00:25:35.040 --> 00:25:36.920
-Ah!
-Mate.
467
00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:38.840
$35,000.
468
00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:40.840
Ta-da.
469
00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:42.040
Bought a gold PS5.
470
00:25:42.120 --> 00:25:44.120
Looks like you're holding a baby.
471
00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:47.040
No. I'd take way more care with this.
472
00:25:47.120 --> 00:25:48.600
Baby ain't worth $8,000.
473
00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:51.240
Oh. Whoa.
474
00:25:54.560 --> 00:25:58.360
Buying a Lamborghini
and then colouring it purple Tron
475
00:25:58.440 --> 00:26:02.240
even having, like,
Need For Speed LED lights underneath.
476
00:26:02.320 --> 00:26:06.160
I mean it looked cool as fuck
but the amount of attention that I got…
477
00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:08.080
was incredible.
478
00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:17.040
When I was younger, I'd always be like,
"I need this amount of money."
479
00:26:17.120 --> 00:26:20.760
And when I've got this amount of money,
I can just stop doing YouTube
480
00:26:20.840 --> 00:26:23.040
and just live my life and travel and…
481
00:26:23.120 --> 00:26:26.560
because that's really what I wanna do.
I wanna have fun and do stuff.
482
00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:28.920
But then I realised,
I should really be saving
483
00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:31.280
in case I've got like a family
in the future.
484
00:26:31.360 --> 00:26:33.920
And I wanna like put my money
to a good cause
485
00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:36.240
and like do like actual
good stuff with it.
486
00:26:43.080 --> 00:26:47.360
Harry is unapologetically himself.
And he's just so weird.
487
00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:48.720
No, no, no, no, no, no.
488
00:26:48.800 --> 00:26:50.920
-He's so weird.
489
00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:53.440
But normal at the same time.
490
00:26:53.520 --> 00:26:55.000
People know he's outrageous.
491
00:26:55.080 --> 00:26:58.600
People know he says outrageous things.
He's free to be that.
492
00:26:58.680 --> 00:26:59.520
Ah.
493
00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:03.480
Ooh.
494
00:27:03.560 --> 00:27:05.240
So what this intro was meant to be
495
00:27:05.320 --> 00:27:08.160
was me hitting the bucket of drinks
all over my mum.
496
00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:09.160
But instead…
497
00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:25.320
I was really lucky
to grow up in Guernsey
498
00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:29.440
because it's just like the perfect little
adventure playground for a kid.
499
00:27:29.520 --> 00:27:33.800
I used to build like treehouses and stuff.
I used to just, I don't know, muck about.
500
00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:34.960
I was bit of a weird kid
501
00:27:35.040 --> 00:27:37.840
so I didn't have a load of friends
when I was growing up there
502
00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:41.480
but I think being the weird kid
pushed me into doing YouTube.
503
00:27:41.560 --> 00:27:45.400
As soon as YouTube was like a half-thing
like people were posting, I was on there.
504
00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:47.520
And I know a lot of the guys
are OGs on YouTube,
505
00:27:47.600 --> 00:27:49.080
but I promise you I wasn't far behind
506
00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:51.920
because I was posting, like…
not even like proper videos,
507
00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:54.960
Just like me editing
like special effects of stuff.
508
00:27:55.040 --> 00:27:58.800
Hey, guys.
This is gonna be a quick…
509
00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:00.280
unedited vlog…
510
00:28:00.360 --> 00:28:03.400
For Adam on your PC
for his Christmas collab video, erm,
511
00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:05.960
pretty much all I have to say is
Merry Christmas.
512
00:28:06.040 --> 00:28:08.000
I hope you get all the presents you want.
513
00:28:08.080 --> 00:28:10.000
And if you don't, then shoot Santa.
514
00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:13.200
Harry Stevens
on camera really. He's very lovable.
515
00:28:13.280 --> 00:28:14.640
Now we're talking.
516
00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:18.200
Like a Golden retriever, like a Labrador.
Like that type of energy.
517
00:28:18.280 --> 00:28:20.600
He's just cuddly, you know?
So he's a great guy.
518
00:28:20.680 --> 00:28:21.840
Very hard worker as well.
519
00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:24.800
People think maybe…
they would think that he's, like, lazy
520
00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:27.600
'cause he doesn't post all the time
but he's not.
521
00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:29.280
When he sets out to do something,
522
00:28:29.360 --> 00:28:32.640
he does it to the best of his ability,
and he creates the best content.
523
00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.520
A hard work ethic is really the glue
that binds the seven of them together.
524
00:28:37.600 --> 00:28:39.600
The fact that they keep doing it
525
00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:42.160
with such a smile on their face,
loving what they do,
526
00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:45.440
is a testament to their friendship
but also that work ethic
527
00:28:45.520 --> 00:28:48.760
which really has enabled them
to get to this position.
528
00:28:48.840 --> 00:28:52.000
'cause not many people are here
after ten years,
529
00:28:52.080 --> 00:28:54.400
more relevant than ever
and growing at a pace
530
00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:57.720
that you would assume this was
their first year, not their tenth.
531
00:28:57.800 --> 00:29:00.640
What do you think motivates us
to keep going?
532
00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:02.280
Legacy.
533
00:29:02.360 --> 00:29:04.680
-I mean for me it's always legacy, but--
-Ego.
534
00:29:04.760 --> 00:29:07.920
I think deep down we've worked so hard
to get to the top that…
535
00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:09.960
-We don't wanna let it go.
-We can't let go now.
536
00:29:10.040 --> 00:29:11.280
Don't wanna be washed.
537
00:29:11.360 --> 00:29:14.240
That's the same reason
why I assume you still post videos
538
00:29:14.320 --> 00:29:15.880
'cause you could stop tomorrow,
539
00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:17.480
-and you would slowly like--
-He has.
540
00:29:17.560 --> 00:29:19.480
He stopped two years ago.
541
00:29:19.560 --> 00:29:21.600
-Sidemen.
-No. But you could stop Sidemen.
542
00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:25.280
-You could stop Sidemen. You could chill.
-I'm down for that. That's a great plan.
543
00:29:25.360 --> 00:29:26.360
So why don't you leave?
544
00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:28.640
He's like, "Can't wait
for this thing to end."
545
00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:30.240
Yeah. I think… I think I'm close.
546
00:29:30.320 --> 00:29:32.480
I think I'm… I think I'm close.
547
00:29:32.560 --> 00:29:34.560
We all laugh when he says it. Yeah…
548
00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:37.160
No. I always hear the…
you can hear the truth in his voice.
549
00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:38.520
The truth in it every time.
550
00:29:38.600 --> 00:29:40.920
-But like what is…
-It gets stronger every time as well.
551
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:44.640
What keeps you going
from stopping tomorrow?
552
00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:46.240
Because I enjoy it still.
553
00:29:46.320 --> 00:29:47.560
I enjoy, er, I enjoy it.
554
00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:50.400
But also I enjoy the… It's… this stuff.
555
00:29:53.320 --> 00:29:56.880
This is like… and like the shoots…
the shoots I enjoy, it's just…
556
00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:59.680
It's everything
where you are technically in charge.
557
00:30:00.360 --> 00:30:01.360
I guess so. Yeah.
558
00:30:01.440 --> 00:30:03.640
If this was to come to a vote,
you would've said no.
559
00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:04.960
-What do you mean?
-Like this.
560
00:30:05.040 --> 00:30:07.240
-To do this whole piece.
-You'd give a no, innit?
561
00:30:07.320 --> 00:30:08.880
You're all lovely people, but yeah.
562
00:30:11.080 --> 00:30:12.720
-It's not… yeah. I don't know.
-It's fair.
563
00:30:12.800 --> 00:30:14.960
What? So what are you guys gonna…
564
00:30:15.040 --> 00:30:15.920
What's your plan?
565
00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:19.800
-So I see YouTube as the core, the heart.
-The foundation.
566
00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:22.680
-Without YouTube…everything dies.
-That's so smart, man.
567
00:30:22.760 --> 00:30:24.200
So I wouldn't be able to box,
568
00:30:24.280 --> 00:30:26.840
I wouldn't be able to do music
without YouTube.
569
00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:29.320
So I always feel like
I have to post content there
570
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:31.280
to make sure everything else thrives.
571
00:30:50.520 --> 00:30:53.760
KSI. KSI.
572
00:30:57.560 --> 00:30:59.720
From London, England,
573
00:30:59.800 --> 00:31:03.600
the social media legend, recording artist,
574
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:07.600
actor, songwriter, rapper,
575
00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.480
the undefeated
Misfits cruiserweight champion,
576
00:31:11.560 --> 00:31:15.560
the nightmare,
577
00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:21.280
KSI!
578
00:31:22.520 --> 00:31:27.080
Gonna go for six rounds.
KSI and Temperrr.
579
00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:30.280
This right here
is where the fight's gonna be decided.
580
00:31:30.360 --> 00:31:31.320
KSI said this week,
581
00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:33.880
"I'm willing to eat those
to get to where I wanna get to."
582
00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:35.280
Tommy's gotta stay on his bike.
583
00:31:35.360 --> 00:31:37.120
Don't get lulled
into playing a trade game.
584
00:31:39.320 --> 00:31:41.280
Ooh.
585
00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:47.240
Yeah. Those shots land and they hurt.
586
00:31:47.320 --> 00:31:50.280
Gotta work angles if you're Tommy.
He can't attack in straight lines.
587
00:31:50.360 --> 00:31:52.360
KSI could step back and land a bomb.
588
00:31:57.360 --> 00:31:58.600
Can he get up?
589
00:31:58.680 --> 00:32:00.600
Oh, can he get up?
It's done!
590
00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:02.440
-It's done!
-That's it!
591
00:32:02.520 --> 00:32:06.760
KSI! What a knockout!
592
00:32:06.840 --> 00:32:09.080
-What a knockout.
-Oh, my God.
593
00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:11.200
The winner
by a knockout victory,
594
00:32:11.280 --> 00:32:13.560
still undefeated
595
00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:18.520
and still
the Misfits cruiserweight champion,
596
00:32:18.600 --> 00:32:22.680
KSI!
597
00:32:48.440 --> 00:32:51.720
As soon as he walks out,
I get incredibly nervous.
598
00:32:51.800 --> 00:32:53.240
When he gets punched a little bit,
599
00:32:53.320 --> 00:32:57.480
everyone in the Sidemen and troops
and everyone like that just goes, "No."
600
00:32:57.560 --> 00:33:01.720
And we fear. But in my heart,
I'm just like I know he wins.
601
00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:06.680
Stop boxing. We have videos to make, JJ.
602
00:33:07.800 --> 00:33:09.520
Fuck.
603
00:33:09.600 --> 00:33:11.480
We've got videos to make,
604
00:33:11.560 --> 00:33:15.480
and you're doing camp for six weeks
at a time. Fuck.
605
00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:25.400
Life was interesting
with me and my family.
606
00:33:25.480 --> 00:33:27.440
You know we weren't super rich.
607
00:33:27.520 --> 00:33:31.080
Both my parents were, I guess, immigrants.
608
00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:33.760
They came over from Nigeria
609
00:33:33.840 --> 00:33:38.200
and just put a lot of work
into me and my bro.
610
00:33:38.280 --> 00:33:42.400
Get out.
611
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:45.120
Hey, guys. Olajide BT,
612
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:49.080
and today I'm doing a Q&A Sunday
with my bro. Say "hi."
613
00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:51.760
You're such an idiot.
614
00:33:51.840 --> 00:33:55.600
My earliest memory of Deji
was when he…
615
00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:58.880
he couldn't…
couldn't hold his piss
616
00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:01.320
and my mum gave him a bottle.
617
00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:04.000
So he tried peeing in a bottle
and his dick fell out,
618
00:34:04.080 --> 00:34:06.040
and he just starting pissing all over me.
619
00:34:06.120 --> 00:34:09.520
Yeah, I was, that was an experience.
620
00:34:10.120 --> 00:34:13.719
JJ went from this super nerdy,
like, super shy guy
621
00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:16.639
to one of the most famous people
in the country maybe in the world.
622
00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:21.360
You know boxer, rapper,
and also he carried the entire UK scene.
623
00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:24.480
The UK would not be like this
without JJ on YouTube for sure.
624
00:34:24.560 --> 00:34:26.080
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
625
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:28.480
JJ is… he's a funny character.
626
00:34:29.520 --> 00:34:34.719
He's the most egotistical person
and the most humble person simultaneously.
627
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:36.560
What's up, bro?
628
00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:40.400
And when that camera is on,
his character is in full flow.
629
00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:42.520
So, everything that you know about JJ
630
00:34:42.600 --> 00:34:45.760
is elevated probably
like five times minimum.
631
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:49.840
-Oh, my God!
-Open the window.
632
00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:52.440
No! There's a bug, bro!
Ah! Get it… get it out, bro.
633
00:34:52.520 --> 00:34:54.960
I'm-a die. I'm-a die. I'm-a die, bro.
634
00:34:55.040 --> 00:34:59.880
Oh, no. Get out! Ah, shit! Shit!
635
00:34:59.960 --> 00:35:04.040
I think my parents' work ethic
is definitely a huge reason
636
00:35:04.120 --> 00:35:05.680
why I'm so successful.
637
00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:07.200
I'm just always grinding.
638
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:10.040
Like I always have said
that I'm not talented.
639
00:35:10.120 --> 00:35:12.520
I'm just a person
that just works extremely hard.
640
00:35:12.600 --> 00:35:13.880
There's a saying where
641
00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:16.880
if you put 10,000 hours into something
you become a master at it.
642
00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:20.880
And you know I've definitely
had 10,000 hours on YouTube
643
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:22.760
and that's why I'm in the position I'm in.
644
00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:28.120
♪ The rocks on my wrist
That shit you can't resist ♪
645
00:35:28.200 --> 00:35:30.920
♪ Cash flow, greater than the haters
Hating on my gist ♪
646
00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:34.200
♪ Riding in your face, looking like
I found a damn genie ♪
647
00:35:35.240 --> 00:35:36.880
♪ While I'm in my Lamborghini ♪
648
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:40.000
♪ La-Lamborghini, La-Lamborghini ♪
649
00:35:40.080 --> 00:35:43.080
♪ Bitch, I know you see me
In my Lamborghini ♪
650
00:35:43.160 --> 00:35:47.080
In 2017, I definitely felt like,
as a YouTuber
651
00:35:47.160 --> 00:35:51.280
there was just no way
you could do music properly.
652
00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:53.960
People struggled to differentiate
653
00:35:54.040 --> 00:35:58.960
between a musician putting out,
you know, heartfelt music
654
00:35:59.040 --> 00:36:00.960
and music that was important to you,
655
00:36:01.040 --> 00:36:05.600
and then also a YouTuber
who's able to make funny random videos.
656
00:36:05.680 --> 00:36:08.440
♪ La-Lamborghini, La-Lamborghini ♪
657
00:36:08.520 --> 00:36:11.280
♪ Ride so quick
You would think I'm Houdini ♪
658
00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:14.880
So I was kind of battling with that aspect
659
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:21.440
and decided I wanted to become a musician
and really focus on music.
660
00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:34.520
Er…
661
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:41.840
Obviously this is, er…
this is not an easy, er…
662
00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:43.960
this is not an easy video to make.
663
00:36:44.040 --> 00:36:50.200
I am no longer with the Sidemen.
664
00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:52.760
I think I was just on my computer,
and it came up.
665
00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:55.320
And then the group chat
started popping off like,
666
00:36:55.400 --> 00:36:57.880
"What's going on, JJ?
Why, er, what is this video?
667
00:36:57.960 --> 00:36:59.720
"Like are you serious? Are you not?"
668
00:36:59.800 --> 00:37:01.280
Obviously, I love the guys.
669
00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:03.120
Guys will always be in my heart.
670
00:37:03.200 --> 00:37:06.160
But, er, you know,
all good things come to an end I guess.
671
00:37:06.240 --> 00:37:09.920
JJ is a very trusting guy.
672
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:14.120
And I know that he had countless people
telling him to leave Sidemen,
673
00:37:14.200 --> 00:37:17.320
"Come to LA. You can be way bigger."
Blah, blah, blah.
674
00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:19.560
Selling him like a proper dream.
675
00:37:19.640 --> 00:37:23.440
So it was a nervous time for all of us
in terms of would he… would he leave?
676
00:37:23.520 --> 00:37:27.600
Why I'm leaving Sidemen? Er…
677
00:37:27.680 --> 00:37:28.920
mainly because of Ethan.
678
00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:31.480
I'd say he was the main reason
I'm leaving.
679
00:37:31.560 --> 00:37:32.480
Can't stand him.
680
00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:35.680
I could see it coming
681
00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:39.280
because it makes sense
why he singled me out
682
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:43.160
because I'm an easy target
in the sense of like,
683
00:37:43.240 --> 00:37:45.360
I dish it out to everyone, anyway.
684
00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:50.240
At that point that was the, the low point
in the Sidemen arc, I would say.
685
00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:52.920
We were starting to make videos
less together.
686
00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:56.080
JJ was taking his music more seriously.
687
00:37:56.160 --> 00:37:58.560
And it could've been the point
everything fizzled out.
688
00:37:58.640 --> 00:38:02.640
♪ Yeah
Fuck the Sidemen ♪
689
00:38:02.720 --> 00:38:06.360
♪ Nigga living better, I don't need them ♪
690
00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:10.080
♪ Ethan looking bigger
I can see them ♪
691
00:38:10.160 --> 00:38:12.920
♪ Talking about them tits
Go and feed them ♪
692
00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:15.240
♪ Babies with your titty milk ♪
693
00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:16.600
♪ Bitch, don't fuck with me ♪
694
00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:21.520
I woke up in bed
with my girlfriend at the time, who said,
695
00:38:21.600 --> 00:38:23.720
"Hey, have you seen
what JJ's just uploaded?"
696
00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:25.120
So I wake up like this.
697
00:38:25.200 --> 00:38:29.400
I'm watching it on my phone thinking,
"What on earth's happening?"
698
00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:32.680
I do have some sort of like pride
in myself a little bit like,
699
00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:35.360
"I will do something."
700
00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:38.640
I will perform to what you want me to
if you think I'm not going to
701
00:38:38.720 --> 00:38:42.480
'cause I bet he didn't expect me to have
a whole thing out 24 hours later.
702
00:38:42.560 --> 00:38:46.080
And that's what I really liked about it,
him releasing that
703
00:38:46.160 --> 00:38:48.280
because you can tell by the songs,
704
00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:51.280
music's not my forte in the slightest,
right?
705
00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:54.640
But the fact that he might wake up
and go on his phone and go,
706
00:38:54.720 --> 00:38:56.360
"Really? Like Ethan did that?"
707
00:38:56.440 --> 00:38:58.400
That's the… that was the W for me.
708
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:20.320
What the fuck is this shit?
Man, you know I've gotta react to this.
709
00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:22.600
♪ No, Ethan, stop that
Please stop that ♪
710
00:39:22.680 --> 00:39:23.600
♪ I beg you stop that ♪
711
00:39:23.680 --> 00:39:25.200
♪ Erm, no sorry ♪
712
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:26.840
♪ You asked for this, ready? ♪
713
00:39:26.920 --> 00:39:29.200
Erm, no, sorry. Fuck off.
714
00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:34.600
Never made a diss?
What the fuck is this then?
715
00:39:34.680 --> 00:39:38.440
"Behzinga Drama,
KSI and Ricegum diss track."
716
00:39:38.520 --> 00:39:39.440
It's like…
717
00:39:39.520 --> 00:39:43.240
The diss track thing. My eyes lit up,
like it was a perfect opportunity.
718
00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:45.880
Like I'd always liked doing like…
719
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:47.880
we used to in these Skype calls
we used to have.
720
00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:49.920
We used to just sit there
and do rap battles.
721
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:51.080
So we'd sync up a beat.
722
00:39:51.160 --> 00:39:53.680
We'd all be hearing,
and we'd just like rap at each other,
723
00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:55.440
which I always really enjoyed.
724
00:39:55.520 --> 00:39:57.760
As soon as I figured out
diss tracks were happening,
725
00:39:57.840 --> 00:39:59.680
I was like,
"I could do a diss track here."
726
00:40:21.240 --> 00:40:23.080
It's the best diss track I've ever heard.
727
00:40:23.160 --> 00:40:25.600
The first time I heard of the Sidemen
728
00:40:25.680 --> 00:40:30.760
was actually Harry's diss track against JJ
729
00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:32.640
'cause we were beefing at the time,
730
00:40:32.720 --> 00:40:35.160
and Harry made the diss track.
I thought it was awesome.
731
00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:50.440
When I first heard Harry's diss track,
I was pissed because he went in,
732
00:40:50.520 --> 00:40:53.560
and I was like,
"Bro, what the fuck are you doing?"
733
00:40:53.640 --> 00:40:57.560
I was in America at the time,
and I was like so angry.
734
00:40:57.640 --> 00:41:01.920
So I was like, "All right. Calm, bless.
Like we're gonna go down this route."
735
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:05.360
And then that's when I decided
to make "Little Boy".
736
00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:20.160
You know what, that's probably…
737
00:41:20.240 --> 00:41:23.760
that's one of the first times JJ
actually started to shine as like raw.
738
00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:26.200
His words and his music,
is actually hitting, you know?
739
00:41:26.280 --> 00:41:27.160
It's hitting like…
740
00:41:27.240 --> 00:41:29.640
Even though it was comical, it was fun,
it was just in jest,
741
00:41:29.720 --> 00:41:31.800
it actually started to let them
shine through
742
00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:33.960
as like, "We're making music, you know?"
743
00:41:34.040 --> 00:41:35.680
Like, "We're dissing, saying things,
744
00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:37.720
hitting with music,
thinking about what we do,
745
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:40.800
thinking about the beat,
the beat switch, the cut-outs, the video."
746
00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:56.280
If there was no diss tracks,
747
00:41:56.360 --> 00:41:59.800
JJ might not have taken his music
as seriously as he's taking it now.
748
00:42:01.040 --> 00:42:03.320
That was a sick time. Can't be done again.
749
00:42:16.920 --> 00:42:20.480
You know what? I was surprised
to hear Simon spit that quick.
750
00:42:20.560 --> 00:42:22.520
He done a sick job.
751
00:42:23.160 --> 00:42:28.440
And that video, we filmed it in, like,
an evening at some petrol station
752
00:42:28.520 --> 00:42:30.760
and then I had the edit up
ready the next day.
753
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:34.480
And I remember the moment
of when he clicked the "upload" button.
754
00:42:34.560 --> 00:42:39.640
And then as soon as you hit refresh to see
how many views you've got. It said 40,000.
755
00:42:39.720 --> 00:42:42.200
I'm not kidding.
It was literally 30 seconds.
756
00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:43.640
That's insane.
757
00:42:43.720 --> 00:42:48.440
I think it was just a good way
that we could all have fun, get views,
758
00:42:48.520 --> 00:42:52.160
and that's about it really, to be honest.
But then it ended up spiralling.
759
00:42:52.240 --> 00:42:56.840
Okay. "You're a korma, I'm a vindaloo.
760
00:42:56.920 --> 00:43:01.640
When you're a bad boy,
Yinka grabs the shoe."
761
00:43:01.720 --> 00:43:03.800
"While you're out trying to fuck groupies,
762
00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:08.560
I got your mum twerking
for my rupees."
763
00:43:08.640 --> 00:43:10.960
It's impossible to put a value
764
00:43:11.040 --> 00:43:14.520
on how lucrative the diss tracks
ended up being
765
00:43:14.600 --> 00:43:17.240
by the complete coincidence
that we fell into them.
766
00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:19.800
But I would say
on the diss track videos alone,
767
00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:23.320
it was probably
half-a-million pounds' worth of revenue.
768
00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:24.760
And then if you talk about
769
00:43:24.840 --> 00:43:27.680
how much viewership and attention
it drove towards us,
770
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:29.560
several times that in the long run.
771
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:32.840
It rallied all of these fans.
772
00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:35.040
It created this huge content opportunity
773
00:43:35.120 --> 00:43:38.120
that actually made the Sidemen bigger
than it had ever been.
774
00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:43.240
Ultimately, I'm still in the Sidemen
because they're my boys.
775
00:43:45.240 --> 00:43:50.320
Yeah I know it's hard work making,
you know, my dreams come true
776
00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:54.360
as well as doing stuff with the Sidemen
and making our dreams together come true
777
00:43:54.440 --> 00:43:58.960
but it's what I'm willing to do
to make sure me and them are good.
778
00:43:59.040 --> 00:44:02.280
Yeah. Just 'cause they're my boys, man.
779
00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:14.720
With the cheap
versus expensive videos,
780
00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:16.120
it becomes very personal
781
00:44:17.520 --> 00:44:21.400
'cause it's very hard to see past the fact
that one team are having a great time…
782
00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:24.960
Oh, this is my holiday.
783
00:44:25.040 --> 00:44:26.560
They've got lots of cool experiences.
784
00:44:26.640 --> 00:44:28.760
Oh, yes.
785
00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:30.160
And you're stuck on the bad team.
786
00:44:30.240 --> 00:44:31.680
Have we got some bug spray?
787
00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:34.400
-That bag.
-I want it. Where is it?
788
00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:37.560
Behind the scenes with the boys,
it turns into like, "What the hell?"
789
00:44:37.640 --> 00:44:42.360
So literally we've been given
a camping spot
790
00:44:42.440 --> 00:44:45.560
that is just riddled with…
with literally stinging nettle.
791
00:44:45.640 --> 00:44:48.800
The audience don't wanna see
the bad team have a great time.
792
00:44:48.880 --> 00:44:52.280
They wanna see the bad team suffer
'cause the suffering is the content.
793
00:44:55.880 --> 00:44:59.000
I've more than accepted fate.
We are in a fucking shithole.
794
00:44:59.080 --> 00:45:00.320
We are camping on rock.
795
00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:03.520
We have a rock formation
in our fucking tent.
796
00:45:03.600 --> 00:45:06.720
Can we do a hostile takeover
of the other campsite?
797
00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:08.440
Are you eating already?
798
00:45:08.520 --> 00:45:10.400
Fuck off. I'm in my happy space.
799
00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:15.000
I'm eating a sausage in a forest.
800
00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:19.600
Okay. So we've returned to,
now, the bad team.
801
00:45:19.680 --> 00:45:23.600
Now to get abused and attacked
for making them be on the bad team.
802
00:45:23.680 --> 00:45:25.000
Er, piss off.
803
00:45:26.640 --> 00:45:28.160
-Is he here?
-Yeah, he is here.
804
00:45:28.240 --> 00:45:30.200
Piss off, you fucking big head.
805
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:32.360
God, what a spot.
806
00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:34.120
Does he want us to reply to him?
807
00:45:36.240 --> 00:45:39.920
Oh, no. You don't look very happy.
This is the worst one you've ever done.
808
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:41.080
-Why?
-It's awful.
809
00:45:41.160 --> 00:45:42.000
Sit down.
810
00:45:42.080 --> 00:45:43.920
-I got a present for you.
-No, no. Take a seat.
811
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:45.960
-Oh, it's like a council.
-Yeah. Take a seat.
812
00:45:46.040 --> 00:45:48.040
-Welcome to, er--
-Hang on, two secs.
813
00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:54.240
-Welcome to Team Tent.
-Team Tent? Nice.
814
00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:55.720
Team Tent up in this bitch.
815
00:45:55.800 --> 00:45:58.520
I actually went and visited
the, er, bad team
816
00:45:58.600 --> 00:46:02.840
and their moods were not…
in the greatest of ways.
817
00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:06.640
-Sack these ones off.
-What the fuck is this game?
818
00:46:06.720 --> 00:46:08.200
Ethan as well 'cause at that time,
819
00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:10.640
Ethan hadn't really experienced
being on a good team
820
00:46:10.720 --> 00:46:11.680
so I feel like it's, er,
821
00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:14.920
bottled up frustration had occurred
from being on the bad team.
822
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:17.560
What does the new card say, er, this is…
823
00:46:17.640 --> 00:46:22.440
"Congratulations you've come out on top
from bad to good. Get ready to swap."
824
00:46:24.040 --> 00:46:24.920
Oh.
825
00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:26.480
So you're happy now, yeah?
826
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:28.840
Go nuts, bro.
827
00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:33.040
We've been eating dog food, bro.
We've been through the worst of it.
828
00:46:33.120 --> 00:46:34.840
Listen, I'm trying to work
with you.
829
00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:36.400
-But I'll…
-One of you come.
830
00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:38.600
We've done the worst.
What's the point in swapping?
831
00:46:38.680 --> 00:46:39.960
-Tobi, go.
-Why are you…
832
00:46:40.040 --> 00:46:42.360
How are you… how are you upset
about getting a good deal?
833
00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:43.800
No, 'cause it's pointless.
834
00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:45.240
They come here and do everything?
835
00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:46.360
-One person.
-I don't care.
836
00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:48.480
-Bro, just go. Ethan, just go.
-I ain't going.
837
00:46:48.560 --> 00:46:50.440
No. Me and Behz aren't going.
838
00:46:50.520 --> 00:46:53.200
-Vik… No.
-We're in this life. Tobi, go. Tobi, go.
839
00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:55.000
No. This is good.
840
00:46:55.080 --> 00:46:57.080
'Cause look, look, look, you, look get…
841
00:46:57.160 --> 00:47:00.600
They ain't eating the dog food.
They gonna come… listen, I'll get vexed.
842
00:47:00.680 --> 00:47:03.320
They're gonna come here.
They ain't been eating the dog food, bro.
843
00:47:03.400 --> 00:47:04.640
-Just work with him.
-You, go.
844
00:47:04.720 --> 00:47:07.120
-Me and Behz can't go.
-Why is this so hard?
845
00:47:07.200 --> 00:47:08.480
We've done it already!
846
00:47:08.560 --> 00:47:11.240
-What's the point in swapping?
-'Cause you get… a great night.
847
00:47:11.320 --> 00:47:14.520
We get a great night, but I'm going home!
I'd rather get in the cab and fuck off!
848
00:47:18.080 --> 00:47:20.280
I'm so glad I've seen this footage.
This is amazing.
849
00:47:20.360 --> 00:47:22.280
Yeah, it's funny.
That was my hot-headedness.
850
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:25.160
-It's fine it got 30 million views.
-You've done well, mate.
851
00:47:25.240 --> 00:47:26.120
Oh, damn.
852
00:47:26.200 --> 00:47:28.800
That's the only one, I think,
I've ever had with you ever.
853
00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:31.480
-What like argument that--
-Yeah, yeah. Like proper argument.
854
00:47:31.560 --> 00:47:34.080
No, no. Let's be honest.
We've fallen out a few times.
855
00:47:34.160 --> 00:47:37.080
-I feel like you're always involved.
-Not always.
856
00:47:37.160 --> 00:47:40.360
Even if he's not involved,
he gets involved. He loves it.
857
00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:41.760
-We didn't even know.
-I did. I…
858
00:47:41.840 --> 00:47:43.400
It would involve you, me, or you.
859
00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:45.600
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
860
00:47:45.680 --> 00:47:47.080
It's us three. Little trifecta.
861
00:47:47.160 --> 00:47:48.200
Harry, have you ever--
862
00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:50.320
No. But I love
watching it from the outside.
863
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:52.120
I love a little bit of that.
864
00:47:52.200 --> 00:47:53.560
He's… he's like a pot stirrer.
865
00:47:53.640 --> 00:47:58.080
He's like a pot stirrer. I'm like…
I try and be like… I try and help guys.
866
00:47:58.160 --> 00:47:59.120
Just like a counsellor.
867
00:47:59.200 --> 00:48:02.920
I try and explain and it doesn't work.
Vik does the same. Tobi does the same.
868
00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:05.760
He just sits there and goes, "Ooh."
869
00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:09.680
We're seven very different personalities
but somehow it all just works naturally.
870
00:48:20.240 --> 00:48:23.720
"Your nose looks like
it's on a snapchat filter 24/7."
871
00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:29.760
"Hey, Slender,
how comes you have cum in your hair?"
872
00:48:33.200 --> 00:48:36.280
The interesting part
of being on social media
873
00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:42.040
is that you have an ability to be able
to see and respond very quickly.
874
00:48:42.120 --> 00:48:48.040
But with that, trolling and mental health
has become a real topic of conversation.
875
00:48:48.120 --> 00:48:50.960
"What is the difference
between Vikkstar and a tree?
876
00:48:51.040 --> 00:48:54.480
"Nothing. They're both hollow
on the inside and brown on the outside."
877
00:48:56.840 --> 00:48:59.600
Instant feedback
can be really toxic.
878
00:48:59.680 --> 00:49:01.560
It can be very, very detrimental,
879
00:49:01.640 --> 00:49:06.520
especially when you consider the age
of a lot of these creators.
880
00:49:06.600 --> 00:49:08.880
Well, this one's just foul.
He's like the at and the…
881
00:49:08.960 --> 00:49:11.040
the at might as well be a tweet itself.
882
00:49:11.120 --> 00:49:15.240
Behzinga, a fat cunt, says…
883
00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:18.480
See? I'm done already.
884
00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:27.560
Oh… @behzinga.
885
00:49:27.640 --> 00:49:29.960
"You are so fat it's embarr-is-ing.
886
00:49:30.040 --> 00:49:32.880
I laughed so much when I heard
that you cried every day after school
887
00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:34.240
because you were bullied,
888
00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:36.800
just because you are so ugly and fat.
Ha, ha, ha."
889
00:49:47.240 --> 00:49:52.960
It's 4:50 in the morning.
So, yeah, it's been a long day.
890
00:49:53.040 --> 00:49:57.840
From my lighting, I look okay,
but I don't know, now I look like shit.
891
00:49:57.920 --> 00:49:59.480
I look like utter shit.
892
00:50:08.600 --> 00:50:11.080
Ethan got
a lot of negative comments.
893
00:50:11.160 --> 00:50:15.400
People online find your weakness
and pounce on that.
894
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:20.080
So I imagine it would've been really hard.
895
00:50:20.160 --> 00:50:23.920
You could get 368 comments, right?
896
00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:28.400
Seven of those will be horrific,
hateful comments
897
00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:30.880
but the other 300-odd are really nice,
898
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:33.160
but your brain completely blanks them
899
00:50:33.240 --> 00:50:36.080
'cause you pay attention to the seven
that are ripping you down.
900
00:50:37.720 --> 00:50:40.400
I wouldn't say I was aware
901
00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:43.160
that Ethan was depressed about his weight
back in 2018.
902
00:50:43.240 --> 00:50:46.840
But I feel like there was some more signs
that he wasn't the happiest.
903
00:50:51.200 --> 00:50:56.080
Oh, no. Oh, no.
904
00:50:56.160 --> 00:51:00.200
When you're happy with yourself,
making three videos a day is a breeze
905
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:02.280
because you're doing something you love
and think,
906
00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:04.320
"Yeah, cool.
I can't wait to click upload."
907
00:51:04.400 --> 00:51:06.480
When you're not happy within yourself,
908
00:51:06.560 --> 00:51:09.800
it's almost like people expect
three videos a day.
909
00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:12.320
I don't feel good enough
to post three videos a day,
910
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:16.240
and it's only so long
you can burn that end of it
911
00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:18.440
before it bites you
and that's where I think I…
912
00:51:18.520 --> 00:51:22.000
I got to a point where
I just wasn't happy at all.
913
00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:27.040
When Ethan was at his lowest,
he kept everything to himself a lot.
914
00:51:27.120 --> 00:51:29.000
So I wish he'd spoken to us
915
00:51:29.080 --> 00:51:31.760
'cause we could've helped
in any way we could.
916
00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:33.360
In my head, like I feel like
917
00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:35.520
I should've picked up
on things a little bit earlier
918
00:51:35.600 --> 00:51:39.360
but, at the same time,
I was out a lot, drinking loads,
919
00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:41.200
so that was pretty normal for me.
920
00:51:42.240 --> 00:51:44.880
He was drinking a lot
but wasn't really going out as much,
921
00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:49.360
so he would just stay at home
and drink while playing video games.
922
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:51.720
It definitely got to a point
where like look we…
923
00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:54.720
we've gone through a whole bottle of JD
in one night.
924
00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:57.480
Like that was probably where
I started raising eyebrows.
925
00:51:59.600 --> 00:52:01.960
Bottles of Jack Daniels
were going quickly.
926
00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:06.640
I think like 250 quids' worth of weed
a week. That's nuts.
927
00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:11.760
I said, "Listen it's fine.
Like, I'm okay. I'm in control of it."
928
00:52:11.840 --> 00:52:13.720
Bollocks.
I wasn't in control of it at all.
929
00:52:13.800 --> 00:52:17.920
I'm exhausted and… and the expectation
is getting the better of me, I think.
930
00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:20.040
I think it's just getting
the better of me.
931
00:52:20.120 --> 00:52:21.960
I've been running myself into the ground
932
00:52:22.040 --> 00:52:25.120
till like 4:00 or 5:00,
half past 5:00 in the morning
933
00:52:25.200 --> 00:52:27.640
and like, "I do not feel okay."
934
00:52:34.640 --> 00:52:38.760
I knew I was a burden,
like a shit person to be around.
935
00:52:38.840 --> 00:52:41.200
So it was tough, mentally.
936
00:52:42.320 --> 00:52:46.280
I've had like the thoughts of like,
"Oh, this is shit.
937
00:52:47.120 --> 00:52:49.960
If I whack myself off,
then this all ends."
938
00:52:56.920 --> 00:52:58.040
It's really dark, right,
939
00:52:58.120 --> 00:53:01.240
'cause I know there's a big bridge
with like concrete pillars on it.
940
00:53:03.200 --> 00:53:07.200
So that was like,
"Oh, I know where I could do it."
941
00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:12.280
And that's a horrible thought process.
942
00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:17.280
It was more like, "That's it. Cool. Done."
943
00:53:27.640 --> 00:53:33.880
I had a knocking at my door
at, like… literally like 3:00, 4:00 a.m.
944
00:53:34.760 --> 00:53:36.600
And it was Ethan's girlfriend at the time,
945
00:53:36.680 --> 00:53:40.960
and she's telling me that he's, erm,
been drinking and he's gone out,
946
00:53:41.040 --> 00:53:44.240
and he's taken the car,
and she doesn't know where he is.
947
00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:45.800
He's not answering his phone.
948
00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:50.240
And I'm like…
I didn't know what to do really, er, like,
949
00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:53.520
"What do I do? Do I call the police
and tell them my friend's drink driving?"
950
00:53:53.600 --> 00:53:55.680
Like I'm trying to find out where he is.
951
00:53:55.760 --> 00:53:57.960
I was kind of just in a state of…
952
00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:02.200
I don't know, confusion, really.
953
00:54:02.280 --> 00:54:06.000
I mean, at that point,
you know, we're all…
954
00:54:06.080 --> 00:54:12.720
we're all fearing for our… one of our
best friend's lives kind of thing. Erm…
955
00:54:17.880 --> 00:54:19.080
I just broke down.
956
00:54:19.160 --> 00:54:23.640
I just broke down and just said like,
"I can't do it, man. I can't do it."
957
00:54:23.720 --> 00:54:25.160
It's like a relief moment like,
958
00:54:25.240 --> 00:54:28.240
the crying on my friend,
it's like a relief moment.
959
00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:32.280
Like you can finally start getting
across to someone that,
960
00:54:32.360 --> 00:54:37.360
"I'm so done, man. I've reached my limit.
I need help."
961
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:39.640
And that's, again,
it comes with the pride thing.
962
00:54:39.720 --> 00:54:43.280
You've gotta be able to drop this pride,
this act, this ego of thinking,
963
00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:47.480
"Oh, it'll get better. I'll be all right.
Oh, you'll be fine. I can get through it."
964
00:54:47.560 --> 00:54:50.640
So just speak to people.
You have to do it.
965
00:54:50.720 --> 00:54:53.160
You have to open up.
You have to speak to people.
966
00:54:53.240 --> 00:54:57.480
Ethan's story made the friendship group
a lot stronger,
967
00:54:57.560 --> 00:55:01.480
erm, because we were now more aware
of things going on.
968
00:55:01.560 --> 00:55:04.120
Because before that,
you hear about these things,
969
00:55:04.200 --> 00:55:05.440
but you're not really tuned in.
970
00:55:05.520 --> 00:55:07.360
You don't think it's gonna be your friends
971
00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:09.240
that are going through this.
972
00:55:09.320 --> 00:55:13.000
So I think that was… a big wake-up call
for everyone, honestly.
973
00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:16.240
-Mate.
-Yes, bro.
974
00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:21.600
Right, turn side on.
975
00:55:21.680 --> 00:55:24.080
-This way? Back.
-Yeah.
976
00:55:24.160 --> 00:55:29.760
Here we go. How big is Behzinga? 103.1 kg.
977
00:55:29.840 --> 00:55:33.600
With Ethan,
I was personally inspired by his journey.
978
00:55:33.680 --> 00:55:37.920
He went through a lot of personal growth
during that time
979
00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:40.640
and I think what's been really fundamental
980
00:55:40.720 --> 00:55:45.760
is his ability to be able
to really be raw with it.
981
00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:49.600
Nine, eight, come on. Come on, come on.
982
00:55:49.680 --> 00:55:50.560
Keep pushing.
983
00:55:50.640 --> 00:55:51.720
Push, push. Don't stop.
984
00:55:51.800 --> 00:55:53.760
Six, five, four, three, two, one.
985
00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:56.040
Time. Well done.
986
00:55:56.920 --> 00:55:57.800
Not a joke.
987
00:55:57.880 --> 00:55:59.760
To see someone pull through that,
988
00:55:59.840 --> 00:56:02.680
and what we have seen
in the past couple of years as well,
989
00:56:02.760 --> 00:56:05.640
is that a lot of men
don't get the support they need.
990
00:56:06.600 --> 00:56:08.480
And I think to see that
991
00:56:08.560 --> 00:56:13.760
shows that the new generation
have something relatable to look at
992
00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:16.400
and see that
if they were ever in that situation,
993
00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:17.760
there's always a way out.
994
00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:21.400
Well, hello. Welcome to 2019
on the Behzinga channel.
995
00:56:21.480 --> 00:56:24.240
How are you? I hope you're, er,
gonna have a great year.
996
00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:26.440
I messed that up with my mouth
but we're here.
997
00:56:27.200 --> 00:56:29.720
-Let's say Ethan got big again.
-Yeah.
998
00:56:29.800 --> 00:56:31.680
Don't worry, he is.
999
00:56:31.760 --> 00:56:34.880
How do you… but now… knowing
things he's gone through as well, like--
1000
00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:37.920
Yeah. No, I… no, no, no.
I know he's gone through…
1001
00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:39.960
He's gone through a lot of pizzas.
1002
00:56:42.320 --> 00:56:46.240
I can hear his mind working.
1003
00:56:46.320 --> 00:56:48.800
You lot.
1004
00:56:49.680 --> 00:56:52.440
I think it's like… just British culture
at the same time as well,
1005
00:56:52.520 --> 00:56:55.520
like we're all brought up on
bringing each other down.
1006
00:56:55.600 --> 00:56:58.400
-You tease your mates.
-Yeah, like lad humour. Is that right?
1007
00:56:58.480 --> 00:57:00.320
That's so sad.
1008
00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:03.680
I tell you the difference, yeah?
Straight up as the person who it is. Okay.
1009
00:57:03.760 --> 00:57:06.320
You lot, I know at the end of the day,
1010
00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:08.960
if someone come up to me
and said the stuff that you say…
1011
00:57:09.040 --> 00:57:10.320
-You'd say…
-Oh, no. Don't get…
1012
00:57:10.400 --> 00:57:13.200
-They'll get slapped.
-You say, "Who do you think you are?"
1013
00:57:13.280 --> 00:57:17.440
So it comes down to the YouTube audience
thinking they are one of your mates.
1014
00:57:17.520 --> 00:57:20.320
So the major problem from it
came these random people…
1015
00:57:20.400 --> 00:57:21.240
All the time.
1016
00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:23.160
Anywhere, bro,
on the field playing football.
1017
00:57:23.240 --> 00:57:24.880
-Fat
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1018
00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:27.120
You're thinking, "You don't even know me."
1019
00:57:27.200 --> 00:57:30.560
But our… our humour is now…
everyone sees it,
1020
00:57:30.640 --> 00:57:33.280
-and they think they're in on it.
-They're a part as well.
1021
00:57:33.360 --> 00:57:35.240
-They feel part of the group.
-In real life,
1022
00:57:35.320 --> 00:57:38.160
I'd be anywhere, bro.
Er, or like I'd be going somewhere,
1023
00:57:38.240 --> 00:57:39.600
"Oh, you fat, whatever."
1024
00:57:39.680 --> 00:57:41.480
And it's like, "What do you want me to do?
1025
00:57:41.560 --> 00:57:42.520
"I don't know you."
1026
00:57:42.600 --> 00:57:43.640
I don't know you, yeah.
1027
00:57:43.720 --> 00:57:46.760
-You've just met me and abused me.
-It's true. Yeah, actually.
1028
00:57:46.840 --> 00:57:49.320
Imagine I come up to you and just went,
"You fat loser."
1029
00:57:49.400 --> 00:57:52.360
You'd be like,
"Ah. All right, bro. Chill out."
1030
00:57:52.440 --> 00:57:53.400
Shit, yeah.
1031
00:57:53.480 --> 00:57:56.800
-Now as we're actual adults now…
-Yeah.
1032
00:57:56.880 --> 00:58:02.200
…I think when someone is clearly not
in the space, their minds are normally in,
1033
00:58:02.280 --> 00:58:05.560
people do even in group chats
will just say like, "Everyone good?"
1034
00:58:05.640 --> 00:58:07.840
And it can be a one question,
but that's all it needs.
1035
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:09.720
To be honest, it's like maturing, I think.
1036
00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:13.680
But also we grew up in a generation
where mental health wasn't talked about.
1037
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:16.600
At school, you wouldn't talk about it.
You'd never have like…
1038
00:58:16.680 --> 00:58:17.640
No. Not a chance.
1039
00:58:17.720 --> 00:58:19.840
We've never been taught any of this stuff
1040
00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:22.640
and then we're dealing
with millions of people watching us.
1041
00:58:22.720 --> 00:58:23.920
How do you teach someone…
1042
00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:28.080
You don't. You can't be online
and have really thin skin.
1043
00:58:28.160 --> 00:58:29.480
We learnt that quick.
1044
00:58:29.560 --> 00:58:33.000
You've gotta realise that this is
part and parcel of broadcasting yourself.
1045
00:58:33.080 --> 00:58:34.640
Did anyone go like therapy or anything?
1046
00:58:34.720 --> 00:58:36.840
I've been to therapy. Yeah, yeah.
1047
00:58:36.920 --> 00:58:39.320
When I went to therapy,
I literally just spoke.
1048
00:58:39.400 --> 00:58:42.600
It was someone to listen,
and as I'm talking and saying how I feel,
1049
00:58:42.680 --> 00:58:46.040
I'm also processing it and understanding
and then dealing with it.
1050
00:58:46.120 --> 00:58:47.920
You find yourself
answering your questions.
1051
00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:50.360
Basically I figured it out for myself.
Yeah, yeah.
1052
00:58:50.440 --> 00:58:53.560
So you find benefit
from therapy, right?
1053
00:58:53.640 --> 00:58:56.160
Yeah. No, I thought therapy
was extremely helpful.
1054
00:58:56.240 --> 00:58:59.760
She gave me the key to open these doors
and I was like, "Oh, wow."
1055
00:58:59.840 --> 00:59:03.760
I realised, "Oh, okay.
I now know what I want to do,
1056
00:59:03.840 --> 00:59:08.200
and how to get there,
and you know, what's… best for me.
1057
00:59:08.280 --> 00:59:10.960
And you know, er, something as simple
as saying "no."
1058
00:59:11.040 --> 00:59:13.400
Like I've said "no" to so many things now
1059
00:59:13.480 --> 00:59:15.440
because I'm like,
I don't have to say "yes."
1060
00:59:15.520 --> 00:59:17.760
-I don't have to always please people.
-Mmm-hmm.
1061
00:59:17.840 --> 00:59:19.440
The reason why I would always say "yes"
1062
00:59:19.520 --> 00:59:22.640
is because in my childhood,
I'd always say "yes" to my parents.
1063
00:59:22.720 --> 00:59:23.600
Like no matter what.
1064
00:59:23.680 --> 00:59:27.000
If I didn't wanna do it,
I have to say "yes" because I'd get beat,
1065
00:59:27.080 --> 00:59:29.200
or something like that.
1066
00:59:29.280 --> 00:59:31.840
So now, I literally just say "no"
1067
00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:34.560
and I understand I need time for myself
to do things.
1068
00:59:34.640 --> 00:59:36.520
-Prioritising myself.
-Yeah, exactly.
1069
00:59:36.600 --> 00:59:38.240
We've all got better
at the balancing act.
1070
00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:42.240
I think talking about your mental health
has become a big part of online especially
1071
00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:46.360
because people are starting to understand
that these people that you idolise
1072
00:59:46.440 --> 00:59:48.760
are normal people,
and they have real feelings.
1073
01:00:06.560 --> 01:00:10.760
We're here for our second physical
Sides location launch.
1074
01:00:10.840 --> 01:00:13.600
-First one is at BOXPARK, Wembley.
-Mmm-hmm.
1075
01:00:13.680 --> 01:00:18.080
This one is Gravity Wandsworth,
a place I am very fond of.
1076
01:00:18.160 --> 01:00:21.480
Come here a couple of times in my own time
to bowl, electric go-kart.
1077
01:00:21.560 --> 01:00:25.600
But yeah, got a couple supporters
coming down to get some free food.
1078
01:00:25.680 --> 01:00:28.120
Free food always tastes better,
by the way. Always.
1079
01:00:28.200 --> 01:00:29.440
-How are you?
-I'm good. You?
1080
01:00:29.520 --> 01:00:31.400
Good, good, good.
1081
01:00:31.480 --> 01:00:33.960
If you're not learning,
you're not living.
1082
01:00:34.040 --> 01:00:35.040
It's a good one.
1083
01:00:35.600 --> 01:00:37.880
That's a good saying, innit?
I came up with that today.
1084
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:39.840
-Why are you shaking your head?
-How?
1085
01:00:39.920 --> 01:00:41.960
I'll dash this at your head.
What's your favourite?
1086
01:00:42.040 --> 01:00:45.200
Live like others can't, so in time,
you can live like others won't.
1087
01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:48.480
Live like others can't.
1088
01:00:48.560 --> 01:00:50.920
Wrong way round.
Wrong way round, by the way.
1089
01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:55.200
You said that way, didn't it,
or did I say it? I can't.
1090
01:00:58.040 --> 01:01:00.680
Honestly, well, you could…
well, you could do that also.
1091
01:01:00.760 --> 01:01:03.600
Next time, just don't be poor.
That's what you just said, bro.
1092
01:01:03.680 --> 01:01:05.320
You said live like others can't.
1093
01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:08.400
-Won't say it again now.
-What's your…
1094
01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:11.800
No. It's to live like others won't.
So in time you live like others can't.
1095
01:01:11.880 --> 01:01:15.640
You know you put in the work,
do things that people won't do.
1096
01:01:15.720 --> 01:01:18.680
-Eventually, hopefully, fingers crossed…
-Inshallah.
1097
01:01:18.760 --> 01:01:20.880
Then you can, you know,
live life like others can't,
1098
01:01:20.960 --> 01:01:23.400
because they didn't put the work in,
didn't do the groundwork.
1099
01:01:23.480 --> 01:01:25.440
These waffle fries are incredible,
by the way.
1100
01:01:25.520 --> 01:01:26.960
I'm not even chatting. Can I swear?
1101
01:01:27.040 --> 01:01:29.200
-Wow.
-I can swear, I'm not even chatting shit.
1102
01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:33.120
Do you want a waffle fry?
1103
01:01:33.200 --> 01:01:36.720
No, but seriously, does anyone want any
'cause it's fucking incredible.
1104
01:01:36.800 --> 01:01:38.040
I guess you point it out.
1105
01:01:38.120 --> 01:01:40.400
Literally everyone's looking at us.
I get so paranoid
1106
01:01:40.480 --> 01:01:42.320
Not surprised.
1107
01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:44.480
Hey, it's a lot of people.
1108
01:01:44.560 --> 01:01:46.720
Oh, shit. It's insane in here.
1109
01:01:46.800 --> 01:01:50.440
It's this incredible moment where
you get the real-world manifestation
1110
01:01:50.520 --> 01:01:53.160
of those likes, those comments,
those views
1111
01:01:53.240 --> 01:01:55.080
and you realise just how powerful
1112
01:01:55.160 --> 01:01:58.720
this incredible content publishing machine
the boys have created really is.
1113
01:02:10.320 --> 01:02:13.680
The Sidemen, they've inspired me
since I was like eight years old.
1114
01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:15.840
I've been watching them for a long time.
1115
01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:17.280
They're just fun to watch.
1116
01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:21.160
They make videos on, er, different types
of topics and they're just fun.
1117
01:02:21.240 --> 01:02:22.600
They're just good.
1118
01:02:22.680 --> 01:02:25.600
Like they've just got the whole scene,
the whole YouTube scene.
1119
01:02:30.240 --> 01:02:34.360
They're those type of content creators
that put a smile on my face.
1120
01:02:34.440 --> 01:02:37.800
I literally look so forward
to watching their videos like every day.
1121
01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:41.200
Watching Sidemen videos,
obviously it's all banter and jokes,
1122
01:02:41.280 --> 01:02:43.400
but then there's also lessons
that you learn.
1123
01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:47.120
You kinda see the friendship,
the teamwork, the whole communication.
1124
01:02:47.200 --> 01:02:50.240
They have this fun side to them,
so I wanna follow that, too.
1125
01:02:55.360 --> 01:02:57.280
Is this… is this safe?
1126
01:03:15.240 --> 01:03:17.920
To us, we're messing around.
We're having fun.
1127
01:03:18.000 --> 01:03:21.080
We're creating content.
We're doing something cool. It's cool.
1128
01:03:21.160 --> 01:03:24.160
But you also sometimes forget
that for someone else,
1129
01:03:24.240 --> 01:03:26.000
that's their escape from reality
1130
01:03:26.080 --> 01:03:29.000
or that's the thing that's gonna get them
through the day.
1131
01:03:29.080 --> 01:03:33.200
And that really comes to light
when you speak to some supporters.
1132
01:03:33.280 --> 01:03:37.320
I feel like the biggest thing
that separates us from a lot of creators
1133
01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:40.000
is people really connect to us
as a friendship group.
1134
01:03:40.080 --> 01:03:42.600
A lot of them say they feel like
they're the eighth member.
1135
01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:54.480
Tobi, honestly, is one of
the nicest people that I know in life.
1136
01:03:54.560 --> 01:03:57.480
Not just in the Sidemen.
He's one of the nicest people that I know.
1137
01:03:57.560 --> 01:04:01.880
In his nature, he's kind.
In his day-to-day life, he's just kind.
1138
01:04:01.960 --> 01:04:04.840
He always thinks
of the nicest thing possible.
1139
01:04:06.600 --> 01:04:10.280
It makes me feel like
my parents raised me right,
1140
01:04:10.360 --> 01:04:13.080
but it's also just the way I am.
I've always been that way.
1141
01:04:13.160 --> 01:04:16.200
I don't know any kind of other way to be.
1142
01:04:17.120 --> 01:04:20.880
I have nothing but the utmost respect
for both my parents.
1143
01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:23.160
My dad was working three jobs at a point.
1144
01:04:23.240 --> 01:04:24.440
He'd go out at night.
1145
01:04:24.520 --> 01:04:26.600
I wouldn't see him 'cause he'd be sleeping
1146
01:04:26.680 --> 01:04:28.520
and I'd be at school and whatnot.
1147
01:04:28.600 --> 01:04:31.960
Or he'd be working another job,
his second job, his third job.
1148
01:04:33.680 --> 01:04:36.880
I've always got a joy
from helping other people.
1149
01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:38.200
I love this guy.
1150
01:04:38.280 --> 01:04:41.080
I like to see the people around me happy.
It makes me feel happy.
1151
01:04:41.160 --> 01:04:42.920
Okay. Open your eyes, Simon.
1152
01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:45.520
-Oh! Unreal.
-Good man.
1153
01:04:45.600 --> 01:04:47.800
-How do you feel?
-A million likes.
1154
01:04:49.360 --> 01:04:51.560
Hey, cut the video, man.
1155
01:04:51.640 --> 01:04:53.280
In the position I'm in now,
1156
01:04:53.360 --> 01:04:55.800
to be able to help my family
when they need it
1157
01:04:55.880 --> 01:04:59.920
or my friends when they need it
or complete strangers sometimes,
1158
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:02.720
it feels like I'm contributing
something to the world.
1159
01:05:16.360 --> 01:05:17.800
-What do we want?
-Justice!
1160
01:05:17.880 --> 01:05:20.040
-When do we want it?
-Now!
1161
01:05:20.120 --> 01:05:22.320
Since the George Floyd incident,
1162
01:05:22.400 --> 01:05:26.760
my mind has been going non-stop.
I've been struggling.
1163
01:05:32.240 --> 01:05:36.200
You're tired of hearing
about our racist experiences?
1164
01:05:36.280 --> 01:05:42.840
Imagine, imagine how tired we are
of experiencing it. Imagine.
1165
01:05:42.920 --> 01:05:44.920
And I'm one of the lucky ones.
1166
01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:48.240
I'm one of the fucking…
I'm so blessed, you lot.
1167
01:05:48.320 --> 01:05:51.560
I can't tell you
how fucking blessed I am.
1168
01:06:02.520 --> 01:06:07.440
It was heartbreaking to see Tobi like that
'cause Tobi is always bubbly.
1169
01:06:07.520 --> 01:06:11.960
So to see him in that kind of mood
and, talking about this kind of stuff,
1170
01:06:12.040 --> 01:06:16.560
I remember trying not to shed a tear
watching Tobi on the stream.
1171
01:06:16.640 --> 01:06:18.720
That might have been the moment
when he realised,
1172
01:06:18.800 --> 01:06:22.440
"This stuff happens to me, you know,
similar, and I've never spoken about it,
1173
01:06:22.520 --> 01:06:26.360
now the whole world's talking about it
when it's ended fatally."
1174
01:06:26.440 --> 01:06:28.400
So, maybe, it was a good time to share.
1175
01:06:28.480 --> 01:06:29.400
It doesn't surprise me.
1176
01:06:29.480 --> 01:06:32.720
Tobi will speak his mind
when he wants to speak his mind.
1177
01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:35.360
If I tell you the amount of shit
I've been through,
1178
01:06:35.440 --> 01:06:38.480
you wouldn't believe it.
Imagine the unlucky ones.
1179
01:06:38.560 --> 01:06:42.960
Imagine the ones that are dying
at the hands of these…
1180
01:06:43.040 --> 01:06:45.880
I ain't wanna call them humans
'cause they're not human, man.
1181
01:06:45.960 --> 01:06:51.800
They don't act human, they don't.
They fucking don't.
1182
01:06:54.800 --> 01:06:57.760
I'm so sorry for breaking down.
I really didn't wanna break down.
1183
01:06:57.840 --> 01:07:02.640
I really, really tried to compose myself.
I've… I've lost my shit, man.
1184
01:07:02.720 --> 01:07:05.320
The response that I got from that
was amazing.
1185
01:07:05.400 --> 01:07:08.200
Yeah that's just one example of me
talking about something serious
1186
01:07:08.280 --> 01:07:09.640
and it having an impact.
1187
01:07:09.720 --> 01:07:12.040
But it's in my nature
to talk about that stuff
1188
01:07:12.120 --> 01:07:14.360
because I guess I wear my heart
on my sleeve.
1189
01:07:14.440 --> 01:07:17.920
I'm not afraid to show my emotions
or how I feel about certain things.
1190
01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:21.960
I share my feelings with my audience
'cause that's how they connect.
1191
01:07:22.040 --> 01:07:23.960
That's how they view you as a human.
1192
01:07:45.200 --> 01:07:48.560
Oh, God. First player off the bus.
Come on.
1193
01:07:48.640 --> 01:07:51.240
Jeez. Let's go.
1194
01:08:04.840 --> 01:08:08.000
We've actually just flown in
from Singapore to catch this match
1195
01:08:08.080 --> 01:08:10.520
'cause we've been Sidemen fans
for a really long time.
1196
01:08:10.600 --> 01:08:11.840
It's pretty exciting for us.
1197
01:08:11.920 --> 01:08:14.400
USA. New Mexico, USA.
1198
01:08:14.480 --> 01:08:16.520
Erm, Essex. So northern Essex.
1199
01:08:16.600 --> 01:08:21.279
Sidemen Sunday, every Sunday,
telly goes straight on to YouTube.
1200
01:08:21.359 --> 01:08:24.200
After like a stressful week,
you've got Sidemen Sunday coming.
1201
01:08:24.279 --> 01:08:29.160
You can eat your takeaway, put it on,
and you'll be… escape from the world
1202
01:08:29.240 --> 01:08:32.160
and just have a laugh,
and we always watch it every week.
1203
01:08:32.240 --> 01:08:33.840
I've watched them for so long and like…
1204
01:08:33.920 --> 01:08:38.279
they're just so creative in what they do
and every video's just, like, amazing.
1205
01:08:38.359 --> 01:08:43.240
I love the one where the Sidemen
became parents for 24 hours.
1206
01:08:43.319 --> 01:08:45.840
That's one of my favourites.
1207
01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:49.240
Personally, I'm here to see
Miniminter and KSI but for you…
1208
01:08:49.319 --> 01:08:51.920
Well, for him, he's more of a Simon fan,
1209
01:08:52.000 --> 01:08:54.600
but I'm actually here for Speed
from the YouTube Allstars,
1210
01:08:54.680 --> 01:08:55.880
I really love Speed.
1211
01:08:55.960 --> 01:08:58.920
So. I'm really hoping he'll score some…
quite a few goals.
1212
01:09:02.880 --> 01:09:03.840
Oh!
1213
01:09:03.920 --> 01:09:04.800
Yeah.
1214
01:09:04.880 --> 01:09:08.040
Oi, Speed. What are you? Striker?
1215
01:09:08.120 --> 01:09:09.600
-Left wing.
-Left wing, cheese.
1216
01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:13.520
-Oh, my God. Look at it, man.
-Ooh. Oh, my God.
1217
01:09:19.040 --> 01:09:20.800
-Chris joined our side.
-Come on.
1218
01:09:20.880 --> 01:09:23.840
-You've been getting a bit of flak.
-Yeah. It wasn't even my decision.
1219
01:09:23.920 --> 01:09:27.319
No it was actually our decision
to bring Chris over to,
1220
01:09:27.399 --> 01:09:29.720
what we believe
is balancing out the teams.
1221
01:09:29.800 --> 01:09:31.800
-If we've done that or not, who knows.
-Yeah.
1222
01:09:31.880 --> 01:09:33.359
It's always so difficult to tell
1223
01:09:33.439 --> 01:09:36.840
'cause there's loads of people
that you've never seen play before so…
1224
01:09:36.920 --> 01:09:38.920
-Yes. Exactly.
-You definitely rigged it for them.
1225
01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:41.200
I've never played soccer, football,
whatever so.
1226
01:09:41.279 --> 01:09:44.840
I have no idea what I'm doing.
So, if it was even, you've just taken…
1227
01:09:44.920 --> 01:09:45.880
Stop saying this.
1228
01:09:49.800 --> 01:09:52.479
Fuck KSI.
1229
01:09:52.560 --> 01:09:56.200
-Football.
-Let's go, boys.
1230
01:10:01.000 --> 01:10:03.360
About to bust your ass. Bust your ass.
1231
01:10:03.440 --> 01:10:07.720
-Come on then, huh?
-Bust your ass.
1232
01:10:07.800 --> 01:10:11.200
I don't give a shit, bro.
I don't give a shit, bro.
1233
01:10:20.360 --> 01:10:22.360
We're about to bust their ass, man.
It's over.
1234
01:10:38.440 --> 01:10:42.440
In the match in 2022,
the match sold out within one evening.
1235
01:10:42.520 --> 01:10:44.400
It would've sold out immediately,
1236
01:10:44.480 --> 01:10:47.640
but we broke the servers
when tickets went on sale.
1237
01:10:47.720 --> 01:10:50.440
There was 170,000 people
trying to buy tickets.
1238
01:10:50.520 --> 01:10:54.440
It's the first charity match
we've done in four years.
1239
01:10:54.520 --> 01:10:58.440
It's the first event that we've had
as a group since before the pandemic…
1240
01:10:59.560 --> 01:11:01.400
Let's go, boys.
1241
01:11:02.680 --> 01:11:06.200
…where we've got to be with
such a large amount of our audience.
1242
01:11:10.640 --> 01:11:13.200
The crowd's
welcoming these players.
1243
01:11:13.280 --> 01:11:18.560
It's getting lively here at The Valley.
1.3 million people watching this.
1244
01:11:18.640 --> 01:11:20.240
It's exciting.
1245
01:11:20.320 --> 01:11:23.440
We might have two, three,
four million people watching at once.
1246
01:11:23.520 --> 01:11:27.400
Oh, it's unbelievable.
Those numbers are simply sensational.
1247
01:11:30.040 --> 01:11:32.840
Captain takes it quickly.
1248
01:11:32.920 --> 01:11:35.680
Remember he scored his goal, I think,
in the first two minutes.
1249
01:11:35.760 --> 01:11:37.720
-Yeah.
1250
01:11:37.800 --> 01:11:41.000
They're underway.
This is not gonna be a nice game.
1251
01:11:41.080 --> 01:11:44.080
Speed is celebrating.
First blood has gone to Speed.
1252
01:11:44.160 --> 01:11:47.720
It's what we're gonna see.
It's little battles all around the pitch.
1253
01:11:47.800 --> 01:11:51.320
Chunkz can hit one here.
He's hit one. Pieface.
1254
01:11:51.400 --> 01:11:54.080
Goal! Oh, my word!
1255
01:11:54.160 --> 01:11:55.720
Take a bow, Chunkz!
1256
01:11:55.800 --> 01:11:58.680
It's still going
for the YouTube all stars.
1257
01:11:58.760 --> 01:12:03.680
Could be a chance for Niko Omilana!
It's in! It's two-nil to the Allstars!
1258
01:12:03.760 --> 01:12:05.760
We'd all said all we want is goals.
1259
01:12:05.840 --> 01:12:08.480
Even if we lost eight-five,
we just want goals.
1260
01:12:08.560 --> 01:12:11.360
Simon! Can he get it
to Vik? He's through.
1261
01:12:11.440 --> 01:12:12.320
Go on, Vik.
1262
01:12:12.400 --> 01:12:13.720
Chance for the Sidemen!
1263
01:12:17.200 --> 01:12:19.400
Everything became
a little bit poetic.
1264
01:12:19.480 --> 01:12:21.680
We were back on track. Morale was up.
1265
01:12:21.760 --> 01:12:25.680
The stadium was happy,
and we were set for a good game.
1266
01:12:25.760 --> 01:12:28.200
-Randolph to Simon. One-two.
-Oh, that's gorgeous.
1267
01:12:28.280 --> 01:12:31.040
-It's gotta be a goal! Oh, it is!
-Two-two!
1268
01:12:31.120 --> 01:12:33.320
What a game!
It's the shot.
1269
01:12:33.400 --> 01:12:34.680
Oh, my gosh.
1270
01:12:35.200 --> 01:12:38.520
Instantly, we're like, "Okay.
Well, this game is already a classic.
1271
01:12:38.600 --> 01:12:39.720
It's already amazing."
1272
01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:41.040
Oh, will it in?
1273
01:12:41.120 --> 01:12:43.920
What a game!
You can't take your eyes off it!
1274
01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:49.640
Now Jizzle outside the box!
Oh, what a ball that is. Wow. Wow.
1275
01:12:49.720 --> 01:12:52.320
We could be going to penalties here.
Seven apiece.
1276
01:12:52.400 --> 01:12:55.760
-Hang on! Hang on! Oh, my God!
-Oh, my God!
1277
01:12:55.840 --> 01:12:59.800
Miniminter gets his hat trick
and what a way to seal it.
1278
01:12:59.880 --> 01:13:03.160
But the referee is gonna
bring the whistle to his lips…
1279
01:13:03.240 --> 01:13:07.760
-And it's all over!
-It is full time. 8-7.
1280
01:13:07.840 --> 01:13:10.960
One of the best games we've seen
on YouTube.
1281
01:13:13.880 --> 01:13:15.760
I'd love to have gone to penalties
1282
01:13:15.840 --> 01:13:18.400
just for how much of a spectacle
that would've been.
1283
01:13:18.480 --> 01:13:21.880
But at the same time, I'm not gonna
complain about scoring a winner
1284
01:13:21.960 --> 01:13:23.920
in front of 2.5 million people, am I?
1285
01:13:27.840 --> 01:13:32.880
It has been absolutely
fascinating and heartwarming
1286
01:13:32.960 --> 01:13:36.520
to see how much this match
has been discussed
1287
01:13:36.600 --> 01:13:38.240
and how much the content
1288
01:13:38.320 --> 01:13:40.760
of people discussing the match,
has trended.
1289
01:13:41.720 --> 01:13:43.960
And even if you look
at the number of concurrent viewers
1290
01:13:44.040 --> 01:13:45.280
they had on that match
1291
01:13:45.360 --> 01:13:48.520
that probably surpasses
the concurrent views
1292
01:13:48.600 --> 01:13:51.080
on huge events that we have
1293
01:13:51.160 --> 01:13:55.720
like the Champions League final,
like the funeral of the Queen, you know?
1294
01:13:55.800 --> 01:13:59.720
Those numbers are absolutely staggering.
1295
01:14:06.600 --> 01:14:11.120
So far it's one million,
seventy-four thousand, three hundred and--
1296
01:14:14.280 --> 01:14:19.120
I don't think we really understood
how big this one was gonna be.
1297
01:14:19.200 --> 01:14:20.640
So to be able to say, er…
1298
01:14:20.720 --> 01:14:24.320
we raised over a million pounds
for charity is absolutely gigantic.
1299
01:14:24.400 --> 01:14:26.680
And that goes to really good charities,
1300
01:14:26.760 --> 01:14:30.360
and good to have a charity partner onboard
that is one of the group.
1301
01:14:30.440 --> 01:14:32.960
We're trying to organise some events
for this coming year
1302
01:14:33.040 --> 01:14:34.640
to raise money for M7 Education.
1303
01:14:34.720 --> 01:14:38.080
If you guys do wanna know more about M7,
I'll stop talking about it now,
1304
01:14:38.160 --> 01:14:40.920
but I'll leave a link to it
in the description down below,
1305
01:14:41.000 --> 01:14:43.800
and you guys can go check it out
and donate if you want to.
1306
01:14:43.880 --> 01:14:45.440
You're a horrible person if you don't.
1307
01:14:48.280 --> 01:14:50.480
So my brother worked at a bunch of schools
1308
01:14:50.560 --> 01:14:52.760
that couldn't afford to go
on school trips.
1309
01:14:54.280 --> 01:14:57.000
So I'd always said to him
that I wanna start a charity.
1310
01:14:57.080 --> 01:15:00.080
When you get into a position where you can
do good, use it.
1311
01:15:00.160 --> 01:15:04.800
So M7, for those that don't know,
we find schools that are in areas
1312
01:15:04.880 --> 01:15:08.360
where the students might not be able
to afford to go on school trips
1313
01:15:08.440 --> 01:15:10.720
-and have these educational experiences.
-Hmm.
1314
01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:13.120
And it's all funded through you.
1315
01:15:13.200 --> 01:15:16.160
Like the whole… and as of last week,
1316
01:15:16.240 --> 01:15:19.200
I'm pretty certain I can say,
got charity status.
1317
01:15:19.280 --> 01:15:20.480
-Let's go.
-Finally, a charity…
1318
01:15:20.560 --> 01:15:24.800
For me it was… when I went to school,
I was lucky enough to go on school trips.
1319
01:15:24.880 --> 01:15:28.320
So I always remember those way more
than the rest of the school year.
1320
01:15:28.400 --> 01:15:32.000
So we signed up over a thousand students
to go on school trips.
1321
01:15:32.080 --> 01:15:33.280
-Wow.
-Which is pretty awesome.
1322
01:15:33.360 --> 01:15:35.600
Thank you, M7 team!
1323
01:15:37.240 --> 01:15:41.680
Being able to give, however many kids,
the chance to go on those school trips
1324
01:15:41.760 --> 01:15:43.480
and make their own memories is…
1325
01:15:43.560 --> 01:15:45.640
seemed like a no-brainer
for me and my brother.
1326
01:15:51.600 --> 01:15:53.600
The misconception
about Simon is that…
1327
01:15:53.680 --> 01:15:55.680
he always tells me he's self-conscious
1328
01:15:55.760 --> 01:15:57.680
or he's not sure that he has something.
1329
01:15:57.760 --> 01:16:00.600
So Josh has got like his clothing brand,
JJ's got his music,
1330
01:16:00.680 --> 01:16:02.120
Simon's always asking what's his?
1331
01:16:02.200 --> 01:16:04.400
Well, his is just hard work
and consistency.
1332
01:16:04.480 --> 01:16:08.920
He like posts about six videos a day
on about 15 different channels.
1333
01:16:09.760 --> 01:16:13.440
He's just like relentless with it.
So every day, non-stop hard work.
1334
01:16:13.520 --> 01:16:15.600
He never misses a day.
He never misses the content.
1335
01:16:15.680 --> 01:16:18.640
So he just works super, super hard,
and does deserve credit.
1336
01:16:18.720 --> 01:16:21.400
Yo! What's going on?
Welcome to another Reddit video.
1337
01:16:21.480 --> 01:16:24.080
That's right. I am posting videos.
1338
01:16:24.160 --> 01:16:27.520
Remember my favourite post or comment
will win $1,000.
1339
01:16:28.200 --> 01:16:30.840
He's stubborn with…
his work ethic has never changed.
1340
01:16:30.920 --> 01:16:33.440
It's like, "We need to get this done
and that's that."
1341
01:16:33.520 --> 01:16:35.960
Like he'd run the More Sidemen channel
for years.
1342
01:16:36.040 --> 01:16:39.000
Without him being on that channel
and taking responsibility,
1343
01:16:39.080 --> 01:16:41.160
I don't think it is where it is today.
1344
01:16:41.240 --> 01:16:43.040
So his stubbornness pays off for him
1345
01:16:43.120 --> 01:16:45.480
because he has the right mindset
about things
1346
01:16:45.560 --> 01:16:48.560
and when he's made his decision,
he's made a decision.
1347
01:16:48.640 --> 01:16:51.360
So it's not a bad stubborn Simon
when you do see this.
1348
01:16:51.440 --> 01:16:53.920
It's a good stubborn.
You're good.
1349
01:16:54.000 --> 01:16:55.720
I don't know how Simon does it, man.
1350
01:16:55.800 --> 01:16:57.600
Simon's got all the money in the world.
1351
01:16:57.720 --> 01:17:00.560
He's got the Sidemen stuff doing well,
and he still grinds.
1352
01:17:00.640 --> 01:17:03.520
Every day he's posting,
like, multiple videos.
1353
01:17:03.600 --> 01:17:07.840
Consistency really does matter
on the platform.
1354
01:17:07.920 --> 01:17:10.160
And when you have these super fans,
1355
01:17:10.240 --> 01:17:11.760
they have expectations
1356
01:17:11.840 --> 01:17:14.960
of when you're going to deliver
the content that they want.
1357
01:17:15.040 --> 01:17:18.040
And so it's an anticipation.
It's an excitement.
1358
01:17:24.920 --> 01:17:28.360
Tanya Pile, slate five, take one.
1359
01:17:28.440 --> 01:17:31.120
So the boys are, obviously,
the creative brains.
1360
01:17:31.200 --> 01:17:33.320
They will come up with what videos to do,
1361
01:17:33.400 --> 01:17:36.400
and they'll chat to me about
what they would like that video to be,
1362
01:17:36.480 --> 01:17:38.920
and then I do my best to make it happen.
1363
01:17:41.440 --> 01:17:42.680
How's it going, guys?
1364
01:17:42.760 --> 01:17:44.960
And welcome to Sidemen hide and seek
1365
01:17:45.040 --> 01:17:47.240
on a jumbo 747 plane.
1366
01:17:48.760 --> 01:17:52.520
Hey, yo! I can't do this.
I can't.
1367
01:17:52.600 --> 01:17:54.520
Fuckin' hell.
1368
01:17:54.600 --> 01:17:57.440
As time's gone on,
got bigger studios,
1369
01:17:57.520 --> 01:18:00.360
bigger locations, more travel.
1370
01:18:00.440 --> 01:18:02.680
They're always wanting to be
one step ahead,
1371
01:18:02.760 --> 01:18:06.240
and it's really exciting, and we're always
like, "What can we do next?"
1372
01:18:06.320 --> 01:18:08.160
I'm like, "How much bigger can we go?"
1373
01:18:08.240 --> 01:18:11.200
Before lockdown, we had…
I don't know how many million subscribers.
1374
01:18:11.280 --> 01:18:15.000
We've got like 17 now.
So like lockdown was huge for the Sidemen.
1375
01:18:15.080 --> 01:18:15.920
Whoo!
1376
01:18:16.000 --> 01:18:17.920
Because we was
that one consistent thing
1377
01:18:18.000 --> 01:18:20.400
in people's lives that they could watch
every Sunday
1378
01:18:20.480 --> 01:18:23.200
and then more Sidemen throughout the week.
1379
01:18:23.880 --> 01:18:25.760
I think probably after Covid,
1380
01:18:25.840 --> 01:18:28.360
and everyone had like two weeks inside
just watching our videos,
1381
01:18:28.440 --> 01:18:29.640
that's when it got a bit mad.
1382
01:18:29.720 --> 01:18:33.520
I don't know if you can hear me, but
my balls are squished into my trousers.
1383
01:18:33.600 --> 01:18:36.320
I'm really proud of the growth
over the last few years.
1384
01:18:36.400 --> 01:18:37.480
It's been phenomenal.
1385
01:18:37.560 --> 01:18:39.360
-One, two, three!
-Sidemen!
1386
01:18:42.880 --> 01:18:46.760
Contrary to belief,
we actually don't really pay attention
1387
01:18:46.840 --> 01:18:49.240
to trends or to dates that much.
1388
01:18:49.320 --> 01:18:54.200
I think the, the bliss and the blessing
of Sidemen is it's long-form content
1389
01:18:54.280 --> 01:18:57.120
that you get to really see
an insight into us
1390
01:18:57.200 --> 01:18:58.440
and you get the true us.
1391
01:18:58.520 --> 01:19:02.880
If you was to focus on analytics and data
too much,
1392
01:19:02.960 --> 01:19:04.520
you'll get a different product.
1393
01:19:04.600 --> 01:19:07.800
You'll get a 16-minute video
which is very much in your face.
1394
01:19:07.880 --> 01:19:10.520
You'll get a lot of great concepts,
video and views,
1395
01:19:10.600 --> 01:19:12.400
but you'll lose a lot of personality.
1396
01:19:12.480 --> 01:19:14.800
So, there's not many channels like ours
1397
01:19:14.880 --> 01:19:17.600
where you can get away with
a two-and-a-half-hour long video
1398
01:19:17.680 --> 01:19:19.160
and get 90 million views.
1399
01:19:20.520 --> 01:19:25.080
We've had experts come along and people
who work with the likes of MrBeast.
1400
01:19:25.160 --> 01:19:28.200
The one kind of resounding thing
that they always say is,
1401
01:19:28.280 --> 01:19:30.320
"Everything we do shouldn't work."
1402
01:19:30.400 --> 01:19:31.800
And that makes me laugh, right,
1403
01:19:31.880 --> 01:19:34.640
'cause it's like…
"It shouldn't work but, it does."
1404
01:19:34.720 --> 01:19:37.400
There's been a lot of group channels
that have tried and failed.
1405
01:19:37.480 --> 01:19:40.440
We've got systems in place
that make things that always worked.
1406
01:19:40.520 --> 01:19:42.120
They've got these mad systems in place
1407
01:19:42.200 --> 01:19:47.480
that I don't think many other, er,
YouTube boy bands, er, have in place.
1408
01:19:48.480 --> 01:19:49.360
Run!
1409
01:19:49.440 --> 01:19:52.440
If someone's like 15 minutes late
for a shoot,
1410
01:19:52.520 --> 01:19:55.520
then that means that they're gonna get
a yellow card.
1411
01:19:55.600 --> 01:19:59.000
I remember at one point
it being a frustration for me and Simon
1412
01:19:59.080 --> 01:20:01.840
that certain people
who do less than others.
1413
01:20:01.920 --> 01:20:05.600
And I knew that. I'm a control freak.
So I'm an enabler.
1414
01:20:05.680 --> 01:20:09.280
So I allow people to do nothing
because I'll do the work.
1415
01:20:09.360 --> 01:20:12.240
So… that's kind of like where
a lot of systems probably came from.
1416
01:20:12.320 --> 01:20:14.560
-The card system?
-Yeah.
1417
01:20:14.640 --> 01:20:17.560
It holds people responsible.
That's what it does.
1418
01:20:17.640 --> 01:20:19.920
If you're half an hour late
to a real life shoot,
1419
01:20:20.000 --> 01:20:21.120
you get a yellow card.
1420
01:20:21.200 --> 01:20:23.200
If you're 15 minutes late
to an online shoot,
1421
01:20:23.280 --> 01:20:24.240
it's a yellow card.
1422
01:20:24.320 --> 01:20:27.440
If you're not wearing Sidemen clothing
at a Sidemen shoot, it is a yellow card.
1423
01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:31.920
And we have a tally of how many videos
we've all taken charge of on the channel.
1424
01:20:32.000 --> 01:20:34.280
So if you get two yellows…
video gone.
1425
01:20:34.360 --> 01:20:36.200
Oh, no, no, no, no. No, no, no.
1426
01:20:36.280 --> 01:20:37.160
No, no, no, no.
1427
01:20:37.240 --> 01:20:39.880
-No, no, no.
-No, no, no.
1428
01:20:39.960 --> 01:20:42.800
-You can't take five minutes to reply…
-Fuck it. Yeah.
1429
01:20:42.880 --> 01:20:45.160
-…location.
-Stop. No. We've literally just…
1430
01:20:45.240 --> 01:20:47.640
Fam, we told him to turn.
He didn't fucking turn.
1431
01:20:47.720 --> 01:20:51.080
-We were here I swear.
-No, no. It's a yellow.
1432
01:20:51.160 --> 01:20:52.400
-No. It's not.
-It's a yellow.
1433
01:20:52.480 --> 01:20:53.880
It's not a yellow. I'm here!
1434
01:20:53.960 --> 01:20:56.760
-The majority decides end of the day.
-I'm here, bro!
1435
01:20:56.840 --> 01:20:58.680
-You can't argue with the majority.
-What? No.
1436
01:20:58.760 --> 01:21:00.600
It's a majority decision. It's a yellow.
1437
01:21:00.680 --> 01:21:02.200
Yeah but then… Because you're…
1438
01:21:02.280 --> 01:21:04.440
Oh… Oh, he changes even though it's not.
1439
01:21:04.520 --> 01:21:06.000
Majority decision.
1440
01:21:06.080 --> 01:21:10.280
Yeah, we managed to be, what,
a couple seconds late.
1441
01:21:10.360 --> 01:21:12.120
Er, I got very angry.
1442
01:21:12.200 --> 01:21:15.920
'cause no one wants a yellow card
because it means you have to do more work.
1443
01:21:16.000 --> 01:21:17.880
Yeah, I know. But it's just like…
1444
01:21:17.960 --> 01:21:20.520
All right. All right.
Calm. Calm. All right.
1445
01:21:20.600 --> 01:21:22.800
When it was introduced,
it was alien to people.
1446
01:21:22.880 --> 01:21:25.120
When you talk about it to people,
1447
01:21:25.200 --> 01:21:28.000
it seems like someone's at the top
controlling us.
1448
01:21:28.080 --> 01:21:30.400
But it's just a democratic choice
that works.
1449
01:21:30.480 --> 01:21:32.760
It means that there's fairness
across the group
1450
01:21:32.840 --> 01:21:35.080
there's a spread, er,
across everything we do.
1451
01:21:35.160 --> 01:21:38.040
The way I see it from you two right now,
you're doing the,
1452
01:21:38.120 --> 01:21:39.720
"Oh, but it's not fine for me."
1453
01:21:39.800 --> 01:21:44.080
-Do you… remember the Easter egg video?
-Other people… Yeah.
1454
01:21:44.160 --> 01:21:45.800
I was there at one minute past…
1455
01:21:45.880 --> 01:21:47.560
I will back you on…
1456
01:21:47.640 --> 01:21:50.280
Boys, calm. It's a yellow.
1457
01:21:50.360 --> 01:21:53.080
A-okay behind the scenes this is.
1458
01:21:53.160 --> 01:21:55.480
We need to film, come on.
1459
01:21:55.560 --> 01:21:58.240
Within the Sidemen, obviously,
we have seven people
1460
01:21:58.320 --> 01:22:00.960
and we have a sentence that rules all.
1461
01:22:01.040 --> 01:22:02.880
The majority decides.
1462
01:22:02.960 --> 01:22:05.160
I think it's nice to have a voting system
1463
01:22:05.240 --> 01:22:07.880
and then for it not to become
an emotional debate.
1464
01:22:07.960 --> 01:22:10.600
It's just like, "It got voted.
I was outvoted.
1465
01:22:10.680 --> 01:22:12.840
Fine. Let's proceed
as you guys think best."
1466
01:22:13.480 --> 01:22:15.120
I think YouTubers of that period
1467
01:22:15.200 --> 01:22:18.480
that it went from YouTubers made merch,
then they made books.
1468
01:22:18.560 --> 01:22:22.080
-Yeah. Yeah.
-And then music came into it a little bit.
1469
01:22:22.160 --> 01:22:25.480
And then more recent times,
YouTubers are trying expand horizons
1470
01:22:25.560 --> 01:22:29.440
like, "What business can we make?
We could be next big things."
1471
01:22:29.520 --> 01:22:31.640
So then, we've always had all these ideas.
1472
01:22:31.720 --> 01:22:35.040
It's like you said… how do you build
a team to launch these things.
1473
01:22:35.120 --> 01:22:36.960
Ideas that are relative to us
1474
01:22:37.040 --> 01:22:39.880
like doing mukbang, food round,
drinking videos,
1475
01:22:39.960 --> 01:22:42.840
it's stuff that's relative to us
that we have an actual interest in
1476
01:22:42.920 --> 01:22:45.800
that will outlive just us as creators.
1477
01:22:45.880 --> 01:22:48.200
-I hate business.
-You hate business?
1478
01:22:48.280 --> 01:22:50.160
-I hate business.
-Do ya?
1479
01:22:50.240 --> 01:22:52.600
Yeah. I really like videos.
I don't like business.
1480
01:22:52.680 --> 01:22:55.760
-But you like money so…
-No. I like the result of business.
1481
01:22:55.840 --> 01:22:59.200
-What does it mean by hating business?
-I don't like sitting in a meeting.
1482
01:22:59.280 --> 01:23:02.240
Yeah. I get it. I get it.
You know what? I agree with that.
1483
01:23:02.320 --> 01:23:04.160
Yeah. I like creating the video.
1484
01:23:04.240 --> 01:23:05.640
But I think you also…
1485
01:23:05.720 --> 01:23:09.040
like there is a huge side of just creative
to a business.
1486
01:23:09.120 --> 01:23:10.040
Hmm.
1487
01:23:10.120 --> 01:23:12.680
I think the next trend for us is…
what I mean--
1488
01:23:12.760 --> 01:23:14.680
You never know the next trend.
1489
01:23:14.760 --> 01:23:17.200
No. I was gonna say entrepreneurs…
1490
01:23:21.840 --> 01:23:24.400
-Entrepreneu-la-la-la-la-eur.
-It's entreprenueralship.
1491
01:23:24.480 --> 01:23:26.520
-There we go.
-So that's not content.
1492
01:23:26.600 --> 01:23:30.040
We're not making our YouTube videos
about our companies. So…
1493
01:23:30.120 --> 01:23:33.160
In YouTube, you never know
what the next thing is.
1494
01:23:33.240 --> 01:23:34.800
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-There's a quote.
1495
01:23:34.880 --> 01:23:37.320
You either ride the wave,
or you get washed up.
1496
01:23:37.400 --> 01:23:39.960
Ooh!
1497
01:23:46.160 --> 01:23:47.920
Hey, Josh.
1498
01:23:48.800 --> 01:23:49.800
Do you like it?
1499
01:23:49.880 --> 01:23:52.360
-Oh, you look good.
-Thank you.
1500
01:23:53.080 --> 01:23:54.400
That's so deadly.
1501
01:23:54.680 --> 01:23:57.480
-I actually need you as a reference.
-Okay.
1502
01:23:57.560 --> 01:24:01.320
What is that little extra thong?
The thing at the back? I love it.
1503
01:24:01.400 --> 01:24:03.880
Got a little G-string on.
1504
01:24:03.960 --> 01:24:05.160
Some will be easier.
1505
01:24:05.240 --> 01:24:09.280
Vik is a very business-savvy guy.
He's got a lot of investments.
1506
01:24:09.360 --> 01:24:12.520
Pretty sure he's got seats
on the board of multiple companies.
1507
01:24:12.600 --> 01:24:16.960
He's about his money.
He's a very, very business-minded man.
1508
01:24:24.720 --> 01:24:30.240
I grew up in a fairly typical
Indian family setting.
1509
01:24:30.320 --> 01:24:34.840
By the sense of the traditions
that our family is very important.
1510
01:24:34.920 --> 01:24:39.120
You must work very hard,
and it is important to succeed.
1511
01:24:39.200 --> 01:24:41.560
I was part of a local swimming club.
1512
01:24:41.640 --> 01:24:45.960
They had me take lessons for the drums,
for the piano, for the violin,
1513
01:24:46.040 --> 01:24:49.080
always pushed me
to work really hard at school.
1514
01:24:49.160 --> 01:24:52.320
I am now really, really grateful for that.
1515
01:24:52.400 --> 01:24:54.520
And I think a big part of that for them
1516
01:24:54.600 --> 01:24:58.200
were these were all of the things
that they weren't able to do growing up.
1517
01:24:58.280 --> 01:24:59.760
-Hey.
-Nice to see you.
1518
01:24:59.840 --> 01:25:01.960
-And you.
-Hey, man. How you doing?
1519
01:25:02.040 --> 01:25:03.800
Being able to have
those conversations about,
1520
01:25:03.880 --> 01:25:05.720
"Hey, we're actually looking
for equity now
1521
01:25:05.800 --> 01:25:09.000
because we understand
that what we're doing for your business
1522
01:25:09.080 --> 01:25:10.680
isn't just gonna help tomorrow,
1523
01:25:10.760 --> 01:25:13.400
but it'll help for the next ten years
of your business."
1524
01:25:13.480 --> 01:25:16.920
I always had a bit
of an entrepreneurial spirit behind me.
1525
01:25:17.680 --> 01:25:20.280
When I was in primary school,
I used to sell rulers.
1526
01:25:20.360 --> 01:25:23.600
When I went to secondary school,
I started selling sweets to students
1527
01:25:23.680 --> 01:25:26.560
and that allowed me
to buy my first set-up.
1528
01:25:26.640 --> 01:25:31.840
I've always had that innate desire
to use my own brainpower
1529
01:25:31.920 --> 01:25:37.160
to generate a revenue
and some form of worth as it were.
1530
01:25:38.720 --> 01:25:41.320
One of my granddads,
his entire dream in life
1531
01:25:41.400 --> 01:25:44.680
was to become a successful businessman.
1532
01:25:44.760 --> 01:25:47.960
He had all of the books about
how to live in prosperity,
1533
01:25:48.040 --> 01:25:49.440
how to be a millionaire
1534
01:25:49.520 --> 01:25:52.200
and shame he's not still around today,
1535
01:25:52.280 --> 01:25:55.880
but, I think, he'd very happy
with what I've been able to achieve.
1536
01:25:57.560 --> 01:25:58.760
Right Let's get it.
1537
01:25:58.840 --> 01:26:03.320
Ministry, are you ready?
1538
01:26:03.400 --> 01:26:08.800
Vik is multi-faceted. Like, he's so smart,
but he's also a lot of fun.
1539
01:26:08.880 --> 01:26:10.640
One, two, three Let's go.
1540
01:26:12.600 --> 01:26:16.080
He's driven and he gets it done, man.
1541
01:26:18.360 --> 01:26:20.000
That's one thing I'll say about Vik.
1542
01:26:20.080 --> 01:26:22.160
When he sets about a task,
he will get it done.
1543
01:26:29.960 --> 01:26:33.720
To go from a creator to a giant business,
you've gotta be a creator first.
1544
01:26:33.800 --> 01:26:36.600
And a lot of people try to skip that step
or do it too early.
1545
01:26:36.680 --> 01:26:38.520
I think for them, it's pretty easy
1546
01:26:38.600 --> 01:26:41.360
because they've got
seven influential people.
1547
01:26:41.440 --> 01:26:44.240
Then when you combine them together,
it's just cool what they do.
1548
01:26:44.320 --> 01:26:46.800
And so, you naturally
add their products to the mix.
1549
01:26:46.880 --> 01:26:48.920
I don't think there's that many people,
1550
01:26:49.000 --> 01:26:52.520
that have the ability to move product
like that on social media currently.
1551
01:26:52.600 --> 01:26:53.800
It will go up in the future,
1552
01:26:53.880 --> 01:26:57.280
but you could count 'em on your hands,
the ones that can move product,
1553
01:26:57.360 --> 01:27:00.480
and, obviously, they're one of them.
So it's very cool to see.
1554
01:27:00.560 --> 01:27:03.720
The interesting one was
the paid for premium subscription service
1555
01:27:03.800 --> 01:27:05.840
that we also launched called Side+.
1556
01:27:05.920 --> 01:27:11.080
Currently, we offer like a podcast
and behind the scenes.
1557
01:27:11.160 --> 01:27:13.320
One of my favourite things about it
1558
01:27:13.400 --> 01:27:16.920
is it's also a very powerful statement
about what we're able to build
1559
01:27:17.000 --> 01:27:21.520
and how the platform we have now built
can exist outside of YouTube.
1560
01:27:21.600 --> 01:27:24.000
And I think it gives us
a very powerful position
1561
01:27:24.080 --> 01:27:27.280
to proving that we can drive
more revenue off YouTube
1562
01:27:27.360 --> 01:27:30.520
than we can on YouTube,
which is fantastic.
1563
01:27:30.600 --> 01:27:33.960
Side+ won't ever exist
without the Sidemen YouTube channel.
1564
01:27:34.040 --> 01:27:36.720
A lot of people were worried
they're moving to a platform
1565
01:27:36.800 --> 01:27:38.560
where we have to pay to watch them.
1566
01:27:38.640 --> 01:27:43.640
But the reason we made Side+
was to now fund the Sidemen videos.
1567
01:27:43.720 --> 01:27:47.960
And also, it's a chance for us
to interact with fans through giveaways.
1568
01:27:48.040 --> 01:27:51.720
We can do meet and greets.
We can do the spending stuff.
1569
01:27:51.800 --> 01:27:54.640
And because of Side+,
Sidemen can go further.
1570
01:28:00.840 --> 01:28:01.880
Class.
1571
01:28:01.960 --> 01:28:04.760
So one, two, three. One, two, three.
1572
01:28:04.840 --> 01:28:07.360
-Just let him play with it for a bit.
-This is sick man.
1573
01:28:07.440 --> 01:28:10.440
♪ Merry Christmas,
T-man jacking presents ♪
1574
01:28:10.520 --> 01:28:12.920
♪ Fuck your life, this ain't Evanescence ♪
1575
01:28:13.000 --> 01:28:15.360
♪ I don't want socks
Man don't want Crocs ♪
1576
01:28:15.440 --> 01:28:16.720
♪ Man to describe your mum ♪
1577
01:28:16.800 --> 01:28:19.680
♪ Bend it over, slide in and show man
How to stuff that turkey ♪
1578
01:28:19.760 --> 01:28:20.600
Ah, er, ah, ah, ah.
1579
01:28:20.680 --> 01:28:23.800
♪ Banged up
Let's get banged up da-da-da-da ♪
1580
01:28:23.880 --> 01:28:26.000
What's going on?
1581
01:28:29.400 --> 01:28:31.560
That was sick.
1582
01:28:31.640 --> 01:28:34.000
It didn't really have the effect
I hoped it would.
1583
01:28:34.080 --> 01:28:35.960
You have a format
going on for years,
1584
01:28:36.040 --> 01:28:37.120
cheap versus expensive.
1585
01:28:37.200 --> 01:28:39.680
It's a staple of the boys' content.
1586
01:28:39.760 --> 01:28:43.480
This time, instead of being hotels,
or, you know, holidays or road trips,
1587
01:28:43.560 --> 01:28:44.720
it was Christmas song.
1588
01:28:44.800 --> 01:28:46.440
♪ Empty your sack all in my crack ♪
1589
01:28:46.520 --> 01:28:48.880
♪ Light up an elf
Put him in a pack like FIFA ♪
1590
01:28:48.960 --> 01:28:50.520
♪ Smoke Rudolph like reefer ♪
1591
01:28:50.600 --> 01:28:52.880
♪ When I meet your dad, I'm like… ♪
1592
01:28:52.960 --> 01:28:56.560
You've got "This or That"
which is a hilarious $100 track.
1593
01:28:56.640 --> 01:29:00.160
You can tell it's made for a $100,
but it was brilliant in its own way.
1594
01:29:00.240 --> 01:29:01.440
Then "Christmas Drillings."
1595
01:29:01.520 --> 01:29:05.520
♪ Christmas Drillings make a killing
Spending all your P ♪
1596
01:29:05.600 --> 01:29:09.600
♪ Don't look under the tree
Ain't no presents till your birthday ♪
1597
01:29:09.680 --> 01:29:12.960
You had JME,
produced by Ny, JJ, Tobi, and Vik.
1598
01:29:13.040 --> 01:29:15.840
Vik delivering probably
the most surprising hottest verse.
1599
01:29:15.920 --> 01:29:18.560
♪ It's a one, two, three
When I cut down your Christmas tree ♪
1600
01:29:18.640 --> 01:29:22.320
♪ Gonna take this flow out in the snow
Like skid row, fuck mistletoe ♪
1601
01:29:22.400 --> 01:29:25.680
And off the back of that,
I remember Aaron messaged said,
1602
01:29:25.760 --> 01:29:28.520
"Guys do you wanna go
for a Christmas number one with this?
1603
01:29:28.600 --> 01:29:30.280
"Do you wanna actually try?"
1604
01:29:30.360 --> 01:29:34.000
And then I remember JJ, Tobi
and a bunch of them in the song were like,
1605
01:29:34.080 --> 01:29:38.400
"Yes. A hundred times yes. Please.
Let's try. Let's give it a go."
1606
01:29:38.480 --> 01:29:41.280
-We're doing this all without a label.
-Yeah. That's…
1607
01:29:41.360 --> 01:29:43.120
-Power to the people.
-That's exciting.
1608
01:29:43.200 --> 01:29:46.080
I definitely think the whole
music-industry people understand
1609
01:29:46.160 --> 01:29:48.520
that you have to be doing it
through the label,
1610
01:29:48.600 --> 01:29:50.040
but we'll show 'em.
1611
01:29:50.120 --> 01:29:52.840
And I think the… our whole journey,
unintentionally,
1612
01:29:52.920 --> 01:29:55.600
has been about us saying,
"We'll do it ourselves."
1613
01:29:55.680 --> 01:29:56.600
We'll do it ourselves.
1614
01:29:56.680 --> 01:29:58.560
"We'll do a charity match,
sell out a stadium."
1615
01:29:58.640 --> 01:30:02.080
And we had like stadiums saying to us,
"Oh, you can't fill out the stadium."
1616
01:30:03.280 --> 01:30:04.720
Yeah. Do you mind?
1617
01:30:04.800 --> 01:30:06.720
Yeah, yeah. Harry.
We're kind of doing a, er…
1618
01:30:06.800 --> 01:30:08.000
We're doing…
1619
01:30:08.080 --> 01:30:10.400
-Yeah, you could…
-Yeah, do it quietly.
1620
01:30:11.760 --> 01:30:14.360
Okay, cool.
1621
01:30:19.760 --> 01:30:21.600
-This is the chaos.
-This is the shit house…
1622
01:30:21.680 --> 01:30:24.480
How we get anything done is a miracle.
1623
01:30:25.520 --> 01:30:27.720
How are we…
1624
01:30:38.480 --> 01:30:41.920
If we're wanting attention,
this is one way to do it.
1625
01:30:44.280 --> 01:30:46.520
We did this without expecting anything
from it.
1626
01:30:46.600 --> 01:30:48.160
We're just making content for fun.
1627
01:30:48.240 --> 01:30:51.960
When you have a audience of our size that,
you know, the charts are possible.
1628
01:30:52.040 --> 01:30:56.520
But to chart at Christmas,
when the competition is so high,
1629
01:30:58.960 --> 01:31:00.160
would be ridiculous.
1630
01:31:00.240 --> 01:31:03.240
It is ridiculous
to even be in the conversation
1631
01:31:03.320 --> 01:31:05.160
for Christmas number one is like…
1632
01:31:06.680 --> 01:31:07.960
It's out of this world, man.
1633
01:31:10.200 --> 01:31:13.560
"Christmas Drillings!"
What we saying people?
1634
01:31:17.560 --> 01:31:22.360
Lord. Big boy on the mic.
1635
01:31:22.440 --> 01:31:24.040
Oh, go on, people.
1636
01:31:24.120 --> 01:31:28.240
Jeez. We are here in London
having the time of our lives.
1637
01:31:28.320 --> 01:31:32.440
Jeez, Sidemen storming London.
It's mad.
1638
01:31:33.840 --> 01:31:35.400
Oi, oi, oi!
1639
01:31:39.400 --> 01:31:42.560
We wanted people to know that we believe
this song should really be number one,
1640
01:31:42.640 --> 01:31:44.240
and we wanted to drive that energy
1641
01:31:44.320 --> 01:31:46.560
to try and generate
those moments on social
1642
01:31:46.640 --> 01:31:50.160
where fans are creating TikToks,
they're creating Instagram stories,
1643
01:31:50.240 --> 01:31:51.720
support "Christmas Drillings."
1644
01:31:51.800 --> 01:31:53.200
Yeah!
1645
01:31:54.280 --> 01:31:56.480
"Christmas Drillings"
pick up the run.
1646
01:31:56.560 --> 01:31:58.320
"Christmas Drillings" still number one.
1647
01:31:59.720 --> 01:32:02.240
It's everywhere.
You cannot miss this vibe.
1648
01:32:02.320 --> 01:32:06.480
We got a mad bus
for this. It's crazy.
1649
01:32:06.560 --> 01:32:08.800
We're trying to get our Christmas tune
to number one.
1650
01:32:08.880 --> 01:32:10.760
Are you all ready? Shout Noel.
1651
01:32:24.560 --> 01:32:26.840
Oh, this is mine.
Oi! What's going on? Sorry.
1652
01:32:34.280 --> 01:32:36.840
Buy the song,
and don't get us arrested, please.
1653
01:32:36.920 --> 01:32:40.280
We won't get the Christmas number one.
We'll be in prison.
1654
01:32:40.360 --> 01:32:41.520
Please clear the road.
1655
01:32:41.600 --> 01:32:44.120
Please clear the road.
1656
01:32:44.200 --> 01:32:47.400
-The feds are gonna lock us up.
-We'll totally get arrested.
1657
01:32:49.680 --> 01:32:51.840
-What do you think of Tottenham?
-Shit!
1658
01:32:51.920 --> 01:32:53.960
-What do you think is shit?
-Tottenham!
1659
01:32:54.040 --> 01:32:56.320
-Thank you.
-That's all right.
1660
01:32:56.400 --> 01:32:59.200
-That's fucking amazing.
-Come on.
1661
01:33:15.680 --> 01:33:17.640
I'll put you out of your misery.
No surprises.
1662
01:33:17.720 --> 01:33:20.440
because you guys are
the UK's Christmas number one!
1663
01:33:20.520 --> 01:33:24.360
Come on! Congratulations!
1664
01:33:24.440 --> 01:33:27.400
Getting that track into the charts alone
and doing what it did,
1665
01:33:27.480 --> 01:33:28.880
was a huge community effort
1666
01:33:28.960 --> 01:33:32.440
which actually goes
very much against the industry,
1667
01:33:32.520 --> 01:33:34.320
against capitalism in a sense,
1668
01:33:34.400 --> 01:33:37.120
very much the community
versus the big corporates
1669
01:33:37.200 --> 01:33:41.000
which I genuinely feel also resounds
really well with the Sidemen, in general.
1670
01:33:41.080 --> 01:33:44.880
Like this community got this track
into the charts and beat Mariah Carey.
1671
01:33:44.960 --> 01:33:47.880
'Cause without a record label,
without pulling any strings,
1672
01:33:47.960 --> 01:33:50.320
without getting on any playlists,
over the radios,
1673
01:33:50.400 --> 01:33:54.360
without paying huge amounts of money
to do all the things you need to do,
1674
01:33:54.440 --> 01:33:57.520
this was pure community.
And that's really special.
1675
01:33:58.920 --> 01:34:04.680
I don't think that the mainstream media
will ever accept online content creators.
1676
01:34:04.760 --> 01:34:07.600
I think that there's still
a lot of rigidity
1677
01:34:07.680 --> 01:34:09.240
in the traditional media landscape.
1678
01:34:09.320 --> 01:34:13.280
There's a tremendous lack of diversity
that really prevents the forward thinking
1679
01:34:13.360 --> 01:34:18.440
that's required to see the innovation
and the potential in the online community.
1680
01:34:18.520 --> 01:34:21.280
It's kind of like
old money versus new money.
1681
01:34:21.360 --> 01:34:25.040
And there's just… I see that distinction
so clearly sometimes in my job,
1682
01:34:25.120 --> 01:34:28.600
where you see the, sort of,
very exciting digital frontier
1683
01:34:28.680 --> 01:34:32.480
and then this massive divide with this,
you know, with legacy media,
1684
01:34:32.560 --> 01:34:34.640
that's just unwilling to change.
1685
01:34:46.520 --> 01:34:49.280
I think we've all changed
over the ten years.
1686
01:34:49.360 --> 01:34:51.960
I think it's hard to say
who's changed the most.
1687
01:34:52.040 --> 01:34:54.560
I mean, physically,
Ethan's changed the most.
1688
01:34:56.680 --> 01:35:01.200
Mentally, I think it's gotta be Ethan,
especially having a kid now.
1689
01:35:02.960 --> 01:35:05.800
Yes, the first one of us to have a child.
1690
01:35:05.880 --> 01:35:08.840
It's mental, you know, because…
say we're watching the TV
1691
01:35:08.920 --> 01:35:12.080
and I put a Sidemen video on
and she's gonna say, "Daddy's on the TV."
1692
01:35:12.160 --> 01:35:15.960
And she's gonna have to grasp the fact
that, "Yes, your dad does this."
1693
01:35:16.040 --> 01:35:18.000
People comment on that.
1694
01:35:18.080 --> 01:35:20.960
It's gonna be really interesting.
Not sure how I'll work it out.
1695
01:35:21.040 --> 01:35:23.520
Hopefully, I've got a little bit of time
to buy.
1696
01:35:23.600 --> 01:35:25.360
When families get involved
1697
01:35:25.440 --> 01:35:29.120
and you start having more and more babies
come in to the group,
1698
01:35:29.200 --> 01:35:31.760
that's another responsibility
that you've gotta deal with.
1699
01:35:31.840 --> 01:35:34.720
It's another thing to take your time,
and that is a priority,
1700
01:35:34.800 --> 01:35:36.360
family should always be your priority.
1701
01:35:36.440 --> 01:35:38.760
But if there's one thing
that history's proven,
1702
01:35:38.840 --> 01:35:40.200
is that we're good at evolving.
1703
01:35:41.560 --> 01:35:43.720
For me, I've always found it
really important
1704
01:35:43.800 --> 01:35:46.080
to slowly build and create a world
for myself
1705
01:35:46.160 --> 01:35:48.400
outside of content, outside of work.
1706
01:35:48.480 --> 01:35:50.800
That makes us better as content creators
1707
01:35:50.880 --> 01:35:53.600
because it gives us
a wider experience of life
1708
01:35:53.680 --> 01:35:55.160
and that's the key, I think.
1709
01:35:56.200 --> 01:35:59.240
I think my advice for any future
YouTube groups
1710
01:35:59.320 --> 01:36:02.360
is don't look at the Sidemen and go,
"I wanna be the next Sidemen."
1711
01:36:02.440 --> 01:36:04.960
You can look at it and take aspects, cool.
1712
01:36:05.040 --> 01:36:09.080
But ours worked because it was natural.
We weren't trying to be someone else.
1713
01:36:09.160 --> 01:36:10.560
We literally were just us.
1714
01:36:12.440 --> 01:36:14.320
I know a lot of people look up to me.
1715
01:36:14.400 --> 01:36:17.480
So, I try to be the best human I can be.
But I'm a human.
1716
01:36:17.560 --> 01:36:19.800
So, I'm gonna have flaws.
I'm not gonna be perfect.
1717
01:36:19.880 --> 01:36:22.920
You know, I feel like a lot of people
just through what I've done,
1718
01:36:23.000 --> 01:36:27.280
have been very inspired and influenced,
and it's so sick and cool to see.
1719
01:36:27.960 --> 01:36:32.320
The interesting one to see will be
how YouTube and this space develops,
1720
01:36:32.400 --> 01:36:33.640
and how we develop with it.
1721
01:36:33.720 --> 01:36:37.840
It's like a shift.
You have the television killing radio,
1722
01:36:37.920 --> 01:36:40.800
and now you have
like the internet killing television.
1723
01:36:40.880 --> 01:36:42.480
We're front and centre of that.
1724
01:36:42.560 --> 01:36:47.360
And there'll be a lot of massive things
that will occur in these next ten years
1725
01:36:47.440 --> 01:36:49.920
that will make everyone realise
that has happened.
1726
01:36:51.000 --> 01:36:53.680
I think if we fail, we've had a stinker
1727
01:36:53.760 --> 01:36:55.440
because it's like all there for taking.
1728
01:36:55.520 --> 01:36:58.880
We're all very well known.
We're as big as we can be.
1729
01:36:58.960 --> 01:37:02.080
And we're full of like people
that are actually pretty switched on.
1730
01:37:02.160 --> 01:37:06.360
So, I think, we're destined for greatness.
But it's not really my forte.
1731
01:37:06.440 --> 01:37:09.760
So if we are, we are.
If not, I'm happy with what we've got.