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I don't want to be one of those bosses... taking credit for phenomena that are out of my control.
There's nothing more dangerous than a powerful person who is imagining themselves as being powerless.
I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.
I think trusting people is a problem for anyone with an existing audience who wants to do another thing.
Ultimately, the Internet is made of people and we need to do a good job at being citizens of that space.
Don't feel bad about getting someone to click on something if the thing they're clicking on doesn't suck.
The problem with educating in online video is that online video is funded by advertising almost exclusively.
I was and am an ardent environmentalist and I am terrified of the instability that climate change will bring.
I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction.
Robots have solved and will continue to solve so many human problems. Except for all the ones that they cause.
I have not come to having a healthy ego through being complimented by Internet strangers, I was born that way.
Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion.
As the economy grows, as I employ more people, make more money... the income of my country should increase as well.
YouTube is very culturally recognized. When we started in 2007 YouTube was very relevant, but completely unrecognized.
Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.
OK, I wasn't really paying attention to YouTube in the year after it began. No one was. But its growth was remarkably rapid.
You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That's because I'm a dork. And I'm gonna choose not to explain myself.
Gaming content is exactly what YouTube wants (the videos are long, the audiences are engaged, and thus people stay on the site).
Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.
There's something exceptional about watching a video and simultaneously thinking 'That was genius!' and 'I could have done that!'
Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly
So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants.
But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.
I really strongly believe that we should be judged not by how we acted when we were ignorant, but how we responded when we were informed.
Notoriety is such a prized thing. Society suddenly wants your opinion on things - everyone from your mom to an editor at The New York Times.
Teaching is probably the most difficult of all current jobs for an AI to manage. If you don't believe that, then you have never truly taught.
We had such a dedicated and interested audience that they provided the opportunity to do cool new things - and we like doing cool new things.
We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on.
What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?
When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that's when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.
Gone are the days when every successful creator got their own New York Times profile. Nowadays, professional Internet creator is just another job.
I started to have notoriety in my late 20s or early 30s - like the first time someone recognized me in public was probably when I was 29 years old.
One of the wonderful things about the Internet is that it allows us to create lots of different kinds of content for lots of different kinds of people.
I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.
I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.
I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was necessary for, that no-one else could write.
Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.
Hosting and surfacing legacy media content isn't all about YouTube trying to abandon its core, it's about inviting a broader variety of viewers to the platform.
The viewers of video game content on YouTube are young and savvy. They are exactly the sort of people who tend to enthusiastically install ad blocking software.
You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is weird, because you know everything there is to know about them.
We all know that abuse, harassment, and worse have long invaded the entertainment ecosystem. That story goes back to the beginning of Hollywood... probably farther.
When I think of the value that i appreciate and the value that I create, what matters to me most is how much I love people, and how much the people that I love love me.
Possibly the only genre that efficiently converted from TV to YouTube / Vine is sketch comedy, which has always had more to do with the skills of its creators than its budgets.
I make and watch and think about YouTube for a living. So, when YouTube is launching a new feature I might have any emotion ranging from Christmas-morning enthusiasm to utter terror.
I am a professional creator of online video and I have had that job since the moment of its existence. I'm also something of a professional advocate for, and follower of, online video.
Anyone can put up a podcast, any application can locate and download it. It's a decentralized, hacked together, open system and, as podcaster and a listener, I think it works perfectly.
Let's be honest with ourselves, YouTubers click on the trending tab for one single reason... to analyze what is on the trending tab and then complain that it isn't what we think it should be.
I love iPhones. I love iPhone 6 Pluses and iPhone 6s and iPhone 5s's and iPhone 5cs. I also love iPhone 4s. I'm sure if I had been savvy enough to own one, I would've loved the original iPhone.
Fueled by Ramen was maybe the first company to see YouTube as a place where music videos would go. The music video, which could never quite find a place on TV, has found its final form on YouTube.
YouTube's growth exploded in 2006. Ian and Anthony of Smosh, who began uploading in late 2005, were among the platform's top native stars and they defined a lot of what it meant to be a 'YouTuber.'