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biscuits I’m Linc and I’m Brett it’s time for another a conversation with someone interesting from the internet that’s the roundtable of dim lighting this week we have Brittani Louise Taylor that’s BLT not the sandwich but the youtuber extraordinaire music video spoofs vlogging all types of stuff we talked to her about her bouts with bullying growing up how she took on Hollywood at the young age of 19 and the unconventional method she employed to build her YouTube channel unconventional you won’t believe how many videos she watched in her first year on YouTube watched not made astounding speaking of astounding I had what they called the confused burrito for dinner tonight I was there I heard you order it and I was confused well there’s is that why it’s called confused burrito no well there’s this Mexican restaurant not too far from us wolf that’s not saying a lot we’re in Los Angeles but this is probably the closest Mexican restaurant to our studio and we’ve never been and we decided to go to it nice atmosphere by the way it was kind of like Disneyworld Disneyworld restaurant on the inside like doors to nowhere windows to nowhere yeah barrels with nothing in them yeah I loved it no animatronics oh but on the illness I always go for the special Errol’s is that like casks of whiskey tequila tequila yeah I don’t I always go for the specials you know let me on the guy I get the memory of when the Magrib comes back I you know the grass is always greener for you yeah and I mean if I if the chef has taken the time to do something a little bit different I’m gonna take a chance with him even if I don’t know one and it is a chance that’s my perspective if the chef is trying something new that’s what he calls a special this is especially new to me it might be especially bad to you well it was called the confused burrito and it had great name by the chili Colorado which is beef and red sauce on one side and then it had salsa verde on the other side and that was pork in green sauce and I was like it’s like a Christmas burrito that was pretty exciting to me and I got it but what was really confusing to me is why I finished it they bring this thing out now I just ordered the carnitas go wrong go wrong with that yeah guacamole is like the barbecue of Mexico give me the carnitas hold the tomatoes brought it out it looked great I looked over it Rhett’s plate and it was gosh it was oh man it the burrito was so big it looked like it looked like someone like a doctor had operated it’s like the largest organ out of a very huge animal and put it on a hot plate I mean it was it had a couple of different color sauces and it looked fleshy it was you know it looked incredible I mean it just looked like a burrito with two colors but here’s the deal I mean I don’t know what it is I don’t know what it was but I’ve always always without exception finished everything on my plate well the thing that I’m knowing this about you to think the thing that I said to Rhett people was before you started eating I said can you picture everything that’s on that huge plate inside of you I answered you not only can I picture it but I will make it happen you will picture it you will see a movie of it just watch me do it see it I did it I did it that’s what you know that’s what hanging out with me is like it’s like constantly being at a movie I ate it and I’m beginning to regret that but actually I’ve already regretted it three times I am really sorry if you know if you have to stop by I’m not going to the restaurant so many conversations here our bathroom related know I hey you don’t know what I was talking about no I don’t just don’t order the confused burrito because it will confuse your your body it’s just the sheer volume of it confused your body man you need portion control dude you should have cut it right down that part the demarcation between the red sauce and the green sauce should have in the place where you cut that thing in half and then you could have had half for later yeah but then I have wood it wouldn’t have been a two time a two tone experience it would have been red or green I wanted red and green well it’s interesting in segue into Brittani Louise Taylor there is this confused burrito nature to her start on YouTube hmm so you wanna see what I mean by that Wow okay maybe it involved a character of a different sauce and then her of a different sauce a little bit later I don’t know just see if the analogy fits is we get in this conversation here it is our ear biscuit with Brittani Louise Taylor I shot a Hunger Games parody yesterday and I was at the beach and like Katniss costume and like everyone was laughing at me because of like singing this I was like there’s a couple fart jokes and lyrics in this catice costume with a bow and arrow and I still ran into you know keep the heat I ran into him he’s like oh hey Ella be like the middle of nowhere like I’m at the beach only in LA were you at the El Matador Beach yeah that’s the V I didn’t know we shot on that beach – okay cuz I need I needed like I needed just a good location like the One Direction I didn’t know that oh you’re beautiful that’s our little that was right isn’t it I think so but you’ll see it in a lot of videos where it’s okay we need a beach with like a rock that has a hole underneath that looks like kind of like Hawaii yeah yeah yeah so we shot our ropes and bacon on it there there’s always something on there because when we were down there there was a guy shooting a model a bikini model beach and we were like you know what she was kind of she was in the background of our robot yeah and we were like you know what let’s just leave this she had on a thong I had never had a thong in any of our videos this was not a cover of the thong song which we’ve which we’ve considered to a many times this particular time it was an original song like video a channel with Andre we were I think he had some sugar and we were just like laughing so we’re like we don’t even know the lyrics and we were just like both going back and forth and like Dom likes Angeles I was like just knew like one word and every lie that he was singing it was brilliant so have you ever had but cheeks in one of your videos um no I think I’ve had yours or anybody else’s well I mean I’ve had pans super-tight be probably like it probably leaves a little to the imagination my pants yeah like in the Katniss video we just shot I was like woah okay they’re like Lululemon pants and like there’s leaves nothing to the imagination like you can see the cheeks and all their glory that what the big controversy is they are they’re a little yeah I didn’t use a lot of butt shots okay you kept it tasteful I do okay we kept the butt shots and the long distance but if you click on the actual girl yeah and the background during that video it brings up a hidden annotation of her walking with the robot but we actually did ask we asked her to put a shirt on you know what just you know we we just you know if a you know a two-year-old anyway okay it was really funny we kept trying to frame out this guy because we want to shoot towards the water but there’s this guy that was scuba diving in for lobster so you keep seeing his fins come up and then the Kim come up it dive back down so you’re trying to frame out the blobster guy I told you just go dive off the coast of Malibu and you could just get lobsters Wow he caught like six of them now where his butt cheeks exposed no we saw a lot of fun lots and lots of fun not a lot of spin yeah yeah and we like I had a lot of people cuz you know at that beach they have like you know the upper were like the stairs are those thinking Mountain well there’s like everyone comes sitting up there and watching us we started yet like it’s crowded like people like what is she doing is I just bow and arrow and I’m like lip-synching to these lyrics here’s a joke question though did you get a permit no more I can’t afford permits we didn’t either I mean I’ve talked to many people who have shot it elmatador and no one’s ever got a permit one direction probably did though I know I think that I I don’t know I mean and I don’t even know I’m one of those people like I just fly by the seat of my pants and I can film in different places and we get in trouble we go somewhere else like you know kind of light and I’m super exactly I’m always super polite and I’m super nice and the only time I got in trouble a little bit we were filming at the old Zoo oh yeah in Griffith Park and I didn’t I didn’t know that that’s like that’s like heavily patrolled by the rain like the Rangers because haunted by the the ghosts of animals oh is it yeah I didn’t know this I didn’t get that like creepy vibe really good yeah you weren’t haunted you just were crushed by a ranger just approached by Ranger and I had a pink wig on and it’s like floral like full floral costume and he was like you can’t be filming oh I do a permit we just ended up going up the street and like running then filming in the bush it’s sort of like we just like ran away but I got what I needed before he kicked us out oh yeah that’s why I was gonna bring it back to butt cheeks one more time but instead of doing that why don’t we just go back to go back to your backstory that’s our back side okay not the back side just the the back story where you from I’m from Sedona Arizona well I moved when I was one and a half my brother is really allergic to mosquitoes so he used to blow up like a balloon and like in Minnesota where we’re from that’s like the Minnesota it’s like the National birds like mosquitoes everywhere we are in Minnesota ah st. Paul st. Paul Twin Cities one note one of the Twin Cities yeah well yeah you can’t have one way all the other now your your laughter sounds like a machine yeah that’s um it’s it’s a genetic thing my brother does it to you it only happens for like now I’m like totally self-conscious about it it happens it happens randomly and we call it the machine gun can do it again like that’s not that’s me trying but like it’s what I’m think something’s really funny that it usually comes out I either squeal or a machine gun it’s a little bit frightening not both of the same time okay so you and your brother do that are you also allergic to mosquitoes I’m not here so you got that gene but not the other gene yeah okay yeah I got machine gun whooshing laughter is both of us and the mosquitos I’m I like you know the bugs always liked Blake he’s the one that if we go campaign Blake’s my older brother so if we go camping he’s the one that gets eaten alive in two seconds and it’s covered like lotion this was so serious that it required yeah he would be relocation really would blow up like just his whole body was just allergic so and he was just a toddler and my brother was 17 months older than me so he was three at the time I was one-and-a-half only Ally mom’s like well the two places we could go to or New Mexico or Arizona for like not a ton of mosquitoes so we lived in New Mexico first what is she doing like talking to how do you find this out is it I think that I don’t even know how you found that really yeah exactly that was before internet that was probably word-of-mouth I’m sure now you probably go and Google and put like you know cities without mosquitoes but I think it was just probably yeah a lot of word-of-mouth and they wanted like a small community someplace to raise us that would be safe and and so what were your parents doing at the time my my parents are so funny my my dad was an airline pilot and my mom was a flight attendant and then they met on no but this is really funny they met when they met on the plane my mom would have never dated him she didn’t know that he was an airline pilot because they were notorious players this is like back and like they catch me if you can kind of days for like pilots the moment that came on the plane the wedding rings like came off you know that I don’t thing and all the women like my mom used to have to be like wait in like he couldn’t be five like pounds over your weight your nails had to be perfect like all the women were gorgeous like that’s that was like the actresses of her day like everyone wanted to be a flight attendant so she was just literally they won’t wait literally wait literally you come in and if you were five pounds over your weight limit you could not fly well you do need to be able to fit in the middle aisle I mean I’m just that should be that should be the realistic limit it shouldn’t meaning it should be a volume thing yeah but she had to literally get notes from her doctor because like she was allergic to nail polish our whole family has allergies so she couldn’t wear it and so she had to have like bring a note with her and bring it with her to every check-in or i’ll she won’t be allowed to fly because her nails were painted it was I do not accept service from flight attendants okay well then you would not like to my mom so they no they met on a plane just as passengers and this just that they were dating for two months before she asked him like well what do you do she said he’s like I’m a pilot just like no you don’t know you’re not a pilot I don’t date pilots so that she had to go get his uniform to like prove it to her but they they were married and my mom was still working for a while when she had me so I think when we moved to Arizona she was still flying but then she decided she wanted just you want to be home with the kids it was too hard but but they were able to just pick up and move somewhere else because of the way that the flight industry worked because you just have to have a be near a major city that you can be based like my dad worked from Northwest so like that there are certain places like you at st. Paul was a base and like was like a like a main station it just had to be someplace that he could get to wherever else he needed to go so there’s certain cities that you had to live near and so I think that’s part of the reason they picked Arizona to you was that you know it was close to Phoenix like an hour and a half so your mom is allergic to nail polish everything brother is it she’s allergic to everything everything she’s like literally she’s the one like when we’re and like I was raised Catholic and then like we just like switch to stuff well like now we’re just like Christian I don’t know she like you know I’m Catholic they have the incentive either ones like she’s like like hacking and her eye streaming and have to run out when they do the incense down the aisles like she we’d have to sit back and she’d have to bring like allergy medication and like sneak out she can’t handle it should have just channeled that into like a big emotional reaction and they’re gonna be like look how spiritual that lady is it’s not a Catholic Church in my understanding yeah you do that at the Catholic Church they kind of just look at you like that way need to go to the Church of God keep it in like it’s all about keeping on the inside right live with your pain no but so yeah like our whole family has food issues I don’t know what do you have me I’ve trained this is awful and I hate it I have a tree nut allergy like which means like I can’t have like almonds that any kind of nuts and I love nuts I do I love like peanut butter tree nut no peanuts that peanuts are actually a fungus but like most people I know way too much about food yeah back up a second yeah peanuts are actually a fungus they’re not a nut you didn’t know that I thought they were a goon I don’t know I’ve heard they’re fungus that’s something I’ll have like the kind of like I did you what does it called I don’t know I’m gonna say I am almost positive that peanuts are not focus we cannot go on the internet during an air biscuit but I bet peanuts can get fungus no I think that I I’ve heard that they’re fungicide whatever I think if you smell like goo backwards its you’re reaching I’m trying to help you out you can’t have almonds Brazil nuts talk about a tree nut I mean this thing the tree is just in the middle of the rainforest and the truth they don’t grow them anywhere and they’re like hundreds of years old and they have these huge pods that if they fall they will kill you and they fall down and people collect them and it’s all every Brazil nut that you eat in one of those packs of trail mix you get it it was from some tree in the rainforest it is not harvested like a normal thing it is in a freaking rakers Wow but you’ll never know about that because you’re allergic to it I will never know about that and also what’s the maca is it macadamia nuts or a nominee I’m trying to think that cashews actually did you know they have to be steamed to be opened so they’re like suspect also touched a little like bacteria and fungus because that to get them out you just steam them to get them open like a kid okay yeah did you ever have like I’m one of those really bad reactions where do I get the EpiPen and stuff I usually get no I’ve never had to do EpiPen but I get like I’ll get hives I’m the one that then I get it like it’s weird we’ll start more of my stomach will start it changed it’s always around my stomach in that I get like this red kind of hives just off in my body mmm it happens randomly I’ll be at a restaurant and I’ll be like oh don’t know what they put in there but it my body don’t like it yeah I got hives once in my crotch I got hives in my crotch I went to the doctor to get a check I want to hear it and the it was one of those intern like assistant person okay they got me to drop my pants and took a look at it this guy it was really awkward and then the doctor comes in and like okay I tell him the whole story again and I start driving busy I don’t need to see and he just he just says here’s some antibiotics or something and he didn’t look at it and I was like well that’s really strange look at it but then I felt bad that he didn’t take a look was it a fungus it was I I think we did that can’t happen then we did not determine what caused the hives and it was hives so the doctor just said well is it’s probably stress is it had never happened before never happened again [Laughter] how did this happen I supposed to be oh geez okay so you get you’re allergic to anything else um no I mean just like oh you know sometimes like the perfumes that are really strong I’ll be it like the post office and some woman will have sprouts perfume and I will just be dyed I’ll have to walk out and my my eyes will start streaming so I just it’s just I’m just sensitive to like awful perfume thing ever life-threatening no minor so your brother changed the trajectory of your life yeah early age just to kind of just kind of save him from swelling exactly just well cause I mean the thing is like you know especially when kids were that young it’s dangerous because if he kept swelling up like what if his you know his allergy gets more severe and his throat starts to close when I get stung or you know I mean it’s not like you need to get kids out of any was happening regularly yeah yeah like that the to the points they had to move because he was getting eaten alive and so how old were you when you moved to Arizona what and a half one and a half are in the desert I do my first memories are like we had that all I remember it was this real well we moved to Sedona so it was 4500 and like feet is elevation so it’s like an hour and half from Phoenix Phoenix is like desert so where we moved to in stone it’s all red rocks red dirt it’s like known for being a tourist City like they have 22,000 people that live there now I think there was like maybe 2,500 to 5,000 we moved there and it was definitely a retirement town and now it’s just a full-blown tourist town like they get like 8 million tourists a years and then crazy it’s a beautiful see the Red Rock just you’ll have to google it so don’t know like it’s just it’s it’s been in a lot of movies like it’s just just gorgeous but there’s nothing to do like it small tourist town so what did you do what was life like like the grade school Brittany growing up Oh God I mean I think that I mean the good the good thing about it I mean the bad thing was there weren’t a lot of kids and any kids that you met our friends that you made were usually Taurus and they’re gone in a week so I had a lot of friends that were like from New York from Tucson from Phoenix from other places that would come in the summer for like a week or come and then think that was really hard but the Britney young because there was nothing to do we spent a lot of time hiking and we go to the creek a lot like people don’t know this but there’s been called slide rock and the locals know not to go there because they get shut down like multiple times a year fear like a coli bacteria because people like water so all the locals go down to Red Rock crossing wood it looks just like cleaner so I spent a lot of my summers just like playing in the water and we had one movie theater that’s upstream of where the tourists take dumps in the wall it’s downstream and way downstream like it’s all rinsed out by then because like it’s like way like many miles away from where they all are doing their business in the water but no when we move there there was a place called Bayliss it was bashes in palest but together it was kind of like your drugstore and your pharmacy and you’re like grocery store in one store okay and then there’s a place called the Flickr Shack and there was this old guy that hated kids but I had the only movies hated kids so it was called the flicker ship flicker Shack yet he was a movie flicker right we would only play one movie at a time and it would be there forever and it was just one theater we didn’t have until I was in high school was there actually Harkins came in with seven theaters and that was like the biggest thing to ever happen ona when we got seven theaters that was like that was huge oh yeah so you figure your whole I mean your whole childhood there and well like my mom she was a wheat farmer so they had she grew up with horses and I I wanted to get a horse so partly I felt like five or six I think I bugged her enough years she I got into horseback riding so I grew up doing it first I did like western pleasure and I did some jumping like you know English what is what now Western pleasure it’s like it’s just like a western pleasure there’s a place in Van Nuys I think oh snap no no it’s it’s like basically like we used to feel like they like you know and that shows where they just like walk trot and canter and like you try to watch my picking up their feet like this like kind of that’s gated that’s different a little bit differently they’ll be like Tennessee walkers and stuff like that so like but it’s just like when theyíre you walk you trot let’s say you walking another show horses exactly yeah roping anything no no I didn’t do any barrel racing or roping or any of that you jump over any of those sticks I did I jumped over sticks what’s that called jumping great gosh pretty heavily which is like it’s really boring it’s it’s in the Olympics it’s the most it’s really boring to watch it really hard to do it’s kind of like the easiest way to explain it is like ballet on horseback so it’s like you have certain letters and you do certain things that certain letters so like a 20 meter circle would be like a little circle in a little area or you you know if the changes would be like changing lead like from like like left Lea to right lead it’s like it’s it’s really boring to watch and where you do yes yeah so I’d like I rode horses right all the way up to 18 I was about 18 and I grew up doing like sports and playing tennis I was a total tomboy like really like major tomboy well my brother was 17 months older than me and I idolized him so it’s like whatever he wanted to do like I was I wanted to do so like you know we played video games together we always like be around each other we always just got along school situation are we talking about here school situation was it was really strange because it was such a small town and like Arizona is like second worst in the nation funding for education so kindergarten was kindergarten was good and then they pulled us out in first grade we weren’t learning anything it was like naptime playing with clay so my mom actually started to school in our basement and then I was called children’s open school and I went to school there for two years till third grade and they hired at a school in Jars basement started school homeschool yeah a homeschool situation and we had 15 students they paid tuition they got a gifted teacher to come in and it was uh it was Brenda white cough if I remember correctly but yeah I was two years I went to school in my basement but it was it was honestly it was great and I mean they opened up the school to like and you know they they had an interview process with the parents but it was like the parents had to do with it stuff with the kids once a week and then once a month there was a group activity where we went camping or we we were studying like runes and we went up to Flagstaff Arizona we did excavating like we got to go into like where the ending you like the dig sites and like you know dig up pottery and whatever and all that jazz so it was like we went to like Lowell Observatory and stayed the night like it was it was really cool like it was a very like the school was very interactive and it was an interesting teaching method because you could do anything he wanted all day but all there was to do was educational activities and you had to do one thing that had to do with math or one thing they had do with science but all the toys all the activities were learning and there was a there was one one teacher yeah who was kind of making all this happen yeah and then I think it was about third grade that I just I really missed like I wanted to I want to be around the kids and my mom’s like I’m saying your school’s socialized so I went back into school system at third grade and then just you know state and public schools up until high school but I end up switching I got it was pretty bad I had pretty bad experiences in bullying when I was younger so I had to switch schools and so tell us about that what how old were you when that happened oh god it started just I mean my both my brother and I were just like blonde hair blue eyes just like you know like really tan we’re just nice kids but might because my dad was an airline pilot and at that time in Sedona it was just everyone thought we were like you know filthy rich and it’s like no we’re just in for just middle class but like the median income was not it was not what it is now like now it’s like multi-million dollar houses everywhere but at that point like you know they said that my parents like overbuilt and they just built this just like nice simple house like oh you over built for Sedona so everyone like all the parents I think a lot of it starts with the parents the parents like well you know thought my parents were rich so then the kids thought I was rich because my mom like you know she would like I’m my clothes were just like Banana Republic you know or something or the gap like nothing nothing crazy but I always had just like nice clothes or I don’t know so the the just I had a lot of issues with like girls I had it was really funny in kindergarten I had a boy that kept writing my dresses and my dad’s like he showed me he’s like next time he does it just punch him so he showed me like took me to bed we practice so the next day you went ruin my dress and I punched him so hard that it it turned black underneath his eyes both eyes both sides I actually yes both eyes and trying to shove his nose and well they hold a principle and then my parents to come in for a teacher maybe I was in kindergarten had to come in for a parent-teacher meeting and we were at the grocery store that night and this guy like this little okay to us his mom is like mom that’s the girl that deck the boy at school today but I’m confused who was the bully well he kept ripping my clothes okay I was left alone up until like I left school like that you know my dad was I would literally come home every day was like rip clothes my dad’s like just duck him my dad’s old school he’s from Canada he’s got a farmer he grew up in California my parents were like they’re like from the mentality like you step on someone’s property shoot I mean like if you’re not sister B they’re like they’re like they’re all there literally like they’re they’re just I don’t know they’re from a different planet well if nobody was stepping in you know if the teacher was I know I’d say we tried that in the kid well like would keep ripping my clothes my dad’s just like just duck him he never did it again did he nope I was left alone up until and then but then I mean I left school and then just like people thought I was like this so I like even in high school I got like I had I worked really hard and I saved and I got an older BMW and I was making the payment so I was working all summer to you know make the payments on the car I would come out and like people would write like spoiled like bi TCH on my car like I literally like wrote it on my car like spray paint no they took like you know what was dirty they just like they basically scraped it in their fingers I mean but it’s just scratched the paint but like the stuff like that happen all the time but I feel like honestly I always feel like it was a blessing because it just made me stronger and I think that I’m the last person to judge people because I was judged my whole life what do you think that was the lowest point I mean I think what we’ll probably was really hard there was this girl that was we finally got this family that moved in on the other side where we were at sky mountain there was this auction where this house was foreclosed and this family bought it this doctor and he had like three Oh some three daughters and a son and I became friends with the oldest daughter and she had a sleepover and I ended up being like the first person to fall asleep and while I was sleeping they poured nail polish on me so I woke up in the middle of the night and my skin I was like what’s going on like oh you knocked it off the counter but I came out later they ported on me because my mom like when you know went back after them but I literally had to call my mom go home she did go get nail polish remover my skin was bleeding it was really bad so I mean I had but I had stuff like that all the time I had I don’t know just like girls pulling my hair at girls and I am like I’m not a person that’s I didn’t do anything like they just would just pick me out so I mean I got really bad in junior high so I never having to go to a separate school that was in a big park which is like it’s like 45 minutes Weiss had to ride the bus 45 minutes and then ride it an hour back every day to go to school but I mean it may things got a little bit better but then I had a curl at that school the problem was that I it was so random that’s when I really started getting into theater and acting and they had Missoula Children’s Theater is like a traveling thing that comes to town once a year it’s really cool and everyone comes like from Sedona Cottonwood Camp Verde any of the Flagstaff they’ll come an audition it’s like a week-long thing where like in the they put on a play in a week basically so they had and everyone everyone wants roles and it everyone wants to do it cuz it’s really freaking cool like they bring the sets it’s just all the costumes it’s amazing what they do in one week but they had for The Wizard of Oz they had auditions and out of it I think it was 550 people or whatever I got the role of Dorothy and then that that caused a lot of problems it was like I just had girls that just didn’t like me for whatever reason that was at the the new school so it’s just girls and we’re talking about a time before I mean you know today there’s all this campaigns and so there’s documentaries about it there’s movements organizations this is before any of that yeah you know how do you what do you think about the way things are handled today and do you wish that somebody had kind of stepped in it helps you or you’re like you know what this actually made me who I am I’m really glad that it I’m glad it happened to me but I don’t want it to happen to anybody else does that make sense like I’m I think it made me really tough cuz I mean I moved I moved to Hollywood when I was 18 by myself like I went on a hundred and fifty student film auditions before I booked a student film and it’s not that hard you know sometimes there’s like two people auditioning it’s not and I’m like I don’t know I’m not doing a bad job like I know some of them but really well so I mean I think I was so used to like people attacking me rejection or whatever growing up that it just felt normal like it was like oh okay well this is this is life let’s like try got so used to knowing that you just have to get up and try again and get up and try again cuz like my mom made me go to school like she made me like you know go and she didn’t let me I mean she would give me she what she called sanity today’s like once a month she would say that I had like you know a doctor supreme or something she’s giving me the day off so she let me stay home but but it was basically like torture every day yeah I would come home crying got better when I got into high school because that’s what I got really bad acne and then the girls probably started paint I used to be my skin was all broken out so then I was like okay then I wasn’t so much of a target and being in high school like by that point there had Spence more people that moved into the town that like quote-unquote had money and again my parents were middle-class but it was just like most people were very low income so to them they thought my parents were like filthy rich so I think that was when like high school actually got a little bit better and I think to people start to mature a little bit more and I think that the difference between high school in grade school is grade school they’re gonna say things to your face high school will say it behind your back which I prefer a lot more like talk about me behind your back let just leave me alone okay what do you say about be like just let me eat my lunch so and your brother who you were close to yes like a year ahead of you in school yeah and so was was he was was he a resource for you he um I think in high school was good because you know we kind of like you start to form like I hate to say it’s like a posse like you have people that you hang out with in there there’s protection in numbers so when you’re around like you know we had all like you know we’ve had land parties at the house and that’s when I started to become like everything like more of my friends were guys than girls because girls girls can be catty sometimes guys are more fun the things that I want to do or usually guy things like I want to go to the theme parks I want to go to movies I’m not saying all girls are like that but it’s like you just it just seemed to work out that way that I wanted well they’re having their dune land party I wanted to hang out need pizza with them so like that it just ended up working out but I mean my brother experienced a little bit of the just the bullying like he had a guy like throw a burrito at him and like almost took out his eye like just like no that was that was in grade school no I mean it’s just it was it like it’s interesting like everyone has their own experience hasn’t have gone through like way worse but that’s your Sedonas and very interesting town you know why though it’s so beautiful at this theory that people move they’re thinking it’s gonna solve all their problems and then they realize they’re wherever they go their problems follow them so you end up having this gorgeous place with all these crazy miserable people that’s what that sonoda is it’s all that we call them the like there’s all the nut jobs like they’re all nutty what do you think that the you know the bullying that you were experiencing you know you said you did that you started theater and you started yeah I’ll try to be an entertainer were those related no I think that I well this is when I was four years old I saw that Miss USA pageant and I literally wore a bathing suit for four years of my life like my mom let me shouldn’t care she’s like so I mean I had to wear like regular clothes to school but like any other time like in the winter we had pictures I have me with like tights in the bathing suit and whatever like I just I don’t know I think I always like wanted to be a performer without even really knowing what that was and I never like I haven’t aspired to be like Miss America are you saying about like there’s this place called tlaquepaque that’s like in Sedona and there’s like a little platform outside one of the restaurants and my brother would go here was bruiting and I go up there and sing and dance and now there was a sign there that says no performing on the platform that’s because of me guys I would like literally people giving pennies and whatever it was boop away from the businesses and they’re getting really annoyed because I mean there’s a little girl like it was obnoxious I was loud but like it drew attention from what their businesses were right it’s interesting because you discover yourself as a tomboy and you’re interested in things that you end up having more guy friends than girlfriends yeah kind of plays into the bullying environment that I guess you were in but at the same time you’ve got this want to be a beauty queen type I’m innovating – no but I thought you know I said it was like it was just I think that I like to do all the guy things but I’ve always been this way like I like hair and I like makeup but I’ll go camping in a heartbeat like that’s just I think I have a lot of interest so but I think mentally like mentality why so even now like my all my best friends are guys I mean when eventually I do get married all my bridesmaids are gonna be male like it doesn’t to be interesting yeah and I think that I think that’s like that’s not allowed it’s gonna it’s gonna have to be I’m sorry there I like that’s how it’s gonna work I know I can wear dresses no like just thinking where their suits and be them Sassy’s out like themselves it’s just you know it’s just how it’s gonna work out okay so you said you moved to Hollywood yeah at 18 yes so as high school was finishing up why I graduated a year early so I got an art scholarship for drawing like it was so fun I had an academic scholarship to Northern Arizona University which is slight staff but the last minute I got a scholarship that was like partial tuition to ASU and I was I don’t know I went with my gut and I’m like you know what I’m not gonna do well in the cold weather I’m gonna go to Arizona State so I end up going to em ASU for two years and so I’m sorry mention when I was 19 I was turned 19 the month I moved here moved in August okay so I was go I went into college at 17 so that’s rolling for half a drawing so I was almost an art classes the first year doing you know all that stuff and but you didn’t say I’m a drawing major did you oh god no I majored in drawing I know I was in the arts dorm which is like it was called McClintock and it’s like this it’s right on campus and it’s all it’s all like architecture students dance students theater students and acting like you know like multi theater and art and it is the craziest party dorm on ASU it is nuts and dramatic no oh my god like you understand like people people someone flooded the dorm one night where there were like the rec area isn’t lit toilet paper on fire like stuff like that happened on a weekly basis I got to the point where I didn’t get out of bed for the fire alarms which is extremely illegal because I was like I’m actually happy to say I’m for class I mean I can’t deal with this I’m just gonna go to sleep I feel the heat exactly this is another false alarm it’s just someone else doing something something crazy see fart see ya know the u.s. use the kind of campus that you see like there’s not supposed to haze for like there for their sororities and fraternities but you see the naked people with a clown things running down the middle of like the figure out the name of the street like all the time like you see the most crazy stuff so at some point during this process though you were like I don’t want to be a drawer I never I never wanted to be I think that I always wanted I always want to do acting but my mom like you know wanted me to try college and she’s always been super supportive but she’s afraid just because you guys know that’s being in LA it’s a hard city to be in and I think she didn’t want me to be in an industry that so so like so challenging and so heartbreaking and she just wanted to protect me from that so I think I just prayed long enough and like one day she woke up and she’s like she realized she said she’s just something like God told me was like you know I’m the one holding her back and then she moment she told me she’s like just go to LA I moved like a month after that like I wanted to leave right then and there but I finished out my finals and then and then moved but after sophomore year mm-hmm yeah it was right right after my finals and then she gave you her blessing yeah and your dad what about him oh he was always in my dad’s the cut was the kind of guy that was like whatever you want just go for it I support you like you know it sounds great Brittany do it like that’s my mom’s like well we need to think about this like that the my mother rip your dress punch him I’m sorry exactly you wanna go to LA go to LA that was my father that said what do you do when you when you’re 19 you’re a 19 year old girl and you’re moving to Los Angeles how does that work I always um I always thought of it as like a business where I came in I came moved here with very much of the business mentality I wasn’t I had this thing I was like I’m not here to make friends I’m here to work so I I bought this book called acting as everything but Judy Kerr and I like bookmarked every single little thing on it and I got into classes right away so I was you know I saved some money while I was in college so I had I was taking seen study classes and commercial classes and I basically treated it like a business I went to every single audition it didn’t matter what it was the figure it was audition experience and I just I did everything I possibly could I did like tons of actor like you know that I casting director workshops and I went to producers a lot like I went to Busan like Ugly Betty and go more girls and Chuck and a bunch of shows some that cast dirt you’re seeing me and I get so close if you tend to like the six people because like what people don’t understand it it’s like issues and then there’s like the like you’re the producer callback so the producer callback that’s like they’ve already had ten thousand submissions they’ve been probably auditioned a hundred people they’ll narrow it down to like six or eight or four to bring two producers to show them I would get so close on this stuff and then not get it and it was driving me so crazy so one day there was this notice on now casting for this in discomfort equator 11 and this guy named I think his name was Josh Harris he took his last three million dollars and he created this company that was like live video broadcasting and they were looking for people that wanted to do their own shows so I at that point that I thought about my cool well you know would it be funny if I did this like clueless life coaching character named Ron Anthony Tanner so I went into that and pitch them my idea and like made out with my hand and the audition and like she’s crazy we love her so I started out with your made out with my hand like I had a whole like the whole spiel but like Rhonda’s like Rhonda kissing techniques or something and like I’m literally made out with Hannah in character and they were dying laughing so it worked so I started doing a show with them and then I think it was I got up to like it was like at that point this is before this is probably eight years ago or nine years ago I was getting like a hundred thousand hundred thousand views an episode on my stuff then what was that outlet again this was caught as low as a live video broadcasting company called operator eleven and it was I got I came to work one day and the doors were just can’t chain closed they ran out of money but it wasn’t it was a website yeah it was a website yeah I was like oh like I don’t think of like um you know people they have a live stream now it’s cut it was like one of the first kind of like live stream Ustream blogtv type thing but I did it in a different way I would pre film all my sketches and I would go live for a little bit but I would play my pre film sketches so I turned it into kind of like a show where I would do you know I would intro and outro it but the middle part was all pre done no you still online somewhere I have the FLV files and they’re awful like it’s not like this is this is back in the day it was this one still things for what for 320 by 240 oh yeah and like when we keep things out we thought it looked really good and it look awful this is like before you know come on this is like I don’t even know if After Effects was out yet or like you know everyone was doing stuff and final cut like this is how you were getting paid I was getting paid I was getting paid some I to the extra money I did a lot of promo modeling work which is oh my god what is that it’s it’s so hard it’s basically like you on your feet for 15 18 hours a day and it’s like you know in closer like like you know how let’s say that you’re like you got to like anything like a volleyball event and let’s say there’s Kellogg’s is there and they have a bunch like attractive people walking around with like boxes of Kellogg’s like the new Syria that’s called promotional modeling so I walking around a live event with toting some sort of product yeah but what I worked a lot of this because it’s perfect cuz I’m pasty white I did the ABP Pro Tour so for volleyball so likey that like that goes all over or all the beaches and that that out in the Sun so 15 hours Bowl beach volleyball handing out sunscreen samples for like 15 hours at a time well you’re you’re at all hi I’m short in comparison to those people I’m 6 feet yeah I mean yeah no but I mean like I felt at home I was like oh my god like this person in my life that I’m short like her tall and beach volleyball that’s hard work it was it was and they think the hardest part was it took a while to get paid on stuff sometimes to be like five months before you get paid because it’s not it’s like they that you get paid really well it just take time to get paid so I also worked out with my roommate where as a dog walker so I would walk her dog I’ll get in exchange for money off my rent so I get like $600 a month off my rent so I did and then for all my classes I would paint my like I painted my one teachers fence I like I like what pole weeds I take care of a house and it’s gone like I would literally work out with my teachers where I would work for them to be able to take lessons for cheaper so I did anything you could possibly imagine to pay the bills so the livestream job started from just going to yet another audition yeah yes you can at a certain point you’re just you said you were kind of taking all auditions just to see what would anything catch well cuz I mean when I like this is not so much how it is now but well I mean it might be but like a lot of actors when they first moved to LA will do a lot of student films because sometimes those go to festivals and they do well or they’re you know all the future you know directors so I did a lot of student films like when I finally did book one with LA Film School ended up doing 18 in a row yes because what happened is I would be on set and then like someone there would have their see the thesis project coming up and look and I would just hang up my cards to everybody and I was like you know I was nice and I worked hard and I did my stuff and I left so I ended up doing like it was 18 in a row and I couldn’t use one of them cuz the footage was all terrible because all students so yeah I did know I did a couple for USC I did a couple AFI ones just a lot of student films but the so the livestreams thing how long did you do that before you showed up and it was just like doors or 6 months I worked my butt off for 6 months like another thing had on the on their thing I had like a hundred thousand subscribe like followers on the their site cuz I used my space I would go on my space and I would spent all day long talking to people and I had this whole thing that I was like well it’s a character in character people the name of the character on to Anthony Tanner so it’s rat I was like Brad coaching I want exterminate the pest from your life thing so like but I mean my mom always says if you can build an audience as Rhonda it was a very weird character but um that was right one lonely girl 15 like revealed that she wasn’t a real person to remember one that was was a real person excuse me that’s right when I started you know she wasn’t a real person it was exactly yeah exactly so the fact that she like you know was an actress that’s when that is when it all blew up is when I started YouTube because my mom’s like well Brittany he’s just like that was really I was really angry really upset because I put six months of my life into this I thought I finally had something going you know I you know I thought like when you come to LA it’s very much worth like the mentality of you need to take classes to learn how to do anything I don’t know if you guys know that but like you need to take a class to learn how to direct you need to take a class to learn how to write you can take a class only cuz it’s all there’s no limits to the way you can spend your money here you know this so I think it was really good for me because like people the studio taught me final cut and then I bought a green screen I just started writing so I almost got to like become a filmmaker without having to pay money or go to class or it’s like I got just to learn from doing it and like that was the best possible experience was just be able to just try it and make mistakes and you started your your first YouTube channel as this character character yeah in 2007 that was based on your mom’s advice yeah she was watching lonely girl yeah no she just she’s stuffing in the news because that she’s like Britney this girl is now all you know getting TV stuff from her YouTube channel like and I kept you know what I kept hearing at the casting director workshops it’s like you have to be you know co-star to get and guest our roles you should be a guest star to get any reoccurring or series regular you’re just getting a series regular roles before you’ll be up for pilots like they had this whole pecking order and they kept saying like you have to be anything you have to be name you have to be a name and I’m like well what if your name online would that make a difference like you know so I thought maybe if I created something online I read this really really good article by this constant director named Bonnie Gillespie and she’s like you can either chasing these directors and chasing this cat director casting directors and chasing these producers or you create something and people come to you so that really got me thinking I’m like okay I needed you know I’ve been here in LA for four years like busting my butt nothing’s major has happened like you’ve gotten close on some things you know so this was like this is like my shot to do something what’s the closest thing get to we wouldn’t would we know something no I mean I just like just like a lot of like it’s just a lot of like at the time they were big oh yeah there was there was an NBC pilot that I got pretty close on but they never ended up shooting it I got cast as the girl and then it just fell through so I mean that was like the closest I got to anything so lonely girl 15 was the way in to start a YouTube account for you yeah I literally I just saw her like I was like okay like is she you know maybe I create something online that would open up doors it’s like all I like I just love acting so it’s like you know any any possible way like I’m the kind of person like I’m willing to put in the work and you guys to like I don’t care if I have to edit 20 you know 20 hours and two days or whatever it is I mean as long as it’s a good product and you know I’m getting into like you know do what I love and it’s worth it so you just the first thing you did was you just move that character over hey I’ve got a hundred thousand followers yeah yeah I’m gonna start a YouTube channel how did how was that transition um it was started out where I like in the first month I was getting about like 5,000 views and episode by month – I was gonna like 10th I was in be using it this was 2007 yeah yeah so then like then on average my average then after like you know I think it was I did that when I used to respond to every single message in comment like I literally got a carpal tunnel in my wrist I was just wanting like 8,000 comments a week I was insane I turned to turn it in my fall time job I was like I’m just gonna and then the partner program came along and I was like home y’all have you know I think I had 3,000 subscribers when I applied to the partner program and got accepted and that was so nerve-wracking just remember back then was like if you were denied then you had to wait like six months again to apply do you remember that okay this is like it I didn’t know that’s how it works yeah you have to if you would they were denied you had to wait six months to apply again so when I applied I got accepted knows like you have a YouTube partner yeah so then I started doing the stuff with Rhonda but then I was on that channel for I think was about two years and that’s when I met Shane like Shane was watching my Rhonda stuff and he thought that I was actually Rhonda when he found out that I was I think I put out one that was like 10 facts about me and I decided I would finally to show people like and I think they did really well on my mom my challenge like oh my gosh she’s acting but it was the same Channel the same Channel so this was like you saying this is a character exactly and was that like a bombshell for PETA was for shaming people not for Shane it was like like this is Shane’s words not mine he’s like oh my god she’s not retarded like they’re shades or as a light so he was like he’s like oh my god so then like we I think we started messaging each other back and forth cos again I was watching I watched 50,000 videos in my first year like you know YouTube used to track the video beauty like it would show you know what amount of videos yeah so I watched 50,000 videos in the first year because I was leaving comments like just like I figured I literally thought I mean the best way to form a community is to go out and you know like make friends and watch stuff and be supportive and I would leave really nice comments I give someone a singing video be like oh my god you were really good voice alright did you invite the phrase sub4sub ask your video watch mine it was no I never did that the only person ever got blocked by was Bratz and Bretta YouTube space I’m like you guys know you blocked my channel because I used to go on every day onto like lisanova and whatever and I’d leave a comment on the channel page well you went on our channel to probably I write no I remember was it that I was at the weird I photo yeah yeah I didn’t like oh gosh block you you don’t remember this I do never remember you could go to someone’s channel I’m still comment on somebody’s channel now but it’s miss is a front-and-center default thing the latest person is comment on a channel and a lot of people wouldn’t do it so it would stay up there awhile and you do it a couple of times I was in character exactly haremos yep oh yeah and I thought you were be rad yeah you write nice amazing it’s kind of embarrassing but not because it was my past so like like I think I’ve learned a lot I mean you know it’s like you used you see what works Shane whenever you did that on Shane’s channel he had seen your videos or maybe him and Kate used to watch my videos make fun of me like that I was like you know Shane o/s has that person that he loves to watch for a laugh and I was the person that he was watching oh my god she’s mentally insane so like we started messaging each other back and forth it’s like memory you two had a share button too and you’re in character no this was like this is after character I put out that he contacted me after he’s like what oh my god he said he even till he’s like Kate she’s a real person oh so um we used to message each other back and forth on actually MySpace this myspace was still very prevalent then so he was like I was a share button broken for you and like yeah he’s like we should hang out sometime I’m like yeah so it was it was Shane like I think he had that 25 thousand subscribers and he’s been like 50,000 views an episode and I had 12,000 subscribers and he had 8,000 so that’s when we became friends he’s like a small Channel so we met up at 3rd Street Promenade with Kate and it was the first time I’ve ever met anyone online like I don’t do that like that scares me like hey I just knew we’d be like we talked online I’m like he seems normal and I was kind of hanging out with this like group of guys that was just really strange I was like I was like all of their in a strictly platonic way I was like oh they’re treating me all like their girlfriend and it was so strange I was like I need to get out of this so I needed to make some new friends like how specifically were they treating you well they were just like text me and call me all the time and be like like super if like flirty and it was just this whole group of guys and it was weird it was just really strange so I like I mean they were dating all other girls but then like like they would get jealous if I was just really strange like I was like I’m not dating you guys we’re just all friends what is going on so I ended up I was like it was at that time and I needed some new friends so Shane and I think then we went Shane Kate and I went to Six Flags and I remember we went to Whole Foods later he’s like I always like oh could you ever play an email character and I’m like yeah what do you want me to say I’m just like really dry like all throughout this dude mark like brilliant so he wrote it and then we didn’t email break up and then that that went pretty big and then we did how to get big on YouTube and that and that did I got big trouble with my roommate cuz like Shane like filmed on her bed one see like I did I like I kind of talked into it but it’s really funny now we going to talk about it yeah so that was white on her bed he filmed the video it’s like we’re saying it no it’s like like he’s he’s doing something very inappropriate to Joe nation on my bed [Laughter] yes and then I’m she a co-worker told her [Applause] just really it was she wasn’t the nicest person but still I should have asked her it was that was like one of my things going back it was a guilt thing but it was like wow things would be like I had no money filming locations it was bad it was bad so at some point in this process you say okay it’s time to kind of develop my own identity no Shane is the one that said you need to stop being prodded you need to create a new channel and either he’s like if she couldn’t play other characters he’s like you should create a channel where you play all different things so I was like a whole light bulb like duh that’s what I should have dumped in the beginning was like be myself and play multiple things so he what year is this um I think that was four years ago four or five for my Brittani Louise Taylor channel so then that’s when I start form that one so I think it was because of him that I did it and the four think the first video I uploaded was like the emo breakup bloopers or something like for the bloopers from our video so so did you have a you know a lot of success early on because you had Shane he was growing in popularity who was you know you were appearing in his video so it was it you know I know yeah then it was crazy I mean but before that I’d been on YouTube for two and a half years so like it wasn’t like you know it was really weird it for me I got really excited when I got 50 subs a day like that was big like you know I would my goal was like 20 to 30 where I would try to like you know make friends and I’m like you know at that point to keep like a graph I’m a person that likes like notes and less okay oh yeah I like 15 subscribers a J yeah that I would keep write out every morning what will my subscribers where am i doing our own analytics in other words yeah yeah I was so I don’t you tube is nice enough to make that graph for back you make it you were doing the lines and everything like wall yeah line graphing it mm-hmm so I think that you know then when we do wasn’t really crazy but the thing is like about Shane though he would kept doing shoutouts and you tell people like I remember I did a video Panasonic and he told people to go say show me your Tatas on my video but like so weird yeah you told this is so literally have 50,000 comments of show me or yes and I was like how do I explain this to Panasonic because your your content what is much cleaner like you won’t say the things that it’s different yeah I think that’s what my friends were polar opposites like that we are offices but we both have good hearts but he’s like you know he’s like dirty and we’ll say anything and I’m like oh I’m still like a little child like I’m like my mom will get mad at me well what kind of audience have you built who are the I mean is it is it girls watching you it’s a different audience and Shane in some ways or I mean in some way I think that you know I’ve picked up like but like most fits from Shane so I have like my audience it’s like 83 or 84 percent female I’m just like between the ages of 13 to 24 so I have always adorable adorable young women like I would say at VidCon like people get like you know they’ll come and they’ll surround them mine get in a line my the cute little girls that get in the line and then very polite like a boss it’s like a mine just lying high school I’d like you’re so cute like they all line up they don’t then they’re patient they wait their turn like they’re so cute how does knowing that that is your audience impact what you create I think the best thing for me is like when you start to meet the people that watch your videos I think anytime that you’re tired or you’re like you know you’ve on your fourth video that you’re editing like today where I’m like I’ve added four videos today I’m like and I’m still like off to go home and call her cooked and do more just deadlines and a couple things it’s like when you meet the people and then like there’s just one girl I met legislated Khan not too long ago she was came up to me in line and she’s start crying she’s like you left a comment saying I was beautiful and no one’s ever told me that I was beautiful in my whole life and she’s in some gorgeous Asian woman and she’s Korean gorgeous it’s like absolutely gorgeous and I’m like no one had told her that she was beautiful like I just the fact that like me leaving a comment and someone’s video could change their life like that like I think for me like I just I love acting so much and I love the people more so like I don’t know I’ve always been like I don’t really get all stressed out when things happen with YouTube with numbers or things break like as long as there’s someone watching like I just love the kids and I think something that just a casual viewer of yours may not realize is how technical you are and your approach that I mean you’re you pretty much do everything on your channel that you do the music you may get someone to produce it or sweetener or whatever yeah I have I have editing and that is something that I take on right I’ve been I just started to hire own training and she’s brilliant I’ve been training someone to help me just with editing on like the beauty videos just because it’s just like you know an extra 8 videos a month that I just need help on so but I mean yeah I mean I write and produce and pick up the props and film and do everything and I made my favorite technically-minded when it comes to those things I love it though I love I might like well I have some of my friends that like oh I just wanted I just want to act just one over whatever and I’m like I love every part of the filmmaking process I love the shot list I love filming I love editing I love acting I love the whole I love the finished product I just I love it I always say I’ll bleed for it if I’m passionate about it let’s do it I’m ready blade now what point did or it has this point come did you say okay well now I’m doing YouTube I mean that’s what that’s what my career is and that’s what my career goal is or is it is there still this sort of side dream or bigger dream beyond you to to be like okay I do want to parlay this into an acting career you know what’s so funny like I do you have you ever made like a goal she like of goals that you have well like okay well like read sheet to write him down no but I did I mean I’ll find in feel guilty no but it’s so weird I would like literally found the sheet that I wrote and I think I found it I’m gonna post a couple months ago and it was like reoccurring role on a TV show and like I had that right now I’m like I’m like a national TV commercial I’m like I have that right now I’m like all the things that these things I’ve wrote and written down I was like check a manager that believes in me check and it’s like it’s I realized at that moment that I’m like I’m living my dream I get to do what I love and I’m like I don’t care if it the project is on YouTube or it’s a film or it’s a TV show I don’t care where it’s that because I feel like the lines are crossing like I was in such a rush and wanted so badly to break in TV and film when right now TV and film wants to break into YouTube like it’s so strange like everything’s going online and right and I have no desire to leave if anything I mean I wrote an eight-episode web series we had an offer for funding from one company it wasn’t enough money we have another thing figure cross fingers cross that we’ll see if it comes through like for me if anything I just want to keep you know increasing the quality and things would be a new channel what’s the nature of it I don’t want to go into too much this is a really good it’s like it’s it’d be almost like a CW kind of show so it’s like it’s a it’s a like ten minute webisodes there’s eight of them and it’s very interactive and it’s very it’s what my audience would like like you know it has to do with like romance and love but it’s like it’s really funny like the characters are spirit each one’s very distinct and it’s very funny so you’re playing a character I play the main the main girl Samantha Samantha yeah and just give us a little bit of what Samantha’s like what’s the hook um I think that the big well the big hook of the series is the relationship between her and her best friend because they’re perfect for each other he’s in love with her she doesn’t realize it so it’s like that whole thing where you’re always rooting for them to get together and then they finally do and then they don’t and then you know it’s just all that but it’s like the I don’t know this the series I can I don’t want to go into it too I’m so I’m so paranoid I’m like afraid the eight the first eight episodes are written the first season is done and I just you know I want to get it made and get it out there so so it’s a question of sponsorship with enough money to cover the budget I just haven’t like I just I thought about doing Kickstarter but I have like I just admit I have major issues of being like hey give me $10,000 I’ll give you a line in my show you know something like I don’t want my kids money or my viewers money I would rather you know get a sponsor behind it or get you know I feel like that’s the route that I want to try I mean I know is I might eventually if you know try Kickstarter but I don’t think I want to I don’t want you know I don’t want my viewers money to do something that I want to do I’d rather it be free for them and then just you know be entertained and have to deal with maybe a little bit sponsorship in it know you’ve been doing this for quite some time seven years yeah right and you know and we have each other you know this is not an easy this is not an easy business to be in because we’re YouTube is constantly changing and you can kind of reinvent yourself and come up with new things and keep people interested in that kind of thing you’re doing this kind of alone and you’re still doing it and you’re still I mean you’re gonna leave from here and go and edit more videos what keeps you motivated what keeps you going I think that it’s just mentality like I get I literally have to tell myself that like you know that there’s no like I watch this really good sermon by this pastor Joel Osteen he was talking about how like you have to literally tell yourself that like there’s nothing that you can’t handle like get up and like just know that whatever God gives you it doesn’t matter if you’re religious or not but like I’m a Jesus Freak so like they just talked about how like you need to get up and say that like you know thank you God that whatever you give me today I know that I can handle because you want to given it to me if I couldn’t have handled it so on the day is when I’m really tired I’m like okay well this is on my plate so obviously I can handle it so I think a lot of its just its attitude instead of me when I’m home editing instead of being like oh I’d rather be out it’s like oh look at what I’m getting to do look at the products and I mean I struggle with the changes to YouTube because if he knows like the trend is a lot of like you know put up multiple videos that are lower quality or it’s like put up like a gaming video or whatever and I just know for me like that’s not my style like I love making really cool videos I want if anything in what I just put up like a challenge be with my brother a challenge with a friend I’m like I feel like I’m letting them down and they love it but I want over-the-top I want like something different you know like so it always bothers me I love that video but yeah so I think then it’s just fun YouTube is one of those places that like you know it’s always gonna keep changing and I mean who knows if it’s going to be YouTube it might be another site in five years I mean but I know I’m always gonna be making my own content like once you realize the power and freedom of doing stuff yourself you’ll never stop it’s like being your own boss it’s brilliant it’s a pretty good deal I mean I get a lot of people ask me like how do I get big on YouTube and I’m like they’re like it’s just hard work like some people hit it on the first one some it’s two years so much for like what’s the fine brothers how many years was it for them or they blew up was it seven or whatever like then then now they’re huge like you can’t like you have to put the work in you know let I’m like get a camera learn to film learn to edit like you know you got to put in the work and then you know if you want anything you just fight for it well we appreciate hearing your story of fighting for it and the success you’ve had oh thanks for this time as you spent with us grab the sharpie you got to sign the table oh I do yeah okay do you describe it like as I’m signing it or how do we do this this is they’re listening right now yeah yeah maybe I should go over that direction there’s a good yeah mistake charting new territory over here oh yeah and that was our ear biscuit with Brittani Louise Taylor thank you – Brittany for sharing her story you know the thing that struck me was her sheer tenacity in creating her YouTube presence how she was she had something on that the live streaming platform and interestingly enough she had pre-taped segments that was you know it was very youtube ish to do that to take a live platform – but to have these edited pieces and so she she actually used something that was made for YouTube and did it somewhere else which was made more for live-streaming and also going back eight or nine years and doing anything that had hundreds of thousands of people that who were interested in it that that is just unheard of I ever talk to anyone who has who had that kind of success that long ago and then it was shut down and she had to basically start over on the YouTube platform and she did it in in the Tunisia’s way that she did it first of all she did it in character but then she stayed in character in the comments like I totally forgotten that she had commented on our channel man enough do I remember it vividly remember it like I mean I I thought I interpreted her character as being stalker like someone who’s a little too into what we were doing to reply to I was a little concerned but she was in character yeah it was the great thing about it and she commented on everybody that commented on her video and watching fifty thousand videos and her first year on YouTube I mean a the thing that it is really significant to me is that you’ve got people who kind of just stumble into it you know we talked to glozell where she makes the initial video that it’s sort of an accidental viral video and it’s and then her career becomes about well building upon that moment you know and it becomes a successful YouTube career and then you get somebody like Britney who just basically willed it into into being and you know and I did I know there’s a lot of people out there there’s a lot of people listening a lot of people you know in that now that this is a thing that you can do who they want to do it and you just see that well it might be a whole lot of work you know it’s it’s definitely that’s not one of the paths yeah I don’t know that Britney would say she should reply to every person who commits on your videos but hey you know that’s that’s one way to do it I don’t think she’s capable of doing that now with the the you know the the quantity of comments on her channel I’m sure she doesn’t she’s not able to do it now but she still maintains that personal connection that I mean she was able to tell us about so again it’s great to get the perspective on how she has made it to the place where she is and we look forward to you know this this narrative series that she’s talking about which seems like we got a little bit of the scoop on that so that’s good that’s what I ear biscuit will give you the scoop it’ll give you the scoop it’ll give you an understanding it’ll help you understand somebody now when we watch our videos or when you watch our video you’re going to understand more of the girl from Arizona maybe we should have called this podcast the scoop that’s what I’m thinking sounds like it makes it make a cat litter you know about ice cream or ice cream the scoop kitty litter ice cream now that’s something to think about you’ve never had a cat what do you think about a kitty litter with I scoop I had a cat for a little bit if we really want to go into I had a calico kitten that I talked about that let’s not even kill it we just gave it back give it back to his mom we’ll get into this later right thank you for listening to this ear biscuit we do it every week we have capacity for you to invite your friends to listen via the SoundCloud or the iTunes and please do that keep listening keep inviting use both ears and we’ll keep broadcasting in mono you keep listening in stereo we will reply to your comments individually next week links going to be in your left ear and I’m gonna be hearing your right ear well we’ll talk about that maybe not well it’s possible yeah we could I mean technically we could do that I’m gonna try to make it happen see you next week or you hear us next week something like that bye [Music] [Music]