Interview · moment 9 of 23
Nudes From All Over the World
from Behind the Youtube (with Joe Santagato) · #52
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5 minGuest
Joe admits to getting international nudes at 19-21 (including a Maryland crab cake joke), Tim presses him on webcam escalation and appropriate timelines, and they touch on a YouTuber's child porn scandal.
- 28:43Tim dropped out of Queensborough Community College after signing up late and couldn't even bring himself to walk into the building.
- 29:22He wasn't lazy—had Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m. math classes at 18, 19 years old when he wanted to be out drinking.
- 29:48Started a YouTube channel without telling his parents he'd be a YouTuber, since he didn't even know what that was yet.
- 30:10His parents' only guidance after he dropped out: you're at a disadvantage now, you're gonna have to work harder than everyone else.
- 30:52Tim jokes about his mother's dream of him owning the pizzeria where he was working.
- 31:09Now he's built something—making good money, brought buddies into podcasts on his network, though he won't use the word mogul.
- 31:35Hollywood meetings with social media guys explain that what some creators do doesn't translate to other mediums—can't just jump on a bed on HBO.
- 32:01He prefers to create and build things from the ground up rather than leverage existing followings into other spaces.
- 32:44Interested in writing a scripted show and actually had Tim in mind for one of the characters.