Casey Neistat

But I watched whatever Charlize Theron's new rock climbing action movie is on Netflix the other night, and that's algorithmically created slop.

slop like it's completely unwatchable and i do feel like there's an extraordinary trend towards that but i'm also like i am a romantic and i do believe in out in the outliers and i think that like you know christopher nolan can exist in a world where he he surfs above that and quentin tarantino does too and i think that

it might be getting harder and harder to succeed with that.

But I still think it comes down to a matter of motivation because that opportunity still exists.

And to defend myself in the, it's easy for me to say because I've got 10 million subscribers.

I think back to my earliest days of making videos.

And my line has always been, you make a living so you can make videos.

You don't make videos so you can make a living.

And I was...

i was making twelve dollars an hour as a dishwasher and when i was not working you know 60 hours a week in in a sweaty seafood restaurant kitchen i was at home on my imac tv the one that you can see right behind me right here nice like editing an imovie 1.0 making little videos and how i shared them my version of youtube 25 years ago was our export to a vhs tape

I would get into my 1989 Ford Taurus and I would drive to people's house, sit them on the couch, put it in, click play, watch them as they watched it, take it out and then drive to my next friend's house.

So like my view count then was somewhere between like two and six.

Six is viral.

Six is viral.

But like, you know, in like iPod's Dirty Secret, the first video I ever had that really popped off, like I built a splash page for that.

So, you know, like I've always, I've always, it is easy for me to say now because I have a big channel and I'm diving off a very tall diving board.

But I've been consistent with this through the 28 years of being a filmmaker, which is that it's always been about creativity and creative expression.

And I still believe you put enough stuff out there, if it's good, your audience will find it.

And it might be six people or 10 people, and it might be a million people.

No, I mean, what it was was like, I made a movie about procrastination.