Hank Green

They are kind of the.

the folk that people imagine when they imagine what Dropout is like, there's just for sure sort of a bunch of recurring comedians who come in and are seen as Dropout, the Dropout family by the audience.

For sure.

People like our contractors, but are also

Something more, it feels like.

There's also like, I mean, this is a big, this has been a weakness of a lot of YouTube companies.

BuzzFeed is the best example where you have employees and then they get a really popular show and then they're being paid as an employee, but their show is making the,

the company a bunch of money and they're not being paid as talent.

And so like, you know, if Seinfeld gets popular, Jerry Seinfeld gets paid more.

But if, you know, the Try Guys get popular, how do the Try Guys like get to negotiate like a three times higher salary this year?

It's sort of not how business works.

And so the Try Guys start to feel pretty uncomfortable being part of BuzzFeed and maybe want to go do their own thing.

And this is from the very beginning of YouTube, a big problem.

And I feel like this model of just like listening to how Hollywood has worked in the past actually makes sense in this case where it's like, OK, well, you're going to come and you're going to do this show this season.

And the next season, if the show did really well, like your agent's going to have a conversation with us.

And we're going to be figuring out like and you're not going to like you're going to be able to do a bunch of other stuff.

But like this is going to be a big part of your yearly income now because that show is popular because people really like it and you're creating a lot of value.

You just got to learn a juggle or something.

What are you doing?

What do you do?