Julia Alexander
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 11 Jun
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Julia Alexander, welcome back to The Verge cast.
Thank you so much for having me.
I love being back on The Verge cast.
I haven't seen either one.
I think the last movie I saw in theaters was Scream 7.
So this feels like the great next extension of it, though.
Right.
I'm so excited that you asked that because I think there's a lot of hyperbole about what this means.
I think there's a group of traditional studio executives in Hollywood who are in their 60s and 70s who see this and think, great, the next MCU is just like the YouTuber cinematic universe.
And we're going to throw a ton of money at YouTubers with big audiences and Mr. Beast will win an Oscar for us in five years.
And then I think there's the actual conversation, which is just this idea that there was a group of talent who instead of going through a gate kept system that was traditional Hollywood and the traditional studio system who came up through that kind of creative pipeline.
just decided to use the internet as the distribution platform that we all knew it to be and started posting really great content on YouTube, built up followings, and then converted a percentage of that audience base into theater goers.
And I think the distinction is if you give audiences the ability to have really unique original content in this kind of sea of oversaturated franchise slop, they will turn out, I should say,
And also, if you can combine that with these relationships that they've built with creators and their channels over the past decade, the past seven years, the past five years, they will also continue to turn out.
You can look at what A24 did with the Fulupu brothers, who were original YouTubers, who I remember covering back in my days at The Verge because they were seeing all their content be demonetized because they would do these really great but graphic Mortal Kombat IRL type videos.
They were so great.
And I remember talking to them for a story about how YouTube was demonetizing their content.
They didn't know what to do next.
And they always wanted to be filmmakers within the traditional studio system, which I think is also an important part of this conversation.
And they worked with a...
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