Julia Alexander
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609 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 11 Jun
Julia Alexander’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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studio and a distributor like A24 who wanted to take these bets.
And so they ended up becoming or moving away from YouTube into this kind of, again, traditional Hollywood system.
And so I think if you look at a Kane Parsons or if we talk about Obsession, whatever it might be, the idea that they built up audiences on a platform that they weren't, I would argue, intending to become a PewDiePie Mr. Beast.
It was not like they wanted to be YouTubers.
But they had a platform that allowed them to find an audience through this free distribution access, which, as you know, and we all know, is the story of the internet.
Then I think there's the conversation around Markiplier and Iron Lung and this idea of, I have this audience of the last 15 years.
I'm going to self-produce this film.
I'm going to kind of basically self-finance this film.
We're going to...
distributed in more than 3,000 theaters.
And this is the successful story of a YouTuber moving into a film space rather than filmmakers using YouTube as a means to get into that traditional studio system.
After this weekend, I called up a few sources who are effectively running or part of development teams within creator-centric divisions at all these legacy studios and networks.
Every company now has one.
They're looking at how do we work with
talent who are coming from the creator sphere?
Most of that YouTube, but it may include TikTok, it may include Instagram, whoever it might be.
How do we work with them on projects that we both want to distribute under our banner?
So that could be a film like A24 and Jason Blum over at Blumhouse.
That could be a streaming show that might go to a Netflix, a Hulu.
Or how do we work with them on developing original IP for their own channels?
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