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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
I didn't want it that bad.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
And that's kind of where I found myself with this YouTube.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
I was like, okay, I really wanted to make content just to make people laugh, make people realize I'm more than just a basketball player.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
So I set out to be making skits online,
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
Literally just sitting down.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
I didn't want people to know who I was offline and being a tall guy.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
Because then they would just assume and then ask all this basketball shit, which was very emotional for me at the time.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
So I built up an audience through that.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
And once I hit 100K, that's when I was like, okay, I'll start to tell people who I am, what I did do and what I did.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
still striving to do and that's when I went to college in Newman and I was kind of like showing people like oh I play but also I can make funny videos too and then I got introduced to the 2k community and that's where the shit kind of changed my life yeah forever because it was like
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
They saw me play 2K, and they didn't realize I actually hooped.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
But then I thought, okay, what if I took my skits and merged it with how I make 2K videos?
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
And then that's where I met Jesser and Cash Nasty, and we kind of came up with these concepts of playing 1v1s in real life rather than wagers.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
In the FIFA community, we were inspired by the Sidemen, KSI.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
I know Jesse, he would show me the KSI FIFA edits and things, and I was like, we'd always talk about how we could do that within the 2K videos, because that hasn't been done yet.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
And then I just strived to be a pillar in the basketball community from that point.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
And long story short, we all just moved in together eventually after a few years of doing that.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
And then that's how it all started with like 2Hype and just IRL basketball content where it is today.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
I feel like that's kind of where it started.
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Kristopher London: How a Career-Ending Injury Created a YouTube Legend | DSH #1577
You were so early, dude.