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A lot of my fans expected it.

And in a career trajectory kind of thing, if I were to ever plan that way, it'd be like, yeah, that seems like the next step to maybe level up my skills and maybe be taken a bit more seriously.

Because there's always that YouTube stigma.

Even if I'm doing YouTube originals, even if it was nominated for an Emmy, it's like it still doesn't always have that.

It's not real kind of thing.

I think it's probably a combination.

I'm very proud of being from YouTube.

I think a lot of people should be

And I think a lot of filmmakers should not be ashamed of posting their first short film on YouTube.

It's a great platform to get eyes on it and build an audience.

It's not easy to do because things get lost.

Millions of videos get uploaded every day or whatever the statistic is.

But it's still one of the few platforms that has the capacity for more people to see your art on an elevated level.

It is really, really difficult to put your short film on, say, TikTok.

or reels or any kind of short-form content.

And Vimeo is apparently going through some trouble now, so a lot of filmmakers I know use Vimeo just as a show reel kind of thing.

But YouTube has the quality, the built-in audience, and if you can get over those hurdles, it can be a legitimate thing.

So I wanna bridge that gap there.

Then again, from a entering into this filmmaker's fear of making movies, I do want to break down the stigma, but not in a way to like show traditional media like, yeah, you're doing it all wrong.

And us YouTubers know how to do it.