Nikesh Arora

I think the other thing is that cutting your teeth as an internet filmmaker, it teaches you a lot about how to earn attention.

Kirby Barker, the director of Obsession, talked about this in an interview.

They said, what did YouTube teach you about directing?

movies, he said, the reality is when you make something for the internet, the audience is begging and you have to convince them to stay.

And I think historically in Hollywood, there's been an entitlement of, hey, we have George Clooney in the movie.

We spent a lot on marketing.

You're going to buy a ticket and you're just going to sit and enjoy it.

But I think internet filmmakers know when you're making something for YouTube that like the audience can click away at any moment to something more interesting.

So I better tell you a great story that's unfolding frame by frame.

And the third thing is, the third thing, because I know we all love lists, and the third thing will blow your mind, by the way.

It'll shock you.

The third thing is that Hollywood talent is, I actually think like the linchpin in this moment in time, that there's a lot of talent that's available that are like craftspeople in Hollywood who have focused on specific crafts, whether those are DPs or screenwriters.

Or set design.

Yeah.

or set designers.

When that is paired with the acumen of internet storytelling, it's proven to be very powerful.

So I think there's been this narrative, of course, Hollywood is dying, but I think it just looks very different now.

We didn't know theaters were available.

Markiplier put his movie himself.

He picked up the phone and put his movie in 4,600 theaters.