- And I think we're live now.
Hey, everybody.
It's Roberto.
This is beautiful, sunny California.
- Whoo.
- Yay.
- The west coast really is the best coast.
Dig it.
You guys, there is a familiar face on the channel,
the one and only Jay Leibs.
- Hi.
- Yup, the hardest working small youtuber on the planet.
No lie, he's probably out husstling you right now.
- That's me.
- And this is our new friend, Kayla.
- Hi.
- She is an amazing youtuber in her own right
and was at youtube next up.
Crushing it on Instagram, crushing it on Facebook.
We are on our way to Disney Day.
We are doing the YouTuber-y things.
We are out here in California,
rocking our pretentious sunglasses.
- Tubebuddy.
- We are repping Tubebuddy and Vidcon
and all the things.
So we've got that going on.
Do we have any sponsor cards, right now?
You got any sponsor plugs?
We got any brand deals right now?
- Not really.
- No, sorry.
So, okay guys, so this live stream
is #notsponsored apparently.
- Whoo. - Yay.
- Yay, right?
So, yay, for no sponsors,
no youtube money for us for this one, right?
- Yeah.
- Like, all the things.
So no, we're having fun.
I wanted to recap Vidcon,
With you guys, it's been amazing
and I know that I have not been uploading
nearly as much this week and you know why.
It's been Vidcon, not to mention,
it was my birthday weekend.
Thank you everybody who reached out in Twitter
and Instagram and Facebook for wishes for my birthday.
It was a wonderful party.
Jason and Darryl and a lot of us got together
and we had dinner we did the things.
We hung out during the day.
That was like so much fun.
Thank you everybody
and thank you, all the people who were at Vidcon.
Who came up and shared their stories.
It was great meeting so many of you.
Tag me in all the selfies in Twitter and in Instagram.
You guys know I dig that.
I want to follow you back there.
I want to show you guys some love.
I want to connect and I'm getting really
into Instagram and Instagram stories lately.
- And I have the official Roberto Blake birthday photo
on my Instagram. - Yes!
Yes, he does. - So check that out,
Jay Leibs.
- Jay leibs, yeah, he has the official like
behind the scenes like embarrassing
birthday photo shenanigans.
- Yeah, you did the pointing thing.
- Yeah, I did.
I did.
Trademark, copyright, trademark, copyright.
So like, no, that, so much fun!
So much fun.
So let's recap some of the stuff at Vidcon.
- What was your guys favorite part of Vidcon this year?
- You can go first.
- Ladies first.
- Pressure.
- Ladies first. It was meeting you, actually.
- It was meeting-- yes!
That's amazing.
I love like, you know, vanity aside I do love hearing that.
- I have to say meeting Kris Straub
for the first time in seven years in person.
- Right.
- And, you know, hanging out with him
and also reminding him that he basically
gave me my first shot by publishing me back
when I was in college.
- Yup, absolutely, that was amazing.
It was amazing meeting Kris.
Kris, buddy, we love you.
We love you, we love what you got doing, man,
everything you're doing.
You guys need to check him out.
Follow him in his social.
Later I'll link it up.
I'll link up people and things
and all the things and everything.
I'll link, I'm gonna link up you guys.
- Yes.
Yeah, you know, squad.
- #squadgoals.
- Squad goals, right on.
- #socal.
- Socal, youtuber life.
#youtuberlife.
- Yup, so we're like, right now we're doing like
the safety thing because we're getting ready
to cross the street.
- Well plays for safety.
- Like what do you feel was like the--
out of all the sessions and stuff you went to
what was the best sessions?
- I went to the live streaming session.
- The live stream one.
- With--
- Jenn Keuger
- Jenn Keuger, Sammy Perth,
I forget half the people.
- Forget half the people.
- But there was like one person
from each live streaming platform represented
so it was like really informative
to see how people experience different ones differently.
Like there was somebody from Twitch, Live.me,
what else is there, I don't even know.
- [Roberto] Like, all YouNow?
- Yeah, YouNow, that's the one I was thinking of, sorry.
- [Roberto] Right on.
- And youtube, like, you know, so there was like
a gamer on Youtube and a gamer on--
- [Roberto] Twitch?
- on Twitch, yeah.
- [Roberto] Yeah.
What about you, Kayla?
What was like a favorite session?
- It was a panel about Youtube algorithms.
- [Roberto] The YouTube algorithm panel.
Matt Gielen or Derral Eve's?
- Derral Eve's.
- Yup.
- I mean, they were both amazing,
but it was just like a wealth of information.
I learned so much.
And, yeah, definitely, even that panel alone
was worth coming to VidCon for.
- [Roberto] Right on.
- Yeah.
- For me, Derral and Matt's
sessions were amazing.
I'm going to the highlighting the breakdowns
of the changes in the algorithm
and I'm gonna be doing it in a way
that is not soul-crushing and depressing for you guys.
Here is a highlight that was some
of the changes to the algorithm.
I was right about minimal uploads per week
is three uploads a week is the new minimum,
the new normal for YouTube.
And guys, we're figuring that out, right?
- Yeah, yeah, oh my God.
- Yup, we're figuring that out.
- Yup.
- That's what it takes.
- I have about three days worth of footage
from this whole thing so it'll be up on my channel
in the next two weeks.
- [Roberto] And then you got the behind of the scenes
of like the videos for me.
- I have me filming you being filmed.
And then I also have my GoPro filming me
filming you being filmed.
- Right, so we've got so much inception stuff.
We've got vlog-ception stuff.
So Jason was an admirable D rock all week so that was great.
- [Jason] Yes.
- And then, you're actually in some of the vlog stuff
that I did, right, with the--
- Am I?
- I'm pretty you are and if you're like not yet,
the vlogging camera is here so you will do the Disney vlog.
Woah, wait, we're gonna all be Disney family vloggers today.
Yeah!
Cause that's what YouTube wants, right?
- Yes, yes.
- That's what YouTube wants so guess what,
we're gonna be like YouTube family vloggers today
and everything like that.
We're family.
We're a modern family, like, we're just a little different.
- We're a very diverse family.
- Yeah, we're a diverse family, right?
So, no, that's gonna be, that's gonna be cool.
I am gonna help you guys avoid YouTube burn out.
Tim Schmoyer and I did a collab video while we were here
that I think is gonna be very motivating for you guys
because we're gonna talk about some of our early days.
In a different way, we're gonna talk about some things
that you guys can do and how to just shift your perspective
on this whole YouTube thing
because what was great about being here
was how many creators were honest
and vulnerable about their journey
and that felt really great
and the community aspect of that.
Guys, what, like Kayla, what do you think about
your feelings how people here were just more honest?
- I don't know.
It's really the wrong place to be asking.
- [Roberto] We're walking and we got like, it's got,
yeah, we got loudness.
- Yeah.
How do I feel about people being more honest?
- Like, you know, creators sharing more,
opening up a little bit more.
Like at least some of the people we were hanging with.
- Yeah, well it's nice to see that you're not alone.
YouTube is a quite isolating job
so you think that like the stuff that you're going through,
you think like, oh it's only me,
or like, I'm always waking up late.
I should be waking up early.
And then you realize like, oh,
everybody wakes up at nine am
so you don't actually have to feel guilty
about like not - [Roberto] Right.
- waking up at six.
And it's just, I feel like I'm part
of like a little YouTube family now
and everything feels like super relatable
so it's nice to have people that actually understand
what you do. - [Roberto] People
that you can like talk to, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
- [Roberto] Yeah, no, that is amazing.
That was important for me too.
- Hey.
- [Roberto] Yeah, Jason.
- That's my question.
- [Roberto] Yeah, so we talked about YouTube and honesty
is like tell me something, you spend
a lot of time - Watch your finger.
Is your finger in the way?
- [Roberto] Oh, is it?
- Yeah. - [Roberto] Yeah, thanks.
Sorry, I know you and both spent a lot of time with Boogie
so what were your thoughts about some
of the things he's been talking about,
things he's been experiencing in the community
and how we can all just make our,
make each others' lives on YouTube a little better?
- Yeah, I think, you know, when he was here
and I ran into him first, I remember him saying
that like even with everything, the anxiety,
the health issues that he's dealing with,
he's here for his fans and a lot of his fans
like, because he's fostered that type of community
they all come up, they're like how you doing,
what's going on.
Like, they're not really--he can get mobbed,
but like, you know, he's got good people
around him and stuff.
And I think that
that fostering of community
in this whole platform and everything
especially because most of us, you know,
like you said before are alone like in our studios
or whatever making stuff.
- [Roberto] Yeah.
- So like coming out here and being IRL
like especially for somebody like him
who's not only in his studio,
but like immobile in any other way, right?
Like he's on his rascal and everything.
Everywhere he's got his Nintendo
switch with him. - [Roberto] Yeah, no, I mean
if Boogie can do it, than all of us
have something that we can aspire to.
- I mean he met his wife through doing YouTube
and everything like that.
I'm sure that people who follow him too, know this stuff.
But it's just like coming out to the community
and being able to have a voice
and speak up no matter like what background you come from.
Being able to create because it's like
what you love doing.
And being about to communicate with people
because you make an impact on their life
and they make an impact in yours.
And it's just,
you know, it keeps - [Roberto] All the things.
- feeding off of each other, yeah.
- Exactly.
Like the thing here that I appreciate a lot
and that meant the world to me cause like,
I mean, I'm gonna get in some more of the highlights.
But there were so many of you that came out
and I wasn't expecting with all of the things
that were going on with VidCon.
I didn't think
that anybody would recognize me
or like notice who I am
or like even really care
and it's like every five minutes
it was somebody else coming up
and telling me how I helped them create.
How I helped to inspire them
to either whether it's to pick up a camera or do something
and that they can feel they can do this
and that they're a part of something now
and that they were able to grow their channel.
They were able to build their own community
and that was great,
just to see how many creators
might have like given up
if I hadn't like helped them in some way
or helped them do better
or be more competitive in the algorithm
and that was just really comforting.
But then also I was able to talk to other creators
that are not small creators,
that also have gotten the same kind of help from me
and they actually were able to acknowledge that.
And that was surprising and that was comforting to know.
Like when you understand
and why I think attracts a lot of us to YouTube
is understanding that like what you do matters, right?
And that there are people who are
crazy, stupid, excited about the same thing as you.
- Yeah.
- Like I think that that matters.
So there was a lot that I learned
about the YouTube algorithm.
There was a lot I learned about the Facebook algorithm.
I'm gonna be doing some in depth videos on that.
But I want the big take away from this to be
what I learned the most about the algorithm
explains that you have to understand
and know your audience and know what they want
and you have to know them better than anyone
because if you don't understand your audience,
I can give you all the tactics
and all the tips and tricks and tools in the world
and it won't matter if you don't understand your audience
because what YouTube cares about
more than anything right now, aside from watch time,
is they care about understanding
who watches your types of videos
and finding more people like that.
They want to find who watches your stuff
and they want to find more people
that want to be part of that
and that community and want those type of videos.
And so they'll care much more about
user behavior now than anything else.
I think that was what we heard at like every major session
and every major panel.
And so the game is changing.
It is dramatically changing.
But here's the thing, we're all,
we're all just gonna take advantage of it.
We're not gonna get bummed by the algorithm.
We're gonna keep making great content.
We're just gonna keep making new things.
That's what you guys should definitely be doing.
And it was great.
You know what, I loved seeing
that also even creators that we watched that we admire,
they're all getting ready to do new things.
Phillip DeFranco has got some new stuff coming.
The podcast is coming back.
- The Wheezy Waiters working on short films a lot more.
- Wheezy Waiter's working on the short films
and everything like that.
I mean--
- He just filmed another one on Sunday.
- Yeah and then all of us,
we all talked about new things we're planning.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Yeah, so I mean, that was fun,
but guys I will have more details about
the things I learned at VidCon coming soon
and don't be surprised,
you're gonna be seeing these two a lot more
and good things are coming
and I want good things for all of you
and I think that change can definitely be a good thing.
VidCon, once again, has changed my entire perspective.
It's been a battery resetting, refreshing.
It's been great to hang out with old friends, new ones
and I want you guys to understand that everything
that we're doing and that whether it's, you know,
a few hundred people, a few thousand people,
tens of thousands of people, whatever it is,
that this is accessible if you want it
and if you are willing to do the work.
This is accessible.
Anything you see here, like, at least not from us,
none of this is gonna be fake positivity.
None of this is gonna be the ra ra fluffy crap.
You're gonna see how hard we work.
And you're gonna understand that
if you're willing to out work us
that you can have that same thing.
Or if you're willing to work just as hard,
then you could have that same thing.
Everything that you want, is on the other end of hard work.
- Yes.
- Alright?
Anyway, guys.
That's kinda my VidCon recap.
Super excited about everything.
Met some amazing people.
More to come.
Go out there.
Create something awesome today.
Take care.
- Peace.