- You look up the word dad in the dictionary,
there's just a picture of Dan.
- We've been at a football game all afternoon
and have received multiples texts from family and friends
saying they are so sad about Casey
and then I look it up and it says he's ending the vlog,
so Luke and I haven't watched video yet,
we are gonna watch it now.
We've been lucky enough to have some interactions,
but even more importantly than that,
he has impacted our lives as YouTubers
and given us motivation to do what we do.
I hope he's just like I'm ending it,
but I'm still gonna make videos.
I don't see how that would work, though.
- Yeah, that's not gonna work.
- All right, reaction time, we're watching it.
- It's not clickbait, I really am ending the vlog.
- That's nice.
- I can't grab onto what's next
unless I completely let go of this.
With that.
("Drive" by The Cars)
- Drop the mic.
How long is it?
- I don't know, it's like you don't wanna click away.
He says the vlog is over.
- It's been like 30 seconds.
- Yeah, everybody just watching
'cause they don't want it to end.
He's so good at making movies,
of course, we all want it to not end.
- Yeah.
- That's it, there's no popups of videos or anything.
- That's sad.
- What do you think?
- That's sad.
- Sad, why?
- Because then I can't watch his videos every day.
- So, I appreciate that he wants
to move onto something else, like I totally get that.
Selfishly, like it's super hard and it's super sad
because he's become such a big part of our life
over the last year and a half,
and we've watched so many of his videos, right?
- Yeah, so many.
- I understand that there's other opportunities
to come along in people's lives
and I'm sure he has other opportunities that are there.
I think the one thing that I love about vlogging
and having this family channel
is that those moments that Casey showed,
because of the vlog, he has a lot of those things on record
and those moments on record.
Hopefully, he continues to do that,
I know when he did the HBO series,
he filmed a lot of their life
and then he filmed stuff after that
and then hopefully whatever he's doing next
helps him keep the camera in front of his life.
Even more so for him, to be able to have that footage.
Back in October of 2015,
devinsupertramp did a video where he showed
a highlight, a spotlight of CaseyNeistat,
and Casey talked all about his life
as a filmmaker and movie maker
and why he's making that transition to YouTube,
it was super impactful to me.
- In life, if you work hard and you're brave,
taking chances and you fight for what you want,
you will always get to where you wanna be.
- I've heard some people say,
I've even heard some other YouTubers say,
"Oh, man, hopefully the viewers
"will all come over to me now from Casey,"
and do I believe that's the case?
I don't know, maybe some of the viewers
will go to some of the other channels
because they're starved of YouTube,
but at the same time,
I think Casey brought a lot of viewers to YouTube
that never would even be on YouTube,
but they would come watch Casey
and then they would go watch some of the other videos
and it would keep them on the YouTube platform,
and so now that he's not gonna be posting daily,
there's a chance that there's a lot of viewers
that just don't even come onto YouTube as much
because he's gone.
I think it's definitely a loss to all of us
that he's not there posting content
and bringing eyeballs to YouTube
with his high quality content.
I crashed his Boosted board in the river,
so I think because we're getting closure on his vlogs,
in this video, I'm gonna bring you closure to that
and bring us closure to that, sound good?
There's the gold play button right here,
still haven't hung it up, it's just here.
We go to film the gold play button.
So here's how the day was going,
we were gonna go like seriously ride them around New York
and get a bunch of shots of us with gold play button
and just show our day
and Casey was gonna film it for his vlog.
So, we get to underneath, I think it was the Brooklyn Bridge
on the East River, Lincoln was holding the gold play button
with his remote of the Boosted board in his hand,
and I'm like, "Hey, Lincoln, give me the remote"
and I took the remote and I held it in my hand,
but I didn't realize that I had my remote in my back pocket.
Brooklyn Bridge.
- With the gold play button.
We're just sitting there
with the boys getting the time lapse.
If you watch Casey's show,
you know the one thing he does
is create some epic time lapses,
so here he is in the making.
- The surprise is that
I put very, very little effort into them.
- A couple of ladies came walking up to the end of the pier
where we were, we were on the end,
and they were over by the road,
and they kinda looked at the Boosted board,
and my Boosted board was sitting over there,
so I got the remote and I barely pulled the trigger
and it didn't do anything, it just sat there,
so I pull it all the way down and I hear this (buzzes)
and I look over right at the last second
as the Boosted board is going boom right into the river.
Oh, man.
- [Casey] Oh, no, Boosted board down, Boosted board down.
- [Tyler] No, it's just right there.
(Lincoln laughing)
- [Casey] Oh, no, what did you do?
- And I'm just mortified that I just launched
Casey's Boosted board into the East River,
like it's dead, it's dead.
That Boosted board fell in the river thanks to me,
I used the wrong remote and it's gone,
so I owe Casey a Boosted board.
So, that's how it went,
but it's funny 'cause all the comments were like
"that What's Inside dad is such a jerk.
"He just threw it in there and didn't even say sorry
"and didn't even offer to buy a new one."
This is the part of the story that Casey doesn't even know
and I doubt he's even gonna watch our video,
before we even took off from New York,
I went online and ordered Boosted board version two.
It had just been released like a few weeks earlier,
we pre-ordered it, paid the hundred dollars,
and then we waited and waited and waited,
and what we were gonna do is get it
and then we were just gonna ship it back to him
and say, "Sorry about the Boosted board
"and remember the East River," something like that.
We were just about to get it,
we just paid the full price
for the Boosted board version two
and then we got the email saying that
they've had an issue with their batteries
and they were recalling them,
but yeah, the other thing, "Do not ride them
"and do not plug them in" and they're figuring it out.
Three weeks ago, I went on ebay,
I bought a Boosted board version one for $1,200
which is the same price as the new version two,
but the person only had 60 miles of us on it.
It has a few little scratches like right there,
but that's common when you're riding it over curbs.
If you've had a Boosted board,
you know that's in good shape, right, Lincoln?
- Yeah.
- Barely used.
We're gonna put a sticker on it on the bottom
and we're gonna put a YouTube sticker for fun,
this is the right thing to do, so.
'Kay, I'm gonna leave Lincoln here
to watch a movie with the girls
and I'm gonna take this to FedEx.
We wrote a little letter explaining it to him,
why we're sending him a random used Boosted board.
- [Cashier] All right, we're packing all this to go?
- Yes.
All right, sticker here, sticker here,
sticker here, and one under there that you can't see.
That's good, hopefully he'll see it,
he'll be like, "Oh, I think I know what this is"
rather than just like throw it in
the pile of fan mail that he gets.
Casey's still gonna be around, he's not dead.
YouTube is a better place because of you
coming on YouTube and doing your vlogs
and YouTube also is at a big loss
for having you no longer producing daily content.
Thank you for posting what you've posted
and doing all the hard work
and inspiring people like me that start filming our life
and believing that I can do it.
Phew!
- And I get asked all the time, you ask every day,
like how do I get to do, how do I succeed,
how do I build an audience,
how do I get them in touch, where do I start?
And the answer is always the same, you just gotta hustle.
If there were a prescription,
if there were a defined path, everybody would do it,
but like there isn't a defined path,
everybody has to pave their own way.
It is brute force and brute force alone.
If you think your vlog is gonna go viral
because you do something
slightly different from somebody else,
like there's no chance,
like it really is effort and energy
to succeeding in vlog a new space.