M: Hi everyone, My name's Majira
M: and I'm here with... B: Beta Eta Delota. Hello!
Voiceover: Number 15, Beta Eta Delota.
Beta Eta Delota is a furry Youtuber with over 55,000 subscribers!
Beta Ate A Boat-a has formed a group known as the "Life Jacket Squad"
who practices boat safety.
Beta Engineer Delota is an engineering student who really enjoys fursuit cuddles
and long walks on the beach-ota.
Beta Eta Delete-a's character is a wolf-dragon hybrid that is really good on gas. (get it? because "Wagon")
Beta Eta Dematea......???
*laughter* who wrote this?? (answer: Mark's Barks)
M: So, I'm with Beta! And we're hanging out in New Hampshire.
B: Yes M: Isn't that crazy?
M: So we thought, why not do an interview?
M: So Beta, I have a lot of questions for you. So many questions. Like, 100 questions. Is that ok?
B: Not a problem. M: Think you can answer that many? B: Probably.
M: Ok, Good.
M: So my first question for you is
M: What got you started with youtube and furry stuff, and all that?
B: Oh boy, those are two entirely different questions.
Cause, I've been doing YouTube for roughly 6 years now. I started my freshman year of High School.
And, I was always inspired in the sense of like "Oh, Markiplier, Let's Plays, Commentaries - I wanna do all of that."
I wanna make this a career. It's just every young kids dream to be an entertainer or do YouTube.
So I started with that face. I started doing commentaries about, really anything that came to mind at the time.
It was a lot of thinking about what I wanted to discuss and what was happening at the time
Then also the kiddish mix of the Minecraft let's plays. The nonsense that saturates YouTube still do this day.
And then fast forward about 3-4 years when I start my new channel.
Still doing around the same thing. I'm getting to college. Still doing commentaries. And then, uh-
I magically came up with the idea of the "7 levels of being a furry"
Which kinda blew up within the first two weeks.
And, uh, that's kinda how I became a furry. Wasn't really the idea that I found the fandom, it was more so that the fandom found me.
But in livestreams-- I started livestreaming on YouTube at the time.
A lot of people would start going in the chat going "oh, do you know about this thing in the furry fandom?"
"Do you know about Majira?" Which at the time, I had no clue what anyone was talking about with that.
And it took me about, maybe a year from that to figure out who you were. And uh...
M: So, with that 7 layers video, what got you to make that? Like, did you see a meme or something?
M: So you looked into it, or like, what happened? B: Honestly for me, it was kind of a shot in the dark.
B: I did- I did about a year back a video that was pretty much a crappier version of that video,
With just, game, Call of Duty gameplay in the back; me rambling for like 8 minutes; it was very unprofessional.
And I saw it was getting a little bit of traction, even a year later. So I'm like, hmmmm...
I could remake this, make it pop out and look different, and it will probably do about the same if not better.
So I kinda just took a shot in the dark, worked about a month on this video, uploaded it,
And then within the first week it just skyrocketed. And now it's somewhere around 700,000 views at this point.
M: That's crazy!
M: So, um, switching gears a little bit, uh, do you like swimming?
B: I do like to swim, I'm not the best swimmer. M: Is that why you wear a life jacket?
B: Yes, and no. M: So, why do you wear life jackets? What's that about?
B: So to start, uh, it doesn't really have to do much with the swimming aspect.
If I were to even say... I can't really say it. I have no clue how or why I am really into it
I just sort of like it. It's kinda...I don't know what it is, it's just the idea of like when wearing one
You feel really comfortable, it's like a constant hug.
You're constantly feeling secure.
It's just something nice. It's unique and it's different. And,
I guess it's a nice aesthetic that I wanted to bring into my YouTube channel as well.
Like with the "Life Jacket Squad" and the "stay life jacket" in my video.
Which a lot of people enjoyed from then on, so I kinda just stuck with it from there.
M: So, you call your fans life jackets? B: I call them...*laughs*
B: I don't call them lifejackets, I call them members of the Life Jacket squad.
M: Oh B: Just something that came up randomly one day.
B: In livestream people were just like "You know what? This sticks."
I just kind of went with it ever since.
M: So, if you got a hug from one of your fans, would you be wearing a lifejacket?
*beta has an existential crisis*
B: Yesssss??? No?
B: I don't know. I'd probably say no. I hadn't thought of that. Why? How do you-
B: How do you know how to ask these questions before I even know?
M: *laughs* Ok. That's good. That's a fair answer.
M: So... uhm....
M: I kinda wanna talk about me a little bit. B: Yes.
M: Because, y'know, I think we can relate in a way. Cause you know, we're both fruit. Right? So...
B: Excuse me? But, I'm not a fruit. M: I thought you were a Delota.
B: No, no, no. That's... That's just my name. There's no fruit like, implications towards it.
B: I'm not a fruit M: Delota's not a fruit?
B: No. It's not. M: But, why is your name Beta Ate A Delota?
B: That's...that's an entirely different thing. It's an entirely different story. I didn't eat anything.
B: It's just easier to pronounce my name that way. Because no one knows how to say my name.
M: what?
B: No one knows how to say... M: You're not a fruit?
B: I'm not a fruit! No! Do people really think I'm a fruit because of that last part?
B: A "delota"? I mean I guess it kind of sounds like...
B: Where are you going?
*majira slams the door*
B: Majira, is this part of the interview?
M: No. B: No? Wha- What are you doing?
M: It has to be this way. P: It has to be this way.
M: It has to be this way. B: I'm not even properly tied up.
M & P: It has to be this way. B: I can move my arms and legs.
M & P: It has to be this way. B: Oh sure. You know what?
B: I accept my fate. I...I join the fandom. Just do whatever you need to do.
P: It has to be this way. M: It has to be this way.
M: Look at him. Beta....you're beautiful.
P: It's better this way.
M: Are you a fruit now? B: I'm...no? I'm sorry.