- No, I love Maddox.
No, I like all of the Hi-Ho Kids.
Well, I do, I do, I do.
Hi, I'm Koji.
You might know me as Koji the Illustrator.
- How long have you been drawing?
- Forever.
I came out with a pencil in my hand.
It's a series of videos I'm in in which
kids describe stuff to me,
and then I just draw whatever they say.
- Pikachu as a potato, with ears.
- Well, I work here at Cut as a graphic designer,
and my boss, Mike, just floated the concept out to me.
It was Blaine's idea.
It was Blaine's idea, which he pitched,
and he really wanted me to be in it,
and I said yeah, why not?
What the hell, it sounds fun.
So, I've drawn kids describe God, love, aliens,
monsters, dream job, the future.
Trump?
Oh right, Trump, yeah yeah.
- 'Cause he never takes a bath, yeah.
- The first one was Kids Describe God.
Could God be a woman, maybe?
- No!
- No?
The video really blew up, and I think a lot of that was,
definitely it was a touchy subject
that a lot of people were gonna have
different opinions on.
- He's invisible.
- He's invisible?
- He's a frog!
- A frog?
It was partially our approach of just
letting the kids do whatever,
whether it seems a little risque or not.
- He has to be naked!
- Does he have private parts?
Does he have, like a, you know?
- Mm-hmm.
- He does?
- Mm-hmm.
- Just like us?
- Okay, yeah.
- [Koji] Is that big enough?
- [Boy] Yeah.
- Ooh.
I don't know if I can answer that, can I?
I'd be a PR nightmare.
I like them all, I really do like them all,
in different ways.
I know that's a very politician-y answer,
but I really like them all.
- Sometimes, yeah.
Sometimes it's like, you know.
(laughing)
Not weird messages, but I do get a lot of DMs that are like,
one person was like, "Have you gotten married yet?"
(laughing)
I have not gotten married yet.
I am currently single, yeah.
Yeah, a few times, actually.
I was in this Mexican restaurant bodega thing
at like 3:00 in the morning,
and these drunk hipsters came in,
and the girl was wasted.
She was sliding down the chair and stuff,
and the guy's holding her up by her armpits,
and he just goes, "Yo, you're that dude
"from the YouTube vids!"
And I was not expecting that at all.
So, the thing I love most about the series is
the underlying concept that
we're creating this environment in which we're
honoring the kids' imaginations.
- [Child] A new planet, it's called Bunny Planet.
- [Koji] Bunny Planet?
- Everything in there was made by bunnies.
- Robocat!
- [Koji] They're just floating out in space?
- [Child] Yeah!
- You know, like the way they're just so free
with the way they come up with all this wacky shit
is really inspiring to me.
I think it's had a really positive impact
on me personally too.
- Yeah, he's awesome!
- You're awesome.
What are we doing?
Oh, I hate doing annotations.
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If you don't subscribe, then we're gonna stop
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and I'm gonna shave my head,
so maybe you should think about that.