You know only like a month ago or so, someone on Twitter tells me that my channel is the
third largest in Sweden. And I was like, no that can't be true. I mean I know my channel
is quite large at this point but the third largest in the entire country? No fucking way.
But I checked it out and it turns out that, yeah, that's actually true. Which was
so surprising to me because I had no idea. I figured I was up there you know, but third
place? And if we're gonna be completely truthful here, this channel is technically the largest
in Sweden as neither PewDiePie nor Avicci actually lives in Sweden.
[Swedish Anthem]
As if that wasn't enough, we're now at 2 million. I don't know if there is an appropriate reaction to this
because these numbers are just incomprehensible. 1 million was unbelievable in itself and less
than a year later, here we are. It's just amazing and to be honest I try not to think
about it too much. I don't want to care about these numbers, I care about making increasingly
better videos and that's all that matters to me. But of course, a massive thanks to all of you,
and your support, times a million! Actually times two million!
Now as you can tell from the title of this video, I have a rather important decision to make.
Do you think I look better in blue or green?
Ok, seriously though...
As we all know, the name of this channel doesn't make much sense. I moved away
from making videos about memes a long time ago and while the name doesn't really bother
me it would be nice with some consistency. So I was thinking of changing the name of
Top10Memes to just LEMMiNO. I mean, that just make the most sense to me. That's what I call
myself everywhere else and whenever I see my channel mentioned online, it usually looks
like this. And sometimes people just use LEMMiNO instead of Top10Memes altogether. The reason
I won't change it to something like Top10Facts is that I plan to make other types of videos
in the future. In fact I'm working on such a video right now and yeah we'll see how that
goes. But my hope is to branch out a bit and bring some variation to the channel so I don't
want to limit myself by using such a specific name.
So lemmino what you think about changing the name from Top10Memes to LEMMiNO.
Enough about that, let's answer some questions!
What editing software do you use? I recently switched actually from Sony Vegas
to Premiere Pro. So that's what I'm using from now on.
When you choose a new topic, seemingly from the comments on other videos, how do you choose
which one to make next? Do you already have an interest or certain knowledge in these
topics or do you prefer to enter a new video fresh and learn with us?
That's a good question. I tend to randomly scan trough the comments on some of my latest
videos quite frequently to see what people are suggesting. And I usually choose a topic
based on what I think will be the most interesting. For example, I won't make a video about something
just because it's popular. It could be the most popular thing in the world, but if it
doesn't have enough substance to cover 10 interesting facts, then it's not gonna happen.
Simple as that. I also try to put aside my own opinions about the things I'm covering.
For example I love Rick and Morty, The Witcher, and Space and don't really care for Football,
Apple products, or Counter Strike. That doesn't mean I'll choose one over the other as I've
covered all of these topics and I've tried, to the best of my ability, to do so in a fair and equal fashion.
Are you going to make a 2015 review video? Of course. Who knows, maybe there's an anniversary
of someone getting ghost-poked in the balls this time around.
If you weren't a Youtuber, what career would you have liked to do/would you have done instead?
To be honest. Given how difficult it is to get a decent job here in Sweden I would most
likely and realistically be working at a low level job like McDonald's or something. I have
no idea what I want to do besides YouTube. This is truly the most ideal job for me, at
least at this point in my life. I just love what I'm doing, it makes me happy.
Do you plan on doing something else other than top 10s?
Yes I am actually. While it's really fun to make a bit more silly videos..
..I've always wanted to cover more complicated topics by making longer and more serious videos in
a sort of documentary style rather than top 10s. So that's something I'm working on.
Do you ever watch any other famous Youtuber? if yes, who?
Oh there are so many. I'm just gonna list a few at the top of my head: Vsauce, CGP Grey, Veritasium,
In A Nutshell, How It Should Have Ended, JonTron, Olan Rogers, and just many more, so many more.
I got a ton of questions about what other hobbies I have besides YouTube.
Well my biggest hobby besides YouTube is music. I've been
making music since 2008 I think. Then I got into video game development about a year ago
so who knows, maybe I'll become an indie developer in a couple of years. I also like to animate
stuff, even though I haven't done so for quite a while now. Holy shit.
[Video Question] What is the most stupid thing you have ever done?
The most stupid thing I've ever done got to be the story I told on my second
channel about 2 years ago. Where me and my friend
almost got arrested because we kinda broke into an office building as we had nothing
better to do apparently. We triggered an alarm and while in the process of filling our pants
with bodily waste we sneaked past a couple of security guards and thus got away.
I also got a ton of questions about my music. If I'm gonna make more music.
And all I can say is that more music is on the way. Soon.
[Video Question] Just wanted to ask you a quick question. Out of all the videos you've made, which one is your favorite?
My favorite video is by far is part 5 of my space videos. Not only
is space a topic I greatly enjoy, I think the video ended up
the way I imagined it. There's usually some mistake or
something I don't like about the video I made but not with this with this video. It doesn't happen often.
How come you up load every to weeks or so? I got a lot of question about my upload schedule
and my upload frequency. It varies a lot I know. Sometimes it takes a week. Sometimes
it takes 3 weeks. And it really depends on the topic of the video. For example, The Witcher
video took a really long time because I had to get to specific points in this, 50+ hours
or so, long game to record very specific parts of gameplay. So if there's an easter egg near
the end of the game, I may have to play through the entire game to get to that specific point
only to record like 5 seconds of footage. Then you do that like 50 more times and
you begin to see why it takes so much time. It was more or less the same case with Undertale.
And then you add to that fact that I make videos that are around
12-17 minutes long now. While I used to make videos between 5-8 minutes.
The video about football took almost a month because
it was supposed to be a collaboration with another channel. That didn't happen for reasons,
so I had to redo the entire video and thus it took a month instead of two weeks. Sometimes
it's really difficult to find reliable sources, accurate photos and visuals, and sometimes
you realize at the last minute that you've made a major mistake and have to take a couple
of days to redo something. There are so many things that can eat up so much of your time
and there's always gonna be that struggle between quantity and quality. And while I'm
not gonna take like a month between videos, I'm absolutely gonna take my time making the
videos I want to make with the least amount of compromise.
And I understand that it's frustating that you have to wait between videos.
I know, I know. I feel the same about other channels. But at the same time, I really enjoy channels that take their
time with their videos. Because then you know that you're waiting for something good.
Like, it's not someone who's just pumping out videos for the sake of making as much money as possible.
You have to think of it like this. If I devided a 15 minutes video into 3 parts. So 5 minutes each.
Then I could probably release those three videos within a week to like.. Five days to a week. Something like that.
But instead of releasing different parts, I release one large video that's 15 or 17 minutes long.
So I'm not really making less content I'm just releasing them with larger periods in between.
But yeah. I've been babbling on for too long now ehm...
It takes a lot of time, I realize that. But that's just how I make my videos.
I got an incredible amount of questions this time and it would just take to long to answer
them all. But I hate to just leave you hanging when you guys show so much support so I decided
to answer almost every single question on Facebook and Twitter. If I haven't done so already,
I'm sorry. I am probably in the process of doing so right now. There was a lot of questions!
I think that was everything. I've tried to show my appreciation, I've answered your questions,
and I've talked about maybe changing the name of this channel from Top10Memes to simply LEMMiNO.
Ehm.. So yeah...
Swedish-English: In the meantime have a good one, and I'll see you in the next video.