- Oh boy!
Happy 2021!
Everybody, we made it.
And this is my first video of the new year.
Hi, first of all, I'd like to say,
thank you guys for all of the support last year.
Last year was obviously crazy for everyone.
And I think the we're all hoping
that this year is gonna be much, much better.
Obviously things started out a little crazy this past week.
And if you wanna know how I felt about it,
I was pretty vocal on Twitter and on Instagram as well.
So I'm not gonna get into it here,
but my sister and I started a podcast last year.
So thank you guys so much for supporting it.
It's called "Same Brain."
We have Same Brain mugs.
I'll put a link in the description
if you wanna check these out
and also if you wanna check out our podcast.
But why I'm bringing that up
is because we filmed the podcast on Tuesday
and in the podcast,
we said this,
We're not sure yet.
- It's Tuesday that we're filming this.
So we have a couple of days.
- We do.
Oh my gosh, I hope your crazy news breaks
by the time this comes out,
and if there is.
- What's gonna happen, you know?
What's the worst that can happen?
(Tyler laughs loudly)
- That was a clip from Tyler
who was actually editing this video
and he edited the podcast.
I don't know why we really thought
that we weren't going to have any crazy news.
So if you're wondering why we're not talking about it
in the podcast on Saturday,
that's because we clearly recorded it ahead of time.
(mug thuds)
So this being the first episode of "Ask iJ" in 2021,
I asked you guys on Twitter if you guys had any questions
and of course you guys came through
with that hashtag #askij.
Let's just get into the questions.
Like why are we even wasting any time
talking about anything else?
This one is from Mark.
He was asking if we can collab this year.
Yes Mark, count me in.
Walter is asking,
what do I think about the people
that use bots to buy up graphics cards and consoles
and sell them at a much higher price on eBay?
There is a special place for them.
And I will tell you where it is.
It's a place that burns, it's fire.
Emily is asking what would I say has been my favorite moment
throughout my career?
I would say probably my favorite part
was going on my book tour
because it really gave me a sense of my audience.
Obviously I've been creating videos for a really long time
that I don't actually ever really see you guys.
Now I see you sometimes at VidCon,
but I was traveling around The US
and to really get to kind of go to where you guys are.
It was really fun,
and I do hope that one day I will be able to do that again.
Here's a tweet from Ryan who is wishing me a good holiday.
What is something that I'm looking forward to most in 2021?
And also what are the chances
you could convince Henry Cavill
to do a gaming video with you?
I think we would all enjoy watching you go toe to toe
with The Witcher himself.
Okay, this is a two-part question.
Something that I'm most looking forward to in 2021
is quite simple.
It's being able to solve a four by four Rubik's cube.
I'm almost there.
I've figured out
how to get all of the center pieces to match
but this was something
that really occupied a lot of my time in 2020,
mostly because I got a concussion.
And obviously I couldn't go to the doctors.
We're in the freaking middle of a pandemic
so I did what any person would do
who hit themselves in the face really really hard
with their iPhone would do,
is you Google concussion symptoms.
You tweet about it
and you get the feedback from you guys.
The number one thing that they said to do was,
keep your brain active,
do some brain games.
So I thought of always wanting to learn
to solve a Rubik's cube.
So why not try to solve it with my concussion
to keep my brain active.
And well, I'm not a speed cuber by any means
but we've got this one down.
Next up, four by four.
What was your question?
Oh, what are the chances I could convince Henry Cavill
to do a gaming video with me?
I don't know him personally.
I don't know him at all.
So if he is interested in doing a gaming video,
oh my gosh, that'd be really fun
maybe me and Jenna can get him on our podcast.
I saw that he had Nvidia 3090
that he was installing on Instagram.
So I'm definitely very jealous about that.
I wonder what games he likes.
Does anybody know what games that Henry likes?
If so, leave them in the comments below.
I hope he likes Call of Duty.
He doesn't really seem like an animal crossing type of guy,
but you never know.
Speaking of "The Witcher"
I actually did watch "The Witcher" over the holidays.
It was incredible.
Jeff is asking me what I feed Matty.
Matty is my dog for anybody who might be new here
and not aware.
He eats lamb.
He has a freeze dried lamb diet that he's on now.
And it's actually been really incredible
because he previously had a lot of trouble with his diet.
He had so many different food allergies,
and finally we put him on this primal lamb
and he's been eating it.
He loves it,
and he's gained a little bit of weight.
Fat food must've been upsetting his stomach
and now he's a healthy, really needy little boy.
CHLFC, actually is a bunch of really great questions here.
How often do you cover accessibility?
I don't actually cover it that often,
but I do have all of my videos closed captioned,
which is, I think, a step in the right direction.
Do you think you cover accessibility enough on your channel?
I actually don't think that I do.
So I think that should be something
that I strive to do more of in 2021.
Would you consider making a disability special,
the good, the bad, the important work still to do in 2021?
I would love to hear some more of your suggestions, CHLFC
and also from you guys in the audience as well.
Feel free to leave me some comments below, tweet me
because I would love to cover accessibility more.
I think it is kind of difficult
because I'm not really sure what to cover
but I think the first step would be
maybe talking to people who are in the community
and they would be able to offer suggestions.
I really love hearing suggestions from you guys.
Like it was a while ago,
somebody told me that they really loved watching my videos
because I was very descriptive on
when I was talking about an item.
I would make sure that I said how it felt,
you know, like the weights and the feel
and just be more verbally descriptive
for people who aren't able to see what I'm talking about.
And that's something that I had never even considered.
So I think being vocal
and telling your favorite creators
things that they can do better.
Like we're not going to be taking offense to it.
Like we need to know what we can do to be better.
Because if you don't tell us,
like we don't know
Cullen is asking,
who is the lovely sponsor of this video?
Cullen is trying to set me up for a sponsor,
if we have one.
I actually should have had a sponsor for this.
There is one that I could have integrated into this
but to be completely honest with you,
I didn't feel like reading the rest of the email.
So there is no sponsor for today's videos
but I'm honestly so grateful over this past year
for all of these sponsors who sponsored my content.
Behind the scenes,
it's definitely a struggle.
I am so grateful though,
to have still been able to work.
But a lot of projects that I had planned for last year,
a lot of them fell through.
So thankfully a lot of sponsors had stepped up.
So super grateful for that
and super grateful for all of you guys
who support the sponsored content
because it really does mean a lot to all of us creators.
Brandon is asking,
what do you use to organize your content,
your video planning?
I wish that I had some sort of crazy system for you.
I basically use the Notepad.
Like I use the Notepad for everything, like on my Mac.
I've seen a lot of my creator friends
who started using Notion.
So that's something that I just recently set up.
The simplest thing for me right now
is just using the Notepad because it's on my phone,
it's on like my laptop, my iPad.
And then if I am doing something that requires a PC,
I will use Microsoft's OneDrive
because that's on my phone,
it's on my PCs
and it's also on my iPhone
and I can also get it on my Mac as well.
So that's something that I use a lot
just to sort of keep myself organized
when I'm doing cross-platform stuff.
Sidney is asking, what is one piece of tech
that I'm most excited for this year?
I'm really excited for vaccine tech, in all seriousness
I think smart home tech is something
that I'm very very interested in,
ways to kind of make the home easier
to be a work from home experience.
Because the way that the world was,
is never going to be the same for better or for worse.
I think that we will find out.
So I think just trying to work through
what those new ones ways of working are,
will be interesting.
Is there going to be tech involved?
Probably.
I look forward to checking it all out.
Speaking of tech that I'm excited for,
Roberto Blake is asking,
what is the next great adventure for Justine?
Hi, I'm Justine and my next adventure,
I'm going to CES, CES 2021.
Now CES is now going all digital.
And it's really exciting
because they kind of reimagined what CES was.
They took all of the things that you loved about CES,
the meetings, the keynotes
and the booths and all of this,
and kind of turned it
into this really cool digital experience.
I'm very excited about it.
I'm also one of the hosts.
Very fun, very exciting.
But this is the first time
that I'm going to be working on actual production since,
maybe like over a year, to be honest with you.
Because even at the beginning of last year, I think,
it's been a while.
So I'm excited, I'm nervous,
but I'm very confident
in their COVID officer compliance teams.
It's really interesting
the way that the entire production world
has completely changed and evolved.
There's so much behind the scenes
that now has to happen
to even be able to have a production put into place.
With that being said,
I'm going to be so extra careful.
But I'm excited for you guys
to experience the new all digital CES.
Bench Fiddler, my fellow animal crossing villager friend.
Will you go to Super Nintendo World in Japan,
opens next month?
Or will you wait for one to be built in The US?
Let's say there's no COVID
and you can fly anywhere.
I would a 100% be there.
I would have been there opening day without a doubt.
Like, do you think there's a doubt?
No, none.
There's absolutely not a doubt I would have been there.
I've actually never been to Japan.
So that is somewhere that I've always really wanted to go.
I used to travel almost every single week,
every other week,
very, very frequently.
So I'm definitely cutting down on that.
I'm doing only essential travel.
If that, like, if I don't have to travel
like I'm not going to do it.
RELkay is saying "Folklore" or "Evermore."
Obviously Taylor Swift was such a highlight for me,
of last year.
I feel like Taylor,
she really did reinvent herself with both of these albums.
I think that I liked "Folklore" more
but I also don't want to say that
because I feel like
they both kind of tie together very well.
That listening to them kind of both together
is kind of the way to go.
There's really great songs on each album.
But I think if I had to pick,
I probably do like "Folklore" more.
I was definitely in a completely different place
when I was listening to "Folklore".
So "Folklore" definitely got me
through some really tough times.
"Evermore" really kind of picked up where that left off.
But for me personally,
being in a completely different mindset from where I was
when that album came out, I don't know.
It's really wild how music can sort of mess with you.
Oh my gosh!
And I'm at the end of my questions.
I don't even know what to say now.
It's over.
The video is over.
I guess, thank you for watching.
Don't forget to subscribe,
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How else do we end these videos again?
I'm not sure.
I think one of the things that I need though
is a new end slate
because this one is quite old.
But for now here's the old end slate.
See you later.
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