- It's like story time, just with cartoons.
- I feel like I'm having a conversation with this guy.
♪ (punk rock music) ♪
- (James) I hate it when people are cool with their teachers,
but there is a line and you shouldn't--
- Wait, I think I've seen this before.
- I've seen these.
- I feel like I've seen one of these before.
- (James) Don't talk to your teacher just to talk to them during class.
I don't know how much of a problem this is in other places of the world,
but sometimes there would be kids in my class
that would say, "Hey, Susan!"
- No, you don't call your teacher by her first name.
- The animation reminds me of Baymax.
- They look like marshmallows.
- (James) "I saw the video you posted on Facebook.
It looked like she was having a fun time."
Stop it! Stop it!
STOP IT!!
Okay, now let's talk about my poetry teacher.
I'll call him Mr. Poe. - (giggling)
- (James) Because that's short for "Poe-a-tree."
- "Poe-a-tree." (giggling)
- Mr. "Poe-a-tree."
- (James) So Mr. Poe, I don't want to judge him too hard.
I don't know how he was like outside of school,
but just picking up the vibes I got --
- Oh, I love animation YouTube videos.
It's my favorite.
- (James) I think he was depressed. - Awww.
- (James) I mean, to be fair... - Poor Mr. Poe.
- You have to wake up hella early to be a teacher.
I don't blame him for being depressed.
- (James) Every single day, he would start the class by saying,
"It's the best day ever." - Oh, that's sweet.
- (James) Saying that every day only means that the days
are going to get better and better, which is sort of poetic,
but I think Mr. Poe was lying to himself.
- Oh my god!
This is dark but funny.
This is my kind of humor.
- I feel like I could watch this for hours
and just feel like five minutes went by.
- (James) Mr. Poe told us that every single word in a poem
was important.
- Teachers are always like that.
- (James) The poet didn't have to use the word "the"
but they did. - I hate it when teachers do this.
They're like, "All right, think what the poet meant."
But what if it was just a [bleep] tree?
- I can't do that with literature.
It's like, okay, I get there's a deep meaning, whatever.
- (James) Sometimes we would spend days analyzing
a single poem, taking notes and talking about
what we thought the poet meant. - Oh, me.
- I think about that stuff all the time.
- (James) One time, a poem we were reading
had someone talking, so there were quotation marks
at the start of the sentence, but there weren't quotation marks
at the end-- the poet forget to put end quotes.
I remember noticing it and thinking, "Ah-ha! A clue!
Mr. Poe, I just made a breaking discovery.
There's no end quotes here, meaning that
the whole rest of this poem was told by this character."
- I feel like that's totally me.
- (James) And Mr. Poe said, "Oh, no, that's just a typo."
- (giggling)
- (laughing)
- (James) Well, frickin'-- - "Well, frickin'." (giggling)
- (James) Why am I perfectly nitpicking this piece
when the poet purposely put poor punctuation in his poems?!
Pterodactyl.
- (chuckling) What the [bleep]?
- I would've thought the same thing, though.
I like finding the little mistakes and trying to overthink them.
- I love that.
It's adorable and funny at the same time.
- That's actually really cool because vlogging is becoming
a huge thing right now, so I think it's cool that people
are trying to do new versions of it.
- (James) I used to work at a very small, local sandwich shop.
I don't know if any of you guys heard of it.
It's called "Sooubway." - "Sooubway."
- (James) Our spokesperson was in the news recently.
- Jesus!
- Jared's a freaking idiot.
- It's like story time, just with cartoons.
- (James) Do you know according to the Subway formula,
you're only supposed to put on eight olives on a foot long?
- What?
- (James) One for every other bite.
- I actually didn't think about the fact there was a formula.
- (James) Can you imagine someone just counting out eight olives?
- I've seen people do that.
- (James) We did have a store manager who would make the schedule
and sometimes tell us,
"Hey, can you guys do a better job at your job?"
- I think that's how most chef leaders are.
- I could see myself just sitting at home
and just watching this all day.
- (James) So I worked with a lot of crappy people.
There was Tyler-- I freaking loved this guy.
He smoked a lot of weed.
He actually found out what vaping was--
- I feel like I'm having a conversation with this guy.
- (Jared) Then there was this guy, and, get this,
who was also named Jared. - Oh my god.
- (James) One time, Jared asked me to take out this pile of trash,
and I was like, "Oh, okay, I'll just put this pile of trash
in the dumpster."
And as I was taking it out, I saw that there was a chip poster
in the pile. - Hey.
- (James) And I thought, this is too cool to throw away.
I'm gonna keep it.
- That's my poster now.
- (laughing) Classic.
- (James) So I took it home with me, and then the next day,
when I went in, people were saying, "Oh, where's the chip poster?
We can't find the chip poster.
Oh, where's the chip poster?"
- Why's it such a big deal?
- (James) "We haven't seen it anywhere."
And I'm thinking, (whispering) "I have the poster."
- (cracking up)
- (James) I decided not to tell anyone that I had the poster.
- Good decision.
- (James) It's still hanging up in my room.
(whispering) Sorry, boss, if you're finding out about this now.
- (giggling)
- (James) If anyone I used to work with is watching,
and I didn't mention you, it's because I hate you.
- (gasping) Wow, I love how truthful he is.
- Who made these? I want to meet him.
- This is creative.
I've never seen something like this before,
and props to him.
- They're interesting stories, but it's just regular stories.
It's about your everyday life.
- This guy has skills because I just sat here
and watched a video about him working at a Subway,
but in a weird way, I'm really into it.
- (FBE) So here's a video featuring the man behind the channel.
- Ooh, cool, I get to see the voice behind the animation.
- As of today, I hit 21 years...
- Oddly, his face matches the little character.
- He does not look like what I thought he would look like.
- (James) As of today, I hit 21 years of age.
- He's that young?
- (James) Now I can drink, finally.
- (chuckling)
- (James) Don't tell the cops that I filmed this before my birthday.
- His humor is so funny.
- (James) Well, every time this channel hits a subscriber milestone,
I like to get a cake and put on sprinkles
equal to the number of how many subscribers we have.
♪ (dubstep music) ♪
- That's a lot of sprinkles.
- That's a lot of subscribers.
- Those are going to go everywhere.
- Yes.
- No-ho-ho-ho!
- This guy's funny. I want him to be my friend.
(shaking sprinkles)
- Amazing. I'm here for it.
I love it. I'm subscribing.
I like him.
I have a crush on him.
- I can see why people like his videos.
Not something I would watch, just because, for one,
it's really slow.
- I like this.
It's funny animations, and I could watch these for hours.
- I really enjoyed watching this.
He must be hypnotizing me in his storytelling methods.
- (FBE) So those are all videos from a YouTube channel
called TheOdd1sOut. - I've heard of that, yeah.
- I have never heard of that YouTube channel at all,
but I liked the content.
- A lot of people can relate to a lot of the jokes and puns
that he's making-- and just the randomness.
- He doesn't do standard vlogs. He animates them.
And he does tell very interesting stories.
- (FBE) Well, he had just 100,000 subscribers
in early 2016, and the channel now has over 3 million subscribers.
- 100,000 to 3 million? Goals.
- I have seen them popping up in my suggested,
and just overall in trendings, so good for him, though,
because I do see him all the time on YouTube.
- (FBE) So James is the creator behind Theodd1sOut.
He started making web comics when he was only 16.
- Oh, wow.
- When I was 16, I was kind of messing around in high school,
and this guy's doing cool shit, like making comics.
I need to get my shit together.
- (FBE) His drawing style has evolved over time
to what he now calls the "Marshmallow Man" style.
- (laughing) I love it.
- (FBE) Obviously, animation takes a lot of time,
and unfortunately, for a lot of animation channels
on YouTube, they're not able to sustain themselves
as YouTube's algorithm has made it harder for content
like animation to get seen.
So what do you think about how animation
and a lot more well made scripted content used to be
extremely popular on YouTube, but now it's less common.
- I feel like that honestly sucks because it is something
that people like to watch.
- I wish they would support the short film contents
a little more just because that's what I like doing,
I like watching.
- The whole Llamas With Hats and all that,
that was a classic, you know, okay animation, good comedy,
and all that stuff got really, really popular.
If you're just one channel and you're trying to grow,
and, you know, usually channels like to put out frequent videos,
and if you're an animation channel, maybe you wouldn't have the power
or even the resources to put out a video that frequently.
- It is true that, nowadays, I think most recently
I've sort of gravitated away from my usual subscription box
and I've been in just this hole of random suggested videos
that I've just been watching, and it's kind of hard, though,
because you love these animated videos
and you want to support them.
And it sucks because it's like, they need the money for it,
but nothing's really helping them out.
- (FBE) So James is also a huge supporter
of other animators and channels.
He frequently collaborates with them or also his fans,
consistently features fan art and animation
in the end screen of his videos.
So we just talked about the struggles animators have online,
so what do you think about James having success
and using it to spotlight others?
- That makes me respect him even more.
- I think it's a really good system to help other people
who get attention for really good work
that they're putting in.
- He's taking his success as an animator.
He's like, "Yo, hook my friends up.
These other people who are also animators,
give us a chance."
- I like that he's not full of himself.
He's still really humble.
He's still him, but he's also helping out
these other animators that want to get to either where he is,
or just want to get their name out there.
- He just seems like an all-around good guy,
and the fact that he's realized, oh, I went from 100,000
to 3 million in a year, of course, I'm going to thank
these people all the time.
So it's like, of course, I'm going to appreciate their fan art
and always shout them out
because that's just the nice thing to do.
They sort of started this all for me, and they're the reason for my success.
- He posts their fan animation and the fan art
at the end of the videos and I think that's really kind.
Giving them that recognition, just saying,
"Hey, I see you.
I see what you're doing for me.
I see that you've been following me."
That's amazing for them because then they realize
that the work they're putting into you is being recognized
and it's being acknowledged.
- (FBE) So, finally, where do you see the content of TheOdd1sOut
and other animations going moving forward?
- I feel like they're picking back up because people
are seeing potential in them.
- I just hope that it keeps on going because I love seeing
the animated videos.
Those are probably one of my favorites.
Maybe they'll be this sort of best of both worlds,
where you get your personality based videos,
but at the same time, you see success
with animated video creators.
- Animation can actually be a really funny way
to kind of combine life things, which I never considered before,
so I definitely think that animation is gonna be making
a comeback on YouTube.
- With animation, it's kind of hard.
I mean, I can see why it's not doing as well,
just for so many reasons, but him promoting
other animators hopefully will allow them to flourish
and come back and be a greater source of entertainment
than just watching somebody go through their normal life.
- Thank you so much for watching this episode of Teens React.
- We have new episodes almost every day.
- Hey, guys, Kyle here from FBE.
If you liked this episode,
then go subscribe to James right over there.
He's awesome.
- Hi, guys, so this is my last episode of Teens React.
But don't worry, you can watch me on Adults React.
So thank you guys for your support
and thank you just for watching the videos.
and I'll see you guys next time.