- Hi, I'm Arun Maini, known on YouTube as Mrwhosetheboss,
and this is my Wired Autocomplete Interview.
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Oh my God.
I'm not safe. [staff laughing]
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So Mrwhosetheboss,
where did the name Mrwhosetheboss come from?
I think this is one of those things
where because I started the channel
when I was like 14 years old, I don't actually know.
I created this channel not even knowing
that I would surpass a hundred subscribers,
let alone like a thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand.
I didn't even think it was possible for YouTube
to be a career at that point.
So when I was deciding my username for it
it wasn't some big thing that I put a lot of thought into.
Yeah, I feel like you make the username
and then before you realize it, that becomes your identity
and you don't really think about it again.
Why is Mrwhosetheboss spelled wrong?
I'll tell you at 20 million subscribers. [chuckles]
Where was Mrwhosetheboss born?
So I'm not a very mobile man.
I was born in a city called Nottingham in the UK,
and I lived probably five minutes
from the hospital I was born.
And then the one time I've moved house
I've now moved 10 minutes away from that hospital.
What camera does Mrwhosetheboss use?
So at the very beginning when I was starting YouTube
it was my dad's old camcorder,
and all you'd see in the video
is my other hand holding the phone I was talking about.
But as we started to level up
and improve our production value,
all of our cameras have started to become Sony cameras,
mostly because of how we love the auto focus.
It just, you never have to think about it again.
What phone does Mrwhosetheboss use?
I'm using an iPhone 13 Pro Max right now,
mostly because of the battery life
and the fact that because I use a Mac,
iPhone ties in really nicely with that.
But you know, I review phones for my living.
So any time a new Android phone comes out
I will take out my sim card, put it into that phone,
and then try to insert that phone into my life
and see how well it fits.
That's normally a pretty good way
to tell other people how good it is too.
What font does Mrwhosetheboss use?
Trade secret.
What editing software does Mrwhosetheboss?
[chuckles]
So I'm a big efficiency guy.
Every decision I make in my life
is basically geared around,
how can I do this as quickly as possible?
And so I am a strong advocate of Apple's Final Cut Pro
because it's really optimized for Apple laptops.
But my entire editing team uses Adobe Premiere Pro
because it gives them more flexibility.
So I let them have fun.
Thank you.
Is Mrwhosetheboss legit?
I guess it's more important than ever
to know if someone's legit
if that person is deciding how you spend your money.
So, fair question, but yes.
Does Mrwhosetheboss swear?
Not at all in content.
I mean, I'm not much of a swearer anyway.
But I think specifically for YouTube videos,
it's not actually a good business decision to swear
because you completely cut out kids from your audience.
But then also YouTube doesn't like it.
They can just demonetize you, which is not great either.
Can Mrwhosetheboss speak Hindi?
[Arun speaks in Hindi]
So as I was growing up
I actually went to two different schools.
I went to a normal English school,
but then during the weekends I went to Hindi school
where I just spent the entire time learning the language.
And I also distinctly remember my mom would tell me
that she wouldn't answer my questions
unless I asked them in Hindi,
which is a very good way of teaching a kid
to learn a language properly.
What car does Mrwhosetheboss drive?
I actually have a bit of a philosophy on this.
I drive a very simple car.
So I remember a point a couple of months ago
where a Tesla, a car that I'd really, really been wanting
for like a long long time suddenly came up as available,
and that's quite rare in today's car market.
So I remember telling myself,
"Okay, I'm gonna reserve this car."
But then over the course of the next couple of days
I started really thinking about it and I started thinking,
is this how I want to get my dream car?
Is it just a case of,
"Oh, it's available, let me click order"?
I think it almost takes the fun out of it.
I almost feel like there needs to be a,
a journey of progression.
Like you need to be able to save it
for one of your big goals that you achieve in the future
not just buy it because you feel like it.
So I decided to cancel the pre-order
and to set it as a future goal.
[chuckles]
Who did Mrwhosetheboss outro song?
You know, the funny thing is it's actually
a royalty free track.
So before I put this song as my outro,
on YouTube the original video of the song
had about a thousand views.
Then two months after it was our outro,
it was on about 150 200,000
just because we were playing it again and again
at the end of our videos and people, people just loved it.
We loved the outro song so much
that I actually remember trying to stalk the DJ
who created it.
I like found her on Instagram,
sent her a message being like,
"We love your song so much.
Can you please do a custom version for our channel?"
Nothing.
When does Mrwhosetheboss sleep?
This is a very topical question.
I'm partway through a health transformation kick right now.
So I basically give myself a hundred days
to turn my life around because it got to a stage a while ago
where YouTube kind of caught up with me.
I was overweight, I was sleeping three hours a night.
I was, I was stressed all the time,
so I knew it had to change.
And I was like, "Why don't I just invite my viewers
along with me on the journey?"
So one of the ways that I'm trying to fix myself
is to sleep at 11:00 PM every single night.
And it's actually really hard.
But one thing that's actually really helping with that
is I am meditating before I sleep.
And that's actually really, really good at helping you
just to forget about the whole day
and all the stresses that come with it.
It's kind of sad, but yeah, I have a strict bedtime now.
Can you trust Mrwhosetheboss?
So I actually made a video
with this exact title about a year ago,
and the reason was to try and address this misconception
that you can't really trust YouTubers
because YouTubers can take a lot of money
to just say nice things about a product.
I try really hard for that to not be me.
So like any time I do a sponsored video on a product,
I will have actually asked that company
to send that product beforehand
before I sign the agreement to say I'm gonna cover it,
which is a long way of saying yes.
Let's go this way.
How to contact Mrwhosetheboss?
Leave a comment on this video
and I will try to reply to you.
How many subscribers does Mrwhosetheboss have?
Well, this is actually the cool thing.
So on the main channel we have just under 11 million.
But because of the second Shorts channel
that's kind of up and coming and growing really fast,
the total amount is like 16 million now,
which is a wild number to me.
How to enter Mrwhosetheboss giveaway?
I haven't done a giveaway in a while,
but when I do them I tend to tell people,
"To enter this giveaway just be subscribed
and follow my social accounts."
I'm never gonna ask you to give me your details
so I can send you spam emails if that's the question.
How tall is Mrwhosetheboss?
I'm six foot or six foot one if you count the hair.
How many cats does Mrwhosetheboss have?
I have two cats.
I have Simba, who's the first cat I got,
and then Milo about three years later.
And as soon as Milo came into the house,
he stole everyone's hearts.
He has the most human personality of any cat I've ever met.
I've got a photo of him as my wallpaper.
I don't if you can see this.
This is him as a baby.
Just like to say this chair is an experience.
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There's multiple angles I feel like I could fall from.
- [Staff] Oh, okay. [Mrwhosetheboss chuckles]
- Mrwhosetheboss favorite tech?
I test a lot of tech
and you come to realize that the best tech
is the tech that you don't have to think about.
The tech that just works in the background of your life
and lets you do what you wanna do,
but that inherently makes it a little bit boring.
So my favorite piece of tech
are the useless, fun, gimmicky things that you don't need.
Like I was testing a pair of gloves recently
that allow you to make phone calls
by holding your hands like this.
That's just brilliant.
I also really, really love gaming,
but because I don't have as much time to play myself anymore
I kind of enjoy it by watching other people play on YouTube.
Right, Mrwhosetheboss thinnest tech.
So this is referencing one of our most successful videos
and that video is basically a compilation
of the thinnest tech that I could find in the entire world.
And it all resulted in basically
a paper thin, usable smartphone.
Literally the size of like four sheets of paper.
Mrwhosetheboss tech pranks.
Okay. So this is referencing our YouTube Shorts channel.
And the crazy thing about that shorts channel
which is just like 60 second videos,
is that that has now overtaken the main channel
in views after one year.
It's on almost 2 billion which is just ludicrous.
And probably like my most successful series
on that shorts channel is "Tech Pranks",
where it's basically just I tell people
how they can use technology to lose friends.
There's one that I can remember off the top of my head.
It's pure evil where you install a Chrome extension
on your friends' laptop.
And what it means is that every single time
they open a new tab, there is a one in a hundred chance
that it pulls up a massive face of Nicholas Cage.
It's subtle enough that they will never actually realize
something's wrong.
Mrwhosetheboss inventions.
This is another recent series that we started on the channel
where I basically just scoured the internet
for all the absolute coolest things happening
across the entire world.
And the benefit of this series is that
because I don't need to physically
have the stuff in my hand,
the scope of what you can cover is much broader.
One of the coolest ones that I can think of
off the top of my head is there is a building
that is covered in kind of like an algae type thing.
And that algae, through photosynthesis,
generates the electricity to run that building,
and it lasts forever.
Oh, and it also cleans up the air around it
because it's taking in the carbon dioxide.
Isn't that genius?
Oh my god.
I'm not safe. [staff laughing]
How is Arun Maini?
I'm doing fantastic.
Arun Maini chess.
Chess is actually a huge part of my life.
So the way that chess became a big part of my life
is my dad had a sports injury, and while he was in hospital
for like a prolonged period of time,
one of the only things he had was a chess board.
So he just played chess like all day
while stuck in this hospital bed.
And he became very passionate about this game
and this was around the time when he had me.
And so he thought, "I'm gonna teach him how to play chess."
And so I got better and better and better.
The day I beat my dad was something pretty special.
And then eventually at the age of about 15,
I qualified for the England chess team
to represent the country.
There was a a European championship in Gibraltar
against like Poland, France, other countries like that.
It's not a glamorous sport,
but for me it was my entire life.
Like I'd, I dreamt as a kid of being in the England team.
So it was a real like fanboy moment actually being there.
When did Arun Maini graduate college?
I don't know [chuckles] off the top of my head.
I graduated about five years ago and that was the same time
that I jumped straight into YouTube as a full-time career.
So the best decision I'd ever made in my entire life.
What language does Arun Maini speak?
I speak English.
[Arun speaks in Hindi]
What is Arun Maini doing now?
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I'm gonna place this one down actually.
So that's my Wired Autocomplete.
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I don't want them to beat me.
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