I've always wanted to be on YouTube,
ever since I was like nine because it's something
I've had a passion and an interest for.
It'll end up being great, hopefully I'll end up being
a big YouTuber.
About four months ago, I quit my job
and I went for what my dream is.
Yo, thank you guys for watching, if you like the video.
I make prank and Vlog videos, just to get people's reaction.
The kind of pranks I do is, I watch pornographic videos
in public libraries.
I went around pretending to be a blind man
with a blind cane.
Running into things, and tripping over.
In one of my pranks I got kicked out of an uber.
I basically just called up my friends and we had
kind of very inappropriate conversations.
You just gotta be rough with me.
Smack me around.
So will you be able to pick those up
so you can shove one the strawberries in (beeping).
I definitely thought it was funny.
My mom she just doesn't understand what I'm trying to do.
She thinks I'm just trying to go out and make stupid videos.
I did give up a good paying job,
but I don't regret it at all.
In my old job I was making about a thousand dollars a week.
Right now, I'm making no money from my pranks
but I'm loving every single minute of it.
I'm very fortunate to still live with my mom.
My mom pays for my food.
She puts the roof over my head and does everything
a mom should do.
I know one day, I'll end up being a big YouTube star.
(grunting)
I 100% believe I've don't the right thing for me
and my life to quit my job and follow my passion.
Well Angela and Robert, TJ's parents say
they will support TJ in any of his dreams
but they both say TJ needs to get real
about his financial future,
because right now, well YouTubing
isn't exactly paying the bills.
You wanna like smell each other's shoes?
I got those hotdogs for you.
Oh no.
I had no idea, TJ wanted to be a YouTube star.
TJ had a really good paying job, he was doing really well
and out of the blue he just ended up quitting.
TJ at the age of 20, graduated college,
with all A's, was earning over $60,000 dollars.
Now given this up.
We told TJ that he's not
just gonna make social media videos.
He can't just screw around.
The YouTube videos that he makes,
I don't understand the humor,
they're just juvenile in nature.
Do you think that's funny?
I don't think it's funny.
I want to support my son TJ,
but I want him to make the proper choices about his future.
This is completely out of character for TJ.
This is nothing if you would have told me
two months ago, that was gonna happen,
I never would have believed it.
I am not sure he's gonna make it as a social media star.
This just isn't gonna pay the bills.
I don't think TJ's being realistic at the moment
and I would like for Dr. Phil to help
bring him back to reality.
Now, your idea is to make outrageous videos,
so that, your hope is that they'll go viral, right?
You can say outrageous, some of the stuff I've done
is definitely been outrageous in a way.
The one were you had the cane and the glasses
and run into the counter and stuff.
I find that very offensive to the visually impaired.
And I think most people will.
(audience clapping)
The good news is, nobody's watching them, so..
(laughing)
Yeah, not many people are watching them right now, but.
Good news and bad news.
So what did you think when he came home and said,
"I'm quitting my job" ?
It was jaw dropping.
We were like, this isn't the son that we raised.
This wasn't the goals that he had set
and we had talked about, for the past couple of years.
Yeah, I was literally sitting on the coach
and got a text message from him and said,
I'm thinking about quitting.
Angie had called me and said,
"he's thinking about doing this"
and I was like, "nah don't worry about it,
"he's not going to do anything rash, or anything like that"
and I got up the next morning to go to work,
and his car was in the drive way,
which it shouldn't have been,
and was just shocked.