This YouTuber Refuses to Make Slop Content (ft. Opossify)
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Opossify:Right. Like, the first video I think I made was called I think it was called Hurting Myself. And Yeah. And I loved YouTube Poops when I was a kid.
Tyler:You can't really put yourself into that. Yeah. And a big thing with content creation these days is, like, not for all people, but, like, for a lot of like, for your common creator to be a content creator, you kind of have to put yourself out there
Opossify:Yes.
Tyler:A really a really good amount. You can't just post the stuff you're comfortable with. I I mean, don't post anything crazy. There's another website for that, but Welcome everybody to the Creators Table Podcast. I'm your host, Tyler Watson.
Tyler:And we're here at Owl Radio, we're filming here with Opossify. We got our guests here, guys. Give a little round of applause. Yeah. I know.
Tyler:To get into it, why don't you start off by telling us you have your YouTube channel? That's like your big that's your big thing.
Opossify:Yes. I upload obviously on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, but YouTube is the one that's doing the best right now. I think with it being like more gaming related, tends to do better on YouTube.
Tyler:Oh,
Opossify:yeah. And I recently hit, what was it, 10,000 subscribers. I know. Like, you tell nine year old me that, blows my mind. Yeah.
Opossify:And it's just crazy, you know? Is cause with YouTube, I've been making YouTube videos for I don't know ten ten twelve years something like that on a multitude of accounts. Yeah. And this is the only one that's had like
Tyler:This is the one that stuck. That's actually done pretty decent.
Opossify:Yeah. Yeah. This is the first time I've made something that was like, it's just whatever pops in my brain
Tyler:Right.
Opossify:Right. And put it out there and it's done well. I've only had one other account do pretty well. That was my last one. But obviously, it didn't hit like it didn't even get to like 3,000 subscribers.
Opossify:It was pretty I mean, for me, I'm happy with that. Right? Yeah. But comparing it to the 10 k, it's like, you know,
Tyler:that's Well, yeah. A And when you get in like when you get in like, you know, when you're at like a thousand and stuff like that, you've kind of reached You might have reached like the threshold of when you can start like earning funds. Of course, it's still like nothing per view, but it's like, you know, it's something. But it's like you don't really start to make it to where it's like kind of a big thing until you get towards like tens of thousands of views and stuff like that or subscribers.
Opossify:Yeah. So with the account I have at Opossify, it's I actually technically am not earning yet, which is crazy because
Tyler:Is it the viewership for like the shorts and stuff like that?
Opossify:Yeah. So there's two ways you can become a YouTube partner. I actually became a YouTube partner on my other account, which was literally just YouTube poops basically.
Tyler:Yeah. Sweet, dude.
Opossify:Pretty awesome stuff. And the reason why is if you upload long form content Mhmm. And you get like a thousand subscribers, you're probably gonna be that's like all you need. Right? Right.
Opossify:But with Shorts it's like you need a thousand subscribers, but you need, I believe it's 10,000,000 views in ninety days.
Tyler:Wow.
Opossify:Yeah. So with my content like
Tyler:10,000,000, gosh.
Opossify:Yeah, it's a lot, in ninety days. So that's what like one fourth of the year?
Tyler:And then how much do you think you're even making once you've reached the threshold? Like I'd be curious to know.
Opossify:Honestly, I'd probably be making more than my other account that actually did make money, barely made anything there. Couldn't even get to a $100 in total. But I think I don't know how much the shorts make. I'm actually curious, I'm working on a long form video now, which is why I haven't been uploading in a couple weeks because I'm
Tyler:like
Opossify:really trying to focus on that with everything else going on too.
Tyler:And this would be your first long form video on this account?
Opossify:It would.
Tyler:Oh, wow. Okay.
Opossify:And my hope is that it can get, I think it's four thousand watch hours.
Tyler:I think it's that. Yeah.
Opossify:And then once I get that, I'll be able to monetize all the shorts even though that like I didn't make the short threshold.
Tyler:Yeah. Maybe do like maybe four, you know, a couple like thirty to twenty five minute view like videos and then boom, you got it.
Opossify:Yeah. Like, it doesn't even require I I mean, you look at my shorts, my most popular short, which I think has a 135
Tyler:Yeah. Thousand has a 170 when I checked last.
Opossify:It's something crazy like that. It's unbelievable. The watch hours on that are like insane, just from the short. It's like not But even a it's like, I don't know, guess shorts typically perform better than long form videos because they're feeded, like they're spoon fed to you rather than you like clicking on it.
Tyler:Right. Right.
Opossify:So, I guess they're like, well, might as well make it 10,000,000 views that you got to get. I'm like, yeah, sorry. That's not gonna happen anytime soon, I don't think.
Tyler:Yeah, no. I Yeah, I feel like it maybe might be even more because they're trying to, like, weed out the slop accounts. The accounts where they just post, like, repost viral clips Yeah. Which is which is a really bad thing about social media in general right now, is just, like, clip farming and stuff like that's really Don't get me wrong, I probably I probably eat that up, you know? Yeah.
Opossify:We all do a little bit, you know, it's like a guilty pleasure almost, you know? Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. Or just like re uploading other people's stuff.
Opossify:I mean Right. I made a Terraria video earlier last year that did pretty well on Instagram. And like two months ago, I think someone re uploaded it and it did way better than my video.
Tyler:Really? Someone re uploaded one of your videos?
Opossify:Yes. And I actually commented on it saying, who's that handsome chap right there?
Tyler:Who's like You know, was like, oh.
Opossify:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so in response, they hid my comments.
Tyler:They hid your comment? Wow, dude. This Same. YouTube
Opossify:This one on Instagram.
Tyler:It's despicable.
Opossify:It is. It's clips of me and my friends on Terraria taking that and running with it.
Tyler:Hopefully they I hope they hope they implement some sort of restriction with that because the moderation's like, something's gotta happen with this.
Opossify:Yeah. YouTube, if you actually I don't know how it works with shorts, I know with the long form videos, if you just like upload someone else's video, it actually detects it and then like emails you about it that someone else did it and you can strike them. It's happened to me a couple times with my YouTube Poop account. Oh. Yeah.
Opossify:And it usually was they wouldn't re upload it out of malicious intent. They'd be like, I really like this account. I just want you to go check them out. And I was like, oh,
Tyler:Yeah. I'm not gonna
Opossify:not gonna hit you with a ban hammer.
Tyler:Get out of here.
Opossify:That would be pretty that'd be messed up.
Tyler:Well, why don't we go more into like, okay, you got started on YouTube. What was your first account? What have you always what have you what is your history of trying to start on YouTube before Opossify?
Opossify:It's a long it's a long history.
Tyler:Because we all have our like most of us have our own little like kids YouTube channel.
Opossify:I do. And it was just my first and last name. The profile picture was a picture my mom took of me sliding into second base at a baseball game. I was like Sick. Like, it was sick.
Opossify:Yeah. And I think it was 2013 Mhmm. Somewhere around then. The account is lost media because my my mother deleted it because I would upload videos of me doing like really stupid stuff as a kid. Right.
Opossify:Right. Like the first video I think I made was called I think it was called Hurting Myself and it was Oh
Tyler:my god.
Opossify:Not how you guys think it is, but we had a bunk bed and it was like, alright, I'm gonna hurt myself. It was like jackass basically. We So jump off the bunk bed and lay on the ground like, woah, in the video and post it. And me and my friend, we would just refresh the page and watch it over and over again and we'd be like, dude, the views are increasing. And it was like 20 views.
Tyler:Oh my god.
Opossify:But it's just the views were there because we're just rewatching it over and over again.
Tyler:I can't believe hurting myself. Wow. Yeah. That's what we should it would it would actually be really funny if we titled this episode Just
Opossify:hurting myself with a Opossify? Yeah. I don't know. That that's a crazy Probably. Because I'll make you do, dude.
Tyler:Probably. Probably not, but it'd be it'd be kind of a funny throwback to that.
Opossify:Yeah. And to the classic first and last name YouTube account. I think my mom deleted it because my sister made an appearance in one of the videos and she didn't want to be in it, I was like
Tyler:Too bad.
Opossify:Yeah, too bad. Like we're trying to get
Tyler:famous You're famous. Yeah. Come on.
Opossify:We're trying to start something here and you're gonna be like, oh no, we can't do that. So, big artistic plans got thrown out the window, deleted.
Tyler:Yeah, I imagine, yeah.
Opossify:Which sucks because that is my first account, so
Tyler:It sucks that you don't have those like archived Yeah,
Opossify:but I have literally everything else archived.
Tyler:Okay. So what's next after after this account?
Opossify:So in 2015, made an account called Video Game Help.
Tyler:Okay.
Opossify:And the profile picture, because I was like a retro gamer, was the Space Invaders bad guy. Lowest quality possible. Actually Perfect. Still my original email is connected to that account and still has that profile picture.
Tyler:Awesome.
Opossify:And I wanna change it, but I'm like, I can't dude.
Tyler:It's just there too long.
Opossify:It's tragic, know, like I'd be deleting a part of me. Yeah. There's one video on that account. The whole idea was I was going to make tutorials on video games to help people who were
Tyler:Tutorial videos do really good. So I mean Yeah.
Opossify:But they were made for people who were stupid like me. So, the the one video I made was on Lumber Tycoon. It's a Roblox game.
Tyler:A Roblox how to game?
Opossify:Yes. Because I played Lumber Tycoon two, classic game by the way. Yeah. And it was like how to get started, I think that's what it was. And it was just using the
Tyler:As if Tycoon games and Roblox were the most difficult thing.
Opossify:Well, for me they were because I just Yeah. I just I don't know. There's just something about cutting down a tree and selling it that was super confusing to me. So, I was like, I'm gonna help all the young gamers out there who are struggling like me to get started in Lumber Tycoon too. Yeah.
Opossify:And no microphone, just the built in Roblox recording tool. And I just directly uploaded it and I showed it off to my sister. Was like, Yeah, that's me. I made this video.
Tyler:Yeah, you get learned right here, yeah.
Opossify:Yeah, like we're I'm helping the youth right now as a youth person. I was like in fifth grade, think it was twenty fifteen. So that was the only video I made on that channel.
Tyler:Oh, and that was it? You just did the one video of the Lumber Tycoon?
Opossify:Yeah. So I've made a lot of videos on a bunch of different accounts, but it's typically like I'd make a couple videos, they wouldn't do good and I'd be like, well
Tyler:And you just give up.
Opossify:I'd just give up. And that's the
Tyler:Hey, you're trying new things though.
Opossify:Yeah. That's what it
Tyler:was.
Opossify:These different accounts that they they cover completely different things, I feel like.
Tyler:So, you kind of had an obsession with like the whole YouTube content production type thing.
Opossify:Absolutely. I still am. Like, it's nothing inspires me more than watching just one person build like an empire of just creativity and like what they truly like are interested in and then people love it. Right?
Tyler:It is a it is truly like something that relies solely on the enjoyment of others, which is it's like kind of sucks because the other time you might be making something really cool and you may be spending a lot of time and then nobody views it. Yeah. But like on the other hand, it's like when they do, it's just such a meaningful thing.
Opossify:It is the best feeling ever. It is like Like, it is an addiction. Once it like hits, get like that first successful video Oh, now you're
Tyler:locked in. Yeah.
Opossify:Oh my gosh. Like, just gotta that is that is the obsession. Yeah. At least for me. I mean, I don't know if everyone else feels that way, but whenever I make a successful video, it's like my week is made.
Opossify:Best week ever.
Tyler:And what's between your Roblox how to video or how to account and now?
Opossify:Like the other accounts?
Tyler:Because how many other are we talking?
Opossify:I mean, I could just talk about a couple of them, like the notable ones, but
Tyler:Oh, there's a bunch more.
Opossify:I mean, there's like maybe like three or four more.
Tyler:Oh, wow. Okay.
Opossify:I'll just talk about a couple of them. I'll talk about the YouTube Poop one and then the one before that was called the FNAF Fanatics.
Tyler:So first, describe to the viewer what is a YouTube Poop.
Opossify:Okay. So YouTube Poop is this, like, it's a part of remix culture. That's what I like to say it is, is you take a popular form of media and then you remix it to your heart's content. You can do like, you can adjust how like, what they're saying by, like, taking, like splicing together their speech to just whatever You you can add music, you can tell a story, just distortions, all sorts of crazy stuff. It's literally just a sandbox.
Opossify:You take something and then you make it your own. Yeah. And I loved YouTube Poops when was a kid, dude.
Tyler:They were so good.
Opossify:They were so good. Like, I mean, I kind of they're still around a little bit, but they've kind of evolved. They're a little bit more like
Tyler:Do like the MLG videos too?
Opossify:Oh, absolutely, dude.
Tyler:So fantastic.
Opossify:MLG Teletubbies, MLG what were some other ones? Shrek Shrek Movie. MLG. Like, just absurd editing.
Tyler:Oh,
Opossify:yeah. And it's really funny to me because those people are just making this it's literally called YouTube Poop. Right? It's such a silly name, but they're probably the most talented editors at the time on
Tyler:Yep.
Opossify:On the platform. They actually knew how to use Sony Vegas. They weren't just making no respect to my GOAT Marketflyer, but they weren't just recording gameplay and and and commentating over it. It was like fully edited. Oh, yeah.
Opossify:And it was like do that for like 3,000 views. Of them did really well though, but most of them were kind of I'd say like 80 Too percent poop. Yeah. Most of them don't do very well because it's like, I'm, you know, it's a little bit immature I'd say.
Tyler:Man. I'm thinking of all the, sorry. I'm thinking way too ahead here. Now now somehow you transitioned from here to FNAF.
Opossify:Yes. So when I was a kid, was really a kid. I still kind of am. I was really big into Five Nights at Freddy's, huge
Tyler:Oh, yeah.
Opossify:Deal for me as a kid. And so, me and my friends, we started a YouTube account called the FNAF Fanatics and we would
Tyler:I'm so glad you're sharing this with everybody.
Opossify:This is, yes, you this is this is necessary for my, like, evolution. Yeah. We would play the FNAF games on our iPads and we would record them. It'd be three of us and we would it'd be tutorial videos on how to beat the Five Nights at Freddy's two levels on the iPad. And it was unstructured, it was three squeakers.
Tyler:Did you just screen record it?
Opossify:No, not even. We we had the iPad on the ground and then we would have these pillars of like Legos or something and two rulers at the top and we'd have one of our phones there and they're So recording the iPad screen?
Tyler:Yes. Fantastic.
Opossify:So we'd be playing like this, like if it's like Mhmm. Like I'm typing on a keyboard. And just completely no script, no plan, we're gonna beat FNAV and there's three little kids just screaming about FNAV. You need to do this, you need to do that. And I love those videos.
Opossify:They're
Tyler:Are they still up? Yes. Are you gonna drop link drop all these accounts? Or you gonna let us?
Opossify:You guys can. You totally can. Okay. We'll put them in the description. Think there's a couple of videos that were live action that I was like, okay, I probably should like unlist that I don't know if any weirdos online but Yeah.
Opossify:The tutorials are still up because it's just like an inside joke and it's just too good, man. Also, I'm just never the kind of guy to delete videos like that. Yeah. Like, even if they're super cringe, I'm like, that was me, dude. Like, that was one point that was me, it's cringe, but it's awesome.
Tyler:And other people kind of probably find it funny.
Opossify:Oh, they find it hilarious. Every like that's always a top three conversation I have when I first meet somebody and we start talking about content I go, FNAF Fanatics check it out, okay? 12 subscribers, it's a big deal. We have a video
Tyler:People sleeping on them.
Opossify:Yeah, we talk We have a video where we talk about our favorite animatronics, all right? Like isn't that interesting? Yeah.
Tyler:High pitched high pitched voices too probably.
Opossify:Oh my gosh.
Tyler:Oh, yeah. Very good.
Opossify:We all sound the exact same. Like
Tyler:Oh, like now? No. Oh. Oh. Oh.
Tyler:Oh. Oh. You mean all of your voices just mixed Yes.
Opossify:Yes. Like, I I can kind of tell I used to have like a country more country accent, so you can kind of tell me Oh, apart, but every like, it's just a mess. A mess of a video. Terrible thumbnail design too. Yeah.
Opossify:Just the classics when you're a kid, you know?
Tyler:Making We had growing I now this was like a my later like, right before I graduated high school, I met this guy and he's now like my best friend. I actually had him on the show. I'm gonna shout out Dallas. We had I met him and like he told me that he had this YouTube channel Mhmm. With him and like some other guys that I knew at school.
Tyler:And he was like, oh, like you should join. Because I told him I'd always want to do a podcast. Like, I'd always, like, wanted to try it, you know, because I'd never done it. Mhmm. And he wanted to do, like, just this guys talk podcast.
Tyler:Total bro not like not like Andrew Tate or Joe Rogan.
Opossify:I know exactly what you're talking about. Like, where it's just two dudes just just just talking, man.
Tyler:Growing out.
Opossify:Yeah. Yeah. Like, you talk about, like, your favorite like, there's that podcast with those, like, kids and they just talk about food they eat. Yeah. And it's like millions of views.
Tyler:We talked about one of our episodes was talking about the best, like, urinal situations, like, you're going in a men's bathroom. What urinal to approach in what situations.
Opossify:Yeah. It's it's it's pretty complex. Yeah. Especially if they have they don't have, like, the dividers, then it's like, oh, man. It That
Tyler:is kind free for all.
Opossify:But what's so funny about that to me is that, like, all guys are on the exact same path. It can be the most confusing or challenging looking equation where it's like, oh, there's have like There's a right
Tyler:and a wrong answer objectively.
Opossify:Yeah. And we have so much experience. So, we we all collectively know where we need to go.
Tyler:And it's like, like, if there's if there's four in a row, and there's and one guy is at the one in the middle to the left
Opossify:Uh-huh.
Tyler:You have to go to the one in the far right. Yeah. Exactly. But if you go middle right, you're
Opossify:a creep.
Tyler:Yeah. You're gonna probably get murdered if you're the guy who is already there.
Opossify:Yeah. We probably need to report that guy, so.
Tyler:Or that's like your friend and you wanna weird him out a little bit. Yeah. That's the worst.
Opossify:It's a bonding moment, you know. Yeah.
Tyler:Just like, reach over, you know. Yeah. We'll keep that. I wish we could like sometimes I wish we could animate certain clips of it. You just had an animation of that.
Opossify:Yeah. No. Just you just give each other like a nice little hug over the shoulder while while you're having that time together.
Tyler:Let me lean on you, bro. Okay. Anyway, so now that we've talked about you to pass, let's talk about Opossify your account. So you mainly you have a bunch of different like series it looks like. You have one that seems to be a little bit more popular than the rest Yeah.
Tyler:That's kind of digging up old Steam games you have in your account and like kind of reviewing them and stuff like that. So, tell us inspiration for this account and what you've done that has worked.
Opossify:Okay. So, when I first made this account, it was I believe early last year.
Tyler:So, this is very new still.
Opossify:It's a very new account. I typically start getting in the grind of making content when like something in my life happens where I'm like, okay, need to distract myself. So, I was like, we're gonna make gaming content. That's what we're gonna do. The very beginning, I think I was a little bit scared to do it because I don't really like being on camera.
Opossify:I've never done it before before this account, I think. Unless I was like super young, but it doesn't matter. And I was like experimenting with like graphic animations, just kind of seeing what I can make and those did like horrible, so I was like, okay, maybe I should like actually just stop being a baby and just make what I want to make. Yeah. And so, I bought a green screen, cheap cheapest one I could find on Amazon.
Opossify:And I was like, my friend Will, who's in Japan, maybe he'd be watching. Shout out Will from Japan. Shout out Will. My probably best friend. He had introduced me to this game called Yume Nikki, which is like a huge RPG maker game that's like it's in this like very I wanna say niche community, but it's in this very specific community.
Tyler:Right. Right.
Opossify:So, I was like, alright, I'm gonna play it. And I played it, I loved it and I was like, alright, I'm gonna write a script about it and I just called it the I I think at that point I I did call it the Steam Graveyard because there's a lot of those accounts that they just kind of talk about video games. Was like, well, I need something.
Tyler:You need something that's that differentiates yourself and it's not just like, let's talk about FNAF or the 15,000.
Opossify:Exactly. So I was like, we'll call it the Steam graveyard. I'll just be like, I'm digging up old games that I, you know, in my Steam library. And honestly, if you watch these videos, they're not very good. I was just kinda getting my foot.
Tyler:Well, there's a ton of games on Steam.
Opossify:Yeah. There's a
Tyler:So, there's a plenty of content.
Opossify:Yeah. Exactly. And my videos were just, you know, stereotypical white guy in front of a green screen. Like, that was kind of it. So, I was like, alright.
Opossify:We need to start and those videos did good. But I wanted I was starting to get called clones. Like, I was a clone of like, I think there's a I think his name is Charlie. And he's another guy that just talks about video games in front of a green screen. He's got kind of interesting editing, maybe a little bit comedic, but I was like, okay, I don't want be called a clone.
Opossify:Alright? I need to Yeah. Do something. Yeah. So I started playing around with effects and I found the posterize effect, which kind of like blends the pixel colors together.
Opossify:Mhmm. So the lower the effect, more like it starts trying to blend in with the same color. And I saw a video of somebody mimicking a like old nineties retro game where the the limits they had, they had to have it was like super pixelly and super And like they're they'd be like frozen, but their mouths would move. Right? Yeah.
Opossify:And it was like kind of uncanny. And so I was like, okay, well, why don't we try doing that? Because Yeah. It's a little bit weird and, know, I wanna be weird. I'm just gonna be honest.
Opossify:Right?
Tyler:You kinda have to be a little bit weird.
Opossify:Yeah. It's fun. It's fun to be weird. So, yeah, we started doing that. I say we, it's just me, but I started doing that and those videos did really well.
Tyler:Yeah. The editing style is so unique. Mhmm. I mean, I'm sure there's people who have done things similar and stuff, but catching, truly.
Opossify:Well, first of all, I appreciate that. I I have seen a couple people do similar stuff, but they're typically like more like horror. They really dive into the uncanniness. I'm like, I just want to talk about video games and just make it kind of weird, right? Like I have these like weird intros now.
Tyler:Right.
Opossify:Try to do something that's typically I think funny, but sometimes I'm like, I look back on it like that wasn't that funny. But sometimes I'm like, you know what? I kind of cooked there, you know? I'm proud of myself for making that.
Tyler:Should we include an example? Yeah. We can I let's feel take your most popular one? Editor, you include I'll queue it up here in a second. Include like a clip of like that first one.
Tyler:Welcome to my Steam graveyard. The show where I play games that have been rotting away in my library for a literal year. Today, we're gonna be looking at postal You want me to sign this, buddy? Not signing that. It's such a good song.
Tyler:You can Dude, that's kinda awesome. Yeah. Let's let's roll how about we roll we roll into something else? You do, you do bunch of other stuff as well on this account besides the Steam Graveyard. You do dead game review.
Tyler:What's the difference between that and Steam Graveyard?
Opossify:Yeah. So this was it's actually pretty huge that you brought that up because that was actually a a big reason why I really need to make a difference between Steam Graveyard and Dead Game Review because people were getting them mixed up. So I was like, okay, we'll make Steam Graveyard this like weird Pixely thing. Dead Game Review was probably the first like really successful thing I did, like in terms of like episodic. And the difference is people like viewers suggest me games that they think like multiplayer games Oh.
Opossify:That are no longer being supported or they have very low player base. And I put them on this wheel and the idea was that the wheel would hook, like hook viewers in. So they see the wheel and they're like, oh, I wonder what's going to land on. Right? Maybe it'll land on Titanfall two.
Opossify:I love Titanfall two in like, I don't know 2018 or something. And I just play them. I just play the game, see what's still around. Typically, they were so dead that I I couldn't even get anywhere. I mean, nobody played it, so I would just play against bots.
Opossify:So then I would just like kind of dog on the game a little bit, maybe explain why the game died. Mhmm. Or I'd be saying stuff like, oh, why would this game die? I mean, some of these games were still great. It's just that the company who made them probably just didn't
Tyler:Ran out
Opossify:of can afford it. Or something. Yeah. And Scene Graveyard is just games in my personal library that I bought years ago because they were on sale, I found them interesting, but I just don't have time to play them. And I actually do enjoy that series little bit more because I get to play games that I've wanted to play for years.
Tyler:So what's a game that since we're going over dead games and maybe games that a little bit forgot about, what's a game that is garbage, but it's so good at the same time? Brink. Brink. Tell us about Brink.
Opossify:Brink is also one of my most successful videos. That is probably the worst game I've ever played. But me and my two friends, we had a blast playing it. Oh, really? I mean, like the game was just hot garbage.
Opossify:It I think it's a PS three port to PC, so and it was just janky. I mean, when you lean, it just goes like it's just so unrealistic and the dialogue is super corny and the objectives just make no sense. And there's like a class system like with Overwatch and half the classes are just completely useless. Oh. So we just all play as the same character.
Opossify:Oh. And it was just such a piece of crap, but it is I think I ended up giving it like A tier because I did have fun playing it. Some games are just so bad and you're just like, I can't even
Tyler:Sometimes the unintentional garbage that a game is is its greatest strength. Because it's so fun because of how absurdly awful it is.
Opossify:Yeah. And that game is the definition of, like the room of games. Yeah. Where it's just like, can't even I'm just laughing the entire time playing like, I can't believe this is a real thing that I'm experiencing right now. This is
Tyler:a
Opossify:real And what makes Brink even better is that it was like kind of a successful game when it first came out on console. So, people stayed and saw what I had to say about it. And I think a lot of people agreed for the PC port because it's just so such a terrible port. I mean, it is Yeah. Just
Tyler:crap. Yeah. So, I also recognize like the kind of Steam graveyard. Like, do you get Lethal Company vibes or is that just me?
Opossify:Like, from the style of
Tyler:Yeah. The The very the art style I feels very
Opossify:would I I would actually agree. I didn't think about that until you just said that. Because we played a lot of Lethal Company. Great game.
Tyler:Fantastic.
Opossify:Yeah. It does have that like weird pixely kind of vibe. And it's a I feel like it might have
Tyler:Sharp edges and stuff.
Opossify:Yeah. Exactly. And, you know, it it the pixels move a lot too, like they it's almost like they're shaking sometimes. Yeah. Yeah.
Opossify:It is a very weird vibe. I would say, yeah, it is pretty similar. And honestly, might have been unintentional in terms of like how I want it to look because we Yeah. I played a ton of that game, like probably eighty eight hours in that game with threats.
Tyler:That might be like seeping into somebody's brain, like see like, Oh, it's just like Lethal Company. Yeah. Because they got Lethal Company was like so funny because it's like the audio sounds garbage. So, you hear like your friends screaming when you're in like a room or something like that Yeah. And it's just kind of like raspy a little bit, you know?
Opossify:It's like tries to do proximity chat, and I think it does it pretty well, but it is like it's just a weird game, man. Yeah. And the interactions with your friends, that's like peak gameplay for me. Love stuff like yeah. Gary's
Tyler:Like just
Opossify:just Oh, having fun with your friends and that game being like kind of scary, but not super scary, just adds in like you're just gonna scream with your friends.
Tyler:It can be scary. Oh, it absolutely It can be terrifying.
Opossify:There's a couple of maps like later on that are more expensive to go to, that there's some freaky little critters there.
Tyler:There's the one, the spring spring head guy who like Yes. If you don't look at him, he'll The coil Yeah, coil head, yes.
Opossify:Yeah, he is scary. That guy is horrifying.
Tyler:Yeah. I remember, I vividly remember playing the game, and then me and my friend were stuck, like, here it came, and we're just looking at it and we're like, someone has to be the sacrifice. I think my friend just ran, so I'm just like sitting there waiting. And then finally said, I'm gonna try to book it. And it's just like And I remember my friend told me, all I could do is hear me just screaming.
Tyler:I was like this echoing through like this hallway. Yeah. Fantastic. Tell me a little bit about kind of your experience on the YouTube Poop account making those videos. We didn't dive that into that a ton.
Tyler:So, making those videos, special experiences with that.
Opossify:Yeah. So, this was I loved Rainbow Six Siege esports. Very niche community in my opinion.
Tyler:Esports you said? Yeah. Okay.
Opossify:Got it. So, I would take So, for most YouTube poops, it's like you take SpongeBob or something. I took Rainbow Six Siege esports clips that I found funny and I would just edit them. I was just doing it for fun. Put it on Twitter one day and it does really well.
Opossify:Yeah. YouTube channel starts blowing up. First time I hit a thousand subscribers was on that account. And because the community is so niche, it's so small that it was and you know, I don't want to toot my own horn or anything, but for this small account, like I felt like I was kind of well known. I remember the Six Invitational, the biggest event of the year, like this is like the world championship, like the Super Bowl basically.
Tyler:Okay.
Opossify:My account got name dropped randomly.
Tyler:Oh, really?
Opossify:Yeah. And I was
Tyler:Like in the broadcast? Yes. Oh,
Opossify:wow. Because they were something silly happened and they were like, oh, know, that was kind of goofy. And then they one person, one of the commentators, he was like, yeah, Noah, Opossums, he's made some good stuff. Like, he would probably like that clip. And I was like Wow.
Opossify:Woah. You know, like, I was watching these
Tyler:That's like with a thousand subscribers too. Yeah. That's not like a yeah.
Opossify:And I was watching the I would watch these streams in high school and like I wanted to get involved with the community. And like, to imagine getting name dropped in that
Tyler:How did you so find out you got name dropped? Were you just watching it and you were just like
Opossify:So, because I had made some connections within the community, like specifically with the production of CG Sports and so when it happened, I was actually doing something, but I got like a bunch of DMs from people going like, you just got name dropped. Like, I was like, what? Really? Like on stream? Because that seems like one
Tyler:of those things, you didn't know anybody and it was just like, you're just kind of in there, like
Opossify:If not watching, you would have no idea. So I'm very thankful that some of my friends DM'd me because I would have no idea and it was really cool. Oh. And that involves this account, like I'd go to events to see the esports live and that was the first time I'd ever been recognized and I kind of wasn't prepared for that because Yeah. Like, know, it still only have like a thousand subscribers but once again super niche community.
Opossify:So people who watch CG Sports are probably gonna watch my videos because it's gonna get recommended. Yeah, and I took a picture with a couple of people and signed a poster
Tyler:That's such an endearing moment, yeah.
Opossify:I was like taken aback, was like this is the craziest thing that's ever happened to me.
Tyler:For YouTube poop, that's fantastic.
Opossify:Yeah, no, and I've I kinda feel bad because my last video I was like, I'm hungry to make more content and then that was my last video. And I ended up switching to Opossify because it was I was like, I kind of got tired of just I kinda got tired of
Tyler:doing it. Were you like in the videos for the YouTube poop one or?
Opossify:No. So I did run a Twitter account, is how I got recognized I had this joke on my account where I was like a fan of the worst team. So I was like decked out in their merch and they're the worst They're team not at the event. But I'd be like, oh, I'm a huge fan. The team was called Beast Coast.
Opossify:So I was like the Beast Coast guy people that's they recognized me. They're like, oh wait, you made those videos. And I was like, yeah. And they're like, need to take a picture with you. Like I gotta I'm like, with me?
Opossify:Okay. Alright, with the YouTube Poop guy? Like, sure.
Tyler:No, yeah.
Opossify:Absolutely. Yeah. So, that was like the first taste of success ever and it's, like as we said earlier, that is the greatest feeling of all time for me.
Tyler:Well, think your current account now, I mean, it's like, you know, YouTube Poop obviously is like, you can't really put yourself into that. Yeah. And a big thing with content creation these days is like, not for all people, but, like, for a lot of like, for your common creator, to be a content creator, you kind of have to put yourself out there
Opossify:Yes.
Tyler:A really a really good amount. You can't just post the stuff you're comfortable with. I mean, don't post anything crazy. There's another website for that. But, you know, like, you really have to be kind of like yourself online and you have to do kind of crazy stuff.
Tyler:But you found a good blend here of like clickbaity, but not like slop. Yeah. You
Opossify:I My biggest fear is making pure slop. Yeah. Because I hate YouTube Shorts because half of it's just Minecraft parkour with stealing crap from Reddit that's just not funny.
Tyler:To Brooke and Jules in the morning.
Opossify:Yeah. It's like, okay. So, that's why I'm working on the another reason I'm working on the long form video, it's like gonna be a little bit different because I don't wanna just make Steam graveyards over and over again because I feel like it's just gonna get old. It's getting old for You
Tyler:wanna have a thing that lets you explore other creative things, right?
Opossify:Exactly. I want to expand my horizons.
Tyler:I wanna be like Something that keeps growing.
Opossify:Yeah. I want to evolve, which if you look at my older videos from the same account, I've already evolved quite a bit in my opinion. And even like how I write my videos, kind of want to update because I feel like I'm getting a little too like, hey, I'm And a I hate that.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's like you want something that doesn't get you can't be repetitive. It's kind like, it's one thing, like, unless you kind of continue to kind of be more creative with your videos. I mean, you mentioned Smosh off camera.
Tyler:And I always mention Smosh all the time, because I like, when I think, like, what's a what is a super successful, but like because they teeter totter like such a good blend of because their audience is so broad.
Opossify:Yeah.
Tyler:And I would never say that like, Smosh isn't for kids. Mhmm. And I wouldn't say Smosh isn't for adults. I mean, they have such a broad horizon of what they do, and it's all so good. It's genuinely, I mean, there's certain videos I'm sure I'm like, not my favourite.
Opossify:Yeah.
Tyler:But it's like, they do such a good job, and it's always, you know it's Smosh, the style. If that's what you can do with what you do, I think I think that would be really
Opossify:Yeah. That is literally exactly what I'm trying to do, where The main thing is, like, word that I'm looking for is, like, kind of respect, where it's like you build this brand of doing whatever you feel like you wanna make and people will still like it because it's like you have this you're able to express your vision in this certain way that is just completely original, right? Mhmm. And with Smosh, like they've been evolving for years. I mean, they've been
Tyler:don't It used to be Ian and Anthony and now
Opossify:it's Now it's bunch of people and they have like 8,000 accounts and it's just like, wow. I mean, and they they tackle a lot of stuff. Now, I don't watch as much Smoshes now as I used to. Like Yeah. I've watched a lot of the early stuff like Food Battle, Classic.
Opossify:But, yeah, it's just they could just make whatever they could touch whatever part of culture they wanted to, like they made a video about like a horror Easy Bake Oven or whatever it's called. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, who comes up with that crap? Only you know, like it's just and it's like 10,000,000 views.
Opossify:Right. For just something that's just funny and original, and that's something that I really admire.
Tyler:Right.
Opossify:Everyone respects Smosh. Who doesn't Like, respect they're awesome. Even if you don't like them, you can respect them.
Tyler:They are, to me, they're what modern, like, content kind of because to me, it's like you have them, and you have people like MrBeast.
Opossify:Yeah.
Tyler:Now, I watched MrBeast when MrBeast was like, little lad, you know?
Opossify:I did too.
Tyler:Like, 10,000 subscriber, you know?
Opossify:Where he would just talk about, like, YouTuber intros.
Tyler:Yeah. I loved And Mr. Opossify's it's like, even when he started to of dive into what he does now, it was it was good, because it was like, you could still see him in it, and it was still kind of his style. Because he kind of evolved, like, one kind of like challenge, and kind of made it bigger and bigger. But now, it's like gotten to a point where it's like so formulaic.
Opossify:Yeah.
Tyler:It is so like, this is I need x y z. And respect to him, because clearly, he just understands the philosophy and psychology of YouTube and the algorithm. Because there is a way to do the algorithm, but it's like the creative aspect of YouTube that's just made it so charming for so long. You could see it dying and it's really sad.
Opossify:That is we're just like on the same page, because I I have felt that way for years. Oh, yeah. I respect MrBeast, but yes, he is a part of this problem with modern YouTube, where I feel like it's just kind of either MrBeast videos where it's just so overproduced and it's like the independent nature that makes YouTube the you in YouTube kind of The you in YouTube. Yeah. It's starting to like fade a little bit and it's it's the charm, like you said.
Opossify:Like, it's just kind of dying or it's just meaningless like video essay slop, which I like video essays. There's lot of good ones.
Tyler:Great ones.
Opossify:A lot of creators I respect and that inspire me to this day. But a lot of them are just like thirty minutes of just nothing burgers I'm just like, It's a little bit disappointing. Click on a video and it's just them rambling. It's almost like AI generated and it's like I mean, it's better than personally in my opinion, like the overproduce, like it feels like watching a TV show with Mr. Beast who actually has his own TV show.
Tyler:Which is quite literally and like I'm almost like, just leave YouTube, go to Amazon Prime.
Opossify:Literally, you know. I mean, yeah. I I would
Tyler:And so many creators just follow right in the the footsteps of whatever the newest video of his is Yeah. Truly.
Opossify:And you see it in shorts like crazy. And my YouTube shorts feed, I can't get it to evolve. It's stuck on like
Tyler:It's just slop.
Opossify:It's just stuck on slop of like either AI generated stuff or it's stuck on like the same cooking video that has like trending music and just all this stuff and I get it. It's successful. It works and these people are, you know, they're having a good time doing it, so I'm not gonna criticize them for that. But I will always cherish old school YouTube and just ignoring the formulaic nature, which is why I'm actually a little bit antsy on keep making the Steam graveyard because I'm like, I need to change. I need something's gotta change.
Opossify:And I've only been doing it for like three months, the steam Yeah. Like, so we're working on that.
Tyler:I was gonna was gonna drop a quote. Growing up, I really had a lot of fascination with Walt Disney. Now, obviously, Disney as a company gets a lot of, like there's a lot of backlash Yeah. From both sides. Like, you know, it's funny, like, the more, like, you know, conservative kind of right side, it's kind of more, like, diving into more woke topics and stuff like that, one And might then on the left is kind of like, that's almost like the exact opposite.
Tyler:Like, would say neither side is truly happy with Disney, which is very funny. But my point is, there's a really good Walt Disney quote that I always love. Says, Disneyland will never be complete. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. So, making something that you can continue to add to, continue to mold, shape, and stuff like that, super awesome.
Opossify:Yeah. That is a good quote, genuinely. I and that is pretty accurate to what I was just saying. Like, I just want to keep adding on. I wanna keep the audience on their toes.
Opossify:And I just know that if I'm happy with the end product, then the audience will be, well, for the most part. Yeah. You can't please them all the time, but I just know that I hate formulaic stuff repeating like cookie cutter, rinse and repeat. So I'm not gonna do that. Gonna try change it.
Opossify:Not everything's gonna change but like you said, it's just adding things on to slowly evolve over time. And eventually you won't really necessarily see that evolution but when you look back, you'll be like, woah, we've we've changed quite a bit,
Tyler:you know? Right. Right. So, is there anything you would like to say to people in your similar situation? Somebody looking to start a YouTube channel or learning how to edit, stuff like that.
Tyler:Is there anything you wanna leave the viewer?
Opossify:Absolutely. So, do not give up. I know that's like what everyone says, but as we talked about with my other accounts, you can't just make two videos and then just be like, we're done. Okay. This account that I'm on right now, that is starting to grow a little bit, the first video I ever made was this this graphic animation kinda weird surreal thing.
Opossify:Nobody knows about it. It I uploaded it. I woke up the next day thinking it was gonna get like a million views because I'm just, I guess, an ecotist. Don't know. Yeah.
Opossify:I don't do that anymore, but it got no views, no likes on any platform. Right? You just have to just keep trying. There's nothing wrong with trying. Okay?
Opossify:And if you're worried about like and just make things that speak to you. Right? I cannot stress learning things like Adobe Premiere Pro is hard, but I haven't taken like any professional classes for it. Just use YouTube. YouTube is a great tutorial for that stuff.
Opossify:Use DaVinci. DaVinci's free. And just make whatever the heck you want, man. Anything. Like, just what whatever speaks to you.
Opossify:And if it does bad, it does bad. You just gotta if you really want to succeed, you just gotta keep trying. That's just part of the game and it's it's a brutal part of the game. You'll make something you're really proud of and it won't do well, but it's just because the algorithm hasn't found you yet, you haven't found your audience, it requires time. Some people get lucky, some people don't, but just don't be like people like my friends who are like, well, wanted to get into it but it just seems too hard and I get that maybe you don't have time, but don't be afraid to start.
Opossify:It doesn't matter where you are, you can start whenever you want for free and just express yourself. I mean Right. Seriously. True. But, yeah.
Tyler:Well, thank you so much for joining and being on the show. I think it's always it's always cool to have different people, you know. This is our first, like, I would say true YouTube content creator. So, there you go. Opening up a window of people.
Tyler:It's always cool to see how the network kind of opens up after you have certain people on. And to see, you're now officially part of the Creators Table. So, there you go, dude. Thank you guys for listening to this episode of podcast. If you are looking for any links or if you're looking to find more episodes like this, please go follow The Creators Table or subscribe, like, comment, do what you can.
Tyler:And if you're looking to find Opossify's links, they're gonna be in the description of this video or recording. Other than that, we can say bye to our viewer here. Goodbye. Have a nice day.
Opossify:Bye bye.
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