3:40 - Sorry this younow is so early. I’m just bored, I’m just really bored, and wanted to talk to my webcam. My webcam is the only thing that listens to me now.
4:45 - "Evan is watching me, Evan Edinger” (he is)
8:00 - (about his constant #1 fan on YN)
I don’t know where she gets her money from, but she has more gold bars than sense
09:00 - I love doing collabs, the only problem is I don’t like leaving my house, I can’t socialise very well, I can’t make eye contact, and I sweat when I’m around people. So if I can just get past a few social anxieties, I’ll make a collab every day.
10:00 - (Evan's not watching anymore)
Watching more conspiracy vids on YT - about aliens helping us build pyramids, hence the tweets earlier today:
“I don’t really think about my tweets, I just tweet them"
10:40 - I also have this idea that as we become more technologically advanced, we seem to be getting more introverted, aren’t we? Like becoming more isolated as people. So I thought it kind of makes sense that if that keeps happening, if these aliens are from our future (because they can time travel obviously), they’ve got all the technology in the world but it actually makes them really introverted. They travel in time, use alternate realities to help us and guide us and help us evolve, but they don’t like to make eye contact because they’re really shy. They’ve all got tumblr accounts as well, they’re very emotional, they’re very deep, and they’ve got all these powers but they just don’t like talking to people. They’ve got social anxieties. I think it’s cute.
13:40 - Lots of talk about Crash Bandicoot games if that appeals to you
19:05 - thanks somebody for bars, recognizes user name as an old youtuber:
"Is that the YTer, or just someone using the username? I remember an old school YTer called DelaneyWasHere. There’s quite a lot of YTers that did a lot of great stuff on YT and then went on to do different things. YT’s brutal, you forget about these people, but they’re all still there, they're still living. Ready to come back."
23:50 - mocking intense 21 Pilot fans dragging him on twitter for spelling the name wrong
28:20 - I haven’t got a PO Box. I turned mine off after somebody sent me a sock full of tampons. Somebody sent me a sandwich from America in tinfoil. It had rotted.
And most people sent me stuff to send to Dan & Phil. I’m not a courier. I’m not a post office.
35:20 -
chat: Do you get anything for the bars?
Yeah, cash. That’s why Younow’s crazy, I don’t understand it.
Make more money than Youtube. I probably shouldn’t talk about it because it’s part of the rules, I think. I don’t know, it’s a very weird system. I just like it because it’s live but
the money’s good as well.
36:00 -
About censorship on YT... people have gone a bit crazy with it. There is a lot of stuff on youtube that shouldn’t be monetized. Why should somebody get a career out of doing terrible pranks? Like Sam Pepper or something. He made videos that I’m like, “Yeah, they shouldn’t be monetized”. Why should he make money from shooting his friend or whatever he did. I don’t want these people to be making money off it.
Here’s one of my cynical things: There are a lot of people doing controversial stuff. And I think if it’s not funny, you shouldn’t get away with it. Sorry, I’m just saying. If it’s not entertaining, then why should it be monetized? I think it’s going to stop people making clickbait— I don’t know. YT’s crazy, I’m out of YT. I’m coming back, but it’s going to be doing my own stuff and if I get censored, then it doesn’t really matter. There’s other ways to get through life.
I just feel like... some stuff is trash, isn’t it? And anyway it does say in those guidelines ‘if it’s not comedic’ or something like that. I think I could get away with swearing and partial nudity as long as it’s funny.
40:45 - 41:55
CRISPS ARE FOR PARTIES
45:25 -
chat: Are you doing Stand Up 2 Cancer this year?
They did email me, I did email back. But I don’t know what I’m doing or if I’m doing anything.
46:20 - “I really want a painting of me commissioned”
(we need to get Hector on this)
47:30 Wants to use fan art as thumbnails.
I think that could be quite nice, I don’t think anybody else does that.
At the end of the day, it’s still narcissistic, it’s just my ego, but I think it would be nice, wouldn’t it? Because there’s a lot of fan art, and I don’t know what to do with it. That sounds so arrogant, but you know wh-- I’m not going to call it “fan art” because that underplays it; it’s art. It just happens to have me in it.
For example, somebody drew a picture and I don’t even know where to find it now. It was me in the Harry Potter world, it was the fantastic foursome in Harry Potter, it was really nice.
49:30 - shows how many people he’s matched with on Tinder (lots): “But I’m too scared to use it. There’s basically 300 very attractive people wanting some crab-attention and I refuse to give it, because I’m here for you guys. I can’t be going on Tinder dates because I’ve got younow. Ooh, that sounded horrible. *creepy voice* ‘I’ve got
you now; I don’t need social interaction because I’ve got
you now’"
50:50 - favourite film soundtracks
-A Single Man
-Gravity
-Man of Steel (“I don’t care what you say about the movie, great soundtrack”)
-Torchwood/Doctor Who
52:30
chat: Have any of your videos been affected by the censorship?
My suspicion of course is that they were only censoring the big YTers because that meant they made a video about it. And I think that was a good way of getting the message out there that you’re not allowed to make controversial subject matter stuff anymore. Because Philip DeFranco was complaining about it, and his video about it was trending on YT, which [YT] choose. So it’s almost as if they were censoring him just so he would talk about it. I feel like I fly under the radar; I mean, I’m looking at my videos now and nothing’s been censored. Every single one has monetization on. Apart from Suicide Squad [trailer review], something I did about Judi Dench and Google ages ago, and a video I did with me and Jimmy.
[discusses the video he did with Jimmy which was going to be a recurring show talking about/making fun of other peoples’ YT videos but how it’s annoying since you need to ask for permission. “I like Zoella, I think Zoella’s really nice, but sometimes there might be a video she makes that I want to make fun of, in a nice way, but there’s no way I could say to Zoella: ‘could we make fun of your videos?’ because she’d be like, “No way.” So too much hassle involved in doing a show like that]
(video linked at the end, watch it)
55:50 The one thing I don’t like about Younow is on the side it tells you who’s watching you, like if my mum is watching, it tells me. And the thing about that is-- it’s just a bit awkward because it feels like people are watching me. I know
you guys are watching me, but sometimes Sean [Young] drops in and out, Evan Edinger dropped in and out. Because then it makes me feel like ‘well why have they gone?’ is it because I’m shit? But then I know that watching other peoples’
vyous can be quite boring.
(Did he mean to say vyou, or younow? We'll never know)
57:00 (to person in chat asking for a notice)
You have been noticed. I also like that your avatar is Dan Howell. It makes me feel like they’re still talking to me.