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I got a chance to sit in to a lengthy brainstorming session with Tyler and others.

That was really cool.

Can you talk about the process of that,

of people pitching ideas and you pitching alternatives or shutting down ideas and just plowing through ideas?

I mean, you kind of just described exactly what we did.

Yeah.

I mean, but the ideas are really, really good.

It's just tossing out different categories of ideas and then also fine-tuning them to see how do I change, thinking about the titles and the thumbnails.

I work so well off of inspiration.

It's something, give me any word.

I don't know.

Space.

Yeah, I went to space.

What happens if you blow up a nuke in space?

Or I went to the moon, I went to Mars.

Because you said that one word, it was able to inspire me to come up with four ideas.

And so that's just, it's for me, the way to get 100 million views on videos, you need something original, creative, something people really need to see,

ideally never been done before, all these like things.

And so you need like, if you want to consistently go super viral, you need just a constant stream of ideas.

And the only way I've really found

that I can consistently come up with 100 million view videos is to intake inspiration and then see what my brain outputs. and

so that's kind of at its core foundation what i'm doing

there it's just like intaking a lot of random inspiration to see what spawns in my mind

so i can output it

but the neural network of your brain is generating the video the title the thumbnail all like jointly exactly

and that only comes because i spent 10 years of my life just obsessively studying all

that stuff because you i mean it seems like you would literally potentially shut down a video just

because you can't come up with a good title yeah

or a thumbnail yeah i mean that's what happened to 70 of those in

that pitch session i was just like oh what was one of them genius versus 100 people or

yeah like maybe average intelligence versus genius yeah i was like what the heck is the thumbnail even

if the title was good yeah yeah i mean there's

so many but yeah people don't click they don't watch that's

so interesting but you developed over time the ability to kind of

give it what what makes for a good title short not just short it's also i mean

if someone reads it are they like do they have to watch it is it just

so intrinsically interesting that it's just gonna fuck with them

if they don't click on it you know what i mean

so it doesn't have to be short

but it has to be like you almost want to have a retention to word by word reading Ideally, it's a title also that,

you know, because the titles don't live in a vacuum, right?

So it has to lead into the content.

So ideally the title represents content that you would want to watch for 20 minutes

so if it's a 20 minute video

and the title is i stepped on a bug it's not gonna

because it's all of it combined the click-through rate is going to be much lower

than if it was like a five second video people might click it

so you gotta like even nuances of the length of the

video based against the title will affect whether people want to click it

because sometimes they just all add up i mean it's

that yes ideally you want to blow 50 characters because above 50 characters on certain devices, you run the chance of it going dot, dot, dot.

So I took a light pole, and I saw how many dollar bills I could stack on top, and then it would just go dot, dot, dot because it's too long, and it can't finish it.

And that's the worst thing because then people don't even know what they're clicking on, and so it's going to do even worse.

Short, simple, ideally, and just so freaking interesting to have to click, and it is a good segue into the content, and it represents the length of the content.

And there's probably stuff that's hard to convert into words for

you like i stepped on a bug versus stepping on a

bug versus mr b stepped on a bug well i mean that

bug stepping video so it's like yes the more extreme the opinion typically the higher the click-through rate

if you can like uh pay it off in the content then it just super charges it

so like oh so you have a kind of estimate of the extreme like this this water right you're like

fiji water sucks yeah that'd do fine but if you said fiji water is the worst water bottle

or the worst water I've ever drank in my life, way more extreme opinion would do way better.

But you have to deliver.

Yeah, but then you have to deliver because the more extreme you are, the more extreme you have to be in the video.

Yeah.

That's almost inspiration for you to step up.

Yeah, but you can be more extreme in a positive way.

It's easier though.

Negative clickbait is much easier than positive clickbait.

It just is.

It's so much easier to get negative clicks.

And so a lot of people are just, in my opinion, a little bit lazier, and they just take the route like, oh, well, this one gets the same amount of clicks, and it's easier, less effort.

The positive one is doing a large number of numbers of something.

Like, I spent this number of hours doing this.

Or whatever, if you just wanted to help people.

It's just harder to get 10 million views on a video

helping people than it is to get 10 million views on a video tearing down a celebrity, you know what I mean, or whatever negative video you want to insert there.

Well, that said, most of your videos are pretty positive.

Yes. So what's...

But not a lot of people do those kinds of videos

because they're hard yeah they're hard yeah uh some of that is giving away money right yeah um

what's the secret to that what's how do you do do

that right yeah like give away money or in a video

that made to make it compelling um is it

so there's a number

that is better than another number right the higher number is

always better than the lower number yeah for the most part

and you know it's interesting like some videos will give away a million dollars some videos will give away half a million.

There's not really, I guess so, I'm retracting what I just said i was more joking with

that but there's no difference whether i put 500k

or a million there's probably not even really a difference between 100k

or a million i haven't really looked into it like some

of our mostly videos are not us giving away a million dollars

and sometimes the million dollar videos just don't do as well as the other one so

there there is a certain point where a dollar amount is just a large dollar amount to an average human

and so i think

that point is 100k like anything above 100k the average human

is just like that's a lot of money you know like

it doesn't it doesn't 100k a million like doesn't really move the needle

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if that makes sense which that's a very nuanced piece of information

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that applies to very few people

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but yeah well no i think it applies it's fascinating it's

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fascinating human our relationship with money is fascinating like why is it

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so exciting to get i mean i you know the times

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i found like 20 bucks on the ground are like incredible

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i don't know why right why why are you You're so happy.

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What exactly is so joyful about that?

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It depends where you are in life, what the situation is.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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There's also a gamified aspect to it.

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It's exciting.

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Yeah, I get it.

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Why people want to see people win money.

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It's just interesting that past 100 grand, it doesn't really seem to make a difference.

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It's the same, basically.

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So you found that to be true with all the money you've given away?

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I just didn't click through it.

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Obviously, in terms of someone receiving it, a million dollars changes their life drastically more.

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That's the difference.

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It's like, oh, if you wanted to, you could really quit your job.

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As opposed to 100K is like, not really.

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You probably do like a scientific study, like a formula, giving away money to click through rate.

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Yeah.

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There could be some kind of I got it.

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It definitely, the returns level off dramatically after 100K.

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That's basically the premise.

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What about 10,000?

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No, there's 100,000.

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It's funny, because this is such a small niche thing.

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But yeah, 100,000 does it from what I see in our videos get more clicks than 10,000.

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But the difference between 100,000 and a million is just so little.

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I think big number, big number to a lot of people past that point.

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Yeah, so for 100,000, you can, like, given average salary, you can probably live for a year, given what they have average salaries in America.

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So that's like a big, that feels...

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Yeah, I think it's also just more when they read the title.

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It's just like, it's a lot of zeros.

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It's like, fuck loads of zeros, okay, click.

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Yeah.

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Oh, man, that's fascinating.

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So on the thumbnail side, again, and that's going to be much harder to say probably.

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But, you know, offline, you know, I got a chance to look at a bunch of thumbnails.

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And it's fascinating which ones do well and which ones don't.

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Is there something you could say about what are the elements of a thumbnail that work well?

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Or is this also deeply instinctual?

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Well, that's where, yeah, it's the same thing.

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Like, how do you cook good food?

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But it's easier if you pull up a thumbnail.

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I could be like, that's why that's good.

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That's why that's bad.

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Like an example would be like one of my friends, he just uploaded a video recently

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and i called him i was like what is this

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because he's a very very smart guy

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and in the thumbnail he's he's getting chased by cops

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but the cops were wearing yellow vests

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so they didn't look at cops i was like well why

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are the cops in your thumb wearing yellow vests it's like

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that makes it so much more boring and he was like carrying a flag

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but the pole and the color of the flag were the same color

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so it's like it's a little harder to see the flag.

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I was like, also, you're wearing a shirt with five different colors.

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It's hard to tell even what your outline is.

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Then in the background, there are cars.

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I was like, well, if you have cops chasing you, why not make the cars cop cars?

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It's like, because in my head, I'm like, dang, if you just did those four or five things, the video probably would have got seven X the views.

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How much iteration?

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Because I also got a chance to see the number of

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iterations you do on a i don't know just it's a problem now it's an addiction is it

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so you kind of

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there's a lot of the versions are really good yeah how do you know

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when to like i love how you when we pulled up

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that uh the burger one

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and we were flipping through them you're like that's really good

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i was like oh that's version like one of like a thousand

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but even the sketch the idea was good like already even the original idea is strong yeah

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so we one of our coming up videos we made the world's largest plant-based burger

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and the thumbnail we were thinking is like me standing beside the burger

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because it's six feet tall that's that's what he's talking about

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so like just picture a giant six foot tall burger super wide thousands of pounds

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and then i'm beside it

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and then it's like eating the world's largest burger like you that's just something you have to click like

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so you were saying like how would you describe a good thumbnail like

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that you know what i mean like

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but i think you said the one i noticed first

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that was good where you were very small in it relative to the

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and you didn't like that one i needed to come forward a little bit And also, the photo we took was just my upper body.

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So they photo manipulated and created my legs in Photoshop.

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And that's why I said I didn't like it, because my right leg was a little off.

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It was bent the wrong way.

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I built those legs in Photoshop.

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Well, I mean, does the physics of the thumbnail have to even make sense?

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I mean, you can just exaggerate the head size and all that kind of stuff, right?

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Yeah, 100%.

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Yeah, things don't have to be relative.

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You can have a car in the background and be three times the size.

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because every one of my thumbnails, my face is in the left side, very big.

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So brand recognition, so just people know.

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Oh, especially because now that a lot of people copy our videos, it's just nice to like, everyone else might make thumbnails like this, but this is mine.

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And obviously we usually over deliver and do bigger stuff.

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Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 199 frases y 2329 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 10:56. El hablante habla rápido, unas 213 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras menos comunes del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

cop /kɑp/ (sustantivo) — tombo, paco. A police officer or prison guard.
burger /ˈbɝ.ɡɚ/ (sustantivo) — búrguer, burger. A hamburger.
ideally /aɪˈdi.ə.li/ (adverbio) — idealmente. In an ideal way; perfectly.
inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ (sustantivo) — inspiración. The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of breathing.
versus /ˈvɝsəs/ — contra, en vez de. Against; in opposition to.
pitch /pɪt͡ʃ/ (sustantivo) — tiro. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
relative /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/ (sustantivo) — familiar, pariente. Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family.
chase /t͡ʃeɪs/ (verbo) — perseguir, asenderear. To follow at speed.
output /ˈaʊtpʊt/ (sustantivo) — producción, output. Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
salary /ˈsæləɹi/ (sustantivo) — salario, sueldo. A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or…
genius /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/ (sustantivo) — genio, genia. Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art…
consistently /kənˈsɪstəntli/ (adverbio) — consistentemente. In a consistent manner.
pole /pəʊl/ (sustantivo) — polo. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
intake /ˈɪnteɪk/ (sustantivo) — ingesta. The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
vest /vɛst/ (sustantivo) — chaleco. A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

come up with (verbo) — ingeniar, ingeniarse. To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
look at (verbo) — mirar, funar. To observe or watch.
shut down (verbo) — apagar. To close, terminate, or end; to stop operating, either permanently or temporarily.
talk about (verbo) — hablar de, hablar sobre. Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something.
add up (verbo) — adicionar. To take the sum of; to total.
come up (verbo) — salir a relucir. To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
look into (verbo) — indagar (sobre/en). To investigate, explore, or consider.
step up (verbo) — aumentar, redoblar. To increase, augment, or advance, especially by one or more steps.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 42 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, doesn't, didn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: thumb /ˈθʌm/, thumbnail /ˈθʌm.neɪl/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/, retention /ɹɪˈtɛnʃən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: ideally /aɪˈdi.ə.li/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, consistently /kənˈsɪstəntli/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/

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Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	I've really found · haven't really looked · you've given
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	been done · was bent

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