It's hard to sell merchandise off YouTube. Freddie Wong More Quotes by Freddie Wong More Quotes From Freddie Wong YouTube's a funny place because so many creators fall into their aesthetics out of necessity and the visuals are driven out of an urge to create. You get a lot of interesting examples of interesting design choices that have roots in practicality as well as an artistic sentiment. Freddie Wong youdesignfunnyfall The Asian male has an interesting history as far as Western appropriation. At one point, we were completely sexless Chinamen building the railroads. Then, World War II came around, and it was like, Asian guys are coming after the white women. We became a menace for a second. Freddie Wong womenwarhistoryworld Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window? Freddie Wong doornevermy-ownwindow We believe that the future for content-creators such as ourselves lies in being able to source project money from an audience and deliver on those projects in a timely and cost-effective manner. Freddie Wong projectfuturemoneybelieve When you have a home and create a brand people believe in and want to support, it makes it easier for you to control merchandise and sell it. Freddie Wong youhomebelievepeople I'm not even very good at most video games. Freddie Wong video-gamesevengoodgames Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move. Freddie Wong riskymoveconventionsgenre Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio. Freddie Wong experimentstudionichestorytelling As you reach more people, there is a potential to make a living with what you are creating, and that's the goal. Freddie Wong potentialreachyoupeople Online is another way for all of us to reach people. Freddie Wong reachuspeopleway Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera. Freddie Wong camerausluxurydesign Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you're talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube's space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of 'VGHS' properly. Freddie Wong youspaceopportunityworld Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of content on their televisions or computer screens. Freddie Wong morethanksnetflixpeople A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what VR is good for. And the direction people go first is wrong. The wrong place is always: How can we do something we've done before, but on this? Freddie Wong directionplacegoodpeople People predicted in the 1910s that live theater was going to be all gone and that we'd just be watching movies. No, live theater is still around, because it does things that are specific to it. Freddie Wong livemoviesthingspeople VR has a whole range of things it's very good at, and there's a lot of things that it's going to be deficient at. Freddie Wong goingverythingsgood If you can't answer the question 'What is VR adding to that experience?' - and it should be more than just a gee-whiz thing - then that project shouldn't be in VR. You're not taking full advantage of your medium. Freddie Wong answeryouryouexperience Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gaming and we're familiar with in gaming and being like, 'OK, hold on, let's re-examine this for a second. Isn't this funny? Isn't this strange? Isn't this a little bit ridiculous?' That's where it is. Freddie Wong placegaminghumorfunny I get occasional tweets from people asking what shampoo and conditioner I use. I go straight for the Costco brand, Kirkland brand, the bulk shampoo. That's as far as I go. Freddie Wong brandfargopeople There's a lot of history here. In terms of Asians in this country, you have a big influx after the Cultural Revolution, a big influx after the Korean War, a big influx after the Vietnam War. Freddie Wong youwarcountryhistory
