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" I try to be conscious of others, put my best foot forward and show growth. I just try to be my best self - and I think that is the most important thing. "
Tyler Oakley
Best
Self
Think
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" I spend all day replying to tweets and reblogging posts and sharing fan art. I think it's the most important thing I can possibly do, to stay involved in the community as a part of the community, not ahead of the community. I'm very much the same level of them in it. "
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Art
Think
Day
" Since the beginning, I have always tried to just be me. There have been moments in my career as a YouTuber where I've recognized that I'm trying to emulate something else, or I'm being heavily influenced by a YouTuber or something like that, and I realize that's not what I want to be putting out. "
Tyler Oakley
Me
Career
Beginning
" I think a lot of what I wanted to do in 2014 was build a repertoire or a portfolio for what I can do with traditional celebrities or with brands or whatever. Maybe 2015 is the year I start reaching out to people I always dreamed to do stuff with. "
Tyler Oakley
People
I Can
Think
" I feel like everybody, whether you have one follower or a million followers, has an opportunity to either positively or negatively affect people. "
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Feel
Like
Opportunity
" I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else. "
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Own
Someone
Doing
" All the money that's donated to the Trevor Project provides resources that directly affect the youth that actually watch my videos. It's a cool thing to see them basically provide resources for each other. "
Tyler Oakley
Watch
Money
Project
" A lot of YouTubers get that mainstream celebrity, they get these big deals, maybe a book deal or a TV deal or whatever it is they aspired to do, and they kind of abandon ship on what got them to that point. "
Tyler Oakley
Book
Ship
Point
" I'm a genuine lover of music. I've always watched the Grammys from home. "
Tyler Oakley
Music
Home
Genuine
" There's something about YouTube, where you're not being anybody but yourself. You have the opportunity to start as yourself from the very beginning. From the very first video, you choose what you say, and you choose what's right and wrong for your presentation of yourself. "
Tyler Oakley
Start
Opportunity
Beginning
" Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing. "
Tyler Oakley
Misunderstood
Being
Life
" Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search 'coming out,' and they'll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story. "
Tyler Oakley
Search
Story
Alone
" With everything that I've done with YouTube and podcasts for so many years, it's been: you can record it, edit, and then upload that day. With the book and documentary, it's been such a longer process. "
Tyler Oakley
YouTube
Book
Day
" I'm a fast foodie - like, a foodie, but with food courts. I'd love to go with all my friends to a food court that's also a buffet - with unlimited orange chicken from Panda Express, curly fries from Arby's, Hawaiian pizza from Sbarro, and Coke Zero. I'm a simple man with simple pleasures. "
Tyler Oakley
Man
Love
Simple
" I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday. "
Tyler Oakley
Fun
Thought
Teacher
" Once you dye your hair for the first time, you see other people with dyed hair, and you see them differently than you did before. And you're just like 'Yes! Live! Work that color! Yes, I love you in every way! You're killin' it! I want to do that color next!' "
Tyler Oakley
Live
Hair
Love
" YouTube has always been a diary for me. I'm here to share what I do, share my life, and if people want to watch, more power to them. But regardless of my intention, if people are looking at what I do and am treating it like I'm a role model, it doesn't matter whether or not I want to be. "
Tyler Oakley
Looking
Life
Power
" I could pick a favorite YouTuber, maybe I would say GloZell. "
Tyler Oakley
Say
Would
Could
" In elementary school, I loved the 'Bailey School Kids' series. It was about a group of classmates who would speculate whether adults in their lives were supernatural beings. I read literally every single book in the series. "
Tyler Oakley
Classmates
School
Loved
" Prior to 2015, I had kind of approached every year like, 'Let's hope for the best.' I always made these year-end videos with 100 things I did, and it would kind of build itself up throughout the year. When this year started, it was like I knew the 100 things before I even got to do them. "
Tyler Oakley
Year
Build
Best
" When I graduated from college, I got a 9-to-5 traditional job doing social media for a company, and I'd spend all day long fighting with the system of getting things approved and the fact that social media has such a quick turnaround. Things had to be very reactive and instant. "
Tyler Oakley
Day
Job
Media
" I found a vlogger named William Sledd who talked about his life - it was very minimal edits. It was one of those things where I discovered him, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm obsessed with him.' I felt like I was friends with him. And he was a huge inspiration for why I made my first video. "
Tyler Oakley
Inspiration
God
Why
" Narcissism has existed for a long time; social media is just a new outlet to express it. Anybody who is going to record themselves and put that on the Internet, hoping people will watch, there is a degree to which that exists, yeah. I don't know if I would call myself a narcissist. I don't necessarily identify with that label. "
Tyler Oakley
Time
Myself
Long
" People just want to watch people live their authentic lives and share the good and the bad. You can have fun and be a positive influence and have a good impact. And it can still be entertaining. "
Tyler Oakley
Have Fun
Live
People
" There's no Hollywood tradition of maybe not telling people that you're gay to protect your future ambitions. The YouTube world is a little unprecedented. I think what people are seeing is that the more true to yourself you are, the more an audience will connect with you. "
Tyler Oakley
People
Think
Yourself
" I always think about the fact that PewDiePie, who has tens of millions of followers, started with zero. All of my favorite creators started with zero. And all it takes is one video to dive deep, and you are officially a YouTuber. So you've got to make that first video. It's not going to be your best, but you will learn as you go. "
Tyler Oakley
Best
Think
Learn
" On YouTube, if anything, coming out as gay or bi or trans explodes someone's popularity. "
Tyler Oakley
Coming
YouTube
Anything
" I definitely have aspirations outside of YouTube, but I think there's a lot of people on YouTube who want to leave YouTube. I don't want to leave; I love it. "
Tyler Oakley
Love
People
Who
" In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal. "
Tyler Oakley
Best
Personal
My Life
" I really like Nick Jonas. I think he is super-cute, handsome and talented. "
Tyler Oakley
Like
Talented
Think
" When I first thought about leaving the traditional route of a 9-to-5 career to pursue full-time YouTube, it was terrifying - not many people were doing it. The thought was I have to have money saved up, because this very likely might fail. From the start, I had to give it my all for it to work. "
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People
Work
Thought