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" The Lionsgate deal came at an opportune time. It allows us to get our projects financed and create long-form content without needing to be reliant on brand deals or crowdsourcing for external financing. "

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" 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. "

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" On the advertising side, view count is not the most important thing. It's engagement. "

" We have full creative control, we have a giant audience that loves what we do, and we can make whatever we want. "

" 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. "

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" A user who essentially costs YouTube money has very little say. The way to have a say is to concretely support the creators and channels you watch directly by giving them money. "

" We are video consumers first and foremost, and we hate anything appearing in the videos that isn't organic. "

" People always ask us, 'When are you guys gonna do a movie? When are you gonna do a TV show?' And to me, that feels like such a step backwards from where are. "

" From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that. "

" When we think about a great movie, I mean, what do we think about? We think about story, we think about character. And when the visual effects aren't perfect, we forgive it. "

" Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we're talking about. "

" I have to credit high school for allowing us to mess around with movie stuff at a time when it was a novelty. Experimenting with that and having a very good group of friends to work with made it a very easy decision that this seemed like something I wanted to do with the rest of my life. "

" I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is. "

" I feel like we cheated... because you read about these other directors, just like, 'Damn! They paid dues for 10 years before they got to get behind the camera.' We cheated because technology was in the right place at the right time, and we were alive at the right age at the right time for us to take advantage of that. "

" In general, a lot of content creators find that their success is unable to support any sort of organization of scale. It's pretty difficult to support even three or four employees. "

" It's rare to find a corporate partner who encourages true creativity, but our meetings with Lionsgate's creative team convinced us that this is the right move for RocketJump and our millions of fans. "

" 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

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" Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works. "

" Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible. "

" We want to be a studio that makes a whole bunch of stuff we believe in, in all ranges of scale and time and length, and own as much as that IP ourselves and generate as much of that IP ourselves as possible. "

" 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. "

" I think if you make good, interesting content with compelling story lines and good characters, people will tune into the web for as long as you want them to. "

" A better quality of video is better for everyone. "

" Visual effects have always been a part of this art form. And CG is simply a tool on the filmmaker's tool belt to tell a story, but when the end result is bad - maybe it's not the tool's fault. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move. "

" YouTube is the place where people go to consume advertisements willingly. It's some capitalist dystopian nightmare. "

" If it doesn't feel organic to the audience, you gotta trust your gut. "

" Kickstarter has shifted from funding creative projects to funding products and videogames; the biggest funded are consumer electronics and video game projects. "