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hi i'm marquez brownlee and this is the wired autocomplete interview is marquez brownlee okay i think so what do they know that i don't know why marquez brownlee why is marquez brownlee called mkbhd actually when i got here to the lobby of the building the security guard was like can i ask you something i was like yeah he's like you're mkqbh and i was like yeah close enough i just i made it to be shorter and easier to remember than my name mkb is my initials hd is high definition it'll always be hd i'm not changing it to 8k or anything crazy hd includes 8k so that's why it's on qbhd so why is marquez brownlee so popular that's a good question i think it's uh a little bit of skill and a little bit of luck combining with opportunity i started making videos a very long time ago and it sort of had the opportunity to build up since then so it didn't just become popular it didn't explode onto the scene but when you make 1500 videos eventually people see some of it i guess why does marquez brownlee review retro tech i was born in 1993. it's it's sort of right in this goldilocks zone where my parents didn't really get us video game consoles or anything like that a lot of the retro tech right around when i was growing up is lost on me like i never owned a game boy or a sega genesis or any of these like early things so it was cool to go back for this youtube original show that i did called retrotech and learn about that stuff for the first time so last but not least why is marquez brownlee at the met gala that's a great question are people really googling that that's a pretty hilarious um i was invited to the met gala in 2022 i actually don't know the answer to that question but i was at the met gala i didn't know what to expect going in like i'd seen the red carpet and then i know that everyone got off the red carpet and went into some place and i was like oh what's the place but you really you just go into the metropolitan museum of art it's a it's an event that raises money for the for the museum and you get to meet some cool people eat some good food and hang out for a little while before you go home and wonder if any of it was real all right how marquez brownlee how does marquez brownlee pick thumbnails ooh that's a good question because it changed recently i used to be for the first 10 or 11 years the person who poured all the time and effort into the youtube video and then as it was uploading i went i need a thumbnail and a title and i'd come up with it in the last minute that's actually flipped in the past year or two i've realized the only way anyone ever finds what you made is if you package it well so we start videos now with a title and thumbnail in mind as we go to create them all right how does marquez brownlee scale his brand tech is cool i've been making a lot of videos on a relatively narrow window of tech being like we've seen smartphones rise up and now they're everywhere but i have interests all over the tech world electric cars headphones computers tvs so scale of the brand really just comes with being able to talk about and speak to more things and maybe going to the met gala how did marquez brownlee interview elon musk i tweeted at him said hey do you want to jump on an interview and he was like yeah it was cool to just see somebody um in that position actually know the nuts and bolts of what's going on we did this in the factory uh he gave me a tour of the factory afterwards but like he's pointing at different machines telling me exactly what they do i'm sure there are other business leaders who could walk through factories and tell me what they do but that part of it was fun even before we recorded anything he's like looking at the camera rig we're using just asking questions about the gimbal and like so what is this for what does this do uh so a nerd from the opening minutes of our conversation how does marquez brownlee go viral don't google that google how to how does anyone go viral that's the golden the golden question i found that the videos that i make that go the most viral are actually pretty predictable because they're about devices that i know people care about when the new iphone gets announced by apple and then they bring us all into that room and they let us shoot hands-on with it when i upload that video i know it's going to do better than this other thing i'm working on about this obscure drone that nobody's heard about all right this one is is marquez brownlee so is marquez brownlee good at ultimate frisbee well i play um and i've been lucky enough to play in the new york area which has some of the best teams in the world so the fact that i'm on the team you know i feel like that's a pretty good indicator i'm a decent player i'm not the best player though that's for sure ultimate frisbee loki is one of the most highlight friendly sports you will ever see it's a pretty young sport but literally average catches in the ultimate world make espn top 10 when the footage is good enough so if you ever get to go to an ultimate game you'll see it's amazing but you know the disc flies you've seen people throw a disc before but it floats just a little bit and some of those improbable catches are kind of routine for the best players in the world so just go watch some all right is marquez brownlee okay there's no more is he okay i think so what do they know that i don't know are marquez brownlee's videos getting longer actually yeah that's a really interesting observation a long video for me used to be six seven minutes now uh i just made a video that was about eight minutes long and we were all like that was a really short video could have been 18 20 minutes long uh is marquez brownlee going to space no i don't think so i mean i would like to that's one of those like bucket list things i have a bunch of weird bucket list things i want to do i want to see a bunch of natural phenomena i've never seen a tornado but i also want to go to space that'd be cool what marquez brownlee so what phone does marquez brownlee use so it's going to be different when i'm testing a different phone at the moment it's a galaxy s21 ultra and an iphone 13 pro and i do have personal preferences so when i'm done testing a phone i'll go back to a phone that i liked more so in between phones i'm using the s21 ultra more but i'm testing another phone next week and then whatever phone comes out after that so this is a different answer every time what new tech marquez brownlee is excited about i feel like the obvious future answer is ar vr but also electric cars for me i'm really excited about them and interested in them we've had some ar vr stuff that's like trickled a little bit in the past couple years but whenever you get a new device and a new piece of hardware to look at that's when it gets interesting and i think we're about to start seeing some more of that what is marquez brownlee's least favorite tech it's funny i'm a pr i'm i'm an optimist about a lot of this stuff so i don't know if i have a least favorite you know what's funny about bad tech sometimes tech is just ahead of its time like there's the google glasses of the world where like 10 years ago a camera on your face was a terrible idea and everybody ended up hating it but now we're around the corner from aren't there snapchat glasses and like ray-bans with cameras on them like we're all totally okay with that suddenly so you know just ahead of his time all right what does marquez brownlee get wrong nothing except for the one time i thought had three gigs of ram instead of eight or something probably what is marquez brownlee's plan well i've sort of said it before but uh i make tech videos so my plan is to keep making them and hopefully make more and better all right who is marquez brownlee's rival that would be linus sebastian no where i you know lots of people make tech videos uh lots of fellow tech youtubers that were actually all pretty good friends but for the sake of the memes let's just say linus who was marquez brownlee's first subscriber i feel like i would have to google that to find out i might be able to find out you know what's funny i used to have email notifications on for every activity on my channel including every new subscriber i turn those off after i start getting crazy but i actually i don't know ludi marquez brownlee first interview technically my first ever interview was with dennis woodside when he was the ceo of motorola but my first ever in-person interview as a basically a child was kobe bryant so that was a welcome to the welcome to the big leagues moment for me which was uh i'm not a good interviewer clearly but that was a great way of getting me used to the idea he's really good at getting interviewed who are marquez brownlee's favorite youtubers i watch a good variety of youtube a lot of educational channels the cgp greys of the world a lot of entertainment channels the mr beasts of the world a lot of tech channels like linus so yeah there's a healthy variety all right does marquez brownlee does marquez brownlee like android or ios better personally i have two phones right i carry this android phone in my right pocket and i carry the iphone in my left pocket and my main sim card with the phone number that i use the most is in the android phone but i have the iphone because there's so many things i have to be familiar with both worlds but there's so many things that are just a little bit better on the iphone i have family group chats and facetimes and all that but there's also camera stuff there's some apps that are iphone only my phone key is on my iphone so it's i'm i split my time like for real but i i do prefer if i could only use one i would just have the android phone does marquez brownlee review ai ah yeah actually i i did recently you might have heard about dolly dolly is a ai art generator that can take any text input that you give it you just say giraffe writing a skateboard and we'll take that and turn it into photo realistic high resolution imagery and whatever style you want and it looks real it's kind of incredible i am both optimistic and fearful of what ai is capable of you know now i i can compare the art that the ai makes to the art that our graphic designer in the studio makes and the graphic designer in the studio is better but we literally did a video comparing them and he would he would take you know six hours to make an image and dolly would take 10 seconds to make an almost as good image and that is both amazing and horrifying so he might be fired i don't think he's fired at any point but there is something to uh this ai quick generation thing does marquez brownlee what do i do use a red camera pretty often yes so they make some incredible cameras i started using them actually a really long time ago when i was in college i was super locked in on canon c100 1080p all day loved that thing and then i was like you know what i should try 4k and i rented a red scarlet w and never looked back i feel like the production value has actually been growing constantly since the beginning even though we've used red cameras for years we do new camera moves we shoot in new places we have a robot now if you've ever seen one of those robot arms that like puts the door on the side of the car imagine that but with the camera attached to the side of it and then a ps5 controller and then software to keyframe and just move the camera around it's crazy so we we have some fun with the camera stuff now does marquez brownlee have a master class i actually do yes i did a master class on making videos for the internet you can take a camera and a tripod and a light and make something amazing and put it on the internet and accomplish your goals maybe you want to share something does marquez brownlee go clubbing uh no no not really i found it kind of a waste of time i think outside of uh the normal android ios ai red cameras stuff i i play golf and uh i play i play video games that's that's maybe my biggest time waster at this point those are some good questions some of them were a little bit out of left field but i like that i feel like just keep mixing up what you guys google because maybe i come back and there's some crazy other questions that i get to answer but until then i'm okay if you're wondering i'm okay

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Length: 13min 9sec (789 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 27 2022