Phil Lester's Q&A at VidCon is (finally) Up!!

I'm Taylor Lorenz and we are here at VidCon and I would like to introduce you to Bill Lester I'm glad we got matching yeah we totally planned this sanim is like the signature of VidCon look it seems like my phone charger onstage all right well so Phil thank you so much for coming all the way from London for this I'm so happy to be here I always feel very British where I'm speaking of Americans all the time I'm like oh I'm aware of my accent oh well I'm gonna be looking at my phone I'm not texting I'm actually see the Instagram I can see the dog video I'm trying to get you from really low angle here so first first of all everyone I treated out earlier you know people's questions for you and I feel like 80% of them or about Toni asking where he is and who's watching him okay that's the whole thing I don't know about Toni and I bought a set where you can grow a shrimp from powder and it was only meant to live for about six weeks powder yeah it's like the little eggs are in the powder and they've been asleep underground for thousands of years then you put them in the water and they grow into a shrimp and I thought was gonna die and then I was like I'm gonna go to VidCon I can't just leave this shrimp in my apartment to die so I bought a full 50 pound tank for it to live in and then I had to buy a machine that feeds my shrimp everyday and you set a little clock for it so at home there's a little robot feeding my shrimp you're gonna come home and this shrimp is gonna be like 150 pounds yes like on your couch it's gonna be in the bathtub like hello I'm here where have you been yeah so you know I know you have a lot of merch and yes another another thing people wanted to know about your your merch collection is are you gonna sell vases vases Oh see we say Voss's Balls's that's the thing I mean I like a glass of water so why go back for more when you can drink however giant one okay it's a glass yeah it's a large squash this is too small this is like a bimbo so you've been on YouTube forever yes forever what is the dawn of time diner YouTube what um what has been submit what has been some of your most memorable moments on YouTube you've owned like one video that really stands out that you really loved oh the whole thing has been an adventure and it's one of those things where you don't realize where it's gonna go so I just started making videos for fun and I just didn't know it was gonna turn into this big thing who would think that'd be a convention all about people turning on a camera and chatting to it and then uploading it so that was a big surprise I don't it's really hard to pick out one memorable moment of this entire journey because looking back on it the whole thing has just been incredible and more than I could have dreamed of happening yeah it's like a blur it's a blur it's a wonderful blur so you know you're kind of in the news a lot recently and for coming out yes so what what made you decide to come out now you know what made you take the place well that was a thing because it was a strange one because I'd already come out to my most of my friends and family like quite a while ago but it was one of those things that having on the internet I was like I don't know if I want to share too much of my private life but then I also thought that my story might be able to help other people so I thought you know what why not why not just do it and let everyone know I'm gay yeah so speaking of VidCon again yes how many times have you been to I I was trying to think about this earlier I think this might be my eighth VidCon like every sentence you say we're just gonna hear like that's a lot of VidCon Aang that is so much it has only been around for 10 years I know and thinking back to my first ever vid con I was so nervous to even come here but also I was really excited because that way I hadn't been invited to the one before and then I got invited to this one I was like wow I I feel like a legit youtuber now and I had probably the worst hair of my life as well that was a great great impression to give everyone what would you say what's been your best VidCon so far I said honestly I think the first one just because I've never really been to America to me all of these creators that I watched and I was like Anthony Padilla's over there and it was like it's such a big deal to me all of these people that are doing YouTube and I was still quite new to having a big audience and then seeing how far other people were taking it it was crazy so that was my next question as I was wondering if you're ever starstruck by anyone oh my gosh I'm that that was a big one when I first saw Anthony back in the day I was like I'm such a big fan but you don't want to be that person no I was just like alright how you doing Wow he's unfriendly I think I played it too cool but we're good friends now so that's nice yeah and also I hung out with Sofia Nygaard this year and we've we've chatted before the other VidCon and we talked online sometimes but there's something about her videos I just find so relaxing I'm just like if I'm in a bad mood I just want to watch someone melt 400 candles together into one candle and it just really fills me up anyway we hung out with her and Tyler and also simply neurological and her sister so it's just nice to be able to see friends that you wouldn't normally get to see because no one comes to London I'm so far away there they have started doing a London VidCon now but I think only a few Americans have dipped their toes into it so far they need a VidCon exchange program yeah you know youtubers everywhere and yeah I sympathize I love to watch the soap carving videos oh my gosh the soap carving the slime like my Instagram feed you know it recommends you videos it is all just dipping fingers into Wow yeah I have tried to make slime and it went actually surprisingly well if anyone needs a slime recipe check out my video I think it's hard to make glue all over ya there's glue there's chemical reactions happening that you don't want to be happening it's very sticky is a whole thing so speaking of memorable videos and you know what videos are really memorable that you've made have you ever had a really great time making a video or what videos you have the most fun making and it's been a whole journey of making videos I think I did one which was a tour of my brain which was a lot more artistic than I usually have which was involved me cutting out things out of cardboard and opening mysterious brain flaps which is not a word I thought I'd say today that was quite a crafty one and also I think the coming out video is actually quite a big deal to me too to make that and that's probably one that I'm proud of for making but also one that I was quite nervous to post obviously as well did you spend making it I mean like if you saw Dan's video he spent months making his video about his sexuality and that was like a whole process but I was like no I'm gonna keep mine low-key and I'm just gonna sit down and have a chat but still when I was editing I was like should I say that is that okay is this coming across right and then yeah so it's still take me a while to first of all pluck up the courage to film it and then secondly post it was like I don't wanna press go what's gonna happen everything's gonna change honestly it was like the reaction I had from you guys thank you and also my peers and also friends I hadn't talked to for years but was sending me messages saying they had an impact on them or it helped them so it was actually a really good feeling and I was happy that I posted it yeah [Applause] so you know I think people had a few questions about England okay I guess you know you know you can be our British and bass I will be the British ambassador today yes so what are some British things what are some British things that we should know here in America like are there any kind of like British youtubers slang well one thing about Britain is sometimes I'll say oh I'm from London and they'll be like oh do you know my friend John and I'm like no it's actually quite a big place so it's all it's usually a lot bigger than people think and there's a lot of places why a lot of people think England is London when there's so many of the places in England like I'm from a distant town in the north where we all talk like we're from Game of Thrones but I've lost the accent now but yeah there's there's so much more to it than just London and I think of anyone visits they should totally step their toes outside of the big city what would you say is the biggest difference between like British youtubers and American youtubers oh I don't really I feel like a lot of youtubers and now they're not doing similar things but I wouldn't say there's a huge difference because YouTube's like a whole creative platform now so people aren't just vlogging anymore there's short films this whole this whole feature films on there so I wouldn't say I've noticed a huge difference between the two yeah I you know I know there's probably some creators out here in the crowd among these fans channel here was a YouTube channel oh it's a lot Wow so what advice would you give to people that are just discovering YouTube or just you know deciding to post their first video but they might be a little bit nervous what would you tell them I mean it's always quite a nerve-racking thing so if you've already posted a video then well done you've already done the first the first thing and I'd say do something that you want to make don't look at what everyone else is doing and think wow I need to copy that I need to be like them I need to do this because that's successful because if you're not doing something that fulfills you creatively then I'm not sure it's gonna be something you're gonna want to stick with and it shouldn't all be about the views and the numbers and think oh I've only got ten views on my video and if you think about 10 people that's that's like quite a few people to have a chat to and if it's a hundred people that's like imagine if they're like all in the room with you it's that's quite a lot of people so I would just say make something you want to make and don't focus on numbers and instead just focus on the impact you've had on one of the human and that might be important to them and that's enough what are some things you hope the YouTube like never changes about YouTube ooh what would never change I know it's hard I was thinking about this myself yeah one thing I I don't know I I just think there's such a great creator community ah yeah so I hope that you know people can still come to VidCon in 20 years ya know I hope so and I hope it stays a place where people can be freely creative and upload something that they're proud of yeah yeah so you know YouTube also takes a lot of time it's a lot of time and effort yes yes Matt Lee you do so many things you're touring you got a book you know you got Tony Tony's the biggest pop you know how do you how do you balance YouTube with the rest of your life and all these other projects are you back on I mean it's always a bit of a juggling act like there are some youtubers they're machines and they will upload twice every day or something like that but I don't upload as often as the standard algorithm would say if you upload twice a day then this is gonna get you the most views but it's just a fact of trying to juggle everything doing some good scheduling and also not worrying if something isn't on your channel for a week or two weeks because everyone knows that I am doing other things as well so I'm not always just sat there not doing anything you know there's always there's always something going on I'm not I am lazing about sometimes I mean let's be real so what are some projects that you're looking forward to working on or oh I don't want to be the guy that's like mystery project but and at the moment I am I'm working on some bigger things but it's quite a strange position to being so I don't fully know what they are yet but I can say that I've written part of a script for something which which if it does get made will be really exciting and I have pitched it out to a couple of things that's what yeah I don't like to be mysterious but I am working on things but it's one of those things that I'm not getting too excited about it because obviously it's not a given that is going to happen yeah do you have any kind of like dream projects like Oh like you know I've always want to start in you know space movies oh my gosh my acting is terrible so I would never star in a space movie I could be a robot maybe a robot in a space movie I'll play the robot Phil would like to answer another question Thank You Oscar Oscar Academy are you out there no I think dream project would be something with like maybe some kind of movie with a bigger budget where I wasn't necessarily in it but it was something that I've made and I could see creations from my brain being made by the people I think that would be great so you have a lot of fans here obviously a lot of fans online too how often do you keep track of like your fan accounts like are you one of those kind of people like the youtubers that like reads every single message do you follow any fan tumblers no I mean I obviously look at my @replies on Twitter and I love to see especially the creative community out there like some of the art that you guys make is incredible so that's that's really nice but I think it's when there is a community like that I think it's good to just let them do their own thing and not be like some kind of person looking over and checking in direct and things like that because then it becomes something that's not theirs and it's like I'm checking on what everyone's doing which is probably what they don't want anyway you know yeah they want you lurking on yeah yeah so if they at reply me then I'll see it but if they don't then I won't I think there are places that you could go on the internet you could see people talking about you and things like that but that's never been of interest to me because I just like people that are interacting with me directly you know that make sense yeah so what's your favorite I don't want you to ply your phone right now but just off the top of your memories don't what what's like your favorite meme what's the last name you saved let's be the last meme I've seen or saved oh why don't you like the last meme I've say anything involving a dog is my go to meme so if there is a Corky involved that'll be saved on my phone immediately that is a very British answer a cookie I know it's my favorite dog so cute their little faces Iona said I want to eat them I don't want to eat one but you know i emotionally want to eat one yeah it's kind of unfair that what's the other one the Shiba Inu or always in the memes I feel like corgis are underrepresented the quote 20:19 is a big year for the cork I think they're they're making a comeback would you ever get one I I mean I would love to get a dog but yeah but a dog is also a huge commitment that you can't take lightly so I don't want to just get one and then not be able to look after it properly so I need to be at a place in my life where I'm like dog time I have space for you maybe I'll see if Tony's still alive when I get back and then I know I can look after a shrimp maybe I could move on to a another animal yeah yeah Tony watch the dog you'll be fine robot to watch the dog yeah well they could breed to make some kind of horrifying shrimp dog I'm sorry on that note we have some fan questions whoo so I'm gonna pull out some questions from Twitter are they from should I read they're out oh yeah let's say it let's say their names all right so first we've got I don't even know if these are their real names okay one is called nachos 12 days until try guys what's that name human Lester human Lester shoutout to you they actually had a question about Tony - they're people are very concerned about his well-being I don't know why they don't trust this robot that you know I should have got one of those pet cams where I could have maybe the live stream to while I was away I hope he's all right yeah you should live story to the fans they keep track yeah there's actually someone to sign the desk our apartment like the concierge guy and I was like I do have a shrimp the apartment so every emergency save the shrimp let's go to one from fantastic DNP okay that's Connors Court DMV they this is marked important all caps exclamation point yes so I need you to answer honestly what socks do you have on right oh my gosh I don't even know oh this is very appropriate for the u.s. I've got waffles with little bits of butter on top which is actually betraying my love of pancakes so you know yeah is that appropriate for VidCon or what do you mean it's perfect for America we don't really do much of the waffles and pancakes back in England whenever I come here I'm like inhale all of the butter yeah that's amazing that's sad we need you need you need to be the one to like popularize waffles in I know I'm gonna start my own waffle stand if YouTube fails right in a couple years or shuts down Phil's waffles open up 2020 I think you heard some customers yeah thank you and the next one is for the only reasons about tea eh okay are there any awkward interactions you've had that still give you gives you flashbacks abusive this day oh my gosh I mean if you watch my videos you know my life is a whole series of awkward interactions but there is one I think I've spoken about this before a panel so sorry I've already told you but I was on a train and it was completely full I'd got on this train I was like so full there's nowhere to sit except there was a seat next to a woman who was asleep and I was like okay I mean she's asleep but I might just sit down quietly I need somewhere to sit was like a two-hour journey anyway so I sat there for about 30 seconds when all of a sudden her hand went onto my leg and started rubbing it and I was like why's what's happening why is she asleep is she like sleep reaching out to touch my leg until she looked at me and screamed because her boyfriend had gone to the toilet and she thought that I was her boyfriend they'd come back to the seat so then she looked at me I was like oh my god I'm sorry and then her boyfriend was like looking at me cuz he'd come out the toilet now I was like all right mate what'd you do my so I was like I'm sorry this is such an awkward misunderstanding I don't know how to explain it I was just like awkwardly backing off down the train carriage so that's why I now have a fear of trains yeah that's that always whenever I think about awkward moments I there's a lot but that's always like the a star like secondhand embarrassment yeah like I've got back sweat now thank you so the next question is from at amazing chance 33 and no spoilers because I have not seen it yet somehow oh my gosh wait how did you feel about stranger things 3 oh is anyone find a strange things no spoilers no spoilers I have not seen this yet I'm on SEPA sewed three and I am loving it so far yeah I'm not someone that binges shows I can't watch it all in one day i need to not watch it all in one day because then i'll be sad when it's over so i like okay i'll do like two a day maybe are you one of those people that takes like one bite of their Halloween candy know with candy I'm like no but I'm loving the summer theme of stranger things and I feel like already it's a much stronger season in season two I don't know if that is yeah people agree with me and I'm interesting to see where it's going i-i've seen the scene with the rats that's all I'll say which is quite disturbing there's a rat see creepy I feel like you need to be a guest on stranger things I would love to be a guy some strange again don't wanna ruin it with my acting but maybe I could be some kind of alien I'd be good at that aliens and robots I figure okay the next one is from @o figlio a o ph e l io la figlio dispel these out because they're very hard to pronounce and so she's asking is there something from the new era of youtubers that you wish you had during the OG youtube era oh my gosh the new era I'd say fast internet because back in the day back in my day no I'd make a video and then a computer to give to give the video to a horse and it delivered it no it took like four hours or five hours to upload a video oh so I'm like a big one would leave uploading overnight so--but to be able to like upload something a bit faster I take that what else would I take from now I don't know maybe my knowledge and wisdom of not being a seventeen-year-old that's fair yeah um what do you do oh whoa sorry this is from tan out at TA and o UT t a te n tan Alton what do you do during a creative block Oh see this can you get through it having been on YouTube for so long there's obviously gonna be a time where I'm like I literally have no idea what to do and I think anyone in a creative industry is going to have a creative block and it depends on the person obviously but for me it really helps to talk to someone I've having one now will you talk to me but it helps I've got Dan I can talk to him about like what do you think of this idea or what do you think I could do with this also I will this sounds very off-brand but I will go out for a walk and just clear my head and or if something is really blocking your brain and you can't think of it just stop forcing it and maybe try thinking about something else or go to sleep and try again the next day because you can't always force an idea and then if you've done that the next day you might be like oh there we go brainwave I know how to do this and wake up with an epiphany yeah what okay this is from compromising PML Oh compromising it's gonna be how was it performing in front of 5,000 people for 80-plus shows for around a year oh my gosh that sounds so nerve-wracking yeah I mean going on tour was probably one of the most incredible experiences of my life first of all I get to see so much of the audience why every day is a new audience and but also it's quite a nerve-wracking experience because you're going you're going I want to say you dry now this is quite scary are you a biscuit maybe no but you you never know what's going to happen but also the good thing for me is that I was performing in front of a crowd that already knew me and enjoyed my videos and that that was kind of a warm fuzzy feeling rather than a ah they're going to attack me and doing a presentation at school kind of feeling so I think the first show was scary but then after like show three or four I was just loving it so much I didn't want it to end did you have any people that like followed you on tour like from multiple cities or countries there was some there's some familiar faces especially in America because we were on a tour bus so we could go sleep on the tour bus that we'd wake up in a new place but someone else could drive to the next place and come see the show again but the good thing about the show you should totally get the DVD by the way if you haven't yet spawn the good thing about the show is each one was quite different because we had a lot of segments that had audience interaction so that we'd have this website where you could fill in like different answers so like we did a truth bombs thing where people could roast us so that was refreshing for us so because each day we didn't know what was gonna be on the screen behind us so I kept the show fresh but also how to rewatch ability for someone that might have been to the last one yeah this is from at requite Love has there been a point where you wanted to quit doing YouTube like it did it you just never feel like too much and you're just burnt out and you want to know not necessarily YouTube I had a bit of a I don't even want to be on the internet moment I I don't know what year it was but basically I was in a very embarrassing car insurance advert and it was one of those things where back in the day I don't know if it's like 2008 or 2007 but just the idea of being on TV was really exciting even if it was in some kind of weird car insurance spawn and I don't even know if I got paid for I don't think it's like they were just like you want to be in this although yeah sure so I sent him a clip what I didn't know is they put this advert out I'd say every 30 minutes on British television every ad break had my face in it and it was the point where people in the street that didn't know me from YouTube well I oh my god is the car insurance guy and it it got me quite like nervous to go outside because I was like people are recognising me from this annoying advert and I didn't realize how annoying it was at the time because I thought it was just took me some kind of in joke with my friends but it just turned into this huge thing where everyone was recognizing me from this advert so at that point I was like maybe this might not be for me if I'm not enjoying this kind of attention if my youtube gets bigger what if it's the same but you don't realize that the difference between people that enjoy my videos that I'm happy to make and then if I see someone now in the street they'll be really nice and not like laugh of me that's really funny I feel like you're probably like a meme before I wasn't me I was literally The Annoying car insurance guy this one is from at bun something H yeah she says I have very bad social anxiety do you have any advice by the way love you so much oh thank you love you too and bad social anxiety I think that's that's not something I'm like qualified to give proper advice on but I do suffer from anxiety myself and and I think it's just something where what helps me is I think when you have that kind of social anxiety you're always worried about what other people are thinking about you and how you're presenting yourself and what they're thinking about you and what their what their feelings about you are but what I've realized and the what is important to realize is everyone has their own thoughts and anxieties going on in their head all the time and they're probably not thinking all those things that you are thinking about yourself they're like oh and what am i doing tonight oh I need to do that work oh there's Rachel oh yeah but I need to think about that but they're not like wow I hate her hair wow I don't like that what I'm thinking is about them and it's just your brain is lying to you and making something bigger than it actually needs to be that's why I'd say so I'd say just try just to focus on yourself and what you want to do and just do something you feel comfortable with but also don't be afraid of pushing yourself out of your comfort zone every so often just to give it a little test because you might be surprised of where you can go [Applause] next question is from at space plums she wants to know if these plums yes a lot of space up here this robots aliens do you see they're gonna storm area51 I saw this storming area 51 don't do it are you gonna I was gonna ask if you're gonna join I don't want to get shot they've got lasers there and stuff army but both I mean once they get the alien now who knows what's gonna happen I would totally look after one of the aliens though I love the meme about the alien that's in the doorway have you seen that like my alien when I'm up at Saraya I'm eating cereal out the box and it's just like hey no alien meme today it's really good that's really funny it reminds me of like the FBI agent that's what it's like yeah oh my gosh I've got a new thing for my computer where it's a sticker and it goes over your laptop but you can slide it back and forth yeah so now FBI can't watch me anymore they're just have to watch your YouTube videos like every yeah yeah yeah they don't get directaccess to listen through the microphone but they can't watch yeah well space bums wants to know is your gaming channel coming back oh yes the gaming channel wow I love I think that was one of the most popular questions that we got asked games and I'm so happy people enjoy the gaming channel and we did we took a pause from the gaming channel using the word hiatus which always seems like a bit of a dramatic word but the thing is Dan wanted to obviously take a break because he didn't want to do any YouTube videos for a while he was planning this video about his sexuality and that was such a big deal for him so I was like okay well if that's the case we should pause everything for a bit but also I think when you're making something even if it's really gray and people love it you should always have a pause and think about what do you want to do with this is this gonna last forever how's it gonna work so the truth is we haven't sat down and had a full chat about what's the gaming channel gonna be now but it's something that we're really happy people enjoyed and also in the future because the thing is with gaming people comes to gaming channel because they like watching me and Dan do things I feel like the gaming part of it is less important than the funny bands I know some people like the video games but if you think about it's more about being a comedy channel than it is necessarily about serious gaming we're doing level seven of this game so I don't if it might come back as gaming or it might even come back as something else where me and Donna trying something new because like we haven't spoken about this properly yet so that might not be a thing that happens but it's just we always want to be evolving and trying different things so the answer is I don't know it's still on a hiatus but I'm very glad that you enjoyed what we made so far in it what are some games that you love to play like do you still play games on your on your own yeah I mean I've been playing a lot of apex Legends which just is me I go around I'm so terrible at it but and I just get shot by lots of people but then in the one out of 50 games where I killed someone I'm like yes and I also played hollow night recently on the switch that is an amazing game if anyone's got a switch I was also rubbish at that by finished it 100% so I'd recommend that hollow night got it yeah you loved it everyone loves it so this one is from PJs forest kid DJ's always good whoo have you seen any celebrity dogs yet oh my gosh there's so many dogs at VidCon I can't tell which ones are celebrities and which ones aren't they're all so cute yeah i-i've seen some dogs I I've also seen this celebrity Pig has anyone seen in the pig what there's a pig there's a little pig here a little what are a big one is a massive pig weight like a hog no like this big I don't know if I have too much coffee at Starbucks and I'm like imagining this pig I saw a pig was a celebrity Pig and not just a pig attending grace Helbig took a picture with it so if you go to Instagram there's a pig there and I saw that pig but I just had this crazy starbucks tie-dye Frappuccino so I try and call that I was like oh there's a pig am I seeing things I've had too much sugar by the way that is a weird drink wait I was gonna ask I've seen people like tweet about it what does it taste like it tastes like skittles and banana at the same time is what I said but then the cream is very vanilla II so it's it's a lot it's a lot happening I don't know if that sounds I like I give it four five oh that's a burst on my first sip I was like yeah but then I drank the whole thing what's your usual like go to Starbucks order anything with lots of sugar so I always go for the crazy Frappuccino yeah yeah so this one you kind of already answered this but I'll just give you another opportunity if there's any other words of advice oh of course you would give I'm so this is from night ni a mhh 1408 waiting the whitening what word of advice would you give to two young kids even those not starting at YouTube like what what are some things that you wish you knew as a teenager some things I wish I knew as a teenager is probably to not stress out about really small things that are in your head on that day like my world is ending I'm so stressed about this and maybe think what am I going to be doing in a month from now and is this particular thing I'm really upset about or worried about going to be a big deal in a month or a year and just try and picture yourself beyond that really stressful day like I really hated some parts of being at school and I was like this is gonna last forever I'm gonna be at school forever and I hate it but then if you just think oh actually in two years I'm not gonna be there anymore it's like oh this isn't my life forever so I'd say that what were you like as a teenager like what was your vibe and my vibe I was very shy but but if I was with people that I knew well I just I was pretty much the same as I am now I would just say really weird things that came to my head but school yeah so it's very quiet so this one is from at dream fill I feel like a lot of these are just stand names is that actual name yeah and they want to know your YouTube guilty pleasure oh we already covered slime we can apply severe melting candles together and I really like watching cooking videos because I don't watch it's weird because I can't really cook very well if you've seen any of the baking videos you would know except the brownies if you ever meet the brownies they are great but apart from that is a bit of a train wreck but I was watching I was he called Jonah's kitchen has anyone watched that yes and he makes these really intricate foods foods bakes with his cats watching so you got cats and also it's crazy they do video they just sit and watch him making these cheesecakes and he was spinning sugar and the cats was like there are some well-trained kittens or they're CGI I haven't figured out yet they rope us it's so hard to make cats care about anything that he is doing well that's great yeah what do you have like a go-to thing that you cook at home like what's your like dinner I I go pretty I go about as far as getting a jar and pouring it on something I've moved beyond microwave food though so I've advanced but also I really love a takeaway that's like that's my guilty pleasure in in in British speak that's takeout take its takeout or delivery deliveries both they bring it to your house yeah I got a little confused about that that's okay [Laughter] okay so um am oor DNP a mourned amore they want to know what is your favourite piece of merch like I mean yeah what's like what's like something from your merch that you honestly like would wear every day well it's not something to wear but I've been working on this candle but I released and I I was so obsessed with getting it perfect I think we've had like 30 different samples of this candle before the finished one came through and it was all about the smells like getting that perfect fill smell that sounds weird but is the whole thing so I could choose the glass I could choose the wax I could choose the scent I could choose the box so I was just like okay I want to get this right so I was having smells delivered to the house we were sniffing all these different things and why it was like a full chemistry lab it was crazy yeah how do you even decide that like do you have a smell like I did when they send you these smells do they send you like little pieces of flowers and stuff does like like smelly jars oh yeah a little sense so I picked one that I felt like it represented what I would want in a candle like it was they're very summery planty fill smells but they don't smell like literally me for just like the essence of me yeah that sounds very relaxing and soothing how did you pick the color what color color is is a very bluey greeny colour which is also please don't burn your house down so this one is from at soft boy howl soft boy howl they want to know some favorite tour moments especially to those places that you guys have never been before I mean I was so lucky with this tour because I literally went all around the world I got to see so many places I've not seen before I went to Mumbai I went to New Zealand I really like New Zealand actually likes it supposed to be beautiful it's beautiful you see it you're like why why does anyone live anywhere else when you see the Rolling Hills from the Lord of the Rings you're like what is this place of beauty so that's definitely somewhere I'd want to return I love that but yeah I feel like that that was a year of my life on that tour and just living on a tour bus and having a crew that became my friends and it's weird you're like it's like you're living with 20 people and then when it finishes I think this is probably the same as being on a film set when you finish this thing you'll just like bye and they go on to the next job and you're like don't go friends just live with me in my apartment and so I actually took a bit it wasn't it wasn't like morning but it just took a bit of adjusting to be like oh okay I'm not gonna see 20 people every day do you guys have reunions or anything yeah yeah we should we should we had a reunion with a couple of them but I think we might have like a 1 year reunion where we all hang out again was there anywhere that you booked on your tour just because you wanted to go there why I wanted to go back to Vegas because that was really fun but I didn't work out yeah about to go to Vegas that'll be fun and but we're like New Zealand was one of them who really wanted to get yeah it's just so far away it's so hard to get to especially when you're bringing things over it's like how is this gonna work but thankfully we figured it out and also to get to go to Manila as well because there was so many people saying come to Manila and we didn't know that was possible but to finally get there who's credible amazing yeah never been to Brazil I feel like people are always like come to presume yes Brazil as well yeah yeah it was so good that's amazing um is there anywhere that you didn't get to go on that tour that you're like man I got a tour we would have loved to go to Mexico we've tried so hard but it just it just didn't work out this time but it's somewhere that if I get the chance I would love to visit yeah so this one is from b99 how all they said what inspires you the most oh I'd say other people inspired me the most just seeing what other people are creating and just consuming media that people have really worked hard on i I watched PJ's videos and he's such a creative guy and you can tell that he really loves what he makes and just seeing people being I guess breaking from the YouTube mold and just making something creative that really inspires me is there any way that like you you you go to seek inspiration I mean like I know you yeah you touch a little bit about this like yeah weeping on it what to do when you have a creative block but is there anywhere that you like go like go to find ideas like do you watch their YouTube channels you go on tumblr what do you do oh going to find out it that's that's a tough one it I don't like sit in an art gallery and cry while staring at blank wall but I just I just try to watch as many other people's videos or just TV as well like there's so so much good TV at the moment like stranger things you're just like there's so much inspiration here that I might be able to take somewhere else but yeah I think it's just watching other people's videos like jenna Marbles she's always got an amazing idea I'll watch her just like give her dogs treats for 25 minutes and is better than an Oscar movie so yeah she's a good one to watch if you need a bit of inspiration what are their TV shows are you watching oh I like I'm always back on Buffy I watch that a lot I'm on Brooklyn nine-nine at the moment which which has been incredible I'm on season 2 but that is a dangerous binge watch because I'm like oh my gosh I've watched four of the episodes now I haven't done anything but it's really good I love the characters I think it's great like a Netflix person like do you just go on Netflix yeah I never watch real TV I'm just always on Netflix or anything on Amazon any of the things I'm just like yes yes recommend more things to me or house like home shows as well like house decorating it was a kind of trash ball so amazing I watched selling sunset on Netflix oh my god my favorite show I really recommend it to you and yeah watch it and then you're like oh my god krischell like they'd be so mean to her I watch it like three people I watched it with my parents on holiday for some reason anyway I walked past the Oppenheim group like in LA and I was like oh my god they're in there I turned into a bit of a fanboy for sewing Sancho just since it seems like most of you guys don't know if you want some full reality trash in a good way is that it's these like beautiful real estate agents in LA that sell like mega mansions and that everyone is so beautiful that works in that office yeah it kind of hurts your eyes I mean that's LA too but it also kind of made me think I could sell houses they're kind of like having lunches most of the time it's loving lunches and then yeah and you're letting million dollars like yeah what's so easy I'll just you know who wouldn't want to buy this yeah 18 million dollar house so anyway so at baby djh baby DJ wants to know how do you look after your mental health in regards to social media oh that's that's the thing I think sometimes there can be too much of social media and you don't want to be looking at it as soon as you fall asleep as soon as you wake up and so for me I think like I said earlier I just try and consume things that I know will make me happy so I'm not always on the Instagram feed like trying to see the most beautiful people or I'm not trying to see like indirect people talking about me where I'm not meant to read it and sorry I think it's more just knowing what I want to look at and also checking yourself and thinking does this make me happy do I need to look at this every day or not because especially like I only follow a few things on Twitter because I don't you don't want to maybe wake up and the first thing you see is some intense political stuff or people shouting each other arguing and I think a lot of it can be a negative space but there are ways to make it more positive for yourself yeah if you could only have one social media platform for us your life not YouTube what would it be oh my gosh just one I think I'd probably go with Twitter you know because that's where that is where I interact with my audience the most and that's that's I think the most important thing yeah Twitter is kind of crazy though sometimes it's so hard to follow yeah it's a lot coming out there's a lot but also it's thankfully from the community that watches my videos it sort it's usually quite a positive things if I check my @replies I'll be like someone's made this amazing drawing so that's always a nice feeling yeah do you have any like um bedtime rituals you know for your phone at night did anyone try and use that screen time thing where it came out right it's a few of you there's a thing that like switches off your Instagram Xfinity or half an hour or something so it's like okay I'll give that a go I'm gonna be one of these people every day is like your time has run out I might keep going so that failed and I I'm really guilty of it though I just stare at my phone until I fall asleep which I'm not meant to do you're meant to like switch it away read a book so maybe maybe I'll try and be better by I'm really bad at it they sell little beds like little mini beds for your phone oh my gosh that's like black marrow yeah why don't ring I think that you should have an away message for your phone like I always want something that's just like you could just like mark and just be like I'm not by my phone right now yes that's the things you're always on it or wear all the time and everyone is expecting a constant stream of communication but no one ever calls me that's the thing I don't like phone calls so whenever that happens I'm like what my phone has that function I didn't realize yeah that's always terrifying I assume as a telemarketer and yeah do so at Nemo 23 underscore 95 wants to know any airport fail stories oh my gosh the at the this Jen like there's always a thing with our travel to any kind of convention this time was pretty impressive so we got on the plane at Heathrow in London and we'd sign it for a while nothing was happening real I'm sure we meant to have taken off by now this is really weird and then the pilot came on the tannoy and he's Australian who's like good I seem to have a bit of an issue like well what what's that he said in my 20 years of flying we've never had this problem before but there appears to be a wash bag on the wing what's a watch or what like that with people's toothbrushes and stuff in like a toiletries bag on the wing of the plane this was a two story plane and there's literally someone's toothbrush bag on the wing so like what happened did someone just like eat their toothbrushes onto the wing of the plane so people are getting a bit worried like why is it there how did it get there and the pilot was like I don't know what's happening I don't know how we're gonna get it off because the thing about a plane is really tall so we were delayed for two hours wife's at sat on the plane well they have to get a crane to get someone to raise up and just get this bag off the wing and we were thinking that they're gonna be in one of like those suits to like figure out what's enix we didn't know what's in it a few people were starting to panic but we were kind of just finding it slightly funny I don't know why anyway they retrieved it and it just did have toothbrush and toothpaste it shouldn't just take it off and then it would like fall off the wings I've been a fun game like see how far it got yeah until like until it got too high and then you don't need to land on a cat or something do you that's true that's that would explode by a washbag from 30,000 feet yeah that would be dangerous yeah forward but you don't want to see them anything like you don't want to see anything on the wing of a plane no no no when we were driving actually there was a lizard on the car and I was like please don't fall off so we have to stop and then it crawled back in the car right come on Larry just get off the car he crawled into the car no he was like in the underneath where the windscreen wiper it was like a pet but we didn't want it to die so we had to release it he just wanted to go on an LA adventure you know yeah do you have you had any memorable la adventures hey I went on a hike because like which is a very la thing and a very unfill thing and I went with Dan and we didn't know that a hike involved actually walking up a really steep hill we thought it was just one of those things you go for a little wander but we went to the Griffith Observatory and it was like it was like that yeah that's not us that's like not an easy hike no it was not an easy hike and also I am the palest person ever so the Sun was beating down and I was like this is a lot thankfully everyone has tiny dogs so that's a little a boost like an emotional boost every time you see a dog when you would going up the hike but it was good I'd recommend it actually a hike you need to you need there's like contraptions with like the little like cookie at the end of a string oh my gosh you know but it's like a dog yeah definitely and then I wanted to just sing the whole of lalala and when I got it so Sophia underscore FA you are SCH wants to know what so far in your career are you most proud of what am I most proud of I'd say definitely the two tours that we've done I'm so I'm just so proud of them especially the most recent one like when we worked on the DVD it was just such a great feeling to see kind of what we've achieved and also the audience's reaction to it as well when we were filming it I was just so happy with it and then when I showed my mum she had a little cry and I was like ah I've achieved something that's nice yeah so I'm proud of that are you planning another tour not at the moment no I think that that was that was the one for a while but I would never say never I mean I would like to it's just one of those things that it will feel ready to do it when it when it's ready to go I'm not thinking I need to go do it now but maybe in the future yeah yeah so we have about 10 minutes left nine minutes left and I thought we'd take a few more questions from Twitter okay so let's see what we go I know if there's any you don't want to answer just say pass okay all right behind Oh let's blow it out I think before you came here I was telling you most of the questions when I put out a call for questions I was like you know what do you guys want to know and they're just all like why are you so awesome oh you have a lot of amazing fans yeah so let's just check the hashtag amazingphil videos anyone sent one in let's see this person wants to know do you have a tick tock I do I I think I was about to say no but my friend Brian he was like you have to install this and experience it so I did download it I don't actively make tick tocks I was just curious I was like what is this thing I want to be in the loop have you have you like where do you think of tick tock it's a wild world so it's so different to anything I've been used to I'd say the closest like cousin of it was probably vine which I loved when it existed but there are some tick tock compilations I've watched they're actually really funny so there is some stuff on there that's good yeah those are good yeah yeah it's like tic TOCs that keep me going in the day that kind of those kind of compilations if you need tic TOCs to get through the day you gotta watch more YouTube this person wants to know if your mother is ever gonna get on YouTube my mom I I actually made a video with my mum I think it's like five years ago or something but I think that was enough for her because someone recognized her in the shop and she was like oh I didn't realize this would happen so she's had her taste of Fame but now she's got she's enjoying the anonymous life she's like no she's like no half channel anytime soon she would be a great youtuber though she's hilarious yeah what does it take to be a good youtuber do you think I think is it's being genuine I would say because it's very obvious if someone's pretending not to be themselves but also just someone that's got something to say I would say so yeah yeah share your creativity yeah there's no rule anyone could do it yeah this person wants to know what collab would you love to do they haven't had the opportunity to do yet oh my gosh there's so many collabs I'd want to do yes a fear would be great I'd love to do one with jenna Marbles one day it was really fun climbing with Anthony last time I did a Danville or a rat or an Tacna a Dan Anthony or a rat competition so maybe they could have a sequel to that or something yeah have you ever filmed a video but not uploaded it ooh that'd be a rare thing I think the only time I think that might have happened is if you film and then the memory card crashes or something like that I did one where I did that personality test with the million questions the INF J or ever and I filmed that for like two hours and then I realized it was super boring no one cares because there's so many questions so yeah would you remember the results I remember I was in one of my recent videos Mike I remember what the result was INFP people always say like I'm n Q whatever but I can't and qjl yeah as introverted northern friendly person and what do you think your fan base would be called if they hadn't already named themselves it have named themselves that is an impossible name themselves well there's there's lots of names going out there the fandom with a pH yeah yeah yeah that's a good one though it's a play on words well done yeah yeah yeah that's you got it I feel like you have to make it a pun that's the hard thing and there's only so many like puns only so many buttons that you can do I would I think I think one also suggests one which I don't know people use is like the fanatics the fanatics like don't use it then all right 90% of these messages I have to tell you are just dogs and like pictures of corgis I mean that's just my my feed anyway all right why you love Twitter I would love Twitter if this was my experience of Twitter it's yeah it's like a lot of dogs a lot of corgis great you know what I feel like yeah some people asking who would play you in a movie oh and maybe Benedict Cumberbatch Wow I like some people say we share a similar feature but I could never work out what it is when you now I see it like I totally see it Moriarty I don't know if it's the eyes or the forehead maybe somewhere yeah cheekbones yeah that's a very like I'm just like you don't think about someone's cheekbones but when you see two people the same cheekbones you're like wow there is so yeah Benedict Cumberbatch probably this one might be a little hard but if you had to pick a quote for your senior yearbook what would you what would you pick pick a quote or like a motto like do you like a motto that gets you through a motto there is never too much candy that's the first one that gates my head that's really that's a that's a really good one yeah are there any kind of like fun dances that you're into taxes no I mean dance on stage no protect tax our first tour offers tour we did a whole dance routine at the end of it you did yeah and that was one of the hardest things for me because I people have got two left feet it's like I've got no feet when I try and do any kind of movement so we had two days with a real choreographer who works with like West End shows and every time you could just see this disapproving face no Phil try again I've never sweated so much so yeah dancing I will not going to be on Dancing with the Stars I'm not gonna be on Strictly Come Dancing like Joe sugg it's just not built in time it's so intimidating and terrifying yeah it was in the show it was so ridiculous and far away from our comfort zones it was funny but I think actually trying something my actual dance yeah it would not be a good thing so um you know a couple people were asking you're so big now and they were like you probably don't experience rejection anymore have you ever been rejected for you know a collab or something that you wanted to do no I'm like out there's always the especially like at the moment I'm and what advice would you give to kids well I wouldn't take it too hard because like everyone is busy and they've all got their own things going on and some people might not realize how important this is to use if you're like hey did you want to collab and someone's like oh sorry I'm busy you might have been like working up to send that message for three months and they didn't realize but I still get like those rejections now like I submitted a pitch for this thing I was working on a different idea last year and I'd spend weeks working on all of these ideas that could go into this this show I wanted to make and then we just got the email back that was like sorry that's not what we're looking for and so I okay put that in the bid let's stop you know what I do like they have all these lists online if you google of like you know ten famous writers that were rejected oh my gosh I I love reading those though because it would be like some big person and some you know that I don't know they'll have gotten a letter being like no blame and then they go on to make like some amazing movie yeah I think a rejection also will lead to something else happening as well so it might be the right thing even if you don't realize it at the time yeah yeah any parting words are read to be out of time but any parting words for the fans I mean thank you so much for coming to this because I know there's so many exciting things happening at VidCon so for you guys to sit here with me for an hour it really means a lot so I hope you have a great time for the rest of time you'll hear thanks for watching my videos and have a lovely day yeah thanks very much [Applause] [Music]

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Published: Tue Aug 27 2019