2:28 How'd you get Into Streaming?
6:13 How His Parents Feel About Him Streaming
14:15 Celebrity Status
17:26 TikTok Talk: How It Started
23:18 Being Locked Into a Niche
27:31 Banned on His Main Game
32:28 Signed to an Org
33:39 Final Thoughts: Pieces of Advice
2:28 How'd you get Into Streaming?
6:13 How His Parents Feel About Him Streaming
14:15 Celebrity Status
17:26 TikTok Talk: How It Started
23:18 Being Locked Into a Niche
27:31 Banned on His Main Game
32:28 Signed to an Org
33:39 Final Thoughts: Pieces of Advice
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Skylerguns :Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to TwitchTok. I'm your host Skylerguns. And today I have here with me a guest Call of Duty Warzone trick, shatter sensation. Sometimes he has pain sometimes he doesn't hit his trick shots, but he's been perfecting them. So fast couple months just got picked up by full squad gaming. 16 year old full time content creator, AznBoi How you doing? Doing good?
Unknown:How about yourself
Skylerguns :doing good. First off, I want to say thanks for being here. Full Time 16 year old content creator, there was another person I had on the podcast. He was also 16 and it's just crazy to think about. Um, but before we start talking about all of that and your growth and where you how far you've come. I mean, you've exploded in growth. I want to say what 350,000 on TikTok now somewhere around there.
AznBoi:330 Yeah, around there. 333 4330 and
Skylerguns :and climb
AznBoi:Yeah. And then twitch on the 70k mark. I'm trying to get into YouTube, YouTube's the next big game. But solely going no everywhere.
Skylerguns :For sure. Yeah, YouTube's a different beast altogether. So I want to start off how do you how did you get your name?
AznBoi:I'm actually originally My name was little Asian. But when I tried going to find the name on Twitch, it was taken soon. I was like, Okay, what works? Little Asians, but too long. I was like, Alright, Asian boy. Cuz
Skylerguns :Did you always have the AZN spelling?
AznBoi:Yeah. So I used to watch a show called Sri outlaws my dad. And one of the like, the characters on there was named easy. And I'm like, all right. roll with it. So like my Steam, everything like that. It's just been Asian.
Skylerguns :It's pretty cool on your communities called Asian nation as well, which I find pretty cool. Yeah, nice little rhyme right there. Um, so talk to me about your your background and how'd you get into streaming and all that.
AznBoi:So I grew up like you know, casual ps3 ps3, console gamer got like a laptop played Minecraft. Um, I've always had like a kick for like, streaming all those watch streamers growing up, but like, I didn't really have the harshest said like that, like the computer internet to even start sharing. Till like, recently in COVID, when I was like, forced in my room, and like, I, I got my computer. I really have nothing better to do. So I'm sitting here like, mid summer, playing cod for like, five, six hours doing whatever around the house. And I was just like, screwed. went for it.
Skylerguns :Wow, that's crazy. What are some of the streamers that you that you watch and kind of inspired you when you were younger? So, um,
AznBoi:I grew up in the CS scene. So I watched a lot of shroud and scream. And like, you know, watch a lot Tim tatman before watching his Overwatch, as well as like, I was like, really big into like, Overwatch and CS. I used to play on my laptop. So that like really like sparked it for me.
Skylerguns :Okay, yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, Tim, Tim has been along around for a long time. Same was. Um, so that, yeah, that's pretty cool. I mean, you've come quite a long way. And it's, it's crazy for somebody so young to make it so quickly. And, you know, I, you know, if you're, if you're a young person trying to get into streaming, that's the best time of all, I mean, a lot of the time doesn't. Yeah, I mean, you have so much time, you'll never have as much time as you do right now until you're already retired. And, you know, there's some there's some older folks out there that are getting the streaming career, which is pretty cool. But I constantly wish that I started a lot younger than I did. But how does it feel to be I mean, you're basically already at a full time income. I mean, everybody has different standards for what they consider full time. You know, you have to pay your bills and all that and you know, you're 16 so I don't know what kind of bills you have, if any, but the level, you're basically already full time with the amount of subs that you're getting, and I'm sure ad revenue might play a part in that. So how does it feel knowing that you don't really have to go into the working world if you don't want to you don't have to go to MCI or anywhere, really.
AznBoi:I mean, it was kind of like a situation like pre COVID. Like, if COVID didn't actually even hit, I would probably be, you know, working like a nine to five, like COVID hit, it was like, there's no point risking B and on my family to go work a nine to five wound bless for my parents table like to support me without be having to work. So I was like, I was like, if I wasn't even doing this, it was fine. But it's just kind of like a nice thing to do.
Skylerguns :Yeah, definitely. Definitely a good cushion there. Did you have any plans for further schooling? Like college after high school?
AznBoi:I am going to college. Yeah, from my parents. But yeah, I really, I'm not I have like, I'm still like a gray area, like, why I want to do or like what I want when I'm major in for college. But I still have a kind of a year to decide. So it's like, for the next now to the next year is like pure grind time where I can like, be able to take it to like the peak. And like ride that throughout college. Kyle what Sam's doing, but yeah,
Skylerguns :sound what's Oh, yeah, makes sense. How do you so how do your parents feel about it? Did they? You know, I'm sure most parents they don't think that, you know, their kid could be a full time streamer. Because it's such a wild dream, but people do it. So how do your parents feel about it? And is them like, you going to college? Is that plan to like some of their expectations? are they telling you that you still got to go to college?
AznBoi:Yeah, they're there for most my life. Um, so even school first. So as long as my grades I like for this whole, like, junior year, I've got the four point. So if my grades are good, they really don't mind what I do. So if my grades are good, I have good grades, but I'm stuck in my room. So they don't really care what I do.
Skylerguns :Well, that's good. I mean, are they supportive of it? Do they like understand the level?
AznBoi:At the start? They're like, you know, they kind of just understood that as like, alright. Alright, he's playing video games in his room slam be, then it came to a point where I'm like, so and so like, car dog came in. He's the one that paid for my go XLR stream deck. Second PC, when they see these things like arriving at our door. They're like, What is going on? Where is this coming from? What What is happening? What do you what do you do? You know? And then they start getting into it and they start understanding that okay, I started making TikTok videos, I stream and assigned to understand like, like, the social media aspect of it before they were like, pretty, like they were like on the blind side of things and kind of genuinely knew I did but not really
Skylerguns :at all. Do they know how much money you're making?
AznBoi:Ya know? My mom was the one that helped me set up the LLC for buy this so I can tax write off stuff. And she was been the one to help me like even most of it. Cool.
Skylerguns :Yeah, that's awesome. Is she Are your parents pretty? Like financially savvy? are they helping you like make the right decisions with it? Are you deciding what to do with it? Whether it's retirement or upgrading streams? Um,
AznBoi:my parents are are really really great with that. Since I've we've came from like a background because the Philippines is relatively you know, poor not very well off. And we came from like a spot where we really had to save every dollar we had to to get by. So I get Yeah, they're really great with money.
Skylerguns :Yeah, I mean, cuz I know like, I mean, thinking about it. I mean, there's, you know, streamers around your age that are like Minecraft streamers. Like Tommy in it is how you say his name. But it's crazy to think about how much money he's making and it's like, what do you even do with all that especially at that age? I wouldn't even know what to do with that. I
AznBoi:mean, I think for me, I since I don't really have any bills. So it's like the only things I really spend money on and it's like, you know, given back to the other streamers like gifting subs, you know, someone like my mods helping back with my mods or failing you like in your keyboard or mouse of the malo upgrade, help him out without no problem. It's like, most of it is just like, just like putting away savings. Because like, at certain point, like, I mean, like couple months ago, I was off like a headset microphone and a little heartbreak squad cast. At a certain point, there's not much you need to upgrade, you know? So I'm just saving, saving, saving.
Skylerguns :Was there anything super lavish that you bought yourself? That's not really related to streaming at all? No.
AznBoi:But lately I've been looking at his life for like, probably two years.
Unknown:Oh my god.
AznBoi:Every everything I bought to share me, yeah. Are you planning on buying a car soon? Maybe? Um, depends. Depends on how like school goes. Because if I'm online for next year what's the point?
Skylerguns :That's true? Yeah, I'm not. I'm not sure where you live. I don't know if you want to stay or not. I mean, Michigan, Michigan. Yeah. I mean, depending on where you are a lot of people, like don't even need to buy a car, like in really urban cities, but
AznBoi:I have my life. I've had my license for a year, and I still haven't used it. So I'm like, this is really I mean,
Skylerguns :so I mean, I guess there's not really anywhere to go. I mean, the stream so much, man, the day that I got my license, I was, yeah, my driver's license. I was 16. I broke my foot. I broke my foot that I had to use for my gas pedal. So couldn't can drive for like, three, four months after I got it. What a waste. Horrible.
AznBoi:I want you know, after it's like, it's been, I've been like, hard quarantine. Like, I'm like, only time I really go. I was like, if I'm going to go and get groceries or whatever. But like, for the past year, like, I can't just like, even with like school people. I've kind of like, I've kind of just like went like this past year, I've just focused on myself. Just like, okay, I've gotten the mindset, I'm like, I don't care what really what people think of me. I don't care what people like. They think this would be if they say this about me. Like, what's the point of carrying someone's opinion? If you know what you're doing makes you happy? And you can continue to do every day. Like, so you should care about.
Skylerguns :Yeah, that's a good mindset to people at school, like not necessarily your close group of friends, but do other people at school that you don't really know, do they know the level you're at and talk about it? Um, started quarantine.
AznBoi:I'd probably around like 2030 Canon TikTok, right. And the school yearbook came to reach out to do stories on people that went viral over quarantine. But other than that people have like, you know, I've reached out to my snapchat and they're like, Hey, I saw your video. I saw you on my for you page. That's cool. You're doing this? And like they start supporting and like, some people know, but like, I don't I don't sit there and tell people what I do.
Skylerguns :Yeah, for sure. I, I don't know. Like, it's, it's weird. I just don't really like talking about TikTok or streaming with people. I don't know. It's like,
AznBoi:we sit here every day interacting with like, hundreds 1000s people. Sometimes when I when I'm off stream, I'm socially drained. I just want to sit down lay down listening music. Do something else off social media.
Skylerguns :Yeah, that that brings up a good point. Like I think with COVID, a lot of us became hermits after because we had nowhere to go, nothing to do. But now it makes me wonder if a lot of us in that position that started streaming and started doing social media. But part of it is because we're so active in social online, and that by the time that we're done, we just don't even want to do anything. Maybe it's both I guess
AznBoi:it's probably both but like, I feel wasn't. I mean, if COVID wasn't a thing, I don't think this whole cod talk, or any of this would be even as big as now. I feel like it would be a different scene. Because pre COVID I was mid lacrosse season. So if it wasn't, you know, streaming, how could we be in the gym right now, you know, working out playing lacrosse, but it's crazy how the world works.
Skylerguns :Yeah, I mean, as crappy as COVID is, I mean, there's definitely some good stuff that has came out of it, that's for sure. And Tick Tock is just a life changer for so many people. I mean, people are practically celebrities now.
AznBoi:I've always never, I kind of don't really look at myself as people come up to me and they're like, You're famous. I'm like that now I just, you know, just, I don't know. I don't I never really looked at the numbers and it really is like when you sit back and you realize like 100,000 people follow you. That's That's a lot of people 100,000 you just don't it doesn't really like click in your head that that many people sit there and follow you for you. Oh
Skylerguns :yeah, I'm the same way. I mean, like I just I don't like talking about in person with especially like strangers like if it's like friends of friends that know about it or like oh, like talk Got this and I'm like, I just, I don't want to talk about it. I just feel so awkward and like the same way like, I mean, I'm on a smaller level than you are. But I feel like no matter how big me or you get, like, I just feel like a celebrity feeling would never really come at all.
AznBoi:I guess it comes with like streaming because like, I guess you don't want to have that persona of people thinking like, you know, like you your it won't be like, you know, I mean, it doesn't really change the fact. Like, I think, respectfully, people in the cod community, a car talk, at least, they have a certain sense for like, no one's really better than anyone. numbers don't really mean much. It's really about the person.
Skylerguns :Yeah, for sure. And then a big thing too, is like you no matter how many followers you have on Tick tock, that doesn't always translate to twitch either. So it's always a tough position. But you've you've had some you've had some very good conversion. And I believe that I mean, I'm sure that a lot of you're following on Twitch isn't even solely from TikTok. To and just more organic reach as well. Because I mean, 350,000 and then 70,000. on Twitch, it's that's an insane conversion, which a lot of people struggle with.
AznBoi:I feel like some people struggle with is okay. They're there. They're so self conceited. That's pointing the right way. They're not willing to branch out, meet new people. Because I like if you, if you network with people, you become really good friends with people, you like your community in their community is gonna like they're going to link and they're going to start, you know, that community is going to start to merge with another one. And it's just a W for like, for you and the other person because there's not much to lose. You both are gaining. No. I look at it.
Skylerguns :Yeah, networking is a huge part when it comes to it. That's for sure. And, you know, people always get stumbled upon that. They're like, I don't know how to network. But I mean, honestly, I feel like it's just building a friendship. You know, most of the people that I reached out to it's never with the intention of like, Oh, I want to network with this person and LIKE, SHARE communities. No, it's just like, I want to play games with this person. This person is really cool. As easy as just as simple as that, to be honest.
AznBoi:I mean, like, it just, I guess yeah, cuz it's like, Alright, cool, Heisman, other homie on in, you know, bring a game every day we do our things. We're in the same realm. It's just cool.
Skylerguns :Now, so talk to me about TikTok I guess one thing that has been on my mind is with with TikTok. A lot of people, you know, usually have to, you know, adapt and change the stuff that you're doing if something's not working. And something that I noticed about your account, I was following you since you had like 5000 followers. I mean, you were like, on the same level for the longest time, and you just exploded all of a sudden, and you just been climbing ever since. I remember one of your first viral videos, but you know, you you had the same format. And it was, you know, really nasty clip that you got on Warzone intro in the beginning and then roll the clip was your your motto. And you did that for every single video, which TikTok loves consistency. But something that I've wondered about is like, you know, for the longest time, you weren't seeing that much success, you were getting a couple 100 views, couple 1000 views until you know, you really started to blow up. So what was your reasoning behind sticking to the same format, even if it wasn't working in the beginning? And how did you know to keep doing that?
AznBoi:So funny thing is, all my friends Benny told me start doing TikTok like, way back then, I started doing TikTok as a joke. So I used to, I used to, um, like free I would used to like go on YouTube free editing software, founded Vinci. Vinci has been like, you know, my editing software since I would take twitch clips and just upload it. But like, I found it super organic and easy that I was able to just just be me, you know, I didn't want you know, like, you know how some people would want to put on a persona, like Doctor disrespect, or like BenJammins to great content creators. I just found it easy that I'm like, I didn't really think about it back then. But it's like thinking about it now. Like, the way I play, like the least on eyes, right? Like, if I'm able to do this consistently, I'm able to put out consistent content. So if that's what they want, then I'm able to do it easily. Then, in my head, I was like, Alright, if they see this on my TikTok and the only link in my bio is my Twitch. Then they gonna click on it and they gonna be like, Whoa, he really does this. And he does it consistently. So they can continue watch and continue supporting. But like that's only like I thought I like recently got it wasn't from the start.
Skylerguns :Yeah. Talk to me about your first your first viral video that you had if you remember cuz I feel like you know you've been hit Nasty clips for the longest time and then just for some reason, one of those finally exploded and it snowballed. Um,
AznBoi:I was actually just doing this on my stream, we were looking back arrow TikTok it was the M, had a crossbow clip that I had like a, like a 400 meter, crossbow clip and warmups that was doing I was doing, I used to play in the amateur league. And then the next one, my first ever million view video was an M 13 video that I didn't 10 minutes. class was about to start and I was like, Alright, cool. I'm just gonna cook something up real quick, nothing serious, okay, cuz like back then I was averaging probably like 510 510 k views. Alright, if it's a 10k, I'm Gabby, I turn my phone off. I wake up at the end, like when I get our class. I'm sitting there, like, there's 750,000 views in this video. And I'm just, I'm just like, whoa. But like, I didn't really think much of it. Because, you know, like, people were like, Alright, get your three seconds of fame. And just move on. I didn't think much of it. So I just kept on doing it. Like, more and more it started happening. I was like, whoa, whoa, that's kind of cool.
Skylerguns :That's funny you say that, because I always feel like the ones the videos that you post that are just a one off video they think nothing of those are the ones that always end up going viral. So I'm a big believer in like, post anything that comes to your mind to be honest, because you never know which one's gonna be hit.
AznBoi:I mean, I guess I guess, for my case, I'm kind of like a one off because like, being Polo talks about this a lot. It's like, there's not a lot of people that will sit here and like, consistently hit clips, unable to, you know, like, have sick clips to post. So it's like, I guess it's I'm gonna like a lucky spot where I'm able to just like mass produce it. Yes. Firefox accessing,
Skylerguns :unless you fake your clips. Let's not even talk about that. So, you know, speaking of which, you your TikTok pretty much is only Warzone. And I know that there was a time where, you know, some of you guys may not know this that are listening. Asian boy did get banned from Warzone for a short period of time, which I kind of want to talk about too. But my question I'm going with is during your time that you were banned on Warzone, I saw that you're playing a little bit of apex, but you never posted an apex video. So why not? And what are you going to do if you get tired of ozone or Warzone dies? Possibly See?
AznBoi:With Tick tock, tick tock is super, they don't like changing your content at all. Because if people people follow you for they see one video on your 40 page, and they follow you for that video. They're not gonna want to see anything else. But that video. So if I posted, I was afraid that if I posted a post clip of me like, you know, doing my thing, I just didn't think it was like, was gonna do well.
Skylerguns :Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's so weird, because some people I see are able to post anything and everything. And some people have to stick to one specific format. It's, you know, I know that Sally, Sally is a dog had that same issue because he mostly posted only wars on content. And I'm pretty sure he got I think he got tired of Warzone at a point in time, but he just started playing a lot of Minecraft and he started making Minecraft TikTok on those blew up. So I don't know, I guess it just depends on how you go about it. But I mean, I honestly, Yeah, go ahead. For the game part.
AznBoi:I think the best way to go about it is, you know, you see the big people like Nick Tim cloak, see whoever they, they take charge of what people really want to see. So if that group of people are like the nuke squad, they are gonna they're gonna, they're gonna take control of what games people are going to want to see. So if they want to, like if Halo comes out with new br or like bows, who comes up with a new br right? And like, all of them shift over that. Everyone's gonna want to watch that. And I think that's the time where us as like content creators can be like, Alright, this war zone thing is slowly dying out. Maybe you can be the first one to jump the gun on battlefield Halo. That'd be the perfect time in my opinion.
Skylerguns :Yeah, for sure. I've definitely have seen that backfire. And scenarios too though. I've seen some concrete content creators jump from their main game, to you know, this new popular game that looks promising and you know, of course Have you jumped to a new game your viewership is gonna fall a little bit, but that's not the biggest problem. I've seen it happen where that game that they're they choose to play in Maine ends up dying in a couple months because it just wasn't a good game, whether it be like, you know, games like hyperscale, or rogue company. So that's always a risk. But I mean, it's just with streaming, it's like I, I've gotten to the point, I'm tired of war zone, and I, you know, I'm not having as much fun and I want to play the games that I want to play. Because at the end of the day, I'm streaming because I like video games, and I like you know, my community, not because I absolutely love war zone. So even though it's been a struggle, not playing war zone, you know, at the end of the day, I feel like I'm happier streaming to so you know, has its up and ups and downs. But I think that kind of comes with like, looking at things from a business perspective, rather than looking at things from a personal or hobby perspective. So, you know,
AznBoi:I think I mean, I feel like these times where, like, you're not on your main game, is the perfect time to build your community. Because like, for when I was like, banned, I found the people were like, are gonna take that, okay, no, no, I'm good. I found that people who are like, Alright, I will watch you for whatever you do. No, I played, I played GTA for six hours, averaging like 150 200 people. Okay, some people in my community will literally see here and watch anything. Some people, you know, some people enjoy, apex. Okay, I stream apex, averaging, I always, from day one, I've had my viewer count off, because that meant that is mentally draining, seeing your count, your view count go from, you know, fluctuate, higher, lower, higher, lower day to day, it's just saving worth it. So like, but I feel like, these are those times where like, where, like, I've seen like, Stan Stan has talked about it. And I've tried to implement, doing just chatting to start Rand off your streams is so important. Because maybe you'll gain that extra one to viewers, I will stay for the long run. And those wanting to add up over time.
Skylerguns :Wow, that's really insightful. I've never really thought about that before.
AznBoi:So I mean, like, Stan's community's saying? Like, they will watch him play whatever. It's just like all about community because like, without community, technically we're nothing then you know, for sure.
Skylerguns :Yeah, definitely. Meaning human community is what makes a streamer, that's for sure. And, you know, the way that you foster your community is how you know other people are gonna portray you. So you know, make sure you communities not toxic to because you know, there's some streamers that have those like toxic communities. But that's like the type of streamer that they are. So I'm speaking of the Warzone ban, the infinite infamous Warzone ban. So how did you get banned? And how did you get unbanned?
AznBoi:So I didn't get unbanned Actually, I'm off a new account. So I'm assuming was, I was checking my emails. Um, there was a login from the UK. So what I'm assuming was my account was hacked and he was playing he or she, whoever was playing on my account with illegal skins because the banned wave was for an unlocked tool. So you can like unlock skins whether but like, when I was playing, I didn't have any crazy skins. I didn't have dark matter didn't have the mask is I had Navy's crazy skins that like I wasn't meant to have. So it was kind of like, What do I do? But then it's like, you read the TLS it's like, it's it's your responsibility to keep your account safe. So I'm like, can't do much great. So just made just made a new account.
Skylerguns :And like, I mean, obviously nothing's happened yet so because I got shot. I got
AznBoi:shouted down last week.
Skylerguns :Oh, wow. I was
AznBoi:14. So I did a sub with on because it was like second there's like mid spring break. I was like I'm gonna do something. Um, by the end, you know, five minutes, five minutes left on timer. People are getting like crazy subs. Alright, after it caps, like I had to do the full 15 hours of 14th hour when I was loading in. So when you know your shadow bands when you cue into a game and your ping goes from 50 I mean, I stared at this for weeks child loading the game 5126 and 350 so you know you're shutting down. So I had to wait another week where I played on the mods account. And like just did all that I just sit there and explain to people every single day you go Shadow
Skylerguns :Man Ah, yeah, I was shadow banned as well. For some reason. I didn't know the shadow banning was a thing at the time. I was like doing mad googling and I like I have a fuckin I have a 1.7 Katie I have no idea what the hell I could have been shadow banned for so and that's one of the reasons why I'm just like over wars on between all the broken weapons horrible updates, you know getting banned hackers rose skin that I do run myself. It's just there's no like I just can't i can't enjoy it anymore. But I mean props to you for having that mental willpower. I mean, I don't know if it's just a matter of like, you know, you want to keep grinding that game or you absolutely love the game. Maybe a mixture of the both, I guess.
AznBoi:Um, I was more like, I was I'm gonna. I'm weird. So like, even if the game sucks, it's like a love hate relationship. I can just continue playing. So like I have so many games for like valorant like started valorant got the beta and grind into a mortal game sucks. played Minecraft for lovino Everyone has their Minecraft kick for two weeks. I play a bunch of Ross still have play rust every now and then. But like, I don't know, like, I enjoy game. There's always little things I enjoy that I can just continue doing. So Warzones were one of those.
Unknown:You still haven't been in war zone?
AznBoi:Yeah, actually, um, with the, with being unbanned because like, I mean, I did take like a week break, technically. So it's like, okay, I can grind again. I have new stuff to grind. It's like there's always little things you can do new little techniques that you can start to learn and master that like sort of slowly pick up on
Skylerguns :Yeah, yeah, I'm sure it's been a grind trying to get all the weapons back to and attachments. I would not have the mental willpower for that. I probably just bought a cat with everything unlocked.
AznBoi:See, I just I didn't even want to do that. Because like, I would be like to be like, how did you get the master so fast? How did you is that so fast? I was like it. I have nothing to hide. Like, okay, check my task manager. I put a Mario Mario cam on October 30 Bama Mario cam on it. I just had to really I just want to because eventually the point. People can be like, he's not cheating. Maybe just good game. That's just the point of waiting for.
Skylerguns :Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's crazy the amount of accusations that you get, but I mean, you are really nasty at the game. So it makes sense. It's a nasty shots. Um, so talk about if you want to talk about a little bit about a full squad gaming is the the org that you signed to. So how did that come about?
AznBoi:How did that, um, I had no idea about anything. I checked my business email, like, Oh, what's this? Like, alright, we want to sign you. I'm like, I'm, you know, I'm like, kind of skeptical. It's like, I'm, you know, I'm just, I don't really I haven't really dealt with with business. So I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna go into business meaning like, Okay, you guys got like, a content team. Basically. I'm like, whoa. This is like, this is where it clicks on my brain like, Whoa, it's like really getting serious. Like, this is like turning to something like, real. So, yeah. But um, I mean, it would have been a little bit cooler experience if I flew out and like, got to meet all the other homies. But I mean, do Tom will be them.
Skylerguns :Yeah. If you guys didn't see the announcement, full squad gaming. They've been signing a bunch of tech talkers like Sally's dogs, Tony Stark, Mike. Oops, a couple other people that aren't Warzone related. And they have a content castle in San Diego, Santa Monica, Santa Monica. Unfortunately, Asian boy was not allowed to be a part of that because his parents would not let him fly out there. But maybe maybe next time, maybe next time you get to take part. Yeah. Yeah. Um, other than that, I mean, that pretty much covers a lot of the stuff that I was curious about. You know, we talked about your your grind and how you got here and tick tock, is there anything else that you want to talk about that we didn't get a chance to discuss? Um,
AznBoi:I think that Tick Tock wave is a little too late to join. Unless you you seriously have, you know, you seriously think you have something that is because everyone has seen everything on Tick tock, a warzone. loadouts the glitches I guess it's kind of cool for people that like, are new to it, and they're like, okay, you know, get some followers wherever, but like, I feel like people should start jumping on the YouTube shorts. shorts. And like, I personally haven't touched shorts because like, I think my YouTube is solely for people who wants to be like, offline, you know, they don't want The live interaction, because I built my twitch off, people wants to be there for the live interaction live gameplay. So I just didn't touch shorts. But I think people who are wanting to get into it should really, really look into shorts. Because I think they'll find the same success that we have found on shorts.
Skylerguns :Yeah, I agree. And I if anybody's listening to that, that is gonna take that advice. Do you definitely don't have to reinvent the wheel with that either. You know, because you could take your tiktoks and just upload them straight to YouTube shorts. You don't have to change anything. Obviously, keep the raw file so you don't have the TikTok watermark. I don't know how much that affects it, but might be just a good idea. Because I've actually, the funny thing is that my most popular YouTube short is like 1.7 million views right now, which is pretty good. But a part of the reason I feel like it blew up is because the first sentence I said in the video was, Hey, TikTok I need your help. And I just sent that straight to YouTube. And I had so many hate comments being like, this is an TikTok Get out of here. Fuck this guy. And I was just so funny. And it was hilarious. But I mean, if if a video where I straight up said, Hey TikTok and I posted it to YouTube shorts got 1.7 million views. I'm pretty sure that you could just take your TikTok and upload them directly to YouTube with no no editing difference at all. But yeah, now that makes sense. Yeah, I know. BenJammins of course, was on the podcast talking about YouTube shorts. So he had some good insights on that. But yeah, I definitely agree. definitely agree. And honestly, like just not even just keeping all your eggs in one basket. A lot of us started out on tik tok and we only focus on tik tok, because that's really all that we had, you know, had, but um, you know, doing tic tocs and seeing success, I think it gave me the confidence to be able to pursue other aspects of content creation, because, I mean, if you can get a following on Tick Tock and your your contents good enough, I mean, then it is going to be good enough on other platforms, it's just more of a grind. TikTok is definitely the easiest to grow on compared to other platforms.
AznBoi:Yeah, hierbas I mean, for now, I think for people like us, we need to focus on like, we I continue using TikTok as a tool to just just feed all of our other socials, because at a certain point, you know, TikTok may not be the craziest added point is gonna be so so saturated, it's gonna be like, super hard to grow at that point. But like, at this time, I think it's so great that like, we can still like, bring everyone to twitch or like YouTube, whatever platform you want him to.
Skylerguns :Yeah, for sure. I think the biggest thing with TikTok The problem is that there's no like community engagement at all. with YouTube, you know, you have the community tab. So if you have like something cool you want to share or anything you can, you can have that post, it'll go out to your subscribers, twitch has go live notifications, Twitter, you can send out a tweet, which is pretty straightforward, but TikTok you have no way to capture any engagement from your followers, unless the only thing you can do is post a video. But it's very well known that you could post a video and you have no matter the amount of following that you have that video can get like 50 views, which it's weird how TikTok works like that. It's like the only platform that will actively not push your content to people that want to see your content.
AznBoi:It's a Yeah, I mean, it still gets the other way flipped around, like everything else how you said but like, everything to talk related. It's just like for you page. Like, if you go on analytics and some of your videos, it's gonna be like 99% for you page 1% following I'm like,
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Skylerguns :Yeah, crazy. Well, other than that, I think that i've you know, I've learned some things talking to you. You had some very insightful information that made me think and i think that you're you know, you're a good inspiration to a lot of other people that want to do the same thing. You know, biggest thing is that you've got the personality as well you know, you could be as nasty at a game as you want to be but it's kind of come with a good personality too. But yeah, I mean, if you want to take a moment and plug whatever you got going on if you have any new projects coming out or just plug your socials um
AznBoi:I mean, the only social I really care about is my twitch live every single day have been live. I'm trying to go for the year I i've been lying for like 276 days straight. I haven't missed a single day since that's like the like that's like pride for streaming and everything about like that's all I really care about.
Skylerguns :The Yeah, Asian boys twitch will be in the description and all his other social social media links if you guys want to check it out, but it is AZ and boi, Asian boy on Twitch merge drop at day 365 maybe
AznBoi:I was actually working at doing merge, but like, something's happened. So I mean, my mercy is delayed. I had some really cool ideas.
Skylerguns :Maybe one day, I'll cop a piece. Alright guys, thank you guys so much for listening to TwitchTok I'm your host Skylerguns Today I had Asian boy, check him out on Twitter to twitch TikTok all those cool places live every single day. I'll see you guys next time. Thank you.
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