Marques Brownlee

Believe it or not, you actually need your phone to be able to flex a little bit.

I'm just picky about certain things in the videos, so I'm always switching out things that look or sound better.

I don't get a lot of sleep.

When I sit down and make videos, my No. 1 thought is that I want to make a video that I want to watch.

In my 100th video, I gave a shout-out to the 78 subscribers I had at that point. And I was stoked at that point just to have that many who cared about what I had to say.

I typically have one backpack, my everyday carry.

Without contacts, I'm almost blind.

I don't edit on laptops anymore.

I think the problem with 'YouTube Rewind,' at least how I see it, is pretty simple actually. YouTubers and creators and audiences see it as one thing and, YouTube, who's in charge of making it, sees it as something completely different.

Using a massive panel of pure sapphire for the front of a phone would be a little bit stupid.

I went so far with school, so I might as well just finish. Getting my degree is something I'll be really happy about.

Being a game changer to me means changing the way other people see things.

I guess for me, I keep saying the words 'consumer electronics,' 'consumer tech' - the biggest purchase decisions people make a lot of times are the phones they buy and the tech they buy. To be able to influence other people's decisions on that front is pretty game changing.

It's hard to pinpoint a 'moment' that validated years of work.

YouTube, for me, is the primary platform.

I'm really happy that YouTube is as complete and successful as it is, to the point where, when things do go wrong, they'll hear about it from every direction.

As far as tech videos go, we try to present things as realistically as possible.

The closest thing I have to a manager is my parents, for all their words of wisdom and business experience.

Folding in is better than folding out. Folding out is cool, and it looks potentially better... but I don't think that's the way to use a folding phone.

A lot of the companies I work with, they're not returning my calls or emails on weekends. So weekends are weekends for Ultimate.

So, one of the biggest things about YouTube versus any other platform is the built-in audience and discovery tools.

Every camera shoots horizontal, right? So we're all super used to framing things with lots of horizontal room. We've seen this new wave of Snapchat stories and Instagram stories where people are actually framing for and recording in vertical. Whether it's better or not is debatable.

A lot of journalists don't want to conflate their own opinions with those of their employers... With a YouTube video, you can be as personal or as journalistic as you want.

Creators are what bring the eyeballs to platforms, and vice versa. Sort of a chicken-and-egg thing, because you can't have creators and no platform.

I had an Ultimate jersey on in my first video. I get a lot of comments about it, because a lot of tech people don't know anything about Ultimate.