Should I keep it?

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[Music] so this right here is my silver play button this is awarded to those who pass a hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube and it really it's an amazing milestone and it's one that I didn't pass lightly and one that I'm still amazed with to look back on today that I was actually able to do it obviously I'm uh I have a lot more than a hundred thousand subscribers now YouTube just took a little took a long time to make this but that's cuz it was made with care but here's the thing like it's great I love it to me it means so much it means more to me though the fact that I've been able to connect with so many people this is just a symbol of that and for me when I look around my apartment I feel like it just it doesn't really fit the decor I mean I know I got the rock frame there it just doesn't feel like it would match everything so what I want to do is actually give this away to one of you guys and I don't want to just give it away though I've got a little bit of an idea for how you can actually win this so let me just I'll tell you on the road we'll head there and then I'll fill you in so one of the things that has driven me the most in creating for this YouTube channel as well as my podcast is inspiring people to overcome that doubt and just get started so whether you are a photographer or you're simply trying to build healthy habits in your life there's a lot that holds us back and my friends Collin and Samir have done an amazing job of encouraging people to take action after attending South by Southwest Film Festival they were inspired to create a festival of their own but they wanted to make it more accessible so they brought it to Twitter weekend to Film Fest was born take whatever camera you have go out film something edit it and send it our way right here on Twitter a 48 hour film festival that's motivated hundreds of creatives to get started so I'm on my way right now to their studio so they can help me launch a film festival today they did I'm vlogging like you guys you guys have one of these one that says Matt dia Bella you were just gonna be having a conversation I guess isn't it cool with my knee up like it's very casual all of a sudden this feels like if we were part of a drawing class and we had to make a portrait of you over like if you could just put put one knee right in yeah elbow to knee and take your shirt off tell me a little bit about weekend Film Fest specifically what you guys think makes it so special one thing we didn't realize was gonna happen was that people would start uploading but then there was gonna be active members of the community who are also there just liking commenting retweeting and you realize sometimes it's really hard to push yourself to create something and put it out online when you're putting it out into like a black hole right if you're just starting on YouTube it's gonna be really hard to start to garner an audience but when you put it out into you know onto Twitter and you hashtag weekend Film Fest and it's a part of this community then people are going through who have submitted and watching the other submissions so you kind of a built-in audience no matter what in addition to having a really supportive audience what I love about weekend Film Fest is the constraints there's an immediate deadline there's a video length requirement and there's a theme to base your film around there's a myth that constraints restrict your creativity when in fact they do the exact opposite that's when creativity is most important when you've got a limited budget finite amount of time and a big problem to solve so when we give you the constraints and you have a deadline it makes you kick into high gear you only have 48 hours to create this and if you've always had some idea now you have to just get up do it turn it into something tangible and once you do that you can actually then build upon that we're also in this age when there are so many options presented to us at all times even just scrolling Instagram you see so many different styles of life you could be living types of content you could be making and you can't do all of them at once like you only learned from actually committing and starting and trying and then getting better but if you try and attack every outlet at one time for your creativity you can't actually progress in the past colin and samir have given away tripods cameras and special shoutouts this weekend we're giving away my signed silver play button and i'll be honest i don't know if anyone actually wants this thing if you win and you don't want it you can trade it for a pack of gum so we need a prompt for this weekend what are people gonna make a film about so the theme for this weekend is commitment this plaque represents your commitment to your creativity and your idea and so we want to hear from people an idea that they've committed to or an idea that they're gonna commit to you from this film there are a lot of constraints that are piling into this weekend Film Fest what are they looking like so videos have to be 60 seconds or less uploaded to Twitter and you have to hashtag weekend Film Fest the videos also have to be submitted by 5:00 p.m. Pacific time and I think bonus points if you make us laugh ha awesome yeah weekend Film Fest this weekend like right now it starts right now it ends at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday make a video about something that you have committed to or an idea you want to commit to you from here on out hash tag weekend Film Fest 60 seconds or less upload it to Twitter we can't wait to see what you guys make come on you got nothing no I have you said everything I was gonna say 60 seconds and then Twitter aggression yeah and you can win that oh yeah and the winner gets this and the winner gets this silver play button