Marques Brownlee Quotes

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Marques Brownlee

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : December 3, 1993

YouTubers are not taken as seriously as the written press, which is strange.

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Without contacts, I'm almost blind.

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I don't edit on laptops anymore.

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I have a SIM card ejector tool everywhere I go. It's probably not a normal thing to have, but as a guy who's moving between phones often, I kind of have to have one.

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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.

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The main gripe I have with Snapchat is as a content creator, which I understand is not the normal perspective... How is anyone ever going to find my Snapchat Story if they don't have my username or my number?

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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YouTube, for me, is the primary platform.

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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.

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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.

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If I'm going to give someone advice on what to buy, you want a personality to back it up rather than some robot telling you X is better than Y.

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

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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.

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Just make videos about things you love, and people who love the things you love making videos about will find you.

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

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