IV. Creator
In 2014…
I started making YouTube videos in 2014 to cope with being socially vibrant and hopelessly annoying. As a 9-year-old precocious kid online, I needed an outlet to express myself and quickly took up the medium that I fell in love with so early on in life. I wanted to be a star; I had dreams of seeing my name in lights, of being known by everyone in the world. Little did I know this is where my love of filmmaking would eventually emerge from. In 2016, I began posting comedy sketches where I would write, direct, and star in various shorts. Nowadays, I probably would have been an Instagram Reels creator, but luckily I was born in the right generation. After about 10 years of making videos, I finally started to find success making video essays and very quickly started to gain hundreds of thousands of views per video. My channel quickly ballooned to 60k+ subscribers, and ultimately I could have ridden that wave to mainstream internet success. However, right as my dreams started to finally come true, after over a decade of work… I chose to step away. My childhood dream simply wasn’t what I needed anymore. Now I make videos when I can. Film school keeps me unbelievably busy, but I will always have so much love in my heart for the medium that made me into who I am. Even if it ultimately became something I no longer found joy in.
gen z & politics (2024)
96 mins | 250,000 views
gen z & politics was a video that attempted to interweave various narratives around the role of young people in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election in the united states. it chronicles online radicalization and the effect of social media on the political inclinations of this generation. it also documented on-the-ground demonstrations in washington, d.c., around the time of university pro-Palestine encampments. ultimately, the goal of the video was to counteract doomerism and provide hope and a way forward for politically interested young people. then the election happened.
is the new generation hopeless, or are they just 17, and that’s just what you sound like then?
the ethics of CONTENT (2024)
60 mins | 80k views
in RETROSPECT, a video about the early stages of the PHENOMENA that took over the internet in our modern ERA. namely: the last stages of full and complete ALGORITHMIC optimization. the death of ART on the internet, and the embracement of SLOP.
TWITTER SINS (2023)
64 mins | 40k views
IN THE AFTERMATH OF ELON MUSK'S TAKEOVER OF TWITTER, SOMEONE HAD TO SAY SOMETHING, AND BY GOD, IT WAS GONNA BE ME.
The Romanticization of Problematic Figures (2023)
61 mins | 75k views
Very of Its Time, This Video Explored the Online Tendency to Emphasize One’s Love for a Piece of Media or Personality After It’s Exposed for Being Problematic in Some Way.
terminally online. (2023)
40 mins | 110k views
a video about being addicted to the internet. boldly takes the stance that it’s bad. groundbreaking for the era.