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No, you know, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, look, I started it because I had just started my tech company. And I wanted a way to like share what I was doing in my tech company. I needed to like— I needed an audience to care about what I was doing. So I…
What did you do for money?
Um, I like directed TV commercials and things like that. I just didn't have much on top of vlogging. Yeah, that's when I was like— like I was in— I was in a lot of debt, lived off my credit cards a lot. And I remember like the summer before I turned monetizat…
And then you turned on ads, like monetization.
Yeah. And I remember like the first month it was like $8,000 and I was like, oh my— wow. I had no idea. I did 100 million views without monetization turned on.
Wow. Just to add to the whole wealth thing, there's a thing called the black card. Basically, you have to be invited. What happens? You have to be invited to have this card and it's like a titanium card. It's like pretty—
yeah, it's like the— it's like the Black card that Jay-Z raps about. I remember the first time I saw one. Yeah, I was like 25 years old and it was in New York City and I was having dinner with some fancy people and like I just saw it like land on the table an…