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David's Audition for Marvel!!
It was because I felt like we were doing a lot of cool things at the time and like no one would ever write about it. Like, like I was judging, I was basing my success on like what I knew as success to be like the traditional world. Like even, even when we, even when a brand would come to me and offer me X amount of money, I'd always, always go to Natalie. I was like, do they know that they're being like completely ripped off here. Like, how is it worth them spending $150,000 on me? You're right. And Natalie would be like, no, no, trust me, it's worth it. And, and like, I wouldn't understand that. Even with merch, even when deals come to us, like, I'm just like, I don't want to do that. Like, I just don't think anybody cares for that.
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Yeah. What's also crazy too is like sometimes we'll like meet up with, you know, people, whatever, or like, you know, we'll meet up with some sort of influencer, right? And the teams people have now is crazy. Like they have a president, they have a manager, t…
But I think with that, with what Natalie said, is like, that's true now, um, but like, I regret that I didn't put in those measures before. And, and, you know, I didn't have— I didn't have the right guidance or awareness back then to be able to have like a fu…
What made you think that? Like, how did you feel? Was that moment that was like, oh, this is actually like kind of big, kind of crazy, kind of legit?
It was because I felt like we were doing a lot of cool things at the time and like no one would ever write about it. Like, like I was judging, I was basing my success on like what I knew as success to be like the traditional world. Like even, even when we, even when a brand would come to me and offer me X amount of money, I'd always, always go to Natalie. I was like, do they know that they're bei…
Um, right, but you understand the—
no, I understand that now.
Yeah, I did not get 20 million people, and usually 5% of those numbers weren't real to me.