Montoya lives in West Los Angeles, California, and is a star in the exploding field of video-game commentary. Those who love video games and YouTube might argue he has the dream job. In short, game-play commentary involves recording yourself playing a video game and uploading the footage to the Web, along with your remarks on the game as you're playing. But Montoya doesn't always talk about video gaming. I'm a very unique snowflake. I don't know too many people who do what I do I'm like a confused Renaissance man.
He's also a very popular one. Montoya holds a remarkable presence in the gaming community. His YouTube channel has more than a million subscribers, while his game-play clips have been viewed more than million times. He is reluctant to talk about his finances but after some prodding reveals that his gaming commentary and related work earns him a six-figure annual income. I'm making a really good living out of it, which is amazing. But it happened by accident. It wasn't planned. A decade ago, Montoya was on his way to crafting a very different future for himself.
Rather than games and controllers taking over his desk, it was business and calculus textbooks. Instead, Montoya studied filmmaking. But after earning a degree in television, film and new media production, Montoya said he found himself discouraged with trying to find a job. I did a lot of freelance gigs, shot weddings and tried to start a production company. It gets tough when you're unemployed and don't know what you're doing," he said. SeaNanners and Hutch both left Machinima in early , stating stress and in particular, a desire to focus on their personal channels as reasons for their departure.
In January , Machinima abruptly discontinued their YouTube channels, with their videos set to private. In February , Machinima officially ceased operations. Lui most likely stepped down from gaming due to several allegations that came out against him that describe his predatory and abusive behavior toward women. Other women came out saying that when they dated, he treated them in the exact same way.
The ability to put out content or create videos under a pseudonym has provided talented […]. What takes up most of your time right now? How do you balance playing games and also having to do mundane things like answering e-mails? Pet peeves and guilty pleasures? Perfect segway. And discussing your life within the context of that film or movie or music or what have you.
Your videos started as video game commentary. Did you contribute the fact that you were opening yourself up and being open with the public on the Internet to the success of your videos?
What do you contribute the success of your channel to? Do you remember what game put you in the direction of playing games for the rest of your life? In terms of maintaining your work schedule, a lot of your work has to do with playing games and doing commentaries.
How do you balance playing games with your everyday life, like doing things like skating and that kind of thing? How do you section that time off? YouTube is one of the biggest areas to receive feedback. You can get critical feedback instantly in comments. How do you feel that should affect you as a creator?
Where do you fall on that? How have you seen that area grow and change in recent history? How do you handle that? When you joined YouTube it was already on its way to becoming this advertising giant, but now more than ever. How do you deal with that? It was the biggest flop in all of movie history. A lot of people had to lose their jobs.
In terms of joining Machinima and becoming a full time member, how has that changed? Not anymore, basically. For anyone who would eventually be working into this corporate structure, when you go from independent to this corporate structure how do you balance that idea of keeping your integrity as a creator but also sometimes having to answer to Mountain Dew or something like that?
Besides it being free, what do you think it is about that free market that appeals so much to people? Those did really well. The airsoft one did really well. What do you think about that kind of model of taking the camera away from a video screen and showing you and your personal life, and what about that inspired people and got people psyched about your channel?
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