22: Nardvillain Talks About Skits, Sims & The Art of Storytelling

In this episode, Nardvillian shares his journey as a content creator, discussing the challenges and triumphs of building a brand in the digital space. From his early days of creating content around hospitality to becoming a well-known Sims 4 creator, Nardvillian opens up about the importance of staying true to oneself and finding inspiration in unexpected places.

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Episode Transcript

(00:09):
Hey everyone, welcome back to the Hello Spring podcast, where
we dive deep into the vibrant worlds of creators, dreamers,
and storytellers. Today's guest is someone whose
Sims might be chaotic, but theircreativity completely
intentional. We're joined by the one and the
only Nard villain, a dynamic content creator known for their
viral skits, immersive storytelling, and their

(00:29):
signature sinister dag dag we all know and love.
From Twitch streams that spiral into hilarity to winning hearts
on TikTok as the fan voted funniest Sims creator and even
Co hosting The Sims 25th anniversary 25 hour live stream,
Nard has done it all. We'll be talking about their
creative, the highs and the lowsof content creation, building a

(00:49):
brand in The Sims community, andeven what the future holds
outside of YouTube. So grab your plum Bob, whatever
color it is today, and let's getinto it.
Hello Nardvillain, welcome to the Hello Spring podcast.
I'm so excited to have you on for Season 2.
It's going to be so exciting because you're a creator.

(01:09):
I'm a creator, and we can just like chat and have a good time
and we're really good friends. I've known you for a very long
time, but for those who may not know you yet, can you introduce
yourself and tell us a little bit more about the name Nard
Villain and where it comes from?Hello, y'all, so so thanks for

(01:30):
having me like I'm honor. I'm seriously honored to be on
yours next season of creators that you're going to interview,
because I've been actually listening to your podcast for
quite a while now. So it's I so when you soon as
you told me you were bringing itback, I was like super stoked.
Yeah, congratulations to bringing it back.
For those who don't know who I am, I go by Nard villain.

(01:51):
I've been a Sims 4 content creator for the past five years
now. And when coming up with the name
Nard Villain, I was kind of thinking of not necessarily a
name for just Sims 4 content, but I was thinking of having a
name for just my gaming because a lot of people don't know that
I come from another background of content creating because I've

(02:12):
been content creating for over, I honestly want to say like 20
years now. So yeah, so I started out, you
know, with music. I had a podcast and then I
branched out from podcasting to producing content around
hospitality where I meet a bunchof foodies, chefs, bartenders.

(02:34):
So when it comes to the naming convention, I was like, well,
I'm naming everything Nard, something with Nard in it.
So my music podcast was called Nard Cast.
So I was like, OK, well, I can'tuse that for my video gaming
content. And then I used Nard Eats for
all my foodie stuff and then Nard's Kitchen Kitchen and then

(02:57):
Nard's Neighborhood. So I was like, the best thing I
think I could come up with is more of a sinister approach to
to gaming. So I was like, well I could go
with Nard Villain and just do like maybe some sinister style
content utilizing some of my favorite games and obviously The
Sims is one of my favorite gamesso I went with that.

(03:17):
Plus I'm a huge MF Doom fan. It's a hip hop artist rest in
Peace, and one of his albums is Mad Villain, which is also a
collab between MF Doom and a producer Mad Lib.
So put those two together, you get Mad Villain.
So that's what I wanted to do since I've been doing
collaborations with my name and other different types of niches

(03:40):
like podcasting. So I went with Nard Cast and
then with my gaming, I went withNard Villain just to pay homage
to one of my favorite producers and one of my favorite hip hop
artists, MF Doom. So.
So that's pretty much where the name came from.
And out of all honesty, I am a huge fan of villains.
So so you know, I guess keeping keeping with that niche as well.

(04:04):
I figured Nard villain would be totally fitting for for that
niche as well. So that's pretty much how I
went. Came up with Nard villain.
Really like that. I like the OR I always like
understanding the origin story about like a username and where
it comes from because sometimes they are like a deeper meaning
or sometimes they're just like Ilike this and I like that and

(04:27):
there it is. But you made it very like
specific and it it's very memorable and people remember
the name so easily. So I like that.
And I actually found your channel like just randomly.
It wasn't YouTube was actually just randomly on TikTok.
So when I found like Narvin, like, oh, wait, another Sims

(04:49):
creator. Yeah, I'm all for it.
I'm here for it. I love how very sinister your
content is. And this was kind of like in the
height of like the pandemic and everything and like short form
content was really taking a really big push on all
platforms, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and all the places.

(05:10):
But when you first started making like content like, did
you ever imagine you would have ever, like gotten to where you
are now? Like.
Never when I started in 2020, I just wanted an outlet, you know,
I was like, OK, well I have the name Nard villain, which fun
fact, going back to your first question, I was using NAR

(05:32):
villain as my personal Instagramaccount name for like years
before I decided to actually name my gaming channel Nard
villain. So I already.
Got that engineer all. Right.
So, so I've been using NAR Villain for quite a bit now that
I think about it. Before I actually started doing
gaming. Yeah, Honestly, I just wanted an

(05:52):
outlet because as I mentioned, Iwas just doing a lot of content
around food. A lot of content around like
going to restaurants and going to openings here in town and
producing content around bartending and showcasing chefs,
putting together some of their signature dishes for that
restaurant. To the point where when the

(06:13):
pandemic happened, I couldn't goto restaurants anymore, you
know? So I had all this creativity
built up, like just brewing inside where it was like, man,
I'm stuck at home. I can't go out to restaurants
anymore. I'm feeling irrelevant because I
feel like I can't contribute andgive contribution to to a
community I've built for over the years with, with, you know,

(06:35):
with the food content. So, you know, I was like, well,
I guess what I could do. I love The Sims.
I love creating my own stories. How about I kind of just show
that to the community, You know,I didn't think I was going to
grow. You know, I didn't think that I
was going to get big or anything.
So I just started doing like Let's Plays.
I have my own version of a pandemic Let's Play.

(06:57):
So I put that, yeah, I put that together on YouTube.
So I actually started out doing long form before I went over and
started doing short form. So, so then I understood the
algorithm too, because I was content creating for like, I
don't know, 15 years prior. So I knew I had if I wanted to
get any reach with my let's plays, I have to still do some

(07:18):
search based content, you know, like my favorite game packs or
my favorite expansion packs or whatever.
So I try to push those out as well just in hopes to get some
impressions on some of my let's plays.
And yeah, and I branched out from Let's Plays to doing shorts
and just being me just being silly and on Alive and Sims and

(07:39):
being sinister about it. And before you know it, like,
not just YouTube, but TikTok, like, kind of blew up one of my
videos, actually several videos.And yeah.
And the good thing about those videos that blew up, it actually
represented my brand. So I was very fortunate that a
video that blew up was actually how all my videos were.
So when people saw that video, they went to other videos and

(08:01):
realized like, oh, wow, like this guy, he's really doing the
same type of content that actually went viral.
So kind of got lucky there, I guess in some sense.
But but yeah, I if you, if I could talk to my Nard villain
self five years ago and be like,bro, like you're going to be EA

(08:22):
partner in a few years and all this good stuff, like just keep
grinding and you're going to getthere.
Because I just wanted to do it for fun and just needed AI, just
needed a creative outlet. I was slightly depressed a
little bit, you know, like not knowing what the world's gonna
go, where we're going with the world, where my work was going.
Because not only did I do content for, for myself with the

(08:45):
hospitality industry, but I worked in the, you know, in the
industry as well as a biographerand a photographer.
So, you know, I was, I was kind of getting a pay cut deduction
from not having clients in that,in that niche.
But fortunately I had other clients that was outside of that
niche as well. So I was lucky there.
But but yeah, I would have neverknown like I was gonna, you

(09:09):
know, have a community that really appreciate the content
that I that I put out, especially in the earlier years.
Yeah, that's really good to think about because the, the
pandemic 2020, just that a wholeera was really much of a fever
dream. And of course we all were going
through stuff, our favorite things we couldn't go to anymore

(09:29):
and we had to find like the creative outlet.
And and I can totally agree withyou.
I I graduated in the pandemic in2020 and I was looking for a job
as everyone was to graduate to high school.
But then, of course, when you can't really find that that that
moment, that that place where you can go to every day or every

(09:49):
couple of days for some amount of hours, it's hard to like find
that new Ave. of fun. And YouTube is like that place
of fun. And I think we all started, like
you mentioned that you wanted tofind a creative outlets and that
was fun and silly and exciting and, and now like, it's kind of
like your job that you get to do.
And So what, what drove you to the decision to like solely

(10:14):
focus on like making short form content to like versus long form
content? Because this ever growing,
evolving social media landscape where new platforms are now old
platforms are pushing short form, but also are kind of
seeing how short form can help your long form.
So how did that, how did you take that approach, especially

(10:34):
it was making TikTok as your first platform to make short
form? I was actually a little
skeptical at 1st and also stubborn because I didn't wanna.
I just felt like I would be crippled a little bit on being
able to be creative because I love long form a lot.
But I knew that everybody was pushing it.

(10:55):
I mean, Gary Vee, all the all the gurus of the algorithm was
like, you better hop on this platform.
You better hop on short form because this is giving the
audience or the world just a tiny snippet of what they can
expect if they do decide to start rocking with you and like
following you for your long formor just for you in general.

(11:19):
So it did take me quite a bit. I was stubborn, but I don't
regret hopping on TikTok becauseTikTok even at the beginning
stages was a grind. I mean, it was like I was
posting 5 like four or five times a day.
Oh my gosh, that's a lie. Yeah, three to five times a day,
every day, seven days a week. I was pushing out short form

(11:42):
content like it was. That's like a full time job.
My gosh, it was. Yeah, yeah, I'm insane.
I will work at my normal job. Well, I work for myself, so I
would like put in 8-9 hours of work, then another 9 hours of
just content creating. Even if it was just like, let me
just give out one piece of valuable information about The

(12:05):
Sims 4 vertical video. I'm a produce it, it's still
going to look good quality. If I can get two to three pieces
out, even 5 on a good day every day, I should be able to somehow
trigger the algorithm because back then the algorithm was a
little bit different. It, it encouraged you to post 4
to five times a day. So yeah, it was crazy.

(12:27):
And then eventually, yeah, some videos that go go viral.
And and so at that point I was like, I should probably take
advantage of this. I should probably utilize TikTok
a little bit more than than YouTube.
And then all of a sudden YouTubeintroduced Shorts.
But then at that time, I was already slightly blowing up more
on TikTok than I was on YouTube.And I think it's it, I think

(12:52):
when you post short form, it definitely guarantees a little
bit more of a bigger reach. And then you're it'll get seen a
lot more. And sometimes it will translate
to subscribers and followers. And then it's just how you
utilize that. Next, do you continue to do the
same thing that kind of went viral, or do you kind of branch

(13:13):
off and start doing other things?
And do you pivot your long form to kind of represent what you're
doing over on your short form platform as well?
If that makes sense? Because you can't have a total
different vibe with your short form.
But then when I go over to your long form, it's totally
different. I've learned the hard way on
that too. So now I'm pivoting, currently

(13:36):
pivoting to make sure my short form matches with my with my
long form. At least that's what I'm trying
to do now. That's my new approach.
But yeah, totally, totally don'tregret it.
Was definitely stubborn at the beginning trying to hop on, but
but I'm so glad I did because TikTok has been a huge blessing
for me. Every time I go out, I think
more most people know me from myTikTok versus YouTube and

(13:59):
Instagram and Twitch. So yeah, it's been a very
blessing journey. Not easy in my opinion, but very
very humbling and blessing journey for sure.
Yeah, definitely. I can 100% agree with you, with
time and effort you really do see the reward at the end of the

(14:20):
day. And they always say Rome was not
built in a day. You know making content online
is. It's a grind.
It really is a grind. You can spend hours on end, one
from pre production to actually doing it and then post
production because you come withthe concept.

(14:40):
You want to make sure that things are aligned on how you
want to convey the video or the message or whatever.
And then you actually shoot it and you realize that like
there's some tweaks you want to make while filming.
So you make those tweaks. And then when you're into the
editing process, there's a lot more that goes into it.
The audio, the video, the visuals.

(15:01):
And then here comes the marketing side of it all and on
how do you want to market your video?
What kind of audience do you want to market to the title, the
thumbnail, the description, the tags, and then overall, not just
posting it, but also sharing it across other platforms.
And that kind of goes same with like short form because Tiktok

(15:21):
was kind of like a very like I would say like the big boom of
like social media content because Vine was like the
original, at least for me, was the original short form platform
that I consumed constantly those7 seconds And like, OK, go to
the next one, the next one, thenthe next one.
Like Liza Koshy was like one of my favorite content creators on

(15:43):
Vine that I really kind of like hung onto.
Especially when Vine went away, I followed that creator to the
next platform that they were on because I was so invested in
their content. And yours is so good because the
way that you structure your videos, it's not only hilarious,
it's also educational at the same time.

(16:06):
You give us something entertaining while also teaching
us something like, I didn't knowhalf the stuff about MC Command
Center or I didn't know about the certain feature in this pack
or this like new feature function that we just got
recently. I'm like, when was this a thing?
I've been playing Sims 4 for almost 11 years now.
It'll be 11 years this year in 2025.

(16:26):
But I've been playing Sims for 25 years and the stuff that you
showcase and like, am I even a simmer at this point?
Should I just quit while I'm already here?
But you definitely changed the game for new and old players to
make the game fun for them at the end of the day.
And I did want to ask you a question because this is

(16:49):
something that is very signatureto your brand identity, like the
whole dag dag catch phrase. We all know that dag dag dag
means like goodbye in a more positive way.
But since you are an art villain, you make it very
sinister. Like dag dag.
It's like something's happening.So like, what was the origin
story like behind that signaturecatch phrase?

(17:11):
And how did it help build your brand to Where is that now?
Honestly, I want to definitely give credit to all those who
were following me or not even following me at the very
beginning because I think they are the reason I am the way I am
today currently. Because I will post something,

(17:33):
see how it sticks and resonate with the audience of the TikTok
world or the YouTube world. And if they are vibing with that
type of content, then I know, OK, maybe I should make maybe
geared towards that style of content and keep pushing.
So yeah, I would just do my thing.
I would say, all right, I'm going to create a video of

(17:54):
somebody jumping into a swimmingpool and then just immediately
drown in first person mode. So not only are you learning
that you can actually be in first person mode in The Sims 4,
but you can also see that happen.
You can see your SIM. You can watch your SIM drown in,
in, in, in, you know, first person mode.
And so you're learning all this stuff.
And then at the very end, I'm just like Dag dag.

(18:16):
I don't know why in particular. I, I said it that way, but all,
everything, every comment, I, I,I kid you not, there's at least
100 comments that just said, Oh my God, that Dag Dag.
Why do I feel threatening from that Dag Dag or like, why is
that Dag dag kind of like that or whatever, or this supposed to
be a happy video? Why, why is your Dag Dag a

(18:36):
little sinister and then or something like that?
And so yeah, I said dag dag oncein a video and I got over 100
some comments about me saying that they didn't say anything
about the video. They just said, Oh my God, that
dag dag or just dag dag in the comments.
And this was literally like 3 years ago.
So I've been doing the dag dag signature.
I would say probably a span of like 3 to 3 1/2 years ago, maybe

(18:59):
even 4 now. So yeah, I was like, all right,
well, some reason the dag dag issticking.
So let me let me try to add thatin some more videos.
And sure enough, every time I said dag dag, it made people
feel a certain way or at least made people comment dag dag or
why is your dag Dag so ominous? Or why is your dag dag so like

(19:21):
so like sinister so and yeah, I just stuck with it.
So like I said it, it was the community, the community because
at first, before dag dag, it wasactually the word on the street.
Every video I would say the wordon the street is everybody was
like will comment the word on the street, the word on the
street in the comments. So I knew there was something
there. So I just said, all right, every

(19:42):
every other video, I'm going to include the word on the street
and that combination of the wordon the street and Dag Dag,
people just started resonating with it.
And then it was reaching the right people who like that
sinister style of video content and like you said, while
learning something educational. So.

(20:03):
Yeah, I I did not plan Dag DAG to be my signature tagline.
It was because of the community.I mean all my success to them.
Honestly, the community really, really comes together as like as
a whole saying we love this and we love that.
And then we see it's like, OK, Iguess people like it, we'll keep

(20:23):
doing it. And honestly, the community
supports us in so many ways thatwe cannot imagine.
It's like we make content onlinejust to do whatever we want and
we enjoy it, but we never expected to go anywhere or
people that actually see it. But when people actually
resonate with the content, it's like we are doing something very

(20:46):
memorable as a creator and we are able to showcase something
that's not going to showcase outin like the big screens and
whatnot. Because you come from a
background and hospitality and film and photography.
And so your skill sets really have amplified your your content

(21:07):
to be a lot better, but also still staying like niche and
close to you. So I find like with The Sims
community specifically is that we have been around for I feel
like for 10,000 years at this point.
I mean honestly, like with The Sims, we have seen the ups and

(21:28):
downs of this industry and the ups and downs of The Sims game
itself from The Sims 1 to The Sims 4.
And now that we're getting so many new things with packs and
kits, and now eventually a Sims movie one day and a new Sims
products, it's like the marketing of The Sims has
changed and we still have that silly fun playness to it.

(21:53):
And I actually wanted to know, like, what like, initially drew
you to The Sims, Like, what was like your earliest memory
playing the game? Earliest memory was back in high
school. I'm about to date myself and be
considered a very old, young elderly person.

(22:14):
I would say high school back in maybe 2000, 2001, probably
playing The Sims. The very original version of The
Sims actually ended up getting the deluxe copy, but I think at
one point I had the original copy as well.
I don't know if I owned it or perhaps downloaded it from
Napster or somebody gave it to me or whatever, but either way I

(22:36):
do have a copy of the deluxe album copy.
I think what drew me to it was the ability to create storylines
and have the almost unlimited amount of creativity, meaning I
can literally take some Sims andcreate all these beautiful

(23:00):
stories around my imagination. Because before The Sims, believe
it or not, I used to play with GI Joes.
I had wrestling figurines and I had this little talk boy from
Home Alone 2 that was very popular.
And I had a radio that I would literally record my voice on a

(23:21):
radio or the talk boy again, giving out dating myself here or
dating myself. And it would record my voice
doing narrations of me playing with my GI Joes or and my
wrestling figurines. So before The Sims, I was
already creating these stories around my imagination as a kid.

(23:45):
So and then after I recorded on this little cassette tape, I
will go back and play it and just listen to myself narrate me
playing with my wrestlers or my GI Joes or whatever.
It was crazy. It's bizarre.
Moving to 2002 thousand 2001, This game The Sims came out gave
me an A better option than just physically playing with toys.

(24:08):
Now I can literally sit on my computer and do all this, all
this narration, all this storytelling on a computer.
At that time, I wasn't obviouslyrecording myself narrating, but
I still had that imagination of being able to create stories
with The Sims. Then obviously Sims 2 came out
and then Sims 3, which I didn't get a chance to play because of

(24:29):
my computer. Then after Sims 3, I got Sims
Sims free play on my mobile phone.
And then after Sims free play, Igot Sims 4, then went back to
Sims 3 and play Sims 3 for a little bit.
But yeah, that's my story. And then once I realized after
once the pandemic happened, I could kind of relive my
childhood again and just like narrate these cool little

(24:53):
moments of storytelling and, and, and create and use my
imagination to create these fun stories and utilize my skill
sets, which is geography, video editing.
And I guess the storytelling, you know, directing, producing
and writing these cool little stories that hopefully could
entertain at that time, a small community because I didn't care
about reaching a large mass of people.

(25:15):
You know, I just wanted to if iflike 10 people enjoyed my little
stories of like Velma going around and doing crazy stuff or
my little skits of, of characters being on alive in a
funny way, or even my little skits, you know, I was happy.
You know, I feel like I'm reaching a couple people that

(25:35):
need to see it and got a laugh out of it and, and made their
day. So so yeah, I've been basically
involved with The Sims at some, at some capacity for over over
20 years. I'll say 25.
So I like that. I, like you mentioned that you
had like your GI Joes and your action figures and you would
record yourself. I really love that.

(25:59):
A natural born storyteller. When you think about it, we all
we all story tell and whether wemake content or not, we're
always making content in some shape or form, acting out
different arguments or happy moments or sad moments.
And it's like thinking like The Sims is our virtual like playset

(26:21):
that we can relive our childhoodwhether in The Sims 4 or in The
Sims 2, Sims 3 or even Sims 1. I mean now that they've re
released The Sims 1 and The Sims2 on EA app and Steam there is
now a whole new of like players around the world that can play
it for the very first time or people who have either sold or

(26:43):
have forgotten can replay it like they were as kids.
And making content for other people online does come with
some scary mindsets because you never really know who's really
watching or you never know if it's going to perform well or
you feel like you're alone in this this business.

(27:07):
Because when you're content creating, there's so many ideas
in your head, like your brain really attacks, attacks you at
this point of like thinking, oh,no one's going to watch.
No one's really going to like really have fun with this.
And I just feel like I'm alone in this industry and I have no
one else to talk to. And honestly, that's kind of why
I made this podcast to like really talk to other creators,

(27:28):
but also peel that, peel back that curtain of like what we're
really going through on a day-to-day basis, whether we do
it full time or part time. I think like what have been some
of your like your major highs asbeing a content creators like
since starting all? Right, let's start with the
highs. All right, so for me, because I

(27:49):
really you nailed it like the whole point of feeling lonely,
which I appreciate you with thispodcast.
That's why it's really nice to, to find outlets to, to not feel
lonely, whether it's a Discord, Discord server or just having a
group text of fellow creators that have the same mindset that

(28:10):
you got that you can feed off information to so you don't feel
lonely. It's it's because you know, a
lot of, like you said, a lot of times we don't really share
those vulnerable moments of whatit what it really is being a
content creator. So love embracing the highs and
I got to learn to to understand how to cope with the lows.

(28:35):
Like highs for me has been like like getting my first like 100
followers on YouTube to finally getting 1000 on TikTok or even
like my first million. I know these are like milestones
for like, for like analytic base, but then there's like
moments where highs from me are when someone comments in the

(28:58):
comment section saying I look forward to seeing your video pop
up on my feed every week. Like you literally made my day.
You don't understand how much ofA laugh I needed today.
And you provided that for me because a lot of times those
funny videos and those skits arelike a hit or miss.
It's literally like you're aboutto walk on stage and do a stand

(29:20):
up act and you don't know how the audience is going to react.
And if it bombs, it bombs. You go right back to the drawing
board. You write another comedy act and
then you go back out there day 2and see if it works.
That's the thing about certain types of content you do.
I can go out and do a how to do this in MC Command Center and
that might get views or it will give views versus I'm about to

(29:44):
do a skit that I'm a spend 2-3 days on.
And because it has a humor element, it's either gonna hit
or it's not gonna hit. And they're, trust me, there's
been times that they flop. But yeah, highs are just like
engaging with the community, like no one.
Like even though sometimes it feels like a lonely journey, you
do have people out there that might not voice their

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appreciation to you and their gratitude towards you, but
they're out there. And when they do vocalize it,
it's like a great feeling. It's a high, a high sometimes
could even be hitting, hitting that upload button, you know,
like hitting the upload. Like, wow, I understand that.
It took me an hour to write the script or it took me before the

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script. It took me an hour to come up
with the title and the thumbnail.
I think of content creating as amovie, like OK, I'm a create a
title first because that the title is going to give me an
idea of what the concept is going to be about.
So that way I can write my script, write my lines or
whatever. And then I might even do a photo
cover album so that way the the cover album can match the title

(30:47):
of my movie and then go forward.But yeah, highs have been great.
Like highs are like Co hosting the 25th anniversary stream that
The Sims did back in February. Super high.
That was really cool to be part of that.
You know, that's something that's going to never happen
again. We're never going to see another

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25th anniversary as a Sims franchise, you know, So I was
part of that, which is super cool.
Being approached by the EA team and The Sims team to collab with
them and do stuff, you know, that's a high.
Another high could be just bonding with the community on
Twitch or bonding with your community in Discord and having

(31:30):
like game nights and and meetingpeople for the first time.
That's a high, you know, becauseagain, it's a lonely, I ain't
gonna say a lonely journey. It can be a lonely journey if
you don't play, if you don't putthe proper protocols in your
life to to make it not as lonely.
But yeah, those are a couple of highs.
I can be very long winded with these questions and I do
apologize, but but there's just a lot of highs, you know, like,

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and they're humbling because when you're so high up, you can
get low too. And you have to figure out well,
how to manage your lows when you're having those lows, which
is sometimes just remembering the highs.
Remember your journey because everybody's journey is going to
be different. Some people might have it easier
than others and that's not for your concern.
It's just be be inspired by other people's journeys, but

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don't let it like, ruin your opportunities to stay focused,
you know, always stay on on yourpath and be encouraged and
inspired by other creators, but just be you because your flock
will find you eventually. You know, there'd be some people
out there. So yeah, I think that's a high
for me too. It's just knowing that I am
hopefully inspiring others, no matter what age they are, what

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race, what sex, what gender. They can do it too, you know,
because I might represent and look like somebody or have the
same interests of somebody that been wanting to do this and now
they see that I'm doing it. Now they can do it too.
I like. That's very powerful because a
lot of people think that making content stops at a certain age

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or you can't do this because of XY and Z reasons.
Like no, anyone can create content no matter how old they
are, no matter what they look like, no matter what their sex
or gender might be. And it's like, just have fun
with what you're doing and like push all the haters out the way.
Short haters will come. That's a part of, you know,

(33:21):
being a content creator. You see them.
But we try our best to push awaythe negativity and bring back
the positivity and light and enjoyment of what what we do.
And I, I wanted to know like, because you've been doing this
for so long, like on YouTube andlike pre YouTube.
I mean, working in a professional like environment,

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you should you have a bunch of like haters and, and people that
will say certain things like howdo you protect your creativity
when it starts to like feel likework rather than fun?
Because when you're working so much of like your creative like
craft of photography or film or making short form content or

(34:04):
writing out scripts, like you'rea literal director at this point
and you're making so many creative things like how do you
protect your, your passion, yourcreativity, so it doesn't feel
like work. That's a great question because
over the 20 years of content creating, I've been pivoting a

(34:25):
lot when it comes to the type ofcontent that I do.
I mean, I, I do my passions for work.
Like I mean, I love film, I lovevideo, I love video editing, I
love podcasting, I love hosting and being in front of the
camera. So I do it for fun, but I also
do it for work. So what I try to do, because it
does starting to feel like work a lot, is try to do the things

(34:46):
that you can do that doesn't feel like you're trying to do it
to get views or do it for a paycheck.
You know, like there's times where I will play WWE2K and
create wrestler Sims characters into that game and instead of
worrying about, OK, I wanted to perform, I wanted to do this and

(35:08):
that. Then I would just do that for
me. You know, you got to do things
for you too. Like whether even if it's like
going for a hike or do some hobby ish stuff, come back to
your, your, your content creating to get that more of a
fresher look at what you do. Because a lot of times when you
start doing the same thing over and over and over and over
again, you have a schedule, you have a posting schedule.

(35:30):
It will initially start feeling like work, but keep in mind
having schedules and doing something that's repetitive and
consistent does feel like that, But it's just a way of being
more mature in your, in your, inyour niche, in your craft.
You know, you have to have some type of of self-discipline, you
know, to, to continue to do stuff and to, to make it, you

(35:52):
know, and to grow. So it will feel like work a lot.
So what I try to do is is try to, like I said, just try to do
things that that that's probablysame in within the same like
content creating, but just do some fun different pivot a
little bit and just do stuff that I want to do that I know
may or may not work with the with the audience or the

(36:13):
algorithm, whatever. And just do things that are fun.
So that way when I get back intothe stuff that works, it doesn't
feel as where it's like it's almost a balance.
I don't know if that makes sense.
Like do the stuff that works, but then also put out some
stuff, you know, that's fun. And for me, I like streaming.
Streaming to me is like another outlet where I can just be with

(36:35):
my community. I don't have to worry about
views, I don't have to worry about subscribers or whatever.
I can just hang out with my community and just decompress
with them. And to me, that doesn't feel
like work. That just feels like my moment
to to kind of relax a little bit.
I like that because I'm still. Learning, though, I'm, I'm still

(36:55):
learning how to find that balance of, of how to, to not
make things feel like work when it's supposed to be fun, you
know? Yeah, yeah, that makes a lot of
sense because when you're doing it for so long, things do tend
to feel like work. But then you have to take a step
back and realize, wait, what am I doing all this for?
Am I doing it for the money? Am I doing it for, you know, my

(37:17):
pure enjoyment? Like, what am I doing this for
at the end of the day? And sometimes you got to like
really take a couple of days offjust to like do literally
nothing, whether it's just sitting in a room in the dark
with your inner thoughts, which can be scary sometimes.
But sometimes you just got to dothat and like having those
moments where you have hobbies outside of your work, whether

(37:40):
it's reading a book or doing crocheting for the very first
time, taking a hike, like you said, or being able just to find
those inner fun moments of playing video games, not having
to record it or just like recordit and then post it if you want
to. But it was something for.
You. At the end of the day, rather

(38:02):
than like other people, sure, itmay not perform well.
That is OK. You did it for you.
And I think I want to really like emphasize like you are the
creator, you make content for you.
Other things come afterwards because people get into the
mindset newer and older creatorsalways think like, how am I

(38:27):
performing? How am I doing all these
different things? How can I stay relevant in this
day and age? Because social media is
constantly changing every singleday, every minute, every hour of
the day. And it's so hard to constantly
think of like, how do I make thealgorithm like my content in my
shadow band? How do I reach out to brands?

(38:48):
How do I really make a name for myself?
And it all boils down to you andyou and like just make content
for you, put you into your content, not make a like a fake
persona or a fake you so you canbe likable because no one likes
fake people. Exactly.

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Just be. You have fun.
Yeah, I like that. Exactly, exactly.
And that's why I find these platforms are great in many
different ways. TikTok, for what it is, has done
so many wonders for so many people, and it's changed
people's lives for for the better.
I found content on TikTok that Ididn't even know existed.

(39:30):
And I'm like, I didn't know I was interested in like randomly
scrolling through the feed. The algorithm started giving me
like horse horse content but it was people like shaving the
hooves of horses feet. Oh my God, me too.
Yeah. It's so interesting, right?
Like it's I sit there and watch it.
Too. I'll watch it.
I'm like, man, why am I watchingsomebody shave the thing off the

(39:52):
horseshoes? It's so calming and relaxing.
It's crazy. I'm like.
Does it hurt the horse? How does it?
How does it work? I want to understand a little
bit more about it. It's like, so I just keep liking
and liking and liking and like. This is just like the best.
And that's funny. It's so good.
TikTok short form content is just great for our short

(40:13):
attention spans. But I always felt as like with
content, so like changing, we also change as people.
Like we grow with our content. We mature with our content and
like, did you ever like have this moment where you thought,
Hey, I've done all these things before YouTube and now I'm doing

(40:38):
YouTube? Like did you ever release?
Like do you see it like growing even more in like the next like
5 years? Like where do you see your
content like evolving? Yeah, I, I honestly feel like I
went from like regular let's plays to little short skits to,

(41:00):
you know, build challenges on YouTube.
I mean, I do those 10 minute build challenges to streaming
back to YouTube, back to shorts in short form or whatnot.
I'm trying my best to just see what the audience want while
still trying to maintain a brandand and just do things that I
enjoy doing. And then I think in like the

(41:21):
next few years, I kind of see medoing a combination of
everything that's made me nard villain but in more of a longer
polished form to where you can just sit down and just watch
like a show of just like well produced thought out skits,

(41:41):
combination of entertainment anda combination of like
interacting with the audience all put to 1.
I feel like as I evolved as a content creator, I just keep
thinking of like, what's new andwhat can I do that still remains
my brand identity while making sure that when the algorithm

(42:03):
change or whatever, I still can continue to be me while while
pivoting to what people might want.
And people have short attention spans.
So if I can add in all those things that I'm already doing
for shorts and stuff into my longer form, I can grab those
short attention span folks and bring them into the long form

(42:27):
and then prove to the algorithm that it's possible to bring
short form over to to long form.It's just how you do it in a way
to please both already existing long form, but also new comers
to the long form content becausethey're they came from the short
form. And to me, I think it's just
hooking, hooking the audience every so often throughout your

(42:52):
long form videos in in the fashion that they were watching
shorts. So when I do like my how TOS
just the I'm thinking of like inthe next five years or so, I
want to be able to do all that where I'm utilizing all my short
form strategies into my into my long form.
So that way I feel like I can benefit from doing shorts in

(43:14):
long form at the same time, while both audiences from both
long form and short form are hopefully watching the all the
content and hopefully have a team.
It'd be nice to evolve into the point where I do have somebody
that can help me edit, potentially write stuff, You
know, I think that'd be really cool to see myself grow into

(43:35):
that, into that type of of outlet and in hopes of even
creating just a new team of creators that want to work
together as a collective. I'm not I so far I don't think
I've seen a collective yet whereit's like a collective of people
who are on one channel and they just do all kinds of fun Sims 4

(43:59):
chaotic stuff all together as one collective.
That would be really cool to seebecause you see it all the time
with other groups, like, you know, RDC, they're one big group
just like like, you know what I mean?
Like just groups where they kindof come together and do content
together, whether it's streamingor or is producing film or
comedy skits. I'd love to see that with with

(44:22):
The Sims community, so I would love to see myself evolving into
something like that outside of the North villain niche.
I would like to see that as well, honestly, 'cause this was
like, I don't know, a couple of years ago, this was like pre
pandemic of seeing a lot of content creator groups from the,

(44:43):
I guess like the lifestyle category to the comedy category.
And like some games like like OTK and like some of the other
like gaming brands and companies.
They, I see a lot of that on YouTube and like on Twitch and
then these organizations call come in.
But I never see anything for like SIM creators or like cozy

(45:06):
gamers. And it will be so cool to see
that because with The Sims, it'sall about playing with life.
You're able to create whatever you want, however you want with
mods or no mods, but you have touse that creative spin to really
make it like exciting to watch or just like exciting for you at
the end of the day. And I mentioned like you are

(45:30):
like a full blown director. You have like a green screen.
You do all the editing, you'll do all the scripting like you
are making a full on production.It's like I could see it nard
villain productions as like a film like company of some type
down the line the next couple ofyears or even who knows even now
actually get yourself an IMDb, put all of your skits on there.

(45:52):
Like you can really make something that people are not
making. And for the next like past, like
I've felt like the past several years, we've seen the industry,
both gaming industry and film industry change so much in terms
of like representation and like having black, you know, actors

(46:13):
and Black creators in the leading role and in the
forefront and in the decision rooms, making these choices.
Like what would you want to see in terms of like having more
people that look like us in the room making these films?
Like Tyler Perry, for example, he is so talented at making his

(46:33):
films and his production company.
My first inspiration was Denzel Washington.
There's Viola Davis, there's Angela Bassett.
There's just so many people likeChadwick, like he made Rest in
Peace, like he was talented in Black Panther.
I loved how there were so many films in, in the past several

(46:55):
years actually. That has really changed the game
in terms of we are here, we are,we are bankable.
We can really feel those seats. But then also seeing the game
industry as a whole, especially with The Sims.
In the past five years, we've gotten better skin tones thanks
to X Mirror Mira. We've had, you know, new

(47:16):
hairstyles, they've collided with collaborative with Ebonics,
and we've had a lot more representation for people that
look like us. So like, what would you want to
see in terms like for The Sims and I guess in the video game
industry as a whole, what would you want to see like change?
I want to honestly see that it'smore normal that we have more

(47:40):
black represent or just people of color representation.
I want it to be more normal thanthan a let's what do you call it
when you have to to fill out a get like 100 signatures?
I feel like I yeah, position like yeah, I always see that
always coming across my feed where we want we want to see
more black hairstyles. We want to see more black

(48:03):
culture and video gaming becauseI feel like it's I want it to be
normal. Like I want to be able to just
open up a game and see a very wide range of all kinds of
cultural elements, you know, versus fighting for it all the
time, you know, like why did it?So I'm, I'm usually very soft
spoken because I've learned thatbecause as I, when I was growing

(48:26):
up, I've, I've always dealt withlike lack of confidence.
I guess you, you probably wouldn't believe this, but but I
have very low self esteem at times and I don't vocalize a lot
of things that I would love to see a lot more.
Even even as a larger brand now,I still feel like I struggle a
little bit to voice my opinion about stuff without being like,

(48:49):
you know, I don't know. But yeah, so I would love to
just see that. It's just the it's just normal.
Like I want to see more black video game creators, more
directors, more, more people involved in the producing of
games. Even with The Sims games, you
know, it'd be kind of cool to see people like us in those
positions, in those seats, because I know you're there.

(49:10):
We just went to dream Con and there's like tons of people
there who are inspired to be anime writers who inspired to be
anime, anime producers and stufflike that.
I would have never known Megan Thee A Stallion had an anime
coming out or or the people who threw Dream Con were huge in the
anime. You see, I would have never
known any of that stuff, you know, and like my favorite

(49:32):
directors like Jordan Peele, youknow, I like a lot of my skits
are driven or inspired from stuff that I watched growing up
or that I inspired like Dave Chappelle Show Key and Peele,
Martin Lawrence, Fresh Prince, Sanford and Son from the 70s.
So all that is because I can relate to those those TV shows

(49:55):
and I can relate to the style ofJordan Peele.
So that's just, you know, I don't know, because they kind of
look like me. So I get inspired because it's
like, wow, like if Martin Lawrence can just go in there
and do all those characters withall that energy.
You know, let me try to do that in my skit, you know what I
mean? So or, or in Scary movie with

(50:16):
the Wayne brothers, like man, like that's just the energy that
I want to be like in my skits oror Eddie Murphy and nutty
professor. Like man, if he can just do that
like in a 2 month production, I can easily do this in an hour,
you know what I mean? Like I get inspired by seeing
those people who who I look up to do it makes me want to like

(50:37):
do it. So I just want that stuff to be
more of the norm, you know, likeI want to see familiar faces in
these positions moving forward, whether it's gaming, whether
it's well, yeah, and not just mycolor.
I want to see a wide range of people, you know, like from
different backgrounds and genders and sexes, you know, or

(50:58):
non binary folk too, you know, like, I just want to see that as
the norm because it's nice to see that I can turn on, I can
turn on YouTube and see a music video directed by by a non
binary person, you know, or I like to see a whole fully on
production of just women or something like that, you know

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what I mean? So I think we're in that.
I think we're on that direction of seeing that being possible.
And I just want to be another example of others who are trying
to be or enter in the niche of gaming content or being a gaming
content creator or director. Like I want to be a reason for

(51:40):
them to be like if Nordvillian can do it.
He's 40 some years old, black male from United States of
America. I don't know if his journey was
easy or not, but he still was able to kind of somewhat do it.
That inspires me. It's that should inspire me to
at least try and do it. Yeah.
The algorithm, that could be a nice a little bit friendlier

(52:01):
too, but that's a whole different topic.
That's a whole. Yeah, I don't want to.
I don't want to say it's always the algorithm's fault, but you
do got to produce good content. But I do feel like it's a
struggle sometimes, yeah. Yeah, could be better, but you
know, yeah, you know, they have moments.
Right. And on the top, because you

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mentioned like do you have a lotof inspirations for like
directors and writers and like anime, like with the video game
industry, it's starting, at least I feel like it's been
starting to do it for the past several years now, because like
my first introduction to a videogame that turned into a movie

(52:44):
that was huge was Mar the Super Mario movie.
And I'm I'm of course there was also Sonic too, but I feel like
it's now going to the video gamemovie pipeline.
And now that we know that The Sims movie is happening, I'm
just like, what are your thoughts?
Like what do you like? What do you?
Think I'm excited for it. I I'm excited for it and I know,

(53:13):
is it Margot? Is it Robbie, Margot, Robbie,
Right, Robbie, Margot, right, Margot.
Robbie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know she
should be, I guess, executive producer on it.
So I'm kind of curious to see their direction on it.
But I have done some research and I'm very excited to see if
she decides to go along with some of the organizations she's

(53:35):
involved with when it comes to booking talent, booking
production talent. Because I have done some
research and she does a lot withthe LGBTQ plus community.
So it'll be nice to see those positions filled in regards to
production and stuff like that. But, but I'm more of a Black

(53:57):
Mirror kind of guy, so I would love to see The Sims.
I'm more of a darker approach, but I know that's not going to
be taken very I don't think the I don't think the the community
in the audience is gonna really perceive that well.
So I see the direction maybe going something similar to maybe
Barbie with a little twist, but or with like maybe a yeah, with

(54:21):
a little, maybe with a little twist.
But I'm excited either way because I think they might try
to throw some lore in there, butI feel like they have to, you
know, I feel like they would have to throw in some lore
throughout the franchise of The Sims, not just Sims 4, but like
through it's in through it's like lifespan.
Like if they're gonna go with lore, I feel like they can do

(54:42):
their own lore as well. But I honestly feel like it they
could probably go lots of ways with the with the approach, the
direction. But I'm actually excited because
obviously we're all Sims fans. I don't want to go in there with
high hopes yet until I like maybe see exactly what they're
who's like in it, like what's atleast see the first trailer, you

(55:03):
know, let me let me get the first trailer reaction, But I am
excited. I would love to be a cameo.
If you're listening like I all Iwant is a Dag Dag.
Give me a Dag DAG in there. Or you know.
Some hey? You know, so but I'm really
curious to see what storyline they go with.
I think they might do like a simulation world meets real

(55:26):
world kind of vibe, kind of likeBarbie, but it's already been
done. So maybe they won't go with that
approach and just strictly just do a simulation world with like
some drama. So they can they can take it
anywhere. I'm just really excited to see
what direction they take. But I do like the approach that
that the film industry is kind of branching out and doing some
video games turned to film. Like they did it with Resident

(55:49):
Evil, they've done it with Last of Us.
Apparently that was a game turn TV show.
And like you mentioned, Mario Brothers, Sonic, Mortal Kombat.
I remember they did Mortal Kombat movie back in the 90s.
That was like my very first movie ever or my first video
game that I've noticed went to the film was Mortal Kombat.

(56:13):
And I went and saw that and thatwas dope.
So I was excited because you could take those storylines
anywhere as long as you got the character.
So but the norm of video gaming move film is that they do decide
they will give characters from the game.
So I feel like that's got to be a given.
They got to give us a Bella Gothor or maybe Sims 4 characters, a

(56:35):
Nancy land grab. Oh, actually Nancy's been in
there. What Sims 2 and 3 Sims land
grabs? That's right.
That's right. For a long time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they gotta give us the land
grabs and, you know, the Goth family, maybe some people from
Sims 3, Sims 2, maybe Sims 4. The pancakes will be cool to see
them or so Yeah, it's it's cool.They gotta give us some

(56:59):
characters. But to answer your question, I'm
I'm really excited to see The Sims be part of the the film
franchise, so. I am excited.
I, I keep saying we as as simmers, it's in our job title.
We bought the game or not boughtthe game.
However you got it. It is our job that we have to go

(57:21):
see The Sims movie and make it bigger than Avatar because I
think the highest movie in box office is Avatar 1.
And I'm like, we got to make it bigger.
We have to at least hit two point.
I think 5 or $6 billion in the box office.
We just, we just got to do it. We just got to do it.
Now, Yeah. Now think about it, though.

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Just like Super Mario Brothers and Sonic now, people have been
rocking with The Sims for 25 years.
Yeah. And I think it it can compete
because it's got a large audience for sure, even if they
don't play The Sims anymore. Everybody's acknowledged what
The Sims are. If you've been born from if
you're from at least from 2000 to current like you, you should

(58:02):
know what The Sims is. Yeah, at least someone has
mentioned it to you or you've seen it in some type of a way.
You'll hear Sims music and random reality TV shows.
I'm like, is that a Sims song? I know what that is.
And I feel like we're in good hands for the movie because
Margot Robbie's production company Lucky Chap is producing

(58:25):
it and then Kate Hearn is directing and also Co writing it
with Briony Redmond. So and they learn more towards
like comedy. But then of course, Kate Hearn
has directed Season 1 of Loki, the Disney Plus series from
Marvel. She did episode 4 of The Last of
Us Season 2 and then also did Sex Education and also Doctor

(58:50):
Who. So there's like there's a lot of
nice mixture of things that I think could really make this
movie different than Barbie, butthen also give us what we need
as Sims, as Sims players to understand.
OK, there's some lore that we all recognize, but then also
stuff from people who have neverheard of The Sims, like at all.

(59:14):
So I feel like there's a probably a good mixture between
the both audiences hopefully andthe way that you're gonna market
it. Yeah, now what three key
elements you need The Sims movieto have, though.
It's gotta have these three, these three elements for you at
least. My gosh, they need one first
they need to have mother Bella got always they need to have at

(59:35):
least some type of moment of a Plumb Bob, maybe somewhere in
the moment and I would think honestly simlish yeah, some type
of similar somewhat like what would be yours like non
negotiables. I would say some form of like,

(59:55):
like you know, if you know, you know, moments like some in game
mechanics, like somebody cookingup a grilled cheese sandwich or
just those little gameplay moments that no matter which
franchise, like no matter which game you you, you rock with, you
would know, like OK, grilled cheese or or reference maybe

(01:00:17):
Bobby pancakes in them are in the movie, but they reference
the pancakes or something, you know.
Yeah, seamless. Seamless for sure.
And if they can throw in like a random, like maybe like a just a
random thing that will only happen in The Sims, like a
rocket ship, woo Hoo walk rocketship moment or, or like that

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I'm, I'm referencing Sims 4 there, but or even like the Grim
Reaper showing up somewhere and reaping.
That would be really funny just to see what reaping will look
like in 2025 or 2026 or wheneverthe movie drops.
What would reaping look like? Is he going to be on an iPad or
is he, is he, is he calling in from a file, you know what I
mean? Or is he just, or is it all just

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digital? Can he just like somehow appear
or just like virtually just be on the computer and type it in
later or something like that? So it'd be just kind of cool to
see those in game mechanics. And then lastly, I would say,
yeah, give me Bella Goth or a few characters that really
represents the franchise would be ideal.
For sure. It would.

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Be Yeah, it's also yes or no. Always gonna have a gnome.
Always evil ones too. I feel like it wouldn't even be
The Sims without the Grim Reaper.
And that's where you get your cameo.
Imagine if you get the opportunity to be the Grim
Reaper. And like, he's so great.
And you still do whatever you want, really reap the souls.

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And you'd be like, Dang, Dang, and wait a minute.
So great. That's a hard feeling.
We know who that is. Yeah, they wouldn't even need me
to be the Grim Reaper. That could just voice, voice
that. Exactly because they could do
it. Doesn't really talk as much in
the game so that could be your way in.
Yes, I hope you're. Manifesting.
Yeah, I'm a manifest that that'dbe dope.

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Oh my gosh, well honestly I havesome good rapid fire questions I
want to ask you. So you've been playing Sims for
a very long time. What is your favorite Sims hack?
Now this could be like any iteration of The Sims.
I'm a stick with Sims 4 though and go with City living.
Love city. OK, good.

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Late night build or early morning gameplay?
Late night build for sure, it's just hit different.
Yeah, that's good. That's true.
That's true. What is your go to CC creator or
must have mod? Oh my go to CC creator is
probably Dicka little dicka because I like his modern build.

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I love his modern CC especially the kitchen 1 and I think
there's a living room set that'sjust like a vibe for for mods I
would definitely say I can't live without my MC command
center. Can't live without it.
Can't live without it at all. What what's What's 1 simmer you
would like to collaborate with on a skit?

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Oh, a skit simmer though. Let's see.
Or anyone. Oh, oh, you know what?
Doctor Glue on? I mean, I think that'd be hella
cool to see. Doctor Glue on in a skit.
Hit me up. Doctor Glue on.
I think that'd be dope. That'd be dope.
That'd be fun. And of course, Spring Sims.
Come on now, we gotta. Do our.
Thing too, you know. Yes, definitely.

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And one last quick rapid fire Dag.
Dag or soul soul. You already know dag dag dag.
Awesome sauce. Well this was really fun.
I had so much fun having on the podcast.
I hope that you would love to make another return if you ever

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would like to of course. But where can everyone find you
and support your lovely sinistersimmers work?
All things Nardvillain pushing YouTube and TikTok quite a bit,
so definitely follow me over there on YouTube and TikTok at
Nard Villain. Also Instagram and I stream

(01:04:15):
every Thursday at 1:00 PM Pacific Time over on Twitch.
And I also have AX and Threads and Blue Sky and even a Reddit.
Also a Discord channel. So all things Nard Villain plus
my merchbonfire.com/store if youwant to go check out some of my
merch all at Nard Villain. Good, I will put everything

(01:04:38):
linked down below in the show notes and even description so
that way everyone can go supportyou and any last words or shout
outs you like to give to upcoming creators.
Yes, I wanted, I just want to say like definitely take care of
your mental health even during the low moments because to be

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successful, you really do have to really be consistent.
But don't lose yourself just being always consistent because
you can kind of lose yourself. You can go into a dark place.
Just remember your journey when you are in your lows, because
any little milestone like on a post or you made somebody's day

(01:05:23):
could go a long way. So just remember your journey
when you're in your lows and just remember why you're doing
it. Because you're doing it because
you have value to give to your audience or your community, or
you just enjoy doing this because you love the craft that
you do, which is playing The Sims or building or creating CC
or creating Sims or, or creatingsome fun gameplay for your

(01:05:46):
community. So yeah, just remember to just
take care of your mental space and just remember, even though
people aren't vocal about being appreciative, there are a lot of
people out there that appreciateyour, your, your content and
comparison is the thief of joy. So be inspired and not and don't

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be jealous, you know, just be inspired.
And there will be people that probably potentially will not
like you. And that's OK because as you
grow, there will be a lot of people that aren't going to like
you. They're going to be people in
your comments saying all kinds of crazy stuff.
I can't even count how many times people called me insane or
didn't like the way I presented something or called me a racist

(01:06:32):
slur or a name or whatever. You know, that's going to happen
as a public figure. So just ignore that stuff, you
know, and have fun, you know, and keep that plum Bob Green.
Yes, and with all that being said, we will see you all next
time. And Dag.
Dag dag. So that is a wrap on today's
episode of Hello Spring, a big Dag Dag, and a thank you to Nard

(01:06:54):
Villain for joining me and letting us peek behind the
curtain of their Sims universe. From short form skids to long
form chaos and a community that the rise on authenticity and
humor, Nard Villain is proof that embracing your creative
voice can take you places you'venever imagined, even if your
Sims accidentally set their kitchen on fire.
So be sure to follow Nard Villain on YouTube, Twitch,

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TikTok, and all the places for more Plum Bob powered
storytelling. And don't forget to ask
yourself, what color is your Plum Bob today?
Until next time, stay curious, stay cozy, and always dag dag.