Genesis
Genesis is a show all about your favorite YouTubers' origin stories. Each episode, Alex the LowSpecGamer interviews a fellow creator about how they got started on YouTube, what interests lead them there, and what they see as the future of their videos.
Episodes
How do you turn a passion into a YouTube career? Andrew and Alex talk about his relationship with tennis, how the pandemic pushed him to start a YouTube career and how virality lead him to a leap of faith.
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Cult Tennis
How does one become a hit urbanism YouTuber with a "side hustle" as an university professor? Alex and Dave discuss his origins in academia, how his experiences lead him into becoming a a YouTuber and how to balance life between traditional teaching and educational YouTube.
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City Beautiful
EposVox is the golden voice of streaming technology. Alex and Adam discuss his origins as the local "tech kid" and how an unexpected change in interest led him down his current path.
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EposVox
Joe Scott took the long way around becoming a full-time creator. How did a frustrating career in advertising lead to running his own show? Alex and Joe discuss his past, his unexpectedly very long time on YouTube and what happens next.
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Joe Scott
How do you become a professional video essays? How you find a breakthrough series? Alex and Raz explore his YouTube origins, how a very specific angle found him unexpected success just as he was preparing to give up and the difficulty of keeping things fresh in a highly competitive vertical.
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Razbuten
What if being a YouTuber is actually your plan B for your media career? Alex and Austin explore his humble beginnings, how his love of movies shaped him and the odd circumstances that led him to Online success.
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Austin McConnell
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Geoff is the studio director for Extra Credits. Alex and Geoff discuss his origin in the fires of Game Development and how that gave him the skills an experience necessary to take on that colossal responsibility.
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Geoff
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Simon Clark is a bit overqualified to be a YouTuber with his PhD but he loves doing it all the same. Alex and Simon discuss going to Cambridge, finding vloggers early on on YouTube and what he enjoys most that he's doing right now between his many interests.
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Simon Clark
The biggest crossover event in history: Nando v LowSpec. Alex and Nando discuss growing up with comics, his early ventures into online video and the series that made his channel.
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Nando v Movies
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If you've watched gaming videos on YouTube you've almost definitely come across an Extra Credits videos at some point. Matt, the new-ish voice of the channel sits down with Alex to discuss childhood gaming, how he switched from tradition media to working on Extra Credits and the challenges of filling someone else's shoes.
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Genesis ventures into Music YouTube with Mary Spender. What is it like to be a musician on YouTube and how has that changed as social media site have become larger platforms for artists. And which celebrity DMed Mary about one of her cover songs?
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Mary Spender
Alex and Flo from The Great War and Real Time History sit down to discuss what it's like producing historical content on YouTube and how The Great War got its start. How did a war channel survive the adpocalypse and how did Flo go from working at at production company to turning the channel into an indie hit?
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Alex and Mike Boyd sit down to chat about his YouTube series Learn Quick and how he decided to leave his job, get a studio in the countryside, and become a full-time creator. Mike also shares some tips on what it takes to make learning videos and the best strategies for learning.
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Mike Boyd
Knowing Better has been making extensive videos on social and political issue for four years. How did he find his voice and style over the past few years and how did video response to one of his video make him rethink the way he makes content? He and Alex sit down to discuss his process, time in the military and what he's doing with his channel now.
LowSpecGamer
Dave Wiskus is the founder of Standard and Nebula. How did he get started in the tech and what eventually lead him to launching Nebula? Alex and Dave sit down to talk about growing up, starting a band, and launching apps.
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Dave Wiskus
Ali Abdaal is one of the top productivity creators on YouTube. How has he developed his channel while in med school and becoming a full time doctor? Alex and Ali discuss his childhood, educational business that lead him to YouTube and his aim of becoming a best-selling author rather than and what his plans are next.
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RealLifeLore is one of the largest educational channels on YouTube having just passed over 4 million subscribers. Alex and Joseph discuss his early attempts at YouTube, the breakout video that made him decide to drop out of college and go full-time and what lessons he's learned after creating such a successful series.
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Thomas Frank is know for his in-depth productivity videos but what started him on this journey? Alex and Thomas discuss his upbringing, college years, and how he turned his blog, College Info Geek into his hugely successful YouTube channel.
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Thomas Frank
The inception of Tale Foundry is quite the journey for its creator. Alex and Benji discuss what it was like growing up in a creatively supportive family, how he mostly skipped high school and what variety of career paths he explored in college before finally finding his niche on YouTube.
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Tale Foundry
Volksgeist is one of the fastest growing music channels on YouTube. How did someone as young as Philip get into creating some of the most visually stunning videos? How has YouTube changed his life forever?
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Volksgeist
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