Q: Sorry if I'm oversimplifying this (I know you do all types of content... scrambles, the question page, reality, jazz, improv, notebook, etc)... But it seems like you kind of "made a name for yourself" doing all the vines and short videos. Then you didn't want to get pigeon-holed as "The Guy Who Makes Short Videos" and when your fans came to expect more and more short videos, you put out HOJ and HOTEWIG. Then when everybody started demanding more and more history videos, you didn't want to get labeled as "The Guy Who Makes History Videos". Now, it seems like your focus is music videos for medium-length songs? My question is, what happens when everyone starts demanding more music videos and you become associated with this particular form of content? Will we see another big shift? Again, sorry if I'm oversimplifying your 'creative trajectory'. Like I said, I know you do all types of stuff. I'm a big fan of everything you put out, and you've been a huge
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A: i think you understand the general path very well. except, there are many elements of my past work that are unilaterally right for me, and i will continue to use. so it is not necessarily a game of always doing something completely new. it is mainly just about filling out the space of all the potential things that i think would be good for me. if you look at the discussions i was having a few years ago, there were several major 'houses' of types of content that needed to be explored, none of which had been fully explored at the time. so that's why shifts were necessary -- to make sure i explored everything that needed to be explored. medium-full length songs, with videos, is extremely important and has been important for a long time, and i've always written a huge surplus of them, so there is a lot of catching up to do. but still, free-videos (videos that are not exclusively based on 1 song) both fictional and non, is still a hugely vast area to explore, and having done such a huge amount of work on extremely short projects (due to the 4-vid-per-week schedule, and later due to the success of my vine channel) there is still a huge amount of exploring to do in the longer ranges