Q: it appears you have moved awy from 10 second long shorts. all your videos since history of the entire world, i guess has been longer than 1 minute and two of them have been music videos. are you moving away from shorts and pushing closer towards music videos? also what is steves real name?
A: just when i was ready to move onto videos a bit longer, i got really popular on vine. vine was a platform that only allowed videos of up to 6 seconds. this was great news because i had a great audience who never expected anything longer, but bad because i was just getting ready to make them longer but i actually had to make even more of them that were shorter. so by the end of 2015 i was ready to explode and when i finally finished history of japan, it did very well on youtube, and quickly gave me an even larger audience there than on vine. so needless to say at that point i was more than exhausted with the -10 sec format, and also the non-vine audience was very confused about those videos in the first place, because they didn't realize that they were being composed with the vine platform in mind