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One of the biggest things that happened for me was YouTube.

Growing up, I was always creatively inclined, and when YouTube came about, it was like getting the perfect platform to showcase what I wanted. Personally, I was going through a dark phase in my life, and I decided to make videos and basically go by the adage, 'If you want to cheer up yourself, go cheer up someone else.'

When I was coming out of depression, I made one random video. It wasn't funny or anything, but just the idea that people I didn't know were watching it made me feel less alone than I'd felt in a long time.

The strange thing was, when I was starting on YouTube, even the paradigm of YouTube and Internet sensation - or whatever - that didn't really exist. So I didn't even know that that was a thing.

When my YouTube videos started to get really big, I was like, 'Man, this is pretty sweet.' It started as my hobby, and then I started traveling and learning how to play different instruments, and then it just kind of became my life.

When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.

I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.

I had no clue on what I wanted to do when I was younger, so I was pretty lucky with this YouTube thing.

My YouTube channel is kind of a library of all my issues I've lived with. To process it emotionally, it's been good and bad.

When I think back on high school, I always tried to make silly videos with my friends.