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rockets-capris · 4 years

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Some black youtubers I like you can support

So I’m not a very big blog. Obviously. But I figured what little influence I have I can use to direct people in this time to some underrated black creators I like since I spend all my time watching YouTube and feel free to add as always. Also this was originally supposed to be in order of sub count but that didn’t work out at all.

1. Jarvis Johnson.

Probably one of the most popular creators on this list with over 1 million subscribers but extremely funny and if you haven’t heard of him and you like comedic Cody Ko-esque commentary videos, go give him a sub. He’s reacted to many of the same channels Danny Gonzalez and Drew Gooden have such as Troom Troom and 5 Minute Crafts. He’s also a software engineer which is pretty badass.

2. Lana Summer.

Does mainly fashion and hair related videos but is very chill and easy to listen to. Sometimes I like to put on her videos while I’m doing things even though I 100% have straight hair and she does mostly curly hair tutorials. But she’s covered a large umbrella of beauty topics in her videos and if you’re the least bit feminine it’s highly possible she’s covered at least one topic that’ll be useful to you. She’s very pretty (lowkey crushing on her) and lovely and I enjoy her channel a lot.

3. The Curly Guy.

A highly underrated channel that does content similar to Lana’s but for guys! He’s a guy with long, curly hair and talks about how to take care of it. I am always here for nontoxic male positivity and getting more guys involved in taking care of their appearance. It’s very sweet to watch. He’s also reviewed bad hair products which we all like to watch bad reviews of things on YouTube, right, and once pierced his ears at home. So. Idk about you but that sounds great to me.

4. Jolie K.

We’ve got some black queer representation in here! She’s a queer woman who makes videos about queer women. She hasn’t uploaded in a minute but I think she’s still worth supporting. She’s done some cool story times about being gay as well as some beauty stuff.

5. Honest.

Honest is a drama channel run by a black guy who talks about drama between music artists and sometimes youtubers. He’s not only a black person in the drama side of YouTube but he’s a black man in the drama side of YouTube two demographics that feel excluded from that world. If you do like drama videos like Teaspill, it’s cool to support a POC in that world. I can’t say I agree with everything he says but that’s drama channels for you.

6. Ranting Minority.

This guy’s super new and super underrated! He makes spicy political content, is extremely eloquent and chill, which makes him good to listen to, and is a leftist. If you can’t stop watching left-tubers like I can’t, I would totally recommend this guy. He makes videos on racial and societal issues from a liberal and anti conservative perspective. He has less than a thousand subscribers, so I’d highly advise giving him a sub.

7. MacDoesIt

So this guy is also one of the more popular on here. Basically if you watch any LGBTQ+ content on YouTube at all he pops up. He’s like the Strange Æons of the mlm community in that respect. He’s super funny, does reaction videos, does some very comedic red carpet fashion reviews, just if you haven’t subbed to MacDoesIt, what are you doing?

8. Kat Blaque.

Kat Blaque has been under fire for certain opinions before, but all in all she’s a good leftist, political youtuber who is also a black trans woman. She does videos on LGBT+ issues, racial issues, lots of other things, and is a smart, beautiful lady. Basically you can’t be a political youtuber without being controversial so, decide for yourself if you wanna support her, I personally do. Also I am not a trans woman but I know trans women who have said she helped them figure out certain things, so that’s good.

9. Rickey Thompson

A black gay comedian who does story times and random funny videos. I also think he’s an ex viner. I’m only a comedic fan of this one but I do know he’s very handsome and I came from his LGBT+ story times. Just someone you might wanna check out. He’s kind of like Mac in some ways just like. Much chiller.

10. WiseJae

I love how this is a mix of semi popular youtubers and super obscure youtubers I like for very specific reasons. WiseJae is a very small youtuber with a little over a thousand subs last time I checked but she does videos about jobcorps and trade school and has recently started making videos about college. So basically. A cool guide for how to get your life started if you’re a young, low income adult or late teen. She’s also got a very pretty accent, soothing voice and . . . is just so fucking beautiful . . . so. So gorgeous. So like. If you’re like. 18. And you’ve been thinking about a place like jobcorps but don’t know how to start. I would say her channel would be the first place I’d go for information.

11. NotYourMommasHistory

I actually love historical fashion. And this black woman named Cheyney is a historical reenactor with a focus on African and African-American history, and often overlooked part of history and fashion history in general. She’s done stuff like historical head wraps and similar as well as talked about serious issues like sexual harassment. Most recently she did a video on white people misrepresenting Martin Luther King Jr. Basically if you like channels like Rachel Maksy, Bernadette Banner, or our meme mom Karolina Żebrowska, you’ll probably like her. Or maybe you’re just curious about African history. That’s cool too.

12. Rebranding Autism.

Black autistic rep! Jen is a black autistic woman who talks about autism, the struggles she’s faced and she was literally sent to the notoriously abusive Judge Rotenberg center and talked about the atrocities committed there. She’s amazing and has also made vlogs about her life, made advice videos on mental health that are relatable for many people not just people with autism specifically, tho certainly those too. She also makes music.

13. Tater Tatiana

Small youtuber who is in the anti Onision community. She reviewed Onision’s shitty books. She writes, does drama videos and does beauty videos as well. She read Onision fanfiction on her channel, Lilee Jean tried to take down her channel and she bounced back. I highly recommend the channel, I love Tatiana and I’ve loved watching her channel grow these last few years.

So, that’s my list, will definitely add more later, I hope this didn’t come off as pandering or me thinking black people are charity cases, which they aren’t, this is simply me, a white girl, trying to share some black creators I enjoy instead of just spouting my opinions on tumblr, since I come from a privileged place.

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ak-edutech · 3 years

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AMAZON AFFILIATE MARKETING for Beginners in 2021 (Tutorial)

What is affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing is the process by which an affiliate (You) earns a commission for marketing another person’s or company’s products. The affiliate simply searches for a product they enjoy, then promotes that product and earns a piece of the profit from each sale they make. In affiliate marketing, three factors are involved

Merchant

Affiliate Network

Affiliate (You)

The affiliate means we, who will be promoting the products of the merchant through a special affiliate link. But the important question is, how affiliate marketing will help us. Today a lot of websites are driving free traffic every month from Google and other search engines and making affiliate commission for the owners of particular websites.

Almost all popular companies like amazon, zomato, swiggy, Uber, Ola etc uses affiliate marketing programs to drive customers to their website

Who can learn affiliate marketing?

Starting affiliate marketing is not a big deal. It is not necessary to have a technical background or any special qualifications. The only thing you need to have computer or laptop and internet connection. This is all you need. The best part about affiliate marketing is that we can make money from home while sitting in our comfort zone. There is no age limit, no course fee. The only thing you need is your willingness to learn and willingness to earn money online.

Which affiliate network to focus on?

There are thousands of affiliate marketing companies in the market. So it is very confusing which one should you choose. Let’s talk about Clickbank and the Commission Junction. This two affiliate websites are more complicated, the reason is competition is too high, so you must have a knowledge of advanced digital marketing in order to make money through tat affiliate websites.

For the beginners of affiliate marketing, I’ll recommend them to start with amazon.com or amazon.in because it is easy to use and promote their products.

Why to choose amazon Associates for affiliate program?

As you know that amazon is the world’s biggest ecommerce website. Amazon.com is getting more than 2.5B of monthly traffic and amazon india or amazon.in is driving more than 360M traffic per month. Once you promote your affiliate link the cookie period is 24 hours for amazon affiliate.

The Best part to be amazon affiliate is are

Whatever products customer ends up purchasing in the next 24 hours, you will get the commission for that.

You will be get paid affiliate commission for the whole cart. So let’s say you refer someone to buy a mobile. But the person ends up buying earphones and mobile case as well. You will get the affiliate commission for whole cart value and not just for the product that you recommend.

. This is the best part of the Amazon affiliate link. Amazon has number of products to sell, so everyone who visits, ends up buying something that we have either recommended or not recommended. So many other products and not just the product you have recommend to buy.

Amazon is now one of the biggest ecommerce website all over the world. Amazon spends millions in advertising and now everyone knows about Amazon. So there’s a trust from the consumers from Amazon, so the conversion rate of people buying from Amazon.com is very high. This also helps us to get more sales which results in to making more affiliate commissions.

How to make money from affiliate marketing?

The simple answer is create a website, write good quality of content and promote your affiliate link through that website. Now everybody asks question that what kind of website or blog should I make and how I can drive traffic to them. I have articles on how to select aprofitable niche and how to drive tons of traffic to blog or website you can go through this link and read them.

There are many benefits of starting affiliate websites. Just as I mentioned, the competition in India is very low. So if you read our articles about Digital marketing, 7 ways to drive traffic to blog and follow them to the heart, then I can guarantee that within few months, you will be making money. You don’t even have to work harder on your website when your article ranks on top Google search results. It’s free organic traffic.

There are many platforms that may come and go, but Google is not going to disappear. So we don’t have to worry that Google will go out of fashion in a few years and our articles ranks down. People will keep on searching on Google.

There are so many others ways other than affiliate links that can make money from your affiliate website. For example sponsorship opportunities, sponsored links, sponsored reviews etc.

The other platforms where we can promote our affiliate links.

Youtube Channel

Instagram

Youtube Channel

We can open a YouTube channel in any niche like other YouTubers are doing, and they are also making good affiliate revenue. You can create a fashion-related channel and promote fashion-related products, we can create a gaming channel and promote gaming equipment, you can also create a technology-based YouTube channel and promote products related to niche.

But the main point to worry about is that YouTube is getting competitive. Already for all the popular categories like fashion, gardening, technology etc already many YouTubers are dominating that niche. It was easier a couple of years back when the competition was low. Now already majority of the profitable niche has a channel dominating.

Creating a youtube channel and run it is not that much hard. Yes, you can open a YouTube channel and you will be able to promote it. All the thing need is you have to be patient. You also have to show your face and you’ll also have to invest in expensive equipment like microphone, camera, video editing software.

Instagram

Now, let’s talk about promoting affiliate links through Instagram. As you know a couple of years ago Instagram was not that much famous, but now it is one of the most popular social media platform. If any other social media platform will come, it may possible that within few years Instagram might not be able to survive. And one more thing about Instagram is getting followers in 2021 is extremely difficult as compared to a couple of years back.

Competition on Instagram is also growing higher because the people know that there’s money to be made. And also Instagram wants you to pay money to get those followers which results to down the organic growth. And the worst part about Instagram is that you can add the affiliate link at the only single point that is the bio.

So the total number of links of the affiliate links will be less and hence the commission that you make in a month will be less. And this is why I don’t recommend Instagram as the only source of promoting your affiliate links.

The same thing happens to the Facebook page or a group. The organic reach is dead, so you will not able to promote your affiliate links. That’s why I don’t recommend to promote your affiliate links on Instagram or YouTube or a Facebook page or a group.

The best strategy to promote affiliate link is to start a website, promote it, and then move to the various verticals of YouTube, facebook and Instagram. That can give you the best results. So what is the process of making money from affiliate marketing through a website.

Everything is explained in detail in this article. Here I am giving you the 6 factors that how all of them works for affiliate marketing. giving you a general overview of how all these works. The process will be something like this.

Niche Research

How to start a pro affiliate website

Keyword research

Article Writing

Rank your site to Google (SEO)

How much many can you make from affiliate marketing?

Well this is the most interesting part for all affiliates that how much money they can earn from affiliate marketing. It’s so simple that it totally depends on you. How much time you are willing to invest on your website to promote affiliate products. The more time you invest, the more money you can making.

If you follow proper guidelines and work harder, then you can start making money within a few months. In the beginning, it may look complicated because you are new at this. But given a few days of implementing, you can be the pro.

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wil-black-blog · 5 years

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Pressure washer cleaning trick ֠Faster?

Winter you know what I hate winter hate rain clouds and clouds yeah so winter time rain makes a pavement wet and then it stays wet because it’s overcast all the time and then what happens is algae grows now I want no one wants algae look at its dirty dirty bad algae dirty and then washing it off the ground that takes precious time I don’t have. Sweet heart, can you wash the concrete in the patio like you promised? I’m playing Atari! You can play it later Space invaders…PLAYING! go and wash it now Playing ATARI so if you do need to clean up the backyard pavement here’s a simple life hack to make a job far more enjoyable and probably heaps quicker too so closing pavement clean apart from helping by relieving your local dam of excess water it allows us the privilege of being able to etch stuff onto the ground which is cool because it is fun using something like your hand is a great stencil see it looks like a high-five to ground we’re friends now so I’ve got lots of ground here and lots of algae so we’re going to make it big stencil and we’re going to do it 8-bit game style now the stencil for this delightful green canvas will be Atari space invaders first I worked out that pixels are square because I’m like a scream scientist man.

Bricks aren’t square neither tangerines half a brick and square like a pixel so a whole brick is kind of like two pixels. yes bricks will be our template lots of bricks I printed out some space invaders 8-bit screenshots and then divide it up into individual pixels or half bricks and full bricks see how many old need and then I also uses to work out the spacing between the blip, blip, blip, space bug guys I have a fairly large collection of bricks in storage just in case of a brick emergency you never know I grabbed these out and stack them up in place and then the other thing you’ll need is a high pressure washer and then it’s simply a case of working out where you want your graphics to be and start assembling it based on the picture I had way less half bricks than I would have liked to have so I could only assemble one character at a time when laying out the bricks I really concentrate on getting the lines straight so the whole image wouldn’t be skewed when it was finished using a long straight piece of wood or something can help with getting this right then you just need to get your high pressure washer eye protection is kind of recommended when you’re working around objects like this because you get a lot of blowback now the head on this washer has a rotating nozzle which helps a clean better but not only there you get this cool wavy water effect when you film it with a camera this is a frame syn effect and I actually did a video about that recently on my second channel which you can check out if you were cool look at that waviness that’s awesome now keep in mind you can still do this with a garden hose if you’ve got good water pressure like you’ll generally use a lot more water for a lesser result and people will laugh at you behind your back so I kept moving from character to character and to get the spacing right I’ll use spare bricks you can also use a tape measure but I’ve been using brick units all my life and have trouble switching back and forth once you finish is stenciling it’s just the case of lightly washing off your algae soaked water and then you can enjoy your design so the end result I managed to turn a quick and easy half-hour job into a four and a half hour project but not only that the algae that’s left behind and probably accelerate the growth of new algae so I hope you enjoyed this quick tutorial on how to clean up your backyard more effectively as always as many more videos to come please consider subscribing if you haven’t no pressure maybe write down the pros and cons of both and then if subscribing complements your existence go for it I’m Craig Turner my youtube channel is Turnah81 thank you for watching and I’ll catch you next time

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some late night thoughts while procrastinating on homework about video editing

I’ve been in the editing community of Transformers for 6 years now. I’ve grown up with some of the most amazing people of my life & I care about them so much & so I can’t help but to think these thoughts. If you two are reading this, you know who yous are, I am writing this to let you know what my thoughts are and hopefully yous see the support for others as well to give you the boost of confidence the two of you need.

so, for those of you who have stuck around with my channel for so long, you have seen me grow with my editing over the years. I started out shit, absolute shit. I was using Windows Movie Maker, I had shitty quality copies of TFP, IT WAS SHIT OKAY? About four videos in, I decided I wanted to start using Vegas. So I did. I had NO idea what I was doing. I was lost, confused, but I still had hope in myself. I was young, this wasn’t hard for me to find when you are naive. But only one person showed me the ropes in Vegas. She took me under her wing and helped me out. From there, I started getting the idea of tutorials on YouTube & I started self teaching. I edited & I edited & I edited. For a good two or three years, it was all I did. Because I was suffering for social anxiety, severe depression, and anorexia. It was all I had. Funny as it is, I strongly believed at the beginning of editing that this wasn’t going to be my career, I couldn’t handle the pressure. Now I’m an addict and I love the challenge. But I didn’t start feeling proud of my videos until my Animals video. & then I thought to myself.. “wow. i’m FINALLY getting the hang of this. I feel like I know what I’m doing, I’ve really progressed & it’s showing” & now to this day, I can gladly say that I’m fucking amazing at what I do. But my point is, this didn’t happen over night. I’ve been doing this for SIX YEARS. Yeah, I have a high sub count, but honestly, I don’t even look at the numbers half the time. I just love reading the comments and doing what I love most. I love editing, I love showing my passion, I love making a story. I never did this sub or sub shit that is going around. I never asked or begged anyone to subscribe to me. I did what I loved doing and it showed. It still shows to this day. I no longer feel a pressure to get an edit out because I edit when I feel like it. I edit when I have inspiration and I edit when I’m in love with it all, all over again. There’s no secret behind what I do and why I do it so good. I’m simply just doing what I love. I have a hard on for films, 3D animation, & some good ass fucking angles. god dayum do I have a hard on for angles. But I’m wondering if you all are seeing the point here. For a long, long time, I was ashamed of my edits. Fuck I laugh so hard at my old ones CAUSE THEY ARE SO FUCKING BAD. But I keep them up, because they show my progress. I have people playing my videos at work all the time. I proudly share my channel, because you know what, I am good at what I do. Sometimes when I share it to people, I strongly believe that I’m shit & I’m embarrassed. But then they look at my channel & go “WOW. you do this? this is AMAZING!” & I feel all happy all over again. I went to a party the other night & everyone was telling me I should make business cards for my channel. That’s where I’m at right now. I have so many people so proud of me. But none of this happened over night. There was a time when I hit 50 subscribers & i thought that was all I was ever going to get, but I was so happy. Now, gosh, now I don’t even look at the numbers. I just love communicating with this amazing fandom & sharing my passion with others. That’s what editing is about. I have an amazing support system and for that, I am lucky. Everyone I have encountered through internet and real life about my channel has shown massive support & encourages me. They truly enjoy my works & that’s something that really puts a huge smile on my face when I see them smiling at what I do. But if I was to sit there & question whether they were lieing or not & putting myself down, I wouldn’t get back to my computer and keep going. I may be friends to some of you, but when I say I really enjoy your edits, I REALLY FUCKING MEAN IT. I dont talk out of my asshole, I swear. I don’t think there’s a hidden message on why I do so well on my channel, I really just believe it’s because I have such a huge passion for it & everyone else enjoys that too.

so for those that I love: stop putting yourself down. yous have worked very hard, I’m very proud of your edits & I support you all the way. Doesn’t that matter somewhere? Not only have you watched me grow, but I watched yous grow. We all adapted our editing together. So no, it’s not coping one another, we share and support one another. So, you’re edit looks like mine? SO WHAT. My edit looks like yours? DAYUM I FEEL GOOD NOW. I’ve got your backs all the way. We inspire one another. That’s how we got this far.

& for those who only look at subs: Shame on you. That’s not what editing is about & if you are only looking at that, then pursuing this as a career is foolish. You are only taking away jobs from those who truly enjoy it. When I am working on a video, all I can think about is how it looks at the end. But now I’ve got people coping, and sub for subbing because all they care about is the subs. It’s shameful, degrading & upsetting. I’m proud to say that I’m not apart nor have I ever been apart of these shameful acts. If you really wanna get somewhere with editing, do it because you love it & you wanna see yourself improve. Not because you wanna be “famous”.

#personal #im angry #but seriously this is my passion #i live and breathe editing #and people just take that away from others #then make them doubt themselves #its unbelievable

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siodymph · 7 years

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Symmrat Week Day 2

Boy howdy! his one is definitely going to be my longest submission for the week! I was a bit rushed to finish this all in time but hopefully it doesn't show too badly lol

Today's theme was an AU so i went with one i'd actually been thinking about, an Alternate Universe where everyone in Overwatch are Youtube gamers! Hope you all enjoy!

(Also RIP people on mobile, I’m sorry)

“That was an absoblutely booti- beu-… absobluty- Uhhhhggghh!”

“That was a wonderful game and I’m so happy to have experienced it. Thank you for joining me, if you wish please subscrur- errrr.”

Satya groaned as she deleted yet another recording of herself stumbling over her outro. Why was it only the ends of her videos that she got so tongue-tied? And when she did manage to get through her outro she’d rewatch it and realize she was making a weird face or her hair had been messed up. Was it too much to ask to do her English outro perfect by the fifth try?

After pressing her palms into her eyes she sighed and took a deep breath through her nose. She just needed to calm back down and stop over-thinking these outros. If she didn’t focus so intently on the English words then they would come much more naturally. She just needed to relax.

Satya looked over herself one more time in the mirror by her camera, smoothing down her hair and readjusting her shirt before taking one more deep breath through her nose. And attempted her outro one more time.

“That was a wonderful game and I’m so happy to have experienced it. If you haven’t already I highly suggest playing it for yourself. Thank you all for joining me in this playthrough. And if you wish please subscribe to my channel and see you all in my next video!”

It wasn’t perfect, but it was a close as she could get. If she just sat here all day trying to record one outro she’d get nothing else done. She might try recording it again later but for now that would make a good placeholder for then end. Now came the part she enjoy much more. Most of the other youtubers she talked with hated editing their videos, but personally she actually enjoyed it. Compiling the most interesting moments during her recordings and putting them together however she liked. Even though it could be a bit more time-consuming Satya always found it worthwhile. To have complete control of her videos. To make them exactly how she envisioned, down to the very second. To make them perfect.

But before she got started editing, she decided to check her email, many times when she started editing she’d go into a zone and miss out on plans with her friends or important messages from her advertisers. For almost two years now she had been in a symbiotic relationship with Vishkar Tech that had elevated the videos she loved making into a viable career.

Before their contract Satya, or rather her online persona Symmetra, had a decent audience that grew steadily by word of mouth. She was always complimented on her calming voice, positive outlook on games and always keeping things age-appropriate for younger viewers. As it turned out Vishkar Tech liked her videos too, especially the latter factor. Enough so that they felt she was the perfect gamer to be a face for their products. They offered her a deal where they would give her a paycheck for each of her videos, as well as promote her material. And in turn she exclusively used their products only. Her headphones, her keyboard, nearly everything, even her chair were all Vishkar’s top-of-the-line products. And now for two years she’d been able to do one of the things she loved the most thanks to their support.

As she went through her email, she found no new messages from Vishkar. However there was one new email, one she didn’t recognize. It stuck out almost painfully in her inbox full of formal, professional emails. Its caption read “wanna collab??”

Wanna. Not Want to. No capitalization. Not to mention the fact that there were two question marks. She could just see her old English teacher from school looking at this in horror and making corrections in red ink all over the words, if they could even be called that. The addressed seemed strange too, like it had been created by a child going on the internet for the first time. “thejunkergamer@” The only thing missing was a bunch of extra numbers and underscores.

She dreaded opening the email, but at the same time she couldn’t help but feel curious. She’d never done a collaboration before. Mostly because she was seldom a big interactive person among the gaming community on youtube so no one had ever invited her into any crossovers or meet-ups. It did make sense though, with her growing popularity paired with Vishkar’s support she had become rather popular quickly, views on her videos increasing almost exponentially now. Who knew, it might be a fun change.

So not able to resist, and silently hoping this wasn’t actually a virus, she opened the email.

“Hi! So, your the great Symmetra everyones been talking about? I’ve seen a bunch of you’re stuff and I think your just great! Real chill and you seem like a nice person, got nice videos

Ok, this all started out as a joke in my videos. My mate Roadie and I would crack jokes about all the blokes who where “totally collabing” with us. And one or two times we may of brought up your name and it turns out, people actually liked that idea! Crazy right? So anyways it got big enough that a whole lot a people suggested you as a guest for our next crossover. But I dunno how this would all work. Since you’re in India and I’m bouncing around the States this year. Maybe if you’re in LA for that one convention thing we could meet-up then? I don’t know.

So email me back if your interested and we can figure all this out!

-Jamie (Junkrat) Fawkes”

Satya couldn’t help but stare at the email in slight confusion, like she was looking at strange modern art. It was legible but as Satya read through it she questioned if this could have been his real first language. At one point this so called Junkrat had written, taken the time to type “dunno” yet at another part had typed out “I don’t know” correctly. Why not write it correctly both times? How do you miss those kind of errors? The fact that the correct spelling was written near then end of his short email baffled Satya still. Who writes to someone they don’t know like that? “Yours” and “You’re” were mismatched all over, seeming random in choice of spelling.

The when she looked over the name and email again, she finally recognized it. He was on an Australian gaming channel, not one of the biggest household names but still rather popular. Their name regularly popped-up in the comments on her videos and in her searches. But she had never actually seen one of their videos.

She decided to change that now and looked up a playlist of some of his most recent videos, to see who she could potentially be working with. To be a popular face on youtube he had to be making interesting videos. And even if his form of entertainment wasn’t quite what Satya preferred to invest time in she had to respect the fact that he’d made video content a career for himself like she had. And who knew, maybe Junkrat would surprise her? What if behind his barely-legible email there was an engaging, entertaining series of videos that got him and his channel an audience.

Trying to keep an open mind, she clicked on one of the first video she saw. It was titled “Sonic ’06 Part 14: …”

She immediately regretted her choice when she saw the full title “Sonic ’06 Part 14: WHO WANTS TO BE SILVER’S B****??” The video began with someone yelling out a slew of swear words while a deep voice laughed in the background. Nope. Satya immediately got out of the video as soon as she could. That was way too loud and brash. She tried scrolling over the first video in the series, maybe they wouldn’t be so ridiculous with the first video. After all, it was probably just going over the tutorial, how bad could that be? She didn’t take any chances this time though, and scrolled over the title instead of blindly clicking on it.

Sure enough the full title was “Sonic ’06 Part 1: I WISH FOR THE SWEET RELEASE OF DEATH”

She made a mental note to just avoid any games related to sonic after that. After a few more minutes of searching she decided to try a video titled “Ocarina of Time Part 7: Tone Deaf Jam Sessions”

Throughout the video Satya found herself becoming more confused than anything. When Junkrat wasn’t yelling during difficult parts of the game he was just talking with his friend with the deep gravelly voice. Most of what they said had barely anything to do with their task at hand. Instead they’d either make terrible jokes or simply talk about their day. It was all rather mundane, like they were just two friends catching up over lunch. Most of the time they barely paid any attention to the game, Junkrat getting easily sidetracked. At one point their discussion about motorcycle repairs got so intense Junkrat accidentally walked straight into an enemy and got killed. And the strange character of a gamer would either laugh or scream at his own negligence while his friend would make dry comments.

This is what made them so popular? She’d seen many gamers rise to fame by just screaming throughout their gameplay but this was different. Sure they yelled plenty when it was expected but more so they would be trying to have an ordinary conversations. So much so it caused them to actually play worse, which by all expectations would mean they’d lose an audience, not gain one.

Another thing that was strange to Satya, the fact that they never showed footage of themselves. Most other gamers put in an small video of themselves in the corner of the screen but not them, they just showed footage of their game. If someone were to mute the game they would never even know someone was adding commentary.

But at the same time as she watched several more videos in the Junker’s Ocarina of Time series she felt herself grow a tad jealous. Sometimes she’d spend hours putting together her outfit and make-up for each of her playthroughs and for all she knew the Junkers were just playing in their pajamas. Actually. in a few of their videos they actually confirmed they indeed did. Satya couldn’t help but think of all the time she could save only voicing over her game play, but she knew that since she already made a habit of filming herself play she’d only get massive backlash for suddenly changing her videos. Not to mention Vishkar would probably be very cross with her if she suddenly stopped showing regular footage of herself using their products.

She stopped herself halfway through their series so she could go back to editing her videos, she still had her job to do after all. But as she went through her recording and began to piece together her video she kept mulling over Junkrat’s offer.

As her luck, or maybe her misfortune, would have it she had been invited to two different panels at the convention Junkrat had mentioned. Vishkar had already paid for her flight there and a room for the entire week. She would be there for the whole duration of the convention as well as the few days before, so she could afford the free time… Despite the email being a nightmare to read, he seemed nice enough. Maybe not a person she’d think to do a collaboration with, but it was still an interesting offer.

As for all the poor jokes, screaming and ridiculousness maybe it was all just an internet persona he and his partner put on for their show. Everyone who starred on a channel altered their personality one way or another. Even Satya had in creating her persona Symmetra. And despite being very much the same, Symmetra had never been a carbon copy of real-life self. Though Satya had to admit it would be nice to edit herself and her conversations much like she edited her videos, save herself from many embarrassing moments. Maybe the crazy persona of Junkrat was just that and Jamison Fawkes was a much more reasonable person to work with, one who just happened to have poor grammar. At least she hoped so…

But even if not, perhaps this could be the start of something. If she agreed to Junkrat’s invitation maybe it could open doors to more collaborations with the online gaming community. While she enjoyed working independently and was never one for large crowds or their chaotic noise she never hated the thought of having a few more friends online who she could interact with beyond the odd email every couple weeks.

Before she got too ahead of herself however, Satya realized she’d definitely have to ask Vishkar for permission before anything else. She hadn’t even thought of them. Would they even allow her to do crossovers? Especially with a persona as rash and vulgar as the Junker gamers? She decided to email them to ask before responding to Junkrat at all, just to be sure. And after she finished editing her current video of course. By the end of the day the newest episode in her playthrough of “The Deer God” was successfully uploaded and a full email was sent to Vishkar. Asking about a potential crossover and pleading her case for why it could be a further advancement for her channel.

Though as the email notification popped up on her screen, she couldn’t completely decide if she hoped they would say yes or no.

~~~~

A month later, and two days before the convention Satya wished Vishkar had said no.

If there were any difference between Jamison Fawkes and his online persona of Junkrat it was microscopic.

They had agreed to meet in the studio of some friends Junkrat knew to record their video. And when she had first arrived she still foolishly hoped that Jamison would be an actual person, and not the maniacal character he appeared like in all of his videos and emails. She couldn’t of imagined just how terribly, terribly wrong she had been.

After twenty minutes of nervously pacing around the small lobby of the recording studio Junkrat finally arrived. The only way Satya even knew it might be him was the sudden shouting and commotion outside and a car horn ringing out obnoxiously loud. That alone made her want to stay inside. But when even the receptionist hurried outside to see what was happening Satya decided enough was enough and she ought to find out what on earth the alleged Junkrat had done that was so outrageous. But as soon as she stepped outside and saw him she regretted it.

First of all was the parked car that looked like it had been crashed then left to rust for a hundred years. Chains and scrap metal decorated the thing as if it had just been driven out of an apocalypse. Then there was then man himself who stepped out of the car grinning from ear to ear.

A tall bean pole of a man crawled out of the vehicle, a raspy voice somehow shouting clearly over the growing crowd around them. His dusty goggles were pulled off his face and short blond hair that might have been gelled into spikes at one point were frazzled and wind blown out into every direction. And much to Satya’s fear the strange skin-tight grey shirt he was wearing wasn’t real. He was shirtless and that was all dirt.

There was only so much she could take, and as Junkrat and the crowd around him drew away from the car and towards the studio Satya raced back inside and to the restroom. She brought hands up to her scalp and groaned. Whatever hopes she had for this recording session going normally were dying and dead. How on earth was she supposed to work with that maniac? She wished she could just sneak back out of this studio and hide in her hotel. Maybe they’d believe her if she said she was sick all of a sudden and couldn’t make it in today?

But she’d already made a promise to record and they surely knew she was here by now. So instead she took and few deep breaths, splashed some cool water on her face and smoothed down her hair. And checking herself one last time in the restroom mirror, she went out to go meet Jamison “Junkrat” Fawkes in person.

She counted her lucky stars that the crowd that had come in had finally dispersed though it did little to quell the churning in her gut as she walked up to Junkrat. His back was turned from her as he talked with two other people Satya slightly recognized from other channels. As she approached Junkrat made no movement that he knew she was there. She looked to the two other people he was talking to but they made no effort to let him know either. That worry twisting her insides only coiled tighter at the awkwardness. For a moment she feared she’d have to tap him on his gross, dirt-coated shoulder, she hated anyone touching her in such an abrupt manner and dreaded having to do so to another person only slightly less. Instead, she cleared her throat loudly, a little rude Satya had to admit but at least she avoided having to touch him, and that finally got the Junker to turn around.

For a moment he looked completely lost and Satya feared for the worst but then his face suddenly lit up. “Oh! So we finally get to meet face to face, the great Symmetra! How’s it hanging!” He said. His voice could have almost sounded melodic if it weren’t so raspy.

When he put out a hand to shake Satya had to stop herself from recoiling, dirt coated his hands like gloves. “Uhhh…” Satya started, she didn’t want to be rude, but there was no way she’d ever want to touch that much dirt. Not even while held at gun-point. “It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance errr, Junkrat. But I’d rather not shake hands if I can help it.”

“Wut?” He said looking between her and his hand before realization finally dawned on his face again. “Oh yeah! Sorry about that, completely forgot I was wearing this stuff. Me and a few of my best mates just got done filming a prank video! It’s gonna be hilarious!”

Satya had seen a few pranking videos here and there, though she never was realty fond of any of them, but she’d never seen anything as outlandish as Junkrat’s get-up. And all for a prank-video? “And what sort of prank is this for?”

Junkrat smiled proudly with mischief clear on his face. “Mad Max. We signed up our car outside for Uber and then we went around town scaring the shit out of people! It was amazing, like we just rolled out of the apocalypse! I think my favorite when this little kid did the Sign of the V8 to us. It was just the cutest, you should have been there!” He looked like he would of kept going but then he shook his head and stopped himself. “But look at me going on and on when there’s a video to be made! I’ll show you back to the studio, we can pick out a game and get started!”

“Wait!”

Junkrat had been ready to leave when he turned back around to face Satya. “Yeah? Something wrong?”

“Aren’t you…” Satya really couldn’t find a nice way to say thing. But even if Junkrat didn’t, Satya at least had standards she hoped he could go by! There was only so much she could take today before she just overloaded. “Aren’t you at last going to try washing some of that… stuff off before we record?”

Junkrat gave her a blank look and then shrugged his shoulders. “Alright. I’ll just show you where we’ll be recording and you can get yourself all situated while I try and freshen up. Then we can find a game and go from there!”

To Junkrat’s credit he at least tried to wash off some of the dirt and make-up, Satya had to at least give him that. Even if it wasn’t much and when he came back into the recording studio he was more muddy than anything, she could tell he had at least try. He mentioned using a sealant on his arms and face which helped explain why it was such a pain to get off instead of normal dirt. Even if it still irked her and made want to grind her teeth in annoyance she could still realize that he’d tried at least.

Unfortunately, that was the last time he put forth any effort for the rest of their playthrough.

It started off mundanely enough. Together they had decided an old puzzle-platformer for their one-off crossover video. And after setting everything up, cameras, game, times, they stated recording and went through with introductions. It all went so smoothly, Satya decided she must have been lulled into a false-sense of security by it.

Then, inevitably perhaps, Junkrat grew bored. Just a little past the ten-minute marker it began. He had been telling her about his experience so far in America, Satya had actually been interested in what he was talking about, when he started trailing off suddenly focusing more on the game than he had ever before. Satya should have suspected something then but it was already too late. Suddenly a weird chirp sound came from the game and the whole screen seemed to lag.

“Oh no.” He said in a voice lacking any real distress. “Whenever I try to go to this room, everything gets all wonky.”

A look a pure mischief was on his face and Satya realized she wasn’t going to be in one of the calm JunkerGamer videos where they talk about their days, this was going to be a Sonic ’06 type of playthrough.

It all went downhill from there. Junkrat kept messing with the weird room, and at first Satya tried not to let it affect her. It was Junkrat’s channel he could make whatever mindless glitch-abusing video he liked. But it just… it was becoming way too much. She tried saying something, that he should just leave the stupid room before he broke the game and he’d just laughed. The game’s music grew more distorted, the pixelated designs started flashing. At that point Satya had snapped at him. That finally got him to turn and look at her.

“You alright?”

And then the game crashed.

But of course it couldn’t be an ordinary crash where the game just shuts itself down. No, instead the whole screen became flashes or blue and red and the whole game sounded like it was shrieking in chip-tune anguish, like a small robot was being murdered.

All she could see was red and she needed to get out of that room now. She could hear Junkrat and she told him to leave her alone. And then he’d left saying he’ll be back if she needed anything. She couldn’t clearly remember what happened after that but she found herself outside in the hallway. Breathing deeply through her nose, both her hands gripping her hair and unable to bring herself to look away from the floor. Normally she would have considered this an absolute, humiliating nightmare but at the moment she still felt too overwhelmed and pissed off.

She didn’t even know how long she was out there. But after some period of time, she heard someone coming down the hall and finally brought herself to look up. It was Junkrat, carrying two bottled waters and a plastic bag filled with snacks.

“Uhhhh, here.” He said, handing her the bottled water as a peace offering. She’d never seen him so shy before. She didn’t even know he could be shy.

She didn’t say anything back but still accepted the water.

“I… I am so sorry about that.” He said, fiddling with the bag of snacks instead of looking at her. “I shouldn’t of gone crazy on ya like that. Should of asked how you wanted things to go, from the start really.”

“You’re channel” Satya said.

“But it’s your crossover too… I’m sorry about all this, really. Do…” He took a deep breath to get whatever words he wanted to say in order and tried again. “Do you need me to call you a ride?”

The offer was tempting, so so tempting. She wanted to just go back to the hotel and forget this day ever happened. But at the same time, she still had a promise to go through with. Both of them had already told, even advertised to their fans that they were finally making this crossover. And Junkrat seemed sincerely sorry.

“No. I’ll stay.”

“Wait wut?” Junkrat was completely dumb-founded.

“On one condition.” Symmetra continued. “I pick out the game. We can still have commentary but I’d rather be in control.”

“Uh- yeah yeah, of course. Anything ya like.”

Massaging her head one last time, she pulled herself off the wall and together they walked back into the studio. She decided on “Endevor” an old game she’d been fond of back in her Newgrounds days. They set everything back up, wrote down their new time slot for editing later and tried their second attempt at a crossover video. Satya started the game with the keyboard, explaining to Junkrat what it was about and how much she’d loved it long before she began filming her playthroughs. At one point or another she ended up handing the game over to Junkrat to play and he seemed to enjoy it as well, mentioning how he always liked games with a free-world the most. He even finished his story about being in America. She realized somewhere between the American snacks she knew must sound awful on the mics and the calmer game and music she’d stumbled into something that felt right in the middle of one of her own playthroughs and one of Junkrat’s “talk-about-your-day” ones. It was all so pleasant. She was actually having fun.

But much sooner then either of them had expected, their time in the studio was up and they said their goodbyes before ending their video.

As Satya left for her ride Junkrat followed her out to the lobby of the studio.

So I’ll get the video done and send ya the finished copy before posting it anywhere?”

Satya nodded and smiled slightly. “Sounds like a fair plan.”

Her ride drew into the parking lot and she turned back to Junkrat. “Good bye then, Junkrat.”

“Thank you for doing this, really it’s been a lot of fun.”

Satya wasn’t too sure what to say, certainly not ‘you’re welcome’ though the words seemed to impulsively come to mind. “I enjoyed this myself. It went much better than I had expected.” Hopefully that sounded alright.

“Glad to hear it.” He said smileing. “But honest I gotta make it up to you.”

“No need.” She said, politeness being more like e a knee reaction.

“No no I mean it. Just say the word and I’ll make it happen.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.” She said as she stepped into the car. “Take care of yourself, Junkrat.”

“Same goes to you ‘Metra!” He said waving.

Then just like that

~~~

Much later Junkrat went to work with Roadhog editing a bunch of their footage from the day. They’d been hoping to get thse videos out by the weekend in time for the convention. Hog was working on the Mad Max prank while he did the crossover with Symmetra.

So far it looked like the crossover video was going to be a bit shorter, barely scraping 15-minutes, than the normal half-hour material the Junker Gamers usually worked with. Junkrat had been tempted to use some of the recordings from the first half of their recording session but decided against it. Being an ass was only funny if A: the person you’re dealing with was a cunt or B: They were in on the joke and knew what was going on, and Symmetra had been neither.

But even being cut short, overall Junkrat considered this crossover a technical success. Sure, they may have gotten off on the wrong foot. And sure, the one and only Symmetra, calmest voice on the internet, had yelled at him and called him an ass. And sure, at one point she was about ready to walk out on their recording. And, actually if Junkrat were to grade himself on the overall this would be a failure, no arguments. Luckily Junkrat wasn’t looking at the overall, he was looking at the end result. And after finally getting his head out of his ass, and talking things through they had actually made a successful crossover playthrough. He’d even enjoyed himself the second half of their game. And Symmetra had become much more relaxed too.

He’d actually felt terrible that she’d gotten so overwhelmed, especially since he’d had his own moments of sensory overload and knew how much it sucked. He should have seen all those signs early on and backed off but instead he’d kept pushing and pushing, trying to be funny and keep the show going.

He counted himself lucky she didn’t leave the studio all together, he certainly would of if he were in her place. And thankfully while their playthrough at least ended on a high note he felt like he should really try making it up to her. Definitely this week before the convention. But what would someone like Symmetra even like? They’d talked some while playing their game but in the end he still didn’t know that much about her.

Roadhog’s deep laugh pulled him from his thoughts. “Oh fuck, Jamie look at this!”

Junkrat crawled out of his chair and leaned over Roadhog’s shoulder to see what he was laughing at. It was a clip of when they’d finally gotten to the studio. He and hog were doing their thing, being crazy and scary when in the background was Symmetra. She came out of the front doors to the studio and when she saw them her face contorted in sheer terror like a deer in headlights before bolting back inside. Roadhog had gone back over the video and zoomed in on her, and started adding the caption “nope” as she ran away. Normally something like that would have made him cackle but right now it only felt like his guts were sinking.

Junkrat started rapidly tapping Roadhog’s shoulder before he could add the clip into full video. “Hog, Hog, wait! Don’t add that in. I never got permission from ‘Metra.”

“You sure? Looks pretty funny.”

“Yeah, she was having a crappy day and- just don’t add that in.”

“Ok...” Roadhog began, he hadn’t heard Junkrat sound so worried. Not in a long time, not since they started their channel. “Everything go alright with her?”

Junkrat chewed at his lip a little before answering. “I guess so, we did ok. At the beginning I was doing my usual shit, fucking up the game and she wasn’t having it. She actually got real upset before we took a break. I thought she was going to walk out on our crossover. Can see why though, I was being a real cunt.”

“And that’s your idea of ok?” Hog added dryly.

“Hey! Things got better after we took a break!” Junkrat snapped. “We finished off the recording, shorter than I would of hoped but that’s my own fault. And at least we ended it without wanting to tear off eachother’s heads… Still wanna make it up to her though.”

“Well you better get cracking then. Cause you got less than a week to do something.” Roadhog rumbled before going back to work on their prank video. And as Junkrat followed suit his mind was a buzz trying to find ideas.

He didn’t want to do anything cheap and faceless like a fruit-basket or any of that sort of shit. He had to make this a bit more sincere, to let her know he was actually sorry. And he wasn’t sure quite why, maybe for the sake of vindication or something. But he wanted her to know that he understood where she was coming from, that they were both a bit more alike than she even knew. But most of all he hoped that by making this up to her they could actually become friends.

But what on earth would she like? He decided later after he finished up their crossover he’d go watch some more of her videos and try finding any clues that might be there. He knew she liked really pretty-peaceful-artsy-type games so maybe he could build off of that…

~~~

On the day before the start of the convention, Satya received a package sent to her hotel room. It was a light-blue and gold-trimmed box, sloppily wrapped by someone who obviously had little experience. And on the tag she found out it was from Junkrat.

Unsure of what she might find she tentatively unwrapped the gift. Inside was a homemade playlist of songs, some of which she didn’t recognize while other she did, she was surprised to find a few of her favorite themes on the CD as well. On the CD Junkrat had scribbled out “’Metra’s Jamz” as well as the small smiley face that littered the Junker’s videos. There were a few other things in the box as well, a bound journal (also blue with gold trim), a few gift cards to cafés in the area, a handful of American and Australian candies. But what ultimately caught her eye was a note that was shoved into the bottom of the box instead of on the outside like most letters. It was an apology from Junkrat, and that he hoped they could meet up again sometime during the convention.

She was surprised to say the least, she’d assumed that after their recording that would be the last she ever heard of Junkrat. And now here was this, yet another thing completely unexpected. But also so kind, seldom had someone else been the one to apologize, she was so use to having to apologize to other people for her outbursts and yet Junkrat not only did but went out of his way to make up for it. She wasn’t sure what to think of it all. She did hope that they could see each other again at the convention.

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