Tyler Oakley Talks Fangirls and Answers Twitter Questions

I mean, it's, it's love. What can I say? Love at first sight. I'm questioning everything. So many things could happen. It's, it's a possibility. I swear, I won't kiss you. This got weird. This got weird. Cool. What's up guys? It's Tracy with Young Hollywood and I am sitting in beautiful Austin, Texas with this man who I've been Hello. wanting to talk to forever. Tyler Oakley. We're finally together. We are finally besties. Yes. Within 3 minutes.

I mean, it's, it's love. What can I say? Love at first sight. I'm questioning everything.

I, I mean, it's all changing. I think that's what Austin does to you, right?

I know, we're sitting with like the beautiful lake in the background and like you like it's very Kiss the girl, uh, circa Little Mermaid with like the fish jumping over us. I mean, who knows what's gonna happen? Don't click away. So many things could happen. It's, it's a possibility. I swear, I won't kiss you. This got weird. It's got weird. Cool.

But, okay, South By. This is my third South By and every year, I feel like I do more and more stuff and this year has been the craziest, busiest, uh, South By yet. So, I'm happy to be here. Best thing about Austin. To you?

The food. The food. Uh, the food, well I'm a fast foodie if you will. So I'm like ready for a food truck at 4 AM and Austin supplies it. Um, also the people and South By Southwest to me is like adult spring break and everyone comes and has fun and also goes to some panels, but mainly is here to get crazy. And Austin is a little bit weird and quirky and cool and it's like the San Francisco of Texas to me. So I, yeah, I have fun here. And it's weird.

What food-wise? Hold on, are you barbecue or are you Mexican?

I'm everything at once, yeah. I can't decide. That's Sophie's choice to me. No.

So, and then you've done a lot of panels, right? Which is

Yeah, I just got off a panel today. A lot of them are talking about digital influence, online content creators, and the convergence of media between traditional and digital. And no other place, or no other convention can uh, these conversations kind of happen. It's been just as much amazing to share my experiences as uh, educating as it is for me from hearing from other panelists and stuff like that.

I mean, we're only 3 months into 2015 and you're, you're doing everything.

I'm doing it all.

Huge YouTube sensation. You're still doing that. You got, what, you were on an episode of Catfish soon, right?

Uh, yeah. Something that just randomly happened because I ran into Nev and Nev and I met a couple times before we actually like had a, a chat. We talked about Catfish being an opportunity because we were both on a flight and the flight was delayed and we were sitting in our seats and he came up and he's like, you wanna shoot some Vines? And then we just started hanging out on the flight while we were waiting for it to take off and he was like, we're shooting the next season of Catfish. We're using some guest co-hosts. Would you be interested? And I was like, yeah, queen. And now it happens. So

That's just what happens in the life of Tyler Oakley.

Yeah, things, things happen. It was fun. It was crazy. It was

Was it what you thought or

It was crazier than I thought and every bit of it is real. So that was terrifying.

Really? That's the question I actually would want to know.

It was real. There are some strange people in the world. I thought I knew that because of the internet, but uh, now I also know it because of TV. So, yeah.

Okay, you about that. You got YouTube Music Awards that you're hosting?

Yes, two years ago, I think, uh, they did the last YouTube Music Awards and I tweeted, well, their first mistake was not asking me to be the host. And now fast forward two years later and it's happening. So I guess complaining, you'll get your way, is the moral of that story. But yeah, I'm the host and we're honoring 50 artists that made the biggest splashes in the YouTube community. Whether it's like Beyoncé, like traditional artists like Pentatonix who really fostered their communities on YouTube. Ways that people have inter spiced their content onto the digital scene. And they're debuting 15-ish new content pieces from artists at the awards. Oh, nice. So, uh, it's a fun time. Yeah.

First of all, we have a thing on Young Hollywood called YH Fan Girls and we actually have an account that a bunch of fan girls run and they're like freaking out that I'm even talking to you right now.

Oh, well, I'm so happy to be here then.

What's like, I mean, you gotta do like your best fan girl impersonation because like they actually don't mind if they If they make fun of themselves.

A fan girl impersonation, they would just, they would just die. We would just be dying. That's it. It's just a corpse. Because it was too much to handle. And then that was the end. Um, yeah, that's it.

But like who makes you

Who makes me do that? Um, you. Zac Efron, Nick Jonas, Big Sean, Darren Criss. Oh.

I'm just, I'm just gonna throw this out there that she's a huge Big Sean and Nick Jonas fan.

Well, I guess I have competition.

And did you know that they performed together the other night?

Wait, shush. At the Rifter House? Big Sean and Nick Jonas came on after. No. Oh, I thought you were saying you performed with Big Sean. I was like, yes, queen, get it. Meeting of the minds. I could watch that. It's like you, like, you knew. I felt it. You felt the connection. Exactly. I also fan girl over like Fifth Harmony. Everyone. I love pop culture.

Yeah. I mean, your voice is like, did you, is it crazy you like,

Oh, this one? Uh-huh. This little voice right here. We're working on a record deal. I'm not, actually. Things I don't rumors I don't want to start.

You don't know. Things happen. On this, on the

Yeah. Yeah. A rap career. That could be interesting. I could do that. Who knows? Big Sean, hit me up. For many reasons.

Sorry, you, you were saying you have a voice. You have a voice.

I do. I physically have.

You physically have like one of the most powerful

I didn't sell it to Ursula. This is not Little Mermaid. Full circle back to Little Mermaid. That's my favorite Disney movie, by the way.

Oh, really? You kinda knew.

I mean, it's a classic. It was from the Disney Renaissance. It was everything with like Aladdin and The Lion King. Oh my god. Yeah. You have to. Yeah. Prince Eric. Girl, my original celebrity crush was Aladdin. Nowadays, I I'll I prefer a human. A real man. So.

Who's your celebrity crush? You. Oh, stop. Okay. No, I'm now I, no, you really are. I'm sorry, I keep distracting you.

No, it's okay.

You really like you speak on everything. I mean, social media, politics, like the LGBT community. Like, I feel like, you know, a lot of people in the community like feel so confident now because of you and like what you say.

Well, thank you. I never thought that it would be a thing. Um, but it's one of those things where just because a YouTuber might not think that they set out to be like somebody that people might listen to or look up to in some capacity. I have heard from so many people that might be inspired by myself. So I take it very seriously and I I understand the impact that I could have, both positive and negative. Yeah. And uh, I try to use it for good sometimes, hopefully, mostly.

Okay, and lastly, we actually did a hashtag for you that was trending. I don't know if you saw.

Wait, really?

It was trending yesterday. Oh my god. And it was This people. It was fan questions for this guy. Okay. So it was kinda So I have to pick just

Ask me anything. Y'all just y'all don't let up. Okay, this is from @Christia Christia Or what did you pick? Christia. Who's chicken nugget cam says. There you go. Is there gonna be another meet and greet in Austin during South By Southwest because she missed the first one? Um, I'm heading home. I but I will be back to Texas very soon.

What is your favorite emoji?

Oh, the sparkle. Or the monkey covering his eyes. I feel very much I identify.

Is this the sparkle that she That is the sparkle. She knew. Carla knew. Carla always knew. Last one from @QueenSharon84. How did you get started doing YouTube videos?

Uh, I just did it to keep in touch with friends. I did it before anybody was doing it full time. It was like just a thing that I wanted to do to express myself and kind of have a diary and um, tell stories and it really slowly became what it is today and a lot of people ask like, okay, well what was the moment? There was never a moment. It was always a lot of hard work and that's the narrative I see with a lot of my friends on YouTube is it's a lot of hard work and a lot of commitment and just keep creating and uh, they get to where they are today and I'm really fortunate that people watch and submit questions and it started because I loved it. I'm still doing it today, eight years later, because I still love it.

Amazing. Well, you are awesome. Thank you so much for hanging out. I hope we can do this again.

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