Part 2 of our interview with Eat Your Kimchi! We talk about advertising, what their families think and they answer a few questions from readers!

Click here for the first part of this interview.

How do you feel when people use adblock or tell other people to use adblock?

 

It’s something we understand from a consumer’s perspective because ads are very obtrusive and they do ruin the experience and it’s something that I wish wasn’t necessary-

Well okay, we’re trying to think of a way… because I understand that. I read a lot of manga online and it has obnoxious ads everywhere and I’m like “I shouldn’t but…” and I’ll block them so I can actually read it. But we’re trying to think of something now, which we saw from another YouTube website, where it allows you to remove the ads and stuff from our website but people have to pay once per year – like $5 or $10 or something.

I know that it sucks, like I’d rather offer everything for free but you can’t operate that way, so we are trying to find a way to create a better user experience for people.

But it gives them a choice-

 

If they are interested. Like a premium version.

 

Like if they don’t mind ads and it doesn’t bother them then go for it: it’s free. And we are actually very careful with our ads, like we don’t want ads coming up like “Date sexy Korean girls”. So we know our advertisers and we are trying to think of a way to help people that don’t want the ads.

And some people have complained about some of the ads that are generated. Like some of them are generated ads and we have an advertiser manager and when we hear a complaint we are like “Well this ad was offensive can you remove that ad?” Because we can’t see every single ad, every country has different ads. So we understand you (to the fans)… we just wish you didn’t…. *laughs*

I sometimes watch things on the website Viki and they’ve recently put ads on and there are so many complaints about the ads and I just think “You are getting this content for free…”

Yeah someone is subbing it for free.

 

And a lot of people don’t understand. They are like “I want MY video right now.” Well…. You don’t have a video, you know? We have a video and we are showing you this video.

Someone took the time to listen to this video or drama and they are writing up subtitles for it and they are putting it up and they are taking that from their personal time for you, so we totally understand that.

 

So how does your family react to your fame?

 

My parents don’t really understand it all, they are like “Simon when you come home?? … The family!!?” So my family still has no understanding of how the internet operates, they barely know how to use the site, they are very old European people.

My family are very proud. Our families buy our t-shirts and they are all excited. “I want a Nasty hat! Send me one!” They are very excited about it and they tell everyone they meet that is…. remotely Korean. Someone is like, “My friend lives in Korea!” and my Mom shoves my Dad out of the way, “Here! Take this card and check out this!” and I’m like “Okay calm down Mom.” It’s so embarrassing I went to Sephora, it’s a makeup place, my Mom was talking to the woman about BB cream because she wanted to buy BB cream. I looked at it and I tried it out and I’m like, “Mom this isn’t BB cream.” They are saying it’s BB cream but it’s not.  So my Mom says to the woman, “Well my daughter lives in Korea and she’s a famous blogger and she blah blah blah”, and I was like shrinking into a hole of embarrassment! Because you are not famous until someone knows you. I’m famous to the people that know me but I’m not famous like Lady Gaga where people know her but don’t listen to her music

Until someone can say, “I know who this is but I don’t listen to their music.. then you are famous.

 

Questions from blog readers:

Leann Beasley Reemer: Do you guys watch any other YouTube channels or are you too busy making your own videos?

We’re not religiously following other channels but we do peruse the popular page from time to time to see what’s up there. We’ve seen some PewDiePie videos. We watch Nigahiga videos.

*in PewDiePie voice* Pewdiepie! He’s so crazy sometimes it’s like, “Okay dude you are about out of my range now! Mychonny we’ll watch sometimes… who else… oh there are these 2 weird Canadian guys that will only put up a few videos

Oh yeah like 4 hilarious videos!

 

They are like farm boys that live outside of Toronto somewhere and they make videos about being farm boys and what life is like and it’s produced so well.

And they just insult the hell out of city people… and they talk about banging your sister… it’s a lot more civilised… I can’t do it justice.

Okay who else… Jen from FromHeadtotoe. But also, when I’m looking for inspiration for makeup I just go with whoever is the shortest, because makeup artist people talk forever, it’s like 10 minutes of me like scrolling through… anyone else?

I like some Wong Fu Productions as well.

 

Samantha Thierry: If you could have a vlog about living in a different non Asian country what would it be? I’m hoping Eat Your Taco.

Haha. Oh my god.

 

You know we actually have Eat Your Sushi bought. We bought it 4 years ago and it’s just sitting and waiting and one of those days we might go there, but that’s Asian so… We thought about France, that’s one of the goals. We thought we’d be in Korea for 1 year, Japan for 1 year… then France…

I just really like coffee culture and café culture and I like pastries… I like eating, let’s just say that.

 

I just imagine us being… we are really inspired by Anthony Bourdain’s The Layover, in which he just travels to different countries for 36 hours and he is like, “Here’s all the stuff you gotta eat and how sh*t faced drunk you gotta get.” So that’s something we’d like to do, well not necessarily make videos of getting drunk, but the idea of travelling around and eating…

It’s hard for me to pinpoint a specific thing.

 

Kim BJ: One of my buddies eats kimchi with bread. He said it’s a “kimdwhich. I’ve never tried it. What do you guys think? I’ve kinda been wondering.

A kimdwich??

 

Okay I wouldn’t recommend that in Korea because Korean bread is so sweet it tastes like cake..

 

Awesome French toast.

 

Yeah it’s good for French toast if you want something sweet…

 

Okay if you use an older kimchi, which maybe you warm up and you add chopped pork, if you did that and put that on bread with maybe even like a hot dog or sausage?

Sourdough! That would be good on a sourdough.

 

That would almost be like a sauerkraut hot dog or something. It would probably be really good. Or like sautéed pork and…

 

But Wonderbread and fresh kimchi, I don’t think so.

 

Martina says no.

 

Okay, we are finished. Thank you!

 

Well thank you!

 

Awesome. Good questions!

 

So that’s our interview with Simon and Martina. I can’t even explain how nice they were. Just such warm and friendly people. When I talked to my mum later and told her how nice they were my mum said she could tell just from the videos that they are nice people. So take that nice feeling from videos and times by a hundred. 

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