There was a lot of alchemy going on in my brain with that. I was watching a lot of online videos at the time: Lindsay Ellis, Nostalgia Critic, Todd in the Shadows, Brows Held High. I would get gabbing with students and had a bunch of ideas for videos that weren’t really classwork lectures, but I still liked them as ideas for videos. My first job out of film school was working in a high school, where I had to turn lectures into well-written, snappy videos. I wasn't really into Myspace, because I was already active on Blogger, ICQ, and IRC, and I had all of my friends on MSN Messenger. The evolution of social media happened largely in my adulthood. We would join chat rooms and make up fake identities. Alberta had a program called Freenet, and I did all of the things that you would expect a 9-year-old and his brothers to do as a hyperactive horde of dumb boys. My first time online was 1991, when I was 9. Tell me a little bit about your earliest relationship to the internet. There’s a temptation to call myself a documentarian, but have I achieved that? That's why I kind of trip over it. Bigger scale, a more rigorous documentary style, which I'm doing on purpose. With my last two big videos, I feel like I'm gravitating toward something more conventional. I’m also in a transitional stage in my career. Well, there's always this hesitation: What exactly do I call myself? Is “YouTuber” a word that humans want to say out loud?

I live in Calgary, Alberta, and my day job is- YouTuber, I guess.

Let’s start off easy: What’s your name, where do you live, and what's your day job?

A week later, as Jimmy Fallon and Paris Hilton prattled on about their Bored Apes, Olson’s video was patiently waiting to explain WTF was going on. It’s currently sitting at around 5 million views, his highest to date. “The Problem with NFTs” was soon trending on Twitter. It certainly didn’t hurt that the crypto market tanked the same day Olson posted his video, a coincidence but an extremely fortuitous one. Crypto is a confusing topic, and Olson’s solemn yet sardonic delivery-plus his stream of screenshotted citations-positioned him as an authority for the uninitiated. Longer than The Big Short, it’s a big ask for YouTube viewers, particularly for a video that centrally and almost exclusively features one white man lecturing at a desk.īut the video hit a nerve. An impassioned 13-part essay on cryptocurrency and its many failings, “Line Goes Up – The Problem with NFTs” is Olson’s longest piece yet, clocking in at two hours and 18 minutes. 21, Olson finally posted a video that he’d been editing since April 2021, marking a significant departure from his playful takes on the film and gaming industries.

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