Maybe I just missed this when it was happening, but did you know that Grey, via Standard, was one of the first dominoes in the chain of events that brought us Nebula? Seems like he and Philip from Kurtzgestat made the initial connections that got the ball rolling, and then cashed out a few years back
If anyone is interested, I’m getting rid of an old piece of HI memorabilia for anyone in the U.S.
I know the price is a bit high, but the custom framing cost quite a bit of money. Framed as soon as I got it, and has been sitting in storage since 2017.
I was saving it for donation to the Hello Internet Museum, but there are bills so pay.
It's really common on this sub to think that grey had retired as he can make enough money from changing his youtube titles/thumbnails, but I always think this idea misses something. The podcast makes clear that Cgp grey is an incredibly cautious, risk-adverse guy. Leaving his channel up to title and thumbnail changes is essentially one YouTube algorithm tweak away from stopping working and failing to continue to bring in revenue. I guess it's still working well enough for him now as he continues to do it, but YouTube could so easily change that with no notice, which makes me think it's really unlikely he would hinge his continued income on that.
Could he have made enough money that he can just live off it for the rest of his life? It's possible, but he's probably what, mid-40s? So seems kind of unlikely? Maybe it's that his CURRENT situation means he doesn't need to upload a lot rather than he's decided to permanently finish with the channel.
Discussion thread for episode 16!
Original release date 15 July 2014
I was thinking about the running joke of the Hello Internet Museum.
If the podcast had continued for another decade and kept growing, eventually reaching something approaching Joe Rogan / Diary of a CEO levels of success, I am genuinely convinced that at some point the museum would have become real.
Especially if Brady continued to have free rein as he slowly ground Grey down.
Because if Brady gets an idea into his head, it will happen, regardless of how stupid, impractical or logistically ridiculous it is.
If you listen to The Unmade Podcast, Brady still spends an absolutely unreasonable amount of time and effort pursuing dead-end ideas for a comparatively small audience.
And yes, I am very much referring to the Glacial Podcast 😂
At some point Brady would have found a room somewhere, filled it with Nail & Gear flags, vinyl records, Hotstoppers and assorted HI relics, and declared the Hello Internet Museum officially open.
Discussion thread for episode 15!
Original Release date 24 June 2014
Does anyone remember which episode featured Brady playing a recorded guided meditation he created? The meditation featured a quiet fire alarm noise at one point, among other silly jokes.
