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Hey everyone is so welcome back to another episode of the Hello Spring Podcast. I'm your host Stephen or spring Sims, whichever works for you, but for today's episode I'll be interviewing my good friend Kayla Sims. Or you may know her as a Lilsimsie on YouTube and Twitch, but if you don't know who she is, a little sympathy is a content creator slash Twitch.Ambassador who makes a variety of content based around The Sims franchise and other games on YouTube and Twitch from the beginning that she's been inspiring. Millions of people around the world through the power of gaming charity, fund raising and so much more. But anyway, all of your links will be down below in the show notes, and so let's go ahead and hop into the interview. Well, start off the podcast. Thank you, Kayla, for you know, being on my podcast. I'm so excited to be able to talk with you.Thank you for inviting me.Yeah, I'm just like you have so much knowledge you've been in like.In this Internet space for like 5 or more years and you have so much like insight and knowledge and you're just a Weld like well round like wholesome exciting person.Well, thank you.Yeah.Well for the listeners, if they don't know who you are, can you kind of tell us about yourself?Well my name is Kayla. I go by Lilsimsie on the Internet. I've been making Sims videos on YouTube since like 2015 and I started streaming on Twitch in like 2017 and I've been doing daily content on both those places for quite some time now.That's a long time, it doesn't.Feel like you've been doing it just as long.Yeah, I mean, I've been making Sims come from like a decade.Yeah.I don't like that number is like I've been on the any of YouTube making sense comfort for 10 years.Isn't it so weird to think about things happening 10 years ago?Yeah, things were different on the 210 years ago. Like it's it's wild.I made my first ever YouTube channel when I was twelve. I used to make Littlest Pet shop videos as a child and I started that in like 2012.So I've been on YouTube for awhile too, but we don't. We don't talk about that. We pretend I didn't know.Yeah, we don't know know know.So how, why did you? Why did you decide Lilsimsie?So my real life last name is Sims, which I think a lot of people don't believe, but it's true. And so since he was always like a nickname when I was a child, you know, like lilsimsie like that was the thing that was just a name people called me. And so when I said it or making Sims videos, I was like this is. I mean I have it like this is literally my name like this is perfect. It works out really well like Kayla Sims making Sims content I mean.You were born for this. I really want mournfully.Literally and now look where you are. Yeah, right. Oh my gosh. Full circle moment.So like what was your first impression of me?OK, well honestly Stephen, you were probably the first like Mutual Sims creator I ever had. Like person that followed me back, you know. So I remember finding your channel and I was like I like this guy. I thought you were so cool and you obviously had like way more subscribers than me like I was like so impressed by you and I followed you on Twitter. I remember and you followed me back and I remember being so excited about that. I was like Stephen, SpringSims followed me back like I was so happy about it.I really liked you back then. I always thought you were super cool.Oh, thank you I. I thought I was a very awkward like person back then because I've realized looking at looking back on my videos I was literally yelling the entire time. Really like I don't, yeah. Well 'cause my thing. My voice was going up like 5 different octaves yelling into my microphone for no reason.I do not know why really.Quiet in my old videos like I was really shy and I think my videos are awkward for that reason because I was like super quiet all the time.I don't know you kind of like get into your comfort zone. Then you get better at it, but yeah.That's true, that is very cheap. Like the more you do it, the better.Yeah exactly. I looked back on videos from my dorm when I was living on campus and I like there's such a drastic change from like when I was living at home to when I moved to my dorm room because I was so scared to record with my roommates around. So I was so quiet back then and it's like so embarrassing for me to watch those videos back because I sound so weird.Oh my gosh, same here. When I went to college. I'm like I can't record. I don't know what I'm doing. I guess I was very quiet and I'm like I don't know what I'm doing. How do I?Well, it's so hard to like get up, encouraged to talk like when you know people can hear you because my roommate could definitely hear me talking to myself in my room like 100% there was saying so. I was so scared all the time.I didn't, I didn't like it at all, it's it's. It's definitely very weird. Like when you like first start your YouTube channels like your parents could hear you talking to yourself and like what is she doing in there and it's like it's all over again moving to a different place.Exactly and it's like so much more embarrassing because of the people that are around you are not just your family, you know.Yeah they have to adjust to all that.We're times, but I was scrolling through the DMS 'cause when I started like this.Podcast episode on like What was the first year my effort sent to Kayla and like I don't even know it was like years of scrolling an I don't know why I even asked you like I literally said would you be willing to donate one of The Sims 4 games for my one year anniversary giveaway and like why would I even ask person that in the 1st place? I don't know what was going through my brain and.Honestly didn't reply. I'm so embarrassed about that. Granted, I was when did we send that? When was that DM from?Like 2015 then responded like March 2016.Funded months later, completely unrelated, but The thing is, I was like I was in high school. I didn't have any money. So like I guess I just didn't reply. But now I'm looking back on that. I feel so bad that I didn't respond to you.Oh no, it's totally fine.Oh my God, I'mback in March. Like months later, I'm like, hey Stephen, do you want to collab after I just completely ignored your last DM like that's so bad.And I went ahead like, OK, let's sure let's work. Let's clap totally fine. I'm excited and I think the first collapse we ever did was the traditional.Whole house filter.Love, yeah, I think the next one was like Maxis match versus Alpha.God, I forgot about that too.The amount of like.Like I don't know, it was going on for years and I kept on getting comments and like wait what is going on and then I realized oh wait, the kalab. Now it's finally stopped and like good people are now realizing. Pick what you want. We don't care. Yeah 'cause back then people are like you can only choose one. Yeah there.Really was that.Big like debate back then like are you Maxis match? Are you Alpha and it's like such a controversy almost, you know.Yeah, it was kind of weird and I think now over time people have yet.People don't care and.No, it's like I'm going to have both in my game. At this point, I really don't care anymore. It's fine, it's all content. Yes, exactly sometimes.Find what you like and honestly a lot of people kind of like switch between them depending on like. Yeah I don't know it doesn't like it. Doesn't matter. It never did matter, but people were so like.I don't know. They were so invested in there like team.Yeah, that's true. 'cause I think The Sims 3 was all out for exactly and then and then like The Sims 4 like when it first came out with just Alpha the entire time that the game actually came.Out and started making Maxis match CC's in the beginning it was like only Alpha stuff right? Yeah and it was like a lot of conversions from The Sims 3 two so let people have like all the CC they had in The Sims 3 I had in The Sims 4 also.That's right, I forgot.Same here is again you know.Yes, like I need to have my regulars know all these things and then I was searching for like you know, you know that one secret arrests? Clubmates eyelashes. Yes, I was like are they going to convert them to The Sims 4 and like I need the eyelashes in my game? But then Joe Coca, Joko whoever their name is, yeah they made the eyelashes can never look like them.Yes, my Sims are ugly without.Them yeah honestly mine too.Isn't it funny how there's like some CC pieces that literally everyone has like just every single person has that same SCPS?It's just everybody has them.Everyone is like you can't live without them. You gotta have at all costs. Like if I deleted everything on my game I would not do the eyelashes at all. I've gotta keep em for.Me, it's like UI cheats I I will not play the game without UI cheats anymore. I just can't no.No, I cannot either. I like to micromanage my.SIM, I'd like to mess with their needs so much. You know. Like I'm like, you know what I want? I want to go out tonight but my seems like a little bit too tired maybe I'll just.Put their energy up a tiny bit more so we can go out tonight.It's like also 'cause like when you're making a safe. I forgot to change everything.Yeah, exactly so you really need those mods to like set everything up, you know?Almost definitely yeah. So your last name is Sims, and when I found that out like interesting, she must be lying. But now I'm like OK.That's lying about it. I don't blame them. It sounds ridiculous. I remember this the first time that I ever had to like tell my name to the yeah when they were trying to book my flights and stuff. You know, for that first ever since that when we actually moving first met at the city living one.I obviously had to send like my information to them to book my flight for it, and I remember like them coming back and being like I need your real name and I was like, yeah it is. I did. I'm not giving them a fake name for the flight, I promise.Oh my God, that was a time I remember you sent me like a DM at like that and like wait really they don't believe you yeah it's like you must be faking no no, no, not at all.Like I lied about it when they're trying to book a flight to like I said, we're going to get to the airport with a fake ID like that's not how that works.No, so like how long have you been playing The Sims?So I started playing The Sims in The Sims 3. I think I was a little bit late to the game compared to a lot of munity, but I finally got it like early on in The Sims 3 like probably like 2010 or 2011 maybe 'cause I finally convinced my mom to buy it for me 'cause I always wanted it like my whole life and I played it. My SIM, my friends houses before and stuff they had like The Sims 2 and things but I didn't play a lot and then when I was in middle school I finally was like Mom. I need this game. It's named after us and she had this whole like well you have to share with your brother like this whole thing. And then I finally got The Sims 3 base game.I remember begging for it for so long I wanted it so bad.I love The Sims 3. I kind of miss it. It doesn't run well on my computer at all. I like it runs like hot garbage.So sorry, I'm glad my PC can kind of run The Sims 3, which is lucky, although you know kind of run The Sims 3 it's not that great, but at least it opens, you know.Yeah, like every now and then like every six months or so, I have like the urge to just build a house. Yeah, it'll take six months to build. 'cause I'm lazy and I don't want to destroy my computer so I just take my slow time. I mean it ends up being a suburban house although yeah.Meeting whatever, anything else. I'm not good at that. I don't, I can't do anything else.No Suburbans are easy. It's what I've lived in all my life. So I'm like I'm used.To it, it's what.The house looks like in my brain. I don't know how to build like modern looking houses. I'm not creative enough to like come up with something.I just know yeah you are.No, I sometimes I can make something, but it's never that good so I don't know.I've tried but it didn't look good at all, like a big giant box with other things around it's.Really, out of my comfort zone, I I much prefer my little houses, my little suburban family houses, yeah?What was your favorite thing about The Sims 3?Oh, I got her everything, I think because it's my first ever Sims game. Has like a very special place in my heart. It's like very nostalgic, you know so I I just I love every part of that game I think I really liked all the popups they used to do like the little like for example with generations will pop up like oh you're some of their first kiss at prom like I used to love that kind of thing about that one.Of those I missed those days. I miss being able to prom and stuff and go to graduation, yeah?All those life events were so much fun also.The CC worlds for The Sims 3. I love Taylor download custom content worlds those.Are my dream right? I remember downloading my SIM Realty World stopper great. Yep, it's like can I have that back? But you know?What I literally was just playing with some of them like 2 weeks ago I went on to that website and I downloaded like Alpine County or whatever like downloaded a bunch of the classics and I was like playing in though I was just I downloaded like 4 CC worlds and just like waiting toured around them like 2 weeks ago.Those were my worlds Idol. I literally just played in those roles.All the time, like households, and just lift for carelessly through them and just see what could happen like I just. I loved those worlds way too much.They were so much fun. All the bills were always so good and it was so cool how they had like a mixture of like the city, an like a suburban area like they just they were big. It was great.Yeah, 'cause I even downloaded the one where they had like a University law on there because like with The Sims 3 was great. I love the University but I didn't like being stuck.There well and also the loading screen to get to the University world in The Sims 3 like I swear it takes like 20 minutes to get there in real life.It's not worth it for me, and like I think what The Sims like, just franchise in general with the University path like Sims 2, it felt like it was too long and then The Sims 3 was too short. Then some sores like.A mixture between yeah but more stressful, huh?'cause when that pack came out I was like we were both still in school. Yeah and I'm like I don't need that right, but I played it either way. Homework too.No.But it's fine like torturing your Sims through.It, Oh yeah, exactly. I like that. It's kind of a struggle 'cause I think sometimes The Sims is almost like too easy to make money in, you know? So it's nice that it's like actually possible for your Sims to fail. And like it happens, you know.Yeah, I think 'cause the first time I played it with Bob Pancakes and he had a kid Iggy and then he was also married to Aliza. Divorce them both. He end up still like keeping his job, so he had a nine to five job he was going to school taking care of his kid God.An trying to breathe and eat and sleep, but that didn't happen, so we constantly worked on like Chris projects and stuff.And I'm like Oh no, but you got always, so that's.Impressive, I mean it's hard about like to keep on top of the homework and projects with University, especially like if you're actually trying to do other things. I swear you just like be playing and not have a job in The Sims and like not be able to finish your homework in time. Oh.Yeah, I mean you don't like when you go to University. You do not have a social life. No.Adult Sims, or realize.Exactly, you kind of like have to make sacrifices in The Sims for your soon to be able to be successful.Yeah, it's kind of hard, but it's worth it in the end though, 'cause you get better jobs and better pay so.It's just fun, might be.One, Oh yeah, so I've I've seen in the past that you have played the other versions of The Sims like Sims Two. What were you like thoughts about?What I seek because I don't ever play The Sims two when I was younger, I feel like it's.It's hard to play older Sims Games and like appreciate them as much as the person who like didn't play it back then, 'cause The Sims two came out when I was four years old, right? Yeah, so I didn't play it like back then really. And then I could have like older siblings that were playing or like Cousins that were playing like I was the oldest, you know, so I don't really like play it. When I was a little kid and then like coming to play it when I was like 18. You know I thought it was fun but I don't play at a time like I don't like go to The Sims 2 and pick it back up very often because I just like I don't have that nostalgia for it, you know?I want to play it open my pick up The Sims 3.I mean, OK, that makes sense. Yeah, I honestly 'cause when that game came out I was like 9. Yeah yeah nine yeah nine 2014 like it was nice yeah and I didn't know anything about it either. But I still played it just because I'm like who looks new and I love The Sims. I started playing like at the year 2000 and I was four years old I.See, you're like way more OG than I am with this.Yeah, 'cause I I don't know. I think I just just love The Sims and I'm like I'll just play it. Just become like it's a great game. Yeah, exactly kind of explore different things. But then I got heavily invested into The Sims 2 like lower uh-huh and I was just like I need all of this in my life. I love the drama. I love the chaos and then it's so weird because looking at the timeline of The Sims, it's.It goes from like Sims 3 and then Sims one and then two and then four at.Forest, like its whole own world, it's very weird.Yeah, kind of weird a little bit, but you know in some weird way it makes sense, but doesn't make sense. Yeah, like you just don't know.If you could change or add anything that to The Sims, what would it be and why?Omi.That's a loaded question. Are we talking about like packs or we talking?Well, like well.Yeah, I think for The Sims 4 my dream Pack is a University pack. We kind of just talked about that with like the OR I said University. I met generation well that's embarrassing my dream back in generations we were just talking about like prom and graduation and that stuff you know I missed that so much like I would love to have like more family based gameplay for The Sims 4 like a pack that gives those life events that I missed so much.Yeah, I would love that as well. I think 'cause like.For me and I think also you look I'm a family game player so like having those family dynamics and aspects to the game. Really, what would sell me yet higher franchise in the hole? Because you get to focus, not on just one but all the life stages and kind of see them grow up as they get older weather like their toddler or teenager or young adult. Yeah, 'cause like that's the tiny piece that's missing 'cause I missed the video camera from The Sims 3.That was so much fun.I miss being able to kind of like.Take all the videos and then play it on the TV and that they would have like these special moments and we all gathered together.And I'm like big legacy type player in The Sims like I like to play with the same family for multiple generations, you know and that's why it's like that kind of stuff is so important because you start with the same as a baby and then you like play through like their entire life until they have grandkids you know. And it's this is nice to have. Like all those little moments that like document their life, I don't know.Yeah, it it definitely is and I think since we don't like have like a generation type pack, I just tend to take a lot of screenshots an I realize that I am just obsessed with my Sims family like I have. I think one particular family that I've only played probably for like a couple of years and I kind of stopped 'cause boredness happened. Yeah, but.I think that if we end up being like a generations pack, I would definitely like bring it back.Down to civically employment.Yeah, would you bring back the Huntley legacy?Maybe someday that was. I love those Sims. I used to play with them on Tumblr.Save I haven't opened it in a long time, but that would be fun to put. To bring back. I swear I think I like last play with them. When cats and dogs came out, I remember like building a new house for cats and dogs and then like never playing with it again. That was so long ago.Oh my gosh, it's it's. It's weird because like when you don't place a file for so long, you get very scared that something's going to break.Yeah, right. It's like I have old mods and that's a file that are probably messed up like I don't know. And then you have the you have to like replace all their CC and things with new stuff. If you don't have it anymore and like that's annoying. So I just don't open it anymore.I it's not worth it. I opened up my very first say file in The Sims 4 and I felt so sad afterwards. I mean when I I started, uh, let's play that was like 60 some odd parts or whatever. When the game first came out an my original SIM diet, I was fine. Not really at that moment. I wasn't, but like now I'm fine. 'cause they.Yeah, but when I reopened it, I'm like Oh no. And then all my like. One of my Sims died that weren't supposed to die. I didn't save so I exit the game like I'm not reliving that moment anymore, huh? I still remember like the very first song like my SIM lived in Willow Creek on that 40 by 30. Like right in that general section and the first song they ever made was Cordell my love.That was the first time I ever remembered from a SIM that I created out of random like oh this talja. Yeah I miss my I.Like thinking about my first Sims four saves. It's kind of fun to look back on that stuff. I opened my first let's play save kind of recently too that I haven't played in like 5 years, you know. And back then I used like Alpha CC like I had build CC everywhere. So I opened it up and all of my sins were completely naked, just not a single item that I still had nothing.It's Karlie.'cause I I used to be a person like all Alpha, all everything and then I was like I'm going to go to Maxis match and then Alpha and then go back and forth. But all I knew is that I installed a lot of CC like Alpha build CC and then my game would crash all the time 'cause I would have too much right? And I was like you know what? No more. Build CC for me. I'm never going to use it. Not going to have it and now I'm just all cast and.Yeah, I honestly I kind of barely use custom content anymore. I used to be like really big into Maxis match CC.But then when I made my save file a few years ago, I like took all my mods out of my game. Obviously to make all those Sims I don't want to see in it. And then I kind of just stopped using Kasisi because of that. Like I just got used to making Sims with no CC and then I never really started it again.Yeah, that makes sense. I I am a slow person when it comes to making Sims or like anything huh? And I'm like how did you even do it like the save file alone is like a very big project.I'm not as like I used to take me a lot longer to make those things, so I was like trying a lot harder, but I'm not like big into create a SIM. I never really have been like I don't think I'm very good at dressing Sims. I don't. I don't think I have any like sort of fashion sense so I always feel very like out of my element when I try to make Sims. So I kind of try to like rush through.It 'cause I don't know what I'm doing.I think for me, I think what takes me the longest is that I'm a person like I'm a legacy like legacy family game player. Yeah, and I'm a person like I want to be extra. I want to make the past generations and like I like make the great grand parents and the grandparents in Excel and so forth and then killed like the older generation for like story purposes and build a graveyard and put them all there.So you like you prepare before even start playing? Yeah, that's kind of fun, just like.'cause like for me like I think it goes back to The Sims two that.I always loved like the family dynamic of things in the story and the memories and the history behind it all. And like wait, I could do that in The Sims store because people say there's no like.Really like goodness to lower or like back story to The Sims 4 and I'm like that's kind of true but not really true. He's gotta use your imagination and I was like I'm just gonna use my imagination and make it happen for me and hopefully other people like it but.I think that's one of my favorite parts of like setting up a new save file to plan. I always love to go in and like place all my lots and like build the houses and like set up like so and so his friends with this townie you know, and like, these are my neighbors. I like to set all that up. I have fun like playing God a little bit and like deciding who everybody should be friends with and then starting playing.I always liked that part.It's always so much fun to like. Just do whatever you want with no consequences.Since it's just great, it's evolved overtime, I would say 'cause like the first. What was the 2014 like when they announce or no 2013 at games coming down? So I'm like wait this looks so cool and then we get the game like this is so cool but so different but we didn't know what to expect until like now because I don't know if you remember back then we didn't have like basements. Raptors have falls.Park came out. It was a very different game. I remember when I was I was like super into The Sims 3 back then, you know.'cause I didn't have a YouTube channel yet when The Sims 4 came out, I was like really anti Sims 4 before it came out 'cause I was like we won't even have ghosts. There won't even be toddlers. No pools, no basement like I was so mad and I was like I'm not going to play The Sims 4.Look at me now, but I was I was like so bitter back then about it.Those were the days I think we just didn't realize how much we appreciated The Sims 4 back then. Now we like really do.Do you know why not to make fun of it again? But remember the old Matthew.Oh my God, it was all like it was.So ugly, why did they do that?I don't even know.I did it, it didn't. It just was weird like it was all one color.It was like, I think blue and like great at the lots were all grayed out.Yeah, like depending on where your symbol, if it was just like I'm like, why is it like that? I don't understand it.Makes so much more sense. Now. They're like colored in I don't. I don't know why they did it like that.I think we were all in beta or like prototyping. Yeah, and we just didn't know.But now I mean like it looks a lot better like it's yeah they.Do way better map drawings now.Oh yeah, I love all the color. I love the the new edition that they added with the sub neighborhood.Yeah I was.So glad they went back and added them to all the world's.Yeah, I it helps like storytelling and also like making a safe.I yeah exactly. It's just it's nice to have the little like sections and have like little backstories to Amal 'cause they have this neighborhood system like they might as well make the most out of it, you know.Oh yeah, of course well.Sims is a lovely game, but here's the nitty gritty OK.So like what leads you down the path to make videos on YouTube? Like why did you want I?Was like majorly into simple like watching Sims videos back then like 'cause I early on in The Sims 4. I only had my family's Mac so I couldn't play Sims when it first came out. Even if I wanted too 'cause it came out for like PC in like September and then Mac in like February. So for those first few months I really wanted to play The Sims 4 and I couldn't and so like even before then I was like big in The Sims videos like Lifesimmer generations. Let's play and like.All that stuff. Yeah, I was obsessed and then like when The Sims 4 was out and I couldn't play it. I was big obsessed with Sims Youtubers like I used to watch so many people. I was like obsessed with everybody's videos and I obviously I had made like those little pet shop videos back when I was a child and I was taking like video production classes at school and I was like you know what I could make Sims videos too like I could be deligracy.And so I I started making them when I was like 16. I got a microphone on my 16th birthday as a present and then I recorded my first video then.I remembered that I think it was wasn't the 100 baby challenge.No, it was a Let's play episode I had like like let's play The Sims 4, my like classic, Let's play and then like 2 weeks later I started the baby challenge.OK, I think I found you like through the baby challenge. Know I found you through the other channel.'cause I'm channel?Yeah, 'cause like The thing is like I I get emails a lot when people comment on my videos which I should really turn that notification off 'cause it's standard. Yeah and I was like wait a minute hold of this all makes sense and like oh that's Kayla and I'm like wait what happened and then I realize oh all that stuff happened. But now here you are not naming the channel 'cause that's just no.No no no no.Yeah, so I switched over to this one in like December. I started making videos on that Channel in August on my birthday right and then I switched over to the one that I use now in December and I've been I was 2015 and I've been doing it ever since.Yeah, I'm so glad you never stop because I think that you're what you're doing is just amazing. Honestly, because like, 'cause like I look up to a lot of people on the Internet 'cause I'm like they do the same thing that I do and I'm like.They're doing it so well, and I applaud that and like you go like you, do you go after your adventures, your endeavors, your goals, your dreams, even what you gotta do.That means a lot to me.Yeah, like honestly like like where you started and where you are now. I'm like weights.I remember from our humble beginnings, now look where she.Is so interesting because back then, like I remember I would like I was so excited that you followed me back on Twitter like I just. I remember looking up to you so much and I've like known you for so long. This whole time I've been doing it. So that means a lot to me that you say that thank you.Yeah, so proud so proud.Did you ever intend to take five years to finish the 100 baby challenge? No.You know what? When I first started, I was really slow. 'cause I when I first started the challenge I was like I'm not going to be like the other Youtubers. I'm going to actually like decorate the kids rooms and have a story for each child and like that was my intention back then which is very naive and like very like I've had five babies and not 50, you know. So once I like actually got into it, I was like never mind I do not care about.Any of these people?Go away.Took a really long time like early on in the challenge, like I probably had like 20 babies in like a year like I was very slow when I first started.I think also with the fact that you were recording it and like editing and uploading. It takes a lot.Longer yeah, so only play for like 40 minutes to an hour like I would record it. And honestly back then I like barely edited my videos. I probably recorded for like 30 minutes and then just like uploaded it like I probably didn't even cut anything out when I first started. So when you only play for like 30 minutes a week like you're barely going to make any progress.Yeah.I I've tried the 100 baby challenge. I did it, I tried it multiple times but always like failed because I just didn't understand the trying. Children were just not for me so I just end up not doing it. But then I think.They are.So repetitive please just do it for so long with so many kids like it just it's so annoying but I think it's like part like like 50 babies. I mean you've been doing the same thing over and over again for so long and you're only halfway there.Oh yeah, it's like, please stop crying, I don't. I don't want to hear your crying please.Just and then I was because I was doing it for so long I was trying to like switch it up with the new moms like when there was a new era I would like try and completely start over like with no money again just to like have some challenge again.'cause once you start getting really good at painting as you know you get really rich in the shifts and so once you know this is like super massive like what else is there for you to do it then? Just like take care of babies. So I would like each generation have a new mom do something new like one of them. I had be a kleptomaniac and the only way that she can make money was by stealing things and that was really fun. I like never put that way before. You know and then you just go to the Goth family's house and like take their Knight statues and then sell up.Oh yeah, that's a lot easier 'cause I already rich, they don't need.That stuff from the rich give to me.Yeah.Oh my gosh, I just think it's easier that way. Like there's so many ways now to make money in The Sims and there was before. Yeah, and baby challenges are a lot easier. Finished it and like 7 no.A year I finished it in a year 'cause I was speed right now with my car. The children at.All like a whole year though for one challenges so much time.It is, it's like once you stop stop caring about the kids and focus more on like the matriarch in like the money. Then you're uh.The kids know.It was like the teenagers and I.Do have the kids only in your house for like a very short amount of time like by the time they're teenagers, they're just out, you know. Like it's fine, yeah?We don't need to see them anymore.Yeah, I put him in a household. I used to just like shift click remove from household like you're just gon go away.That's actually a lot easier 'cause I kept on like moving them out of the housing original way. Yeah, and I was like I was just wasting time.Yeah, I used to like going out to try and put him into like a nice family like all the other kids would live together on their own house and then I stopped caring and I'm just like you know what you can leave go go into the void you'll be fine.MCC will take care of you are fine. I've watched your videos for a very long time.And you have a series called Fixer Upper.Inspired by the show.Yeah 100%.I figured I'm like, wait. Did she intentionally just do that and make it out after the show? I'm like interesting.What I mean, the HG TV is my dream.And it was like, wait, I think like back then like I wasn't. I don't know it wasn't Twitter and now I have no idea but I I saw somewhere someone said that Kayla is just the HTTP HG TV fixer upper but on YouTube.Hope that makes sense. I mean they need to hit you up at this point like Chop Chop. Yeah we got things to.Do I think my favorite thing to do in The Sims is renovate houses like run of ATAS builds? Renovate like regular builds in that series, like people builds like rundown old houses on the Gallery that they'll make like cracks in the walls like this house has been abandoned for 100 years. Can you fix it? Kayla and I I love going in renovating. It's so much fun.Is actually very. It is very fun to renovate houses. Actually very therapeutic, but when you were like really think about it.It's like you get to just delete every single item and then kind of put it all together and.With those houses, 'cause people will spend like hours with debug, like meticulously placing all these little cracks and all these things and I just come in and delete all of it and it's so satisfying to watch it all disappear.I've I've done it to him, like Oh no, I feel so bad and like wait no I got it I gotta.Fix it like 3 hours building this and I'm just going to delete it all right in front of you, sorry.Yeah, it's like had to be done.I've heard and seen the struggles I've realized you've had a lot of struggles in the past, but I don't think you have any struggles now. Well, I don't know well.But like what? But why did she decide to do daily content like what made you do it? Like that's a lot of work?Yeah, you know what? I think that back when I was in high school when I was first starting out, I just really, really wanted to make videos like I just liked recording videos so much that I just kept doing it and just post it all the time. And then I kind of just didn't stop posting daily like I kind of got myself into that groove. And then I just kept going, you know?That makes sense, 'cause I I've tried could not do it, plus something at the time when I started this. You know I was in college and I had literally no time. Yeah, but.That's the thing, like my all of my free time. I would just spend making videos like I would sit there on like the weekends and I would record on a Saturday like 7 videos like I would record like 4 parts of a Let's play all in a row and then I would you know like I just record a bunch of content when I had free time that 'cause I was just playing the same like that's what I wanted to do in my free time anyway and then I have just like a bunch of backlog videos that I could post throughout the week.Oh my gosh.They weren't good videos back then, but that's how I would do it.I mean, now you have more like a structure and everything. It's much easier, yeah?I need to get on that schedule 'cause I am just all over the place today.You do so much. What do you mean?I do so it looks like I do so much, but in reality is like I'm doing all these things. But I'm actually like a mess and not getting things done.At the appropriate.Time away behind the scenes for everybody, right?Yeah, that's what people don't know people think? Oh, it's easy. It's simple. I'll just record a video and upload and expect all these like things you know it's work. It's a lot of work.Takes a lot of time.It definitely does, especially the editing part, but I think also like.When it comes to like YouTube, there is like a pressure that you get from from other people's expecting you to be someone that you are. You aren't technically who you are and it can be kind of overwhelming and hard to kind of keep that like.Yeah, I mean you know 'cause. It's almost like personality playing a character on line, even if that character is you. It's like sort of idealized version of you. You know who's like, always happy and bubbly and excited. And I love The Sims and like that's that's all they really see from you. A lot of the time in that kind of content.And so sometimes it kind of like to switch it on. You know, to like you might be having a bad day, but it's like time to go. Be little Susie, you know now you know, put the put the smile on.It's definitely very hard. Yeah, 'cause I think like sometimes like I was saying this before like I 'cause I started vlogging and I wanted to be kind of document things and I think what people don't understand is that you only get to see like one side of a person was. It's like for an hour or two or three or 30 minutes or so that they don't really get to see like who you really are and how you're really feeling. 'cause they only see.Some of you on social media and it's hard to understand only.Making the gaming content like it's hard to be like real about what what you're going through and stuff when you're like. Let's build assumes house, you know, yeah, so they definitely really only see like that one part one side like you're talking about, yeah?And it's definitely hard I. I've learned over the years that it's OK to not be OK, and it's OK to let go of your emotions. And it's also OK to like, not always be happy when you're not happy and yeah.OK, take a break.'cause that I feel really guilty about taking breaks on line. I think like I think it's a little trouble with for a long time where I put this like pressure on myself to always have daily content. And like always be uploading all the time and I feel really silly when it's like I'm having a bad day. I don't feel up to recording like I don't feel like I can make a good video today like I'm just not myself right now and I feel really silly being like I'm too anxious to record a video like how that sounds in my brain. It sounds kind of dumb.Even though it's not, and like it's a reasonable thing and I feel very guilty about like admitting that to myself, and especially like admitting it to people online like I just feel silly saying that even though it isn't a silly thing and it's a very valid thing to be feeling but.Oh yeah, definitely. You should never feel guilty at all. Like yeah, honestly I when I like read on like online what you're on Twitter I'm like is she OK? Like take a break please just take a break it's OK it's fine.Will be here when you return, I know. But then like it's like it's also like the idea like you leave and there's like everyone's gone and it's like literally the crazy thing and I think that's what people need to know. It's like, yeah, even like when you take a break it's people are still there are brain tells us in those.Areas in your head. Like if I take a break, they're all going to disappear like I'm gonna let everybody down. They're going to hate me like but nobody actually yeah that way you just worry in your head that you're letting people down even though like nobody cares if you take a week off of streaming like.They'll be OK. They'll be there when you get back. Yeah, it's just hard to justify it in your head, you know, yeah?Most definitely, especially when it's like your job and everything is kind of hard to like. Understand that, but I think now that we're all like in a new year and it's like a new everything. We're starting to realize that we can't always control everything, and that's sometimes OK. And now we're like we're feeling better each and every day as time goes on. Yeah, I would hope so.Me too.You have a. I would say you have a very busy schedule honestly. Just like 'cause you upload every single day in the stream like five times a week for like 3 hours and everything and then you have like all these other things happening. Yeah like do you see like keeping a schedule and like pre recording helps you manage your time.Better what I found that I really prefer to be ahead on videos. It doesn't always work out that way. Like sometimes things come up and I like don't record on a certain day or whatever, but I found that I like to try and be at least like two or three days ahead on recording because then I feel a lot more in control.Yeah, so I like to record phone record like 2 videos a day for like half of the week or something so that I like have content ready for every day in case something happens and I like, you know can't record that day or whatever. Like maybe my Internet goes out and I can't do something. At least I've got like a backup.Plan you know, yeah.That's smart and I used to do that God anymore. I just upload when effort, but that's also not a good thing, yeah?But you know what works best for you?Yeah, that's true. Like you know your own self.Yeah, and I I like having that structure in that schedule is like I'm going to record on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and I'm going to do these things that they like. I just I like having.That structure prepared because then I feel like more in control everything, yeah you.Know yeah, it's a lot easier that way honestly. Yeah, Kevin's scheduling time management like if people are like one team to that get into like making videos. The key thing is always like having a schedule for like for yourself whether it's like Daily, BI, Weekly, Weekly.Monthly, just like setting that goal of when you want to be able to post in what you want to be posting, it helps to have like a plan.You know, yeah, it definitely does, I think.The key thing is just having a schedule.Honestly and again it.Really depends on like what what you kind of want to make. And also like how you function and what works best for you. 'cause for me I like a very rigid schedule, but some people don't work well under that kind of pressure. You know? Yeah, so I think it helps just to figure out what works best for you and then run with it.Oh yeah, definitely. And like would you say that like over time, the more you feel like you've made videos and the more like content you've like made for like different platforms? Would you say you got more more confident?Or like oh 100%. I think when I compare how I felt about myself and like how I presented myself when I was like oh granted I was like 16. Also when I first started. So that doesn't help because all teenagers super awkward and uncomfortable with themselves. But when I compare like how I felt when I was like 16 to how I feel now I feel like a completely different person. I feel so much more comfortable in my own skin, you know, and I think that being on camera and like being open about that kind of stuff online has really helped me, that's.Good 'cause I yeah the way people see you.And the way you see yourself is like similar. I would say, like you've definitely grown a lot and you've gotta have grown in your confidence.And everything and you were both from an era on YouTube where people didn't really do face Cam videos for like gaming content like The Sims. There was never face Cam in the state videos back then. No at all, and it's sort of like a lot of us like mostly do face Cam on our videos. Not everybody, but like it's pretty common to see. Face came on Sims content now yeah. And so I like. Back then I was so terrified to show my face on line.Like I was convinced that if people saw my face, they're all going to unsubscribe. I was like they're gonna think I'm ugly. I'm gonna get hate comments like I remember when I did my face reveal like crying all day and all night about it and I still to this day have never read the comments on that video. 'cause I was so much about what they would be.I remember that Damico WellCare Lehigh. That's that's you. I was like that's cool. 'cause like it's always interesting to see like who's behind like the voice over behind the channel.There.Yeah, but then all at the same time, like they're living human being they don't have. They don't have to do this and I think that's also like me and you like wearing the same like position and it's like back then. People would expect you to do certain things, but you didn't really want to do it. But then you're like forced to it and then it's like Oh no, no.No, and then sometimes people forgot that we're living human beings and we have lives. And yeah, we have emotions that we go through every day then.Behind the camera.Yeah, and.It's definitely very hard to get there, but now it's like whatever. Yeah, hate comments, delete or ignore.Definitely a lot easier to brush off these days. Sometimes it still gets to me. I hate to admit it, but sometimes that kind of stuff still gets under my skin. I wish that I wish I wish I was a little bit better about brushing it off. Most of the time. It's like kind of funny, you know? Yeah yeah, but sometimes they post a comment. It really. It gets to me a little.Bit yeah, same I I don't like getting comments that are like towards like hate yeah and when it's locked or something no.You know when they post like a paragraph about what they think like, they don't like about you and they like that kind of cuts.Deep, doesn't it?Yeah, I don't like that stuff is awful.Feel like it's one thing to brush off like something like haha you're ugly in Twitch chat it's like yeah OK and then it just scrolls away and whatever it's fine but when they put like a time and effort and thought into like disliking you and here's why that that yeah.Yeah, it's like what did I do to you like I did nothing wrong?Like so whatever goodbye, it's like yeah, time to move on, but I think that also coast. My next question is that the reason why you kind of move like instead of like streaming on YouTube you want to switch because of like the chat just scrolling through and.Well, I think it's a. There's a couple reasons I started streaming on Twitch one. I used to like watch a lot of twitch streamers like I was big into watching Twitch and I always wanted to stream but I just did not have good enough Internet. My parents house like it was not physically possible and so in my dorm room in college I had like.The best in it like 100 up like I was great. It was great. Oh yeah, I was able to stream from my dorm room finally. So like I was like I would have started sooner if I could have. I just like couldn't stream and I started playing on Twitch because I like wanted to sort of have like my eggs not just in one basket. You know I wanted to have like a second platform and also just like Twitch and I still do to this day and I think yeah now I kind of think that streaming on YouTube would be a little bit too chaotic if that makes.Yeah.It's kind of chaotic over there 'cause I started streaming it on like you too. For like maybe two time. Yeah, and then I was like oh gosh no, I can't do it anymore.And experience like, do you like the YouTube streaming platform at all? I.Mean back then like it was think 2015 or so. Yeah. So it was kind of like a hard to kind of figure out what you're doing, like it had the generic, you know live streaming on YouTube aspect for the most part was actually OK, let's see.Pretty simple without all the bells and whistles like the Super chat and all those other things. It's just normal and easy and I felt very comfortable over there. 'cause I was. Yeah it was a smaller audience and now it's not like that anymore.Yeah, I feel like YouTube streaming is just in general kind of works. There's just like less like they don't have clips like they don't have sub gifting like there's not the same like Raid community that we have on Twitter. Yeah, I think it's just like honestly I think it's kind of hard to grow.As a YouTube streamer, but I guess I only stream on YouTube, So what do I know?Well I found out 'cause I am. A techie person. I like sign up for literally everything. No wonder my email is always spammed, but I found out that You Tube is like implementing clips. Yeah, into their.Thinking that it's about time.Yeah, 'cause I'm like I wanna know I think.That makes such a big difference, like not having clips. I know it might seem like a little thing that's such a great way for people to grow like feel like little parts of streams like funny moments and share them with people like that help. So yeah, lot and I think not having that is a big problem.Oh yeah, definitely. 'cause I think it's easier 'cause I'm kind of like. Look back at those moments of when you like stream door. When you made that video and then I look back at like oh, that makes sense now. 'cause half the time I forget everything of what I said in like videos or streams and people.So it's like the comments will be.Like quoting me and I, I'm like what?What are you on about?Flick I'm not looking at the video like I don't wanna look at that timestamp, no? So it's, it's very weird, but I'm so glad they're implementing like the klipsan. Hopefully it'll like change, but I would never shame on YouTube 'cause I just I don't.Know which kid these days I'm a big Twitch fans, yeah?I've been on like we've been on Twitch for like 5. Yeah yeah, no.I've been on Twitch since 27.Oh yeah, same that's weird. Time flies. I feel like Twitch is a platform is definitely.Helped us in many different ways, like personally and professionally, but also like it just it's changed overtime and it helps so.Much it's so.Cool to see how The Sims community is growing on twitch like there's so many Sims Partners now and that's so exciting because back like in the day that really didn't used to be that many like people that streamed exclusively The Sims. You know, yeah, and it's super cool to see how many Sims partners are like succeeding so much on Twitch right now.Yeah, I was like wait, there's so many of my friends already like making Sims content and succeeding.And doing the thing like oh what will this year bring for us today?Oh yeah, but I love.This so freaking proud. I think it's super cool.Yeah, I'm so proud. Like I think what The Sims community in general is like. It's we're very close knit community, but we're very passionate about a lot of things and we, yeah, we definitely express our opinion about a lot of things. An kind of share our.Interests of The Sims and look through videos or streams or whatever, and it's so nice to see how it's grown over like the past six years, especially with The Sims 4. I would say like yeah, even though people say The Sims 4 is like you know, lackluster, done weird. You would have to say that the Community has definitely become more creative Aniston. Definitely it's like stories, videos, challenges and like. What was this back?Then stuff going on these days it's pretty fun. Yeah, there's so many people that are so active in this Community always has been, but I think this.It's been growing so much, oh.Yeah, definitely I. I think it's definitely a lot better than it was like four or five years ago. 'cause back then. Not many people made content about The Sims. Weather was like I knew was like James Curtis Queen. Yeah Christina Jenn, like I know those people made content but nobody else. It was very awkward time.Yeah, and early days for The Sims on on the Internet, but it's very different Now, yeah.Very, I would say it's very saturated now. Like in a good way and also a bad way sometimes. Yeah.I think that it really helps that there are so many people doing so well, because like one people, one people person going up like brings everybody up with him, you know. So it's super cool to see everyone succeeding I guess especially on Twitch because it's been growing so much on Twitch. It's so cool to see so many people succeeding with streaming The Sims so.Yeah, I I like it. I like to see it. I like seeing people grow like my whole intention of just like Internet. Whatever is like seeing people follow their dreams that I've been like that since I was a little child.I made videos and like I never expect anything in return. I just want to like help other people. That's my whole thing.You're just you were a very friendly, just kind, good hearted person. Steve and I think you are a very good friend to have.Thank you I 'cause like people I've I've learned over the years and seen that I people think I was using people and like that's not the Case No no no using people. Yeah 'cause like they would like people that I was using you at 1st and people thought I was using somebody else because they had a higher subscriber count but that was like years ago yeah but also the weird thing too is like people compared me to other people 'cause I think at the time we pretty much.All sounded the same, like fast talking and or whatever. I'm like. OK, well that'sit's not. People get like pitted against each other like that because like behind the scenes, I feel like we're all just friends who all happen to make saves videos you.Know like yeah.No ones like using each other. We're all just like hanging out, making Sims content like I never thought you were using me in any way.Good I I can't even.Imagine that so yeah.That's good 'cause some kids are very.Aggressive, I'm sorry if people ever accuse you that kind of thing. 'cause I know, I know you're not gonna know even with everybody.Oh no, this is like early.Years ago, when, like.Yeah, 'cause like when You Tube was in a weird spot of anything it was just trolls. Yeah, but that's just, you know, that's life. We've grown, we're adults. It's so weird.I don't like being in my 20s. I'm not ready.Yeah, I'm still in my early 20s, but it's kind of weird to me too.Yeah, I'm gonna be turning 25 in like a couple of days and I'm going to have a quarter life crisis. I'm ready.When you're only 25, I understand that though I mean I'm 21, right? But you know what I have known you for so long. The fact that we met when I was 16 years old, like I really have like grown up with you almost.That is wild actually. Yeah, think about can like wait we met in 2016 and now it's 2021.Long heck in time.Oh gosh, Sims events the drama. So wait between.What was your first ever Sims camp event?Mine was get together so.I went to the first one, my most city living was my first one.So that was the 3rd expansion path.Yeah, and they didn't have one for get to work right?Or did they know they did, oh.No, yeah yeah they had one for get to work because I remember Molly made a video about it.Yeah, but it was like way smaller back then. I would invite like 10 people.Yeah, and then they had like a Sims 4 one and all that stuff. Yeah then it got bigger over time and then just got more tired.Member of being so nervous about that first event because I thought everybody knew each other already like so I was like I'm I'm coming into this as this like newbie doesn't know anyone and I was only 17 like I was super nervous about that and I was like flying all the way to California. You know? Yeah that was a really good time.Definitely very weird honestly. Got my first time was I was very nervous, extran chaotic and I was still making content and still new to it and like using my voice. 'cause before I never recorded anything with my voice or edited weight. Stuff like that you.Got invited to assist him before he made like voice videos.Ono, there's like a year after, when 'cause it was 2016. Yeah 2016 and I got like I made my channel at 2015.Couple of months I remember because I made a creative SIM. I was heavy like I was. I love making Sims and I made a SIM about Jen and I remember she shared that video and I think I was just like social media. Crazy tweeting The Sims, adding sends everything an all. I know I get a DM from The Sims saying we want your email like what so my OK didn't think anything of it and then all I know getting.Email saying all these different things. I thought it was a spam email. At first it was in big capital letters. Bold highlighting like this looks scary. I didn't think it was real. I almost ignored it to completely 'cause it was for Sims. Can't forget together.'cause it sounds like it's fake, right?To sleep.Gonna fly me to a place that I've never been like who argue it was some good Drake.Yeah, I remember.Her defending me and like asking for my email to put me on that mailing list.Pretty soon after that I got my first ever like early access code. I got backyard stuff early and that was like the best day of my life. I was like crying. It was great.I remember that Oh my gosh wait was backers of the one with the sliding.Thing yeah, like the water slides.Oh my gosh, I remember that day. That was horrifying because all I know it was summer time and I was working and I already have recorded my video and everything. I had it scheduled but it went up before the embargo and I nearly just lost my mind because I thought I was going to get sued. I still think that every time.Because I mean they probably didn't care, right?Oh no, they the well it was fine. The DMV thing can you take down your video because after before they embark on it though do you find I was having a major panic attack?I can imagine that some dairy.And then people were tweeting me and all this stuff. And then I remember I went on the forms like couple years afterwards I was scrolling through the find my name. All I know, did you hear Spring sends release backyard stuff early though? I'm like what?In the world that happening, I'm so sorry that must have been so stressful.It was I.Still to this day on embargo days, I like wait until everyone else post. I like refresh my son feed until I see the first one. I'm like OK I'll go even though I know the embargoes at noon or whatever I sit there and I keep refreshing waiting for somebody else to post before I do 'cause I'm too scared to mess up.Same, I usually quit today, but like after it was like I can't do it. I can't do it this day. I'm not gonna happen. Would be safe the next day. Yeah, Oh my gosh, but definitely I think the more we've grown over time was like YouTube.And I just watch in general to social media. It's like it's gotten more stressful 'cause like contracts and stuff like Oh no embargoes paying. I'm like no I can't.Yeah, like it feels like we're running because we are running a business now, right? But it's different. When we started we're just like hanging out, making Sims content and now it's like I don't know. I don't know how to read and deal with these contracts. I don't know what I'm doing nerve wracking. Yeah it is.That's why I was like I need a lawyer. I need all these things and so I was like I'm going to skitten LLC. And so I did.That would have you done.That yeah I have.Nice good. I literally we are business professionals here.Business owners.Yes, I was like thinking. What would I do? 'cause I was like trying to figure out. I now have an LLC and I was like I need an editor and he all these things and all that jazz. Would you say like Dan helping you edit your videos has helped tremendously.You have no idea how much of a difference that made in my life. My senior year of college.Because I was trying to graduate early so my senior year I took like a bunch of extra classes that are really, really rough. Courseload. Last year I graduated last April and I knew I was like there is literally no way that I can do this and also like edit my videos and record answer every day like I don't think I can do that and so my boyfriend, Dan has a film degree and he had just graduated and he was like he needed a job or like some way to earn money and I was like I need help.What if we?Tried out like you editing some of my videos sometimes just to like help me have a little bit more time.So like function you know and it worked out really well and he still had its my videos which is very good.Well, that's good. I say like having help is definitely a good thing to happen.Allocate a little bit, you know, yeah.Like it's definitely like, I would say better that way. 'cause I think editing, especially depending on what type of it you're doing, it's definitely very easy and hard. But also it's like who and how am I going to do all.Really time consuming and I was really struggling like keeping up with it and like like being in school full time. I did it for the most part but then my senior year I was like I can't.There's no way that I can manage this.I need some help so it worked out.That's good, yeah yeah, it seems to be working well. I mean, it's definitely tremendously. You know, gotten better. I would say, like I mean before your videos were great, but I feel like you know this like this like, yes.Step I think they're better now having him 'cause he can spend more time on it than I can. You know. Especially then like my when I was like in school I didn't have the time to like put into editing my videos. Well, you know. So him being able to do it like in heaven having more time to like actually put into it has really helped. And also having an editor who like knows me so well it's I feel like that helps.As opposed to like hiring a stranger or something because he like knows me and my constant want really well already. You know that's good. So it worked out.Yeah.So what you see like there's pros and cons to YouTube and Twitch?You know, I, I think there's always pros and cons to platforms. I think I really really like streaming on Twitch. And like we said before, I probably wouldn't want to stream on YouTube and they kind of serve different purposes. For that reason. You know, yeah, and there's things that I like about streaming and I like about making videos that are completely different. I like the community that you have on Twitch. You know, I like being able to interact with people real time, like it's just. It's really fun. Yeah, stream. It feels like you're just hanging out. It doesn't feel like you're like making something like this finished piece of perfect content.Then release it just feels like you're just hanging out, you know.Yeah, it's a lot. It's not better 'cause I think it's you don't have to be. So cookie Cutter perfect it's like it just really brought.Easier sure on like recording and making videos that streaming doesn't really have 'cause it feels going on to hang out with people you know.Oh yeah, definitely yeah. I just think Twitch is just easier for streaming. It's just easier for like pre recorded videos and other things they.Serve different purposes, but they're both good.Most definitely I've.Recently saw a couple of weeks ago, or like I don't know. While back ago that you love charity and your favorite charity organization is Saint Jude like, why do you? Why did you choose to fundraise for Saint Jude so?I've started doing it Saint Jude Charity stream back in like it's a spring of 2020.I've done a bunch of charity streaming on Twitch. Before that I was like raising money for like the American Cancer Society and stuff like that. And obviously like my dad has cancer and he got diagnosed when I was like 14 and so I was like trying to do fundraisers for like cancer based charities. Basically kind of because of that and obviously like Saint Jude does so many good things helping so many kids and that means a lot to me. And so I was like you know what I can do this I can I can do a big charity stream for Saint Jude because what they do is so important and so helpful to so many families. They make it so that people can get treated for free.You know, like it's so important to not have to worry about like how you're going to pay for your child's life saving treatments and so like that mission means a lot to me. And so I started fundraising for them on Twitch and then we raised like $200,000 for them on stream last year.Yeah, I saw that. I'm like, wait that's a wild like you literally gave so many kids a second chance at life. Yeah, it's literally insane I.I'm so proud I.I cannot believe that, like I, I obviously I know that I have the ability to do like successful charity streams on Twitch, 'cause it's happened before, but I never go in with like high expectations like I come on stream with a goal of like $5000 for the stream and I'm like hope it goes well and then somehow we raised like a couple weeks ago. I did a charity stream for Feeding America and I set the goal at 5000 originally and in my head that was reasonable. And then we raised $32,000 that day, which is just like.Beyond my wildest dreams, you know, I I, I cannot fathom how that is possible.It's a wild like you like you go into it, thinking OK seems fine, but then you never expect to go like I'll go above and beyond with that goal. And it's like it's wild to see like the viewers like anyone. It's like, yeah, what where did where? How does happen?Possible I I feel so lucky to be in a position where I can do stuff like that like the charity streams mean a lot to me like I feel very grateful that I can give back like that.And it's really cool that I have such a like generous community that is so excited about it as well. You know, yeah.It's definitely nice. People too, like when you're on like social media or like just in quote unquote influencer. Very awkward.But you're able to use your platform for good looks for something else besides, like yourself or something, or like just something that's good.You know, yeah, sometimes I feel a bit guilty that like I have a lot of followers on line like I just I don't really understand like why me like I, I'm just any other person. You know. Like I don't always see like why people would pick me and so I I'm really glad that I have like the ability to give back like that online. I think I like oh it to people you know.I think the reason why people like you just because like.You're very honest and kind an you tell, I would say you tell like it is. Sometimes an it's like people can relate to that and I think that's what resonates to people to why they pick you for like certain things or give you things where I fly to places or or anything at all. So I think it's just because, like you are real and that's what people want to see, you know.Yeah, well, thank you. I appreciate that, yeah.I mean from a viewer standpoint I see it. I see you're very like, you're just you.Thank you, that means a lot.You were very nice to me.I'm I try to be. I try to spread positivity one day at a time you.Are really good at that. You're a very good person to have around in The Sims community I think.I agree.Well, you're just like such.A positive like force and just this like light to have around you know. And I really appreciate that.Welcome, I have a few more questions we've been talking for an hour and a half.I know that you and Dan are dating and it's long distance and it's very stressful, very chaotic.I would say from like from a viewer standpoint, I would say that you have your life together and you seem to have everything working out well for.You, but it appears that way.And then like like how do you like do it? Like how do you separate your personal life from your online life and social media and all that stuff? Because that's just I.Don't really know if I have much of a personal life outside of social media, which is probably not a good thing, but I spend so much of my time online. You know, like I make so many like I stream for so long and I make so many videos like I so much of my day is spent like on social media and like sharing it with people and also all of my friends are like Internet friends. My boyfriend is.Online he lives in a different country, you know. And I was just like only an online person. But I haven't seen him in a long time because of the pandemic. So like my entire life is online and sometimes I have a hard time with separating myself from that, you know.But I I've taken steps like I like deleted the Twitter app off my phone few months ago and that helped. Yeah, because now the first thing I do in the morning isn't like getting on Twitter. And like stressing about things I'm seeing on Twitter, you know?Yeah I need to do that I am getting till the steps of deleting apps off my phone because I literally have every single social media about. Yeah it's not great.Yeah, it's a problem I like. I don't want to spend so much time obsessing over social.Because, like you know, we have all these different platforms to have accounts on and to run, and I don't like stressing about it so much like I wish that I didn't stress about them so much, so I've been trying to like you know, only go on Twitter on my PC so that it yeah, I don't know then it's kind of separate. The one social media that I'm big into is read it. I have like 'cause it's not like lilsimsie you know I don't really post. Yeah I just like read Reddit post but that way it's kind of separated from like my like social media like Sims work life I say work kind of and.Air quotes, but that way it's like a separate thing I can like go on there and read some stories and have it be completely unrelated to the.Sims, that's actually kind of a refresher. Yeah, like get away from that, 'cause when, like I think a lot of people, what they don't realize is that if you continue to do the same thing over and over and over and over for like so long that you'll eventually get burnt out. Yeah, and it's like you gotta have something that like you can call yours in separate from like that worked. Yeah side of yourself.Yeah, I mean like you and I, we love The Sims, but we also like live and breathe The Sims.Like everything we do is The Sims, so sometimes it's nice to be able to turn it off for a second, you know.Yeah, that's why. That's why I go on Tick Tock and just scroll through.My for you page.I might bring page. Yeah, it's weird. I social media is a very weird weird thing. I don't understand. It is too many apps to like.Be on and it's like I don't need to be on.There like I'm getting old, but when I feel like I don't know how to post on social media like I'm like, I don't know how to make tick tocks like I I'm on Tik T.O.K but I don't like feel the desire to post tik toks and it makes me feel old. Sometimes when I'm like I don't know how to do tick tock like you kids even though I'm only 21.I don't understand it. I've tried, I'm like I'm going to stop. I can't do it no more, but I I think that Tik T.O.K is new, you know, app for everyone but not really.It's fun, I just don't know if I'm kind of posting on it.Oh, I don't post that. Just scroll exactly. I mean my for you page right now is just all about Wanda vision class.Right now I haven't seen it.You have to watch it.I see that I have to tell you a secret. I've never seen any of the Marvel movies.Ohmygodso sorry I'm so sorry.Oh my God, you have to watch and they're really good. Well, OK. Granted the movies are great, but sometimes like two or three hours long and you have to sit through all that. Yeah, but I don't know it's it's a lot. I mean with Disney plus.I have no excuse.You said it's like in bed watching together.We should, that would be fun I.Yeah, 'cause it 'cause I think that was like with what I like about Disney. Plus some bozo with Marvel is that they have it in chronological order like based on like the phases but also at the timeline of what the movie is set in. Like. The first one is Captain America, the First Avenger or whatever it is like based on the 1940s twenties whatever. So it goes down the timeline and I love that it's no.Good, I think that would help because part of it now is that I haven't seen any of it.And so it's kind of like I don't know where to start. I don't know how to get into this like I'm super out of the loop so I feel like that would be very helpful for me to be able to have them put in order for me.Yeah, 'cause I get very confused. There was a spreadsheet that I looked down like OK. Which one do I watch next? How do I do all this? Like yeah when it lays out for you. Perfect easy.Spread point for your movie watching.It's a lot. I watched so many TV shows like I I'm still watching, like Grey's Anatomy and I'm on season Six. No season seven and I finished Criminal Minds. I finished.It already I'm watching Criminal Minds again right now again, yeah, I watched like the first like eight seasons in high school, but I'm watching it again.It's it's a great show. I mean, I love it. I also want you watch it on.I watch on Netflix.Oh, they don't have the other seat. They don't have the last three.Seasons Oh no.No, I had to eventually watch them on Hulu. That's where the last three are.Well, I'm only on Season 10 of again so don't worry.Hopefully, eventually, yeah. Eventually I'll get up there.There's so many things, so many just I want.Everything anatomy in high school too. But I stopped 'cause that show. They love to kill everybody off. I'm telling you it started stressing me out. I was like I can't do this anymore.Actually annoyed, it's overwhelming 'cause I'm like who stays who goes, who loves who get.Attached to anybody ever.Oh no, I I was first attached to Doctor Bailey, but now I'm not. And then first I was talking to Meredith. But then I realize she's actually a mess so I.Can trust that Meredith will probably be OK, you know.Yeah.Like main character, you're pretty much fine. Everybody else. Yeah, fair game for them to kill off, apparently.It's like forget everybody else just care about Meredith. She's the main character. She's the main one like I read that the showrunner is like if Ellen Pompeo is done, I'm done. It's like oh OK, well yeah, she wants to quit.She quits, they shouldn't keep doing the show.It's been going on long enough already. I don't know what they're going to change it into without her.It's like Grey's Anatomy. It's about her life.You can't change things like that, no?Previous weird yeah. Do you know what I heard?The Criminal Minds the guy who plays Aaron Hotchner. The reason that he left is because he kicked somebody on the set.What what, why?Producer so they fired him. I don't. I can't believe that I keep like whenever I see him now when I'm not. I'm re watching it. I can't get it out of my head. I'm like that guy kicks somebody.That's so weird.Weird.Some like he gets fired freaking the producer. All that's actually awful, but it's.Kinda, I know it's bad, but it's kind of funny. I'm picturing him like kicking options like think about it is so funny.Yeah, but the way we kind of played it off in the show, Macomb makes sense easy 'cause they had the whole like, you know stalker person.And I haven't even seen that part.Don't worry, you can spoil it online.When you get to the point, it all makes sense, yeah, and it kind of plays out well. So yeah, but.Apparently he kicked somebody and that's why you got kicked off.Kicked off literally.A celebrity is what are they doing?You know what are you doing kicking people?He had he. He literally could've stayed on for like another like two seasons, yeah, but no.Threw it all away sweater.Whatever, how is your 2021 going so far?You know it could be worse.I think I've been struggling a lot with living alone during the pandemic, and like I, I've always been kind of lonely, you know, but I think especially now like I just don't really see anybody and I I don't really go anywhere an like that part's kind of been rough for me is just being stuck here alone all at the time. But it's OK. I've gotten more used to it. It was a lot harder for me early on.But yeah, I I've been OK as well. I've been like I wanted to always win. I've always wanted to be alone, yeah, but I realize that I'm like no but like for me I'm I need my personal space. But then I also realize I'm basically a human vacuum and I will consume all the food and then like I can't share my food with people. Yeah it's not gonna work.Yeah, I'm a big introvert. I like having my own space too, but sometimes it's nice to like, interact with a human, you know.Yeah, that's why I started this podcast to talk to people genius. It's like making a name for myself and talking to my friends because I can't see them in real life.Yeah, that's smart.And I think that's why it which is so successful now. Oh.Yeah, I spent, which is meant to rock for me to have that like consistency of being with them. But also like having that social interaction with people on Twitch has been very helpful for me.Definitely.Like are you? Are you a person that would set goals for yourself?Yeah, I've always been a goal setter. I think my mom sort of raised me that way. She she was a big goal setter, so she would encourage me to do it too.Nice good old Karen.Like do you have any goals this year that you want to achieve I?Don't I don't have any like big, big, overarching goals. I don't think, but I. I know that I want to start making more like collaborative kind of content on YouTube. I know you're literally doing it right now with making this podcast, but I I want to try and make more like collaborative Sims videos like I want to try and do like Sims collaborations like build battle type stuff like that's kind of what I've been wanting to start doing.I feel like it's hard to make collaborative Sims content because you can only do so much.But I think also like the fact that you collaborate with different people, bounce ideas off of each other also helps, so I don't know. It's just like it's hard to come up with new ideas.Collabs stream like a year ago, now with a few other SIM streamers and what we did was we all did the black and will challenge in like a squad stream together at the same time, but didn't show each other and so we all like made our monitors black and white. Tried to build a house. Black and white. Would kind of like pop into the call occasionally. Ask questions, mostly just streamed on our own about like our whatever mileage and then if yet we came back in and then toured.Each others to show. So we were like showing black and white and then like turn the color back on and then toured around with people and it was really really fun oh.Bill Challenge is my favorite one, 'cause you never really know what to expect with the color. Oh.Yeah.Oh, it's so fun because you are so confident like your build is going to look great. It looks awesome and grayscale. And then you put it in.Yeah, so I want to see blue Room but turns out to be magenta is like, Oh no, that's not.Yeah, you know what? I always go in super confident too. 'cause I'm like. I know the items I know II Swatch is green and then I place it and I'm wrong and it's pain.And then I.Have a hot pink couch.It wouldn't be the same without the uncertainty of knowing what every color is. You know that's why I love about The Sims is just so.So different makes you challenge yourself different ways.I like how creative the community can get with it, and like all the different ways, yeah, you know, we were all playing the same game, but like everyone does so many. So many cool different things with.It so you remember 'cause you know James did where every tile is uh, or every tile is a bigger whatever that challenge.Every room is 1 pile, yeah?And then you did A twist on it, and I'm like that's a smart idea. 'cause like it's the most simplest like challenge.Idea I would say but.You all made it. Make it sound so cool and like. Ah, I'm going to do it but I think I think we all just needed like some type of like challenge or console or something 'cause we're just out here running dry.Uh-huh it's hard in between passes when it's like done awhile since an expansion pack, and there's not many much news coming out. It's it always gets a little bit like, oh.No, what do I do?Now that's why I always try to think of like, OK, they did it in The Sims 4 like somebody didn't didn't in The Sims 4. Why not just doing a different game? 'cause like more of a challenge but I always do in The Sims till 'cause.Challenging, but it's like also like what if you could like rebuild something from like another video game, like Stardew Valley, or like Minecraft or yeah.I think that kind of thing is so fun. I built the goth house in Minecraft.One number that it was a whole stream I remember.Yeah, yeah it was so bad. It was so ugly I think.So yeah, I think it's like it's fun. Kind of adventure out into like new new games and like try out in like a similar gummere used to and see what the outcome would be like. Like I remember Lizzie Scott Joel and some other people did like this Minecraft challenge where I spent 100 days in Minecraft.And yeah, I'm still currently I'm doing it in The Sims 4, but rags to riches.Even I swear to you, I'm doing it right now too. I'm on like day 50.Taking me so long to.Record a four 'cause I'm slow. Oh 'cause I Oh no.I it takes me like I'm trying to like like power through like do like three times feed a lot 'cause it's yeah so long I'll spend like 2 hours on 10 days yeah and that it takes a long.Time, it's definitely a lot of work and.I don't know. I think it's like the whole idea of like figuring out what you want to do with it and how you're going to make it work. And specially, yeah, what will the outcome be at the end 'cause I'm doing mine's rags to riches and I want to be able to get to like maybe 100K or something like that or achieve the aspiration I think.You'll be Oh yeah. 100 days is a long time, but I've been playing on short lifespan in mind and so unlike day like 30 something, the SIM died 'cause I started young adult and then he like died of old age on day like 37.So I'll probably get through like 2 generations, which we can't find anything.Well, I'm excited for that video then.Well, I'm excited for yours. It's gonna be cool rags to riches style to see like how the house yeah is 'cause you're going to have such a way bigger difference if yeah.I mean right now we have a tent in a cooler and that's that's it.Oh High Roller ball in. Maybe you can afford a toilet soon will.Be lovely, actually have enough money for a toilet.OK, well don't brag about it.Well, this is the end of the podcast episode, but I have some rapid fire questions for you.Oh God OK OK.What is the best advice you ever received in your life? Steven.I don't know.Oh God.How deep are we talking?Doesn't beep, let's be simple.Drink enough water.Smart favorite animal. Favorite Animal Crossing character.Freckles the duck.Love her.What recommendations would you give to someone like a book, podcast, TV show, etc.Well, personally I recommend Spring Simms new podcast Hello Spring.No great time.No, but you know what I've been. I've been re watching like a bunch of like old HDTV shows on Discovery plus recently and fixer upper like Ship and Joanna Gaines. They've come back. They're making a new season of it like right now and there's three episodes on and they're all on discovery Plus, so that's what I'd recommend. Is the new season of Fixer Upper.That's good, and do you have anything exciting coming up this year?So I don't know.Eating plants.Big plans for a year like this one who knows what's going to happen? Honestly. True eye Twitch streaming is my answer.Nice love that for you.Well, thank you so much for being on my podcast. I honestly just love talking to people and just talking to you. Yeah, we definitely do that, besod.Thank you for inviting me 'cause I have missed you and it's been fun getting to catch up a little bit. Sam, thank you very much.Welcome, oh the other thing too. Would you ever really like relaunch your podcast?I don't know. I think about that a lot. Maybe someday, but part of me is like I stream so much every day. I feel like what more do I have to say to people? I feel like I say so much online already but.You're doing it and you're.Good at it, so I mean.Eventually I'll probably run out of continents, while who knows?But it helps.To have guests on the podcast, because like they're kind of the content, you know that's true.'cause I can always say so much like the first episode is not even out. By this time we're recording this and I talked for like 40 minutes about whatever. But it's yeah, but it'ing for us, what they want is just nothingness. Like random. It's nice to have like the background noise you know and just like to hang out with somebody.Yeah, that's true so.But the rambling about nothing isn't a bad thing, I don't think.Good 'cause I can talk for days.So where can the people find you?They can find me everywhere just at lilsimsie, but primarily my platforms or YouTube and Twitch. But I'm also on like Twitter and Instagram and stuff just at lilsimsie.That's good, good way to snack the name everywhere. Honestly, yeah, right lucky 'cause I. Honestly I'm still just like waiting like I just submitted my application to get verified on Instagram. But like my LLC stuff and I'm like can I just get the name spring Sims?I hope you can, 'cause you deserve it, I hope.I can get it on.Instagram and Twitter. Twitter mostly 'cause the the two people on both platforms who have spring Sims literally I think are the same person but have not been active in over like seven years.So annoying when that happens, they're just these old inactive accounts that have been posted in seven years and they steal your name like.Granted, they started account a year like.Before I did so, I mean that makes sense, but I'm not still giving me the username please.It's whatever, but I'm so sorry.Well anyhow, well, thank you so much for your podcast. Hope to see you thank.You for having me.You're welcome, I hope to see one day in person again when it's.Maybe one of these days, 2025 possibly.Probably safe again.Oh my gosh, I just I just saw it 2025. I will probably be. Oh gosh I'll be 29 Oh no.Oh my.The Sims Six is coming out, oh.Gosh, I don't wanna think about that.We'll see each other, The Sims 6 launch parties.Even though yeah sounds good, love that will. I'll see you there definitely reunion time.Exactly.Well, thank you so much and I'll see you later.Goodbye bye everybody.So I hope you all enjoy today's episode as much as I did. I had so much fun talking to Caleb out YouTube, Twitch, social media, personal life versus online life, the 100 baby challenge, The Sims, the Charity Fund raising. Actually, why is she? Does Charity fund raising and so much more? And if you learned anything from this episode, I surely did make sure you leave a review on iTunes if you have one. 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