Terry: Sometimes when it comes to making a deal for any deal, it’s just best to post it because you can keep working and working on it and it’s never going to be perfect. 

Spencer: If you have the wrong intentions for creating content, then you’re probably not going to get anywhere. 

Terry: If you’re humble and you’re doing it and you’re passionate about it, like you said, then that’s the best way to go because the money will come later. 

Spencer: Hello and welcome back to another episode of Creators Uncut. Super excited again for another episode. Our guest today is Terry Lee from the YouTube channel, TheTalentedGamerHD. Terry, thanks for being on the show. 

Terry: Of course, man. Thank you for having me. 

Spencer: Yeah, it’s always great to meet new people and you’re one of the few gaming channels that we’ve had on the show. So for our viewers who may not know who you are or what your channel is about, why don’t you go ahead and tell us kind of what you do and what your channel is. 

Terry: All right. Hey, you guys, this is TheTalentedGamerHD. To tell you about my channel, I am a creative content creator that do video trailers. And I started off trying to make game videos of Spider-Man, Marvel’s Wolverine, PS5, and mostly Spider-Man and do little vlogs here and there in livestream. And recently, I just did a film about my life. So yeah, that’s kind of the little bit, just a little quick thing about what my YouTube channel is and everything that I do. Gotcha. 

Spencer: So mostly like Spider-Man type content? 

Terry: Yeah, Marvel just Marvel. Yeah. Gotcha. 

Spencer: How did you get into specifically like Spider-Man and Marvel? 

Terry: So what got me into Spider-Man, back in 20… I want to say back in 2016, they had revealed an E3 trailer for Marvel’s Spider-Man that was coming to the PlayStation. And it got me so hyped to the point, I’m like, OK, yeah, this is what I want to kind of based off my YouTube channel. So I was watching all the interviews from Insomniac with Brian Antihar and Bill Roseman. And then I started cutting trailers off my tablet with using their game and stuff just because how hype I was. So yeah. And then from there, that’s how I am, where I am now. Gotcha. 

Spencer: OK, cool. So is that also how you started your YouTube channel? Was that Spider-Man game launch? Or did you start your channel before that? 

Terry: So I started in January 12th of 2016. So about the same year that they showed Spider-Man and now Spider-Man, Marvel’s Spider-Man PlayStation 4. Gotcha. 

Spencer: So that’s 10 years. That’s a long time. Yes. That’s awesome. And you recently got a play button. Is that right? Yes. That’s awesome. How do you feel about that? 

Terry: It felt unreal. Like I didn’t think I was going to be able to make it this far. I actually had wrote down like my manifestations last year of what I wanted to hit. 

And 100k was one of them. So when I got that play button, it felt so unreal. And kind of like how the hard work really paid off. Because like you said, I’ve been doing this over like 10 years. So I was so thankful for that accomplishment. 

Spencer: That’s awesome. Yeah, I bet that’s super satisfying to actually get like a physical, I don’t know, visualization of the hard work that you’ve put in. So that’s awesome. So over 10 years, I don’t know how many videos you’ve actually made. But is there a video that kind of stands out to you? That’s either like your best or maybe your favorite video that you’ve kind of worked on? 

Terry: Yeah, it’s the one is two of them, actually. But I want to say the first one was with the meeting inside me at games. It was a make a wish thing I did when I was 18 years old. I went out to California and got a chance to meet inside me at games and some people from Marvel games. And I make that into like a whole video of like, what did I see type of thing? And it was an awesome experience. 

Spencer: Yeah, so is that just something that you kind of decided you wanted to do on your own? Or was it kind of like a sponsored thing? Or how did that video kind of come to be? 

Terry: Back in when I was 2018, I was 17. And then yeah, I turned 18 that same year. I had asked like, you know, I wanted to at first, when it came up to me and stuff, I wanted to actually meet Robert, I’m a junior Ironman. But then somebody won the coordinator said that it could take a couple of years for me to meet him. So I could have been like this age now. 

I met him like either 23, 24, 25. So I just said, you know what, that’s OK. They gave me time to think. I’m like, you know what, I want to do this. I want to meet these guys instead. I’ll meet the team of Marvel Spiderman and made more sense because of the youth to videos I made. 

So yeah, I just say, you know what, let me just meet inside me at games. And that was one of the best choices I made to do that. And all of it kind of correlated and came together. Gotcha. 

Spencer: That’s awesome. And you said that there was kind of two videos that were like your favorite. What was the other one? 

Terry: The one we recently did, Terry’s Tale. Well, me and me and my friends made a film about my life, kind of what I go through and it was Spiderman inspired. But that was one of the coolest things that I think was that really stuck out because I was able to write a story about my life and had help from my friends that created and produced it. 

And it’s like one of their most top videos that or films they ever made that I got the most views. So I was just thankful for that. And it really helped me kind of get where kind of a story where they can people can understand my life. And I wanted to inspire others to who deals with like, you know, the stuff I have to go through on a daily basis. 

Spencer: Yeah, that’s awesome. I’ll have to check that out. So is it like a narrative or like more like an autobiography, like a or a documentary, kind of like realistic events? Or is it like more fictional, I guess? 

Terry: I want to say like a narrative type thing. So it’s more of like what I have to do on the like actual on the daily. Like we wrote a script of it, but like parts from I want to say like at the end is fiction. Oh, it’s not real, but it’s kind of, you know, like based off a true story, based off of like a fictional character type of thing. But everything that I went through in that video outside of what happens at the end, all that stuff is like real and just the kind of thing I have to go through on a daily with dealing with some people who may know, know who is actually like starting to get to know me, everything I have, Crohn’s disease. 

So I was trying to kind of make it more of like a health thing to kind of inspire people who want to do YouTube or just kind of understand like the life lessons that I have to go through in life every day that it’s not easy to deal with. 

Spencer: Gotcha. That is awesome. Yeah, I’ll definitely check that out. And for our viewers who want to learn more about Terry Lee, I would recommend checking out that video. What was it called again? 

Terry: Terry’s Tale. 

Spencer: Short Tale. Terry’s Tale. Nice. That’s a good title too. 

Terry: Thank you. 

Spencer: Yeah. So you’ve done YouTube for over a decade now. Lots of videos. You know, I’m sure your process of creating videos has probably changed over time, but something that I want to ask and it’s kind of different for every YouTuber. But how do you know when a video is done? So I’m a video editor myself and I could spend a long, long time on videos, you know, tweaking things here and there, making sure that it’s perfect. But at some point, you got to say the video is done. So for you, Terry, when do you like feel a video is complete? 

Terry: It’s a good question. I’d say like this and it has been it’s different for every viewer, like you said. But as I, you know, started like really got into editing, sometimes like if I make a trailer for something or a restyle for something, sometimes it could take more than two weeks. Or now I’m starting to get a little bit faster with editing. 

But I know how I am as when it comes to like making videos, just because I am the type to be a perfectionist. So like one of the recent videos I did was when I did, like for example, when I did Terry’s Tale, we filmed that in December. And I think we did one reshoot in, I want to say early March or around January. 

But around those like those three months, but that took us three months to edit like together, you know, like tweaks and everything. And you know, you and that was the main video I was really working on outside of nothing else when it came to me doing a YouTube video. That was the main video I was working on three months. So it was kind of hard to kind of do something different while working on that video. So like if I see it every time, like keep editing, fishing and stuff, it came to a point like, you know, I felt that it was done at first, but I’m glad I didn’t like produce it the way it was because there was a lot of tweaks that I had to do. 

I had help with doing it. And it’s just, it came to a point where it was like, we decided like we got just posters at this point now, because we could keep doing most of more and more and more tweaks. And I think the version that is out is the best one we did because yeah, like I said, it was a lot for me too, as well as like when I’m making a trailer or something, I try to go to the source of what I’m recreating. So I can kind of get inspired of what I’m doing to kind of make it as similar as possible to the original. So like if I’m doing something that I’m recreating a video game trailer or seeing, I’ll try to make it as accurate as possible. I rewatch scenes, rewatch the, you know, play the game or anything like that and just kind of see if this mash up with the scene or not. And then just edit it all together the best that I can. And it has been videos like recently, like I did a edit for Spiderman and ready to day where I wanted to have that 2000 early field with vindicated from the Spiderman, Rami film. 

So I did that. And then recently I went back to that editing, got help on it again for one of my mentors and it sound it the way it looked before. And now I’m like, I like the now version because I’m learning like risers, user risers and stuff, movies and stuff like that. So yeah, it’s like that’s something in my craft. 

I want to do is just get really, keep getting better and better. And sometimes when it comes to making a deal for any deal, it is just best to post it because you can keep working and working on it and there was going to be perfect. So sometimes it’s best to just post it and it’d be like one of your greatest work from people that actually enjoyed the video and be like, Oh, I like this, I like this. And you know, you as the editor or storyteller or creator, you’re the only one who been noticed a mistake if there is one or you overthink about it. So that’s something like I always go through all the time when I’m making a video. 

Spencer: Yeah, yeah, that is. Oh, that is such good advice. If our viewers take anything from this video, it’s what you just said right there because sometimes you just got to post it. Like you said, over time, your skills get better and I think you get more efficient and better. So maybe when you first start, like your videos aren’t as good, obviously. And then as you grow your, your skills, you get better and you can post more often the better quality. And so, yeah, I, I can’t say any better than you did. 

Well, I completely agree. Sometimes you just got to post it and people will enjoy it. And as editors, you notice things that most people won’t notice. So speaking of, you mentioned you, you do some trailers and you kind of recreate the original. I’m curious, doing like Disney or like Marvel type content. Do you run into issues with Disney, like with copyright or anything like that? Or because it’s a video game, you’re, you’re okay. 

Terry: I was a little bit above, I feel like I’m okay. I’m going to tell you a story. So like, okay, when I went on my trip, I was in high school at the time and I needed credits, like, you know how you got to get those community credits and all that stuff to do. Yeah. 

When I went up there. I asked one of the developers like can I get credits for doing these videos since I’m not making money off of it They said yes And they put all the information they needed down to fill out my paperwork and I was able to get credits over a Model credits because I was doing it for so long where my YouTube accountant as community service stuff. So You know, I think I’m you know, I I really believe that I’m okay I know it’s like these copyright laws where you can’t make money from the videos create But it I just do it just because I want to work on my craft and I’m not really hiding nothing Just because I want to work for them and they already know that so it’s just you know You sometimes you really do got to take a risk and I know over the years now like copyright is changing and keep changing So it’s like a downside. It’s like it’s good and bad at the same time You want to do it just to make money then you know, then you know, whatever But at the same time like it helped me like get Open doors or just kind of see what people people could see my skills and stuff And I remember one time where I asked them if it’s okay for me to do these and You know, they was already cool because I already done I already do it now So it’s like it’s not nothing new, you know, and yeah as I’m learning and keep on it It’s ways like I said when you make something is ways around it because you don’t know who’s watching it You don’t know who’s like really keeping a tab on you or anything like that just because like They might be like, oh, I like this or never realized, you know, you can do this with this You know, I’m saying so like it really opens a lot of doors or Just like I said, you never know who’s watching you and it’s on that point is something I want to say as far as like, you know, like if I Remember like sometimes like if I do an edit and I really am proud of the L attack and saw me in games And they you know one of the most memorable ones that I did was when I did like a rainy kind of edit where I Put the music from the brain me new movies and I had a main talk to Peter while he was lifting this big old rock and It’s not me. 

I actually liked it and common under it. So Like it’s really just depends, you know, and then I know recently I had saw something and this is was in my edit but somebody did a Ryan cooler edit with sinners in The director saw it Ryan Clu is actually saw and I liked the edit. So it’s like I really don’t think I Really think like doing like using other footage just to create something and get better at it I think it’s just really okay and I guess it just depends on what you’re making and Everybody’s different on walls and all that stuff But I just know the law you can’t really make money off of that stuff But sometimes like you can get hired to like for doing stuff like that. So it just all depends I guess really I’m still learning as I go, but I Just want to be able to work for them someday Gotcha. 

Spencer: So that’s like your main goal is like to work for Disney 

Terry: Disney Marvel and Samya games or Sony even if it’s not like in-house like editing or Working working for them. I would love to be an influential for them to you know have like Since Wolverine’s coming out like I did some trailers for that and I would love to like, you know Be able to play the game earlier or talk about the game or anything like that So that’s just nothing I’m just trying to get more of my foot in the door because being a creator actually helps a lot And I’ve been seeing a lot of other creators Getting invited from playstations to either play a game or you know, just visit, you know, they’re company and stuff So like it’s I feel like it’s still like Good ways to be a creator of talking about a game or movie or anything like that. 

Spencer: Yeah, definitely I think you bring up a good point, you know when for our viewers who may not have started a YouTube channel That’s something you need to think about is like what is the purpose of your channel? If your goal like end goal is to like be a youtuber to make money from YouTube, you know doing Maybe doing Marvel type content might not be the route to go But if you’re like Terry and you’re passionate about it and you just want to improve your craft your art, you know You can do pretty much anything on YouTube So I think that’s a good point that you brought up 

Terry: like making those connections to when you’re doing that But yeah, that was that’s something that I’m still in continue learning that you know taking these risks sometimes can be good and Creating too like I think you should look at it as the money part because then you it’s not gonna work out if you’re humble and you’re doing it and you’re passionate about it like you said then It that’s the best way to go because the money gonna come later, but my main focus is working with them Pretty much. 

Spencer: Yeah, definitely. Yeah, if you have the the wrong intentions For creating content, then you’re probably not gonna get anywhere But if you Truly are passionate about it, then you’ll eventually grow and the money like you said will come so all right Well, I’ve got just a couple more questions for you Terry. I Don’t know how big your community is. I mean, I know you have over a hundred thousand subscribers I mean by community like how tight knit it is. 

I don’t know if you have any subscribers who have left you a really memorable comment or Know or anything either good or bad that stands out Do you have any stories to share and guards in regards to like your community? 

Terry: I know two of my guys that Even a couple of them I will say always always get like Two creators that I look at that’s doing similar stuff that I’m doing or is the same is Evan Fulacca I want to shout you out and Johnny Blaze game. I want to shout you out I remember because Evan too he’s like the Founder and creator of the spidey squad So it’s a group of people who’s like really like would like to talk about marvel or have these special skills that Just make them talk about what any game like spider-man was like a big thing Um when it was coming out, um, they found my channel and made me the co-founder of it And the spider squad actually logos in the spider-man game for the ps4 playstation if you collect all the backpacks That’s awesome. Yeah, so Marvel had got recognized like recognized us and kind of like shout out as I don’t like, you know shout out to the spider squad and everything and you know Evan too like he’s he’s like Like like talk about all these games like when it comes to like marvel wherever that’s related to marvel Sometimes dc, but whatever he’s passionate about he’ll talk about And you know like that got him to like, you know get access to games and you know meet so many people Uh, Johnny blaze gaming too. Like he’s a cool guy as well Like he you know do edits is like I do and he got like over 181 case subscribers And he do just the similar stuff I do so it’s like I want to remember what comments I’ll say like, you know Evan kind of commented on my make a wish. I don’t know why I said kind of but he said he said uh You know congratulations, terry. 

You know, this is awesome It’s so many comments that stuck with me. Um, I remember too Like Johnny blaze gaming like he we were talking recently like the stuff that we do if we do a collab or do an editor something Um, he talked about like saying like, you know, I’m so proud of you could reach 100k He believed in me reaching 100k One other memorable comments. It was on twitter Uh, when I posted the make a wish always insomniac insomniac said now it’s you who spires us You made our day terry lee life. We are thrilled to host your make a wish day My comment was like the post was our best Freaking day of my life. 

Thank you. And then I tagged all the people was there The roseman of marble games when he said hey terry lee life It was amazing to meet a fellow webhead who follows spire as much as we do keep on swinging Another one was oh, those was actually the only two. That’s awesome. So those was like mostly my memorable comments I would say two one of the things that I never saw possible was back in 2023 Uh and rest in peace um, tony tide, which is uh actor I don’t know if you know the horror movies of candy man So final destination Okay, he’s in five one of um couple of the final nation films He’s the black guy that always telling like when they look for help What to do and everything he played bitumen, um spiderman 2 And he saw one of my edits and he followed me back and I was so thankful For that. So yeah, those I could say a lot, but yeah, those are one of the coolest things You know one of the best, um one of the comments I would say or if somebody would say like, you know Keep going with my health or everything So, yeah, those I want to say those are one of the best comments I have got that’s awesome. 

Spencer: It’s so nice to have all of those supporting comments Uh, I don’t know at least for me then it shows me that I’m like, you know providing something valuable for other people Uh, when when I get nice comments and so that’s awesome that you’ve gotten so many Uh, really great comments. So thanks for sharing that Of course, I’ve got one more question for you Um, and this is kind of one that we ask all of our creators Uh to really help our viewers, you know Learn things before making mistakes. So since you’ve been doing it for over a decade Has there been any mistakes you’ve made along your journey? That you’ve learned from uh that you wish you knew Uh, maybe when you started, 

Terry: uh, so it was a couple I remember one Uh, kind of when covid happened. I want to say like, uh I wish I would have pursued youtube more Compared like than I did like I was still uploaded on youtube But I was more in school too and focusing on that and stuff But I wish we were around that time when covid happened I would have even more focused on my youtube and stuff and that’s something I regret just because everybody was at home And I wish I would have put more effort in doing my youtube during that time And I was in and out the hospital too. So that was under out of my control as well, but I had like got really really scared That you know, like since covid happened. I wouldn’t have been able to get in the industry I was doubting myself just because like all this, you know video game industries was like just Just different because it was all remote and everything and I was just kind of like worried and Um thinking like I rather had I wish I had put more effort into my youtube But yeah, I was one of the things that I was kind of regretting like I wish I because I used to I and I still contemplate sometimes But I had you know contemplate like Do I focus on youtube? Do I just do this and then kind of find myself and figure out how to get myself an industry type of thing? You know, I used to think like, you know being a creator sometimes was Wouldn’t get you in the industry because you know as you grow up you I mean well growing up like you know You in school and stuff and you know teachers would tell you not to post this you shouldn’t post all this stuff or post that Or whatever these certain things and it’s like life has changed so much to a point That’s okay to post because it can’t open a lot of doors But that was something I was always in the back of my head of a voice saying like, you know You shouldn’t do this. You shouldn’t do that. 

You shouldn’t be posting none of that stuff. So that was something I Kind of you know, I want to say I regret Um, I really wish I would have pursued my youtube more Back then in 2020. Um, yeah, so yeah, that was something I kind of regret My journey and then um, I know it’s been edits to and I think we all messed up It’s been edits to that. 

I wish I could go back to that You know gotten views and like dang, I wish I would have did this better or do something like this, you know Yeah, that was something I’d probably say. I just really pursue youtube more and Kind of like yeah talk about whatever game that was coming up marvel later or something that’s kind of would have You know, just like see if it opened me just more doors. I felt like the youtube thing was probably something I should have Did more back 

Spencer: then Yeah, yeah, that that totally makes sense. Um, I think to add on to that You know for any of our viewers who haven’t started a youtube channel who are maybe considering it Now is the best time to start And start pursuing youtube Covid was a special time because everyone was pretty much remote But you know, if you want to start a youtube channel now, you can you can totally do it You know, some people may think that it’s like too oversaturated But you know, everyone is different. Everyone has a different personality Can make different types of content and so I would say just do it and even though terry you had that regret of wishing you did it more. 

I think You still pursued it just maybe not as much and so you’re still successful So I wouldn’t get too down on on that but Thanks. Thanks for sharing. I always like to hear what youtubers kind of You know wish they learned from their past so Yeah Yeah, so terry. Thanks for being on the show For our viewers your your youtube channel is the talented gamer hd, right? 

Terry: Yes. 

Spencer: Okay. So make sure to check out his channel and subscribe And uh, yeah, thanks again Terry for being on the show. 

Terry: Of, course. Thank you for having me. This was a really cool opportunity that you guys found the only thing and you know one to hear my story. 

Spencer: So I really appreciate that Yeah, definitely and uh to our viewers and listeners make sure to like and subscribe for more content like this to hear more about youtubers and if you need help making videos check us out at http://www.creatorluxe.com And we’ll see you in the next episode.