Fact Check: Mockbuster Movies and Streaming Success Truths

In November of 2005, one of the funniest mistakes of all time happened as Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds was

gearing up for a release. A mere 24 hours before that, a production company called Asylum, released their movie HG

Wells War of the Worlds. This successfully managed to trick Blockbuster, who, get this, accidentally

ordered 100,000 copies of Asylum's version of War of the Worlds instead of Spielberg's one, launching Asylum into a

huge success. And I I blockbuster into bankruptcy. I guess these guys were so successful they ended up making Shark

NATO. A huge part of the business of film is this competition for your eyeballs. And asylum, they understand

that a new Transformers movie is coming out. Well, a week before that, how about we release a different movie?

Transmorphers. Knockoff movies often called mockbusters. You may have made fun of

them throughout your life. Oh, isn't it really funny? There's a movie called Ratatoing. Oh, isn't it hilarious?

YouTubers, myself included, have belittled their very existence. But have they ever stopped to think,

what is it like to actually be one of those movies? What's it like to get anyone to watch your work when you are

competing against hundreds of millions of dollars worth of marketing campaigns? Hello and welcome to a recap of a year

in my life. Everything you're going to hear today has taken me a year. I've more I started in January 25. Please,

please subscribe. So, I was aware that these types of movies were pretty successful during the video store era.

An unsuspecting grandma goes in wanting to buy her grandson a a fresh copy of Kung Fu Panda. Oh, it's now your

birthday. You're unwrapping the thing. You're unwrapping it. And what the is this? What the hell is Little Panda

Fighter? Oh no. Oh no. Do I do I pretend to be happy now? Do I pretend to be happy now to save her from from

embarrassment? But did these films survive the move to streaming? Well, Amazon Prime has over 20,000 titles in

their library. Netflix has like a fourth of that, about 5K, and that is because Amazon just allows a whole lot more

stuff in. Here's a great example of this that that happened to me actually a few weeks ago. This was added to this video

that's been taking me a year. The other day I was I was just going through Amazon. I saw that Mr. Beast has his

YouTube videos on Amazon for not his show. He also has you his YouTube videos. I was like that's odd. Then I I

look below and it said like under other titles that Mr. Beast is in and it recommended me this Quidd game. Quidd

game. Quidd Games. Actually Quidd Games. I'm sad I didn't take a photo or a video of the original of the of the actual

experience, but the promo photo wasn't this one of what you can see now on Amazon. It had this logo saying quid

games. That's the exact Squid Game font. That is that's the same thing. And yeah, it said that Mr. Beast is acting in this

movie. It seems like that's been removed now. But if we go to the ID page, you see this thing. I am Mr. beast and I

am in quid games. So, I don't know. All in all, I respect the hustle. I guess streaming is actually kind of great for

mockbusters because, you know, you might look up a thing and then you find another thing or you might watch a thing

and then get something else recommended to you below. Basically, you're hoping for some mistake to happen and then for

people to click on this because it's offered to them for free and you know, you're like, "Ah, whatever. Whatever.

I'll watch I'll watch Homeward." Okay. This got me curious. How hard would it really be to get my own mockbuster into

Prime or any other streaming service? And what would make more money? A streamed mockbuster or a physically sold

one in a store? >> Sorry, can I take the manager left? >> Yeah, my name is

>> Maybe for for an added fun challenge, have it written by my 12-year-old brother and acted out by these

YouTubers. Let's look at all of them on the screen right now. Wow, I'm making another movie with Chad Chat. I felt

pretty confident that they're going to let me in because you know quit games that's how does that happen? And also,

will we actually be able to get anyone to watch this? How successful of a of a of a ploy is this really? How do you

make money? Well, you can make money by either renting out or selling the film on Amazon. However, it seems like most

mockbusters put their films up for free on Amazon. free, meaning if you're an existing Amazon Prime person, you can

click on it and you're not paying an additional charge for every hour of your movie streamed on Amazon Prime, you're

going to be getting around uh 0.05 per hour per viewer, which is it's pretty low. I mean, that's kind of

similar to what uh I would get per like hour reviewed by a YouTube Premium member. You get more money if a YouTube

Premium person watches your videos. Now, during the making of the other two movie videos where I'm making a movie, those

were done in I guess the correct order of things. Meaning, we made the movie and then, you know, I had to figure out

what to do with it. Here, the process seems to be flipped on its head. I need to figure out first what Amazon needs

from me before I make anything. So, there's a bunch of rules here. Uh the the ones I guess I remember I remember I

can't have any decapitations which is fine I guess. I guess I can adhere to the no decapitate. It's it's

whatever. There are certain resolutions that the video needs to be in. This is going to be an issue later on when I

completely forget all about that. Mai also revealed to me that around when I started this project, January 2025,

Amazon Prime has actually changed the way they do things, much to the dismay of me. It used to be that you could just

directly publish your videos on Amazon. But while watching a video about that, we saw in the description an update

video. And in that update video, he says how Amazon has actually stopped accepting new profiles being made to

upload and submit films. Now only people with existing accounts or distribution companies can upload to Amazon directly.

Meaning I got to like like find a a a middleman company. So now I introduce to you FilmHub. They're a company that I go

to and then I give them my film and then their job is to kind of spread that thing out there and like pitch it for me

basically. So they have their own requirements. Namely, your film has to be over 20 minutes long to be monetized.

When I heard that, I was like, "Okay, sure. Okay, sure." That's I mean, that's a bit tough. Considering the last two

films I made based off of a Pinley Jr. script were an average of 5 minutes, that's a bit tough. Yeah. Yeah.

Absolutely. I wanted to be sure of exactly what they need from me. So, Maya sent them over this email. Hello, I'm a

producer of a short film and I have a couple of questions regarding distribution, blah blah blah blah blah.

We're looking to make the film 20 minutes long, specifically focusing on Amazon. Do you take films of this

length? And more questions as well. But that's the main that's the main one that you need to remember. After 3 to five

business days, they got back to me with this email here. Hi Maya, thanks for reaching out. We love shorts. Some of

our channel partners have minimum runtime requirements, mostly Tuby, which requires the things to be 45 minutes,

and Amazon Prime Video, which requires the film to be at least 40 minutes. 40 minutes. 40 minutes. 40. That's a That's

a whole lot more work. 40 minutes me. That's right. I'm ignoring TB. Okay. Sure. Okay. Sure. Me. But sure. Sure.

Why not? So, now all I got to do is I got to think of a genre where the script itself can be pretty relaxed because

it's written by a by by a 12-year-old who gets quickly impatient, but there's like another fun element to it that also

adds time like a song or or perhaps a little dance. I could do a song or perhaps a little dance. Not well, but

physically I am capable of it and my friends more so. What's a good beloved musical IP that a lot of people might

end up looking up? H no, no, not this one. No, no, not that one either. I know

Joker 2 folly. I decided I'm brave enough to tackle this beloved musical. Now, as someone who's seen Joker 2, the

real one, um I got to say that I was quite disappointed. I was promised a musical, but then all the musical

numbers are happening in like dream sequences that they don't actually further the plot. So, this was my chance

to make things right. And legally speaking, you see, while Joker is actually a popular character, it is also

just a word. And surely, your honor, you can't copyright something that's just a word. I decided I would take the title

Joker 2 folly do and then I I would I would forget about that title and separately from that I came up with my

own title for a movie called Two Jokers Foil and Doom. That's the name of the two main characters. And your honor,

surely something as simple as two names can't be copyrighted that that much. Come on. You're come Come on. It was

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on the link in the description to start building your e-commerce business today. So then I went ahead and I took that

prompt and I fed it to Pinley Jr. GPT, uh, my brother, who's actually the opposite of artificial intelligence. He

is natural swag. Basically, the goal was to was to write a movie B based off of the title. We're working backwards here

again. It It was a lot of fun. I think this is the best one yet. Had another brother help us. And with a script

that's definitely not long enough to be 40 minutes in my hand and a and a song in my heart. In April of 2025, I headed

to Chad Chad Studios where movie making dreams come to life. The movie starts in a supermarket. Foil and D live there.

Foil and D are talking about how Foil wants to leave the world of clownship. I'm foil. D tries to convince him not to

leave. >> Do not do that. >> No, but that's your name. Oh,

>> okay. >> You know, even though it's pretty cool that we live in a supermarket. I kind of

wish. I'm thinking of leaving. Uh I I think I might not want to be a clown anymore.

You got to convince me. I can't multitask. >> You can't quit.

We're clowns in a supermarket. >> Now we need to do a song. >> Sometimes

I think about driving a normal car instead of a clown car. There'll be so much more space. And if you work in an

office, they have staplers. >> Now you're going to be slightly convinced.

>> You know what? I'm convinced. >> No. Slight. No. No. >> Slightly convinced.

>> Okay. >> Want it back. >> What? The whole song.

>> I guess you raised some good points. >> D. >> No. Foil.

>> Foil. >> Thank you all for coming to the to the clown anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous

without the alcohol for clowns who want to quit clowning. I'm so glad you guys gave us your name. I said that already.

>> Say that your name is Mr. Bobo, >> right? >> And then you got to tell everyone about

how you grew up in a boarding school for clowns. >> Okay.

>> At first, you thought it would be fun to be a clown, but then quickly you found out that to be the best clown in the

world. >> I I'm Mr. Bobo, first of all, and I got sent to a clown boarding school cuz at

first I thought it would be fun, but eventually I learned that being a clown actually takes a lot of discipline. A

lot of discipline. >> There is a flashback scene where Mr. Bobo looks out of the window. He sees

kids playing with a balloon. He wants to be like them. >> And then you shout at her, be like,

"Stop daydreaming. >> Stop daydreaming." Being a clown

is so much harder than it seems. Making those folds. It's harder than it looks.

Special pump to pump the balloons to make balloon animals. You can't just blow it with your mouth. It doesn't

work. Who are you? I don't know anything anymore.

>> Dude realizes there's something off about Mr. Bobo's face. He gets closer to him and

>> Wait, Gabby, did you have your glasses for all this? >> No.

>> Okay. No, >> there's something off about Mr. Bobo. >> Me when I give Gabby a laugh thing.

Well, well, well. I've been doing this for 20 years and no one's ever found me out.

Get the hell out of here, everyone, except you, uh, foil. And, you do. Everyone, get the [ __ ] out.

Let me catch you. Let Let me catch you up to speed. I'm here to recruit for the Clown Bureau of Investigations.

the leader, Ronald Mega, and all of youing failed. >> No, they they've already

>> Oh, they've already left. We go on really really big, really important investigations.

We infiltrate >> clown >> clowns. What?

>> So, this is sort of like a walk and talk scene. We're like in a James Bondesque room where they have all the gadgets.

So, we need to be really excited when >> Okay, stop. Look at this. >> All right. And now just you can read off

this list. >> Okay. That is a gun that shoots candy. >> Wo.

>> Mhm. And that is a bow tie that shoots lasers. >> Wow.

>> That really tiny car. You'd be surprised fits 15 clowns. >> Oh [ __ ]

>> Oh my god. >> Um where's the list? >> Wig over there. Fire resistant.

>> Amazing. >> Mhm. >> Oh my god. We need to infiltrate a clown

candy criminal organization. They make candy with sugar levels so high it could put a child in a two-month coma.

>> No way. React to that. >> Yes way. >> No.

>> Literally. Yes. I just said it. >> Yes. The organization. >> Kevin.

>> No. The guy who be >> the leader of this organization, a dastardly, bastardly, goofy ass,

terrible man. His name Kevin. Cuckoo Kevin. No. Crazy Kevin. >> No, no, no. Okay, let me show you what

we're working with. This This is the organization. This is the

room. This is the palace. There's seven entrances. One here, one here, twocar garage,

probably about 4,000 square feet. It's massive. Um, there's also some entrances from the top that we can use our air

balloons to go into, right? And we'll do this at the dead of night. Um, there's there's a few more

entrances. There's a tunnel. There's a tunnel system. They've built a tunnel system. They're kind of like doomsday

preppers. They kind of have bunkers as well. So, we have a lot we have a lot of options to go through. So, like we can

like write down a list. We can like go through and and and discuss this these things more in detail. Entrances.

>> And there's also more entrances. There's one that's like a window, but it's also a door. There's a sliding door. There's

a back patio. It's enclosed. You know, they got a sun room. They screened it in. They screened in the concrete patio.

There's a sliding door. There's also a window. There's also the kitchen. There's also an entrance through the

cabinets in the kitchen. more. >> There's one through the top kitchen cabinet. I' I've really got this place

mapped out, guys. There's one in the top cabinet. No one will ever see that one coming because you kind of need a ladder

to get in through there. So, if you just open that one, there's a hole behind the panel behind the behind the cabinet and

we can go through there. There's also one under the bathroom vanity. There's one under the bathroom. They never use

that one. They only put like Windex and like 409 uh allpurpose spray in there. It's under the cabinet. We can go

through under the bathroom. There's also one behind the bathroom mirror. Also, no one ever uses that in the medicine

cabinet, too. Medicine cabinet where it flips out. No, they put like eye drops in there that are about 7 years old.

They're all expired. So, no one ever goes in there. We can use that one. And now just say

>> all you guys got to do is find proof that the sugar levels are too high. Do you think you can handle it?

>> I This is exactly what I'm talking about. All these entrances. This is This is way too dangerous.

>> You'll live the rest of your life never knowing or understanding the clown stuff. All of the clown stuff.

>> How many clown stuff? Can you name all of them? >> Four. Five. Seven. What are the 17

pillars of being a clown? >> Judicial, legislative, another one, the White House, Wendy's,

raising canes. >> Okay. >> Mexi wings.

>> But after this, I'm never talking to you again. >> Taco Bell.

>> Kevin takes candy from a little girl, tries it, and says, "Not enough sugar." Yeah, this is probably going to look

good. >> Okay, so uh the factory is going really well. We got the sugar. We got the other

sugar. We tried some some some sucralose. We we replaced that with sugar. I do hear that the CBI might hit

uh the factory suit. >> There's no way that the CBI can mess with the Kevin.

>> If you say so. Okay. We now see Foil and Doo infiltrating. And out of all the doors in the warehouse, they end up

going in from the front door, right behind Kevin. >> Hey, what are you doing?

>> Get back to work. >> Thank god it didn't catch us. >> Yeah.

>> Help me put this in here. Well, I don't. Okay. >> Oh no, it fell into my mouth. Oh my god,

I'm going crazy. I'm losing my mind. And then maybe run around so they're like over here.

>> Hey, are you guys spies? Guards, take him to the machine of burnt sugar. You tried to break into my factory and

uh you'll pay for it. You will never be able to eat candy. You will never be able to watch movies. You will never

know how magicians do magic. >> Well, you will never know that our wigs are fireproof resistant.

>> What? Yeah. And then I say, "Now, do you have a bow tie? >> Would you like a

>> I have a tie? >> Could you switch to a bow tie?" >> The melted sugar touches their wig.

Nothing happens now. Dude presses his bow tie. It shoots a laser that hits a mirror that hits his pocket. Out of his

pockets, all the gadgets fall on the ground. The balloon flies high in the sky. But out of the car, 15 clowns get

out. See what I mean? It's not that bad being a clown. You just got to take it day by

day and sometimes hour by hour, zilla, millisecond by zilla, millisecond, and just keep doing it over and over again

until the end of time. I understand that being a clown isn't very bad. You don't got to go to the dentist.

Remember that Albert Einstein is only human. It doesn't matter who you are or how you

are. It only matters how much candy you eat in a day. >> That really moved me what you just said

there. I think you and me should go to the candy store. >> Yes.

I mean I mean >> don't stop. I hear you guys.

down. >> Good job, guys. >> After this session, I figured I could

probably finish this thing pretty quickly. Yeah, the film is is quite a lot longer than usual, but you know,

there's no uh added animated element like like the last few times. This is just a few people standing around in

front of a green screen. How hard can it be? Uh-oh. So, the editing process started

off as it often does by just cutting things down. I wanted to see how much how much movie this footage can could

get us, you know. Okay, so I'm at the editing stage now. And if you remember, the film is supposed to be uh 40 minutes

long minimum. And it currently stands at 21 minutes long.

So, so that's not good. So, I've started to engage in in malicious activity here. In this movie, you'll see some of the

longest takes you've ever seen of anything. But yeah, straight up, it's been the nicest editing this one.

Compared to like the last two films, this is the one where I'm like I'm having a really good time doing it cuz I

there's no like even slight animated quote unquote animated. There isn't even slightly that element which I'm a big

fan of. One update is that I I think I've kind of started losing my mind and now I've began to do like I've done a

bunch of these little animations. >> What? Now

I also drew up all these backgrounds for everything as you can as you can here. Here we go. You can see them on the

screen. This is from the movie. All these like nice backgrounds. I was thinking about the whole emotional

process of of finding out about this movie. You know, you pick it from Amazon. You start watching it and you're

like, "Oh, this is shit." But then you keep watching and you're like, "Hm, kind of pleasant actually. I kind of like

this actually." I kind of like this Joker's movie. I like these cute drawings. Isn't that lovely? After

enough work, I managed to get to like an initial cut of this movie. So, that's pretty cool. I think it will feel better

once I add sound effects and all that. Bad news though, this is even shorter than than I thought it would be. It's

like 17 minutes. I just got the idea of what if you know how sometimes at the end of movies they they have like an

update of like Jerry left the the his small town and he became a lawyer, you know, and there's like just a p like a

freeze frame picture of him being a lawyer or something. And for an extra layer of authenticity and hopefully an

extra layer of minutes, I can maybe I don't know make it make it up as I go along. All right, so

let me think. Okay, which one's foil again? I'm foil. Okay, after this adventure, Foil regained his love for

being a clown. He is now a he quit his job in the supermarket and he doesn't live there anymore and he has now become

a doctor. He has five dogs. All of them are named clown because of his love for being a clown.

>> And when it comes to uh Doo, well, let's just say that Doo is also doing okay. D has stolen a lot of the candy from the

factory and has sold it on the black market and has now become very rich. D showed up to the supermarket with $500

million and was like, "This is my supermarket now." But it was like that movie with a famous actress Julia

Roberts. And the person was like, "This supermarket's worth more than $500 million." And then dude was like,

"You're an idiot." And now let let's let's see what's going on with Mr. Bobo. >> This landed us another extra like 13 or

14 minutes of film. Nice. Feel free to congratulate me in the comments. I see them in front of me

right now. Oh, you've done it again. Pinely, you son of a gun. I subscribe now. I subscribe now. I congratulate

you. Just kidding. Hold your applause. Although you can subscribe this I' I've been so close to 600K for so long. I

would love it if people could subscribe. That would make me so It's just that 600K. It's like this. It's like this

away. It's looking at me. Can you please subscribe? But don't applaud me just yet because I did the maths and we're not

even close to 40 minutes that it's it's aing nightmare. Um

uh um uh after credits that adds time. That's more that's more time. So Josh,

as you're aware, I am still struggling to reach that 40minute mark. We said that you should come in to do an an

after credit scene. I'll just guide you through the scene in the headphones. The prison bars are kind of closing on. So

look around at this point. Look around. What the? Say what the what the and then slam your hands on the on the bars. Ah.

Say, keep slamming. Say, ah, get me out of here. >> Let me out of here. Let me out of this

prison. >> I can't believe I'm in prison. >> I can't believe I'm in prison.

>> I'm Mr. Bobo. I And no, I'm sorry. I'm Kevin. >> I'm Mr. Bob. No, sorry. I'm Kevin. I'm

Kevin. Who? Who is this? Who's there? >> Who is this?

>> I think you know who it is. Turn around. >> Oh, I'm turning. >> It's me,

Berry Guy. >> No, no, no. >> Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

This scene alongside the world's slowest credits helped us finally do it. 40 minutes. A little bit longer. It was

actually a little bit longer in that version of the the film. But I I'm still sadly prevented from celebrating. When

editing this, I used a bunch of temporary music. In Film Hub, they said, you know, you got to you got to make

sure everything's up to up to snuff. you got to make sure that, you know, there's all the copyright stuff that you need to

have. Initially, I considered going out there and and licensing music and and whatever. But then I was like, come on.

Come on. It's a special thing. And music is just it's so much of what makes up the feeling of the movie. This has taken

me months so far. Why not fully go for it? Why not make an original soundtrack for Foil and Doom? Now, I didn't create

that soundtrack myself. That would be a horrible idea. Josh Dar, you've already you've just seen his face just recently.

This guy, he went to the lab and he came back with something incredible that honestly gave this movie more

legitimacy, a bit more legitimacy than maybe what it was what it was supposed to have. Let me

I just got to show this to you. This is how the movie starts. That's such a pretty little chime. What

a pretty little chime thing. You can eat things besides candy. He tried to do something with my stupid

little sock. And if you work in an office, they have staplers. That's so gorgeous. Not my singing. My singing is

still uh It's like when we're finding out about Mr. Bobo's childhood. What's inside his

brain is this is how we know this. I love this soundtrack. I got to do something with with it at some point.

Okay. So, is the movie done yet now? No. Making movies is a long process, even dumb ones. And this dumb movie ends with

a little animated credits uh sequence. When I told Josh I made that, I guess he felt like it is something about it was a

little bit empty because he ended up sending me this song. >> When I'm recording this, the song's not

actually playing, so I hope I'm dancing to the beat. There's like a I guess rap bit as well.

You won't regret it cuz the joke's on you. Let me give you a clue. >> I don't know. And not only that, he also

sent me a sad a sad song for for the slow credits. >> Your sugar sweeten.

>> What the [ __ ] So now we finally had a movie. Foil and do it was a thing. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. Look at me. Look

at me smiling. Gabby, can we hear a little bit of the new rendition of your song from the movie with with improved

instrumentals and with the mic not cutting out? Can we get a new Can we listen to that to celebrate?

>> Who am I? And who are you? >> Gets me emotional. It gets me so

emotional. I'm still not playing the song, but I I know what it sounds like. I'm hearing it in my head. At this

point, I began to to really fall in love with this idea of curating this unearthed movie experience. So, why not

fully lean into it? My the researcher, God bless her heart, she took the digital copy of the movie, she put it on

a tape, then recorded what was on the tape to create this beauty right here. Look at that. Like, isn't that amazing?

Being a clown is so much harder than it seems. >> I go to film,

click submit. I submitted it to FilmHub. They also wanted me to have a poster for the movie.

So many like added side quests here. So, I ended up making a poster of the movie. I made a version that's more supposed to

trick you that's more supposed to trick you into thinking that you're watching something to do with Joker. And I also

made this like drawn one. Can you see it on the screen right now? I don't know cuz I liked it more. But then I didn't

end up submitting it cuz that's that's not the point of the video. So you could buy it you can buy it in the description

below. You can buy this this poster right here. After giving him all this stuff, what I had to do now is wait for

FilmHub to give me some sort of feedback. This is the the quality control uh period. They basically go

over the movie and they let me know if there's any I guess more surface level things to change about it that will help

the film's chances to make it into a streamer. Yeah, just got to wait a few days now.

Just got to wait a few days. You know, maybe I should have another plan. It's, you know, just I I feel like

I'm putting all my eggs here into one film hub basket. Do you remember at the start of this video where I mentioned

something about physical media and how I want to see if what's going to make me more money? The bootleg physical thing

or the streamed bootleg thing? Well, now I'm I'm enacting upon that threat. How will I do that? You you may say, well,

what if I take this DVD and I donate it to like a thrift shop, a charity shop, and then I I track it to see if it

actually get if anyone actually buys it. but to treat them for the fact they got tricked. I will also put extra content

on it like like behind the scenes and cast commentary. I love cast commentary stuff that's like uh podcasts but old

and for for nerds. So, as I waited to hear back from Filmub, I flew back to Chad Chat Studios to sit down with my

friends Minus Room the Man of a Thousand Voices to record a cast commentary of all three of the movies, Alien Cake,

Foil and Dew, and The Bull in the Crystal, just to treat the people watching this even more.

>> I mean, we're so good at that. >> What do you think you Oh, you say two months. You're mouthing two months.

>> Two months. >> Two months. But you're so caught off guard that you didn't even say out loud.

>> I just when I'm surprised, I lose my voice. >> That makes sense. Well, that something

like that is very surprising. >> Yeah. So that's why nobody can throw me a surprise birthday party.

>> Oh, >> what are you doing? >> Chad sipping from the trick.

>> The sperm. Semen. Note the semen. >> Oh, I think I'm doing the >> Is that

what you do? >> How did you do that? >> How did you run for this long?

>> Yeah, this must have been time. >> How long did you train for this cardio? >> Yeah. What was it like tracking this on

Premiere Pro? pain in the ass. >> By the time I got back, I finally got

news from FilmHub. They had reviewed my movie and they loved it. I assume I need to I need to go read what they said.

Thank you for your submission of foil and do a tale of two jokers. We have identified some errors that require

action before we can proceed with making your title active on FilmHub. So, these are mandatory fixes and this is really

annoying. So, basically, they said there were a bunch of post roll issues. They wanted to see me. They wanted to see me

butcher my baby. They didn't like all the tricks I did in the post roll and now they wanted me to butcher my little

my little movie baby. I'm being a bit extra. But first thing they was like, "Hey, no after credits, you son of a

gun. That's a thing Marvel can do, but not you. You goddamn you goddamn face. You I'm being hard on film for no for no

reason." They were like, "You can't have after credits, but the for some reason the credits need it can't actually be

after the credits. The credits need to roll next to it." So, this is what I ended up doing. There we go. Odd. Isn't

that odd? I ended up having to remove the animal thing. I didn't tell I forgot to tell you what what that is.

>> Thank you so much for watching this movie. No animals were harmed in the making of this film. Me personally, in

my own personal life, I've never harmed a dog before or a cat. >> And I guess that's just not cool anymore

to be to be mindful of animals. They want me to make an IMDb. They want me to send them a music Q sheet to maximize

licensing opportunities across more channels. Okay, so we we made an IMDb page for

this movie. There it is on the screen. Foil and do or whatever I called it. I I keep changing the name of it. Sometimes

it's two jokers foil and do. Sometimes it's a tale of two jokers. So, it's whatever. Here it is. Here. Here's the

IMDb. They also said that it might improve our odds to have like a trailer for the movie. So, I asked Maya if she

could make a trailer for the movie. I was like, don't put too much effort into this. Maya the researcher. There it is

on the screen. It's playing in front of me. Don't like just put some clips from the movie next to each other. Let's We

can't spend more. We spent too long on this video. And lastly, I guess this was more of a recommendation, but they did

say something about the whole I guessed up VH VHSness of it all. They were like, "This is

rough." And how the resolution needs to be of a certain quality. And I don't know, that kind of did upset me. I

really didn't want to do that. I know it feels like maybe just a visual gimmick, and it is on some level, but I think VHS

allows the the kind of the colors to bleed in a certain way. This movie needs to feel on some level like something

that you found at like the bottom of a dead guy's house. At this point, I was so deep into this project that I I think

I kind of forgot that I'm doing this for a YouTube video. I think I was just like, Dick making me remove the VHS

effect. What the what the hell? But then after like a few days of giving it thought. I was like, this video is about

the bootleg thing. It's not about seeing if Amazon's going to like my VHS effect. So, I decided to send it that clean

version, the sanitized version. It passed quality control. Surprisingly enough, none of the notes were about how

like, you know, hey, why is this called two jokers foil and do? This reminds me of a different name. None of the notes

were about that, so that's good. Upset about the VHS thing, but full of love, I went back to working on my DVD because

we've now reached the look at that behind me. The waiting time, the waiting period. I read somewhere online that it

usually takes between 2 weeks to to 70 days for Amazon to decide if they're approving your film. So now I guess I

got to chill out for a minute. may maybe take soloulless in the fact that at the very least the people who own the DVD

version of the thing. The people who are gonna get to experience the joy of physically owning this copy of foil and

do will get to see the the true version, the raw version where you get to know what Josh didn't do to all these

animals. At this point, you've seen this behind me, but I've created multiple covers. one that tricks people more and

one this this is like a first draft where the where there's a little bit of white on the corner where I did a bunch

of like drawings and stuff. I did a bunch of art. I began to get really invested in this whole process. I spent

so much of my time just like tweaking this or that thing with BTS cast commentary and a DVD menu. How do can I

do a DVD menu? How do I do a DVD menu? So, I've been trying to make uh the DVD menu for the DVD that I will be selling.

I'm enjoying being creative with it. This is my opportunity to like contribute to this great tradition. The

DVD thing took me way too long, man. Way too long. Like a whole week just making a DVD menu. I I just didn't It's an old

program. I got confused. I'm an idiot. That's how it actually looks like. All shiny and stuff. That's what I decided

to call it. The the three movies trilogy, which I think is one of the greatest names anything has ever had

actually and ever in all of time. Maybe perhaps. Can I get a fact check on that? I guess

we could simulate the experience. You'd be popping in the DVD into your probably PlayStation and then the song Big Red

Shoes by Josh Dare plays and you're like, "Ooh, what a funky song." You go into the next menu and you're looking at

this and you're like, "Wow, this is so much fun. I love all the colors that Pinley used on this." Click on select

title and you can see you can see one, two, three, the three movies trilogy. And this lets you know which one took me

a year to make. It's the longest. And then the bonus content page. I still haven't finished. Um, yeah, like editing

the cast commentary. These first edition copies, there it is. First edition copies of the three movie trilogy DVD

are limited edition. They're available at pinley.store. You can just check out the link in the description. I put so

much effort into this. After this first batch of like 300 copies, I might end up selling more of these. depends on

demand. But yeah, if you're interested, go check it out. Now, if you don't have a DVD player or PlayStation, this also

gets you a digital download link. And then I guess you get to have this as like a nice a nice thing to have a

lovely collectible, I guess. So, with the DVDs now ready for plan B, let's go check back on what's going on with

FilmHub. Is my movie up yet? I uh started to worry. Do we know? Do we even like know if it doesn't get accepted?

Then I sent an email. This was a month ago. Currently, it's December. Is there a way on FilmHub to see what channels

the film has been pitched to? And if it is rejected by a channel, will we be notified? To FilmHub's credit, they

responded uh the next day. Thank you for reaching out. Being notified when your title has been released on a channel is

an industrywide pain point. Unfortunately, channels haven't built a notification system for their partners

yet. Well, there isn't a foolproof system. So, you can't go on FilmHub and know if the thing is on Amazon or Apple

or TubeB. You can't know that. The best way to do it is to go on Just watch to keep track of your title's release

status. Some of these platforms don't have great search engines, but if you can't find it on the channel itself, you

can always try a Google search for the channel name plus title name. This is like archaic. So, I guess this is

something we're regularly going to do now. This is going to make this video's release so much longer. All right. I

don't think it's anywhere. A lot of other tales of two things, but not my one. Okay. I mean, assuming mine would

be quite low cuz I doubt anyone's watching it. Okay. What's the other thing they said? I can look it up.

Channel name plus a title name. All right. Uh, so this is what we get. Prime What if I just do this?

No. Is No. What is it? What's this movie? Okay, great news. Like I mean, good news. I I would never know if I'd

say great. Like 2 days ago, they changed it. So now you can find out. Now they will just send you a message if it's on

anything. That's good. That's how it should work, you know. All right. It's been like a week or two since the last

time I checked. We'll start off with FilmHub. Hoping that the new updates tab works.

No. So, if I look up if I look it up online, all we get is the IMBB thing. Nothing. Nothing on Amazon. I'm this

close to giving up. I'm this close. It's currently New Year's Eve, which means I've been doing this for a while. Um,

well, I went through Google. Nothing. Yeah, it doesn't seem to be on Amazon Prime.

I'm this close to giving up. I'm this close to giving up. I don't think it has been

the amount of time. There's like a certain average like two to I forgot how many weeks. It has now been

154 days since FilmHub started pitching my movie. So, we do have some news. You are now seeing

one of the channels that foil and do ended up ended up being released on. Let's go to the updates tab and have a

look. So, we have all the updates that we've seen. And then 145 days ago, FilmHub licensed Foil and Do a tale of

two Jokers to Relay. What's Relay? Whether you're into

action, undiscovered gems, festival favorites, horror, foreign cinema really has something for you. With a catalog of

over 20,000 movies coming from 8,000 filmmakers throughout the world. Now, that might still not be a sufficient

answer to what the hell is relay. Well, you notice how the relay logo is also here at the bottom left. I was excited

when I got that notification that my movie was on something. But the only reason it got on anything is because

Relay is a streaming service uh that that FilmHub themselves, they started it like as as I was do as

as I was waiting for my movie to get accepted to something. I guess because they have all these different like

licensing situations with so many different movies. Might as well used all that just and put it into your own

thing, I guess. I mean, Drew Carey, there's some names I recognize, you know. And then if

you look up foil and do, you got this. I guess that looks pretty official. Foil and do a tale of two jokers. Let's look

at vibes. Chase and escape, detective, epic, genre bending, heist, spy, suspense, good versus evil. There's a

lot of that. And satire and drugs. All right, we're going to see how much money I made off of this in a sec. But first,

I got to go out and do something in public. Charity shop plan. Now, originally, I was just gonna go over

there and give them these copies. But then I I remembered that I think that I think someone told me what's that to

check that the movies are legit or like how much they're worth, how much are they worth, the employees of these

stores often look up the items on on eBay. So, just to be safe, we ended up putting up two different copies of this

thing. We posted it on two different eBay accounts. So then hopefully an employee can look up this joker and

hopefully the eBay listing shows up and hopefully they're like, "Yeah, I'm putting this on a shelf." Today I'm here

with >> Hey, Sheamus. >> I put a shirt here as well, just so it's

like it looks like a larger donation. So I was going to do it myself, but then I realized that there is a problem with

that plan, which is I kind of look like this guy over here. >> What do you think I'm going to have to

go through h handing this in? If they ask like what's Joker's say, oh three, just look up on eBay three movies jokers

and then they might see on eBay the listing that we put up. >> Do you think it looks like a real enough

movie? It looks like a >> Yeah. Yeah. It's a guy like Open the disc. Open the disc.

>> See, that's like real, you know? >> All right. Good luck. >> Oh, good luck. Okay. Yes. Okay. Are you

filming right now? Okay. make a donation. >> You donated before you?

>> No, I haven't. I'm not. >> Okay. >> I It's just a t-shirt and two like

movies I've bought for eBay. >> Great. >> Oh, okay. Thank you.

>> Thank you. >> He just accept He was just talking to me the whole time about uh if I wanted to

gift aid it. Do I want to do like to take my tax refund from it and stuff and I was like, "No, I just said it's two

movies I bought off eBay. I I was hoping to make a donation. Yeah. Thank you.

>> Yeah. I've got uh like swimming trunks and two movies I bought off eBay. They're called Jokers off eBay.

>> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you so much. >> Yeah. Is that all good?

>> Yeah. >> Yeah. Can I check the manager today? >> Yeah.

>> Oh no. Oh no. No. No. No. No. The manager was going to come and we're going to get arrested. Oh my god. Oh my

god. We're busted. We're screwed. We're screwed. We're screwed. It's just some swing trunks and these movies I got off

eBay. >> Uh, are you looking for a are you looking for a gift aid number?

>> Uh, I don't have gift aid. No. >> Well, donations we can just take. You don't need to do anything on the system.

>> Thank you. >> Oh, thank you. Okay. Thanks. >> So, we did that and then I I started

thinking and I I actually I started thinking that maybe this is actually a bad plan. Like, how the hell have I got

to keep track of this? I I need to first of all keep track of when they put the thing on the shelf. And then I need to

keep track of if someone bought it from there. I need to see if I tricked both this the the employee and a buyer at the

store. So, what am I going to have to do? Just go to the shop every day for like for like 2 weeks. So, I ended up

going to these two shops pretty much every day for the next 10 days to keep track of it. I didn't film every single

time because I didn't want them to, I guess, register my existence in their memory. But yeah, went there for 10

days. It wasn't on the shelf at any point. And you know, if you look at the shelves, like if you if you really pay

attention, it's pretty obvious as to why. Here's a Blu-ray of the movie Afterson. Let's show the front of it.

Let's show the back. Here is what I gave to the charity shops. Let's look at the front of this.

Let's look at the back. Let's look at the side. Do you notice how like the side bit of After Sun has all these like

little marks, age rating? Notice how this has uhing nothing. You know how those little things on the side make you

think, "Hey, this is a real movie." All of the things that would, I guess, convince an employee to let people buy

this are are nowhere to be found. I went 10 days into the shop expecting that it will show up there. Of course it won't.

So yeah, basically the charity shop plan unsuccessful. No one watched it, but I just clicked on statements. Oh no,

I clicked on statements as in like how much money they owe me and it says no results. Oh no, that's more embarrassing

than like just the number zero. But don't worry, I got that as well. Total balance 0.00. Did no one watch this like

at all? I guess it's a [ __ ] tie. I guess it's a [ __ ] Are you [ __ ] [ __ ] near for this? All right. Both

plans seem to not have worked. Well, I guess it did get on relay. It did get on relay, which is exciting. It's an

exciting new platform, but guess what? I had a plan C and it was behind me for the whole video. It seems like all the

algorithmic ways to get people to watch my film have failed. But given the chance, if an opportunity were to be

created where people are presented this, will anyone choose to give this a look for free? So yes, I wore this on me on

my body. This is like a video store, but it's me. We have this first sign, watch my movie for free. And then just in case

people get confused, it says, I promise it's not a Scientology thing. I just want people to see my movie. Uh we had

already two people already take it. So this has been a huge success. And we've given away for free two copies.

>> And it's not a Scientology thing. >> That's very funny. Thanks for >> jokers. Like right now.

>> Do you have a DVD player with me? >> I will find one. >> Yeah, that's good. Do you want to watch

the movie? All right, let's just walk around. Do you want one? >> That's going to work. Well, at least

people are looking. >> People are Oh, people I don't know if we want these kids coming.

>> Oh, they're going to bully us. >> You guys want to watch the movie Jokers? Uh, like 40 minutes.

>> If you have like a PS5. >> Yeah. Yeah. If you have like a PS5. >> Thank you.

>> Thank you. >> I don't think they're going to watch it. >> Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Of course.

>> You actually going to watch it though? >> I will. >> Here we go.

>> He is never going to watch that movie. >> He's going to watch it. He's going to watch it. He promised. Do you want to

watch a movie Joker? It's not It doesn't have WE Phoenix. Do you want to watch the movie Jokers? Can I watch it on my

laptop? >> Uh, if you have a DVD player. >> Yeah, I do.

>> Oh, yeah. Then yeah. >> What is it about? >> It's about like It's not a It's not the

same as the movie Joker. It's a different one. But >> it has nothing to do with that.

>> No. >> Are you acting? >> I'm not in it.

>> He's not in it, but I'm >> I'm just I'm just No, I'm just >> He's helping me out. Thank you.

>> Wow. >> All right. How many do I have left in here?

>> One. >> Just one. Do you want to watch the movie Jokers?

>> No. It's not a Scientology thing. >> There we go. >> Not a Scientology thing.

>> No, it's just free. It's But not not for like a religious reason. >> Tell me about it. Tell me about it.

>> Well, it doesn't have Wen Phoenix in it. >> One of them is me. >> Guess who film is in?

>> Oh, mate. >> Yeah, there you go. Uh, it's got a lot of like visual effects.

>> Tell them films. >> Uh, films in general. I've been doing it for a few years. This I did in a year.

Oh, I'll take it, mate. Why not? >> Thanks, man. >> Give me Can I rob it?

>> Yeah. Yeah. >> Rip it off. >> Give me. Give me.

>> You, too. Have a good one. >> We only out here like 2 minutes. >> Yeah. Okay. I thought we were going to

be here for an hour, but >> Well, I thought that this I genuinely I set up this thing uh to end the video

with like a joke of me of me like standing in the street begging people to watch my movie Jokers. Uh, but actually,

it seems like people do want to see it. So, that was actually fun. That's actually the moral of the story. Seems

like when people see a fun whimsical thing, they actually want to watch it. >> What I want to know is how many of these

people are actually going to watch it when they go home. Like >> I think I'd watch it if someone gave me

a movie in the street. >> How much would you watch of it? I wish we'd have like a a conclusion where we

could have got someone who watched the movie to like we could like find out what they thought of it. But

>> well, I guess well I guess if people want to watch the movie, let's transition to the next bit where I talk

about how you could do that. Thank you guys so much for watching. So yeah, I mean this right here, you're looking at

the product of I think over 3 years of work. It feels silly to say it cuz these these

movies are as silly as they get. This project is by all means dumb, but it's also the accumulation of all this heart.

You know, it was lovely being on the street and seeing that yeah, people are interested to to to let their eyes look

at an adventure. People like that feeling of discovering something. And you could give your friends but that

feeling by buying this movie and just and just forcing them to look at it. And if you do that, let me know what what

was the result of that. Tag me on Instagram or something. I'll release the full movie on my second channel in a few

weeks, but all the bonus content is going to be exclusive to the DVD. If you're new to this channel, please make

sure to subscribe this close to 600. It's just it's I've been so close to it for so long. And uh yeah, hope you have

a good one. Bye. >> My big red shoes.

My big big red shoes. My big big red shoes. Yeah. Fill my big red shoes.