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- Hello. What's next? How are you? ... (Roma Acorn)
YouTube is the most visited site in Russia, especially among young people. The first star of the Russian "YouTube" was Roma Acorn, who recorded unsophisticated videos about a heavy teenage share:
- What do I think of school? [Obsessed vocabulary]
By the age of 16, Roma had become the idol of millions of girlish hearts. However, they hated him with the same force.
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Roma Acorn, youtuber.
- At that time, no one was shooting such videos. In our country, this was generally unusual. They beat me a lot of times on the street. About 10 thousand people came to my mall in St. Petersburg for my magazine cover for the cover of the magazine, blocked the entire avenue, and that was about half the fans, half the haters.
(Excerpt from the video) "Go to ..., go to ...!"
- Then people beat me very hard, they immediately took me away - I had five or six guards.
Glory and money fell upon the young Acorn. His songs were produced by Yana Rudkovskaya, he led a talk show with Malakhov. At seventeen, he left everything and went to Los Angeles.
- In America, I lived for almost three years. I had an American dream in my life. I almost didnât do anything there - I had a lot of sex there, a lot of parties. The mood of Lindsay Lohan in Hollywood. I just bought an awesome car: Camara, it was a black tuned car that I successfully smashed to smithereens, without insurance.
- Three years is just such a fizz, right? (interviewer)
- No, well, I did a lot of work ... Mmm ... Yes, fumes. There was a time when I realized that so many people no longer look at me, they donât order as many advertisements as I used to, and because of this they donât want to be friends with me, that is, very many people who wanted to be friends before. Now I donât even care about it, but I donât really like such openness towards people, because when you shoot a video, you give all of yourself and you can watch it all, that is, you leave it for life in the world.
- What's bad about it? (interviewer)
- Nuuu, for 10 years ... There is such a moment: when you do not do this, you feel calm. Feel calm.
Roma Acorn's blog still exists. His rare new videos do not gain hundreds of thousands of views. The acorn tries its hand at non-profit music and goes to work in the office as an average young man.
- I had a direct feeling that I specifically want to live my life the way people live, who do not have a video blog, who do not have popularity. Now I work in the 5/2 office.
âAnd you go to the office?â (interviewer)
- Yes, every day. Cool, huh? I did not expect that this will be my life. But, in terms of ... I myself am very interested. Here.
(Excerpt from the video) My e ... friend from Italy sent me some kind of fucked rag with a stain, all with the same question: "Will Tide be able to remove this stain"? He takes out the laundry from the washing machine: âWhat a white cloth! Pi ... uh! â
One of the first creators of content on YouTube was Yuri Degtyarev, who shot provocative humorous videos with the participation of his friend Sam Nickel. Soon Degtyarev the position of general producer on the domestic analogue of YouTube, Rutube, but did not hold out there for a long time.
Yuri Degtyarev, founder of the creative agency My Duck's vision.
- When âYouTubeâ and âRutubâ were the same in terms of user attention to the resource ... And there was information that âYouTubeâ will launch monetization six months after this moment, that is, people will receive a few dollars, but they will receive, unlike Rutub ". Iâm going back to the directorate with a reverse thought: âGuys, there is information that YouTube will screw this story. Let's do it early, especially since we were going to this, as it were. â So, through some big statement, Gazprom Media told me no. I understand that the question is ... Six months have remained there, and thatâs it. I am leaving Rutuba and actively starting to create content already within the framework of YouTube.
(Excerpt from the video) You will have a unique opportunity to bury more than three hundred Americans in the earth in just a year.
After the video, offering to work as an undertaker in the USA, the state paid attention to Degtyarev's studio My Duck's Vision. The head of Rosmolodezh and the ideologist of the Nashi movement, Vasily Yakimenko, offered the studio budget financing.
âWe decided why not.â We have a million ideas, they have needs for creating content and, therefore, working with youth. We decided that here we should probably do something.
So the platform for beginner video bloggers âThank you, Eveâ appeared, on which many stars of the modern YouTube made the first steps with the money of the Kremlin: Ilya Madison, Ilya Brusnikin, the Bread group, Danila Poperechny, Ruslan Usachev and others.
- Iâm not deceiving that, probably, ninety percent of the Runet now are people who thought a little - âShould I become a bloggerâ - after watching âThank you, Eveâ, this is a fact.
Ilya "Ilyich" Prusnikin, musician and youtuber.
- We just made a âpilotâ here, sent it to Yuri Degtyarev. We had a friend who handed him over. And he said, âWow, cool!â And he said: "Come with us." And we are: "Oh! .. Let's go." That is, for it was straight wow, wow. We were taken to "Thank you, Eve" ... Wow!
(Excerpt from the video) Today, Gafigaf and I will study the alphabet. âIf you sell hash, don't fall, baby, don't fall. If the cops took you, then they will give you pi ... s. The letter G is hash. "
Kristina Potupchik, Internet activist.
- There was no censorship, they didnât convince anyone, they didnât tell anyone how to do it, otherwise the guys would just run away from there as soon as the order to âlet's praise Putinâ appeared. Those videos that were on our trip, they were paid separately and a certain order was made studio Yura. And the people who did, they, of course, understand who they are doing it for.
(Video excerpt) Bunkers disguised as restaurants of fast, and most importantly, cheap food ...
An example of successful propaganda is the video that McDonald's is a secret bomb shelter. The link at the end led to the Seliger website. But the movie was an absolute hit, where Sam Nickel touched a thousand girls by the chest, and then simply shook hands with Putin.
Degtyarev:
- This is the most stupid movie, and he gathered the most. In total, he scored around the world ... Now, we calculated a week ago (for the presentation of the invoice) - 140 million views.
- Rosmolodezh yourself a prize? (interviewer)
- No, there were no bonuses. I was twice at the inauguration and I have one letter of thanks.
- From whom (interviewer)
- From Putin. I have a thank you note.
In 2013, hackers from the Anonymous group hacked Christina Potupchikâs mail. From her correspondence it became known that the bloggers âThank you, Eveâ worked for the Kremlin money.
Ruslan Usachev, youtuber.
- Eve was very cool in that she made it possible in a situation where there were no advertising customers, in principle, there was no market for advertising on YouTube, to be engaged in creativity. That is, I donât worry there that you have nothing to pay for the apartment, there is nothing to eat ... The question is, what is it like when you suddenly find out that itâs not YouTube that pays you, but ours? .. It's interesting! This is getting interesting. Yes.
Prusnikin:
- We were stunned, because initially nobody told us anything about this. And the funny thing is, if you look at the "Guffy Gough" ... They say they were paid for it from the state and, like ... Theyâll ruin it there. The whole system. But like that. Well, the blow to the balls was just a hard blow.
Usachev:
- Well, the guys and I called up there. I watched correspondence on the same sites, searched for something ... The volume of the hat that spilled and shit on me, on the guys, it is also so impressive.
Prusnikin:
- Then a clear position was formed that I will never work with such structures. In Russia, we have not developed the same attitude as in America: that there are republicans, there are democrats - everyone can choose, and this will not be a bum. In our country itâs a bastard.
Danila Poperechny, stand-up comedian and youtuber.
Fragment of an interview with Yuri Dude:
DP: âIâm lulled by this comfort, Iâm at some point:â So, stop, Yur, but where does the money come from, how are we monetized? â He says - everything is fine, we will be in ... - he came up with me ... hell ... He is like that - in short, we are integrating Putinka vodka into this project. Iâve been fucking ... used to draw presentations for Putinka vodka. He sent him - Yura just smiled at me. Now Iâm thinking: âHere, b ... bastards!â
JUD: "And what is he doing now?"
DP: âI have no idea. Hopefully the same thing he did before. Heâs trying to ... sit down at the feeding trough. We are all sympathetic to him. Until now, I am grateful to him for many things, of course, but the fact that he retroactively included all of us in the âpropagandosâ is, of course, generally ... zdets. "
Degtyarev:
âYou know, it's like watching porn, but still wondering where the children come from?â It was about the same, right? Something we somehow go to Seliger (our name is), we go (there, Usachev: I went to Medvedev twice), but I'm so surprised that the money is from there. They ask: "Where does the money come from"? From a camel, b ... t! And when in serious cabbage right now: "We didnât know ..." B ... bt, we did not hear anything about "... Seriously? Oh well.
After leaving Thanks, Eva, Brusniki and Usachev founded the first independent community of video bloggers Kliklak in Russia. Now it is one of the largest "production" in the Russian-language segment of "YouTube", which has released more than twenty popular shows.
Prusnikin:
- They just decided to make Klicklak. Eldar Dzharakhovâs room was turned into a studio. Filmed, filmed, filmed. Gradually, everything begins to come into a professional look - that's it.
In the zero years, young Prusnikin played a romantic emo-core and dreamed of getting on the air of music television channels. Last year, a video shot by Kliklak and popularized on YouTube became the most popular video in Russia and the most popular Russian video in the world. Now itâs not Ilyich who seeks television, but television seeks to keep up with the trends of YouTube.
Prusnikin:
- There are already several companies in Russia, like Kliklak: there are guys from Chicken Curry.
Excerpt from the video show "League of Bad Jokes."
Prusnikin: âHow does journalist Dmitry Kiselyov call his asshole?â
Dud: "Radioactive ashes?"
Prusnikin: The Nurse.
Prusnikin:
- There are guys who make the Big Russian Boss.
Excerpt from the show. "I passed the test for pi ... ra"? "Yes, you pi ... p. We continue. â
Prusnikin:
- With us, this is already becoming such "production" that can already work in America on cable channels. That's all, these are professionals. But we have nowhere to go, because television for any âyoutuberâ, any (how to say) content maker is a step back a little. Because there is no freedom ... Stream ... And you just make some kind of dick and at the same time get some money. A lot of cool authors work on television, but they are told: "This is not allowed, this and this." And there the list is simply colossal, and that's why it turns out, you know ... how to say it ... without eggs. On television, everything is without eggs.
Anton Kurilchik, Youtube producer.
A fragment from the Big Russian Boss, the interviewer is Anton Kurilchik.
- A question for the Boss. How would you imagine your show on TV?
- Well, before I really wanted to. Well, like, I thought the evening show was ... it's so cool here. And now I think: âWhy?â I hate being commanded. In this system, I canât, like, integrate?
- You can. Here look. It depends on what to do. "Big race" (such a program goes on the "First Channel"), where Nagiyev was. Someone was engaged in nonsense - as if a mixture of Asian or something ... But imagine instead (we change the gear a bit, come up with other moves inside) ... It is led by the Boss. Why not really?
- Well, only obscenities need to stop cursing. (Comment from the side)
- Well, it's real, it's possible. (Smoker)
- You have to joke with Baskov, Kirkorov. (Comment from the side)
- So, wait! (Boss)
The fact that "YouTube" has become a full-fledged replacement for the TV is also indicated by the fact that TV stars came to it. Leonid Parfyonov was the first of the masters to dive into this paddling pool and found that the traditional vlog format, talking to the camera, is no longer working.
Leonid Parfyonov, journalist and youtuber.
- It is clear that this is a way of life. About yourself beloved. Involuntarily. But everyone persuaded me that it was necessary. No, thatâs not so. Now the development of YouTube is such that itâs impossible. Well, they will not forgive! If it doesnât last half an hour, if there arenât seven different materials inside these âhalf-hoursâ ... And there canât be any piece for more than five minutes. And it turned out to be very expensive. And this must be done fulltime, this is a craft. As a result, everything became exactly the same, when we used to have broadcast on Sunday, I slept on Monday. And now the calculation is on Monday, and from Sunday to Monday I have one day left when I do not set an alarm - exactly the same as I had 15 years ago on television.
In "YouTube" Parfyonov, accustomed to expensive filming, has to shoot "selfies" on a selfie stick, as well as act in advertising integrations.
Parfenov:
- This is also a cost. Be sure to shoot yourself.
âDid you accept these rules easily?â (interviewer question)
- Well, what to do? They only recognize like that. I tried to somehow diversify, I read "Eugene Onegin" in a convertible. Or in one piece in Paris, when he read Mayakovsky there and ran at night at the Grand Opera.
Excerpt from the video Parfyonova:
"Paris is running, escorting me
In all impossible glory.
Paris flees escorting me
In all impossible beauty. â
Parfenov:
- The police came up (the night is deep) - a man runs, waves his hands and reads poetry in Russian. Yes, and removes himself. I explained that this is a Russian YouTube.
In 2004, Parfyonov was fired from NTV, and after a public speech at the Listiev Prize, state-owned channels finally stopped working with him. In parallel with the blog, Parfyonov continues to release new episodes of the historical series âThe Other Dayâ in the same âYouTubeâ. True, now without âThe Last Dayâ in the title. The brand created by Parfyonov was banned from using the NTV television company.
Parfenov:
- I have never been to Ostankino for a long time and I am absolutely not drawn, of course. I will never sit in any office. In a nightmare, I canât imagine that Iâll go to some fly, to some glider? Anywhere! Actually, someone will tell me something about how I work? Now - this is a monument from about the time when there were such televisions, and now I still do not use it.
The first politician who guessed to open his own channel was Alexei Navalny. Launched at the beginning of March 2017, the film âHe is not Dimonâ instantly fell into the trends of âYouTubeâ. Less than a month later, on March 26, tens of thousands of young people attended protest rallies across the country â an unprecedented incident.
Alexey Navalny, politician and youtuber.
- Iâm a man of text, I donât like videos, I donât watch videos myself, I always want them to go faster (itâs very slow for me). And in some journalistic competition of texts, I may beat all my political opponents, but it will be a competition within three percent, five percent in large cities. And if you want to communicate with large masses of people - you like it, do not like it - do âvidosikiâ.
This summer, a wave of mass protests took place in Moscow: first against the non-admission of candidates for elections, and then against the police lawlessness faced by the demonstrators.
Cross at the rally:
- They sew criminal cases, they bring riot police, buy water jets and show pictures on the news how people break their legs, which just went for a run. Tell me, are we afraid of them? (the crowd answers âNoâ). Are we really afraid of people who came to meet civilians, unarmed, all in helmets and armor? (the crowd answers âNoâ).
One of the leading forces of the Moscow protests was the YouTube. Danila Poperechny, Eldar Dzharakhov and Restaurateur specially flew from St. Petersburg to participate in rallies. The popular video blogger Nikolai Sobolev in recent months has almost every day covered rallies and criminal cases against demonstrators.
(Fragment from the video) Nikolai Sobolev: Channel One immediately told us about the protests, but in detail, not just in Russia, but in France. Well, apparently, the editors of the program âVremyaâ did not hear anything about the rallies in Moscow.
Nikolai Sobolev, youtuber.
- At the âTerritory of Sincerityâ everyone says ... Well ... They will try to say what they think. How can we talk about something good, if there are so many obviously bad things, what you need to do, you need to figure it out. When a person is imprisoned for 4.5 years, who just walked on the street ... When they imprisoned for a tweet for 5 years, this is surrealism. I do not believe it happens every time - it just shakes me from it.
Propaganda content on YouTube does not take root. Glorifying Sobyanin, the clip âMoscowâ by Timati and Guf, having received a record one and a half million dislikes, was deleted by the authors. Sobolev himself fell into a similar situation when he made an advertisement for Gorky Park on the eve of the mayoral election in the capital.
Sobolev:
- We generally filed it ... Here it is, well ... In the city there is such a cool place, like.
- This, of course, reminds a little excuse of Guf about the clip ... (interviewer)
âI understand him, I will tell you so.â I said so in the issue: I am more than sure that Guf might not have taken the loot for this. Here he is, according to the degree of distribution, probably this is the same - Nikolai Sobolev last year. And this situation was sobering right - not just a tank of cold water was poured on me; hot water was poured on me, then cold, then hot again, then they thrust me into the ice, beat me there ... And I said: âOhh, my God, you are mine.â All colleagues in the workshop, the entire audience - 100 thousand people unsubscribed in two weeks.
(Morgenstern channel video clip) Oh! Hi bastards! I will tell you why Nikolai Sobolev is a corrupt pease ... an abol and a hypocrite.
An even greater scandal ended the campaign to increase the turnout in the elections, organized by the publication "Lenta.ru", presumably with the money of the presidential administration.
Ilya Varlamov, blogger and youtuber.
- If you draw a curve of the success of the Kremlinâs work on the network, it will be âbad, bad, badâ, then - take off, and now - again âbad, bad, bad.â The processes that are happening in YouTube are about what happened in LJ in the early tenths. All of these plums, all of these are some kind of revelations, bastards. They made the clips âFor Putinâ, something else. And a few variations ... And thatâs it ... They apologized, merged ... The nightmare is there: sorry ...
(Fragment of the Yulik channel video) I feel sick. I apologize to those whom I have disappointed.
Usachev:
- What is happening before these elections is just a shameful scandal.
(A fragment of the Pikuli channel video) They were all given a general plan of action for them there - talk about sex in your clips about elections? And these anxious e ... lans will run to the polls! Haha Who do they take us for, Lord?
Varlamov:
- Now on âYouTubeâ the audience is very opposition, smart, versed, interesting, promising - you canât deceive it like that anymore. âYouTubeâ has become a kind of alternative to the TV, and it was just the audience that couldnât eat shit from the screen, but wanted to get high-quality content.
The story with Gorky Park made Nikolai Sobolev, as he claims, more mature and responsible. He now has to pay for his support of the Moscow protests from his own pocket.
Sobolev:
- It's like an axiom in our business: if you touch on the topics of protests, rallies, and so on, you lose advertisers. Once I dropped this topic; my manager reminds: "Kolya, and you remember what happens to people who touch on such topics." I said yes, and I thought that it would be necessary to tie up with this, well, like, you need to somehow lower the degree. And this year I say: "By ... st." Let them leave real, like this is more important to me.
- Wait, thatâs how critical everything is: youâve lost directly ... That is ... Have you started? .. (interviewer)
- No, itâs just that your earnings have doubled.
Parfyonov:
- What is YouTube for us, or the Internet? (interviewer)
- That is, of course, like any opportunity for private initiative when nationalizing almost all aspects of Russian life, he has this function: a! itâs a clearing where bunnies jump because there is a terrible dark forest with wolves around. And even such a wolf, like Zolotov, also needs to jump out into this clearing if he suddenly wants to jump. But this is not because the clearing is so good, but because the forest is so scary. You canât ride there. Absolutely.
In Soviet times, this function was carried by rock. He was more than music because he was freedom. Well, here we are back there, and now we see that rap, "YouTube", all the forms that somehow convey modernity in a non-formal way - they are terribly in demand, more than they would deserve, because the nameless street writhes and there is nothing to speak and talk about.
Says Face:
- I am speaking here today for the sake of my people to have freedom and the right to choose.
Among the celebrities who supported the Moscow protests were not only bloggers, but also independent musicians, popular in Runet.
(A fragment of an interview with Ic3peak):
- How do you popularize your work? How do you interact? You do not need the "First Channel" for this?
âNo, we don't need anything at all.â We need a minimum of resources. The two of us and access to the Internet. There are no stupid budgets. Nobody sponsors us from the USA (there is such a version). When we launched the project, we initially positioned ourselves as Internet artists. We have always written so far that we are from the Internet. That is, where our "laptop" - there is our home; where is our access, wi-fi connection and so on.
The audacity of Internet musicians and video bloggers has an economic basis: the development of online platforms and streaming services allows you to create and promote content without producers and the state. Yuri Dud hinted at this in his speech at the GQ Prize, where in the nomination âFace from the Screenâ all the finalists were from âYouTubeâ.
Dud:
- When in Russia next time another ordinary passersby will be bathed with batons, I beg you to talk about it, and not be silent. I understand that many will say: âWell, listen, Yurets, everyone understands, everyone is sorry, but I really do not want to lose the craft. I can only quote one important Russian punk band: "He who has brains and hands will never die of hunger and boredom." Even I could find some work.
âSome kind of workâ alone thanks to advertising integrations brings Dudu about seven million rubles a month. At the same time, you canât dismiss from YouTube, unlike television. This is especially annoying for some television reporters.
Vladimir Solovyov:
- Who is spinning this scum insignificant? What kind of money is there? Who is winding all this up? That same liberalism is trying to raise him up. They do not understand that by this they open the gates of hell.
Sobolev:
- I would have approached myself the bream I had given if I said now that I am so poor. Anyway, itâs a lot of money in comparison with the population ... There, salaries. I have a million a month - expenses. More than a million a month. I only have the salaries of the employees - that's 650 thousand.
- So you are your own boss? You have no production company? (interviewer)
- There is an advertising agency WildJam. They do not dictate conditions to me, they find ads for me, and I produce content for them. These are mutually beneficial conditions. I am absolutely independent, no one is pressing me yet, thank God.
Ispik musicians direct and edit their own videos, extras are gathered from fans. Last year, the band released the song "There Is No More Death", which talks about police violence and deadlines for posts on the Internet.
Anastasia Kreslina (âIspikâ):
- We are just in Russia. We just mirror everything that happens. Well, here, for example, the text for "There Is No More Death" is real after Putinâs re-election. I watched his speech and somehow just closed the tab and wrote part of the text, such as such a splash, reaction. And, apparently, this strongly coincides with what our generation feels, judging by the reaction to the album, to the lyrics.
The state also reacted - in the old, faithful offline way. On tour, the band suddenly got into trouble. Before the concert in Voronezh, a representative of Rospotrebnadzor came to the club complaining of poisoning; for some reason, accompanied by the police.
Direct employee speech during execution:
- You arrived by message. It is necessary to interrogate you, formally the organizer of this concert and two soloists
- why should you touch the soloists ?
- They are here, it turns out, performed ... What kind of music is here?
âThey haven't performed yet.â Artists and this is the protocol - how to connect it?
- Thereâs just a situation like this: here are prohibitions of activity, here is activity, letâs say, both your organization and the activity of musicians.
Nikolay Kostylev (âIspikâ):
- They just see that this music resonates, they donât like it, it scares them, so they try to ban us with these ancient, prehistoric ways. They have no legal grounds, so they are building some kind of ridiculous dirty tricks, and everyone just overtakes them. Today we have a series of "Departure".
The police blocked the entrance, but still about fifty fans got to the concert - twice as much remained on the street. When the group manager tried to lead a new group of spectators through the back door, a plainclothes operative applied force to him.
(In the crowd they answer the question âWhy werenât you allowed to go to the concertâ) - Because ... (they interrupt).
- Because Russia is the best country in the world.
- Russia? Yes!
- Go Russia.
- Welcome to the eighties.
- And then they say: why does everyone want to eat ... eat, ... eat, from here?
Dmitry Dumik, a software programmer from Taganrog, moved to Silicon Valley three years ago. Successfully developing a platform for creating chat bots on Facebook. The startup already earns several million a year and allows you to think not only about work.
Dmitry Dumik, SEO and founder of Chatfuel.
- Some kind of âsound healingsâ regularly take place here, when everyone is laid out, beat in the bowls, some kind of mantra singing. These are all the things that San Francisco inherited from hippies. It turns out, a mix, when all these guys who are introverts, sit down and start, it means to sing mantras absolutely incredible ... In general, it opens the soul. I remember this moment when it was all for me, as it were, well, it turned off like that (snaps a finger). It was 2017, I was invited by Zuckerberg for breakfast. I get out and understand that I studied there at the Taganrog State Polytechnic University. Some assembled ancient technologies force us to study us there, and such you - fig, and fell into heaven; and there he met with the chief. You come in and you understand that ... everything, let go. This competitive energy, the energy of self-proof, you can run on it,but it can only be run for a while. Then it becomes toxic because you are not playing your own game. And here some work begins: you look at yourself, try to understand some practices, try to find the meaning of your life.
Welcome!Here is our house! Community of a new format. Here we have a âbackyardâ, here we do yoga directly, well, and sometimes we do boxing. Aggression somewhere has to be done - you canât slow everything down.
Andrey Doronichev, Product Director at Google, Head of AR, VR, and Stadla.
- I myself. There should have been an interview about the Internet, and the guys in the garage.
Good House was founded by Andrey Doronichev, creator of one of the first applications in Russia for downloading music and video. For the past 10 years, Doronichev has been working for Google. Among his patents is a mobile application for YouTube, which is on every phone. He is currently developing a gaming analogue of YouTube and VR products.
Doronichev:
- My patents are the first, third, fifth. The rest of something ... no. Here, in the âGood Houseâ, you see some kind of âcommunityâ feeling there, all of these are yoga and meditation, sports, some kind of hangouts, communication, that's all - it's all really just a way to engineer, design his life with optimization not only for success, but also for happiness.
San Francisco housing is the most expensive housing in the United States due to its proximity to Silicon Valley. Doronichev bought the house from an old jazz musician and completely renovated. Now a community of startupers from Russia and Belarus has settled here.
Mikita Mikado, founder and CEO of PandaDoc, a workflow automation software product.
- A virtual signature will change the whole world. And you know that, and I know that. And all of you
know that.
- It seems to me that there will be nothing without chatbots.
- Only in VR friends, only in VR.
Nastya Sartan, founder and CEO of StyleHacks - voice assistant for clothing selection.
- Everything can work only through the voice.
- And where is the wine? Non-alcoholic.
- Well, here I already imagine that there will be a comment on YouTube, an entrepreneur from San Francisco on a white Range Rover drinks white non-alcoholic wine.
Doronichev:
- You have to seriously deal with stress tolerance issues - how do you make yourself as effective as possible. Have you noticed that nobody drinks with us, for example? You adequately cannot afford to thump and reduce your intellectual abilities. The next day or two days later, your brain just slows down. So you are constantly lacking, you constantly feel like an idiot. It's just a given for almost everyone here. You can be anyone and you constantly feel that you are not good enough compared to ... When there is a certain Elon Mask nearby. I am sure that he also has someone.
Dumik:
- Especially in San Francisco, a quality support circle is important. This is the best place on earth to feel like shit. The most motivated, ambitious, wounded, competing dudes come here. You come and immediately realize that you are the same shit, and you are regularly reminded of this. That is why I choose to live here.
The Dumik team has 30 people, in the San Francisco office there are only 10 employees, the rest are on the remote. This is how most IT startups work now. Geography - the whole world: Brazil, Serbia, Jamaica and, of course, Russia.
Dumik:
- Programmers, analysts, designers - all Muscovites. Experts of a comparable level would have cost me 3-5 times more in San Francisco. We have a terrific team, I miss them when I leave. I like to come to Russia, I like to meet with our people and joke about the hedgehog in the fog.
- I thought that the Russians are very serious and tense, well, like the military, but I came to the company, and here everyone is on relax, doing yoga, kundalini, meditating.
âAnd they donât drink at all?â
- Yes, absolutely. I thought I would have to drink vodka.
Dumik:
- Russians, especially in the valley, are treated with great respect, recognizing our considerable talents, engineering and technical. It seems to me that in America it is easier to do business. Easier, because you need less to be distracted by very strange, incomprehensible stories. In Russia, there is a lot of unpredictability in this regard, constant changes in the venture climate. Now the story is with Barring Vostok, when the founder of the fund, which helped create the Russian Internet, was planted. Well, I donât like to spend my energy on these things - on the fight, yes ... Not so much on the fight, in the sense of some kind of distraction that ultimately does not bring you closer to your goal. In this regard, it is easier. More and more people want to move, unfortunately. In general, the world now is such a self-balancing system: where you create tension, people react instantly.Such a globalized society is already there, you have no boundaries: you simply take and move, and in this regard those states that will be interested in people of a certain warehouse will come to them. And even the visa I came here for, it is called O1 - this is a visa for people, as they say extraordinary builders, that is, they are outstanding people in their field. Well, like, if you're the top 1% in your party, they give you a visa or a green card. And this is the policy of the states: whom do you want to see ... But such people are inconvenient for the classical system, because they are fighters, they will not be silent. If they donât like something, they will come out and say: "Well, this is huh ... nah, here." Therefore, such people are not interested in our current government.who will be interested in having people of a certain warehouse come to them. And even the visa I came here for, it is called O1 - this is a visa for people, as they say extraordinary builders, that is, they are outstanding people in their field. Well, like, if you're the top 1% in your party, they give you a visa or a green card. And this is the policy of the states: whom do you want to see ... But such people are inconvenient for the classical system, because they are fighters, they will not be silent. If they donât like something, they will come out and say: "Well, this is huh ... nah, here." Therefore, such people are not interested in our current government.who will be interested in having people of a certain warehouse come to them. And even the visa I came here for, it is called O1 - this is a visa for people, as they say extraordinary builders, that is, they are outstanding people in their field. Well, like, if you're the top 1% in your party, they give you a visa or a green card. And this is the policy of the states: whom do you want to see ... But such people are inconvenient for the classical system, because they are fighters, they will not be silent. If they donât like something, they will come out and say: "Well, this is huh ... nah, here." Therefore, such people are not interested in our current government.if you are the top 1% in your party, they give you a visa or a green card. And this is the policy of the states: whom do you want to see ... But such people are inconvenient for the classical system, because they are fighters, they will not be silent. If they donât like something, they will come out and say: "Well, this is huh ... nah, here." Therefore, such people are not interested in our current government.if you are the top 1% in your party, they give you a visa or a green card. And this is the policy of the states: whom do you want to see ... But such people are inconvenient for the classical system, because they are fighters, they will not be silent. If they donât like something, they will come out and say: "Well, this is huh ... nah, here." Therefore, such people are not interested in our current government.
A year ago, President Putin announced the decriminalization of Article 282, but they are still judging the words on the Internet. A student of the faculty of political science at the Higher School of Economics, Yegor Zhukov, is accused of the 280th. An FSB expert found appeals for extremism in his video blog, while Zhukov propagated non-violent protest from one video to another.
(Fragment from the video by Yegor Zhukova) - I will not tire of repeating this: "Power in Russia can be changed only peacefully." I have already shot two videos on this subject, but I will not tire of repeating this until it becomes a mainstream opinion.
Like many students, he first came out to protest at the rally âHe is not for you Dimonâ on March 26. Then he started a blog on YouTube and quickly gained more than one hundred thousand subscribers.
(Fragment from the video by Yegor Zhukova) - Beautiful shots, isn't it, and it would even seem nice to me that I was lit up somewhere. But here's something like a fucking thing.
At a popular battle among students of the Higher School of Economics, the libertarian Zhukov clashed with his former classmate leftist Stepanov. The reading is even better, but Oksimiron himself would envy readiness.
(Fragment of the video from the battle) Stepanov: âI, like Purulent, will destroy your empire. Atlas Shrugged? And Yegor feathers! "You gossip about the revolution on camera - your subscribers spoil the blanket from the police."
Zhukov:âYou do not measure your pussy with me, because for any, for any Frankfurt school there is your own Austrian bitch! I'll give you an e ... ala volume of Friedrich von Hayek! Maybe then, little by little, some kind of dynamics will begin in your head, and you will understand that the world was ruled not by the snickering capitalists, but only by those who were talented and competent. Cut down your inner Marcuse, understand ... ryat "?
Alexey Stepanov, student, activist of the company âPrisoners of affairs 212â.
- When I found out that Yegor was being sewn up a criminal case, of course, at first I did not believe it, but then ... The cold went straight through me, and all these ideological differences, all the tension that was between us, all this rejection - it all in an instant gone. And now I am actively engaged, we are doing the campaign âPrisoners of affairs 212â.
Stas Toporkov, friend of Yegor Zhukov.
- It is necessary to distinguish words from deeds and any prosecution for words is unfair.
Evgeny Ovcharov, a friend of Yegor Zhukov.
- If the authorities believe that such actions, such punitive measures, it can frighten ... well ... It can add fear - this is true, but in addition to fear, it also adds anger and cohesion. Between those who are afraid, one way or another, cohesion arises.
Zhukov:
- Russia will inevitably be free, but you and I can not live to see this if we allow fear to win. Because when fear conquers, silence sets in. Silence, which will be broken by the sound of braking of the black "funnel" outside the window and dividing life into before and after, the roar of the doorbell.
Andrey Isaev, First Deputy Head of the United Russia Faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
- The largest information resources, such as Facebook and Google, grossly violated Russian election laws.
Quotes from other representatives of the official authorities:
- I believe that Facebook, Google, Twitter should be disabled.
- âGoogleâ, âFacebookâ, âTwitterâ are not platforms where some bad people just post illegal content for money. They are participants in the war.
- Will they close Google or Facebook? I think, sooner or later - yes.
YouTube is an American video hosting owned by Google. The company almost does not respond to requests from Roskomnadzor. In September, after the Moscow elections, a commission was established to investigate foreign interference. The authorities, it seems, decided to seriously deal with an uncontrollable company.
Andrey Klimov, chairman of the temporary committee of the Federation Council to prevent interference in internal affairs.
- An interesting detail: on election day, the American Internet platform actually put in a privileged position the so-called âNavalny listâ, aimed at supporting certain candidates to the Moscow City Duma. Let's not forget about the role of foreign Internet platforms in mobilizing citizens for riots in Moscow this summer.
Alexander Plushev, journalist.
- You can kill all the media, just ban it in principle, but for âYouTubeâ, in general, little will change tomorrow, absolutely. Just because Yuri Dud is not the media, or because all these vlogs are not the media. Therefore, I only see that they will try by technological methods to limit people's access there and the access of information to people. Will it be an autonomous Runet, will it be something else? In this sense, I really hope that unprofessionalism and corruption will save us all. If you entrust the most talented in this sense, people who will bring to a state such as, for example, the state search engine Sputnik, which we naturally use, all love it, then there can be no autonomous Runet.
Sputnik is a state search engine created in 2014. The share of Sputnik in the search engine market is 0.01%.
(A fragment of the concert of the Ispik group and the continuation of the story in the Voronezh club - a conversation between law enforcement officials and the administration of the institution)
âI am now ready for everything in the world.
I served my term on the Internet.
I went out to pet a cat.
And the copâs car is moving him. â
- You have questions, as I understand it, according to Rospotrebnadzor, right?
- No, I have a question about the speech now.
- On what basis is the question?
âI mean, on what basis?â
- In terms of? In direct.
âI want to know if you are legally here or not?â
- The activity of this institution is temporarily suspended.
âWe understood that, yes.â
- Please, please complete your musical reproduction and leave the room.
- What does he have to do with it?
âYou are a manager.â
- But I do not perform on stage, I do not perform works.
âBut you are their manager.â
- So what?
- So what? He is not their boss, right?
(Soloist of the group on stage) - There was information that our manager is being questioned ...
The Ispik concert in Voronezh was held, but in a shortened version. Due to the actions of the security forces, the group was forced to interrupt the performance. About a hundred people who bought tickets, the police never let go to the concert.
(Conversations of the members and managers of the group backstage) - Did they ... have you been?
- No, well, there really were all pissed off.
- No, well, they really kind of pushed you against the wall. From the side it looks like a complete ... zdets.
- He tried to threaten me, to break the door, took by the neck, against the wall ...
- This is like our usual day in the last 10 days.
- Bl .., they didnât throw anything to me?
- Actually a reasonable question. We check jackets all the time. Check bags, jackets.
(Voices from the crowd on the street) - A cool concert, I liked everything, but I didnât get it. The police did not let me go to the concert.
- Here is one argument - everything, goodbye. Walk on all four.
- Why not let?
- Extremism.
(Musicians and the crowd shout in chorus the words from the text of one of the songs) - I fill my eyes with kerosene - let everything burn, let everything burn. At the physical examination, all of Russia - let everything burn, let everything burn.
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