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2s Update Day
6s Hello,
6s Hello, Hello.
7s Yep.
8s Okay.
13s Let's hope everything goes out when it's meant to go out.
15s Let's see.
17s According to the leaks,
18s with the battle that happened at the Daily Bugle last week.
21s Yeah.
21s The blimp should be in the ocean destroyed.
25s I can check.
26s Looks like jetpacks should be back
30s so we need to land at a blimp.
33s Update Day. Ah, I'll update the official notes
36s actually, let's have a quick scan of this.
38s It's a race to get that content out as soon as possible.
41s Oh so there's a battle at Condo Canyon now.
43s Egg launcher has been unvaulted.
45s Bouncy egg consumable.
48s I don't remember bouncy eggs, what?
51s Who can break that news first and cover it in the most entertaining way.
55s It's just go, go, go.
56s And it feels like *snap* I think I can make this work.
61s Going straight to the broken blimp, doing a battle at Condo canyon,
65s and then maybe trying to go straight to a blimp and get a jetpack.
68s Is it going to be a gameplay
69s or a talk to camera?
71s I think it will be gameplay with almost maybe no intro.
76s No, no. I will do a line. I'll do a line. Intro line.
78s I don't think I'm going be able
79s to explore the whole map, so probably be like two gameplays.
83s There's a gun launcher at the Crash Seven
86s so you'll be able to get back into the map.
88s Oh sick, sick. Sick sick.
90s I like that. Good spot. Good spot. Alright.
92s Good to go.
93s Yes. Game plan is locked and loaded.
96s Now it's just up to me to
99s play some Fortnite.
101s I love the rush
102s and I'm just in the zone working. Full concentration on that mission at hand.
108s That could be quite fun, actually. Okay.
110s Then, finally.
114s It's game on.
118s Stories from the Battle Bus: Ali-A
120s This week's new Fortnite Update is here.
132s Hello everyone and welcome.
133s My name's Ali-A. Today is a very exciting day.
135s I've got a few things to tell you guys, but this gameplay is going to be a hundred-
139s I started making YouTube videos when I was about sixteen years old.
145s YouTube was such a new place.
147s *Faint in Background* The video I have for you guys today.
148s I didn't tell anyone what I was doing
150s apart from a few very close friends.
153s You feel different when you've got that microphone
155s in front of you and you've got that camera in front of you.
157s There was a lot of experimenting at the beginning for me to find my voice.
161s Avenger her. Come on lads! We got this held down perfectly!
164s A wild man in his natural habitat. Running across the center of the map.
168s He was very disciplined because he used to do his homework first, but I'd go and say "Tea's ready,"
173s Knock on the door, and he goes "I'm filming!"
176s What does that mean?
177s We didn't understand.
184s I grew up in a
185s little village called Pyrford in Surrey, England.
189s I was always very competitive.
191s So I played cricket for my school.
194s But the thing that I really enjoyed,
196s and felt like there was growth, was gaming.
201s He started playing the games
202s twelve, early teens and we could see it becoming a bit of an obsession
206s so it was school and gaming.
209s Recording yourself playing and putting on the internet was almost unheard of.
213s And the reason I did
214s it was just to share the best gaming highlights with my friends.
218s But the great thing about the internet
220s is that anyone around the world can watch it.
222s It turned from
224s "Oh I'll share a few of my best gaming moments" to having a few thousand subscribers.
231s Hello everyone and welcome to the beginning of a match.
234s It almost put me into another gear that I had this opportunity.
237s Welcome back, everyone. This is going to be game two.
240s It was not just a passion project any more it could actually be a job.
243s I was just so caught up in the day to day of what video am I making?
247s How can I make it better?
248s What am I going to do next? Oh, my gosh, kids.
250s Yo, alright I'll take that.
252s Running out of the house with the shirt and shoes on for school,
255s coming home, working till three in the morning
257s because he was at that time doing three videos for each time zone of the world.
261s We then realized he was on to something.
264s Next year,
264s it was about a thousand subscribers the following year, 100,000.
267s So it got quite big.
269s People started to recognize him in public.
272s Kids in school used to say, You're Ali-A's dad.
275s I realize this was quite serious.
279s In school, my favorite subject was maths.
282s So I was just driven by the numbers and I'd write down how many subscribers I had,
287s and I'd do it each day. And I wanted them to grow
290s and I wanted to achieve new targets, new goals.
293s What is your next milestone for subs?
296s I never thought I'd get a million, so like
300s two and a half is a quarter of a million, which just is crazy.
303s I think two and a half million.
305s If I dare say that.
310s At 18 years old,
311s I decided I wanted to do YouTube full time.
315s So, I gave myself this year period
318s where if I could make it, great, let's keep on chasing this dream.
322s And if not, I could go to University- Oh oh, that can pay off.
325s Sometimes it can be good, sometimes it can not be so good.
328s At that time, I didn't leave my bedroom very much.
331s I mean, trying to make as much videos for you guys.
333s I want to say a big thank you for all the support.
335s I didn't have anyone to hang out with, so I was fully invested in just playing
338s games all day, recording videos, going to bed really, really late,
342s and just doing that every day.
344s The average day for me is, granted a little bit boring.
347s I'm doing a lot of editing, a lot of recording.
350s I would upload twelve, thirteen, fourteen videos in a day.
355s It was, it was crazy.
360s I'd never let my brain rest.
364s In the moment,
365s I was so caught up in it.
367s All I was thinking about was
369s what video I'm making, what could happen next, is there another big idea?
372s What was working, what was not working?
374s How quickly and how well can I complete this mission?
377s What's the point? What's the biggest impact I can have?
380s What's the most exciting thing I can do there?
382s Any news that I could cover?
383s Challenge? What can I get better at in this game?
385s How can I release in the best way possible?
387s What on earth was I going to do?
392s What's the answer?
394s I always just trying to work out new ways of
396s new ideas that I could try out that could lead to more success.
400s People would always say to me, You're going to burn out.
403s You're working too hard.
405s And I didn't believe them.
408s Thank you for all of the support on my videos.
410s I recently hit 3 million subscribers.
412s It was absolutely crazy. Thank you very much for that.
424s When I first met Ali,
426s he was living with his parents.
430s It was a very small room.
432s It was essentially just a desk, a single bed
436s and then a sink, which I always found quite surprising.
440s You can see everything in my room because of this camera.
442s You can see my lovely sink.
444s He was incredibly busy with his work.
446s I mean, the hours he used to do then,
447s he'd get up in the afternoon and then work until the early hours
451s of the night every single night, maybe four or five AM.
454s But we ended up still spending a lot of time together.
459s From a very early stage of meeting him,
462s I just knew that I'd met my person.
466s We just got along so well.
468s Every time we'd hang out, it was like.
472s I wouldn't want to say goodbye.
473s I wouldn't want her to go away.
475s My whole life changed.
478s I got to twenty-one years old.
481s Me and Clare had started dating for a little bit
484s and I needed to move out of my parents house.
488s You probably thought I was going to move in quite quickly.
490s That was going to be the plan.
491s It just hasn't happened until today.
494s My first day of freedom.
496s The first day of living by myself.
498s Boys! Yes!
501s Clare rings me up, and she's like,
503s I've got the cats, I've got my PC, I'm coming over.
506s And we've been living together ever since.
513s Let's go.
514s Okay. This is tense right now. This is tense.
517s In the flat,
518s I genuinely would work every second I was awake.
521s Hopefully it's going to work out for us.
523s I think it looks absolutely amazing,
526s but after a few years it just felt like I couldn't do anything right.
530s I can't believe I'm screwing up, boys.
531s I'm screwing up.
533s Oh! No!
537s Every video just wasn't doing very well.
539s That was just shocking.
542s Nothing was hitting.
544s The channel wasn't on this great growth trajectory that I'd had right at the beginning.
549s And the idea of being stagnant or then even the idea of things
553s dropping off, it never happened before.
559s Everything was just crumbling down
563s and I couldn't deal with it.
572s It was really stressful.
574s He would be constantly thinking about it.
576s It would impact his mental health
580s and he started worrying so much about slipping behind.
584s I would just feel so stressed for him.
589s It was all I'd known.
594s I just felt really burnt out.
596s And it did hit me.
597s I thought, you know what?
598s Maybe I should just throw in the towel and call it quits.
618s All I've ever done as a young adult
621s was make videos, upload content.
627s The idea of dropping that
629s there was nothing else.
630s I'd have to start from scratch in something else, which is scarier
633s than seeing this thing start to decline.
638s So I stuck with it.
642s Because.
644s It's who I am.
654s 2017.
656s Fortnite came out. I'd never played a Battle Royale,
659s I knew very little about Fortnite.
662s This is where all the fun starts off on a freaking hot air balloon bus.
666s I want to try some building.
668s Okay.
669s So I've just built a little bit up here.
672s After feeling super down and everything, being in such a bad spot
676s for this game to come out, I thought, Wow,
679s this could be the next thing.
682s Good morning everyone, I hope you're having an amazing day.
684s I'm starting my day off with some Fortnite Battle Royale.
688s I remember, I'd get to the end and it was just a blur.
692s Yes!
693s Oh my God!
694s Oh, baby!
696s I was like, I'm going to do it every single day.
699s I'm going to switch all my content to Fortnite.
702s My days! This is a big one boys and girls! This is a big one.
705s I was just so happy for him.
708s Yes, woo!
709s This was the start of a whole new thing.
712s It felt like everything I'd done prior to that was
715s almost like a giant training mission.
718s Oh!
719s And then after that,
721s everything just started blowing up.
723s Let's go.
729s I was playing the game.
731s Getting good at it.
733s Look at that!
734s Making sure that I was covering every update.
737s I got it!
738s Map Change.
739s Tilted Towers.
740s And when a new season dropped.
743s This is it.
747s What is happening?
749s Woo!
751s As the world of Fortnite grew,
754s I was growing with it.
756s Whoa!
757s I've done some amazing tournaments
759s Ali-A
760s one of the original Fortnite content creators.
763s I grew bigger than I ever thought I'd be able to.
766s This is it ladies and gentlemen!
767s Woo! Look at that!
769s Millions and millions of views.
771s It was incredible.
773s And here I am, ten million subscribers, a number
776s I would probably never fathom.
784s It was amazing.
787s I was right at the top.
790s I had this Ali-A online presence.
795s Things seemed so good.
797s Yo, look at that!
800s Then my intro video
803s turned into an Internet meme.
806s And it split people
808s Either you'd know who I am and you find that whole intro music
813s piece quite funny, or you'd see that and see it almost as like a dig at me.
821s I remember
821s opening up Twitter and they would just be so much abuse and hate.
825s It was the first time
825s I'd ever experienced people, like, disliking me, like, really disliking me.
829s And I'd gone from this
830s the highs of all highs to suddenly everything seemed to just be falling down.
834s Initially, we were kind of like it was funny.
838s And then it started to get intense and, you know,
840s memes, you can't control how they're used. But
845s the way that Ali
847s handled it, I think, is really smart.
858s For me, the best way of dealing with it was
861s I can laugh at it and I don't take it too
863s seriously.
868s In life,
868s you always have moments where things aren't as easy
871s and it feels like people are against you or things aren't going
875s your way.
878s And for me, it's always been a case of focusing on
880s something that is positive.
889s Something that I can drive towards.
894s Something that I can aim for.
897s Something that I can achieve.
902s I've been playing Fortnite since the beginning, for over four and a half
907s years now, and I can't believe that I'm actually saying I am
910s in Fortnite.
915s An Icon Outfit is the pinnacle.
917s The best thing I could possibly achieve
921s and put my heart and soul into it.
924s So you come to fruition and in sharing it with people.
927s I'm so excited, so happy with how it's come together.
950s It doesn't matter
951s how much sleep I have had on a Fortnite update day,
955s It doesn't matter what time the update is going
957s live.
960s I am waking up an hour earlier, getting some breakfast,
965s heading to my PC, getting ready to create.
973s It doesn't feel like work.
976s It just feels like someone's handed me a mission.
981s And I'm ready to go.
986s Like genuinely seconds minutes matter.
989s If I get my video out a minute before another content creator,
993s that's that's the goal for me to be first.
996s This week's new Fortnite update is here.
998s The very first crash blimp has been taken down on the island and the battle
1002s between The Seven and the Imagined Order continues across the map.
1006s That's not all, though.
1006s Easter is around the corner and Epic has thrown
1009s in a ton of Easter themed items that we're going to be hunting for.
1012s This is going to be fun.
1018s Guys.
1018s Check it out.
1020s Literally a crashed blimp in the ocean right now.
1024s This thing was dangling over the top of the Daily Bugle,
1029s Is there anything here that we could even use.
1032s Is there-, oh, you know what I'm seeing?
1035s Probably the only weapon that is available here and the ability to fire myself
1039s back to the island.
1045s Oh ho ho ho!
1050s I'm going to try and go to the Daily Bugle
1051s and just show the other locations.
1057s Look at this.
1058s The world's first tank controlled by The Seven.
1062s It's awesome.
1063s I'm taking this tank.
1065s It's mine.
1070s Where should we go?
1071s Where should we go?
1075s We could go to Corny Crossroads, actually.
1078s Let's give that a go.
1080s Perfect.
1081s Perfect, perfect.
1082s I want to see if a jetpack is still available.
1085s People may not know -dude it's right there.
1087s It's right there, people don't know.
1089s People don't realize that jetpacks are back.
1096s Woah! Taken down.
1100s Come on.
1102s Oh, my God.
1103s Oh, my goodness. All right, that's fine.
1106s Let's do one more game, and maybe I land at the canyon instead
1108s and try starting from there, I think.
1112s Come on.
1116s All right.
1116s Finally getting in the game.
1120s Let's see what's going on first.
1122s Oh, my God.
1126s Come on. Oh, got it.
1136s I don't think
1137s that's going to fit in the video, but that was sick.
1140s You know what, I'm just going to search for an Easter weapon, that's all I need now.
1143s Let's just see if I can get the weapon as quick as possible.
1147s Where are you?
1151s *Gasp* Oh, my gosh.
1153s Guys, look, I have found the new Easter egg consumables.
1160s I don't think I've ever used these in my life, but look at that.
1164s That is so cool.
1166s I've got like seventy, eighty percent of the video.
1169s So it's a case of, um,
1171s Oh, alright, I'm starting recording again.
1173s To make sure it's looking okay, yep.
1174s You guys have found it.
1176s Look what's back, the Easter Egg Launcher.
1179s It's been ages since this thing has been in the game.
1183s Oh, my.
1185s How far do they go?
1189s We've made it to Command Cavern.
1190s Let's not forget that this will be the final battleground of this season.
1195s We're not quite there yet.
1197s I'm going to sneak to the scan station.
1200s And see if it scans anyone nearby.
1205s There is so much fighting going on right now.
1208s We're in a top five situation.
1210s Big, big elimination there.
1213s Alright,
1213s I'm going to have to leave.
1221s Right, that should have been my elimination.
1224s But as long as someone's taken down.
1229s Oh, fourth place, guys.
1230s It was so close.
1231s What an update, though.
1233s Easter's around the corner. Jetpacks are back.
1235s Let me know what your favorite things are.
1237s Click on screen here to watch even more videos.
1240s That was a lot of fun and I'll see you guys on another one.
1246s All right.
1246s That is the video recording bit done.
1250s I think we've got enough.
1258s Update day isn't finished
1259s until I put the video online and put it up.
1268s Video's done.
1269s This week's
1270s New Fortnite update is here with crashed blimps, Easter items added to the-
1275s Alright, almost there.
1277s Title done, thumbnail done endcards done.
1281s Now let's get it out.
1309s Nice.
1310s Okay. Video is finished.
1312s Video is up.
1313s There's not anything else I can do now.
1316s Just got to let people start watching it and hopefully they enjoy it.
1336s Ali-A has over four billion views of his online Fortnite content and Maintains four YouTube channels.
1342s He formed a creative team of builders in Fortnite called Team Atomic.
1347s In 2012, Ali-A and Clare were married. They hope to start a family in the future.