0:06Jerick: Uh, we’re here, we do IRL streams.
0:08A: Okay, you two together? Okay. What’s your name, bro? Y’all quiet.
0:11JY Got: My name is JY Got That.
0:13A: Okay.
0:13JY Got: I’m here, I’m his cameraman. I don’t know, maybe a content creator.
0:18Jerick: I don’t know.
0:19A: What do you do?
0:20Jerick: What do you do, man?
0:20A: I talk to people just like this. Y’all got to be louder though. You trying to get in here, you got to be louder.
0:23Tonkwa: What y’all doing?
0:24A: Y’all way too quiet. Okay, okay, that’s right. Break the mic, break the mic, break the mic, break the camera.
0:28Jerick: We’re trying to get in, make a difference.
0:29A: Hispanics, um, but you know, tell us how Todos los hispanos que van arriba. Okay, okay. Tell us about that. What’s the vision in Spanish? Go for it.
0:38Jerick: Ah, hold on, hold on. I don’t speak Spanish like that that good.
0:39A: Oh, look at this guy. No habla español, pero está hablando, amigo. Look at you. You don’t speak like that. You just act like that. You know Spanish too? A little bit, a little bit. So what’s the vision? Why are you trying to make it? Why are you trying to make it?
0:48JY Got: I’m trying to make it out the crib, bro.
0:50Jerick: Especially for my mom. Trying to bring out my mom out this because my mom gave me the best opportunity coming here. She did so much. I’m trying to give it right back to her from Ecuador.
0:58A: Okay, okay.
0:59JY Got: I’ve been sleeping in the same room with my mom for 18 years, gang, and I I just got my own crib.
1:06A: Just got my own. Congrats, bro. Congrats. That’s massive.
1:09JY Got: Now it’s a club.
1:11A: That’s real.
1:12JY Got: Now I’m being so deadass.
1:13A: I’m saying, I’m saying, congrats, bro.
1:15JY Got: Now, yeah. Now it’s a club.
1:17A: Moms are proud of you. No question. So, but what’s the vision right now? You get the streamer. What are you trying to make happen? Who are you in the world? What difference y’all about to make with this kind of platform? Right? This is a massive platform.
1:26Tonkwa: Oh, shit.
1:26JY Got: I don’t even know.
1:28A: Come up with something right now.
1:31JY Got: You know, help somebody mentally, physically. Everyone that has a dream.
1:35Jerick: To accomplish your dream and go for their dreams. You know, never think like you can’t do something because it’s too hard or too divisional. If you have a dream, go for it. Go straight for it and never stop.
1:45A: What do you think Kai does right as a streamer? Huh? What do you think Kai does right as a streamer?
1:49Jerick: Helps other people. Helps people that are trying to become him and the low-ass people like all of us here right now trying to make as much as we can.
1:55Tonkwa: Okay.
1:56A: So what’s your strategy to grow? What’s your stats right now?
1:59Jerick: Wait for what?
2:00A: How many people watch y’all subs, etc.?
2:02Jerick: Oh, I think I got a thousand on TikTok, bro.
2:04JY Got: I don’t got that much.
2:04A: Okay. Okay. So what’s the grind? And next year, what’s the goal?
2:05Jerick: At least be up by 10K, at least something.
2:09A: How you making it happen? How you making it happen?
2:11Jerick: Content consistently every day, doing as much as I can, going to pop-up events, concerts, any events.
2:16A: You do your own editing?
2:17Jerick: No, I don’t.
2:18A: Who edits your stuff?
2:18Jerick: My friend.
2:19A: For free?
2:20Jerick: Yeah.
2:20A: Okay, shout out to that guy. That’s a real legend. That’s a real legend. Let’s get this guy paid so his friend can get paid too, because that guy’s grinding. Nice to meet y’all. Y’all want to shout out any socials before I go?
2:28Jerick: Oh yeah, @jerick7 on Kick.
2:31A: Okay.
2:32JY Got: @jy.mejia1 on Instagram. @jy.gotthatbible on TikTok.
2:37A: All right, guys, good luck. So who we got here? Who we got here?
2:41Tonkwa: Hi. Oh, hi, I’m Tonkwa.
2:44A: Okay, where you from?
2:45Tonkwa: I’m from Ghana. I live in the Bronx.
2:46A: Okay, and why are you trying to get in the Streamer U?
2:48Tonkwa: Because I gotta do this for my mom.
2:50A: Okay, you gotta move a little bit lower though. The whole thing is going right here. Yeah, I gotta do it for my mom, you know.
2:55Tonkwa: She sacrificed a lot for me, so now I gotta sacrifice my whole life for her.
2:58A: Okay, that’s how you feel?
2:59Tonkwa: Yeah, that’s how I feel.
3:00A: That’s real, that’s real. So what would it mean for you to get in the Streamer U?
3:02Tonkwa: It’ll mean a lot. Like, I want the experience, of course. Uh, I’d rather be famous than be rich, if that makes sense. But if I could get both, I’d be happy too.
3:09JY Got: Why you wanna be famous?
3:11A: You want influence?
3:13Tonkwa: Yeah, I feel like I want to influence a lot of people. I got a lot to share out to the world.
3:16A: Okay, you got a platform right now. Yeah.
3:19Tonkwa: Okay, so right now I am here standing up for the hijabis because if you look at this line, there’s no hijabis in the line. That’s my friend. She just here to support me. Nah, she here to support me. She not gonna audition. But yeah, when I definitely get in, I could show the hijabis. Yeah, you could do it too. You know, put your mind to anything.
3:35A: Okay, okay, okay, okay. So what’s the message for Ghana?
3:38Tonkwa: The message for Ghana is look at Dunko. She’s here right now. She’s gonna make us proud. Okay, okay, okay.
3:43A: Okay, and so what’s it called? You got this platform. What type of talk you talking?
3:48Tonkwa: I do a lot. I do fashion right now. Oh, TV. So I’m wearing burgundy to represent Streamer University, of course. And then I wear in Ghana to represent Ghana. I do fashion. I do talks, of course. I try to just inspire youth, you know, just show my life. I’ve been doing content for like two years.
4:05A: Okay, okay. And what’s what’s like the most the common stuff you do?
4:07Tonkwa: Right now I’m doing more like comedy and stuff, but before it used to be more like lifestyle, aestheticness, all of that. And yeah, how many followers you got on TikTok? I got 7K. Okay. On my Tumblr, I have 1, and on Instagram, I have 4K.
4:19A: Okay, okay. What’s the goal for the next year? What’s the goal of the next year?
4:21Tonkwa: The goal next year is 20K on each platform.
4:25A: Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah.
4:26Tonkwa: And I’m gonna start Twitching soon, so I’m gonna start streaming, and I hope to reach like 1K by the end of the year.
4:32A: Okay. You networking? You making the most of this opportunity? You got creators up and down. You got --
4:36Tonkwa: yes, everybody’s out here. Everybody look good.
4:39A: So how many new Instagram followers you leaving here with? How many new friends you making?
4:42Tonkwa: I’m gonna leave here with like 100. Probably 100.
4:45Jerick: Yeah.
4:45Tonkwa: Okay, I’m watching you.
4:47A: Get to it, get to it. How we doing? How we doing? Who we got here? Who we got here?
