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Leaflit: Streaming, Controversies, and Creating a TTRPG
Join Malcolm and Simone in an engaging conversation with Leaflet from the YouTube channel 'Leaflet and Asari.' They delve into her experiences in 'nerd culture,' her career at iconic companies like Riot Games and Blizzard, and her creation of popular game characters like Lux and Pantheon. The discussion covers Leaflet's beginnings in streaming, the challenges she faced, and how she transitioned to YouTube, along with her involvement in various game projects and novels. They also touch on controversial topics, cultural commentary, the differentiation between streaming and YouTube audiences, and the exciting release of her free-to-play game, Lyrian Chronicles, by Angel's Sword RPG.
Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello, this is Malcolm and Simone and I have a guest here today, who is one of the channels that I actually watch the most outside of our own, which is Leaflet from Leaflet and Asari, and if you haven't seen her channel she does cons well, I'd say, like, right leaning by today's standards takes, maybe not by old standards takes, takes place.
Bye. On a lot of topics, but she has a lot of experience in I guess I'd call it nerd culture. Early in her career, she worked at companies like Riot Games and Blizzard. I know you design
Leaflit Mitsuha: lux. Lux is One of the ones that I, that's probably the, that's probably the one that most people know about. Yeah, looks.
Malcolm Collins: Yeah and then the Spartan looking one. Yeah, Pantheon. Look for the rework, yeah. And I really like you in one, as an example of, and I wanted to talk with you, as well as, as through your evolving fan base as somebody, I think you started in streaming, right?
Like, like, like streaming video games and
Leaflit Mitsuha: stuff. Mostly video games. I started actually I think [00:01:00] 2011, 2012. Holy moly. Yeah. There is a site called own 3d back then. It was like before there wasn't Twitch, Twitch became, Twitch is just in, but their competitor was own 3d. And then They folded and then I, I messaged Justin.
I was like, Hey, can I get like partner? Cause it was partner on own. They're like, nah, I'm like, so then I kind of just stopped streaming for a bit. And then, yeah, it ended up coming back later.
Malcolm Collins: So you built your audience on streaming and now you've, I don't know, is YouTube like your main goal right now, or do you mostly stream and YouTube's like a secondary thing for you?
Leaflit Mitsuha: The funny thing is, is there, they're, they're kind of separate because I do the live streams, but I actually don't. Manage too much on YouTube I don't really have time for it because I'm, as you know, I'm working on, like, the other, the game projects and we'll also have, like, novels coming out and stuff.
So we're working on all I'm working on that stuff because I'm like, the lower person for the [00:02:00] company. So I'm working on that. You're doing like a
Malcolm Collins: game. We had Archon recently. He's also doing a game. We're doing a game. I like this. I like this new thing. Everyone is like all the, all the like, based influencers need to be making games because this is where we're going to get like interesting ideas.
What is actually, before we go further, I want you to talk a bit about this game because I'm, I'm just interested in like sure.
Leaflit Mitsuha: It's a, it's basically, I, I play a lot of like tabletop, a lot of Dungeons and Dragons Pathfinder. And some other Japanese games, and I want we wanted to make, like, our dream game.
So our idea was to make that game, but, like, free to play and constant updates because, like, 1 problem that, like, like, Dungeons and Dragons has, for instance, is. Everyone has to get the book. So sometimes you have people that don't have the book and then updates like s
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