How Alex Warren Comes Up With Video Ideas

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Young Hollywood sits down with social media star Alex Warren to get the scoop on his video-making process, blowing up over the Pandemic, and the time he spent with Hype House. He also gushes over his fellow influencer Noah Beck!
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Hey what's up? I'm Alex Warren. Today I'm on Young Hollywood and then we're going to be going through some of my tweets.
What's up Young Hollywood? Today we're with Alex Warren. Hello, Alex. How are you?
So good. How are you?
Hanging. Bye, then. We've been after you for so long.
Have you really?
Yeah. We've DM'd you.
Have you really?
I think so.
Oh my God.
No, we have. We wanted you on Young Hollywood one because of you during like 2020-ish, you blowing up during the pandemic. I mean, you've been on social media for like 11+ years. But then you had Hype House, your relationship with Kouvr, now your music.
Yeah. It's been great.
Yeah. You have so much to talk about. I I feel like we have it all planned out here now.
Yes, you're ready. I feel like.
Okay, so we have a concept here for you. Yes. You don't know what it is, right?
I have no idea. I'm just seeing Noah Beck's name on a card. That's all I see right now.
Okay, so what it actually is is we printed out a bunch of your tweets.
Oh God. Yeah. So, Oh God. Do you do you remember what you've tweeted over the last like
Really terrible. Holy crap. All right. It's like the worst of the worst. Just kidding. I know. There's a lot of dead people I talk about in my tweets. Yeah, it's actually all pretty pretty depressing. My publicist is cringing right now.
Okay, so we have your tweets, yes?
Yes.
And on the back of them, which I'll be asking the questions, but it's like questions related to your life. Yeah, your music and everything.
I love it. Okay. Cool.
So, first one's up. Okay? You said when you first started social media, you tried a bunch of different things like you tried like the boy like angle and like the You scroll far down enough, you'll see it. But we're going to insert some clips of that for sure.
Oh God. No.
You're genuine. Like you meet people on social media that have done it for so long. Like you're on Hype House, like you did all this stuff or whatever but you're actually like you're real. And I'm not just saying that because I'm interviewing you and have to hype you up.
Sure. No, yeah. But like you you get it. Like you know what I mean? Like you get it. You understand.
No, I I just I think the whole thing is I live with my childhood friends. I don't I don't know. I come from not like I came from like not a lot and I was homeless at one point. So I can understand why some people who haven't gone through the things that I've gone through may be a little more Yeah. You know, but there's nothing wrong with it too cuz I think the biggest thing I lack is confidence. And like that's the thing. I'm the one of the most like I lack so much confidence and I'm insecure as hell. And so like that's a huge thing that like, you know, I'm envious of those people who can be so confident. Yeah. But yeah, I I don't like to be around them but I am.
But you're with them all the time. Okay, so you did see the Noah Beck one when we were starting.
Yes. Noah Beck is hot as hell. Only Talk about confidence. Bro, if I could look like Noah Beck, I'd walk around shirtless. I I would be doing this interview shirtless right now. I'm Pillsbury Doughboying it right now but if I was Noah Beck, that dude is like a Greek god came back and spit on someone's chest. That is what Noah Beck is.
We love that. We're going to quote you on that. You're the caption for the real.
Yeah, Noah is my hall pass. I already talked to Kouvr about it. Him and Ryan Reynolds. Love Ryan.
Okay, so you said but you tweeted though that you would beat him 1v1 versus in soccer.
Oh, I was so lying. Oh my God. It's like what you like Well, it's funny cuz everyone I feel like with my my group of people, they should know that I'm terrible at sports with balls, like golf, baseball, soccer, basketball. All of the all the sports. Driving. But no, it's the thing is like I'm terrible with it. So like I everyone knows Noah Beck as to be someone who's very good at soccer. And I'm not.
But when it comes to singing, writing songs, you you got it.
No, it's all of it too. Okay. But no, it's it's probably it's probably still him. I appreciate that. Thank you.
What about Vinnie Hacker, would you beat him in a boxing match? He's your good friend.
No, but he's third on the list of hall passes right underneath Ryan Reynolds. Dude smells good too. It's crazy. It's crazy. Looks good and smells good. What a concept.
I know. Good for Vinnie. Couldn't be me.
Not you. I just smell good. That's the only thing I have going towards me.
Definitely not you. Okay, this one. What is it?
I love you. Oh, yeah. All right, so if you notice in this photo Everyone's flipping. Um Everyone's flipping me off. Oh, just something. This is a I cried day with Michelle and I said can we pose for a photo? And all of them uh started flipping me off. And that's That's just to show you the the kind of family I've built. You know, huge supportive group. That's funny. I love that. I have that framed in my house right now. It was actually that's great. Yeah.
It was funny because when I was going through your tweets to print these out, I was like looking at obviously the pictures. I was like, this is beautiful like there's so many fans and then I was like, oh Yeah. You got to squint a little bit to see it. And then I got in there and saw it. Okay, so you obviously had your moment of all the uh harassing Tana.
Oh yeah, yeah. We loved all those moments.
Okay, so she tweeted, Alex Warren is surprising me right now. Stay tuned. I'm sure it will upset me. What is it about like obviously you had the vlogs and you're capturing everybody, all your friends. Yeah. You're with like Hype House people all the time. Are you the funniest in the friend group? Do you think you're the funniest?
No. That's why I'm behind the camera. That's why I'm not the funniest. Um no, I I I was obsessed with the dynamic of my friend group from the start that we did it. It was something where I saw my friends. I'm like, there's these these guys are crazy. It's like a God damn reality reality show every single day. And so, that was what I was obsessed with and I would just follow them around and film and like it was also something where like everyone was kind of falling into a depression in my hometown and they didn't really know what to do with their lives and so it was like, let's just film our like, let's do exciting things. And I got us out of the house and doing some fun stuff. Tana though was just fun because her reactions were hilarious. Yeah. And she would sleep in until like 5:00 p. m. So I had all day to Sleep until 5:00 p. m. I had all day to plan something, show up at her house thinking at 2:00, she's going to be up and running around and I can get her. And she's in bed. And I'm like, this is perfect. It's a sitting duck. I might as well bring a python into her room. Which I did. Which I was like, I'm pretty sure that was the thing. Actually, Yeah. That or an alligator. I think I brought an alligator over to her house once too. Yeah.
How do you come up with these?
Um I just copy other people. That's kind of the thing. Um I I don't know. I think the whole thing is like I always like I always thought that what is the most outlandish thing I can get. I wanted to get a bear once. No, I I I would just think what's the most outlandish thing I can get and like I had a a guy who had a bunch of exotic animals and I'm like, hey, what's the most crazy thing we could bring into someone's house? And he's like, I have an alligator. I was like, That's insane. Let's do it.
That's insane. If someone brought an alligator into your house, what would you do?
I'd probably take a picture with it. Hey guys. Yeah, I've kind of desensitized. Like I most people would be scared of things. I'm kind of like, oh this is sick.
What's one thing that you haven't done personal life, not like goals to accomplish. But like what's one thing that you haven't done yet that you want to do.
I don't know. Like I I've done I I've lived a thousand lives right now. Like I think honestly like this last year has just been me in the moment. It's been really cool because my work is so insane. Like I'm traveling to do shows. I'm doing interviews like this. This is my job. Like so I don't think I really have anything personally where I'm like, oh I really want to check that off cuz Yeah. I'm getting good at golf maybe. So I need to get good at a ball sport. I really Yeah, I was like, back to the being good at sports. We can start with golf. No, seriously. I need to get
It's in golf's the hardest one too. You think?
Oh my God, yeah, it's all technique and I have like I'm really like weird flexibility wise so I just don't know.
We should we could throw you on a football field though or something. Maybe. You could tackle people.
I can get tackled. That's something I can be really good at. Getting tackled. But if my nose got rocked out of me, that's something I'd be really proficient at.
We can be, yeah, I can see that for you.
No, but golfing that's such like an LA thing to do too. Is it? I feel like it's a rich white thing to do. Like it's everywhere thing to do. But definitely, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Next interview is on golf course and you're just golfing the whole time and we're just following you around.
I'm just cursing everyone out. I'm just losing every ball.
And you're horrible at it. That's not a shocker. Okay, so you obviously you had your Hype House moment on Netflix and everything like that. If you could create another show right now, what's the plot, who's in it, and what's your role? Um Even if like it's like fantasy.
I'd really, really, really and and not to be all serious cuz it's not used to like I'm not used to that, but like I really would love to make something of a story based on like my life in the in the retrospect. I think I've gone through a lot where I've been shot. I've been I've homeless. There's been crazy things and like meeting Kouvr's been the best moment of my life. And it's something cool where like, I feel like if the music that I've made has helped so many people, like to be able to have a visual representation of that. Yeah. Like I lost my dad when I was nine and my mom to alcohol. Like these are things where a lot of people have gone through it, but I feel like there isn't a lot of representation of that on the on the internet. Yeah. And like I feel like that's why a lot of people like the music. Yeah. And so like to have like kind of like Machine Gun Kelly did that for his album where he made like a a movie type thing for his entire album and like to be able to do that for my album would be cool cuz it's like all about me as a kid to where I am now. Yeah. And I feel like it'd be really interesting.
I mean, people are crying over your music and relating to it so much. I feel like visuals also.
I think it's just it sounds so bad. It hurts their ears. Yeah. That's what happened to me. That's that's when I was listening. That's what I was thinking. Yeah, my ears hurt, yeah. It was a whole thing.
Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to subscribe to Young Hollywood down below or on YouTube and uh, yeah, if you want to listen to my music, go for it. If not, I don't care.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Alex Warren
Featured social media star
- Kouvr
Alex Warren's partner
- Noah Beck
Fellow influencer Alex Warren admires
- Ryan Reynolds
Celebrity Alex Warren has a 'hall pass' for
- Vinnie Hacker
Good friend of Alex Warren, also a 'hall pass'
- Michelle
Appears in a photo with Alex Warren
- Tana
Friend Alex Warren pranked in vlogs
- Machine Gun Kelly
Artist whose album movie concept inspired Alex Warren




