A Conversation With CalebCity

In March of 2015, CalebCity began making videos on Vine. In less than two years his popularity began to grow with a compilation of his Vines posted to YouTube gaining over 1.2 million views. From there, he began posting vlogs and sketch-styled videos on YouTube. Today, CalebCity has over 800k subscribers on YouTube, 500k followers on Instagram, 270k likes on Facebook and 130k followers on Twitter. Recently, CalebCity partnered with Foot Locker as apart of their ongoing #ThatSneakerheadLife campaign. Chances are this won’t be the rising influencer’s last brand partnership.

I reached out to CalebCity over Instagram DMs and he was gracious enough to take the time to chat about his perspective on Generation Z.

Who are some of your favorite people to follow on social media?

Honestly I don’t spend TOO much time on social media so my favorite people to follow, mostly, is just a bunch of my friends since most of them do videos too anyway. Thats not to say I don’t follow some art, gaming, and tech pages as well though.

Who or what inspires you ?

I could get inspired by anything to be honest, if i’m in the right mood car keys can hit the floor the wrong way and imma make a video out of it😂.

How has your mindset changed in the last several years?

I’ve learned that just making a positive impact on people goes far or at least a positive mindset helps me the most, because there are A LOT of negative people on the internet. In fact, social media enables negative people. People can say whatever they want without any real consequences most of the time, things they wouldn’t say to someone in person or someone they knew personally. Before, I used to take everything, a message or comment to heart, but it’s healthier to just ignore the stuff that’s not constructive.

How has social media helped or hindered you in the progress of perfecting your craft?

I guess I can say social media helped by giving me a platform in the first place. I would say what hindered me was everyone being able to easily message me or comment on what I do. It’s not that I would take that aspect away, but it definitely slowed me down towards the beginning of all this, everyone throwing in their input made me overthink things a lot.

What is your advice to kids who want to get to the position that you are in?

My advice for people trying to get to this position is to find people that support you and support them back. No one can do these things alone, even if you film alone and play all the characters, you’re going to want to find people who you want to support and to support you back.

What trajectory are you hoping to push yourself onto? Where do you want to be in a few years?

If everything goes my way I’ll be able to write and voice act for my own cartoon series unless there’s something even better for me in the future!

Check out more of CalebCity’s videos on YouTube!