We recently connected with Breanna Stephens and have shared our conversation below.

Breanna, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

Recently, I’ve founded an online music-creation event called “Remix Roulette”, where I’ve gathered several producers in the YouTube space to create new versions of each other’s songs. After a couple months, we’ll all release them at the same time in a livestreamed event, celebrating all of our creations and communities! It’s truly been such a pleasure to work with some of the most creative and talented musicians I know to make this happen. This idea literally came from just a random out of the blue thought on my drive back from work. Immediately when I got home, I DM’d every producer I knew online that would rock this idea. Now, I’m hosting this huge event with a bunch of amazing producers, releasing a merch line alongside it, and producing one of my favorite tracks for this whole event. I’m truly so grateful for how it’s gone so far, and can’t wait for the final livestreamed event coming this December!

Breanna, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

My name is Breanna (or Brea, whichever you’d like), and I run a YouTube channel called Brasma. Essentially, since I was younger, I always loved playing video games and watching cartoons. As I grew up, I also grew an immediate interest for music production as well, so I thought to combine the two! I create a mixture of original and remixed music based off of popular games, shows, and movies online. Thankfully, quite a few of my songs over the years have gained enough traction to help me earn enough money to keep sustainably doing this part-time. As of today, my YouTube channel has been able to accumulate over 11 million views!

Using programs such as FL Studio and Pro Tools, I create my music in my room with just a keyboard and a mouse. My music production skills focus on sound design and instrumentation, really leaning into a rock and “video game”-y style. When a song is finished, I create visuals that pair with the music, alongside the help of additional animators, to release on YouTube. When I started making music though, I couldn’t afford hiring video producers/animators, so I sat myself down in front of Premiere Pro and After Effects to learn how to make my own content. This is the same way I approached music production, mixing, lyric writing, etc. I forced myself to become the most knowledgeable I could be at making music and videos, since I knew it would make my productions better.

Even though I’m passionate about bettering myself and the music I make however I can, my art isn’t meant to be taken completely seriously. It isn’t meant to preach important lessons and provoke change in the world. My music is meant to be fun, plain and simple! If the music I make and inspire people out there in any positive way, however, then that’s amazing.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

To bring each other together to share and celebrate each other’s passions!

I feel like one of the most unfortunate things that can happen to any person is for them to never feel like they can share what makes them happy. Whether it’s because they feel like it’s embarrassing, not good enough, or just don’t get the chance to. I know I’ve definitely felt like that, given the topics I generally write about. But, in the past couple of years, I have been able to slowly show off my music to more people, all thanks to the amazing support system I have around me.

I hope that through building my brand and community, I can help more creative minds share their art, while also inspiring growth to become even better! That way, nobody will have to think that they, or their passions, aren’t good enough. I truly believe that is what I was made for, and I hope to make that happen some day.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

I’ve had a strong resilience to liking or “favoriting” content online for a very long time. There was something about clicking the thumbs up or heart on the screen that honestly stressed me out, since it felt weird for the collection of all the things I’ve liked to be stored somewhere. But, I recently discovered something important: I’m never going to go through my “liked” playlist. I don’t care if anyone knows which things I’ve liked. So why do I care so much about not doing it?

If I were to recommend anything for you to do to support artists out there, I’d say to simply like the things you like. Don’t think about it, just give someone the reward of an extra heart on their post if you in some way thought it was cool. Think of it like this: if someone has a cool outfit or nice looking hair, why not tell them? That one action could make someone’s entire day! When I was a smaller creator, ten likes on a video sent me to the moon (I’d usually get 1-2). So really, like the posts, share them to people, help celebrate the content people put out there!

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_fake_brasma/
• Twitter: https://x.com/thefakebrasma
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Brasma/videos