We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Tre Brown. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Tre below.

Hi Tre, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

When I hear the word “meaningful,” in regards to working towards opening my own bakery and creating content that best represents and reflects who I am as a person on my YouTube channel. I always think about my childhood and spending quality time with my grandmother in the kitchen. Being raised by a strong black women definitely contributes to the character that I portray in my everyday life. The most meaningful project that I had done so far was creating my YouTube channel. A safe place to share the many wild/different stories that helped create Tre.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

Being a YouTube content creator has definitely come with its fair share of challenges. Starting from literally zero, and clawing your way up to create your own brand/voice has proven to be a little bit of a struggle for me. I’ve made over 80 and have only managed to create a small following of 62 subscribers. A major difference between me and “major” content creators, is that I’m 100% authentically me. I don’t put in for the camera. I stay the same on and off the camera. I’m an open book. I mostly tell story times and my experiences living in this crazy thing called life. I’m mostly proud of myself for stepping out of my comfort zone. I’ve definitely done things that other people haven’t, and I share it to anyone that wants to listen. Full transparency!

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

I think it all begins with the creative ecosystem itself. Like for example, YouTube. I’ve been doing YouTube for a while now and started at zero. I’m happy for the little following that I have received! I’ve bought equipment to better produce high quality videos and even enhance my experience creating. But YouTube as a company hasn’t really provided any guidance or hands on assistance for beginner creators. Anyone can upload a video, but it takes passion to go the extra mile of wanting to better said videos and really build a brand off of it. The only time YouTube really monetizes you and really starts to help, is when you reach over 1,000 subscribers! I believe to really thrive the ecosystem, you have to start with the smaller people.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.

Absolutely! The main thing people don’t understand, is that creating content is not easy. It takes a lot of your free time away. You have to first think of an idea. Something that you want to talk about or say that’s not copying or stealing from anyone else (why I do story times). You then have to set up equipment and actually film and really hope you like the first take! When I film, I normally free talk without a script. And after all of that, you definitely have to spend most of your time editing. Which takes up majority of the time. I usually pick out a day of the week I’m free and film as much content as I can create. It’s a process that will take most of your time!

Contact Info:

• Instagram: Www.instagram.com/thatgaytre
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Thatgaytre