INTERWIEW WITH MYSTR0761. Could you introduce yourself for those who don’t know you?
I am mystr (MystR076 on youtube) I am 21 years old and I’ve been making youtube poops for about 2 to 3 years.
2. How did you discover ytp?
In 2007/2008, Jonat300 showed me the very first poop made by groscacaboudin. I must admit I didn’t get it at first… But me and my buddies quickly grew an habit out of watching those while hanging out (mostly while we were stoned out of our minds) and only then did it begin to make sense to me. It completely blew my mind, and I wanted for people to be blown away just the same way as I was while watching poops from the likes of DrashEngel or Gousstache.
3. How would qualify your own style and why do you do it this way?
I never felt like I belonged to any specific sub-category, because I do stuff differently depending on my motivations. Sometimes I want to impress people, so I end up doing more random/ambient stuff. Sometimes I simply want to do old school poops.
There were also times where I challenged myself, where I wanted to “test” the limits of youtube poop. That is, in a more avant-garde style akin to groscacaboudin. I like to grasp the nature of YTP and try to do everything that can be done.
However, if I had to use a single term to define all of my videos, it would be something like “soft-random”
4. What is your greatest desire as a pooper?
When I first started, I really wanted to gain acceptance in the poop “landscape”. Now that I’ve grown as a person, I don’t see things from the same angle and nowadays I really see poops as a way of expression. I really regard this practice as an art, and each video as an end in itself.
5. What do you think about the YTP scene today?
I only watch the international scene from afar, (poopers such as TimoteiLSD, Mowtendoo, CorruptionSound, Sploltoen…) so I don’t have much to say about it.
As for the French scene, it doesn’t really interest me anymore. Maybe it’s because it got old for me, but I’ve got the impression that a lot of French poopers are content with recreating what has already been done. The only thing that interests me anymore is what I do with the “idiocratie poopesque”*, because we try to do ytp outside of ytp.
6. Do you think it’d be worthwile for YTP to become more popular?
I like associating myself with the ”underground”, because I know my audience understands me. The mainstream scares me but I think that if YTP became more popular it would leave me indifferent/wouldn’t matter to me, because it wouldn’t affect me. And if I were, I’d run away c:<
7. Do you think that you’ll permanently leave the world of YTP one day?
I will surely stop doing YTP one day, but it will always remain within me.
8. I’ll leave the last word to you.
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*"L’idiocratie poopesque" is a contemporary artistic community, a splinter group to youtube poop
Thanks to MystR for the interview, and special thanks for Lotus for the french>english translation!
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