Original Sin: From Preacher's Kid to the Creation of CinemaSins (and 3.5+ Billion Views)
This book here… is it a memoir? Kind of. Is it a humor book? Yeah, a bit. Is it an instructional tome? Here and there.
Perhaps best known as the snarky narrator and co-founder of the viral YouTube channel CinemaSins, Jeremy Scott cracked the code of turning a passion for film and sarcasm into a full-time job.
Original Sin: From Preacher's Kid to the Creation of CinemaSins (and 3.5 billion+ views) is Jeremy's compelling story of family, career, and deep love for movies that launched him into internet stardom. In his trademark, unapologetic voice, Jeremy gives an irreverent and honest take on the wild ride to creating a YouTube sensation. This memoir-with-a-twist sprinkles readers with his personal advice on the combination of dumb luck, know-how, and je nais se quois it takes to be successful on Youtube while hilariously relaying how two friends stumbled into fame.
With anecdotes of laugh-out-loud misadventures and insightful, actionable advice for aspiring YouTubers, Original Sin is the ultimate behind-the-scenes look into the inception of an internet sensation. But more than that, it's one man's love letter to humankind's greatest escape, a pastime that allows us to dream and dwell on beauty, art, and truth. Original Sin is Jeremy Scott's ode to cinema and how often life can imitate the movies.
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Book details
- Author
- Jeremy Scott
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography › Memoirs
Biography & Autobiography › Entertainment & Performing Arts - Topics
- memoir · YouTube · film criticism · internet personality · humor · growing up religious · content creation
- ISBN-13
- 9781684425532 (Paperback)9781684425549 (Hardcover)
About the author
JEREMY SCOTT is the narrator and co-creator of CinemaSins, a YouTube channel with more than 8 million subscribers built around the series "Everything Wrong With...," "Conversations With Myself About Movies," "Movie Recipes," and "What’s the Damage."
Scott earned a bachelor of arts in speech communications and co-created the CinemaSins brand with Chris Atkinson, whom he met in 1999 while both worked as managers at a movie theater.
When he’s not writing, Scott continues to develop the CinemaSins channel, whose motto—"No movie is without sin"—reflects the cinephilia he first developed during his college years.