Aaron Kraskle
Appearances
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
i'm looking for a jimmy or a jonathan hello and no one has no one's ever copied it yeah which i like well no one's got the guts they can't they can't do it aaron had the guts of someone with very little left to lose vine wasn't just a new horizon for him it was something of a salvation i i was in and out of jobs i was never happy at school my school life was terrible
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
I was filming morning, afternoon and night time. In the morning before the bookies, filming my lunch breaks and then filming after work. I ate, dreamt, drank wine. I was uploading six videos a day. I was obsessed. I was always uploading in my lunch breaks. The lunchtime videos never really used to do as well as the night time ones.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
It was just like, oh, OK, I'll just put two and two together at the end of the day. my videos did better after work. So I just kept to it. And between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. is the absolute must for me. People keep saying to me about going earlier. I'm not going to go earlier. If I go earlier, I'm regretting it straight away and I'll take it down anyway.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
I've never uploaded on a Friday or Saturday because they are just the days where no one's on their phones. I can tell you that now. Sunday's the most important day to upload. You've got a big video, Sunday's the best time. Everyone's always been out Saturday night, drunk. Next day, they're always on their phones in bed, hanging, watching videos. If there's big football games on, don't even upload.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
Just wait until after the game, at least 10 minutes after the game so people can get on their phones. If there's Love Island on, don't bother uploading around that time. You've just got to literally think about yourself. When are you on your phone? Upload when you think you would be able to see it.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
I just didn't want to be there. I hated discipline and being told what to do. So as soon as I left school, went to art college, as soon as I was 16, I wanted to be a grown up, smoking, drinking and hanging around with adults and painting for a living. And I was just, I was always a free spirit. I was never locked down anywhere. I was always on the move. I was always rushing around.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
I've had so many jobs. I was working in an Indian restaurant, Chinese restaurant at the Palau restaurant. Restaurant, key company, record shops.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
Because obviously by then my videos were going out on other platforms like Snapchat. I was getting popular on Instagram and Facebook. It was all kind of merging into one big cartel kind of thing, if you know what I mean. It's crazy.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
Just for the love of it. Yep, absolutely. There was no money in it. I was still going to work, but then I started... People started coming into my work for selfies. And I was like, oh my God, it's actually starting to... This is mental. But I can remember walking to work. Cars beeping their horns. Yeah. It was such a weird feeling. It still is now, to be fair.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
Were there any downsides that early on? No, not really. It was more... I never got hate because the content was always, the laugh was always on me. My missus hated it. So she would come home and cry. People were kind of stalking her in Morrisons and giggling to themselves. And she just hated it. Not many people have got famous in Dover, you know, it's quite new.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
And my mum loves it because like she's met Robbie Williams and my family love it in a way because it's opened up a lot of opportunities for me.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
Argos, the co-op. My last job was when I worked at William Hill. I worked at the bookmakers, which if no one knows is where you do horse bets and people gamble. I was going absolutely nowhere. But on Vine, he was going everywhere. Excuse me, I wouldn't eat that. My ex-girlfriend used to eat that and she turned into a right bitch.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
Tell me that was not the most subversive thing you've ever seen, where it's like, oh, you might be an armed agent of the state who can, like, shoot me and not have any consequences, but I can still roast your shoes in front of millions of people and millions of people are going to see it.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
The American was more sketch. It was more sketches they were doing. The thing with the American Viners, they was always collabing. It was like Logan Paul, Rye Doon, Curtis, Manon, Hannah, Brandon. They were all... I think they lived together at one point. The vines they were making were unreal. Like, so clever. I could never do it. The Americans were more comedy sketches and collabs.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
I think the English stuff was more mental. I think. I like that. Just more mental. It was. Because there's nothing much you can do in England. We're all spread out so much. Like, we never collabed. Like, never.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
Hello, mate. I need your help. Now I've been helping Charlotte's nan doing the chores. She offered me 50 pounds to kiss her. Yeah, I did twice. She didn't even have her teeth in.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
I was in Morrison's in like 2014 and I'd done a sketch where the peanut butter was out of stock. And I remember going, oh, God. And then when I watched it, I thought, oh, my God, what are you doing, Aaron? This is so stupid. And when I opened my phone and watched it, behind me was an old woman. She went, when I did, oh, God, like that. And I thought, oh, my God.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
I was in the pub having a drink on the Wednesday. Have you seen this guy called Dapper Laughs? I was like, no, I've not seen him. It's on this Vine app. I was like, what the hell's that? So I downloaded the app onto my phone. And that's where it all began. I mean, it was a nightmare to use. There was no editing. You couldn't even save the video.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
So you had to make the video, then upload it straight away. I'd go, ah, in public. And I wouldn't even know what it looked like until I uploaded it. It was just such a challenge. It was like, I think my first ever video was...
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
what I uploaded was, there was a dog called Rio in the pub, and we were having a lock-in, we were all drunk, and I got the dog eating peanuts on the table, and there was a cut, you could do the cut, so I pushed the cut, and then my friend was eating the peanuts on the table. That was my first ever video, and it did nothing, I didn't have no followers, nothing.
Vine: Six Seconds That Changed The World
3. Subway to Stardom
I've just got a reaction from someone by making a loud noise. Then I started trialling it. So I started going out and going, meow, making silly noises. And without videoing it, because I could feel people looking at me, that's when I thought, okay, this could be big. Like, if I carry on doing this and being the loud guy in public...