College Dropout to Fashion Icon | Frugal Aesthetic's Path to Winning
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
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Christian Villanueva never thought he’d win in life if he stayed in college. He skipped classes just to secretly create content. After dropping out and becoming broke -- splitting meatballs with his roommate to survive -- he started his channel as the infamous Frugal Aesthetic. With over 2M subscribers and multiple channels, he continues winning at life.
Join Christian and @trykarat cofounder @erictway to learn more about Christian’s success.
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00:00 - Intro
02:21 - Quitting College In the School Parking Lot
09:39 - Becoming a Creator in Secret
20:55 - Accepting the Process, Even at Sh*** Times
27:37 - Wearing My Vans At The Met Gala!
33:47 - What’s My Style Like Now
39:40 - I’m Always Comfortable in Uncertain Times
49:18 - I Survived in New York by Sharing Meatballs
57:25 -Getting Inspiration from Rastah Founder, Zain
1:01:17 - The Success of Lifting in Silence
1:12:23 - Be Yamcha in a World of Goku’s 
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I have no idea why this suddenly starting popping off (from like 3K views to 15K views in 1 day) - but thank you! 🥰
Love frugal aesthetic! He has so many insights, and I find him so intriguing and original. Thank you for a great interview with thoughtful questions!
you are a great interviewer!! never watched you, totally love the guest. super interesting content
it started to get recommended thats probably why
I would say that for once the algorythm just picked up on some quality content. Very nice interview! And for a guy like me that was one fo Christians first followers it's just super fun to finally hear his story!
Christian is great because he's genuine and funny. If you look around at men's fashion content you'll see that that's pretty hard to come by.
started watching him when I was just a freshman in high school, I still watch him now that I'm on my first year in college and he has honestly been a part of the reason why I got into fashion
I came here because I liked Christian, but your intelligence in carrying out the conversation is why I stayed. You are good
Thank you 🙏
He got this talent that he doesn’t stop talking
One of the more fulfilling podcasts I've heard in a while. Loved yall both taking about anxieties surrounding new ventures. Definitely an undervalued topic
thank you!!
Omg, this video is amazing. I really hate saying "It's so me", but seeing how Christian holds those apparently contradicting objectives and values ignites something in my heart and makes me feel so powerful. It is not about beating the game with a meta build but doing it in the most unconventional and personal way, almost masochist.
Karat killing the content game rn
trying our best 🥺
I've never been disappointed with the episodes I watched
These guests are so good
thank you!!! 🥰
Thank you so much eric for the putting subtitles on video
I came across Christian because of skateboarding culture. I don’t dress like the typical, but I appreciate the satire that he brings to subcultures of fashion, especially skateboarding. He gives me knowledge of what’s trending, but also tastefully accommodating to it if I choose to because I feel Christian has a balanced view of fashion. In the event I don’t want to accommodate to the fashion trends, the humor he brings can sometimes confirm my choices.
Props to christian to go to interviews from smaller influencers
yea he's a good guy and was a ton of fun getting to know him more
His story is so interesting. Loved when you guys talked about your motivation & taking things as a competition. I love the thought of what if I really did that, grinded my ass of and got to the point where the brands are I looked up to. Like acting upon that drive is so motivating. You could literary apply this to anything you want to achieve.
i loved it, hearing you talk about all these topics made me think about my life and the things i should do, truly a big inspiration, great work!
i didn’t realize it at the time, but i came across christian virtually right after he started, in 2016, when i was in 6th grade, me and my best friend were just into sneakers and looking cool. ironically he talks about it in the interview but i’ve grown more into the “pretentious” kind of approach to fashion and he has grown more into the subversive doesn’t really care about the fashion establishment kinda person. this year i left seattle and am a first year fashion design student at polimoda, it always feels surreal seeing a new frugal aesthetic video in the same exact as i have for years remembering just how much of an impact his videos have had on me. id love to have a conversation with him one day, but until then this interview was amazing, thank you for the great work.
Great podcast. I relate a lot to Christians life perspective. My dad always would say: you will either do great things out of love or out of anger. I can see how that feeling of needing to win comes from a strong emotion.
karat is something truly pioneering -
providing cents to creators and sense to the audience to mutually learn from each other - a double entendre of value to the community!
the episode with jimmy back then and this episode with christian really shows how unassuming our careers can turn out despite the odds 👏🏽
Awww thanks for watching as an early og- and understanding what we’re trying to do 🥰
"This would be so cool if they randomly found me"
It was really cool bro! Randomly finding out that you're making it and for something I never imagined!
amazing video guys! Just finished it and it was so good!
i love karat’s interview style, nothing to crazy but he definitely asks great questions! gonna sub
Thank you!! Haha
When he said it has to work out I felt that❤having faith in your creation and betting on yourself
Such an amazing podcast bro! This podcast really remind me about the philosophy about Taoism, Flow, Robert Greene's books: Mastery. By not caring about the outcome, and going into a state of flow with what you are doing. And the outcome is just the side effect of your work.
Like the quote from Viktor Frankl's book: “Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run-in the long-run, I say!-success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
*listening to the pod* wow Christian is really just describing ADHD right now how relatable
1:11:30 there it is xp getting diagnosed was honestly the best decision I have made in my adult life. I understand myself so much better now.
This deserves far more attention. Keep it up Eric!
It's been great to see a creator like Christian suceed
I love Christian's sense of humor and this conversation was super entertaining!
Great Interview. Great perspective. 💯💯💯💯
I can agree with Christians point on the knowledge of fashion at a young age being an ever exceeding skill cap.I’m 15 and I was at an internship for the DA’s office and my coworker who was double my age took me very seriously on fashion cause I just knew abt Rick and RAF runways with a few underground runway brands at the time such as Botter and Kennethize. The reason of this is channels like Bliss Foster, Fashion Roadman, and Threaducation having an easy entry into these brands which back in the day were pretty hard to know due to the pricing of the items. Now that fashion can be appreciated from a distance with groups such as the archive community people actually start to care and get to know these brands setting up Grailed pieces and having their favorite runways be older then them.
ohhhhhh shit I’m hyped for this one
Living legend, amazing what he’s done for comic sans
😂
christian is my biggest inspiration, he literally changed my life, thats why i started youtube. also it's crazy how he changed the perception of fashion for young guys and made it more fun.
im just waiting to see these dirty vans at the met gala
he's changing the way people think about fashion
@@trykarat exactly, great podcast i loved it
I can see that you're thumbnails are very inspired by him
Listening to this all day in school 🫶🫶
fuck, this video just opened a mental block for me and i don't even know how this ended up on my feed. but im so glad it did bc omg, this shit snatched me up BAD
About the pretentious part, i think it's more like being a coach for a sport where you don't actually play the sport but you usually know more about it than the players/athletes do or that you have a more objective look on it and a better insight. Also i read somewhere that "luck is when opportunity meets preparation" so what Christian said is true but if you're not prepared you won't be able to get the opportunity
Og of bros content big inspiration
He seems so nice!!
so excited for this, christian bridges the gap in TRULY digestible media on fashion
I love this guy! haha! amazing content!
Love this
Great pod and episode
Thanks Tyler! I’ve seen your vids too 🔥
Cool interview
Too. Good.
Damn he went for it
Tommy hill-finger, hill-findger, hillenger, hergeburrrr - or whatever his name is. 🤣
I can't feel more identify with:
18:12 "I don't know what the ***k I was put on this earth"
Great interview, I felt like in home.
Holy hot damn, Karat has a killer business model
amazing
🔥 podcast
🔥 comment
christian was like spiderman but instead of hiding himself being a superhero, he's hiding himself being a famous youtuber lol
Underrated podcast
Thank you!
Woah I can't believe I haven't found your channel yet! You seem similar to Colin & Samir! Are you inspired by them at all?
Ohh wait you just mentioned them over an hour in, my bad 😂
The questions become how it was funded , did he use student loans. He shared meatballs with his roommate , so it always takes a 3rd party to back up someone while they skill dev.
I love this guy ❤😍🤩🥰
Amazing video! You should interview Destiny next :)
He was actually going to school the whole time. Learning and grinding in a school. Haha
ok 11 minutes into the vid and even though i wouldn’t really recommend christian’s “fuck it” mentality and put all your eggs in one basket, i still respect that he was able to take something that he was extremely passionate about and turn it into a profitable career.
53 minute mark: this guy is a fucking visionary
I’ve never related so much to a content creator
He’s fucking hilarious and makes sense
27:41 he was cookin
I was like bruh never knew this channel looks 🔥 but then i saw nasdaily 😢
thanks for checking out the channel! would love to understand - what bothered you about Nas Daily?
@@trykaratprobably his association with the World Economic Forum.
He also praised the FTX scammer to try and make him sound like a hero
Anybody knows what watch that is??
3 IN A ROW? IT JUST KEEPS HITTING, GREAT GUESTS!
THANK YOU anyone you’d want to see on next? 😉
@@trykarat he's a smaller creator but i think he'd be a great guest since i see that he can talk and conversate really well, fashionlover4, but if u don't bring smaller creators, maybe fashion elitist?
@@VersaNotVice oooh thank you checking out their content now!
If you are working an eight hour shift five days a week, that paycheck would be equivalent to 75 dollars a hour or 600 dollars a day
Why'd they call him out like that in the title
Someone knows the name of the hoodie?
Karat speaks in 0.75 speed lmao
😭
i forgot yall were asian til u brought it up
The Asian Gordon Joseph Levitt
Very good episode but idk it was kinda funny hearing you somehow fit in the fact that "Aaaand you were asian!" Idk how important it was he was asian, it's just like yea, he's hawaiian so what? Don't think too many thought about it.
His root is Thailand?
You might want to revise the thumbnail, the current one kinda makes him look like a Chinese version of Kanye 😭
Not that it's bad, it's just that it's really uncanny.
Nardwar knows.
Tommy… who?!
i wouldnt say icon bro
Well when youre so creative and competitive try your hand at graffiti
Subs are so distracting.
Removed them in future episodes!
always use euphemism to please your asian parents
Yappatron 2000 over here
fashion icon is a stretch
bro thinks he ye 🫂