“My time online has shown me that the viewers will respond most to auth...” — Eugene Lee Yang Quote

My time online has shown me that the viewers will respond most to authentic storytelling.

Some people just yell 'Asian BuzzFeed guy!' and I turn around and distinctly yell back 'Eugene!'

The strength of the platform that I am privileged to have is that I reach a massive group of diverse people.

How do we innovate and make things that challenge the notion of being stuck in a place of just being popular?

There's a reason we all cried when Gina Rodriguez won that Golden Globe. It didn't matter if we're Latina. We get it. We're just like, 'Thank you! Finally, a more accurate reflection of diversity!'

For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.

My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum.

I remember, as a child, lying in my bed at night praying that I would wake up the next day and be a girl, to be my authentic self, and to just have my family be proud of me. I remember looking into the mirror struggling to say just two words, 'I'm transgender.'

If you listen to all my earlier stuff, it wasn't 'authentic reggae,' so to speak.