Adult Swim, the network behind Rick and Morty<\/em> and Bob’s Burgers<\/em>, saw their pilot online and expressed interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “On the Adult Swim Reddit, weirdly enough, they were like, ‘We love this. We want to make something with you guys.’ And we thought it was fake. So we didn’t even reply to it,” he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Two months later, they email us again. They were like, ‘Hey, we want to do a pilot with you guys. Let’s make this happen. So they sent us like $10,000 U.S., which in Canadian is a little more… so it was a big deal for us. We were 20. We were freaking out.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sadly, fate had other plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Pretty much right after we made that, we sent it off to them, and then COVID hit,” he says. “Nothing really came of it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n But something good still came out of it, Christensen says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I realized that social media was probably a good place to bypass all of the distribution and all the production and all of the hoops that come with traditional film and TV. So I just start putting TikToks out when I was going crazy in my room during COVID,” He says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “It just kind of happened, so it was kind of circumstance. Definitely what’s kept me on there is that there are no barriers? I’m just directly connected to the audience. So any films, any ideas that I have, it can just go right to them. So that’s why I’m still here.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christensen currently has nearly 800,000 followers on TikTok, where he posts mini cinematic-style short videos that range from funny skits to dramatic, tear-jerking moments that really make you think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n His most viewed video<\/a> has 25 million views, posing the question, “If you could bring one musician back from the dead to see live, who would it be?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Other memorable skits include “Lost Stuff”<\/a>, a hilarious look at the things we lose overtime, including ourselves \u2014\u00a0and “Missing Socks”<\/a>, an an\u00a0Interstellar<\/em>-style story of two friends who travel to another dimension to find the socks that get lost in the dryer, then discover that only one of them can return.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMore About Ben Christensen, AKA DangerBean55<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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