A commenter deduced that episode 2's astronomical view count can be attributed to the Heather's glorious thumbnail.  While this is undoubtedly true, the "negative" connotations with this claim just aren't fair.

Unlike thumbnail cheaters in the past (people who would randomly insert a picture of a cleavage into a video that has nothing to do with tits) everything about Hostile Environments is legit.  This thumbnail is a legitimate frame of the video.

Yes, "look, boobs!" was intentionally written into the script, but for the obvious reasons:

1) Heather's breasts are fantastic and deserve as much screentime as possible.
2) There are many things that make up a successful video, like it or not, tits are one of those things.  Since the Youtube Rejects have a pair, our choice is to use them/flaunt them.
3) If you have a problem with that, get your own set of boobs to flaunt on in your videos.

Heather puts it best on her channel: "sex sells - i choose to embrace it."

Above all, however, is the idea that Talking Heads is, fundamentally, a new kind of user-generated content for Youtube.  It's a new kind of collab ... one of which that people--judging by all the comments on our first two episodes--simply HAVE NOT seen before.

My goal is to get as many people to see these videos as possible.  Not because of the boobs, not because of that elusive notion of partnership, but because this truly amazing distribution platform is nearly bereft of honestly creative, original, quality content.  People need to see what we're capable of.

People need to see what THEY are capable of.

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