Eugene Lee Yang

I really did hate who I was.

— Eugene Lee Yang

Digital content is it's own industry that is going through it's own growing pains as with any other industry.

— Eugene Lee Yang

We have to express ourselves in the most true and authentic way.

— Eugene Lee Yang

My job is literally clapping back every day online as a comedian.

— Eugene Lee Yang

Even before BuzzFeed, Asian-American faces and voices were so prevalent online as huge YouTubers.

— Eugene Lee Yang

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

— Eugene Lee Yang

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

— Eugene Lee Yang

YouTube opened up the types of voices and alternative ways of viewing ourselves that would never have been greenlit by a Hollywood…

— Eugene Lee Yang

I think that there's a lot of different factors that played into the coming out process I've had with the public. You…

— Eugene Lee Yang

Content isn't just a brand or message that you develop yourself and then throw out into the echo chamber. It's a mirror.

— Eugene Lee Yang

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.…

— Eugene Lee Yang

One of the first things that I found audiences related to me on outside of my identity was just my general cynical…

— Eugene Lee Yang

We have the right to be angry about our representation in the media. It's just not a reflection of how we live…

— Eugene Lee Yang

I think as you become a more open person and let others in, just in your regular life, you'll be surprised by…

— Eugene Lee Yang

I'm most concerned with committing to characters that contribute to more complex, modern and dynamic Asian-American representation on screen.

— Eugene Lee Yang

A lot of times I go to a comedy show, I sit there and wait for the comedian to run out of…

— Eugene Lee Yang

Growing up in Texas, I was already dealing with the fact that I didn't even know I was Asian until a certain…

— Eugene Lee Yang

As a small kid from Texas, I just imagined that Hollywood was this world that was really foreign and far away and…

— Eugene Lee Yang

The coming out video was not just for the masses, but also for many people in my family.

— Eugene Lee Yang

The viral landscape is shifting and changing.

— Eugene Lee Yang

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

— Eugene Lee Yang

I was a very insecure, self-conscious kid, and as an artist even more so.

— Eugene Lee Yang

I know many YouTubers who are these amazing LGBTQ icons for young people, but many of them have not come out publicly,…

— Eugene Lee Yang

Even if it's just the smallest thing, like what label I go by, I think to find the truth and express it…

— Eugene Lee Yang

I always assumed that my otherness was a curse - that I would be held back by my Asian and queer identities.

— Eugene Lee Yang

I am a proud, gay person of color and I will not be intimidated into mediocrity or legislated into conformity!

— Eugene Lee Yang

For some people of color, for some people with conservative or religious backgrounds, you know, we're constantly sort of looking over our…

— Eugene Lee Yang

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

— Eugene Lee Yang

I haven't really spoken openly about my experiences with depression, especially, not ever having the chance to be in any way clinically…

— Eugene Lee Yang

I would walk down the street and people would scream from their cars at me and, generally, I'd turn around and it's…

— Eugene Lee Yang

I've always presented as a very cisgender male and that was part of the reason I was able to cover so easily...…

— Eugene Lee Yang