“Being in the cinema is a dream”: moved and changed, Inoxtag tells the story of his kaizen adventure, a documentary event about climbing Everest.

AlloCiné: How are you doing after showing this Kaizen event at the Grand Rex?

Inoxtag: I’ve been on YouTube since I was 11 years old. And today I am 22 years old. I’ve spent half my life on YouTube. And this is the result of many adventures I have had with many people. And tonight, we all came together to live this dream together because we all made this journey together. You know, nothing is done alone and I am sure that we are always helped by someone near or far. And my team always supported me. My subscribers too.

In life, when we start a project, we are criticized, but there are only those who do not want to develop, who do not change their minds, do not question themselves. I questioned myself a lot and this allowed me to develop. Again, we can always get better. It’s my goal in life to get better every day. This feeling of being there tonight and delivering this message is a dream come true.

In the film, you talk about development, change, and how it would be pointless to come out of this adventure with the same mind as you went into it. How do you think you’ve changed?

I know I have evolved. That’s right, before my adventure… YouTube always revolves around you. People ask you questions and you don’t really care about others. This adventure allowed me to become a person for others. You are nobody in the mountains. The mountain reigns, it chooses. You must remain humble. It also allowed me to reconnect with new people who didn’t care about my name or who I was.

I learned a lot from others.

And for me, it also allowed me to have my feet on the ground and discover a new discipline and learn and be interested in others. And today, that’s it. I’ve found that being interested in others is how we become better because others teach us what we don’t know. And I learned a lot from others.

“Kaizen” will be uploaded this Saturday at 14:30 on YouTube. You could bet on it, but you wanted to organize screenings of this event in cinemas all over France. Why was it important for you to experience a collective moment?

Being in the cinema is a dream. My life is an adventure. The more I can live my dreams, the more I will do. And to be on the big screen, to live this experience all together, to leave the house together, not to watch it from the screen, but to watch it with your family, with your loved ones, on the big screen, with beautiful images.

Be better than yesterday, but not better than others.

There are camera operators who have worked hard to capture these images. So if we can all see it on the big screen, that’s great. And I hope the film will take its place in cinema. People will tell me. I will look on the Internet after the session. I hope we’ve all felt it and we’ve all had those emotions. It is better to live together. Adventure is shared by many people.

Speaking of adventure, you were someone during Kaizen, this is your Straw Hat from One Piece. What does it mean to you?

This hat is the hat of the main character of One Piece, which is called Luffy. This is my life model. I have been watching One Piece for four years. This character is about getting over yourself. “I have no limits, I can do anything, even though I was bad at first and I want to become a pirate king.” He wants to be the pirate king, but all he has to do is just be better. Be better than yesterday, but not better than others. As long as we improve ourselves every day, this is true success.

Or do you have to maintain this adventurous image? A moment you’ll tell your kids later when you talk to them about Kaizen?

If I had to save the image, it was at 5 in the morning when I was going up on the balcony and the sun was going from night to day and there were lines of all colors. It was a rainbow. And all my life, it was a parade. I said to myself, “F***, I’m living my dream.” I have been fulfilling my dreams since I was 11 years old.

You have to move all the time.

This picture, at least that’s what I remembered. He reminded me that everything starts with a dream. And as we enter, many other things happen to us along the way, and we have new dreams. And just because you realize a dream doesn’t mean you have to stop there. You have to move all the time. Life is so short that you should make the most of it. This is what I want to show, a little optimism.

The film, beyond the challenge of climbing Everest, is primarily a life lesson. Also, all of your fans that we met before the session told us how much you inspired them. What do you want them to do to keep Kaizen?

Let them go with their dreams. A dream, big or small, who cares. But what you have to do is take it slowly. Sometimes it’s not easy. It is also not easy to find motivation, to find a dream. There are too many young people who are struggling. So I would say let’s also try to disconnect a little bit, not live on screens all the time, but use the time. On average, we all use our phones for six hours a day. That’s 20 years of our life that we could be investing in something else.

Let’s go on an adventure!

discover. I don’t know, for example, how to learn to play chess. We don’t know anything about it. If so, we will become professionals. Learn to read, read books, learn to play sports, create a passion. All this, discovering many things, using your time to offer yourself opportunities. I believe in luck, but I think you have to go looking for it. And the more things we do, the luckier we are to have them come our way.

So if I really want to send a message, it’s this: Guys, girls, whatever your gender, your situation or your age, we don’t care. Whether we are adults or children, we all have the right to dream. And luck will not be given to us, we have to go looking for it. Let’s go get it. Let’s take her and go on an adventure. This is what I want to say to those who follow me.

The commentaries were collected in Paris on September 13, 2024 by Ioan Sardet and Alexandre Ery