Interview : KPOPP! (+ Giveaway Notice!)

(Kelly) KPOPP is one of the biggest simmers and gamers out there! After recently hitting three-hundred thousand subscribers she has only gotten better and better! From her dating simulator episodes to her recent Sims Hunger Games series, she has entertained for years now and I had the super opportunity to interview her!

1. So your pregnant challenge series was a start to The Sims on you channel, are you amazed by how much people love your Sims videos?

Yes, it has been really amazing.  I’ve played the Sims since I was 10 years old and the first game came out!  Fast-Forward and I am making video game videos on YouTube.  One day I was playing the Sims and I was so confused on why I had not uploaded my Sims adventures to YouTube.   I had to remedy the situation!  I had always done crazy things like the Pregnant Challenge when playing before.  Especially when I was a teenager.  I’d start by making myself and a boyfriend that I had at the time.  Maybe it was because I found most of the boyfriends I had in high school dull but my Sim would always wander off into the neighborhood and flirt.  It would end with her having dozens of babies by various men in the town.  I found it so entertaining then and knew it might make a funny YouTube series now.  I mean, if I want to have a normal relationship, family, grow old, etc…. I can do that in my own life, right?  Might as well make my Sims a bit taboo.

2. Now we know Kelly KPOPP (the original baby maker) is your favourite sim you've made, but out of her children, who would be your favourite? (Of course it has to be the golden child right? ;D)

UGHHH, I hate the name… but Anorexia is my favorite child.  Vaggy Sunshine has the best name.  Anorexia has always made me laugh the most though.  Her Sim has the oddest traits that just make her so entertaining to watch and interact with.  Now, if we can figure out why she was ever named Anorexia in the first place that would be great.  Not sure what I was thinking, it was spur of the moment.  Eating disorders are really interesting to me and I don’t find them a joking matter.  But what is done is done, I couldn’t imagine her being named anything else!  I think she is secretly everyone’s favorite anyways.

3. How did you come across the idea of making a Sims Hunger Games?
I was reading the second book of the Hunger Games trilogy and it just kind of hit me.  I knew it would be a lot of fun.  I just had to figure out how to make a Sims 3 interpretation of it.  A lot of times when people come to the series they are expecting it to be exactly like the Hunger Games in the books/movies.  Clearly, that would be difficult to do on the Sims.  I enjoy the fact that my Sims Hunger Games is based more off of luck and chance for the most part.  I let the Sims have their free-will and very rarely control them unless it is challenge time or something else important.  The series just makes me laugh so hard.  It is always really fun to rewatch what happened when I am in the editing process.  I am really glad people seem to be enjoying it as much as me.

4. Who has been your favourite Sims hunger games contestant from either of the two seasons?

I think Katniss was probably the best.  The moment where she stole and hid the pizza from the other contestants was so perfect and hilarious.  Then again, Amanda Bynes and Paula Deen had some epic moments on the Hunger Games too… It is so hard to choose!  I love them all!  Except Fairy Bieber.  Not because I have any sort of issue with Justin Bieber, but because the Sim just did not last long enough!  We barely got to know him!

5. Are you excited for The Sims 4?

Yes!  I would have preferred a less “cartoonish” look and more realistic.  However, I can’t imagine having high-end graphics with the Sims would be easy.  There is so much running on game all at once that I just do not think they could possibly up the graphics too much without taking a lot out of the game.

6. If you could create a whole new expansion for The Sims 4, what would it be?

Maybe post-apocalyptic Sims would be pretty cool!  They would actually have to survive.  I’d also love something like combining Rollercoaster Tycoon/Zoo Tycoon and the Sims together.  Now that would be awesome!

7. Can you tell us more about the PC game "Nether"!?

It is a post-apocalyptic survival-horror MMO with early access coming this fall.  I’m glad to be a part of the Nether team, especially the one who gets to work with the community!  Now, I can’t talk too much about the game as we are still in early reveal stages.  But, I have played it and it will be awesome!

8. Have you ever thought about making Grace and Trip on The Sims and killing them in a torturous death? *Evil Laugh*

A viewer recently made me Grace and Trip and gave me permission to use in a video.  I’m not sure when I will get to the video, but I hope to sometime in the next 20 days.  I want to make something silly with them.  I’ve been considering making Sims mini-series based off of some of the other game series I have!  I have a whole bunch of ideas for Sims series actually… hopefully one day soon I get to some of them and stop procrastinating!

9. You channel recently hit 300 000 subscribers, how have you reacted to your amazing achievements with YouTube?

It is a little strange.  I remember jumping for joy and freaking out when I got my first subscriber.  Everything after that has been awesome, but I haven’t freaked out quite as much!  I’m just really happy because I love interacting with the people who watch my videos.  I love replying to comments and messages when I can.  It sucks because I get so many.  There was a time when I would reply to every comment and message I got.  I had to stop doing that after about 40,000 subscribers because it would take 4+ hours to respond to everything.  YouTube has been the reason for so many of the best moments in my life so far.  I’ve met so many amazing people that when I really stop to think about it… I just cannot control my emotions.  There are so many things that viewers don’t always see about YouTube content creators.  A lot of people want to point fingers and call some people fake or in it for the wrong reasons, but I’m very lucky.  I think people can tell that I am a genuinely good person. Or maybe not, I can be kind of mean to video game characters because they do not have feelings.  I swear, I’m a really caring and nice person though!  I’m this weird mix of awkward, sarcastic, and nice so it usually just results in silliness.

10. Out of all your series', which is the most fun to play?

Recently I have been loving doing the dating stuff on Grand Theft Auto 4.  Actually all dating sims!  I just love playing them.  They really make me laugh and rage all at the same time.  My friend and I are considering creating our own Dating Simulator.  We are in the planning process!  Hopefully it goes well because we have some cool ideas.  I have no idea when that would happen though.

11. Poppo Dog or Poppy Cat?

Poppy Cat forever and always!  

12. Are you looking forward to the next and final Sims 3 expansion pack, Into The Future?

Yes!  It actually seems really different than the typical expansion packs.  I’m currently thinking of some series ideas instead of doing a typical Let’s Play.  Who knows, maybe we can send Grace and Trip into the future! Hah!  Better not, the people of the future would not take kindly to the complaining that Grace and Trip do.

13. And finally...will Kelly Kpopp be revived to populate for The Sims 4?

It is a possibility!  If the Sims 4 ends up being super similar to the Sims 3 than I probably would not do another Pregnant Challenge.  Or if I did, it would be much shorter!

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So guys this is a note to say thank you for the past five days full of interviews and giveaways! I've loved revealing them to you just as much as I hope you liked reading and participating! This week full of interviews WILL return for the summer of 2014 and will hopefully be Sims 4 based! I also have plans for a Winter Weekend, so stay tuned for that too!

As our final giveaway, I am giving you guys the chance to win the Sims 3 : Ambitions! The giveaway will run for two weeks just so everyone can know about it and spread the word! All you have to do is RT this tweet!

Thanks all!