YouTube Series

Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles

A multi-part YouTube and VR/360 action-comedy series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and a roster of major YouTube influencers.

Client Paramount Pictures / YouTube
My Role Writer
Platforms YouTube · VR/360 video
Year 2015
Screenshot from the third episode of the series, showing Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800 against a video screen showing static. Next to him, Lilly Singh carries an oversized weapon.
About

Arnold Schwarzenegger recruits the YouTube resistance

A new Terminator has been sent from the future to hunt down and destroy YouTube stars who will become key figures in the human resistance. The YouTubers must band together, and they'll need the help of the original T-800. I wrote and co-produced the series, working with director Charles Paek and a cast of top YouTube creators including Lilly Singh, Toby Turner, and Olga Kay, alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The campaign was one of the first major Hollywood studio attempts to build native content within the YouTube creator ecosystem, reaching audiences directly on the platform they already lived on.

Title card for the first episode of Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles, showing the franchise logo over a composite of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800 alongside Ricky Hayberg and Eliot Dewberry from Machinima.
A 360-degree video still from the Terminator Genisys: The YouTube Chronicles VR episode showing Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800, alongside Lilly Singh and Toby Turner, surrounded by Skynet interface overlays and targeting reticles.
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