On the Boy Meets Girl YouTube channel, Taryn and Nick provide viewers with fun gameplay videos showing what it’s like to be dating your co-op playmate at the same time. MeinMMO asked the couple some questions about the background of the channel and their relationship. This article is part of our Find Your Next Game: Love Edition promotion.
Taryn and Nick are currently very successful on YouTube on their joint channel Boy Meets Girl. Since their first video, which was released on June 5th, 2021, they have been uploading new gameplay videos regularly and have been able to collect 114,000. Win subscribers.
The YouTubers are best known for their game series: Made my Girlfriend Play, in which Taryn takes on new games for her and both comment on the gameplay in funny ways.
But you can also find “Date Nights” in which they show joint gameplay and the first “Made My Boyfriend Play” video on their channel.
In a written interview, MeinMMO asked the two YouTubers questions about getting to know each other, their relationship and the channel and found out how the two met in the first place and how the work affects their partnership.
“I accidentally stole the bar Taryn was using”
MeinMMO: Would you please introduce yourself to our readers?
Both: Hello! We’re Taryn and Nick from the Boy Meets Girl YouTube channel.
MeinMMO: How did you meet? When did you decide to start a relationship?
Nick: We both met during our college orientation while working out at the gym. I accidentally stole the bar Taryn was using. When she came back for water and confronted me, I was very embarrassed and went to another part of the gym.
I tried to avoid her for the rest of the orientation because I was embarrassed, but we kept crossing paths. Before you knew it, we’d exchanged phone numbers and become friends.
Taryn: I thought he was cute so I kept trying to talk to him! We spent the rest of the summer texting and calling each other, and then we started dating within the first few months of starting college. It has stayed that way ever since!
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MeinMMO: Who came up with the idea of founding a YouTube channel? What other ideas did you have for the concept of the channel?
Nick: We both had the idea for the channel together. The first impetus for the channel and our “Date Night” series came when Taryn started playing games with me and my friends. We were having a guys night out and suddenly she joined us.
At first I was a little afraid of upsetting my friends because I didn’t want to be the guy who brings his girlfriend to everything. Then we noticed that on game nights Taryn wasn’t playing, everyone would ask where she was. This made us think that people obviously like playing with her, and we wondered if other people would like to see that too.
Taryn: Then we decided it would be fun to take it a step further and let me fend for myself in some of his favorite single player games. We originally made our first Made My Girlfriend Play video as a kind of one-off experiment.
People liked it so much that we kept getting comments asking for more videos like this, and eventually we decided to make a whole series out of it. This resulted in the series “Made My Girlfriend Play”.
Here’s the latest video in the series:
“From the beginning, we’ve put our relationship first, and that hasn’t changed.”
MeinMMO: Did you have any concerns about showing your relationship openly on YouTube? What were your expectations?
Taryn: When we started we didn’t quite know what to expect. We just took one step at a time and promised each other that we would always have fun doing it.
Of course, relationships are personal, and we value our privacy. However, due to the positive feedback and love we’ve received, we’re more and more comfortable sharing some of our personal lives with our viewers. From the beginning we have put our relationship first and that hasn’t changed.
MeinMMO: How has working on the channel on YouTube affected your relationship?
Nick: It’s definitely something that brought us closer together. There were a lot of ups and downs in finding a process that works for us, but I would say it really helped us communicate and get along beyond YouTube.
What’s probably special about it is that it gives us something to enjoy and work on as a team, which is really cool. We’ve never had a project like this before.
MeinMMO: How do you manage to divide your time between a full-time job and the channel? How do you divide up the work for creating footage, cutting, uploading, etc.?
Taryn: Balancing work, the channel, and life can be a bit difficult. We only have limited time together, so we spend most of that time playing games.
One advantage we have is that we can both work on a project at any stage of the process. We can both write, record and edit. So when one of us is at work, the other is often working on a video. We have to be super organized and we found that it was a change to no longer find the time but to take the time.
Nick: Exactly! Most of the time we split the work on each video 50/50. We can always count on each other’s help, and we cover for each other’s weaknesses. Ultimately it’s a two person show and we couldn’t do what we do if we weren’t a team.
“It’s really fulfilling to see our videos have a positive impact on so many people”
MeinMMO: How did your friends and family react to the channel?
Taryn: You have all been very supportive! When we did the first few “Date Nights” we thought about our friends because those were the games we were playing when we first got the idea for our channel. They’ve all been our biggest fans along the way and we’re really lucky to have them.
MeinMMO: What is the motivation behind the videos for you? What do you enjoy most about it?
Nick: Our videos were originally a heart project to get more practice in editing. A goal we set ourselves at the beginning of the channel was to learn a new editing technique in each video. This goal still exists today. However, we now have a much wider range of skills and knowledge, so the challenge isn’t as great as it used to be. It was really fun looking back at some of our older videos and seeing how far we’ve come.
MeinMMO: What are your most beautiful moments that you have experienced together through your work on YouTube?
Taryn: I think the best thing about our videos is hearing stories from our viewers about how we inspired them to play or how they have their own date nights. It’s really fulfilling to see our videos have a positive impact on so many people.
One of her channel’s most watched videos: Taryn tries on Elden Ring
MeinMMO: How do you decide which games to use for the videos?
Nick: I usually have a pretty good idea of what the next few Made My Girlfriend Play videos are going to be because these take Taryn longer to play, so she needs more time. We usually plan the Date Night videos after that. Occasionally we’re made aware of a game that we’re really excited about and want to try, so we always have a bit of a flexible schedule where we can move a few things around.
Taryn: Most of the games are the kind that Nick has been talking about for ages and I’m usually very excited to finally see what’s up with them. We also get a lot of recommendations from our viewers. We try to play a healthy mix of both, but at the end of the day the most important thing is that we have fun!
MeinMMO: Which games would you recommend to our readers who want to get their partner excited about games? can you name 3
Nick: It’s hard to narrow it down because there are so many different types of games. I think the first game that comes to mind is definitely It Takes Two. This is probably the best place to start if you’re looking for a game with a lot of collaboration.
Then I’d say “Stardew Valley” because it’s such an easy, light-hearted, low-stakes game. You can play however you want and you don’t have to be afraid that the game is over.
Finally, I would recommend “Co-op in Portal 2” if you want to help someone get started with a first-person game. We just recently played this game on the channel and it was fun solving the puzzles together.
Here’s the video of Portal 2 that Nick says:
MeinMMO: What are your plans and ideas for your channel in the future? Can you already give our readers a little preview?
Taryn: We have some fun ideas to try this year. We recently released our first Made My Boyfriend Play video and while flipping the format felt a little strange, we had a lot of fun doing it and are already talking about other games that we do this style want.
Nick: Also, we had the idea of reviving some of the older Date Night games, but with more than just the two of us. Now that the channel has grown, we want to spend more time on these new ideas, so keep an eye out for new stuff this year!
We would like to thank Taryn and Nick for the interview and wish them continued success with their YouTube channel Boy Meets Girl.
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