Oh hi! So I know what you're thinking when you look at me. I don't play video
games, I'm not particularly attractive (I have the exact opposite of a fringe) and
I'm an old. Relatively. So how did I convince a thousand people to smash that
subscribe button? Well many years ago during the harvest moon I stumbled upon
this warlock in the middle of the Forgotten Woods. Some stuff happened and
now I'm on the road to becoming YouTube famous! Also one of my feet is a duck
foot. Now do you need to make a dark deal with a shadowy figure in the middle of a
forest? No. Of course not. There's also the parking lot of a Denny's. Or any other
place that reeks of bad magic. Maybe your town still has a Radio Shack? Okay, so
enough with the goofs. But to sort of bury the lede, I don't know how I got here.
But you do have to blame Hank Green. But let's go back – way back – to the year 2010.
The iPhone 4 had just been announced, the second to last Harry Potter movie was a
few months away from being released, and BP was still pumping out tons of oil
into the Gulf of Mexico. It truly was a blessed time. I, on a complete whim,
decided to travel to Los Angeles to attend the very first annual VidCon. I
used to have footage of this but I don't know where it is. And whether it was the
first public performance of "Double Rainbow" by the Gregory Brothers, or this
impassioned speech that Ze Frank gave that made me tear up,
I came back with a mission to upload a video every week to YouTube. And then I
did that. For – almost – eight years. and that's how you get a thousand
subscribers. My job here is done. Except there's more to it than that. Over
all the time that I have been uploading videos, yes there's been a number of
different scandals. And yes there's been a bunch of different people who've
become the most subscribed to on this website. But, in my opinion, the content
has gotten better and better. But for the first ... I'd say three years I made complete
crap. I mean I was definitely trying my best. It was not my intention to make
terrible stuff. That's just what was happening. The good thing about it is
that because nobody was watching it didn't matter! What did matter is that I
was creating. I was learning how to frame, how to light, how to use editing software.
Then I eventually got to a point where I was making kind of decent stuff. Stuff
that I didn't feel completely mortified sharing with other people.
But I became increasingly frustrated. Now that I was making alright content
why was there not thousands of people wanting to watch what I was making? I was
becoming a bit discouraged about continuing on. A feeling that not a
single other person on this platform has ever experienced. I was continuing to go
to VidCon – I still haven't missed a year – but three years ago I put my name into
this pool of applicants so that a top creator could sit down with me and offer
criticism about what I was making. To my shock I was selected, and not only was I
selected but it was going to be Hank Green who was gonna sit down with me.
Hank Green! The person who created VidCon, and one half of the vlogbrothers with
his brother John – who does something with words. I think he's, like, a Boggle
champion or something. Anyway I was gonna be sitting down with Hank Green for 15
minutes. Instant butterflies. I had a small bout of cold feet, mostly because I
still had that one duck foot, but Hank was completely gracious and he offered
me some advice that completely invigorated me. He told
me that he liked what he saw. That he loved my voice – both my actual speaking
voice and the way that I approached topics – and he also said that I shouldn't
stop creating. And that meant a lot to me. So I didn't. And in fact I pushed myself.
Instead of these surface level topics that I was discussing, I began to dig a
little bit deeper into my mental health and into my sexuality. I began making short
films. I created this Media Lab so that local creators could come and film what
they wanted to create. I also found a great community of creators in my own
city. We began having meetups every month. We collaborate with one another, and our
content influences each other to become better. This last year was the best year
I've ever had on YouTube. I grew by over 300 people. There's more comments than ever
before, and I finally crossed that 1000 subscriber mark, something I've
wanted to do ever since I began making videos. Here's what I've learned: there
are definitely ways that you can go and game the YouTube algorithm, ways to make
viral videos, but sometimes you just need to grind away for years to get to where
you want to be. My goal is 3000 subscribers by the end of this year.
Which is bold, I know. I also need to find that Warlock to get rid of this duck
foot somehow. But I want to hear from you! How did you find this channel? What stuff
do you want to see more of? What topics interest you the most? Let me know down
in the comments below. Thank you so much for watching. My name is Kyle. I upload
videos every Monday and Thursday, although this coming Saturday will be
the beginning of my mini-series on the Oscar nominations. You can do all the
normal YouTube stuff to this video. Although the best way that you can help
me is if you like this video, tell somebody about it. I just ... um ... I need
to phone Richard Roeper. Apparently he knows how to get a lot of subscribers.
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