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Team Trees hit 20 million trees planted. The speaker started it, but YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, meme communities, and schools made it happen. He wants it to become an annual thing.
Team Trees hit 20 million trees planted. The speaker started it, but YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, meme communities, and schools made it happen. He wants it to become an annual thing.
Wow, we actually hit our goal of planting 20 million trees. That's insane. Normally I don't make short videos like this, but I have a few very important things about Team Trees that I want to tell you, and I just didn't want to cram it at the end of a video. First, 20 million trees is insane. If they were planted 8 feet apart, that's enough trees to plant around the globe. There's just so many. Second, I want to on the record say that I know I'll get most of the credit for Team Trees, but I really shouldn't. This all started when I hit 20 million subscribers, and as a joke, we were like, let's plant 20 million trees. Team Trees might have started with me, but it definitely outgrew me. Over 500,000 unique people donated to the campaign, and hundreds, if not thousands, of people with influence promoted it. What I'm trying to say is, yes, Team Trees might have started with me, but it's grown its own brand, and it's way bigger than me. What I genuinely one is after you watch this video, go to someone who promoted Team Trees and just thank them. Just say, hey, thank you for promoting Team Trees. Team Trees isn't me, it's the YouTube community, the Twitter community, the Reddit community, the meme community, and many other communities combined together for good. You guys did school fundraising for trees, you donated your tooth fairy money, you started lemonade stands. You guys were just so passionate about this project. It was just truly amazing to watch, watching Team Trees unfold and just see seeing you guys care so much about the environment is just— I don't know how to put it into words, but I just genuinely, I feel fulfilled. I feel like we're just doing something good. My third and final point is, yeah, Team Trees does end soon, but I'd love to make this a yearly thing. There are a lot of problems in this world, and if once a year we can get the entire internet together to just try to make a change, then I think that's amazing, and I think it's worth doing. So Team Trees isn't where this ends. We got a lot more to come in the future, and just, just thank you. Anyone who just contributed to Team Trees in any way, thank you so much. And I want to reiterate, it's way bigger than me. It's, it's, it's a community. It's many communities that came together, and Team Trees is its own community, and, and I'm just a part of that community. So don't forget, go say thank you to anyone who promoted it, and I love you guys. If you had no idea what I was talking about in this video, then just click the end screen video in front of you. Basically, Team Trees is a campaign we started where every dollar you donate donated, a tree will be planted by the Arbor Day Foundation somewhere in the globe. So yeah, click the video right there. It's in front of you. If you want more information, click it.
