A creator found a note from age 12 listing YouTube goals: 1,000 subscribers and 100,000 views. Four years later, his channel has 1,400 subscribers and 200,000 total views, averaging 30,000 monthly. He started with Minecraft videos on a laptop with terrible audio and video, proving that growth takes years, not overnight.
¡Hola! ¿Qué tal? What's up guys? Today we're going to be talking about the YouTube Dream, but before we talk about that, I need to mention two things real quick. The gameplay you're going to be watching, I have no clue what it is, so it could be good, it could be bad, I don't really know. And then also, you might hear my computer just a little bit in the background. It's been on all day, and after I upload this video, I'm definitely gonna give it a huge break. So if you hear that just a little bit, or just hear, you know, a little annoying sound in the background, it's my computer. I apologize. It's getting a little hot, and I'm definitely gonna give it a break when I'm done with this. But anyways, we're gonna be talking about the YouTube dream. Now, you know, everyone, when they start their channel, they expect to blow up overnight and pretty much within a couple of months have a million subscribers and have millions upon millions of views. And we all know that's not true, but for some reason, myself included, everyone who starts their channel, it feels like immediately overnight they're gonna become a YouTube celebrity. So the reason I'm talking about this is I found my old iPod Touch underneath my bed. It was probably like second gen, one of the really, really old iPod Touches, and I hadn't used it in years. It was just sitting under my bed. I don't know why I came across it. I saw it, so I went and grabbed my sister's iPad charger, and surprisingly it fit. And I turned on the iPod, and sure enough, when I was scrolling through it, just playing some of the old games I used to play, I came across my notes, and I actually had a section of notes entitled YouTube. That's all it said. And the only thing I had in there was hit 1,000 subs and hit 100,000 views. And I wrote those notes back when I was 12, about to turn 13, and the notes just said, get 1,000 subs, and it was just YouTube goals, and all it said under it was 1,000 subs and 100,000 views. And so, I don't know, I just kind of started thinking about that, how when I was 12, my YouTube goals was to get 100,000 views and 1,000 subs, and how I've broken both of those goals by quite a bit. And I don't know, it just made me feel funny when I read that. I was just like, "Whoa, you know, I wrote that when I was 12, and it said my goal was to get 1,000 subs, and here I am with over 1,000 subs." When I was 12, I got my first PC, my first computer that I owned all to myself. It was actually a laptop, and one of the first things I did on it was I started making YouTube videos. I uploaded Minecraft videos. They were horrible. I did mod reviews and they were just terrible. The sound quality was bad because I didn't have a headset. I was using the built-in microphone and the quality of it was like 480p. And I don't know, I just really enjoyed making videos back then. And they were on a different channel, they weren't on this one. My first video on this channel I think is almost 3 years old now, and they were crappy Minecraft videos that I made with my first laptop. But some of my really, really old videos are on a channel that I deleted a while ago. I don't— I actually don't remember why I quit uploading to that channel, but nonetheless, I pretty— I mean, I like this channel. It has 1,000 subs, which is pretty nice, and gets tons of views every month. This channel, actually, I'm averaging almost 30,000 views a month, which is pretty crazy, and I'm not making that up. You can go check Social Blade if you want to. Which, uh, 30,000 views a month is a lot more than I ever thought I'd get, and so, uh, that's pretty cool. Anyways, I don't really know where I was planning on going with this video, but I just— I thought it was pretty cool that when I was 12, My YouTube dream was to hit 1,000 subscribers and have 100,000 views, both of which I've completely smashed. I have almost 1,400 subscribers and I have well over 200,000 views. So it's pretty cool that theoretically I've reached my 12-year-old YouTube dream, even though I'm now 16. It only took 4 years. I technically met my goal from when I was a little 12-year-old. And, uh, I don't know, I just, I thought that was cool. It was really unique how I found my iPod and it still worked. And then I somehow came across that note page. And, uh, a lot of people when they start their channels, like I said earlier, they expect to get big overnight. And then the more you do YouTube, the more you realize how hard it is to get views. And then, uh, I don't know, I don't really want to go into it. I just wanted to tell you guys I saw that note I wrote when I was 12, and I thought it was kind of funny how I theoretically met my YouTube dream. But anyways, that's pretty much that. Hopefully you have a nice day, and I'll see you later.
