In this video the creator celebrates reaching 1,000 YouTube subscribers, thanks the audience, and explains the practical challenges of managing a growing inbox and why he does not accept YouTube friend invites. He shares his long‑term goal of becoming a university professor in physics, math, or computer science, and frames his YouTube success as encouragement toward that path. The main purpose of the video is to announce a newly launched personal website, which hosts links to the Speedsolving Forums and a dedicated Rubik’s Cube‑focused wiki. He walks viewers through the wiki’s purpose, its open‑collaboration model, and demonstrates the simple markup language used for editing pages (links, bullet lists, bold, headings). He invites the community to explore the site, contribute to the wiki, and provide feedback, while also mentioning modest ad‑revenue earnings from the channel.
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Hello everyone. So it seems that last week I've hit 1,000 subscribers, which I think is quite amazing. I never expected anything like this to happen. In fact, I was in awe when my first ActualFridge video reached 100 views. But that was a long time ago. Now here I am almost a year later, seemingly popular. So check this out. This is what 1,000 of you look like. That's a lot of people. No, but seriously, I'm glad that you guys like the videos, and I thank you all for the nice comments and messages that you give me all the time. I read all of it, but sadly I cannot always reply to it. I've done it when I was starting out, but now there's simply too much. I'll give you an example. Take a look at this screenshot from my inbox. All of these messages highlighted were sent to me on the same day. That makes about 20 messages daily. One more thing that I would like to quickly mention are friend invites on YouTube. I do not add people as friends, because the whole system is useless and pointless. So if you are one of these 93 people, I ignored you not because I think you're a jerk, but because I just don't do it. And that's all the YouTube-related stuff I wanted to mention. Before I move on, I'd like to share with you that Becoming a teacher in real life is actually a serious aspiration of mine. Not the teacher of roeskip stuff, but ending up as a professor in some university teaching physics, math, or computer science would be just amazing. So, um, teaching here on YouTube and becoming popular like this has really been great in justifying this goal for me, because at least I know I don't completely suck. Okay, and now we get to the main point of this video. So as you can imagine, I get a lot of questions, same questions over and over again. That recently led me to think that I really need a frequently asked questions page. But while I was in process of making this page, I realized that I also already have an OLL and PLL page. And since web design is one of my hobbies, it seemed obvious to me that I should finally make a web page. So here you go. I present you with Yes, I bought the domain name. It was about $10 for a year, but in the last couple of months I've already made $0.97 from ad revenue on YouTube, so it's getting there. So this is kind of what the webpage looks like. So come here, check it out, post comment on what you think about the webpage or each section. And in particular, I want to bring your attention to here, external links. The first one here that I I want to show you is the Speedsolving Forums. So these are speed solving forums where people discuss cubing-related topics. So you can come here, register a post. Here is a member introductions section, you can introduce yourself. In particular, you'll notice that there's a search field right here. Please do not post topics that have been answered hundreds of times before. We've had problems with this where people pollute the forum with threads that have already been here a thousand times. So do use the search. So most importantly, what I want to show you is this link here. This is a new community project that we've just started out. This is a Wikipedia page, but only for Rubik's Cube-related stuff. It's completely separate from Wikipedia as you know it, but this page is running the same software, so it's exactly like it. So, um, as you know, the strength of Wikipedia pages are that anyone can contribute to it. Anyone can right away come and contribute content, as opposed to when someone creates a website, he has to keep it updated, he has to maintain it, he has to put in new algorithms, you know, change around. In here we can all just sort of collaborate on this together, and that's its biggest strength. So here are some articles that we've already wrote, and here are some that show up in red that are not yet written, but someone is going to have to create them eventually. So for example, let's say that you find— let's go to software web-based. Let's say that you find a very good web-based timer sometime in the future and you really think it's really good. Then you can just come here, find a section, click here on edit, and you can follow the syntax here and just enter it here and click Save Page. Now notice that we're using special kind of syntax to tell this program how to— how it should, you know, how it should make this text look like. So I'm going to click Show Preview here. So for example, you can see that these square braces make this a link. It tells the wiki page that this is going to be a link inside. This creates a bullet type indent. If you put 3 things like like this, it will make it bold. If you put two equal signs on either side, it's going to make it a title. So you can follow these kinds of— this kind of special markup language, what it's called, to create these pages. I will put a big page up into the video description that goes over all of these rules. But basically, you can just pick them up from going into edit mode and just picking out the parts. So that's pretty easy to learn. And you can just come here and start contributing content. I'm hoping that we can get many, many people in on this and that we can make this the best page, the best Rubik's Cube page ever made, because there's going to be so many of us making it. So that's all for now. So check out my website, tell me what you think, check out the forums if you like, definitely check out the wiki, have a look around and contribute if you can, and I will keep the videos coming. I'm glad that you guys like them, and that's it for now. Bye-bye!
