My YouTube is Blowing Up

Howdy to all! Violet AJ emailed me as I kind of just left my blog without a goodbye - and yes, I did. I am here to just explain myself.

This is going to be a bit of a long post, I expect. And that's because the last two months have been CRAZY. So - let me get into what I've been doing.

Yes - I'm in high school, and I've been working on learning the violin, grades, track is starting... But I started a YouTube channel. A new one. Not my AJ one.

My AJ YouTube channel - yes, I posted for about two weeks, but I wanted to post every single day. And AJ videos take so long to make. It's very hard. And so once I ran out of pre-recorded videos, I stopped. And I was also disappointed that after posting for three weeks straight, I got no comments. NONE. (Besides one person who checked me out after I commented on someone else's channel)

Yes, I could've made videos about the new item... But ehhhhhh... So I made a new YouTube channel.

Now! This YouTube channel is about a game (likely) none of you guys know about... But I won't go into it - this post will still be understandable. But I started a new channel. I was sitting there on December 26th, 2018. My blog was ending. I was sad. And I decided that I really, really liked getting comments. I had to somehow do YouTube.

I grabbed my phone and looked around. My phone had a microphone on it. I had iMovie on my computer. Could I... Maybe make videos for a game on my phone?

I started recording for a game called Bloons Tower Defense Battles. And that's all I'll mention of it. The game is not important. But I went into my closet, and recorded the cringiest, weirdest, trashiest video ever. It was bad, my voice was unsure and... It was just awkward to watch.

Lemme just say one thing - recording videos is weird. You're talking to no one, and it's just awkward. And I didn't want my family to know I was doing this - so I had to do it in private, which means I had to cut the video every time a family member came near my designated recording space. (the basement)

Three days passed. No views. No comments. Nothing. And one day, someone liked one of my videos. And I went nuts. Because someone, somewhere, came across my videos.

Well, they likely saw a comment from me. For this YouTube channel, I made up some rules. No asking people to Subscribe, check out my channel, or anything. No liking my own videos, as I did with my AJ channel. I would earn every last like and view. But I would comment on random videos to get out my name. And then suddenly... I got a comment. And a Subscriber.

It took four days. I could've gotten another account and Subscribed, but I wanted to earn it. I didn't even want to tell any of my family or friends, it was kind of embarassing. My YouTube channel was a mess - my videos were just me saying what happens in the game. Awkwardddddd...

So I had one Subscriber. Not a big deal in reality, but it was a big deal to me. It was a step. I earned that Sub. I didn't ask for it or anything. And so I kept posting, and suddenly, I hit 14 subscribers like a week later. Wow.

My AJ channel had 40 subs. I considered switching to that channel. But no - I left it and continued with this channel. And after ONE MONTH EXACTLY, we hit 50 subscribers. (No longer gonna capitalize subscribers lol)

Now - I said this before I quit my blog. I do not make content for the subscribers/views. And I still don't. But by this point, I got around 6-7 comments per day. It was almost like my blog, where I would see the same people every day, and I really bonded with them. I really enjoyed it. I was getting around 50 views per day, which theoretically is less than my blog - but half of the blog views were my own.

Then... February 16th. It had been almost 2 months, and my channel hit 100 subscribers. I was getting 20 comments per day. I responded to every comment, read every comment, and I tried to connect with everyone I could. It was enjoyable, people give very nice comments... And while my channel wasn't going crazy, I was happy to make it to this goal. I even got a bit of fan art from my viewers. Not that you guys should've made fan art (YOU GUYS ACTUALLY DID LOL) but it was fun.

Then... February 20th came, and YouTube gave me the best birthday present I could ever ask for.

I had been getting 100 views per day, something that I was extremely excited about. People were watching my videos, people were commenting - and best of all, people were ENJOYING THEM. I meant something. I know I did with this blog... Lol. But anyway, YouTube did something special, they started recommending my videos.

I woke up to 500 views on my newest two videos... After less than two months, my top video was at 250 views, and now I had two over 500. And suddenly, I started to grow. I hit 200 subscribers a few days after that... That top video hit 1k views that day. I got 30 subscribers. I had never gotten more than seven subs in one day by that point. And the next week was hectic...

I got 40 the next day. 60. 80. 120. I got 150 subs in one day before it started to slow down... I went from one sub a day to three subs an hour... And the comments started pouring in. And I got a lot.

We hit 400 subs about a week after that. And two weeks later, we had slowed down. We were at 700. We still were getting attention, but not as much of an increase. But my videos started getting 2,000 views a day. I meant something to a lot of people.

I kept going along, and we slowed down a little bit, but we were still going. And on March 7th, 2019, we hit 1,000 subscribers.

Can I just say - I made this YouTube channel to kind of just... Mess around? I don't know, it randomly just went somewhere out of no where. And that where I am right now. I can make community posts. I live stream. I am making money. (Not that much - lol, but I put ads for free money as people don't seem to mind a quick one at the start - I can call this a job lol)

https://www.youtube.com/c/alukian

Here is my channel. The name was made after I typed random letters and randomly decided on this name. This YouTube channel is no where near my blog. But it is my voice, my personality, and I'm having a good time with it.

IF YOU LEAVE A COMMENT ON THE CHANNEL - I WILL RESPOND. I know it looks like a lot of comments, but I respond. If you tell me who you are, I will remember. And I will respond just how q1zx AJ would respond.

That YouTube channel does not look like q1zx. It's a new thing. If you check out a video, you will also hear my voice, if you want that. I try to post every day, but sometimes life gets busy. If you comment on a newer video, I'll probably respond faster by the way...

And yeah.

My life's been stressful here and there in those months - but I'm doing alright. And I'm happy. And I might not respond to you if you comment on this blog. But if you comment on that channel, that's where I am for now.

I don't know why, I almost want to quit that channel. I'm spending too much time on it - Idk.

MAN. I MISS BLOGGING. Wow. Imma shut up now. Lol.

Anyway, props to Violet AJ for prompting this post.

Hey, to everyone. Don't forget to stay awesome. I hope you guys have a wonderful life and jam on!

P. S. https://discord.gg/nkHZYnc
That is my Discord server, if you have Discord. If you want to Direct Message me from there - we can actually have a conversation and stuff. :D