 Okay, YouTube is just calling me if I am live, so just give me a shout in the comments to let me know that I am live. If you're wondering where I have been for the last few minutes, I was just talking to myself, so I hadn't realised that I needed to press a go live button. I had it set up previously to just all happen automatically. Thanks, Dan. Have not heard from you for a while. Nice to hear. Have not heard from you again. If you're interested, Dan is the guy who set up my Discord server. So that wouldn't be there if... Thanks, Dan. Have not heard from you for a while. You fancy doing that. So there we go. Anybody that's come from Discord, that's why that exists. the guy who set up my, um, so yeah, if someone in the chat could just let me know that I can be seen and heard and that I have done this properly, that would be wicked, because I basically lost control of my PC about three weeks ago and just had to reinstall everything from scratch and still haven't looked. Yeah, software is just the way I like it, which is frustrating, but I'm getting there, so hopefully we've got the streaming stuff set up again. Because I basically lost control of my PC about three weeks ago and just had to reinstall everything. Anyway, um, so why am I streaming today? So some of you might already know, so, um, a few weeks ago, you can be seen and heard though there's a tad bit of an echo. It might just be the room to be fair, Joe. Anyway, um, so why am I streaming today? So some of you might already know, so, um, a few weeks ago, you can be seen and heard. No, I don't know, I don't know what would be causing the echo dude. It might just be the room. I don't know that. Oh, my audio device feedback shut up. See, this is why we should test things before we go live, innit? Alright, well, as long as I can be kind of heard, that I'll have to do. Right, so I have been sent a package from YouTube because I have now passed 100,000 subscribers, which is probably more to do with, it's gone. Oh, I fixed it. Thanks, Joe. I don't know what I did. I pulled up my earphones. I don't know why that would help, but I'll take it. I'll take it. Um, so yeah, you guys, um, there are now apparently over a hundred thousand of you, although as it stands, there are 11 of you here live with me. That's a very small percentage, um, but I'll take it. Uh, and so YouTube sent me a box via FedEx, uh, and the box has been as far as trekking it because I was very excited. Uh, it's been in three American states. It's been a transatlantic flight. Uh, it was at Thurcroft this morning and now it's with me and I'm going to open it. I'm going to show it with you guys. I've never seen like an unboxing of any of the play buttons that YouTube sent out. So I actually have got no idea what, um, how it will be packed and what it's going to look like. I'm genuinely quite excited about it. I never thought I'd actually get this many subscribers. Um, so that's, that's mad really. I kind of assumed that I would get, um, the channel banned or something for some reason before I ever got there. But, um, there we go. So if I just reach down here, what's, oh hang on. They see now we're getting issues with the, the software. Give me a sec. Let's take the background removal off. Hey, look at that. I've got a white wall painted, painted myself. Um, so this is, this is the box. Ooh. So disappointingly it's got the nice YouTube logo on it. Um, and they've put an ugly yellow sticker on it, which hurts my feelings. Um, and the driver called me today. He tried to deliver it yesterday and I wasn't in. Uh, and so he called me to say, yeah, all right mate, it's FedEx driver. I've got a package from YouTube. And I was like, does he know it's from YouTube? Has he been snooping through my mail? And of course it just says it on the box. So, um, yeah. And apparently you'll not be able to see it. So it's from a guy called, well, maybe we can line it up. Yeah. Look, just there. It's from a guy called Bill Sender. I'm sure that's not true. I probably means Bill, the person that sent it. But I thought that was a funny dead joke. Right. Shall we see if we can get it open? So let's have a little look. So you put it on my shoulder like it's a, a boom box. Got some scissors. If I can do this without cutting myself, that would be ideal. So undo the tape. Oh, isn't this exciting? Anymore others and more tape. See, should have done the tape earlier. I really want to ruin the box. I'm in. What's in the box? What's in the box? Right. So, guys, they've sent me some phone. Yes. I love phone. Oh, and it smells like phone too. It smells like American phone. Oh my God, I've got a letter. Shall I read it to you? Shall we have a little story time? So I'm not going to, um, I'm not going to go any further. I'm not going to uncover the plaque just yet. Let's see what that says. So it says, it couldn't, can you see it? So it's from YouTube and it says, do you remember your first subscriber? Your 100th? Your 1000th subscriber? Chances are you do. Unfortunately, I don't remember. In fact, I was already at 2000 subscribers before I learned what subscribers were. And we know you'll definitely remember your 100,000 subscriber. I don't know who it was, but I do remember passing. Your fans may have found you while searching YouTube, learned about you through a friend or maybe showed up as a recommended video. Now, matter how they came to your channel, fans stayed and their numbers increased because of your unique voice. I have got a very unique and annoying voice and the excitement of being part of the growing community that you established. Community. Hey, everyone. Let's commune. We are thrilled to see the development of your community and are proud to honor your impressive milestone of reaching 100,000 subscribers with the Silver Creator Award. Congratulations. And then it says congratulations with an exclamation mark, which is how you know they mean it. We know that you have many more stories to share with your community. More like tutorials and stories, I guess. And we know that your fans can't wait for you to engage and amaze them even more with your commitment and creativity and committed and creative. So keep creating, keep building. We can't wait to see what you'll do next. And we're here to support you along the way. And who knows when you reach your millionth subscriber, we may just write to you and ask, do you remember your 100,000th subscriber? Sincerely, Susan. Oh, no, I can't read the last name. Wajiki. I'll Google how that should be said later. Sorry, Susan. And then there's a little card. What's this? So, congratulations on your subscriber milestone. We are honored to take part in recognizing your achievement and want your experience to be exceptional. This award was inspected and packaged with great care by Rick. Rick, thanks mate. Bonus points if he's got a son called Coral. If your award was damaged during shipping, if you have any questions, please contact us. God, I hope it's not been damaged. That would be gutted. Right, so, got me a card. Thanks, Rick. Got my letter. This is printed on nice paper. You won't be able to see on the webcam, but like, it's thick paper. Look at this. It could have been picoric. Can you see? Look at this. Oh, yes. Let's see. I've got nowhere to put everything. I've only got a small desk. So, I'll take it out of the bag in a minute. Presented to, I wanted my name on it. I could have just put Game Dev Academy, but so it says Shane Whittington slash slash Game Dev Academy. For passing 100,000 subscribers, it's got YouTube at the bottom. Let's get it out of the bag. What does it smell like? Oh, it smells like your mom. So, there you go. Can you see that? It's got a mirror on it. Oh, no, I don't want to give too much of my surroundings away. There you go. Look, I do have some sound deadening. It's not very well put up. I tried to hide it. So, there you go. Presented to Shane Whittington Game Dev Academy. What was that about? Okay, that's getting clipped. What's getting clipped? What did you do? What did I do? Hi Archie. Do it. I wish my fans were amazing at my content. Pick up Rick. Gorgeous. It is. Oh my god, it is so good. And it's got like a foamy thing on the back if you care. And some little hangy holes. So, look at that. That is hot. I want to kiss it. I'm genuinely really pleased with this. So, there it is. So, that then everyone is the YouTube Silver Creators Award. There is some other crap in the box. Not much. See what we've got. So, we've got some of this silica gel stuff. I'll eat that later. And what does this say? Recognize your team. Share the recognition by allowing your team to purchase a personalized creator award. To purchase authorized copies of your creator award. Email Society Awards. So, I actually, I checked this. You can, if you've got a bigger team, so I'm just, I'm, you know, I'm a lone wolf. So, I only need one. But if you've got a bigger team, you can purchase additional ones so that you get one each. So, that's good to know for anybody that's going to be getting this many things. I know I'm thanks. Cheers Dan. Yes. So, what I thought I would do is probably about half an hour. So, we're already 15 minutes ish in. But I thought I'd do a bit of an AMA. That's what internet people say for ask me anything. Yeah, you see, I'm down with the kids. So, if anybody's got any questions about anything to do with the channel or me or look at this jumper. You can ask me about the jumper if you want. That is one of my favorite possessions. And I wish I could stand this up somewhere. I've got nowhere to hang it. You think it should go go like there? That'd be wicked, wouldn't it? It should just be there for ever. I'd be so happy with that. They run about what it sleeps like. That part is getting cleared. What is sleep? You've lost me there. Put my box away now. That's what your mum said. There we go. Oh no, Omega Decca, you've got your comment hidden. But don't worry, I can show it. I didn't know I have to review them. Thanks Declan. So, when you're getting back to live streaming, I don't know if you've noticed. I'm doing one right now. So, yeah, well, it's all time, isn't it? So, being able to stream regularly is something that I thought I would be able to commit to. But I have not been able to commit to. It's becoming more of a regular thing. And I have got a separate channel for it. GDA live, if you want to subscribe. And I will do it intermittently. I did do a stream on Marvel Snap fairly recently. And it's just, it's about having time. Sometimes I have time. Sometimes I don't. But at the moment, I'm struggling just to get the main channel content out. Although, I have uploaded a video today, which is going to go live tomorrow. So, it is still happening. Declan says, congratulations on your play button shame. Thanks for also putting up with my dumb ass from college to uni. Yeah, I think actually, Declan, you're probably the longest, one of at least one of the longest serving students I've had. Because you were with us through all the levels and did really well. I'm going to clip that comment that just says smell not sleep, which pretty much describes my nocturnal activities. Okay, sorry if I mispronounce this, but I'm going to go with Sajnavic or Sajnavic. Well deserved. You taught me my, more than my actual college professor. Help me pass my exams as well, studying graphic design. All the best to you. Here's to one million. That while it's taken me about 10 years to get to 100,000, so a million is probably wishful thinking, but I will keep creating video. I'm not very central in the frame yet now. I'll keep creating videos and we'll see how it goes. I'll have to send you a big tip as soon as I'm in the presentation to do so, money wise. Yeah, that's fine. To be honest though, if you're watching the videos, if you click in like, if you're leaving comments, that's enough. That helps me out and that's really appreciated. That means that you know how we're all sleeves to the big YouTube algorithm in the sky. Anything you can do that helps that out. Literally just watching the videos from start to end does so much for giving a channel a boost. You know, if you really want to support any channel, not just mine. If you can see they're putting videos out, just watch them. Even if you're not really watching and press play, put your phone down or walk away from your PC and that will tell the algorithm good stuff and that will help. 10 years is okay. I'm seven years in and have a massive 32 subscribers. Yeah, it can be difficult. I know in your case you're doing, you're in a niche that isn't niche anymore. There's a lot of competition. You've kind of got to find your niche within a niche. If you're doing gaming, like I quite liked how LowSpecGamer started out or, oh god what's he called, this random guy from down south who buys like old PCs and random graphics cards and just tests gaming on them. Random gaming in HD. Like niche within a niche is the way to go I think now. Oh no, I've sent the clip to the Discord general so it lives on the eternity. Which Discord, Joe? Which one is it? Don't you be getting me sacked because I will, I'll find you and I will spit at you. So watch the videos you made and linked us to for projects from our personal projects in between serving sausage rolls that is. That's like my ideal man, someone that can do 3D modeling and bring me a sausage roll. That is, that's what everybody wants. That's all I would want. Yeah nice, I do actually, excuse me, because anybody that's been at college with me when I talk will know that I tend to put pretty much all my lessons on YouTube so that when students have gone I hear, you know, even years down the line, I'm still using the videos I'm doing the exercise that you taught us in college. Or my favorite ones were way back at the beginning my students didn't know that was on YouTube back before I really took it seriously. I was putting videos there, using them sometimes and I'd have students that I taught looking for Maya tutorials a few years later and they would find me and I get comments like, Shane, is that you? And I'd be like, yes, yes, it's me. But now, obviously, now I'm a bit more successful, I'm happy to admit the time a YouTuber. I might even get one of those mugs. I've seen people have them, it's like the YouTube logo with ER on it, YouTube Ur. I think I've earned it 100,000. Don't channel Liam Neeson, please. Listen, if that's what I've got to do, that's what I've got to do. I have got a very particular set of skills, so don't push me and no one needs to get hurt. Cool, so has anybody else got anything else they want to know about the journey to 100,000 or anything else? Feel free to drop me a comment and I will do my best to respond to it because I've got nothing else to do. There's no real aim to this stream. I've got the thing out the box. Next, one million. It won't happen. It will keep growing, the channel will keep growing, but I don't think I'll ever hit a million. Not, maybe if I quit the day job, I could give it enough time, although I think if I did quit the day job, I'd have some very disappointed students. His skills are god level. My skills are god level, to be fair. I'm not going to deny that. It is what it is. Yes, yeah. Yeah, good, good. Can you give me some subscribers? I don't think it works like that. Can't really share them around. I think it's a lovely idea. Please don't leave the day job sharing. Well, I mean, not yet, although you won't know, Joe, that I used to work full-time and the main reason that I'm able to continue to work part-time is because I do this. So who knows? If all of a sudden it blew up and I didn't need to keep coming to the day job, would I? I could tell you that I would just leave immediately. I would at least see out the rest of the year. So you're probably safe. You'd be fine. Keep up the great work. It's been a pleasure following you since 2019. Thank you Play Club DK. Is the DK for Donkey Kong? Yeah, thanks dude. I wonder who would like my longest-serving subscribers that still kind of checks the videos out from time to time. I bet there's at least one that's from like 2013 or something. In fact, what year did I join because I'm not really sure. Let's go to my back page. YouTube.com. Because it might be longer than 10 years actually. I say 10 years which makes it sound like I didn't take all that long to get there. Oh my god, it has taken a while. So let's go to about 2012. Oh no, it is 10 years. January 2012. So almost 11 years. That's not too bad is it? Although I thought. Because I've been teaching for longer than that and I'm sure I started using YouTube like in my first couple of years. Maybe I didn't. Weird. All right, cool. This ain't Twitch mate. Do you know what? Sometimes I do simulcast to Twitch so it could be. It's not today because I couldn't be able to get that set up. That's another three accounts I've got to remember my password for. But I could do it. So if it took you 10 years 100k that means you'll reach 1 million by the year 2112. Persistence is key. Yeah, it's exponential. It actually, the Pika Squad, it's not exponential. For a lot of channels it's exponential. My Grove Curve actually went up and then came back down. It depends on how consistent you are. So I in the last year kind of since COVID really COVID ruined me. I've been less consistent with the channel and the views and the subscriber, like daily subscribers have reflected that. So it can be exponential. But that's not necessarily the case. Mine hasn't been linear. It's been like a bell curve. But up until that point it was kind of linear. So it's not always like that. Oh yeah, finally was able to put up a bit of money for an actual PC7 booted up meal yet. Oh, you should. If you've not had a good play with a meal engine 5 it just keeps getting better. I've been having so much fun with it. My next video is going to be blending the mega scans materials, which was a lot of fun. So yeah, you should definitely check it out. Okay, that's all I've got. When you make it to a meal I can brag it about to everyone after college. Well, you met a guy that's got a million subscribers. I don't think anyone will care, but fine. Interestingly, so I'm at 100,000 subscribers. Now, I think a lot of people, I suppose it depends on their, I think they call it a vertical on YouTube, kind of their topic. I think people sort of start to get like a little bit of fame from that. I can honestly say that I've been recognised once, ever, from my YouTube exploits. I mean, to be fair, I'm facing that on a lot of the videos because I don't want to scare people off. But it was, I went to a gaming convention in the UK called, God, what's it called? Oh my god, I've got a complete blank. EGX, it's called EGX. So I went to EGX in London and I ended up having to run the trip, which I wasn't expecting to do. So I was a little bit more stressed than I would normally have been and as I was walking to go and get the ticket, so I was trying to be as quick as I can because I had, I don't know, like a 100-ish, 50-ish, I don't know how many students were there for you, waiting for me to come back. And as I was walking, someone just grabbed my arm and then was like looking at me in the face, like, I know you. It turns out it was a lady, I think she's called Deborah, who I had chatted to on Discord about like teaching related stuff. And she was like, I know you and like I was just frightened at the time because I wasn't expecting it. So that was, I don't think I would be built for that kind of recognition. I'd probably just just sit in the corner and wait for it to all blow over. But it was nice. If he leaves, game students would probably fail. Nah, they'd be fine. There's a, there's a, everyone's replaceable. I mean, you could replace me with, you know, someone worse. I mean, if you were replacing a car, you could, you know, go from a, you get a Veyron to a Skoda and you'd still have a car. But would it be as good? No. MrBeast tips on the algorithm. Yeah, oh God. I think MrBeast just got started by giving money away and filming it, didn't he? I ain't got enough to do that. Good idea though. I want to use UE5. I just don't want to start any fires either. That'd be fine. When I was using it one day, my graphics card literally fell out. My computer had a big old beeping fit about it. It took me a while to figure it out as well. I was like, oh no, what's happened? What's going wrong? But it's been fine ever since. Just got to put the graphics card in a bit more firmly. Yeah, my teacher at college made it massive on YouTube, innit? And then it left with three months at college to go and then I failed all my assignments because no one was there to mark them and I'll never forgive him. Son of a bitch. I know you have seen me in the real world. You have seen me in the real world. Most of the people on the on the chat tonight have seen me in the real world. I'm not, I'm quite humble, you know? I'm just chained. That's all I am. I don't know, big deal. Although, Gamediver Academy equals Bugater Veyron, pretty much. I mean, it's a metaphor. I'm not actually a car, but in terms of, you know, Crème de la Crème. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Mr Beaks went from reviewing kids' outros to videos giving away thousands of pounds. Yeah, what scares me most about him is he record a video saying, you know, like in the next five years or something, I'm going to be the biggest YouTuber in the world and then he just went and did it. Like, how scary is that that he just did it? And he's done it all with that ridiculous tash that makes it like a pedophile, which, you know, if you've got that kind of hindrance on your face and you still go on to be huge, fair play to you. I mean, he's got his own burger place now. That's like my dream. A place that serves like ground up meat on bread as like a tribute to you. I'd love that. Um, no, you are a car. It's been said, it's been said, I could make a job about people riding me. I won't, but there's one there. I think I think I could make that joke if I wanted to. Um, yeah, right. Um, so nobody else got anything while we're here that they would like to discuss um before we wrap it up because we've been here for about 30 minutes um and I'm getting old now. I can't really be relied on for more than half an hour's time spent doing anything. Um, do I play any games in my spare time? I do. Um, in fact, if I'm going to be perfectly honest, one of the reasons um that I've been putting out fewer videos than I used to is that I've gotten into gaming a lot more. I spend a lot of time on rocket league these days because it's a really good game but you can just sit down and you can have five minutes or you can have an hour, have a few games and it's got the online competitive thing that I like and you can improve at it. Um, so that, that works me. It fits in with kind of my lifestyle because I can't really get into longer games you know so um you're sort of 60 plus games. I tend not to start them because I know I'll never finish them which would frustrate me but games that I've got you know short iteration cycles or short like what not iteration what's the word I'm looking for short gameplay loops such as rocket league suit me down to the ground and dare I say at the risk of being ridiculed I quite like Fortnite as well um it's just a fun game it's a really good party game and it's I suck at shooting games but because there's so much shield on it people can be humbling you for ages before you actually die so it gives you time to sort of kind of sort your shit out and shoot back so that was pretty good as well. Um idea for a burger a bevel burger a square bevel burger extrusion eggs extrusion eggs why so a 3d art themed burger restaurant can't see it doing ever so well yeah maybe I don't know if that would translate it would be a very specific kind of geek that would want to go and eat there so I might not I'm not going to invest in that right now unsubscribe for that sucks you don't even know if you were to play fortnight with me you would have a hell of a time um and I um fortnight zero build is all right I would agree I defy anybody to play fortnight with a group of friends and not have fun um it doesn't I don't know what that it doesn't refers to badly UV fries yeah I mean to be fair you wouldn't really have to UV fries would you pretty basic just kind of yellow I like the way we're talking about the deep stuff tonight you know what what puns can we come up with for fast food um maybe you could do and do something with pizza I don't know what but I'm sure there's something you could do UV map to meatballs yeah I'm not feeling it I'm not feeling it automatic UV fries yeah yeah that works a bit better yeah yeah I play rocket with you when you're actually online yeah you know we've played and you've you've seen my talent you know how good I am so yeah I actually I have I have improved I am now diamond two now those of you that are good at rocket league will realize that that's not amazing but compared to where I was I'm quite positive I can aerial sometimes now and I don't always let the ball go straight past me ah polygon there's something we could do with pizza and triangles isn't there or you'd have like some kind of theme so maybe you'd refer to your calories as triangles so you know anything that was low fat you'd have it as like low low poly like you want the low poly dressing with that and they'd be like yeah I'm just watching I'm watching my waist like that's a smart choice because you're fat so that would be pretty good and platinum two platinum two you got to pump those numbers up although that is a big improvement from where you were um I got stuck up platinum two for ages moving from platinum to diamond was really difficult because that yeah kind of have to start aerailing so yeah although it does take me ages to get good at games because I just have no natural talent anybody that's ever played a shoot with me will know if anybody starts shooting at me so if I'm playing like Call of Duty or Halo if you start shooting at me you'll notice my character start sprinting forward and then shooting into the air because what I kind of do is just press forward and everything and just hit all the all the triggers and just completely lose my core so it's still the waistline have I played Minecraft I haven't my kids play Minecraft I don't get it I don't understand what the attraction is of it I think I'm too old or just not creative enough um it looks very square so yeah I'm sure I'm thinking if you want to build stuff then that's something but I just it's not something that I've ever understood I appreciate it as a massive game and I've you know I've done lots of reading around it and I quite like seeing that Notch has gone mental since he sold it to Microsoft which is interesting in itself but nah it's not a game that I have been able to play but yeah you gotta remember I'm an old man now you know all this new fangled stuff's a bit over my head all the gaming talent we went to me talent that's how we put people down cool um yeah right well I think what I'm going to do then team is I'm going to wrap it up I think what we'll do though is I'll just give you one more look at the good stuff oh oh look at that sexy little ooh ooh oh it's cold on my face that's amazing I don't know I'm going to put it I have no idea where this is going to go um can I oh look you got two me's hi um so yeah this is this is the award um it is because I'm amazing YouTube recognized my genius and thought that guy needs himself a creator award and they sent it to me and I got it so that's what the the stream is all about makes me happy and I want the gold one I'm not going to get it but god I would like a gold one it would it would make me so happy so yeah that's that's the good stuff that's what we're all there for I'll try I have got some shelves over there I might be able to in future videos angle the camera I mean this is a this is what we call in the UK a box room and like you can see like I've got my desk in front of me right up against the wall like I'm touching the wall there and I'm touching the wall there like I can't even stretch my arms that it's a small room so like this is the studio um so angle in it so that you can see where I would put the award and not showing just how terrible this room is would be a hell of a camera angle to find but I'll give it a go um kiss it this this is not my only fans page I might set that up I think there might be some money in it an only fans page of a a guy doing stuff to a youtube award I'd pay for that so have you played eldering I haven't played eldering I've looked at it I think it looks cool it's going to take too many hours so I just haven't started it also you've got to get good ain't yet and that wouldn't suit me um I can't play Minecraft for too long before I get bored to be honest yeah I like Minecraft but I get bored after an hour someone got burned nice fridge because it was cold um kiss it well you have immediate thing for show and tell yeah oh god yeah any chance here to whip it out now I'll definitely be doing that don't you worry my wife's going to take it into she's a teacher she's going to take it into her class because she's told them all that her husband's got a youtube award now they're like oh my god can we see it I want to touch it they actually said can we touch it and I don't want them too because kids have got sticky hands I might have to kill some kids which I promise I wouldn't do anymore so yeah that's it right I think we're gonna call it then guys thanks for joining me in this celebration and getting the uh the thing out of the box it's been real so here's to you know another 900 000 um subscribers and then we'll maybe we'll do this again I mean I will probably just be a head in a jar at that point but you know I still look good um cool so uh thanks for watching there's a video dropping tomorrow so if you wanting to learn some on-meal engine material stuff then check that out thanks for subscribing please don't unsubscribe that'll really knacker up the whole 100k thing I've got going on and I hope to see you in a future video and I've just got to find where we click on the end stream it's there I'm gonna click the button right bye everyone your stream will stop immediately all right I'll do it