 What's up guys we're back with another epic video and today is December 30th 2020 so one year ago today I had 1,000 subscribers and we posted the 1,000 subscriber special with what's up guys ruckson 34 back here with another video and today we have the 1,000 subscriber special was a Legend of Blue Eyes unlimited booster box which at the time was worth I think I paid $850 now they're worth a lot more than that but we open that up for the special we had 1,000 subscribers I figured it would be a lot of fun now we have almost 45,000 so what happened what changed how did we get to 45,000 in exactly one year pretty crazy because I never imagined that would happen I also want to show at the end of last year on that special someone commented I would probably hit three and a half thousand by the end of this year and I remember at the time I was thinking wow that would be really awesome enough 3,500 by the end of 2020 so we definitely got way past that which was insane I was not expecting it but how did it happen oh and the giveaway I meant to put this in earlier but we'll be giving away the inferno wing skyscraper and a blade edge all you got to do is like this video be subscribed let me know your favorite moment from the channel in 2020 I'm going to talk about how I think that this happened because it wasn't really in a plan for it to happen but it did in around September 2019 I started posting like four or five six times a week so almost every day and I decided I was just going to post a lot of content and try to grow the channel September through I think March we gained maybe like 800 subs a thousand subs so we were doing okay we weren't growing like we are now so I was up to in March 1,600 subscribers I think I decided one day that I wanted to open a first edition legend blue eyes visitor box and there's a couple reasons I wanted to do that number one I just wanted to do it because I'd seen a lot of people do it and I was like wow this would be awesome especially if you pulled a blue eyes white dragon it would be a lot of fun definitely the thrill is there because it was a super expensive box at the time not anything close to what it is now but it was still really expensive especially for what I usually paid for stuff so I asked around I found a guy selling one and I offered him I think 6,000 often like 6,700 I think he countered like 6,800 so it was like almost the exact same it wasn't much more and I was like you know what let's do it 6,800 was over double any Yu-Gi-Oh purchase I'd ever made at that point I had previously bought five first edition booster boxes for three thousand like one hundred or two hundred dollars and that was by far my biggest purchase before that this was six thousand eight hundred dollars it was over double that it was only one booster box and I was a little kind of freaking out because I told I told my family and they were like you spent six thousand eight hundred dollars on a box yep and so I gave them all the reasoning but they were like I don't know about this so I spent six thousand eight hundred dollars I didn't have six thousand eight hundred dollars I had to sell sealed pokemon blue version sealed pokemon yellow version ruby silver I think that was all of them so all my sealed games I sold all those I sold a ps8 10 ultimate rare elemental hero tempest which for 1700 dollars now it's worth way more than that so and all those games I sold for way cheaper than they're what they're worth now I sold three exodia pieces at two ps a nine first edition limbs and a ps8 exodia head sold those for way cheaper than what they're worth now just like you get the money for the 6800 dollars and not have to like you know dig out a loan or something and that was like a huge deal because it was a lot of money and so I put it into the box and I was thinking okay this is the best case scenario we pull blue eyes right dragon we probably won't probably pull two limbs you know you guys know what happened now you know the craziness you guys will see probably a clip over this but um I didn't know that was gonna happen so I I was like well I'm probably not gonna make my money back we're just gonna do this and I'm gonna try and post this on the channel to hopefully give my channel some sort of traction as well as the enjoyment of opening so it was like a two it was a win-win for me even though it's probably gonna be an L so it was like an L but I get it's a win-win good for the channel hopefully you know I was hoping it would be I bought it in January and I announced that I'd open it on the 18th anniversary in March I held out for a long time I posted that video it originally got I think like a thousand views in the first day which was the most I'd ever had on a card opening video I used to do dual links by the way guys if you didn't know that and I wasn't very big but I did get several thousand views on a few videos but when I moved to card openings I'd never hit a thousand views until that video so I hit a thousand views on that video and I was like wow this is pretty good but then it just kind of died and I was like oh man this kind of stinks so I'm gonna show you guys the graph of what kind of happened with this video so it had a thousand views and kind of grew by a couple hundred views for the first like I think I posted it on March 9th through March 15th it gained 600 more views so it was at 1644 views for six days and I was like things probably not gonna grow anymore I might as well change the title and mentioned what happened in the video which by the way you guys saw it the last pack of old red eyes black dragon so before it had been something like legend blue eyes first edition booster box opening I was like let's change it to include red eyes pull at the end which I know is a spoiler why do you guys hate that but when the video is no longer getting any views I figured how about I just put what it is so when people are searching red eyes first edition pull they'll be able to find this video so I changed it to that I was like yeah okay I didn't think about it at all anymore it was actually like the middle of the night when I did that I just I just thought you know what let's just change it to red eyes pull it's not really doing anything anymore I was kind of disappointed it's like 16 our views is a lot for me but I was hoping to get more because I spent $6,800 you know then a couple of days later I think I don't remember exactly when this was I noticed I was like where are all these comments coming from they're all in the LOB video why do I have so many comments so I'm back and check the video and the video was getting thousands of views per day and for the next like 11 days the video went from 1600 views to like 60,000 which as I mentioned before I never had 1,000 views on a video so 1,000 to 60,000 in 11 days I was like what is going on the title change it seems like reintroduced into the algorithm or something and people I were like watching this video like crazy so it ended up going up to 60,000 11 days and it eventually it kept growing I think now it has over 310,000 views now then the video pushed out a lot of my other videos and they kind of got a lot more views and I ended up growing several thousand subscribers just from that video so my subscriber count get went way up and basically boosted the channel so that LOB booster box that I invested $6,800 in and originally I lost money because my red eyes got a nine and every super rare got a nine I didn't get a secret rare only the monster reborn got a 10 and at the time the monster reborn was worth like 750 dollars worth more now but at the time was only worth 750 and PSA 10 so I had taken like probably lost a few thousand dollars on that I submitted all my comments but they took months to get back you guys saw that recently they finally came back but I lost a few thousand dollars on that purchase but the video ended up doing so good that it actually changed the channel completely which was totally worth the loss in my opinion and then later I actually did end up making my money back because the values went up and all my comments came back and stuff like that so I actually did make my money back technically I haven't sold all my hollows so I haven't actually made my money back but it was pretty cool that'll be video actually made a huge difference in my entire channel so now we have almost 45,000 subscribers we've opened a lot of crazy stuff we've done other crazy stuff like that since then like opening the blue eye shining dragon we got just lucky to pull it but we opened some crazy packs that video did really well helped gain a lot more subscribers so basically the investments in the huge sealed stuff actually really paid off for me and I think that the the dramatic effect of the LLB video not being able to scale and then end up pulling the red eyes on the last pack which I was completely shocked I was so nervous because I was like 6,800 dollars about to lose all of it basically because I've only pulled one ultra rare and then I pulled it and I was shocked and even though the video quality is terrible to be honest like the audio sucks my head is tiny I don't know why I made my head so small you can barely see it it made such a huge difference in the channel because of the dramatic effect all the money the risk I think is what made it enjoyable people are like oh my gosh this guy's what the losers had on this video you know I just thought it was interesting how that one moment changed my channel from thousand subscribers to now we're at 45,000 and it's not like 45,000 is like you know the biggest channel ever but it's still pretty awesome in my opinion and I hope you guys have enjoyed all the videos we've been able to do I hope we'll be able to do more epic videos and LLB be on the lookout maybe have to do another one you know let me know if you guys think we should do that that was pretty much the main thing I wanted to talk about for 2020 if you guys want me to talk about more things that happened in 2020 I'd be glad to do it but that was like the beginning of this channel growing like crazy and it maybe we could highlight a few other things but I think that's good for this video and I wanted to kind of talk about it on the one-year anniversary of hitting 1000 subscribers I thought that was pretty crazy that we're at 45,000 now we're almost we're probably really close to 45 right now hit the subscribe button also want to mention probably doing a live stream tomorrow maybe we'll make a run at 50,000 in one day is that even possible probably not but we're gonna be opening up some crazy stuff maybe do some giveaways so I hope you guys are there it's gonna be a lot of fun and I'll see you guys later peace