 Hey how's it going? Today is a very special day and it's a very special video. As most of you know, the channel recently hit a million subscribers which is something that I really for the longest time only dreamed of happening on the channel. I started YouTube back in August of 2012 and I loved making videos and I mean obviously I still love making videos but back then a million subscribers was such a... it really wasn't even a possibility It was just especially back in 2012 there weren't that many channels that had a million subscribers back then but a million subscribers even to this day I know that there's way more channels that have tens of millions of subs by now but still a million subs I think is the number that everybody sort of shoots for like everybody thinks of a million subscribers as the first like crazy big milestone because it is it's insane like a million people that's fucking nuts and so first of all I just want to thank you guys seriously from the bottom of my heart like I I never really thought that this was gonna happen this is something that I obviously like always dreamed of have happening on the channel but it was something that until the last like couple of years I never ever thought was gonna happen and after almost eight years of doing YouTube it finally happened and so because of that happening I got this in the mail you probably know what this is this is the million subscriber play button I'm super super excited to open this up I'm just really proud of myself and I'm really proud of you guys um and so I wanted to open this up on camera do a little unboxing um and talk a little bit more about the channel and stuff like that because I haven't just sat down and talked to you guys in a while um and it's something that's really nice for right now the world is a really weird place right now um and so I thought it'd just be nice to sit here and unbox this this this cool thing because this isn't mine this is all of yours you know like you guys made the channel what it is without you guys the channel wouldn't be getting this plaque the channel wouldn't be out of million subs the channel wouldn't be anywhere without you guys so this really isn't mine this is all of yours so it's only right that I unbox it with all of you so let's do it I might change the lens to something wider okay that's a little better it's a little wider it's a little nicer to look at so uh I guess we'll just we'll just get right to it I already cut the tape off because I didn't just want to do that on video but here we go this is the this is the million subs play button no uh here it is here it is all right so there's a little thing in here there's a little business card uh congratulations on your subscriber milestone we are honored to take part in recognizing your achievement want to make your experience and want your experience to be exceptional this award was inspected in package with great care by rick wow thanks rick so here's a little letter from youtube that they send along with it as well you're bigger than vancouver you're bigger than venice you're even bigger than las vegas one million subscribers maybe you've imagined that day for a long time or maybe you've never thought you'd grow so big either way not much can match the satisfaction of finding out that your creative your creativity that your ideas that your voice speaks to one million people across the globe we know that being able to touch the lives of so many people is reward enough but we're incredibly proud proud of all you've done so we hope you'll accept this gold creator award as a token of our esteem with your track record we suspect you're only going to keep growing and we can't wait to see you reach the next milestone 10 million subscribers it may seem far away but remember the days when you were psyched to have a thousand you've amazed us keep daring keep dreaming big and keep creating you're the inspiration for everything we do sincerely susan wojcicki is it wojcicki wojcicki i don't know ceo of youtube it is weird when i was psyched to have a thousand that's a funny thing that they put in there here we go guys this is this is the moment oh it's so reflective look at how reflective this is you can see the camera you can see you wow i don't even really want to touch it oh it's all felt on the back presented to crank gameplays for passing a million subscribers we did it it's really cool it's very heavy it's very very heavy this is really weird guys this is really weird i've seen so many other people do this kind of thing where they take out their one million sub plaque i just never really expected that i would be one of them it's really really cool it's really cool ah ah ah look at it it's cool and it's cool with the lighting wow look at that doesn't that look sweet thank you guys seriously thank you guys i'm gonna put this down and just talk for a minute at the end of the day like getting the plaque in the mail is a cool thing and it's a nice thing to hang up on the wall um but it's that in itself is just a physical representation of what you guys have done over these past almost eight years now um like throughout everything i started when i was 15 years old and throughout everything you guys have been here with me it's been really really crazy like you guys have been through a lot more than even you think um like not only have i grown and changed a lot but you've been through a lot of different stages of my life you were here when i pretty much first started high school i was a sophomore in high school when i started youtube so you were with me almost throughout high school you were with me when i graduated and when i decided to not go to college you were with me with my first job you were with me when i got my driver's license you were with me you know through pretty much like my my first girlfriend ever my first like real girlfriend was in high school you were with me when i stopped doing gymnastics you were with me when i got the opportunity to go to a convention for the first time you were with me when i got the opportunity to move to los angeles and now you're with me when i hit a million subscribers and you've been with me every single step along the way from the first subscriber to now you guys have been here you know whether everything that i just said was on camera or not like you guys have been here through the entire thing and it's really really cool it's really really really special um and i know that a lot of you have only been here for a couple of years because only in the last few years is the channel really taken off um 2016 again like i said i've been doing youtube since 20 or 2012 in 2016 was really the year that everything took off because of me coming out to la but whether you've been here since the beginning or whether you just subbed now like thank you guys for being here because you guys are the reason why i get to do this for my job and why i get to do what i love for a living and you guys are the reason that i've still done it like there have been plenty of times in youtube where i've thought is this worth continuing like should i be spending my time doing something else and you guys are the reason why i've never put it down um you guys are the reason why i've kept pushing forward like you guys have inspired me and you guys have have kept pushing me and like there are a lot of people in the comments that that say that i have made their days better or that like in some cases that i've that i've saved their life which i i don't think that that's true like a lot of people have said like you've given me the strength to keep going you have found that in yourself and maybe i was there along the way um to maybe help you get a little bit of happiness or a laugh out here and there i'm not the reason why any of you may be doing better you are the reason for that you have found that in yourself and you've found the strength to keep going none of that has to do with me but i can wholeheartedly say that you guys have changed my life like i would not be where i am today without all of you guys i would not have found this thing that i love if it weren't for all of you guys like my life would be so different if it weren't for all of you and again thinking back to when i first started i never would have imagined not only a million subs to have happened but any of the stuff that i've that i've gotten to do like meeting thousands of you guys at at conventions or going on tour or like even just being able to do like different charity streams where we've raised we the last charity stream that we did for australia we raised over $50,000 for australia like i never would have imagined like being able to do that and it's all because of you guys and i know that during the these kind of logs i get very repetitive um but i just want to say thank you seriously seriously thank you you have no idea how much you guys have have changed my life and i will never ever be able to repay any of you guys for that i just think a lot about when i was uh when i was first starting you know and and wanting to do this and now i'm here and i'm not i'm not special you know anybody can can do this so if you are somebody out there that has a certain goal that you want to hit the only difference between me and the people who haven't made it or didn't make it is that i didn't stop and that can be true for anybody you know and like i did get really lucky along the way obviously i i've i've worked my ass off and i got really really lucky anybody could be in the position that i'm in i'm i'm i don't have some special gift or anything like that i'm not talented like i'm here because i worked really hard i worked really hard to get where i am today um and anybody can do that if you have something that you want to achieve just keep going at it no matter what because you never know there were plenty of times when i thought maybe i should do something else but i didn't and if i had if i had thought and if i had followed that thought and been like okay yeah i will stop then i wouldn't be where i am today so if you have a goal that you really want to achieve if you have something that you really want to aspire to like just keep working at it and don't let anybody tell you that you can't because nobody has any idea you know um and so i just want i i want to be a reminder to everybody that if you want something you can do it and i'm i'm proof of that because i wanted to do this so badly and i worked really really hard and i didn't give up and now we're here so this is this is kind of a short video um you know not a lot goes into unboxing it but i just wanted to share this with you guys um because again this is more yours than it is mine so thank you guys so this boy will be going up on my wall and that's that you can see the side of my face wow anyway i'm going to end this here i hope you go so anyway i'm going to end this here i hope you guys are all having a great day thank you again so much i hope you're staying safe out there hope you're staying inside hope you're washing your hands um but i will i will see you guys tomorrow in the next video and i'll see you if i'm if i stream later or something but anyway i love you guys i'll see you later thank you