 What's up guys, today we have the end of an era. You might have noticed in yesterday's video that the back wall looks a little different. I mean we're missing some stuff, there's stuff kind of like behind me on the ground whereas I still can't point the right way. Yeah, I'm still pointing the wrong way but we'll figure it out. There's stuff on the ground, the wall's not, it looks different. Why is that? We have officially moved on from a very important part of the channel and that important thing is my old apartment. My old apartment is where I recorded basically every video you've seen on my channel unless you've watched my dueling stuff or my very first openings, like a couple of openings then every video was recorded there unless you've got vlogs but you know, I was living in that apartment. So things have changed quite a bit and I've moved out of the apartment. I am now in a new house, Chelsea and I bought, not new, we bought a house, it's not new. It wasn't built in 2023 or 24 now I guess. So we've moved out and I actually have way more space but as you guys know if you've ever moved before it takes a very, very long time so I've been trying to get set up and everything but it's taken a while but it's a very exciting update. We're moving out of the apartment which it's a little sad because that's where we pulled the red eyes black dragon out of the LOB box, the blue eyes shining dragon. All those really cool poles were in that apartment but the more exciting thing is I now can move around in my own space because before it was a tiny room I'll probably show a video of what it looked like before I left in this video or maybe in another, actually I might say that for another video we do a little tour or something at some point which we're not going to do in this video because I'm not editing this video at all. I watched the one from last year, I literally did not edit it so I'm doing that again because I mean why edit this kind of thing. So we'll show that in a future video. Well, if you want to see it, so if you want to see it, let me know in the comments. Do you want to see maybe a tour and maybe like a little flashback to what my room looked like before I left which a lot of you guys asked for. I never did because I couldn't move. There was nowhere to go. There's stuff everywhere so I'll show you. I have a couple rooms now that I'm using which is pretty exciting. So a little sad that that's coming to an end but very excited about the future with the new house. So I'm also going to bundle that announcement in because I want to make an announcement so you guys know, hey, I'm moving, I'm out. I'm in a new spot with a little channel update for 2024. So back in 2023, I did a channel update at the beginning of the year and I want to check in with how we did. So one of the big things that was not channel related but I let you guys know is a personal thing. I wasn't going to drink soda in 2023 and a lot of you guys who have been to the streams have asked, hey, how's the how's the no soda going? And I've answered that but if you have not been there to see those answers. I actually did not drink soda all year. So I actually achieved that goal. I think at one point I accidentally drank a carbonated beverage because I didn't know. I took one drink of it and then I was like, that tastes like carbonation. So I didn't drink it. So technically I did drink but the carbonated beverage or whatever. But I also, you know, that's the intention that matters. You know, I didn't drink at the rest of the time. So I think I did really well doing that. Another one was my schedule. I was going to try to wake up at a different time. I'm getting a call from Chelsea right now. Sorry, Chelsea. If she calls again, it's serious. So we got to answer but what was I saying? Yes. So I was going to wake up at a different time, try to get my schedule more normal because if you wake up super late, then it gets, you know, like my previous schedule was wake up at noon and then everyone's been awake for seven hours, you know. And it just, your schedules don't align very well and then you're awake at 4 a.m. and stuff like that. So I was trying not to do that. I wasn't completely successful with this one. I did pretty well at the beginning of the year and most of the way throughout the year at waking up at a normal time to kind of align my schedule with normal working hours and people at the post office open and stuff like that. But there were days where I definitely did not make that happen. So this was not as successful as the soda. I'm going to try to implement this again in 2024 to at least have that pressure on me to do it. So that one, those are the check-ins for that. I don't think I really talked about my like YouTube subscriber goals. I had those. We didn't hit those, by the way. We'll talk about how we did this year. But we're going to talk about how the channel did and the channel back in 2022. We had 28.1 million views this year. We actually had 20 or 31.9. So we actually went up in terms of views, which is pretty awesome, especially since, you know, the market for you give the interest in you give us down a little bit. So having that go up is pretty cool. But you have to consider that the year before we didn't have shorts all year and short. Well, we did. I just wasn't posting this year. I had shorts all year. So a lot of those are shorts views, which don't really count as much in terms of like monetary value in terms of, you know, gaining subscribers and stuff like that. But it was pretty awesome to see that the shorts were doing well and stuff like that. And speaking of that, we had a four and a half million view short, which was a record for me. I've never had a four and a half million view video. The most we'd had on a regular video was like two million on the top 10 best trading card polls. So this one was like went crazy. So it was really cool. And we only gained. I say only last year we had 68.5 K subs gained this year. We only gained 44 and a half, which at this point, I mean, I've reached 220. What are we? Whatever rat right now, which is a very high number for Yu-Gi-Oh. And I'm super happy with that. I'm very happy with you guys watch the channel and stuff. So it's kind of coming to a slow down, you know, which I think is pretty normal, but obviously I'm excited about growing. So hopefully we can, we can bump that back up next year. We'll have to see. I mean, I'm doing my best, but you can't really control how YouTube goes. You just kind of have to go with the flow. Cause sometimes it'll be a bad week. She's got to keep posting. That's why I post every day for the last over a thousand days. So that's just a little update for you guys. Pretty cool to see the 32 million basically. That was a pretty cool view count. And hopefully that'll continue. So throughout last year we had the 25th anniversary stuff the year before we did a, the every pack opening for 150 K, which was pretty awesome. This year we didn't do anything like that crazy for the specials, but we did have the 25th anniversary stuff all year. I was trying to keep up with all those different like releases and stuff. I think it was a pretty awesome year. Some of the stuff I liked more than others. You can see my top 10 video. I'm not editing the video. So who knows if I'll remember to put this here, but I did the top 10 sets of 2023. Go check that out. If you missed it, there were some I really liked some I didn't. I think Konami did pretty well on some and not so well on others, but that's just how it goes. And we also did guess that price season one for, I think it actually started technically in 2021, but a lot of the episodes were this year. The series actually had over 800,000 views, which was pretty amazing. I was not expecting the series to really get that popular. The moist critical episode was the biggest. I mean, surprise, surprise moist critical is big. He's very big YouTuber. 200,000 views on that one. So it was about a quarter of the views, but there was a lot of other people that even if the views didn't do that well, we got some really cool creators on there. And we've started up. If you have not seen, guess that price season two. We've changed up the format a little bit to a way that I think is actually more fun than the previous one. And we're going to have some returning guests, some new guests, some people that you guys have requested. Already in the first episode, I've already messaged and aligned with. So get excited about that. If you like, guess that price. I really like doing it. It's a nice change up from doing an opening because we do openings basically every day. So doing something different and you go related as well. It's kind of hard for me because I don't do like gaming, cut, like the actual. Dueling content very often, which I think would be pretty cool to maybe do some live duels or something like that now that I have more room. We'll have to see if we do that in the future. But. Overall, guess that price was super successful. And I think season two is going to be really more fun. So I'm excited for you guys to see it. Go check out Simo's episode already. Me and Simo did the first episode. It's pretty cool. So I don't do want to talk about one more video that we uploaded this year and just reflect on it. The Yu-Gi-Oh has a big problem video was actually, I think my most impactful video in terms of the Yu-Gi-Oh community because every time I would go to a event after that, people would say, Oh, I really loved your video about the big problem or whatever. And then I even see people regurgitating when I said back to me, like sometimes I'll say, you know, I'll put up a short or something and has a price on there and then somebody will comment, Yeah, but Konami is destroying this stuff or whatever. And I'm like, you know, I made that video, right? So that happens sometimes. And it's pretty cool to see like if I have noticed a problem and others have noticed a problem and I made a video about it, that people actually see it and relate and think, Oh, yeah, that's, that's probably true. I think that we probably need to get this fixed. So who knows if it'll get to Konami's ears. I'm, I would guess they saw the video, maybe not the everybody at Konami. I'm sure somebody at Konami saw it because based on the feedback I was getting like in person, not just like on in the comments, people saying, I really like that video. That was a great video, you know, it brought to light some really important stuff. I hope they saw it and I hope that they fix that, you know, make it, you know, for all the stuff we bought. I'm not going to reiterate what was in the video, but you guys saw it. So that was pretty cool to see that kind of impact. We have over 50,000 views, which is less than some of the other views or some of the other videos on the channel, but I feel like more people watched it and like, you know, remembered it versus like some of our, like every pack opening is super exciting. Not everybody necessarily remembers every second of that video because they are very long. But if, you know, if you want to go watch it, go check those out. We have two of them. So very cool. So I wanted to talk about that. Now we'll do a little update on like Twitch this year. I, oh, another goal. I forgot to bring this up. Last year I did, I said I was going to do Twitch three days a week and I did not do it every week, but up until about, I think it was November when I got sick right before the one on stream. I had basically done it every week. I think there was one where I was gone. I did like two days, but November I missed like a week and a half because I couldn't even talk. So reasonable. And then December I missed some because of the move. So I haven't been streaming the last like week or week and a half, something like that on Twitch right now. But we've been pretty consistent on there. I'm pretty proud of myself for doing that, especially since I've basically been doing Pokemon content and the few dedicated viewers are there, but not many of you guys watch the Twitch stream. So I'm proud of myself for sticking to it even though it's not necessarily like a monetary thing that we're making money back from. The good side of the Twitch streams, besides just hanging out with the, you know, big fans of the channel, which I really appreciate you guys. Goldy, unholy fat man. Let's try to think of some other ones. Europa, thank you guys for being at a lot of the streams. There's some more people that I'm that I'm not mentioning. I know they're going to be sad because there's only like 20 of them. So all you guys are there all the time. I really appreciate you guys for coming out to the Twitch streams. We both mostly do Pokemon for the Poker Rocks channel. And the Poker Rocks channel has actually done really well this year. It gained like three or 4,000 subscribers is up to 5,300. We had two huge videos that did super well. I think it would be doing even better. I just don't have that much time to actually put into making videos because those videos take really long because you got to do an entire run, can nits it down. I have an editor that's working with me. He's doing a great job, but he can only work as fast as I can get him the stuff, which sometimes it can take a while. So I'm really happy with how Poker Rocks is doing. I think it's going to continue to do well if we keep putting out quality content like we have. If you have not yet checked it out and you like Pokemon challenge content, not Pokemon trading cards, a lot of people are like, when are you going to post an opening? I won't be posting openings on Poker Rocks. I'll probably post a Pokemon opening here before Poker Rocks because here is trading cards and it makes more sense. So if you haven't checked that out and you like Pokemon challenge stuff, go check it out because we're going to be doing more stuff. I'm working on another video right now. We're currently on the farthest run into Pokemon Radical Red I've ever done. So I'm super excited because that game is super hard. I'm on the easy mode. I know I'm not on the hardcore mode. It's too hard for me. Okay guys, I might get there one day. And finally, I think Ruxen Live. We did, we're doing Ruxen Live a lot last year, the year before 2023, 2022. But I just didn't post a lot there this year because we basically pivoted to all Pokemon content on Twitch. Not always, but basically. So there wasn't anything to put there. I am eventually going to put out a chicken sandwich to your list video that I did with my brother like six months ago. But who knows when that'll happen. There's just too many other things to upload. So that's just another thing. Ruxen Live, it's dead right now. Might come back in the future. So don't unsubscribe. Who knows? It might come back. It won't be, you know, you don't need to unsubscribe because I'm not posting. So it's not going to be annoying. So maybe it'll come back at some point. I think we've gone on long enough with the channel update. You guys know we've moved in now. Super exciting. You saw a video yesterday with this background. So I'm wondering, we haven't posted that video yet. I'm wondering how many of you guys are going to be like, what's going on with this background? And this is the answer. So thank you guys so much for the support in 2023 and previously all the way back to when we started the channel. Basically 2019 when we started doing the UGOTCG content. So I appreciate all you guys. Thank you so much for the support. We're going to continue to basically do what we've been doing getting dressed that price back and hopefully adding some other cool wrinkles now that I have more space. And that is really it for this video. If you have questions for me, make sure to put them in the comments. I want to know, you know, if you have an idea for something you think I should do in the future. I might not do it, but I might also do it. So I might read it and think that's a good idea or maybe that's an idea that I could spin off and change to something that I would really want to do. So let me know your ideas in the comments. Thank you guys for watching and supporting the channel in any way that you do it, whether it be a Patreon, shout out to all my Patreon slash YouTube members, whether it be watching, whether it be subscribing, whether it be people just donating to streams such as Ian. Thank you Ian for all your donations this year on the big and last year for all the big videos. So thank you guys so much. I will see you guys in the next video. Peace.