 What's up everybody take down here welcome back to my channel today marks one year since I rebranded thank you guys for all your support I originally started this channel in September 2016 but back then I was just a gaming channel I was only making episodes my ps4 I didn't put much thought behind my videos back then I would just upload whatever I was recording and it was really easy nothing to it and for that I wasn't getting any views I only had 20 subscribers and there was no growing at all so I knew I wanted to rebrand I knew I had to make a change because a lot of my videos back then were not the greatest I didn't really know how to do YouTube or how I really want to go about my channel I didn't know what I want to really do so in October 2017 is whenever I finally rebranded but I only had a fourth gen iPod so I had to record my audio separate on my laptop and kind of put them together so my videos back then were not the best of quality I was trying though and I will credit myself on that I was at least trying to make something work like I said I didn't know the direction I wanted my channel to go I didn't know what I was going to record I was recording some taste test videos some unboxing videos sharing some of my collections with you guys along with other videos I started to collect hockey cards and from day one I shared that experience with you guys and no not everybody was into hockey cards and they probably still aren't but that was something I wanted to share with you guys and a lot of you guys that are into hockey cards really were interested in some of my videos and that I was starting out somewhere and I was sharing all that with you guys so I was getting a little bit better a little bit better in November 2017 is whenever I got my phone and the quality difference from the videos from whenever I was just my fourth gen iPod to whenever I got my phone which is what I use now was major difference it was a game changer for me I really wanted to branch out do more videos I just didn't know what to do so I was doing a little bit of everything back then I'm not gonna lie a lot of my stuff were your basic youtuber videos or style of videos stuff that pretty much everybody does but I was just trying to branch out and kind of find my way and see what I really truly wants to do and what I really want to love creating so in January 2018 I started to come up with more and more ideas of how I want my channel to be and one of my ideas was to finally start vlogging I just wanted to share my life with you guys more I wanted to give you guys behind the scene footage to a lot of my other videos so that was my idea behind it I did start my vlogs weekly and honestly it was exhausting I couldn't keep up to it so I think I only made it to episode 9 for my vlogs by doing them weekly then I decided to take a little break from that and I eventually brought them back to what they are now which is one vlog every almost three weeks now it's a lot more manageable for me it's easier to make I do a lot more and there's a lot more different stuff that you guys get to see my vlogs now my original vlogs whenever I first was starting them there was a lot of me just rambling on it was a lot of just talking not doing anything and I didn't really like making them back then but I love making my vlogs now I also back in January started to make story time episodes and I came in with the mindset of doing them weekly as well that was kind of what I wanted to do a lot of my stories back then some of them were good but some of them you could tell were not the greatest I was just trying to fill in a spot for that week for that week story time and come up with something and I do understand a lot of people did not like them back then so a lot of my story time is back then because I was doing them as an episode series and all the thumbnails were pretty much the same just different colors in that not too many people were interested in them and a lot of my stories back then were not the greatest so I ended up canceling out that series but I have since brought them back in a different way now my story times are kind of random I don't have a set schedule when I'm going to upload a story time it's whenever I have a really good story time that is worth sharing with you guys that's whenever I record it and share it with you guys and upload it so I don't do it like I was back then just because I couldn't keep up with it and a lot were really boring and this past year I've done a lot more different videos that I really wanted to do I want to get into more subscriptions so I did geek fuel I did loot crates I want to do other stuff I started ordering stuff off of Amazon to try I did my hand on a few product reviews I started to try munch pack that is one of my favorite things munch pack actually gave me a code so I could earn a little bit of money and other people could save a little bit of money so this past year has been amazing going into the summer I want to do other things started to do jerky videos I started to do WWE pay-per-view prediction videos I started to do more thought videos and stuff that would interest a bigger audience if you go back for the past year you see that I've tried numerous things some of which I still do but some of it I had to stop just because it wasn't working out for me it was either stopped being enjoyable to make or it just wasn't getting the views now I'm happy to say that all my videos that I create I am happy making I'm not just creating them for the views I honestly enjoy making my videos now all of my videos I make now I enjoy and that is something I really wanted from day one I just didn't know how to get there and I'm glad I did over this past summer even brought back gaming episode series and it was for little nightmares it's the first game I finished for a series on my channel from start to finish which was amazing now going forward for the rest of 2018 I have more bigger ideas for you guys stuff that's already recorded stuff that's in the works one of which is me talking about musicians that I love so I have a top rappers a top bands a top vocalists and a top artists videos that are gonna be coming out soon I think I'm gonna do them kind of once a month kind of like my jerky videos for this past summer so it is gonna be pretty interesting I'm gonna be bringing back hockey card videos I know I took a break over the summer just because they weren't getting the views but coming back into hockey season I'm gonna be doing hockey card videos a lot more I'm gonna be trying to attempt to do other gaming series gaming episodes I'm gonna be bringing back retro gaming I have a series for mudrunner I'm gonna be trying would you rather I'm gonna be trying higher or lower I'm gonna be trying to do a lot more reacting videos I'm gonna be reacting to a lot of my original stuff my first gaming episode my first unboxing video my first taste test video I have a lot more story time videos for you guys I have some conspiracy ideas in the works I have a whole bunch of ideas for you guys and hopefully in 2019 I will bring back my vlogs to be weekly all of 2018 I've been in the works for a podcast I just don't know how I wanted to do it there I just want to figure out what I want my YouTube to be first and that is my main goal right now so I'm gonna be bringing you guys a lot more new content moving up to the new year and I hope you stay with me but thank you guys for all your support I love reading all your guys's comments thank you guys for this past year I actually hit 100 subscribers this past year which is something I honestly didn't think I would ever do and it really motivated me to take my channel more seriously and to start giving you guys kind of what you want but also respect myself into making only videos that I really enjoy making so even though this past year is my second year here on YouTube I consider once I rebranded my first year because that's whenever I actually took the youtuber approach and I wasn't just making shitty gaming episodes of whatever I was playing just to have a video to upload I'm making more thought out videos now with a lot better ideas and I thank you guys for all your support because you guys are the ones that really motivate me for this so thank you but I am gonna leave this video here so moving forward this next year I'm hoping to make a lot more videos I'm hoping to do it a lot better and I hope that I will continue with my upload schedule because I used to upload like five times a week or six times a week and sometimes I would upload multiple videos a day now I upload almost three maybe four times a week but most of the time it's only three so I'm gonna continue that moving forward into 2019 as well but I'm gonna leave this video here hope you guys did enjoy and I'll see you guys in the next video please take care peace