 Explore Lucid Dreaming is a YouTube channel that has recently become very, very popular in the Lucid Dreaming community. Several of his videos have got millions of views, and he's now at almost 200,000 subscribers just a few months after starting the channel, and with only 20 videos. What's going on? How has this happened? Well, I thought, you know, there's been a lot of comments and speculation, so I thought I would offer my thoughts about this. So the first thought, as you can imagine, as a Lucid Dreaming YouTuber, is how the hell did he do it? And how, or why, have I not been able to do the same? Despite posting hundreds of videos over several years, let's just wait for the wind to die down here. And a lot of other Lucid YouTubers have felt the same. How has he done it? What has he done that I haven't done? Now, so I should clear something up first of all. I have spoken to the guy. He's a nice guy. Good intentions. And there's nothing dodgy going on here. The channel has just grown partly because of the YouTube algorithm and the way it works, but secondly, and probably more importantly, because the videos are good and people watch them for a long time. So it leads you to question a few things. It leaves me to question a few things, at least. And that is, what type of videos do you guys want to see? And what, yeah, what's, I guess, what style videos do you want to see? Because the truth is in the results. His videos have got millions of views very quickly, purely because lots of people have watched them and watched all of them, commented, liked them, shared them, interacted with them. And then as a result, YouTube has promoted it even more, and it becomes a perpetual growth cycle, or otherwise known as going viral. But it leads me to question some stuff, which is, do you guys want to see videos like this, where I'm talking to you personally? Or would you genuinely prefer to just see B-roll, stock video clips, random videos edited with music and me talking over them? The results from the explore lucid dreaming seem to say, yes, that is what you would like to see, which is fine. And I'm happy to do that. But it's just a bit surprising to me that you would rather, you know, people in general would rather see B-roll than actually interact with a person in a more one-to-one fashion through these videos. But I guess, you know, the market never lies, you know, the results never lie. So I will be experimenting with different types of videos, not because I want to copy explore lucid dreaming. That's not my intention at all. My intention is to give you guys what you want. And if explore lucid dreaming has shown me and the community that you want that type of video, that you would rather watch B-roll and have nice visually engaging things to watch while you listen to the content, then that's what I'm going to give you. Because my aim is not just to boost my ego and talk to you one-to-one, my aim is to help as many people lucid dream as possible and give you guys the type of content that you want to see. So it's not copying, it's actually just responding to what the market and to what you guys, through watching the videos and interact with them, what you have told the community. And that is that you want that type of video because it's more fun, it's more engaging, and it's doing really well. So I'd love to hear what you think though. I'd love to see maybe a mixture is the best way of doing this. Maybe instead of just straight out going and making B-roll videos like that, maybe you'd rather see a mixture of personal content like this where I'm talking to you and you can actually see the person that is speaking or whether you'd rather have just purely one or the other. Let me know in the comments, I really would like to know. But yeah, just to clear up a few things in the community that's been said or it's been speculated that the explore lucid dreaming channel is a scam or there's bots or some dodgy shenanigans are afoot. However, I don't think that's the case. I think actually it's a genuine channel. The guy behind it is genuine. He started it as like a side project actually, which seems to have done really well and I'm happy for him. So yeah, I don't think there's anything dodgy going on here. I think it's just good content. It's what YouTube should be about. It's good engaging content that people like. They interact with it and as a result, it gets more and more views and therefore subscribers and so on. I think another part of it is that in every video he directly asks people to subscribe, which is seems like a simple thing, but I always forget to do that. Every time I make a video, I almost never say make sure to subscribe because I assume that you just will. But I guess people need an extra nudge. So if you do like this video, go and subscribe and leave a comment and stuff like that. But yeah, most of it comes down, I think, to the YouTube algorithm though, because if basically YouTube decides what people see, they decide which videos you're going to watch and which videos make it to your homepage. If you don't even get onto the homepage, like say if this video never makes it to your homepage, you'll never see it unless you actively search your subscriptions, find out that I've got a new video, click on it and then go and watch it. And the only way to get YouTube to promote your videos is for the video to be good. So I guess it's pretty simple when I put it like this. I guess the only thing we need to do as creators, and I'm talking I guess about me and other lucid dreaming YouTubers, is make better videos that get more engagement and comments so that YouTube will promote them. It sounds very, very straightforward, doesn't it? But I guess we've been missing the point with this, and I guess it's fairly obvious to see how nice, well-edited B-roll clips of beautiful scenery and puppies and things like that, of course, is more engaging visually than me walking around a field or than somebody sitting in their bedroom with the webcam on. Sounds very simple, but I guess that's what's happened. Anyway, so yeah, I'm very happy for this channel. I think it's positive, it's a positive thing that more than anything else, it's positive that that many people are interested in lucid dreaming. I thought that getting past 100,000 subscribers would be a challenge. You know, I didn't think there were enough people interested in this stuff. I know the subreddit for lucid dreaming has a few hundred thousand, but that's been going for years, over 10 years I think. So the fact that this has happened so fast is a good thing, and I'm actually excited about the future of lucid dreaming and of making these videos and the community. So yeah, go and check out explore lucid dreaming, make sure to subscribe to his channel, and also mine if you want to. And yeah, I'll see you next time. Leave a comment letting me know what you think. I'd love to hear what you think, and yeah, but just to clarify, I'm very happy for this channel. I think it's genuine, and I hope that he continues to see success with these videos. See you next time.