 Ahoy-Hoy, and welcome to the Dr. Sumerian 50,000 Subscribers Spectacular, which is basically just going to be me talking about how the channel has developed over the last three years. I just looked it up. My first video was published on July 25th, 2017. I published two at the same time because this actually started off as a podcast that I was releasing on DJ Cactus' website, if memory serves. And then I migrated the first two episodes to this channel, but I didn't post it five times in 2017, so I really don't consider the start of the channel to be until December of that year, because that's when I started posting significantly more, what's the word I'm looking for, regularly, and things have gone up since then. Have they always been meteoric? No, but have they always grown? Yes, and this is the lesson that you have to pick up for YouTube. There's people out there who are going to get their subscribers in one, two months, maybe six months, and then be sitting at 500,000 subscribers or higher, and that's cool too. But when it comes down to it, I think most people on YouTube, and I know this is true, I don't think this is true, most people on YouTube grind it out over time. You've got people like Volga who've been doing this for almost 10 years, you've got everybody, it's just grind it out, reach a milestone. I've been so waiting on 50,000, it's like, I don't know, it's some sort of mental milestone. There's a sense of accomplishment when you can say you have 50,000 subscribers, and don't get me wrong, I'm not willing to stop here. I want to see us hit 75,000 and then 100,000, but I'd love to get that YouTube play button, that'd be actually kind of awesome. But 50,000, honestly, never would have expected that back when I was doing my first few videos and getting like, I don't know, 20 views, and some of these older videos still don't really have that many views, but my very, very first video does have about 12,000, but I think that's because people come to the channel and then they're like, well, what's the first thing this person made? The videos after that really have similar view numbers, to be honest with you, to what I have right now, which is anywhere between 5,000 and 15,000, with some rare exceptions that are higher or lower. Yeah. I mean, I know this is a little bit self-congratulatory, and I don't want to be one of those people who, I said this the last time I hit a milestone, which I think it was 25,000, which is the sense that it doesn't really feel like it's my accomplishment because what did I do other than what I was going to do anyway? It's just everybody else showed up, but I don't want to be too sentimental about it. One thing that I find particularly important to mention, though, is that I do thank you very much for having enough trust in me to hit that subscribe button. There's something you learn about YouTube is that it ebbs and flows a lot, like on December or come the end of November, beginning of December, there'll probably be a huge uptick in subscribers, and there's going to be, I would think, a huge uptick in subscribers over the next month or two, though this whole virus thing may change the ebbs and flows, but it's been pretty consistent over the last two years. Right now, or right before now, it's a bit of a huge dip, goes down to almost nothing, as the summer starts, way back up, but we'll see how that works out. I just want to thank every single one of my subscribers for subscribing. I want to thank every patron that I have, including, you know, I'll list the names off at the end of the video, all of them who are current patrons, even the people who, from, yeah, you know what, not $1 patrons, because that would be, I'd be here all day, that would be most of the video, but $5 and above patrons, we'll list you all off for this video just to give you an extra little bit of thanks. And I am going to issue a challenge to you, the viewer. Okay, so our next video is going to be a dank memes from site 19 video, the Thursday after, so next Thursday, I'll probably do a you're wrong about video, but then the Tuesday after that is free. I don't have anything planned for it. It's one of my open slots. I don't, I usually, I've just been alternating things in, there'll be news and stuff like that from time to time, but for that video, I would like you to make a suggestion for either a topic to cover, a type of video to do, be it harsh critique or anything, but you're wrong about or a dank memes video, because those I already do, but any of the types of videos I've done, if you want to see me go back and do like one of my original types of videos, which was a long form, like 20 to 30 minute long podcast style thing, I'll do that, put a suggestion in the comments down below and whatever suggestion, unless it's completely unreasonable or trolley, like I'll use my best judgment for it, but any reasonable suggestion in the comments, the thing that gets the most likes, I will do a video on next Tuesday, not the Tuesday coming up the Tuesday after. So let's see what you can come up with that will be my, that'll be what I will do to celebrate. I've been thinking about a lot of stuff like doing a live stream where I read as many SCPs as I can in a row before I either go mad or die or quit and go to bed. I've got a lot of stuff planned possibly as a celebration, but knowing me, I'll probably won't do most of them. I have a ton of ideas and never do most of them, but this is one thing I absolutely will do. So leave your suggestions, like the suggestions that you like, that you want to see. And you know, I might do more than, I mean, if there's a lot of support for various types of videos, I might do more than one, not next Tuesday, not the Tuesday after next, but on other days. Either way, again, thank you very much for subscribing. This is fantastic. I am so happy. It's gonna be a shorter video today. It's great. I'm happy, happy. Thank you very much for watching. If you like the video or you like this channel, hit the subscribe button. Hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos. And, and I said I was going to do this, so let's go over to our Patreon page. Let's go through the list. Fancy Fenerus. Astrum. Stephanie Fontaine? Yeah, it's Fountain. I'm sorry. Star. Salvatore Lodato. Jonium Smock. Margana Rosebell. Rachel Montoya. Brady Black. Kyle Casamar. Boright. Admiral Anger. Joy Conner. Fewer. Arbiter Soul. Shiny Umbreon. Starina Abraham. I'm sorry. Starina Abrahamson. Eric Corbidge. Logan Davis. Technician Sourwell. Raul Braun. Manuel Moultorp. Goblin Katie. Sinjeriki. Let's see if I can get that right. Sinjeriki. Sinjeriki. Probably that. Ryan The Filmmaker. Michael Mc... I'm sorry. Michael O'Donnell. Chloe Peschlaner. Agent William Steele. And our two big patrons. Probably a wizard and definitely not a scientist at $40. And Lawful Evil at $40. Thank you guys for pledging. I will say pledges have slowed down significantly and dropped by about $100 roughly. It's complicated. It goes up and down. But it's dropped by about $100 since the virus hit. And that's perfectly understandable. If you want to support this channel and see more of this kind of content, go to patreon.com and pledge at a level that you're comfortable with. Assuming one, you're employed. And two, you can afford it. Pledge at a level you're comfortable with. Thanks for letting me know that I'm not alone out here. All 50,000 of you. And more because, of course, there are people watching this that aren't subscribed. I'll see you all again on Tuesday.