 You know, this is usually the point where the person says, Wow, I never thought I could have gotten this far. 300,000 subscribers? No, if I said that, it'd be a damn lie, all right? Let's take it back. All the way back to when the channel kneecaps hadn't even been a thought. Me and my friend, Dom, we used to make videos on this potato-ass web camera back in middle school on Facebook, right? We caught ourselves specimen productions. We're complete amateurs. They know what the hell we were doing. We can really afford props or anything like that. The majority of our videos were filmed inside of our houses, and there was like this watermark on almost all of our videos because we couldn't even afford to buy the full version of the video editor that we used, but we didn't care. We had so much fun, you know, we didn't care about money. We didn't care about fame. We just wanted to make videos to make ourselves and other people laugh. Now, after a while, we decided to move our video shenanigans over to YouTube, and we changed the name from specimen productions to bushing productions. Now, on the bushing channel, we upgrade a little bit. Now, we throw away our McDonald's dollar mini web camera, and, you know, we bought like a cheap handheld camcorder. It was at that time, we thought, you know what? We could get famous off of this stuff, and that's what we tried to do, emphasis on try, all right? Not only did that channel die around 60 subscribers, but after a few videos on the channel, we kind of just stopped making videos together, you know? We didn't start hating each other or anything like that. It was more of a combination of us having less time because of high school and the lack of reliable transportation. That's when I decided to start focusing on animation, right? This was like around the time that my biggest inspirations were the members of Sleepy Cabin, you know, especially Oni. I spent weekends. Weekends, just pirating different animation programs and watching tutorials and how to use them, right? I made a few animations on the bushing channel, all of which were God awful, but at the time, I was delusional like, bro, this is so sick, I'm the greatest. I'm like a modern-day Michelangelo. I moved over to new grounds for my animations, which is when I finally changed my name to KneeCaps with 2Ks, you know? I made like two animations over there, finally realized I was dog shit at it, gave up, and then came back to YouTube and made this channel in 2015, again, with the name KneeCaps with 2Ks, which was later changed to KneeCaps with a C. I didn't upload on the channel for a while because around that time, I was working part-time after school at a grocery store, you know, saving up money to get better equipment for the channel. Now, after working some hours at my job, I was able to save up and buy myself a blue snowball, right? I made a surplus of videos on the blue snowball, all of which my dumb ass deleted, and then upgraded my equipment even further, upgrading my snowball to like a blue Yeti, and then upgrading my PC as well. Now, during that era, commentary over gameplay was the hottest thing. The hottest thing, well, channels like Leafy and PyroCinic were just exploding in popularity, so I tried to get in on the trend, right? Making my own commentary videos, but instead of CSGO surfing gameplay for the background, it was Lost Saga. The videos I made then were pretty low quality and didn't attract many viewers and subscribers, but one thing it did do was introduce me to one of my favorite YouTubers, Video Game Donkey. You see in the comments of the videos, there'd always be like two to three people saying, hey, doesn't this guy sound like Video Game Donkey? Hey, bro, you kind of sound like Donkey. And for a while I thought Donkey was like some sort of Sesame Street character, and it was just some me that, you know, a couple of my subscribers made up just to mess with me until I decided, you know what, I'll go search this Donkey thing up, right? So I searched him up, and it brought up his channel. I clicked on the Dunder Tail video, and at that point it was like the funniest thing I'd ever seen. In fact, Donkey made such a big impression on me. My rookie YouTuber ass tried to imitate or kind of matches his over-annunciated, high-energy voice style on my channel for a while. It went from people thinking I kind of sounded like him to having like a full two years of videos where people would watch my videos and think it was like Donkey's hidden second channel, and I don't blame them. And anytime I click on one of my old videos like Toei, I can feel my ears cringing and regressing back into the pockets of my cranium. Now, I've long since dropped the whole voice thing, but every now and then, if I make a video that has any sort of gameplay and people would be like, what the hell? Is that a video game, Donkey? Get it? Cause he slightly sounds like Donkey and he's playing a video game. Which I don't really mind too much because Donkey has really inspired the type of humor I use on this channel, in my editing style, and overall I feel like this channel wouldn't be where it is without him. Anyways, the story ends here. Here we are, 300,000 subscribers. Remember what I said at the beginning of the video? It wasn't a narcissism thing. It's just that you think after all that fucking work, all the trials and errors that I've been through, all the money I put into support, my endeavors, I'm gonna be like, oh, I thought I never make it, nigga, no. All right? In my mind, this outcome was the only outcome. I just knew that it'd take time. But here comes the cliche part and I'll try to keep it short and sweet. Thank you guys for all the support. If I could suck all your dicks, I would, but I don't have the money to buy all the tickets for your hometowns nor the time to do it. But truly and honestly, thank you guys. I couldn't have done it without you. What's up, Facebook? This is all I've said. I can't do this. You can't even find out, nigga. All right, it's us. All right, this is all us.