 What up? We're here. We made it. We fucking made it. A thousand subscribers Never thought this would happen until recently probably in the last three months I honestly did not think this was gonna happen and especially not this year anyway, but um With all your support And with a few things that I've changed recently in the way that I approach this YouTube thing We have made it. I've just got back from holiday from a two-week holiday in Thailand This actually happened while I was away. I wanted to make the video over there, but I did want to you know, make sure I included everything to To explain to you guys how I got here And and make sure that I thanks you guys enough Because without any of you without my supporters without my OGs from the start man None of us would be possible and It's you guys that keep me motivated on those days where I just can't be fucked doing it. You know what I mean as far as Yes, this is a natural bodybuilding lifestyle But there are days when I don't feel like training when I don't feel like staying on my diet when I don't feel like talking to the camera and The fact is is that my YouTube channel and the community that I'm growing Surrounding it Keeps me going on those days and it's fantastic. It's not just about me putting myself out there to try and get famous Or anything like that. This is this is a real motivating factor for me having this channel having you guys to be accountable to And you know, it's fantastic at the end of the day some days. I think Should I be putting my my my life out there on the social media platform, you know forever on to critique and and Hate on Sometimes I do get hate. In fact, that's probably gonna be another video looking through my hate comments Because they are pretty funny, but this video is first and foremost about thanking each and every one of you. I Don't know how long you've been subscribed for. I don't know if you are a subscriber. If not, please do I don't know what number I'm gonna be at by the time that you reach this video But right now we're at around about a thousand and sixty subscribers and I'm absolutely stoked. I cannot believe it So before I get on to anything else once again, thank you. Thank you all Thank you everyone for for every one of your comments your likes Shares every view. I mean every single thing counts this YouTube algorithm No one is ever gonna know exactly how it works, but I know that The better the better the response on a video the better it's gonna do the more people It's gonna reach so if you do see a video that you did that you think really does deserve to get out to the masses, man Give it a like You don't need to share it. I've never shared a YouTube video, but um, you know, give it a like frickin Possibly write a comment. I mean the more comments on a video the better the video does I'm not begging for anything. I never have and I never will I've never got one shout out I've never done one collaboration. All this shit is is on my own and with you guys support And I can't thank you enough. So, you know with that being said, okay, those are the thanks and the congratulations Must have been a few of you guys out there actually watching my subs go up like I was and once I did hit a thousand I did get a few comments and a few Messages congratulating me. So once again, thank you to you guys But with that with that being said, let's talk about, you know, my journey to this point It's been a long one. It really has if we're gonna talk about, you know specific dates I Created my YouTube channel. I Think it was because I wanted to watch an r18 video And you obviously need to sign up for that at this point. I had no idea About, you know, most of the fitness industry. I didn't know that I was gonna make a channel At that point. I was I was still pretty lost. I was, you know, 19 years old still trying to find myself I've been in Australia for about Just under a year. This is in May 2010 and Yeah, I was I was I was really trying to find myself. I Wasn't in a job. I liked I didn't have much money and And you know, I just started in the gym sort of scene and YouTube was was like a friend to me And it's it always has been, you know, the accounts that I followed back then Twin muscle workout Chris Jones Matt August, you know, Guzman hadn't even started All of those guys have been busting their ass ever since then, you know For the for the last five years straight these guys bust their ass and you look at you look at them with a couple of 100,000 subscribers 500,000 subscribers and you think There's some people may think that they were overnight successes. Well, absolutely not, you know These guys have busted their ass. Not only do they have awesome physiques. We're just talking about the fitness industry here Not only that but but you know, they probably started treating YouTube as you know, a full-time job pretty early on when they saw potential and it wasn't wasn't actually until about two and a half years later at the end of 2012 that I decided to actually put up my first video and it was to do with rugby So I did a rugby tutorial video. I did I did four tutorial videos I only actually ended up putting up two and and those videos started going pretty well But it wasn't until another year and three months had passed So I started my YouTube channel in May of 2010 It wasn't until October of 2012 that I put up my first video and 2013 went by I had heaps of ideas for videos. I just never put them up. It never came to fruition Which I think a lot of people are in that position. All you got to do is just do it man You know right now. I don't give a fuck about what my voice sounds like back then. I did You've really got to get over that or else you'd never you know, you paralyze yourself You're never gonna put anything up. But anyways start of 2014. I was on a serious cut I I believed I was gonna compete on the stage for the first time that never actually happened But what I decided to do was to make it vlog series I'd seen heaps of other people make them. I thought fuck it. You know what I'm gonna do it, too I don't care if I don't get any views. I'm just gonna make it At least I can look back on it in the future and and it will be a cool little series So that's what I started doing. That was at the start of 2014 From there, you know, I it was pretty intermittent for that that year. I didn't end up competing I just did a few update videos, maybe a couple of training videos here and there by the end of 2014 I think I probably had about I Don't know 50 subscribers at most and I thought Is YouTube gonna be for me? I'm not sure so, you know, if we're gonna talk about concrete numbers here This is this is how the subscriber curve has sort of gone for me Like I said first video went up late 2012 At the end of 2013. I had about 40 subscribers At the end of 2014. I had around about a hundred Now at the start of 2015 I started vlogging a little bit more regular. I started putting a bit more effort into my vlogs I started, you know, thinking about having an intro. I'd never had an intro before that Things like that By the middle of 2015's we went from about a hundred subscribers up to just under 300 So that's a year ago. I was, you know, still struggling grinding along thinking is it gonna work? I'd raised my subscriber count up to nearly 300 and I thought right. Okay. I'm at a point now Where I'm gonna compete so I ended up competing on the bodybuilding stage And I thought right I'm gonna take this opportunity to to vlog to the stage And hope that, you know, that series is gonna get out there and people are gonna enjoy it and subscribe to my channel So I'm not sure how many of you guys actually saw that series or how many of you guys came to my channel because of that But I had a really good time making that and you know, I put a lot of effort into that series and I did compete in the end and Sadly, you know, the videos that go well are actually just my my Body fat percentage videos, you know, the the ones that go the best are ones with me posing short videos The the longer vlog sort of videos actually showing an insight into my life They don't go that well and you know, you do get disheartened when you don't have a big subscriber Subscriber base. How are your personal vlogs actually gonna go? Well, they're not going to so at the end of the day I just kept grinding a year ago I had a little less than 300 subscribers 90 days ago on the 30th of April I had around about 600 so You know, let's put that into context. It took me like three years to get up to 300 subs and it took me 270 days to get another 300 and it's taken me the last 90 days To actually hit a thousand. So obviously that subscriber curve has sort of started started going up slowly slowly And I'm just gonna roll with it with all that being said, you know one of one of my favorite things about having a YouTube channel is the fact that you can look at your analytics and Analytics is your statistics for your channel. So They've got an awesome studio app. You can use it on your phone. You can check everything at real-time, you know viewers Subscribers what videos have the most likes the most views, you know comments come in I see them automatically and I can reply to them. It's an amazing, you know piece of piece of software but one thing I've actually watched over time grow and You know, we're at a point now where it's actually doubled probably in the last year is it's not viewership It's not subscriber count because that's obvious. It's actually what percentage of my views on my videos are from my subscribers because You know, I'd love to have a huge subscriber base that are actually watching my videos You know Having someone subscribe to your channel, but never watch anything or never give any likes never never comment or anything there You know, it's it's kind of useless. It's it's a it's a number on your subscriber count But at the end of the day, they don't give you any, you know feedback. They don't give you anything So and I'm not I'm not, you know saying that I need that or anything, but around about a year ago That number was below 3% it was it was between 2 and 2 and a half percent of my total views were actually from my subscribers and I do believe that was because one video I put out which was You know the first video I ever put out that went sort of viral Which was a fantastic feeling and I and that made me realize, you know, if I can do it anyone can do it But it was it was a short video of me posing I said what does 15% body fat really look like and I knew it was gonna go well because at the time I was slightly under 15% so someone would see the thumbnail. They'd think oh that guy's under 15% What's he on about and before I knew it It was up to 100,000 views So, you know to have one video like that out of all of my videos that went really well obviously that is gonna, you know Bring the ratio out of out of balance So I was sitting at you know below two and a half percent of My views came from my subscribers and over the last year slowly slowly slowly I've seen that number jump and it's up to above five percent right now And I'm I couldn't be more happy about that and I'm not even looking at my total subs I'm not looking at my total views. I want My my videos to be viewed by my subscribers. I'm putting I'm putting them out there for my subs So that's fantastic, that's that's a really cool number and I want to see that rise But in saying that I don't particularly know what my niche is, you know, what is my niche? I love rugby. I love natural bodybuilding. I love dieting. I like helping people diet I like explaining to people, you know How the body works and how calories calories inverse calories out is is an efficient tool to use when when trying to lose body fat I love sports, you know, I love music. I love using my drone I really don't know exactly what direction this channel is gonna go in but I do know one thing and it's it's something that I got told by the man of vlogs Casey Neistat I've watched countless amounts of videos, you know Trying to explain how to grow your channel the tricks behind growing a channel How to go viral etc. etc. But there's one thing that I was told Probably about a year ago and I've kept it in my head I've told a lot of other people and it's three simple words guys. It's just keep uploading Who gives a fuck what response you're getting? There's over a billion users on YouTube a billion people someone's bound to like you Someone is bound to fucking like it. You've got to stop worrying about what everyone else thinks and that's in general life as well But I do believe that YouTube has taught me that lesson and you know, I just needed a guy like Casey who has You know a clear success record on YouTube to tell me to just keep uploading and that's what I did Obviously if a video comes out and it's the quality is not there. I won't upload it I do want my channel to be seen as you know a high quality channel And that and with that being said uniformed every single one of my thumbnails So, you know, I wanted someone to come to my channel and think okay, this guy knows what he's doing You know, he's got a nice cover photo, which I never had I've linked all my social media accounts, you know throughout every one of my videos I've got my handles on my intro. I've got a professional intro done You know, that's something that I never I never thought about. I didn't know how to get one done and It just comes with time and it comes from experience. So We're at a thousand subs. It's nothing. I just said there's a billion users on Frickin YouTube with all that being said, I know I've taught way too much, but this is my thousand subscriber Thank You video. So I wanted to make it good. I wanted to cover everything without you guys This this platform YouTube wouldn't be here without the viewers, you know I'm sure there's a shitload more viewers than there is actually, you know channels But like I said, there's a billion people using this platform whether you're a channel uploading videos or whether you're just a viewer You're all important. We're at a thousand subs. Who would have thought? Who knows when the next thousand will come but I do believe I'm pretty confident It's gonna come a little faster than the last thousand from the first time I uploaded a video at the end of 2012 It's been over Three and a half years. It's nearly been four years For me to get to a thousand subs But like the great Casey Neistad said Just keep uploading. That's exactly what I'm gonna do and You guys are gonna come along with me. So once again, thank you very much Thank you everyone for all your support views likes comments shares subs we're at a thousand and Actually before I go, there's one thing I want to do to mark the occasion I didn't know what I was gonna do whether it was gonna be a food challenge. It was gonna be a workout challenge At the moment, I'm not in a position where I can do something like a 10,000 calorie challenge Although I do really really want to do one But it's not gonna happen just yet. I'm cutting down for a show You guys are gonna come along for the ride with that one too in fact straight after this, I'm actually gonna make my Six weeks out update video. So for all you who are interested and who've made it to the end of this video I am cutting down for a natural bodybuilding show and that is where most of my efforts are going at the moment. So With that being said guys, I'm gonna leave you guys right now. I think I've said everything I'm gonna open up the comment section for any questions you guys want to ask me So to actually mark this occasion, I'm gonna do a thousand subscriber Q&A It's my first ever question and answer video. I'm gonna open it up on Instagram I'm gonna put it on Facebook snapchat The only reason I haven't done a Q&A video before is one because I wanted to wait for a thousand subs and Two because I just second guess myself all the time, you know for me to put something out on Instagram Asking for people's questions and then not get any, you know, that's that's gonna be hard That's that's not easy to deal with so I had in the back of my mind You know this this idea to do a question and answer I do know these guys out there, especially on my YouTube channel who must have questions, you know, whether they be personal. I Don't really care. This is this is me as always a hundred percent transparent and honest to all you guys. I Love all the support. I do love your questions so far away and a video will be coming out called my thousand subscriber Q&A and it will be addressing Every single question that I get because I know there's not gonna be that many So it's gonna it's I don't know how long the video is gonna be but I'm gonna answer everything you guys give me personal or not I don't give a shit Fire away until next time guys. Have a great day. I've talked way too much I gotta go peace