🌐 My thoughts on YouTube

This may serve as a post to slightly tone the negativity down, in light of recent events, as well as to remember how I got my first (and potentially last, delivery to Russia now is hardly possible) award from the corporation called YouTube.

Roll back to 2020. The grass was greener, the sky was bluer. Year 2019 happened to bring my channel to the attention of most of my beloved community. The hypergrowth I'll likely never ever witness again, a lucky series of YouTube algorithm events.

I still remember longing for the elusive six-digit number, prior to which the growth speed suddenly plummeted and my subscriber count was stuck at 99 thousand for no less than 2 months. The final stretch and the long wait was, at last, over by September of 2020. Then lots of excitement and paperwork switched the atmosphere, until the plaque reached its final destination at November.

I can't say that anything changed in me past that no-return point of fame. The numbers still stood as numbers to me, even though getting an award truly feels amazing. I never really bothered to show the plaque to my audience and I never made any 100K-special videos (I could call the NoEscape.exe project one, but who am I kidding? It was never made with a certain number in mind, past which it would for sure get released...) simply because there isn't anything special in that occasion to me. I even made a parody video on FlyTech's ASMR unboxing of his silver plaque (since then, he privated or deleted his video, I really am unsure).

The only real deal within that milestone to me was channel verification, presumably quicker and more helpful YouTube support and, perhaps, extended reach.

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