Greetings, I, TheWarOwl greets you.
It's been a long time coming, and I should have made this video a long time ago, but I'm here now
and I'm pleased to announce that my YouTube channel, TheWarOwl, has reached the important milestone of
one million subscribers!
I can't even begin to conceptualize what that looks like.
1 million people out there, of you guys across the entire world,
watched one of my videos, and then clicked a button that said, "I want to see more".
That is incredibly humbling, thank you guys so much for that.
I wanted to make this video a while ago. I...
Every idea I thought of, nothing was good enough. Nothing I came up with
really lived up to what I wanted to do for this because it is such a big deal for myself and for the channel.
So I put it off. I never did it. I never made this video.
So screw it!
I'm not going to make some fancy production or some fancy speech or anything like that.
I'm just going to talk about and share something with you that I normally do not talk about.
Myself!
I've always been completely focused on the content of this channel.
I've never made it about myself personally or talked about myself.
Here's some proof - Ask yourself a question:
What's my name?
So why is it that nobody knows my name?
Nobody ever asked...
Here's how you start a YouTube video.
It's time you knew the truth.
My name is not really WarOwl.
My name is...
See, not really a big deal. My name's Brent. I'm Brent.
Alright now that we got the clickbait out of the way, let's get to the contents... of the video. b
So why am I posting this video today?
Today is the three year anniversary of me doing YouTube
full-time, so it's a big deal. We're going to go back in the past here and watch my
100k subscriber face reveal 3 years ago.
"Greetings. I, TheWarOwl greets you." There he is. There's Ol fetus face himself, my goodness.
You can see how time passes so quickly. It's hard to believe it was three years ago that
I look like that, but like fish creature "and yes, I'm aware of the very low voice to face ratio."
We have fixed that.
We fixed that over the years guys. 40 pounds lost later,
better. That's the same hairstyle, isn't it? Better beard, later. Oh my gosh. "I am sincere..."
If your face looks like a fetus you might have diabeetus.
"...ly grateful to all of you folks for all the support you've given me."
"This is my passion. This is what I think of when I wake up in the morning."
"This is what I think of before I go to bed. This is really what I want to pursue."
"Thank you, big giant thanks to all of my friends who originally forced me to do this."
"Thank you to all of the YouTubers out there. All those guys, Tweeday,
this is a big community of guys," What did he do? "who really helped me along big time" What did Tweeday do?!
"Big thanks to Counter Strike's team" I don't remember that. "especially those guys who helped me really early on."
"like Jimmy whisenhunt and Cory done who gave me that that sort of"
"early exposure..." They are not really around anymore, are they? "Thanks to the Reddit community, all of you Redditors for the upvotes..." Stop it!
Did I just thank the Reddit community?
What happened after three years man? Those people hate me now. It's ridiculous.
"To the developers of the game, to Valve. We, the community very much
appreciate the work that you guys do" Lie. "so giant thank you..." OK, I appreciate the work that they do.
The community doesn't seem to appreciate the work that they do. So maybe I was speaking for myself,
that's a lovely little face. My goodness. Look, I... You can see how depressed
I was. Just like in my eyes right there.
"They have actually on numerous occasion reached out to me directly so big thanks to you guys.." reached out to me...
"Big thanks to all the Twitch subs." I'm like, I'm like bullying myself right now. "And most importantly,
"last, and certainly not least but most importantly, I thank, you. The 100 thousand of you out there..."
Let's put another zer- let's put another zero on that. "...to imagine what
100,000 people looks like..." Did I just say the same thing? "...Surreal."
"I mean," I just say the exact same words like earlier in this video?
"I can't even conceptualize what that looks like. 1 million people out there..."
"and I have here..." Look how much better I look. "...in my suspiciously not taloned"
"human hands, my resignation letter."
"That's right."
"I'm... This is the stupidest thing I've ever done."
It was. "I am taking this opportunity now to pursue my passion, so I'm going to have to ask you guys for your support
going forward in the future because come July you have got me,
full-time."
"What have I DONE?!"
Okay, so the reason that I had that owl pop up on the screen right there is because,
the resignation letter was 100% real, and you could see my name.
You can see that it said, uh, Brent on there, so um, I, you know it's not necessary now.
But that's what the logo used to look like guys! Let's do a side-by-side comparison guys. Look at that!
We've come a long way haven't we? "Get excited guys because we have reached the next tier of
entertainment." Porn. "Thank you very much for watching, I am TheWarOwl, and I still
(says in sync) have no closer." Let's commemorate the occasion with a comment.
"Get rekt you fetus faced Ioser, I have 1 million subs, add a zero on the end of dat
ya noob. Git Gud @ YouTube. SCRUB" Comment.
Watching that old video, seeing the passion that I had 3 years ago, to the day. A young, fat, beardless loser,
setting out on a grand adventure well over his head. It puts it all in perspective, for me.
He made it!
That, that crazy bastard actually made it guys! We got 1 million subscribers!
That's like legit doing it, like what? By watching this channel and supporting me, you guys have given me the
adventure of a lifetime. Even if it all failed tomorrow and this channel was dead,
And I had to slink back to a soul-crushing cubicle job 3 years behind in experience,
I don't care, it was worth it. It was definitely worth it. This entire experience
I think has really humbled me...
...and uh, has made me a better person, so thank you guys so much for that.
So who am I? I grew up in the midwest north of
Chicago and moved down to North Carolina when I was 10 years old so that explains the accent,
I don't have a fully southern accent. I don't have a fully midwest accent. So you may be like well
"Why do you say words so weird?" I don't know, I think it's just because I'm from those two different places
And I speak kind of similar to the people from those two different places.
Sometimes going to talk about southern things you'll hear the accent start coming out. Middle-class family, one brother, not a care in the world
I'm very spoiled in that way. I'm a Christian, the most important thing in my life is my relationship with Jesus Christ.
I couldn't make a video talking about who I am without talking about that.
Now, I've seen a lot of misconceptions on the Internet about Christians, so I do want to clear one thing up with you guys.
It doesn't mean that I think I'm better than anybody else. Being a Christian, it actually means the exact opposite.
That I admit my wrongs. That I admit that I'm a bad guy, and that I'm in need of God's grace,
in that it's not my place to judge anybody else for anything.
That would be hypocritical.
I've been gaming and I've been really into gaming my entire life. My parents told me that when my mother was pregnant,
they'd play Super Mario on the NES and that I would
kick or react to the athletic theme from Mario, so I've been gaming since I was in the womb.
I, I will like to say at least I've been watching a let's play since I was in the womb I guess.
It's it gaming has really been one of the things that allowed me to escape being me I've never been comfortable being myself
And gaming has really allowed me to
to go on those
Adventures and to do things that I would never be able to do in my in my normal life and in my own skin and
It's always been a competitive outlet as well. I've always been very competitive
I wanted to win at everything. I've ever done and be the best at everything. I've ever done and
Gaming is really something where I could actually try to do that
I I was very meek as a child so I really couldn't do traditional sports
I'm a complete failure
Socially I have no idea how to speak to somebody one-on-one, and when I'm in like a party scenario where there's lots of people
I'm the guy who just awkwardly stands in the corner
Hoping that nobody talks to me, so I never really got along with the other kids in school
I always felt more comfortable performing
I always feel more comfortable being on the stage, and I enjoy engaging with people
I like to make people laugh to make people think and
sometimes to make people uncomfortable
I'm smart, I got a big juicy brain
Now I'm not trying to brag but you can't say that without sounding like a douche
Everything in school came really easily to me, so I never really developed a good work ethic my first job
I worked as a janitor
I cleaned up sh*t and vomit often at the same time
I think everybody needs a horrible first job in order to humble them
There is no job on this earth that needs to be done that you or anybody is too good
To do and the one thing that I respect more than anything else in a person is the integrity to have passion
For the work that you do no matter what that work is. I went to North Carolina State
University College of engineering and I studied computer science
Then I went and worked in the software development industry for about three years
My employer gave me a little trophy for being the best new employee in the company
And that really meant a lot to me for the first time in my life. I really felt like people wanted me there
But I was bored. I was depressed. I hated my life, and I hated myself
so something had to change we're not here for a very long time
and while most people are content to work a salaried position and
have that job security and the security and money and something that I highly respect by the way is people just doing their
Doing their work
That ain't me. There's something wrong with me. I don't know what it is guys. I'm sure some people understand it better, but
I have to be out there. I have to be doing something new or I am just completely miserable.
And that friendos is where our
Stories meet I quit my job and I made that video that we just watched together and the rest you know because you've been watching it
for three years
If there any of you guys at the comments who have been here since the
100,000 subscriber video I would like to know so please write a comment and
I will read it definitely. This channel sucks now
And we're losing viewers daily so screw it what I've been doing is not working something's got to change
adapt or die baby
going forward I'm going to be making videos about things that I am passionate about I'm going to be trying to post videos on a
schedule, I'm not going to tell you what that schedule is because I hate breaking my promises and I have in the past, so
We'll see we'll see how it works out guys
I know a lot of you came to this channel to learn how to play counter strike global offensive
And I'm very very proud of the work that I've done in that in that area
When counter strike was first announced. I had three main goals for the channel. I'm going to read you those goals now
I got them on this other screen: to provide Meaningful feedback to the developers to help make counter strike the best game possible
to foster a sense of community and to teach people how to play counter strike
So everyone can enjoy the game as it was meant to be played
mission freakin accomplished guys I can't believe we actually did that all of these things are done counter-strike is like a
massive Esport now, and it has seen just
crazy success that was like it was like my
My mission statement for the channel right, we're done
We we have completed it guys so what now we are moving forward guys my next mission statement. I'm just going to focus
I'm posting great videos, okay?
Okay. My sincerest thank you to all of you guys out there the 1
Million of you guys out there who have supported me who have watched my content out of everything out there to do out of everything
Out there to watch you guys chose to spend your time watching my silly videos and
Honestly that means the world to me. The highlight of all of this has been meeting you guys in person has been
Meeting you guys in game and has been reading the messages that you guys have sent me it honestly means the world to me
So I just want to let you guys know thank you so much for all of that
And I want to share with you guys something that I have learned along the way
No matter what decisions that you make and no matter what happens to you if you do
What is Moral and is ethical you will always be okay? I'm brent and I still
Have no closer