Hello! To everybody out there. I come bearing the best, most fantastic news in regards to the charity live stream we did last weekend!
First thing I want to say is thank you to anybody who participated!!!
Participated in it in any way shape or form at all, whether you donated big, small, in the middle.
Whether you were just there to watch or you spread around the hashtag or you submitted fanart, anything at all!
Thank you. (yw jack!)
It really means the world to me that you guys showed up and supported this cause because I really wanted it to do well and
I wanted to make a
huge event out of it and try and raise a lot of money for a really great cause and you helped WAY more than I
could ever thank you enough for so thank you so very very much from the bottom of my heart for helping out.
BUT, the closing time for the donations was yesterday on the 20th, and we now have some final figures,
Well, I think their final figures the-um, I don't know if tallies still have to come in or if they have to update the system
Whatever, but it hasn't updated in the last couple hours, so I wanted to wait.
I was going to make a video directly after the live streams and talk about it
But I wanted to wait until we had some more definitive final figures, and they seemed to be in now which is... Drumroll...
It says here that we have raised three hundred and forty six thousand one hundred and two dollars and 73 cents!! (yay!)
How crazy is that?! That is such a huge amount of money to be going towards a good cause
and I'm,
I am, I am beyond proud.
I am beyond words at this point to show my gratitude for everybody out there you have helped raise this amount of money.
You are absolutely amazing. You are all heroes on this day, and you have done some real-world
Qualitative difference, some real good in the world over the last few days.
I cannot believe how much can be done with the community in such a short span of time!
It's it's mind-blowing. Thank you so very very much for that!
I was really excited about this event as well, because this is the first time I've ever
Like hosted a charity event. It's the first time I've ever gone out and been like 'Hey, I want to do this.
Let's make it happen."
And kind of spearheaded the project.
And I'm so proud of how it went, and I want to thank the people who are involved as well
First and foremost I want to thank Emma, Robin, PJ, and Ethan for taking the time out of their days
To come and help out and do this with me because without them
I don't know if the stream would have been as fun.
They made it so much fun to be able to do this and the time just flew by...
We did two four hour streams over two days, so eight hours total
And there was an overnight thing as well to keep things going which was super fun as well!
But it did not feel like it was that long at all as soon as we- we got in there
And we started talking and we started hanging out and we started having fun,
The time just flew by, and it was because of them that I think it was as much fun as it was so thanks to them!
But also, thanks to everybody behind the scenes who helped make it happen to the people from Polaris and Maker who helped
Organize it and came to me and came to me with ideas and came to me and let me
Like, put my own creative spin on it and everything
Thank you to them for helping craft this live stream for what it was and the event itself but also
Thanks to the people at the studio where we were in London who helped just behind
cameras who helped with timing who helped bring in all the props here, and there just everything floats so nicely. Everything floats so naturally and
Made it so much easier that we could just funnel all of our creative energy and all of our focus
Into the actual donations into the cause itself, so just my heart is so full with gratitude!
And I'm so proud of this community everyone involved
Because, *sigh*
I often say that you can do a lot of good in the world if you really focus your efforts,
and this is a representation of that. That in such a short period of time this
Fantastic community all came together and like, this is you guys the donations are you guys you are the ones who did this.
We might have been the ones on the stream up there
Singing and dancing and doing all the talky talks and asking for your help
But you are the ones who put all of your efforts and focused into doing something absolutely incredible!
And I could not be more proud of everybody involved.
You- you did some REAL good in the world over the last few days
And this is something that will have such a huge significance on so many kids out there
and
I know that they're gonna be happy with everything that has come out of this
So you should be very proud of yourselves for what you have done and going forward,
I think that we can do even more good the world by focusing our efforts like this.
I often say that when a huge community comes together, there's a big responsibility to do
to do
Responsible stuff with that to do some good in the world and while we might not be able to change the world as a whole
We might as well try and change
Our
Little sliver of the world that we have let's try and put our stamp on the world however far we can reach
Just because we can't reach the WHOLE world doesn't mean we shouldn't reach ANY of it. And just to remind you
what saved the children, dude. They said they helped out
um, kids in a hundred and twenty countries,
And they have helped out a hundred and eighty million kids!
So if that doesn't put it into perspective how far this this funding will go,
Just remember that so many kids out there who don't have the lives that they should have. Every kid I think
Deserves an education, deserves to have fun
I think we often take it for granted how [stammers] I'm, like, when I was growing up
I used to be able to just come home from school, go down into the field, and just climb some trees with my friends, and just hang out
And just play games, and not every kid has the opportunity to be able to do that. So,
With your help, you have definitely changed the lives, to give them a childhood they deserve. So just... [claps]
Round of applause for everybody involved. And let's not just stop there!
I really want to try and push the boat out in 2018 and make it a fantastic year and do more
Initiatives like this. Spearhead some projects that help out more people in need, because it's it's so worthwhile
It's so worth doing. And as I said if you have this sort of influence over people if you have this sort of community
Together it's your responsibility
To do some real good with it, and not do it for selfish reasons and try and give back to the world that has given
So much towards me.
So I'm counting on you guys to join me in 2018 to try and do
Some as I keep saying to do some real world good
And I think that we really can because you guys are amazing
And you guys really show how generous and giving you are at any opportunity. You are given towards you so I'm gonna try and
Bring some more of that towards you this year, and I think it's gonna be a really good time
But for now, I'm going to leave this vlog here.
Just thank you guys again so much for being part of it as I said not only if you donated
Thank you for that first and foremost,
But also if you were just there hanging out with your friends you were part of a cool experience altogether
That I think was really really fun to do and any of you who stayed overnight during the overnight watch stuff as well
That was kinda a little surprise as well, and a few bits and pieces showed up there
So if you were a part of that, you were part of something special as well (aww!) because, I- I
Just seeing the sort of reaction that came out of this, [stammers] came out of that and people saying that it was like a
Like a community sleepover like I think that's something that's gonna stick with people for a very long time.
I know it's gonna stick with me because that was a very poignant memory for me.
And I don't think I'll ever forget it, at least not anytime soon, so, just... Thanks.
But for now, thank you guys so much for watching this video! If you liked it punch the like button in the face!
LIKE A BOSS!!! And high fives all around *wapoosh wapoosh* But thank you guys and I will see all you dudes!
IN THE NEXT VIDEO!
(thanks for watching! Love ya Jack! (っ＾▿＾)۶) (outros) I'm Everywhere By Teknoaxe)
Thank you!!
Thank you.
You're in lights.