October 31, 2008, a 12-year-old me uploads their first ever video to YouTube.
It was a low quality,
eight second video of some penguins that I filmed at the zoo.
The video got a total of three views before I deleted it.
And now, 14 years later,
I've got a total of 1 billion views across many different YouTube channels.
So, of course, because I'm me,
I've had a custom award created to commemorate this milestone.
But before I reveal that award, I want to take a look at videos that have
had the biggest and smallest impact on this 1 billion views.
So I'll be watching my most and my least viewed videos on each channel.
Also, this award was incredibly expensive
to produce, so I want to thank Honey for sponsoring this video.
Okay, so starting on JackSucksAtLife, I can go to 'Views',
and it will show me the video that has had the most views,
which is 17.8 million, alright.
Then if I click it again, I can see the least viewed video, which is five.
So let's watch that first of all,
this is the least view video on my channel.
The video was called outside, and it has contributed to 0.00000005%
of this thing, but it's still contributed!
So let's watch it. Oh my God!
April 2015.
I miss my computer.
Let me explain.
This was a clip to go into a Q&A that I was making where like
someone asked me to go outside, and then I went outside,
and then I made a really funny joke about being away from my computer
because I'm inside on the computer, I guess, all the time, hahaha.
But for some reason, 2015,
Jack thought the most efficient way to get a video from his phone to his computer
was by uploading it to YouTube, privating it, and then downloading it.
Absolutely terrible video.
Let's go to most viewed.
17. 8 million. That is more like it.
Of course, it's a YouTube Short.
Okay, let's give it a watch.
VIDEO: "The first 50 million play button was given to PewDiePie in December 2016.
In June 2018, Indian Music Channel, T-Series-"
1.3 million likes!
That is absolutely ridiculous.
"-receive their 50 million Play Button."
[JACK OVERLAPS VIDEO] Yeah, it's just me chatting about 50 million awards.
"It's all the similar theme to PewDiePie.
A year later, in June 2019,
Brazilian music channel, Canal KondZilla, received that 50 million play button,
which in my opinion, looks more like a hat than a play button."
I have no idea why this has nearly 18 million views.
I think it's just because I put so much
info into this 60 seconds that it kept people watching.
Let's have a look at the analytics on this video out of interest.
Wow! For 18 million views, we've earned £278.
But hey, YouTube have announced that change of the monetisation on Shorts.
So next year, these could start earning a lot of money.
This one short also got me an extra 33,000 subscribers, which is pretty epic.
I'm quite pleased with that.
All right, we now move on to my second
biggest YouTube channel, which these days is JackSucksAtGeography.
Two years ago, I never would have expected that, but here we go.
Many people watching this video probably
don't even know I have a geography-based YouTube channel.
But here we go.
So once again, we're gonna click views and find out our most viewed video.
Okay. Wow!
9.5 million views.
And once again, it's a YouTube Short.
Who saw that coming up? Not me!
So here we go.
It's called guess the merging country flags,
and it only came up about five months ago, but here we go.
[BOTH SAY SOMALIA AT THE SAME TIME] VIDEO: "What flag is this? That is Somalia.
It's a little bit of a tricky one to begin with,
[BOTH SAY VIETNAM AT THE SAME TIME] but it's just changed into Vietnam.
Slightly more straightforward.
We got eight left, and that is turning-" - China! - "into China."
I got there before this Jack.
I'm smarter than that Jack.
Does this video where I'm just naming 10 flags deserve 9.5 million views?
No. Will I take it?
Absolutely. Thanks very much.
You know what's kind of sad about this video, though?
I realised after it was uploaded and I checked the comments,
this could have been the perfect loop because the last flag turns
into the original, but for some reason, I didn't set it up like that.
"Ah, it's turned back into Somalia again.
What flag is this?"
See, I could have made that so much smoother
and the people wouldn't have even noticed it was changing.
And I could have got 20 million views, but I'll take the 9.5 if I have to.
Alright, so I genuinely have no idea what the least viewed video
on this channel is.
Let's find out. All we do is click views and it loads.
And we've got some old videos that I haven't released yet,
which don't count, but then it's this.
66,000 views.
It came out eight days ago
and it's my name the spinning country Short,
which, yeah, definitely underperformed.
I think it's 'cause it's ugly to look at, isn't it?
It almost hurts your head, this world animation.
But then second to that is a full length video,
which came out over a year ago,
78,000 views, which I'll still take.
And it is a geoguessr video where I had bright orange hair
and we also forgot to colour correct the video.
My hair looks so terrible.
No wonder it got such bad views.
I would have clicked away much sooner.
All right, third biggest YouTube channel,
JackSucksAtStuff.
Which, side note,
it's got kinda similar subscribers to JackSucksAtGeography.
And I kinda wanna to see if I can get a million subscribers
on two channels on the same day.
But as you can see, the stuff channel is slightly behind.
So please subscribe if you haven't already,
'cause the videos are quite similar to the ones on this channel, okay?
Thank you.
Anyway, more viewed video, 3.7 million
and it's how rare is your body?
Wow! Oh, God!
If you're not familiar with the comparison videos
that I started doing four months ago, you are absolutely not missing out.
It's terrible content, but for some reason, YouTube loves it!
So we'll give it a watch. Yes, let's do it.
VIDEO: "How rare is your body? Okay, we're off.
Only 91% of people have this, clockwise hair whorl.
Alright, play along at home
and let me take a picture of me hair whorl.
Wait, hang on a second, that's anticlockwise, right?
Am I in the 8.4% of people that have an anticlockwise hair whorl?"
Oh God!
I can't believe the anticlockwise hair whorl
made it to the main channel.
So, yes, how rare is your body
is a video where I react to a comparison video
that talks about different body traits, like the ability to roll the tongue.
It took me about 15 minutes to record,
and it's got a ridiculous 3.7 million views.
That is unbelievable.
Look at the thumbnail. It's just so terrible.
This is my arrow that's just pointing at nothing.
3.7 million views, YouTube is ridiculous.
Going back to the main channel, the video where I got
a diamond play button, that has less views.
The video where I talk about what happens when MrBeast
gives you $100,000, that has less views.
The video where I Rickrolled an entire city, less views.
All of the videos where I helped ginormous YouTubers get Guinness World Records,
way less views than how rare is your body?!
And look at my other ones, "how rare are you?"
3.2 million views.
"What is your rarest skill?"
Three million views.
"How rare is your body? 2", has 2.1 million views.
Oh my God!
I'm so conflicted. It makes me sick.
But also, I like the views, I'm not gonna lie.
Okay, can we take a look at what the least viewed video on JackSucksAtStuff is?
Here we go.
So it's got literally one view, and it is a sponsored Honey integration... Hey!!
Hi, everyone. Did you know I need some new clothes?
I'm gonna get this nice, fluffy pink hoodie,
this more casual grey hoodie, and this burgundy hoodie as well.
Then this cool-looking lilac fella,
and finally, these school joggers, because it's Halloween.
That comes to £156.99, which is rather expensive.
But hold on a second. What is this?
There's a little coin.
And he's doing this and it's mesmerising.
Seven coupons found. Apply coupons.
All right, then go on, then why not?
This magical coin seems to be trying each of the seven coupon codes that it has
discovered for me without me really having to do anything.
And woah!
I saved £31.40.
Don't mind if I do, continue to checkout.
Unreal, I was not expecting to save that much.
If you want to start saving money yourself
for free, there's literally no reason not to.
Then head to joinhoney.com/jack.
Those of you that have already downloaded Honey with my link
and used it have found over $323,000 worth of savings.
That is mental.
All right, anyway, back to my least to most viewed videos.
All right, welcome back.
Remember, at the end of this video,
I'm going to be unboxing a 1 billion views award.
There's a letter on it with some handwritten writing from Society Awards.
Oh my God! I'm so excited.
But for now we move on to my fourth biggest YouTube channel,
Jack Massey Welsh, the channel where I do videos about my car.
Let's find out what the most viewed video is.
It is, 5.2 million. That's mad, y'know?
This video came out two years ago.
It's called "what happens if you fall asleep with Tesla autopilot?"
Let's give a little watch of the intro.
Oh my God! It's so intense right off the bat.
I like how we're just sat still on a cloudy English day,
and there's just this really intense music playing.
Wow!
Bloody hell.
VIDEO: "Oh my God!
Slow down! Slow down! Slow down!"
We made that so intense.
What I love about the Jack Massey Welsh channel
is this is the channel where Becky, my girlfriend, learned to edit.
So you go back on the first few videos
and it's like really basic editing.
But now Becky's been editing for two years.
She does all the JackSucksAtLife videos.
It's just so nice to see how far she's come.
But anyway, did I actually fall asleep
on Tesla autopilot like this thumbnail would suggest?
No, of course I didn't.
I was very safe throughout this video.
I just demonstrated what happens if you
stop responding to the Tesla Autopilot driver prompt.
And it's pretty straightforward.
Basically, the car eventually slows down safely
and it puts the hazards on, so it's all very safe.
All right, I've got an idea what the least
video on Jack Massey Welsh is, so let's find out.
Jack Massey Welsh first car.
Unlisted video.
So this was made because I won this,
Young Driver Influencer Of The Year 2021.
If I remember correctly, I think this is my acceptance speech.
And it was put on their website,
but the link was clickable, so 300 people found it.
Let's see what I said.
VIDEO: "Hello. My name's Jack Massey Welsh.
I'm on the YouTube channel, Jack Massey Welsh,
where we test my Tesla Model Three.
We do a lot of very serious experiments
where we work out exactly how safe Autopilot is.
We also do a lot of ridiculous and silly experiments as well,
where we work out exactly what will make the car's alarm set off,
or how comfortable is the car to sleep in overnight.
And even, can we make the car think
that my girlfriend Becky is a real traffic cone?
And the answer to that is yes, we can.
Thanks, First Car, for putting me up for this award.
I would absolutely love to win it."
Ah! It's my nomination video.
It's not my acceptance video.
I'm jumping the gun, but all that matters is I-I-I won the whole thing.
Okay, so no big deal. Whatever. Cool.
Next we're gonna be looking at JackSucksAtClips,
293,000 subscribers,
which I'm very pleased with for a clips channel.
I'm pretty sure I already know what the most viewed video is.
Let's take a look.
Oh my God!
It's gone up another million views since I last looked.
6.3 million views.
And I'm just going to say,
I have absolutely no idea why this video has so many views.
Out of all of my most popular videos, this one is just ridiculous.
It's called "JackSucksAtLife makes a Roblox account."
Here we go. Let's have a look.
Oh God!
VIDEO: "JackSucksAtLife."
It's just me trying to make a Roblox account,
but all of my usernames are taken or inappropriate.
"I can't have sucks in my username.
Well, now what?"
But yeah, it's kind of funny.
But 6 million views, what?!
Look at it, though, it's just so bad.
The framing is terrible.
Because it's originally landscape, we could have had a nice blur
instead of just pitch black in the background, but we didn't.
I just do not understand why this has so many views.
"Username not appropriate.
How? What? Why?
Is it the name Jack? Is that what's wrong?
It says don't use your real name.
Jack is good at life... Ah...!"
I just don't get it at all.
I really don't understand. What do the comments say?
This is what happens when Jack makes into the Shorts algorithm
and it is glorious.
I want to look at the analytics of this video
see how many subscribers it got us.
Oh my God! 39,000.
Isn't that more subscribers than I got from the 18 million viewed
JackSucksAtLife main channel Short?
That is so embarrassing.
Look at the analytics as well.
I told you that it had gone up by another million views since I'd last seen it.
For like, 300 days,
it capped off at about 4.9 million subscribers.
And then apparently at the beginning
of August, it just randomly went up another million.
What on earth?
YouTube Shorts are so weird. Look at that.
That's a million views just randomly and then it just stops again.
I am so confused.
So that's most viewed and you can see it is most viewed by an awful lot.
The next video doesn't even have a million.
But let's take a look at least viewed.
This is going to be interesting 'cause I'm not going to know what this is.
Ah, interesting!
So JackSucksAtClips these days is managed by a fella called George.
He picks the clips each day.
But you can see we've got delete, delete,
and delete because George doesn't have permits to delete videos on the channel.
That has to be done by the channel owner.
So these are just accidental uploads that he can't get rid of.
All right, well, I'll get them deleted for you a bit.
There we go. Here we go.
Boop. Bye-bye.
Next channel to look at is my No Context clips channel.
Just going to quickly confirm this handle while I'm here, don't mind if I do.
This is just a selection of really odd, out of context moments and weird things
that I've said in the last seven years.
So let's see what the most viewed is. Here we go.
I'm quite excited. I don't know what this will be.
150,000 views.
"You heard it here first." All right, here we go.
VIDEO: "And I'm not the kind of person to disagree with a seven foot grizzly bear."
It's no context. Do you get the channel now?
Side note though..., what on earth is the colour correction on this video?
This is all me.
I did this seven years ago and I don't know what I was thinking.
It's very embarrassing.
All right, now, what's the least viewed video?
Okay, 3,000 views and it's just 'cause it came out yesterday.
Let's find out if this deserves more views.
God, I wish everyone would climb out my ass and leave us alone.
Okay, let's just move on.
I've got a handful of other YouTube channels,
but they're all the most interesting ones.
At this point I just finally want to open this fella.
So originally I was going to design the award from scratch,
but then when I remembered Society Awards,
the people that currently make the YouTube Awards have a section
of their website where you can order awards directly from them.
I thought, let's order one of them so it can be an official YouTube award, kind of.
So I scoured the awards on Society Awards website for many hours
looking for something that would be suitable.
And eventually I settled on this.
Now, you might think that looks a bit mental, Jack.
What's that about?
Well, I think this award works perfectly
because if you count each of these bars, including the base, there's 14 of them.
And I have 14 different YouTube channels.
And you can see that the bars are varying thicknesses as well.
This one here is much thicker than this one underneath,
and then the base is much, much thicker than all the others,
which really reminded me of this graph,
which shows my total views on all of my different YouTube channels.
So this big chunk that is JackSucksAtLife,
is represented by this big bit at the bottom.
Whereas these thin yellow ones, they're my obscure channels, these fellas.
And you can see the colour schemes,
the purples and the yellows, they match my profile pictures very well.
So I thought this was perfect.
So I got it ordered, requested engraving.
It came to about $759.
Then Society Awards told me
that I'm banned from buying Creator Awards,
so they need to double check this with YouTube.
And after a few weeks and me agreeing
to remove the YouTube logo that I had requested, this was sent to me.
So let's open it up.
Now it did come in a big fancy Society Awards box,
but I need to use that box for a very exciting future project.
But I promise I've not looked inside of this.
I didn't even know this letter was here until 20 minutes ago, so here we go.
Let's see what the letter is.
That's such a fancy looking letter.
Oh my God!
There's a packaged by Rick Award.
This is incredibly wholesome.
"Congrats on all your success, Jack.
I hope this award puts a smile on your face.
This award was created and inspected with care by Rick!"
I've got a signed, customised personal package by Rick card!
Oh my God! I did not expect this.
I am so excited.
What's that?
That's so fancy looking.
Oh my God!
It's got Rick's contact details on the back.
This proves the Society Awards don't hate me at all!
It's just YouTube.
I'm not sure I even care about opening this.
I have a handwritten package by Rick card.
Oh, my God! That makes me so happy.
All right, let's open this up.
Right. Why is it so dark?
Maybe it needs lights behind. Oh, no, no, no.
Hang on. It brightens up in the light.
Oh my God! Yeah.
This is really cool, actually.
Jack Massey welsh, 1 billion views, 2008-2022.
We have come a very long way since I uploaded that Penguin video.
You guys can see the crystal colours really nicely on this camera.
That is epic. This is so heavy.
But more importantly, oh my God!
Thanks so much for watching this video.
Thanks for 1 billion views.
When I uploaded my first video 14 years ago,
I never would have expected all of this.
Make sure you check out Honey if you want to support me.
I'll see you all later.