Hi!
Hello!
How are you?
I'm great, how are you?
Better turn off this music so it--
doesn't get copywritten in my video.
So guess what?
Something came in the mail for your girl
Why am I-- why am I like this?
I decided I wanted to open it up on camera
*giggle*
Is that backwards? Oh, well... you get the point.
I'm gonna open this up
I should probably put my camera on a tripod. That would be smart...
*snap*
Alright, hi
I'm back with the scissors
and with the tripod and with a ring light so I have good...
equipment and good lighting
Guess who it's from?
I don't know who's it from Keara?
It's from Amazon. No, I'm joking.
It's from YouTube!
I'm not gonna show you the whole box because you know, it has my address on it
We don't know... we don't want no
No, uhh
What's his name from "You" that Netflix series?
coming around here and creeping on me. So yeah, let's open this.
I've been waiting for this for
a couple weeks now and
I'm really stoked
Actually, I have a funny story about this.
It's not a funny story.
It's an amazing story about this
Okay, wait, first I'm gonna open it and show you what it is
*sings softly*
I'm absolutely destroying this box
*many interesting sound effects*
Okay!
*exhale*
Gonna take away the foam
Pfff
Oh!
Okay, oh my god
Okay wait wait
Before we look at it, let's read this
*clears throat*
It's from YouTube (obviously keara?)
You just done something that very few YouTube creators accomplished
You had an astonishing 100,000 people subscribe to your channel
We know that numbers on YouTube can get really big
but we hope that you don't lose sight of the reality behind that six digit milestone
Each and every person who has subscribed to your channel has been touched by what you created.
They were inspired
challenged or entertained
Awww
You achieved this milestone with hard work, perseverance and probably a healthy sense of humour too
I mean, I'd like to think so
We know that you don't do this for
rewards, you do it because you have a drive to create and share
and because you found an audience who cares.
I love you guys!
Believe us when we say that we can't wait to see what you do next
A million subscribers may seem a long way off right now, but you're closer than you think
and we're rooting for you
Ahh!
Sincerely
CEO of YouTube
Wow
Let's take a little peeksies
Oh my god
Wait
Ahh look at her!
It says "presented to Keara Graves for passing
100,000 subscribers"
That is insane.
This is... I don't even know what to say
This is insane to get one of these and not just to get one of these but
to have all of you beautiful people
in this community with me
It's all about you guys
You
created this, you made this happen and
I appreciate you guys so much. Thank you so so much.
All I want to do is
expand my platform to inspire more and more people.
That's why I want to grow my platform and
spread the messages that I think are really important to get out there.
I think it's really important to have more queer creators
Be
creating stuff and be visible and represented and...
This is super exciting, oh my goodness.
I have a story about this too... just wait
Let's take this out of the package
I want to give you guys a closer look
at this award.
I feel like I won a Grammy or some shit
This is like a Grammy of like YouTubers.
Oh my god.
Oh my god, it's so shiny!
Look at her
Damn guys
Okay, I'm gonna tell you a story about this
this little Creator Award
Okay, so this was about I think in the summer, so it was probably
July or August and
I was like
I really want to reach a hundred thousand by the end of this year
and I just wrote it down in my journal
I kept
looking at it and like every time I would read it
it would make me happy because I would put it in the present tense
So I am so happy and grateful now that I have surpassed
100,000 subscribers on YouTube
and at this point, I think I had
35,000 so I wasn't even halfway there, but
I was just like, I know
that by the end of the year, I'm going to surpass a hundred thousand subscribers and that's just how it's gonna go
I looked at it every single day and I would just bask in the feeling of having 100,000
subscribers and like what that would look like, what that would feel like in my body
and I just wanted to
reach that benchmark because it's a really big benchmark for creators.
I basically was like, okay what would happen if I surpassed the 100,000 mark?
What would I see?
What would be the positive proof that I have reached a 100,000 subscribers?
and I was like oh!
Creators get like a little plaque, like a play button
when they reach 100,000 subscribers
So that's gonna be my positive proof
So I'm going to
visualize myself
with the silver play button and that would mean I had reached the 100,000 subscribers
And guess what else I did?
I put a hook on my wall where I wanted to hang my plaque
I kept visualizing myself look over at the plaque and smiling
And guess what guys? I'm gonna hang it up on my hook right now.
I totally
didn't know how I was going to reach 100,000 subscribers
because my numbers were going up really really slowly like
Not even like 100 subscribers a week
Like it was just really really slow
How fast my subscribers were going previously
it didn't look like I was going to reach 100,000 by the end of the year
but I had faith that it was gonna happen and it literally happened
and I think it was because of my "thank u, next" video because it went pretty
viral and got 1 million views in I think
two - three days
And then everyone was like, oh my god, who is this b*tch?
Who is this Keara Graves?
So anyway, I'm gonna show you the hook where
I'm gonna hang my play button and where I
manifested to see it there
Now I'm gonna-- now it's gonna be there
Okay
This is a big wall right beside my bed
It's kind of dark in here, but you get the point
This is my bed.
That's me. Hi!
So basically, I wanted to like-- this is a really uncomfortable
unflattering angle
but I wanted to like wake up
and look at my play button right there
This hook has been on the wall since August
when I had 35,000 subscribers
and didn't know
how I was gonna reach 100K by the end of the year, but I just knew I would
because this hook was waiting for my silver play button
and now
is the time
when we hang up
oh my god!
This is when we hang up the lovely silver play button
Woot woot
Okay, here we go...
Wait.
Oh wait!
I need two hooks
For now, it's gonna be lopsided.
Oh, oh
Oh?
Okay
Pfff
Okay, folks
Here it is.
It looks like I'm gonna need two hooks for this play button.
Cuz right now it's
kind of falling down a little bit. So I'm gonna get another hook
and put it next to the other hook
but yeah, long story short
I, um-- look at it look at it
Look at that cutie hanging all sideways over there
*laughing*
You made this happen
And I'm so so so so grateful for all you beautiful people
and I know it's only gonna go up from here, obviously
thank you so much for
sticking with me through all of this and I know I haven't sometimes, you know,
I forget a Tuesday or
you know, I forget to post regularly, but
Your girl's out here trying her best and
thank you so much for believing in me and enjoying my content
It's honestly been such an amazing journey, and I know it's only started.
So yeah, I just wanted to say thank you and
also that you can manifest literally anything in your life because
I manifested this 100,000 subscribers
Visualize yourself having it on a day-to-day basis
feel the emotions of what it would feel like to have
what you desire
and it will come to you
Law of Attraction, guys.
This sh*t is not made up.
I love you guys so much. I will see you in my next
video!
Bye!
Ok guys, a little update.
I added the other hook to the wall. And I finally hung up my Creator Award--
Wow I look crazy in this lighting.
The only thing is I can't tell if this is straight...
I mean... as with everything else in my life
It's not straight!
That was a bad joke
but yeah, this looks really good on my wall.
I'm really excited about this
Look at her. She's so cute.
Ok, that's it. Ok. Bye
Woo!