(wind whooshes) (gentle electronic music)
- For the last two years, we've been working on a video
that is coming together here today.
- Today! - You've seen the title,
you've seen the thumbnails.
We went on a search after we did the gold play button video
to find the headquarters for the YouTube creator awards.
We reached out to our friends at YouTube,
and nothing seemed to be working,
until one day, we saw this video on YouTube.
- Besides, What's Inside, those guys are really cool.
I actually wanna work with you guys on something, so.
(woman laughs)
Please reply in the comments, but--
- So that is Paul, and he runs the YouTube creator awards.
We sent him an E-mail, and bam.
Within a few minutes, things went into the works,
and today we are here.
(dramatic orchestral music)
(door handle clicking)
- [Dan] It's locked.
- [Son] Oh, hey!
- [Dan] There he is!
- [Son] It's Paul!
- There's the man. - Hey guys, how's it going?
- [Son] Hey!
- What's up Lincoln, nice to meet you.
- Hi! - This is the guy!
This is Paul. - Hey, how's it going?
Hey guys.
I wanna work with you guys on something.
- From the one YouTube video where he said
we wanna work with you, to now we are in
an undisclosed location.
Oh my gosh.
(dramatic drum beating)
- We've got all the blank boards here.
Silver, gold, and diamond.
(angelic choir sings)
A full-- - You have diamonds ones here?
- Yeah, we do, we do.
We have all the awards here.
- Diamond play button guys.
We're gonna see this. - What!
- [Dan] Are we allowed to even say how many are in here?
- We're in an undisclosed locations
with a disclosed amount of awards.
(laughs)
- [Dan] Check this out.
Oh, these ones have it!
Good job, Advanced Yoga.
Good job being yous.
Look at all these guys,
these ones are already printed with the names on them.
And then they've got the letter,
and then a little card that it was inspected by someone.
This was packaged with great care by Rick.
Who's Rick?
- [Rick] I'm Rick.
- [Dan] There's Rick!
- Hello.
- [Dan] Right there, look!
Guys, if yours ever says inspected by Rick,
there he is, right here.
- Hey.
- With care.
That is pretty cool.
All right, we're gonna put that in there.
Sweet.
Paul, what's this? - What is that machine?
- What is this?
Lincoln, no breaking this.
(upbeat electronic music)
- What is this!
- Your Akika.
There's your button right now, being engraved.
Maria Elvis, right there.
These right here do not have any engraving on them.
These ones right here do.
This machine is going across,
and that purple light is putting the engraving on there.
This is how play buttons are made, kids.
Pick one, whatever one it is you pick,
whatever name appears, we're subscribing to that channel.
- That one.
- [Dan] This one, in the corner, right here, on this row.
- Oh wait, no, that one!
Inside, inside of there.
I'm so happy. - Oh, you're changing
your mind, are you sure?
Are you sure that's the one? - Yeah, but we don't have
(mumbles)
- Okay.
(upbeat electronic music)
All right, Mr. KineMaster.
We found you on YouTube, there you are.
You now have 165,000 subscribers.
It looks like you do video editing things.
So Lincoln, push the button.
Boom!
Subscribed.
How 'bout that.
And the thing that I think is amazing,
these are all legitimately going
to a YouTube creator, or a company,
somebody that spend the time and spent the effort
to make real videos on YouTube,
and garnered enough interest from 100,000 people,
that they pushed that subscribe button.
And that's something that's just mind blowing,
like you're not going to find this
from any other platform that is out there,
video, social platform.
Here's a couple of the gold play buttons.
- Is it-- - Lincoln, this is
your first time seeing these ones,
what do you think of the new, gold play button?
- I like how they're, like, separate.
It would be harder to cut open though,
(Paul laughs) because you'd have to cut the,
kind of like the whole thing in half?
And it couldn't-- - Why do you always
have to destroy stuff, Lincoln?
- So this is actually UV Sublimation printing.
We apply a coating that's a sort of chemical,
and then ultraviolet light hits the chemical,
and it hardens so that the printing is really durable.
These things are supposed to last for a long time.
It's such a big accomplishment, so,
we wanna make sure that the printing is super awesome.
♪ Slow down ♪
♪ Don't move too fast ♪
♪ Or let the ♪
- [Dan] Here they come.
- [Lincoln] Hello!
- What is it, what is it? - Ella, Elleo?
- [Dan] ElleoftheMills?
I totally know that channel!
- All right. - She is a legit creator.
Oh, which, way the way, Elle,
I think you're mom's Philippina.
I was born in the Philippines,
so we got that in common there.
- Which is nice.
- [Dan] Then what's the other one?
Oh. - Kidz Bop?
- [Dan] Eh, okay.
That's your favorite station,
look at that. (both laugh)
Check out this table right here.
- [Paul] So these are all of these letters for the awards,
in all the different languages.
Coded, so that we know we're giving the right letter
to the right creator, based on the language that they speak.
- Let's see it. - I can't read that.
- [Dan] Check it out, guys.
- [Paul] Pozdrawiamy.
- [Dan] What is your, Susan, doesn't she speak Polish?
- I think Susan actually has Polish heritage,
so maybe if you wanna, - Exactly.
There you go. - Learn some Polish.
Why don't we get some white gloves for you guys,
and put some awards together.
- Yeah, it's packed in. - And if it get damaged,
they call you.
- Yeah!
- Gloves, are they good? (muffled clapping)
Do we need safety glasses, yes?
- Yes!
- Oh, that's heavier than I thought.
Don't drop it.
Or throw it, or anything like that.
- Dan, we're gonna-- - I feel like there needs
to be a bigger, like, celebration,
around every one of these, before it goes in the box.
I'm gonna do a lap.
A victory lap.
Let's go!
♪ Celebrate baby ♪
♪ Lose your thing ♪
♪ Lost your thing ♪
♪ I'ma feel this when I wait ♪
Congratulations on one million subscribers!
One million subscribers.
I'm gonna go put it in the box.
Elle, here you go, this is handled with care.
(upbeat electronic music)
We should not be allowed to do this.
Dudes, they've seen what we do to buttons.
Wax on.
Wax off. - Like that?
- Daniel son.
This is hard work guys, I'm sweating up a storm over here.
Who did a better job, Lincoln or me?
Lincoln or?
Kidz Bop for the win!
- Yeah!
- [Dan] Lincoln, good job!
Did I ruin it, that we can never use it again?
- Oh, he has to clean yours!
- Just one spot!
- Wow!
- [Dan] How Embarrassing.
- Ouch. - I'm so embarrassed.
Packaged with love.
With great care by Rick?
Yeah right, Rick.
Not anymore, buddy.
Dan, What's Inside.
I kind of went over.
It's going inside.
There we go.
Does Rick do this for you?
Does he write those drawings on there?
I don't think so.
All right, I'm gonna put this cover on the top.
So it's protected.
Then I'm gonna close the YouTube box.
I can't do this job anymore.
I'm not good at this.
- I can, I can color more!
- We are about to enter uncharted territory.
- What does that mean?
- The diamond award. (angelic orchestral music)
- Oh, yeah.
- 10 million subscribers.
- One, zero? - If you get
10 million subscribers, they send you
a giant, diamond-looking award.
- Have you seen one?
- I've seen one before, yes. - Where?
- At the, I've seen one somewhere before.
- You've seen one? - All right, Paul?
(heavy electronic music)
- (tapping hands on table) Nu, nu, nu, nu,
nu, nu, nu, nu.
- In preparation for somebody hitting 10 million,
YouTube likes to print the diamond awards,
and have 'em ready.
Jimmy Fallon.
The day that he hit 10 million subscribers,
they gave him his diamond award.
We are going to engrave a creator's name,
leave in the comments right now,
whose, you think, diamond play button this is.
It's not every day that somebody
hits 10 million subscribers.
It is becoming more and more frequent
now that more and more people
are using YouTube as a platform.
The Fiber Laser three, 30, M2.
That's fancy.
- So these are laser printed.
- I don't think we're qualified to do this,
(Paul laughs) So, let's bring in some--
- [Rick] It's not quite set up yet.
- [Dan] Rick!
Rick, you're the man. (Paul laughs)
(mechanical whirring) (futuristic music)
There's a laser on there that's centering it
to make sure that it's perfect, guys.
When you're laser printing, you don't mess around.
Boom, go.
Oh!
You seeing this?
- [Lincoln] Yeah.
No way, it's doing that!
This is-- - You guess right,
if you typed in Casey Neistat. (upbeat piano music)
This is his diamond award.
(Lincoln's whispers are drown out by music)
- Good to go.
- [Dan] All right.
- Looks about right.
- Okay, Paul.
Everyone I see, it's like, hand delivered,
so Slow Mo guys, it was given to them over dinner,
and it was a prank.
Jimmy Fallon. - Yeah, yeah.
We try and make a really big deal out of them,
so typically it's at events,
or it's a partner manager.
It's a really, really big milestone,
so all of the awards are silver, gold and diamond,
so we just make a really big deal out of this one.
- [Dan] So where do you keep the ruby awards?
- There is no ruby awards.
- [Dan] So the Pewdiepie one was not a YouTube award?
- That was a special one-off for that creator.
- Okay. - So what if someone else
hits 50 million?
(explosion booms)
- It's above my pay grade. (everyone laughs)
- Don't ask about the ruby.
So here it is, the YouTube (moves to upbeat piano music)
diamond play button for Casey.
- It's in here. (thunks)
- You know what would be really cool?
Has any YouTubers ever delivered
a diamond play button to somebody?
I guarantee no YouTubers have ever
taken it out of the headquarters.
'Cause nobody's ever been here.
- Not from here, no.
- [Dan] What would it take for us
to be able to do that?
Lincoln run, go.
(everyone laughs) (moves to dramatic drum music)
Come on, go, bye Paul, thanks!
- Lincoln, my main main, whatcha go there?
- It's your diamond play button! (Dan laughs)
- We got it. - Oh my goodness, wha!
- [Dan] Custom made, by Lincoln.
- It's perfect!
Check.
Check it, check it out! - Dude.
Congratulations! - Check it out!
- Oh no, not, oh, you gotta be careful!
- It's so heavy!
- No, no, no, no, no, it's fragile!
(glass shatters)
- Lincoln!
- No, that wasn't my fault.
- What did you do!
(calm elevator music)
That was so smooth.
That thing really shattered. (Lincoln and dad laugh)