I just wanted to say
Thanks!
I'm glad you came along.
PARTNER
I wasn't happy with the lighting in the last video, so...
I might have gone overboard for this one.
If you only watch this video for the sprinkles, hold on
I need to get serious with my audience.
Guys.
Do you like my haircut?
Jaiden's mom actually did it for me.
Okay, but seriously guys, something big just happened.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson retweeted one of my comics.
*woOohHh!*
But can we talk about how the comic that got The Rock's retweet
has less likes than the tweet I made about The Rock retweeting one of my comics?
*mouth noises*
But also, as some of you might know
my channel recently hit
ONE MILLION subscribers.
The big 1-o
o-o-o-o-o.
which is a little terrifying.
Here's a YouTube trivia question
for all those little kitties in my audience:
Who was the first youtuber to get one million subscribers?
I'll give you a hint.
HEY IT'S FRED!!!!
When Fred posted his one million subscriber special
I was only 12 years old at the time.
Almost 13.
But I remember watching that as a little kid and just thinkin'
*woah*
a million subscribers
That's so many!
But now, I'm not feeling how I thought I would feel.
Maybe I'm just too young, or maybe I just don't feel anything...
I watched YouTube all the time growing up
Charlie the Unicorn, Potter Puppet Pals, the Gummy Bear Song, Knox's Korner,
Salad Fingers.
Those videos were my JAM.
And now it's so weird to think that my videos
could be someone else's JAM.
I know you guys all want to see the sprinkles, so
So some of you might be new to this channel
and what I do for subscriber milestones
is I pour however many subscribers we have onto a cake
Cause that way you can look at the cake and see you.
Well, unless you subscribed after this video came out.
When I started this tradition, I didn't realize just how many people were subscribed to me.
Or I didn't realize how big sprinkles were.
And also I might be using some incorrect math
In my first video, I counted a thousand sprinkles, and I weighted them, which is probably fine for the hundred thousand
But now, I'm using the same data to count to a million.
*blowing*
*cough*
So I thought
"I'll just get TWICE as much as I did last time, and HOPEFULLY that should be good!"
So I have my 42 pounds of sprinkles here
But just in case we still don't have enough-
*blender chopping sprinkles to bits*
Here's the infinity sprinkle.
Another one.
Man, I can't believe these are all of the-
SYKE!
Do it.
*woOohHh*
Great! And just a little bit more right here.
IS THIS A MILLION SPRINKLES?
Probably.
Just sprinkle some on
Let's get some of this cake to eat!
Oh I feel- I felt- oh I think- I only grabbed frosting.
Oh, I felt it. *aw yeah*
If you're subscribed, one of these is you.
One of em'.
Ready?
*muffled* Feels great.
It's a shame we had to waste a perfectly good cake
Good riddance.
Ah! He's back!
Welcome back dude!
Woop! We got another one!
Man!
This is a lot of people!
I think this is the first subscriber special where I actually have that much sprinkles.
Look. Some of you are on me.
Hello boys.
Delicious.
*shhhhhh*
Wow! This is a mistake!
Camerawoman: Ahhh!
Camerawoman: Oh! *pppht*
There goes my feet again.
Ha!
Haha!
This was on my foot!
Huh!
Hah!
hah!
huh..
huh......
Thanks for subscribing!
This trampoline is probably ruined.
So now, I'm gonna talk about how I started out on YouTube
It's gonna get maybe a little serious.
My journey as a youtuber did not start out on YouTube.
I used to post my comics on Tumblr first
And before that, I used to draw comics in school
And actually,
I still have every single one of them.
Now a lot of these weren't that funny.
"Mrs. Johnson, I have some horrible news."
"What?"
"It's about your son."
"Is he doing drugs?"
"he- He-"
"Joined a gang? Robbed a bank?"
"He listens to Nicki Minaj!"
"THE HORROR!"
*giggles*
Okay that one was a little funny.
"Hi, my name is Kevin. It happened to me when I was in the car."
I was driving and before I knew it, it happened.
"I felt violated, like I was cheated of my life. It was horrible."
"Let it all out." And then you see that he was in a Nicki Minaj support group.
I did not like Nicki Minaj growing up apparently!
But for some reason, I still drew them.
A lot.
It was 2009, so I was 13 years old when I started drawing these
And I kept drawing them until I was 16 years old,
And at that time I wanted to take my comics on to the next level
I wanted to put them on the internet
That's another thing about me- I wasn't an art kid growing up
You see all these talented artists saying
"Oh, when I was a little kid I just couldn't be separated from my pen and paper!"
Not me.
But I think that goes to show you that if you work hard at something, then you can be good at anything.
So I got a tablet for my 16th birthday,
It was a Bamboo Create, it was about a hundred dollars
And after messing around for about a month, I posted my very first comic.
And I hated it.
But I've seen some people defend it, so
Starting on Tumblr was a slow process.
It wasn't until my fourth comic I got one follower that wasn't my friend.
It was a porn blog.
But I used to pour hours in these comics
and it sucked seeing my hard work not getting any attention
And I haven't really told anyone this but,
it was around December of 2012 that I wanted to quit.
I was upset that no one was looking at my comics
I was upset my comics were looking really bad
If you look at my Tumblr for that month
I made 4 posts; 3 of them were me experimenting with my art because I just wanted to make it look good
and the one comic I made for that month: I had to force myself to finish it.
And for the description I wrote:
"it's been a long and busy week..."
And I wish I could tell you what motivated me to keep going, but
I don't remember.
For some reason, I just didn't quit
and MAN am I glad I didn't!
Can you imagine if I did quit?
I'd probably still be in college...
But I kept at it, I kept drawing and growing my audience slowly
and I had around a hundred followers
But then one day when I posted this comic
For whatever reason, it just exploded.
And I broke a thousand followers.
I remember logging in and just seeing the numbers just spike up
And I remember being so surprised, I was like literally like thrown back in my chair.
And a few comics later, this comic blew up
and from then I just kept steadily growing.
So I used to watch YouTube and CaptainSparklez all the time when I was drawing my comics
but then one day I was like
So then in August of 2014, so two years of comics on the internet
I posted my first video.
And I hated it.
I already had around 50,000 followers on Tumblr,
so when I posted the video, like my subscriber count immediately jumped to like 2000 so,
That was nice.
And then another two years went by,
I got retweeted by Dwayne
And now we're here with a million.
Another thing that I haven't mentioned in a video yet
I got this.
A month ago.
It's a little late.
So maybe we can just add another zero
Right there. Put a-
put a comma right here
Don't worry, it comes off.
And if you want this amazing t-shirt
made by an amazing person
You're gonna have to go onto Tony's website.
*sniff*
Link in the description, now that I-
ju-just-Because.
Also I just wanted to show you the wall of fanart
So you know, if your fanart didn't get featured in a video
then maybe you got featured in this board thing
Also, here's just something fun that I think you want to see
So this is where I'd record audio.
Just right here.
Let's sit down here,
and there would be a microphone if it wasn't over there
uh, yeah.
That's it.
♫ Time to... ♫
♫ ...say goodbye ♫
♫ surami pastrami... ♫
♫ ma- la- da- da... ♫
♫ dah- da- da- dah-daaa ♫