hey everyone it's James from fun foods and today we're gonna look back on 2017
now 2017 was filled with some fun recipe videos some awesome collaborations
attending a few YouTube conventions and also attending other events where some
of them I got to speak at so let's first take a look at some of the amazing
recipes I made in 2017 well first start off with the Reese's recipes now I made
everything from Reese's milkshakes to Reese's cheesecakes they were amazing I
I love them I love Reese's it's one of my favorite candies right up there with
Kit Kats and Oreo cookies so of course that had to dominate 2017 I also made a
whole host of giant things like giant peeps and giant pancakes I had other
giant things I made throughout the years as well and of course I encourage you to
check out my playlist of giant things and who can forget the Mountain Dew
recipes now I make quite a few Mountain Dew recipes this year a lot of you
suggested different things for me to make and I really appreciate that
because it's you guys who give me those ideas sometimes and I had a lot of fun
making them I couldn't make them all but there's always next year I also had some
fun making some Willy Wonka recipes such as the Everlasting Gobstopper in the
lickable wallpaper those were a lot of fun there were a lot of hard work but
there were so much fun to make and of course you had to make trends such as
the unicorn Frappuccino I have a lot of fun making a wrestling belt WWE
wrestling you know that was a lot of fun making that it turned out quite well and
probably the hardest recipe I made this year was a claw machine cake that you
could actually operate like a claw machine that was so much fun making that
cake and it took a few days but it worked at the end in 2017 I made a lot
of collaboration videos some of them I was very proud of I had a lot of fun
collaboration videos tend not to get a lot of views on my channel for some
reason but there once I enjoy making the most mainly
because the people are amazing now I did collaboration videos this year with
granny potty-mouth I did too with slice n rice because one of them they
were included with with granny potty mouth I did one with rkvc in a hotel
room at VidCon that was pretty fun I did one with I'm missing someone who oh Our
3 bs how can I forget Our3Bs I've done collaboration with in the
last two years and last this year's collaboration was a lot of fun as well
now when I collaborated with slice n rice we made two different videos one for my
channel one for theirs it was a rice crusted pizza for my channel and then on
their channel we did a hundred layer pizza you gotta check those out if you
haven't checked those out yet now for our three B's collaboration like I said
we've collaborated our three b's before a year earlier and they came back and we
got to film again I got it from Ben's you should be
ashamed weird that's team look at well the collaboration I did with rkvc
rod Vince what's up guys hi I'm Ron I'm Vince and we're self-deprecating
romantic pop rock duo rkvc we're a band and we're songwriters and we suck at
everything else but we're gonna try cooking today there are great guys we had to
make quesadillas in the hotel room using only the stuff
we could find in a hotel room and of course the ingredients I got from like
the 7/11 and Walgreens the CVS around there but it was a lot of fun doing that
and check out rod and Vince's channel as well because they're really good guys in
great singers I also collaborated with Grady potty-mouth now this was hard
because I was trying to think of a collaboration we can do where it is
still family-friendly and of course on my channel there's never any cussing or
any bad language or anything violence or anything like that and not that granny
does any violence but her language is usually not acceptable for my channel
but we figured out we would do an intervention on her and that kept
everything to a minimum and she didn't cuss but I think one time and there we
just bleeped it out granny you have a pressing problem yes my name is granny
potty mouth and it was pretty easy to do but there was a lot of fun collaborating
with her because she's such a sweet lady go check out her channel if you're
mature enough and it's a lot of fun now we're talking about events the first
event I went to was playlist live Orlando now I've been to playlist live
Orlando before this is my second Orlando playlist so it was a lot of fun going
there meeting people seeing old friends and just catching up
of course a saw Slice n Rice there because we have a little game where we
kind of like take a picture each other from afar and tweet it to each other
without being noticed and then they do it vice-versa to me so it's a lot of
fun we always do that a lot every convention we go to
like he's looking around he doesn't know
now of course I got to see people like Thomas Hayden who's a magician and we've
been on panels together both at playlist Orlando playlist dc he's a
really good guy Matt3756 you know him
he plays the claw machines he's just awesome guy all the way around of course
I've seen him at VidCon and playlist DC as well then you got people like John
from the shenanigans and his whole family there are wonderful people I see
them every year at every one of those DC to Orlando events and everyone else that
I've met along the way you know I can't name them all but I've
met quite a few people at these events and I had a lot of fun doing that now of
course about a month or month and a half after playlist live Orlando cane VidCon
in California so I flew out there and I got to not only collaborate with rkvc
as I said but I also got to meet quite a few other people some of those I met
before let's take socialblade Jason Jason Urgo
he's a good guy I've met him before really nice this time I got to meet
Michelle Jayden and Jesse and I had a little fun trying to pick out who Jesse
and Jayden are twins and trying to think you know pick out which one was which
was hard but I got it right
Jesse Jayden of course at VidCon they had a lot of these pre parties of post
parties after parties and I got to go to a few of them and I got to see so many
other people that wasn't actually the first time I met granny potty-mouth in
person and what a wonderful lady she was in the background you see rkvc
there's another one this is granny potty-mouth grandma potty
mouth go check out her channel granny I'm sorry granny
potty mouth yeah check out her channel got to see a whole host of other friends
at VidCon Oh friends that I met before and other VidCon or SitC which is
summer in the city other other people all the way around I
got introduced to new people and it's always a lot of fun meeting creative
people and of course at VidCon Matt3756 he got to see a lot
of his fans and he's so good at signing autographs and taking pictures with them
and it was a lot of fun watching him interact with his fans VidCon was a lot
of fun we got to not only go to parties but some of them we didn't get in and it
was just fun trying anyway so guys we're in line we're getting ready to go into
the studio 71 party check it out my first youtube I'm so excited
hey guys we're just now leaving the party we did not get in - right yeah but
but we may not have got into it but guess who we got
we actually got somebody into that party who do we get in the guy who made you
see on the video yeah so even though yeah you're welcome by the way
now the next event was playlist live DC now playlist thought DC for me was a big
disappointment and the event itself it wasn't a disappointment as far as the
people now of course I get to meet you know new people and get to see lots of
friends and that part of Playlist Live DC I enjoyed but during that event
I got to hang out with a lot of my friends I showed some of them around
Washington DC since it is my hometown per say I live in Maryland but it's
close enough to DC that I go in there quite often and so I got to hang out
with them and that part I do enjoy I really loved hanging out with my other
friends and showing them around and little bits of information I can give
them that part was great now other events I was invited to I was invited to
the big chocolate show where there I showed people how to decorate
marshmallows chocolate covered marshmallows to make him look like
spongebob now this was so much fun because kids whether they were 5 years
old or whether there were adults that were 60 years old they had so much fun
making these and to me I just I was blown away by how much fun everyone was
having a simple little thing and everyone just enjoyed themselves so much
I was also invite to sic which is Seattle interactive conference where I
was invited to speak and give a presentation about my Facebook page and
how I grow and how I you know optimize the content on there to really focus on
Facebook and I gave this whole speech I was really blown away by the size of the
audience the the room that I spoke in actually filled up and it reached
capacity and they wouldn't even let anymore people in I was this is my first time
ever speaking at that event and I was just so blown away that that many people
would even come to listen to me talk I hope I could reach the 100,000
subscriber mark on my channel in 2018 I thought I would get it by the end of
2016 but I think I'm just under ninety thousand subscribers at this point so
hopefully next year I will have that silver play button
well 2017 was a good year but we're hoping 2018 will be an even better year
so tell me below if you've been watching my channel what your favorite part of my
channel was in 2017 and maybe what you hope to see in 2018 so as always make
sure you subscribe and make sure you like this video and I'll see you guys
next time