First of all, thanks to everyone who congratulated me for reaching over 5,000 subscribers on YouTube and over 300,000 video views.

A handful of people have asked me if I’m going to “celebrate” this “milestone” by making a special video, doing a giveaway, or doing anything special or different in general. Unfortunately, the answer is no.

The reason for this is that, to me, 5,000 subscribers isn’t exactly a great accomplishment, especially con­sidering how long I have been producing online media content. I also have a lot of good buddies who are YouTubers as well, and the number 5,000 looks like ant feces compared to their subscriber counts.

On top of that, even though I have 5,000 subscribers, only about an estimated 10% of them actually consistently watch my videos. I came to this conclusion because a majority of my videos that I don’t post elsewhere – that is, I upload it, and don’t tell anyone through any other social media outlet that I did – only get a couple hundred views, and usually don’t get more than 500. When I post links to my new videos on other places and post them on my website, the number of views on my videos usually triples or quadruples. Thus, I can easily conclude that my direct YouTube subscribers aren’t my biggest audience, it’s my blog readers and other social network followers.

By no means does this mean I’m disappointed, and I am definitely not going to stop making videos at any point. When I post videos, I usually either do it for fun, or for video editing practice so I can sharpen my skills when I’m working on bigger and more meaningful projects with other bigger content producers. I just wanted to quickly address this issue because a noticeably large number of people were mentioning it to me, and I felt they deserved a response. My feelings about my subscriber or video view counts will not significantly affect my future video making, and I will stay consistent to what I have done in the past.