Issue #41: A lifelong goal achieved

Jun 12, 2025

📺 What’s coming up?

100K Q&A; more videos for the longitudinal series; working on me SoME4 entry

In this issue…

I wanted to celebrate the fact that my channel has finally reached 100K subscribers! I uploaded my first video on April 9th, 2023, and I reached the milestone on June 4th, 2025, meaning that it took 787 days to achieve this goal.

At the start of 2025, I made it a goal to reach 100K before I graduate, and I barely got there. 3 months ago, I realized that things needed to change fast if I was going to make it, so I put myself through grueling weekly uploads. After it was all said and done, I don’t think the weekly pace helped, but rather a more mindful approach to the thumbnail and title. As much as I hate to admit it, they matter almost as much as the actual effort I put into the video.

Some Very Normal Lore

Getting that YouTube plaque has been a dream of mine since high school. YouTube started in 2008, and I started taking film classes just as it started to blow up. During lunch, I would watch Corridor Digital and Epic Meal Time. This was where I learned how to edit, and I had always wanted to make a name for myself on this new medium from a company that was strangely near my house.

The YouTube Creator Awards didn’t come out until 2012-2013, when I was in college, but I instantly knew that I wanted one for myself. I kept up my editing skills in college thanks to student clubs, always keeping the award in the back of my head.

I even got to do some editing during my Master’s degree! I had a class where we needed to make a video demo, and I had the perfect skillset to make our project stand out.

If you had asked me what I would be getting the plaque for, I would have NEVER guessed it would be for teaching statistics on YouTube. My 2008 self would have never believed it because I’d never even been in a statistics class before.

One million feels so far away right now, so I’m not going to think about my subscriber count for a while. I’ll just keep focusing on making helpful statistics content while I adjust to a new life in industry.

I’m proud of what I’ve been able to make, and I’m glad that you’ve been a part of the journey. Thank you for watching and even going the extra mile to read this newsletter.

What’s next for the channel?

I’ll have a dedicated section to this in the upcoming 100K Q&A, so keep an eye out for that!

Until the next one.

Christian.

📦 Other stuff of mine

You can support me on Ko-fi! YouTube and Substack are by far the best (and easiest) ways to support me, but if you feel like going the extra mile, this would be the place. It is always appreciated!