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all right sup guys I'm TV HD here so remember when I asked you a couple couple weeks ago to vote for creator of the decade by the Shorty Awards well that did happen so it was awesome enough to be a finalist in a ridiculous category like that but of course since I'm in the same category as Casey Nights that Liza Koshi jenna Marbles superwoman and rhett and Link obviously did not expect to win but then this happened and the creator of the decade award goes to mkbhd so I'm gonna cut that off because I didn't have much of an acceptance speech I didn't expect obviously to be standing up there but I figured I could use this as a sort of a window to now that I've actually had a second to think about it what I would have said so I don't know if you remember last year at the Shorty Awards again I was a nominee and a finalist for the youtuber of the Year category for 2017 and that was really exciting I always consider myself a youtuber it was an awesome year but the word creator there's so many different creators on so many different platforms in so many different formats and of course a decade a massive amount of time for the last ten years of video so there are obviously so many other different creators that could have been honored here that probably should be because they've been making videos for longer than the ten years that I have so this is not something I take for granted at all I'm super humbled to even be considered for it but this is really special so flashback to Saturday night than the night before the shorties actually I was actually at a different event a different gala I was honored by my school Stevens Tech with an alumni Achievement Award alongside a bunch of other awesome engineers and business people and even the CIO of SpaceX went to my school he was honored there as well so that was really exciting and when they talked about what I do for my award they kind of called it new media which actually really stuck with me I think it has a couple different names you could call it social media or a new media but it all kind of ties in with the slow rise versus you know old media what you might call traditional media but in my last 10 years on this platform I can speak to what I've seen in the tech YouTube community because that's what I'm most a part of which has been its formation a long time ago to it developing its own voice developing its own style both invoices and actual production and then creating its own immense value tech youtubers went from like an afterthought to their own fun little niche community to you know some websites deciding maybe they should make a youtube channel all the way up to becoming a staple in what you might call new media and so there's tech youtubers covering Google Samsung and Apple events covering CES covering trade shows being a huge part of this new wave of new media doing Big Time interviews and collabs and it's all just getting started so for me this all started as a kid in a bedroom talking to a camera about tech because it's fun as hell and I love tech but to watch the evolution of not only just the videos we make but the community and everything we do here over the last 10 years to become what it is today is not only really humbling and inspiring but super exciting for the next 10 years so to all the creators thank you for doing what you do keep doing what you're doing don't let anyone tell you to stop thank you for watching the videos I make and here's to the next 10 years thanks for watching face