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Oh Kyle you're gonna be hammered all right it went back down it went back down it's fine it's all mines no it's gonna hit a million any second any second so that was about one month ago on March 5th and that was the actual time that I hit 1 million subscribers on my youtube channel it was really cool cuz it happened while we were doing our live show me and Kyle awesome hardware that we do every Tuesday evening and I was able to share it with a bunch of fans the people I think who watched the show live tend to be fans who have maybe been around a bit longer and to like watching us in our natural state as well as the more produced videos that we tend to make from time to time but the point being I wanted to say thank you this video is all about saying thanks to you guys if you watch my channel if you've gained anything from it if you've learned how to build a computer or if you've just enjoyed trying to keep up with technology as new products came out or even the random things that we do from time to time whether it's garage work logs or anything else thank you guys so much sincerely from the bottom of my heart for watching my content for continue to watch my content it means a lot to me and it's the reason I'm able to do what I do every day which I really enjoy so for today's video I'm gonna be doing a quick reminisce a recap some nostalgic looking back at my channel and how it's grown over the years since I first started it back in 2012 I'm gonna be unboxing my 1 million subscriber plaque which I'm so excited has finally arrived and then of course I have a giveaway and I'll be going over the details of that towards the end of this video if you're short on time or you're impatient though just check the video's description there's a list of all the prizes as well as a link where you can enter wow that's actually in 1080 I don't think it was in focus here's my first video published October 4th 2012 so that is about six and a half years ago that is how long it took me to go from zero subscribers all the way up to a million and I should give credit where credit is due this isn't the first video that I ever posted on YouTube for that you would need to go over to the new egg studios channel sort by oldest and then you can see my first ever video on YouTube and that's right here July 9th Nine's so they were looking at closer to ten years ago the old intro was really strange I don't know why I cut off the top of my head in this video I was reviewing a Samsung netbook you guys remember netbooks those are popular point being though if I look back I have to give a huge thank you to new egg and to a lot of the people who I worked with there for giving me a starts and also for the people who happen to watch new egg TV back in the day because there was a lot of people who watched there who sort of came over and watched me on my channel when I started it in 2012 I definitely would not be where I am now without the kickstart that I got from new egg TV so a huge thank you to the old new egg TV crew you guys know who you are I miss you miss you guys all the time I also want to use this moment to clarify something because there's been a long-standing rivalry between me and Kyle ever since we both left new egg and even though he has include Smee in subscribers which I gave him full credit for he actually has always claimed that he started his channel first because if you look at my first video that's October 4th 2012 his first video October 3rd 2012 yes folks one day earlier but if you go and look at social blade you can see that my channel was actually created June 30th 2012 so I believe I have the one-up on Kyle there I did record some screen caps of some milestones along the way so here's when I hit 100,000 subscribers I had 4.1 million views and that was January 22nd 2015 the next milestone was jump into 200,000 and according to these screen caps that happened in November November 12 2015 about 10 months later here's a screen cap of my channel at the time 200,000 subscribers eleven point seven million views we were on awesome Hardware number 38 at that point and look that's when I did with Jay good times good times 300,000 came on May 19th 2016 I did a little tweet to say thanks to everyone for that one unfortunately I didn't get a screen cap for 400 K but 500 K it looks like was on March 12th 2017 I also did it sweet to thank everyone for that one things picked up after that it was just three months later in June that I hit 600,000 so sent another tweet on that June 15th I did a screen cap of this number because I did it I had been doing giveaways at like 500,000 and so I wanted to do a random giveaway to celebrate Aranda subscriber count' number so 655,000 482 and that was in September of 2017 700k was December 3rd 2017 I had to wait a little longer for 800k that came on July 20th 2018 although you can see I'm also just shy of 100 million views at this point and then from there jumps to 995 thousand I didn't get a screen cap at nine hundred thousand but for that I have to blame BPS customs or brian because he did a giveaway that cal and I participated in November of 2018 and that got a bunch of subscribers for all of us I actually jumped from like mid to late 800 thousands up to the low nine hundred thousands and that was from this video right here but that pretty much gives you kind of a bit of a timeline of where my channel has come from and where it's gone or where it's going in anyway that's how my channel got to a million subscribers long story short so I have drawn this out long enough I've been waiting so long I'm now going to unbox my million subscriber clanking still using my trusty spyderco tenacious sorry any foam like this this Susan Susan wrote me a letter oh look it's made by society Awards okay so this is I think this is a card from the company that actually manufactures these youtube subscriber Awards meanwhile Susan says you're bigger than Vancouver bigger than Venice you're even bigger than Las Vegas 1 million subscribers apparently the next milestone is 10 million subscribers so I just need to do 10 times what has already been done then that will be good enough for Susan well I'll tell you what Susan thank you thank you for this black aid I really appreciate it he says we know that being able to touch the lives of so many people is reward enough but we're incredibly proud of all you've done this so we hope you'll accept this Gold Creator Award as a token of our esteem very nice card stock - it's gonna add a bit of texture to it okay and and then here it is my gold play button this is amazing it's so so heavy nope got a desiccant mounting holes in the back all right guys there it is my gold play button it's got this reflective inner part and play button itself doesn't do anything when you press it got Jo in the reflection there hi Jo hey speaking of Jo in the reflection that reminds me I was going to say huge thank you at the end of this video but I might as well say it now I haven't done this all alone of course there's all of you guys who supported me but I also have a bit of a team that I've put together not quite on the level of Linus Media Group or anything but Jo my editor has been helping me for several years now I can't even remember when I used to do videos without Jo self he's been helping me film stuff as well as editing most of my videos so Thank You Jo he's right there if you guys want to say thanks to Jo I think he's added a lot to the channel and he's allowed me to make more content and everything so that's fantastic also a massive thank you to Jennifer who I know from back in the Newegg days she also helps me out a lot kind of in the background she does ad sales and stuff like that so Jennifer thank you so so much for your help as well you're also an indispensable part of this team it's super sappy and now at the unboxing is done the last part of this video is saying thank you and a bit more of a practical way I don't know how to individually thank each and every one of you other than saying thank you the way I have in this video but there's at least a little something I can do and that is to give you the opportunity to possibly win something so I have a bunch of prizes now here's how this is gonna work you don't even need to be subscribed to my channel in order to enter this giveaway there is a gleam dot io entry link all you have to do is visit a webpage because I don't want to get YouTube mad at me about like having subscriber requirements for entering a giveaway all you gotta do is click that link you can enter to win please use a valuable email address that you actually check on a regular basis because I'll be contacting the winners in a couple weeks and you're only gonna have 24 hours to respond to me if you happen to be one of the winners so please do so and there's more details down in the video's description speaking of details I wanted to make this giveaway as international as possible and for all of these prizes that was my first question can you ship internationally for the partners who have contributed some prizes for this giveaway long story short though most of the prizes are available internationally there are a few that aren't so hopefully everyone will be happy with that at some level it's really hard with these giveaways to make everyone happy but I've tried my best to do so on this one let's go over the prizes here is the full list we have Corsair enter max NZXT toshiba as well as the system that I put together just last week that's being given away from Corsair we have a Dominator platinum RGB 16 gig kit 3200 speed we've also got a Corsair our MX series 850 watt 80 plus gold certified power supply we have a k70 RGB low profile mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches and we've got the iron claw RGB fps MOBA Gaming Mouse so a nice assortment of products there from Corsair Animax also provided a stack of prizes so we have a 3-pack of their new square RGB fans whenever these at CES they're they're pretty nice addressable RGB we have an aqua fusion 120 all in one liquid CPU cooler with their really cool new design for the CPU block with RGB lighting on it also a 240 millimeter version of that so a smaller one and a bigger one we also have the liquid tech 2 360 in white I covered this recently and it's a it's a really nice liquid CPU cooler especially if you have something a little bit higher in like a 9900 K and then one more a IO the liquid Tec 2 240 so the smaller version of the white 360 millimeter version still has a 500 watt TDP rating for heat dissipation so those are real nice liquid coolers and then three power supplies up for grabs from the revolution DF series 80 plus gold power supplies fully modular 650 watt 750 watt and 850 watt these are nice little units they have all black cabling and they come with the accessories seen here so anyone looking for a new power supply enter max has a few available there to NZXT has provided a hue to ambient the v2 version of that so if you're looking to deck out your computer with RGB LEDs NZXT has a really nice family of products that are all sort of focused around the hue and the newer version of those with the addressable RGB is real nice also the Kraken X 62 which is one of the highest rated all-in-one liquid CPU coolers supports the cam software and also has a real nice RGB logo on the center there too from Toshiba we have a couple SSDs there's going to be a one terabyte class TR two hundred and nine hundred and sixty gig version of that so anyone who's looking to add a bunch of SSD storage there it is and then we also have the RC 100 which is that really really tiny m dot 220 240 to drive 480 gig version of that it's nvme that's real nice reading write speeds it's not the fastest of your nvme drives but for being as tiny as it is it's it's real nice and then finally I have a full system that I have put together just recently in this video so I'll post a link to the video in the description if you guys want to check it out its built in the doctor's aber century 2.0 case it has a liquid cooler in there an all-in-one 120 millimeter Corsair 855 liquid cooler 16 gigs with Kingston HyperX ddr4 3200 memory it has a gigabytes RTX 2070 mini tucked in right here that's right next to the all-in-one liquid cooler it's got an Asus Z 390 - I gaming ITX motherboard and an Intel Core i5 9600 K processor 6 cores and unlocked for overclocking so you can dabble in that - what you might be able to get a bit out of since we've got the all-in-one in there as well as the fan flipped so it's facing the right direction now it should help out as well oh also an Intel 660 P 1 terabyte nvme SSD so you got the full package in here I'm gonna load Windows on it - before it gets sent out so a lucky winner will win this entire system and yes this is an international prize absolutely and that's pretty much wraps it up I really hope these prices go to some worthy subscribers out there again the link is in the description if you guys want to enter to win and keep an eye on your email addresses because in about two weeks I will be following up notifying the winners and you need to get back to me quickly so that I can get all these prizes arranged and set up and shipped out to the lucky winners themselves thank you guys so much once again for subscribing for watching my content for all that you have done for my channel I'm I'm just so happy about this gold 1 million subscriber plaque and I think the last thing I need to figure out is where I'm going to put it well it fit back here hold on oh no it's too tall to fit right here I'll have to figure something else out go down here no I'll worry about that later so guys thank you so much again for watching hit the thumbs-up button if you enjoyed this video if you like my content it is ever so slowly' so you shouldn't have stopped it that would have been a perfect end of the video code ok so guys that's pretty much does it I wanted to say one last huge thank you to all of you for watching my videos for subscribing for interacting for posting comments for swinging at me on Twitter retweets all that good stuff I'm incredibly in debt to all of you for it so thanks again hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this video don't forget to enter the giveaway and we'll see you guys in the next one