Success?!

If you're reading my blog you probably already know that I put a lot of time into youtube. There's something special to me about creating a video and getting feedback. I get really excited when I put up a new video and I'm checking the comments and views every minute, the community as a whole and everything involved is just so great!

I'd consider myself a pretty average youtube, about 3,500 subs, I had 300,000 total video views...Not nearly enough to be a "celebrity," but enough to show I've put work into it.

But then Chris Brown beat up Rihanna.

I was still in California, and Alex said we should make a video with their mouths just talking about what happened before he beat her up. We came up with the song idea to use all their song titles and wrote that up then sat down for 10 minutes and filmed our dialogue. Alex edited it, and then we put up our videos.

The video went up, it was doing pretty good...it had like 2,000 views the first day, but then the next day it hit. Something happened and it was at 8,000 views, then 16,000, then 23,000. I couldn't believe after all the creativity and work I did with other videos, this was finally my "hit" video. Of course I can't complain, tho I feel bad because it was Alex's idea! When I was getting ready to leave early sunday morning, that saturday night I tweeted that it had 41,000 views, that was INSANE to me already! But when I got home sunday night it had 86,000 views! It more than doubled in a day!

Since then it continues to go up, sitting at 186,000 views. It's lead to a lot more subscribers, tons of comments, and almost 700 times favorited now. But now I have a new video up, and all the excitement is calming down as this 4th episode of Swingers isn't nearly as popular as the Chris Brown current news ;)

Regardless, I am so excited after almost a year of hard work on ATB, things are finally starting to pay off, I couldn't be happier! And of course as I've repeated many times, can't give enough credit to Alex: www.youtube.com/soaroftheconchords