{"id":21681,"date":"2022-01-29T11:09:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T16:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=21681"},"modified":"2022-03-01T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T17:03:40","slug":"100k-youtube-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/100k-youtube-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"100k YouTube Subscribers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look what&#8217;s arrived!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/youtube_award1.jpg\" alt=\"PlanetJune YouTube Silver Creator Award\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, I can&#8217;t quite believe this, but I now have over 100,000 YouTube subscribers! And YouTube have sent me a shiny silver Creator&#8217;s Award to commemorate the achievement &#8211; how cool is that?<\/p>\n<p>I actually hit 100k in December (I have over 101k now!) and I wanted to do something to celebrate right away, so I decided to be brave and show my face on video for the first time ever, as well as giving you a glimpse into my design process as I celebrated by crocheting a silver play button.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, here&#8217;s my video:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DRyKaWhOWww\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Note:<\/strong> The video may look a little small embedded in the blog: if so, you can fullscreen it or <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DRyKaWhOWww\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click through to YouTube<\/a> to watch it full-sized \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(And if you haven&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/youtube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribed to the PlanetJune YouTube channel<\/a> yet, now would be a great time! I&#8217;m gearing up to publish more crochet tutorial videos this year&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my crocheted play button:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/playbutton.jpg\" alt=\"crocheted silver play button by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When my real award arrived, I was surprised by how close my crocheted version turned out to be! The shape of the button is pretty close, and the size of the button and the &#8216;play&#8217; triangle are almost perfect&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/youtube_award2.jpg\" alt=\"PlanetJune YouTube Silver Creator Award plus crocheted play button\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Let&#8217;s pretend I intentionally designed it to be exactly the right size, okay?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t describe how strange and cool it feels to be a part of a top tier of YouTube, especially because I don&#8217;t play the game the way you&#8217;re &#8216;supposed&#8217; to &#8211; I don&#8217;t publish content regularly, I don&#8217;t fish for subscribers, I don&#8217;t have clickbait-y titles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My strategy has always just been to make clear, concise and helpful crochet tutorial videos, and it&#8217;s so validating to have this recognition that PlanetJune is a valuable YouTube resource, even if I&#8217;m not a typical YouTuber!<\/p>\n<p>(I don&#8217;t suggest you try to follow in my footsteps if you want to grow your own YouTube channel &#8211; it&#8217;s taken me over 10 years to reach this point using my lack-of-strategy, so there&#8217;s a distinct lack of instant gratification with my method! But this is the way it works for me; I don&#8217;t plan to go anywhere, and I&#8217;ve always been playing the long game of quality and commitment.)<\/p>\n<p>By the way, it turned out to be quite tricky taking a photo of my award &#8211; especially as a selfie &#8211; because the play button itself is mirrored!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/youtube_award3.jpg\" alt=\"PlanetJune YouTube Silver Creator Award\" \/><br \/>\n<em>See? The truth behind my selfie magic is revealed&#8230; \ud83d\ude00<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Woohoo! 100 thousand subscribers&#8230; isn&#8217;t that mind-blowing?! I&#8217;ll definitely have more videos coming soon &#8211; I can&#8217;t let a tenth of a million people down, can I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look what&#8217;s arrived! That&#8217;s right, I can&#8217;t quite believe this, but I now have over 100,000 YouTube subscribers! And YouTube have sent me a shiny silver Creator&#8217;s Award to commemorate the achievement &#8211; how cool is that? I actually hit 100k in December (I have over 101k now!) and I wanted to do something to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}