YouTube Milestone

Another big number for a small fish like me in the massive, nebulous, swirling universe of YouTube. Yesterday I hit a total of 400,000 views. This number is really a drop in the YouTube bucket when you consider that a 10 second cell phone video of a cat mewing pitiously is likely to exceed my entire number of views - but to me, this is a big deal.

I've been posting videos for about 11 months now and I have to give credit to Tanner for giving me the heads up that YouTube (and Blogspot) even existed ("Why yes, I DO live under a rock, thanks for asking!"). In the beginning, I posted videos fast and furious, excited to see the hits rack up in a minute. Who were these strangers watching my video of Pin Thin celebrity paperdolls having a high pitched cat fight? Who were they and where were they?

I realized quickly that the celeb vids were sure fire ways to get views but later decided all the haters and their gushing rivers of vitriolic acid were not worth the views. I don't post many celeb vids anymore, in fact, I don't feel the urge to make many celeb vids these days either.

Not many people watch my current meager offerings, the Stuck in Vermont vlog about local artists and The Deadbeat Club vlog about whatever cultural/personal events I care to record. But it isn't so much the numbers as the quality of the people watching. I have made friends in England, Croatia, Australia, Japan, New York, Nashville and Austin. I've reconnected with people from my past and learned a ton about editing and making videos.

You never know what you will find when you try something new. But often this is what makes life so damn entertaining. Who knows what is around my YouTube corner or how long my channel will exist, but for now I am gonna take a moment to be thankful that I stumbled upon this little piece of internet paradise. And to celebrate, "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!"