20 years of my YouTube channel

I set up my YouTube channel on Apr 24, 2006. It has since grown to be around 220k subscribers, but I never intended it to be popular. 

I originally created it to post my videos. I originally made videos for myself and friends, and would post them on Gamespot User Videos, back when that site allowed users to upload their own videos. They would be silly little animations about videogames that I made on my computer. 

Some of my videos uploaded to Gamespot User Videos (the thumbnails were not saved by the Wayback Machine). The Paper Mario one is still available because I put it on YouTube, but the Star Fox one is lost forever.

At the time, YouTube was already one year old and gaining in popularity, and since Gamespot User Videos was simply giving the same service as YouTube, I decided to start uploading some of my videos to YouTube as well.

The first video was a reupload of a Paper Mario animation I had made for Gamespot User Videos:


However, although nowadays my channel is practically exclusively animated videos, at first that was not the intention. It was my personal YouTube channel to upload my interests. I also uploaded gameplay videos of games like Sonic Robo Blast 2, Roblox, and Microsoft Flight Simulator:




I would typically upload two or three videos in a month, and then nothing for the rest year and a half, since this was done for my enjoyment as opposed to any other reason (Being a Youtuber was not a career at a time).

I'd occasionally return to experiment making animated videos, such as stop motion Brickfilms:


Eventually I realized I could make short films, so I spent much of my time making them, and posting them on YouTube once they were done:


I experimented with livestreaming, and making videos for other channels, like the Video Game Movie Store webseries for Point Insertion. Inbetween those episodes, I'd make random cartoons that I thought were funny.

Eventually, once the pandemic hit, as millions around the world were at home watching videos on the internet, my videos took off, exploding the channel from a few thousand subscribers to where it is now.