the history of technoblade (1,000,000 sub elbow reveal)

[Music] [Music] nice well guys we did it 1 million subscribers I am now officially a big boy and it didn't even take that long I mean it just took like 11 days and a nine months and five years but who's counting now that I'm famous the first order of business is to let it immediately go to my head if you have less subscribers than dantdm don't even speak to me I'm kidding now that I'm hitting 1 million subscribers I think it'd be cool to take a look back at my history on YouTube nobody cares techno show us your elbow look look I'm getting to it I made my first youtube channel when I was 10 years old and it was called studio lore I'd upload these terrible roblox machinima specs and I had no mic and recorded with whatever free program I could get my hands on which always had some terrible watermark on the top of the screen and often had bizarre limitations like only being able to record for 30 seconds at a time and after all that was done I throw all the clips into Windows Live Movie Maker and trim them a bit before it colander today of course this pales in comparison to the amount of work I put into my videos today or I just I throw some clips into into Sony Vegas and then and then I trim them and then sometimes I zoom in but eventually I got bored of making bad roblox videos and decided to move on to making bad Team Fortress 2 videos now I don't want to brag but I was pretty good at that game and after only four years of making videos I'd managed to amass an entire 47 subscribers yeah it was kind of a big deal at this point I was 13 and about to graduate middle school and I was thinking hmm at some point in the future I'll be an adult and adults need to get their own food but food costs money uh clearly I needed to figure something out but I mean what kind of job was like gonna get all I did all day was play video games and make jokes so one day I'm sitting there watching YouTube when there's this dude that's just like playing video games and making jokes and I'm like wait a minute he's getting paid for this I could do that so I did the end video over alright there's a bit more to it than that now I'd always believed that confidence was an important trait to have it's just that it's not a trait that I'd ever had but someone once told me that the key to being confident was just to fake it forever so I decided I was gonna do YouTube and I was gonna be absurdly confident about it I wasn't just gonna hit 1 million subs and call it a day because any loser who can do that I was gonna hit 10 million and then I wouldn't even be grateful I'd be the worst person on the platform you know other youtubers out there they make milestone video it's like oh my god what I started this channel I never thought I'd get this far thank you all so much for the support weaksauce couldn't be me catch you making milestone videos like you know when I first made this channel I thought we'd get here way faster hurry up losers pick up the pace chop-chop I mean everyone would hate me but hear me out here it'd be funny also so many youtubers back then would make a huge deal out of doing face reveals and I wanted to send them a message okay I wanted to tell them this is the internet literally nobody cares about your face we're here for the real good so I decided that I'd promise that when I hit 1 million subscribers I'd do an elbow reveal but I knew that confidence wasn't gonna be enough if I wanted to get 10 million subscribers there was only one game that offered even a chance the game that was taking YouTube over by storm minecraft I decided to ditch my studio lore channel which I'm sure devastated by 48 subscribers and move on to a new channel I made a few collaborative channels with friends before I realized wow that's a terrible idea I want my own channel and on October 28th 2013 the techno blades annal was created wait wait was that actually was that actually my banner are you kidding me no no turn off the camera avert your gaze audience no no my dignity now I've been playing Minecraft on and off for a few years by this point but I'd mostly spent my time on small faction PvP servers which I joined and then completely take over within a few months I mean I ruled those servers with an iron fist but I figured if I wanted 10 million subscribers I'd need a server with more than 30 players on it so I wondered hmm if I could take over all these smaller servers what would happen if I joined a larger server when it came to big Minecraft servers in North America there were only two options it was mineplex which was the largest minecraft server in the world or hypixel which wasn't it was a bit smaller but it was still doing it pretty good and you know two roads diverged in a wood and I I took the one less traveled by because I saw captain sparkles on that other road and he was doing daily Let's Plays and I'm gonna be honest I felt like competing with him for views when I had zero subscribers would probably proved to be an uphill battle so yeah hypixel it is and that has made all the difference look at how badly hi pixel is killing the Minecraft Java Edition multiplayers scene right now look at this no one stands a chance oh all about check no blade isn't the server over here doing pretty good wrong it's also AI pixel I started out recording Hunger Games video since those were huge back in the day I was slowly trying to assimilate the Blitz survival games community into my fan base and after six months of hard work I'd managed to get an entire 300 subscribers you see get in the first thousand subscribers is the most difficult and things aren't made any easier when your voice sounds like then again there was a six year old who got tens of millions of views so maybe I just suck but things started to pick up after that I began making these Hunger Games montages in which I'd showcase myself beating some of the top players in the community and those were quite successful even if I cringe looking back at them I mean come on look at the beginning of this there's like this panning shot to the tower and half of the map is not rendered you cannot see half of the things you're supposed to see this shot is terrible but yeah those worked out and a year and a half after making my channel I now had 14,000 subscribers at this point I was making actual money I mean not like not like a lot but pretty good for a 15 year old and I thought hmm I don't really need money for food yet and all I do all day is obsessively try to grow this YouTube channel what if I use this money to buy ads you know those YouTube ads that play before videos yeah anyone can make those you don't need to be a company or anything so I made a Google AdWords account in a channel trailer and every couple of months I'd spend all my money making sure this clip played at the start of every minecraft youtubers videos there's only two ways by subscribing or by calling the police it was a pretty bizarre way to get subs but hey it worked I mean optimizing it required a lot of math but but math is my thing I managed to optimize it to the point where I could get almost 3 subscribers per dollar it was like sub bot and but with real people it was incredible I'd still be doing it today honestly if I'd if it didn't suffer from diminishing returns after a while at this point operation blitz had gone over pretty well I mean whenever anyone else tried to be a popular blitz youtuber I'd just kill them and add them to the next montage because there can only be one and then in June 2015 I pixel released a new game-mode skywars skywars was the most popular minigame minecraft had ever had it did something like 8000 concurrent players at peak time it's single-handedly launched high pixels player count past mineplex I saw that and thought to myself free views so I started recording skywars videos and meanwhile I'm scheming you know like how am i how am I gonna take over sky wars I gotta defeat all the other youtubers but the games too large for me to like find them in-game and kill them one by one and eventually I found my answer ranked sky wars a new mode which had a monthly competition where only the top 10 players could get an exclusive Dragon Rider victory dance so I got masters division and have been passively flexing with the dragon in every sky wars video since does your sky wars youtuber have a dragon yeah didn't think so well actually some of them do have dragons nowadays but we don't need to speak about that you might be thinking Technol blade does this flex and actually help at all and yeah I have absolutely no idea but I have to flex okay it's important you see one time my classmate told me their little brother or watch sky wars on YouTube and I was like oh my god they might watch me ask them who their favorite sky wars youtuber is and they came back the next day and said he said it was I think acidic blitz and I went nah so yeah every other youtuber must get flexed on my ego demands it I spent the next two years taken over sky wars I got the YouTube rank graduated from high school and got my silver plaque on YouTube for past and a hundred thousand subscribers it was now summer of 2017 and big things were on the horizon as I said before I was obsessed with YouTube and part of that obsession meant stalking every single other minecraft youtuber on social blade to see which of them were succeeding and if so why and I found this one dude gone from like zero subscribers to ninety thousand in like two seconds and I thought hey this was kept a by the way so anyways I stocked Skippy on socialblade and notice that his sub game was completely normal except whenever he started livestream and it was pointed increased by like a thousand percent until he stopped so I tried that myself and oh my god did it work what for like a month I was streaming like five hours per day cuz YouTube was just like handy and you subscribers by the bucket this is also when I beat minecraft hardcore mode with the steering wheel which got it's my most popular video it got like 5 million views so many subscribers I went from like a hundred fifty thousand subscribers to like three hundred fifty thousand in like two minutes in YouTube time it was so ridiculous I took a gap year instead of going to college since I mean with growth like that you can't do anything else naturally shortly after I did that the algorithm changed in live stream and stopped giving billions of subscribers but the views remained I turned my focus to take an over bed were high pixels new game which just like skywars completely shattered any previous player count records and had like 20,000 concurrent players all I could think was free views the way I ended up flexing and bed worse was actually an accident I'd planned to get onto the leaderboard so I played a ton with a lot of the top players in the game to get better and one day I noticed that I'd won 200 games in a row without losing and thought hmm wait a minute isn't the record like 350 I should go for it so I assembled a ridiculously strong bed worse team and we broke that record and then some hypixel gave us the challenge to get a thousand wins in a row it was a huge story and admin made a website to track how close I was to a thousand wins and we yet we had to log in and play in the middle of the night to avoid people who would like maybe they'd become an after man they'd be prepared to snipe me with fly hacks just to prevent the dream but we did it okay and how it's one of the most popular videos on my channel right behind minecraft story mode which is absolutely no business having that many views but I'll take it and then began the Dark Ages for my channel minecraft popularity was starting to wear off well I mean it been going downhill since even before I started my channel but now I was really starting to feel the effects I mean my motivations never been particularly consistent but now whenever I uploaded I'd actually lose subscribers instead of gaining them which really did not help so for like a year I uploaded once per month of even that much fortnight was taken over I mean I made like a half-hearted attempt to get into fortnight but I just I just wasn't feeling it so I sort of just stayed in YouTube limbo for a year my views not growing but not shrinking either and all this time I wondered to myself what would it have been like if I had been born a few years earlier if I had been a youtuber in Minecraft prime how far could I have gone would I have been skydoesminecraft and suddenly a few months ago minecraft is back it's popular again and I got the answer that question absolutely not PewDiePie just came in and denied everyone you thought he was popular before well now he's literally twice as popular dude gets ten million views per video where to get in owned this just proves my original theory that making Minecraft videos is just play in YouTube on easy mode still even if I'm not number one I'm doing pretty good you know Skyblock came out which was even more ridiculously popular than bed worse and right as I was starting to take that over BAM team stars after saying he starred in a Minecraft youtuber tournament and I'm here like it's free real estate and like two months my views per video go from like a hundred thousand to one million it's pretty great I'm sure that trend will continue forever anyways now that I've passed 1 million subscribers it's time for years I've covered my elbows every time I make a real-life video for years my fans have wondered how incredible my elbows must be for me to go to such effort to keep them out of the public's eyes and now it's time to find out [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Technoblade

Views: 9,922,512

Keywords: Minecraft, Technoblade, Technothepig, Hypixel, technoblade elbow reveal, technoblade elbow, elbow reveal, technoblade 1 million subs, technoblade 1 mil sub special, 1 million subs

Id: C3rnhyu000w

Length: 12min 51sec (771 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 18 2019