I've been on YouTube.

It just past that.

The first video I ever uploaded to my channel, which many of you know as the metal gear solid four Old snake solid snake impression That was not very good.

We'll get to that in a second, but that's the first video I ever uploaded on my channel.

And it has since passed.

Seven years since that has gone on has changed, and that is the fastest seven years I think I've ever had in my entire life.

But only did we just passed seven years on the channel, but we also just past 23 million subscribers on Child.

We've had two milestones hit in rapid succession within a week of each other.

So before I start anything before I start reminiscing.

And before you start doing anything in this video, the first thing I wanted to do was say thank you to anybody who's ever been here to anybody who's ever watched my channel where you were here on the first day, which, let's face it, no one was here with the first day, or you just joined yesterday or anywhere in between.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for letting me do what I do here.

Because when I started off this channel, I did not in my wildest dreams.

First of all, I ever think that it would ever take off, let alone get to 23 million subscribers.

And I did definitely never think that I was gonna be doing it for seven years.

I honestly have no idea where I would be without this channel.

Right now, everyone keeps asking that question of what would you be doing if you weren't doing YouTube right now?

Honestly, I could not give you an answer because I had no idea where my life was going before I started this channel.

It was one of the reasons that I did start doing this because I had no idea what else to do it my time with my life, with myself.

I was very sad.

I was miserable.

I was very depressed.

I didn't know what was going on.

So I started uploading videos and hope that people would watch them and hope that anybody would listen to me.

And I would find some sort of purpose and drive in my life.

So to say that a feel lucky that that actually happened is a complete understatement, because I could not be more grateful for what I have been able to do here on this platform.

YouTube has completely changed me as a person.

I know I wasn't a bad person before I started doing YouTube, but I'm definitely a much better person than I ever could be by doing this because I've met so many different people in the last seven years.

I having to do this and having so much responsibility and so many people and eyeballs thrust upon you at once has matured me faster.

90 other experience in my entire life and to have all these people sitting around and watching what you do and being so involved in it and seeing so many different walks of life.

Within that microcosm, I guess it's not micro.

It's 23 million people, but going out on tour, going to conventions, sitting down, reading comments, going to social media, meeting other YouTubers and just going out in the road and talking to so many different people in so many different avenues of life in so many different races, religions skin colors, faith's beliefs, sexual orientation, so many different types of people I've met in those seven years.

It's made me such a better person, and I cannot be more grateful for that as well.

I was a very sad, depressed early 20 year old in a log cabin in the middle of the woods, freezing my absolute ass off with no riel friends to talk to day in and day out on you.

The friends that I did have.

We got along and everything, but we never shared a lot of the same interests, and I I just sat at home alone, watching videos, playing games all the time on then.

Doing this has I've done so many things doing YouTube.

I've I've accomplished a lot of my wireless dreams.

I've gotten to play video games as a job.

I've gotten to have so many of you guys out there watching what I do and being so involved in it and so loving and caring and supportive and allowing me to do weird, wacky, crazy, wild things all the time and really support me creatively.

I've gotten to go out on tour and meet a lot of you in real life gone to conventions and seeing how much this has meant to you in real life, I've gotten to meet people from Make a Wish whose wish was to come and meet me and divulge about how much this channel meant to them and how much my energy and my positivity has meant to them.

I've met so many people who have been in low parts of their life who really related to the channel on, really looked up to me and really wanted to either do what I do or just be along for the ride and have fun with it.

I've gotten to meet some of my celebrity idols.

I've gotten to go on talk shows and I run the biggest talk show in Ireland that I grew up watching.

I've gotten to do so many charity life things.

We've raised over almost two and 1/2 $1,000,000 since last year for people in need and so many different charities, and I've gotten to work with so many amazing people.

I've gotten to meet some of my best friends that I've ever had in my life, who I wholeheartedly respect and enjoy hanging out with.

I've gotten to meet some of the most loving and caring and supportive people in my life because off doing YouTube and that's only scratching the surface, there's so much more in that in those seven years.

It's been such a dense seven years that I feel so completely undeserving of how much love and support has come my way, that all I can do is spend the rest of my time doing YouTube trying to send that love and energy and positivity back out into the world because the world has given me so much already.

So no matter what happens on YouTube, no matter where I go, no matter where I've come from, no matter what my mentality is now or what it was before, just know that no one can be more thankful for all of this than I am because it has meant so fucking much to me to do.

YouTube.

Over the years, it's it's been the best thing I've ever done with my entire life and always will be.

Nothing will ever top the experiences that I've had here now and hopefully going forward.

This is not the end.

I I'm determined.

Two have not peaked.

Yet I have so much more potential and energy left in me that I have yet to explore so many other avenues doing YouTube.

But please never, ever doubt how thankful, how grateful and just how much love I have for doing this on for you, for this community, because you guys are not to get all sloppy about it and not to try and sound like and blowing smoke up your ass and get all like, Oh, I love my friends.

But I seriously do, because this is the coolest thing I've ever done in my life.

And I'm so happy that I get to do it day in and day out, and I never want to lose that feeling.

It's so easy to get lost in it.

It's so easy to forget where you come from.

But thank you for keeping me honest.

And thank you for still being here.

If you started off watching the channel years ago when you're not here anymore.

At least you gave it a shot.

Thank you.

If you showed up in the channel and you didn't like it, at least you gave it a shot.

If you're still here, if you just showed up.

Thank you for still being here because I couldn't do any of this without you.

I get very doubtful of our things from time to time.

Maybe it's that imposter syndrome kicking in the A lot of people who do this type of stuff have because there's times when I sit down and really think about what it is to have a channel of this size and a community of this size, and to have done some of the things that I've done on it.

Just It almost feels like a different person has done them.

Because you get those moments when you feel down and you feel sad and you just don't want to record and you feel like man, people just don't care anymore.

I don't care anymore.

Whatever.

That little voice in your head creeps in and starts to take over, and you kind of have to push it out on every now and then.

I think that it's crazy that I get to do this.

Maybe that's a good thing.

Maybe that self awareness kicking in is a good thing, because again it keeps me grounded and accuse me remembering that I didn't always get to do this, and it could have easily just not happened.

It could have given up way early on and none of this would have happened.

It could have been yelling into a void, and no one could have listened.

So all of these things that have married together that have allowed this to happen?

I never want to forget that, because that's that's the energy on the motivation on the power that keeps me going because material things and numbers and money and all of that stuff.

I mean, sure, that's great.

But at the end of the day, it's not the thing that made me start off doing it, and it's not the thing that kept me doing it.

So that's why I'm always saying that I never try and forget where I came from, and I'm so thankful for all of you being here.

And like I said, keeping me honest and keeping me on the right track for the most part anyway.

Well, real lean left, right or will wobble a small red every now and then and nobody's perfect, and I sure as hell fucking I'm not even close to being perfect at all.

I fuck up constantly.

Uh, sometimes you just don't see it, but I'm always fucking things up.

But I'm glad that we're still here.

And we're still on the path and that those that wobbles can always course correct.

Then we can get back on track and just make cool shit.

But I knew it anyway.

Enough of that.

Let's get into the funny stuff.

All right?

Have a nice old super tae anos nice old copper lanes gold blend.

There is people know what I'm talking about.

Great t.

Um, but what I wanted to do was go back and look at.

Of course, we goto uploads and let's sort by old stuff because we have to go back and watch the I've gone over this video tons of times of channel already.

I've watched it a tone of times already, and people still ask me every time to go back and do the impression off solid snake for metal gear.

Solid four.

So that's what we're doing here today.

So this is uploaded November 12th 2012.

So, as I said seven years ago from now it has 1.3 million views.

Oh, my God.

I'm sure I've got a few comments on here.

Yeah, five years since this was uploaded.

Things sure have changed since then.

Thank you so much for being here through it all six years ago.

Law.

Yep.

I had originally planned on doing more stuff like this, but when I started recording it, I realized it didn't suffer men.

So this is I was replying to.

Somebody threw this one back back then the replace would show up as like at somebody.

I can remember how they really showed up.

Then Google Plus came in and it was post somebody.

And then they got rid of Google.

Plus so it doesn't show who I was replying to any more.

This makes me cringe.

No, you know, like, seven years ago.

That's one of the first comments I left.

I was probably one of my first haters.

Wait.

Can I kanai sort by no newest First, there's 13,000 comments right now, 38 minutes ago, an hour ago.

People are still commenting on this.

Oh, yeah, because it hit seven years.

All right, let's listen to this bad boy.

There's no music.

There's no I think it's just my voice in the log cabin.

I can remember myself sitting at the on my bed with my laptop.

Open the countertop on.

I had my webcam.

I couldn't record my face at the same time because I was using the Web cam to record the voice.

And it was on my Tashi by laptop, and it sounded like ass.

More has changed.

It's no longer about nations, ideologies or ethnicity.

There it is Earth necessity, it supposed to say, or ethnicity.

But the way I was doing, the voice, they said Earth necessity.

Also, you realize that this picture is not in 16 to 9 ratio.

Yes, it's 16 to 9 ratio, not 16 by nine.

You know that the two dots it's ratio.

It's a in the series of proxy battles fought by mercenaries and machines.

But how much of this did I do?

R.

And its consumption of life has become a well oiled machine.

Hey, uh, there's a minute 22.

They do.

The whole monologue has changed.

When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.

I did the entire thing.

Let me just let me just hit you with a fat a fat intro.

Medicare solid four intro so we can hear the actual thing.

And you can all hear how amazing my impression actually waas way.

Are you telling me that that's not the exact same?

More has changed because it's not.

I was so convinced back in the day that I sounded identical.

I even recorded it, listen to it and said, Yeah, that's pretty damn good and then decided to edit it and uploaded which this minute 22 video, which is cheeses even.

This is 10 80 p.

I guess it's a picture in a voice, but this took me probably about two hours.

It's no longer about Nations ideologies.

Okay, okay.

It's no longer about nations, ideologies, Earth necessity.

No, honey, no, no.

I'm trying to think of things that I haven't talked about in regards to this video because I've reacted this like four times by now.

But the original idea for the channel was I was so obsessed with voices.

I mean, I still am.

That's why I like doing voices in games and changing my voice around because that was the stuff I used to always do anyway, with my like my college friends of my high school friends back in the day, and when I started off doing YouTube, I was like, Well, everyone's doing, Let's plays.