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What? Whoa. There we go. 500 million subscribers. Half a billion confetti. Woo. Confetti. Uh, yes. Thank you. Thank you. Team 500 million guys. This is freaking insane. I don't, I, wow. So I want to just say something because while I have your guys' attention, there's a big milestone. I want to, I want to say this. I want to say that I, you know, I shouldn't be who I am right here. Like I shouldn't have, you know, half a billion subscribers, like statistically I shouldn't, you know, I, I didn't grow up with, with much, you know, it's funny, the more famous I've become, the more people are like, Oh, he had a rich family or blah, blah. That's why I gave away money. Like both my parents were in the military and you know, they, uh, we ended up going bankrupt back in 2008 and the financial crisis. And like, when I started this channel, I couldn't afford equipment. I would have to save up money from my AdSense to buy a microphone or computer. I really shouldn't be where I am today. It doesn't make sense that I have 500 million subscribers. It's not like I grew up in Hollywood or I grew up in New York. I grew up in a very small town with no money, no resources, but I was just relentless. And I got lucky. I found what I loved at a really young age. I found YouTube at the age 11, and I gave it my all. And I woke up every day and I asked myself, how can I make the best videos possible? Holy crap, we gained 64,000 subscribers. Thank you guys. And I woke up every day and I just like, I just wanna take this moment to inspire some of you