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So, in the wild, untamed world of YouTube videos, one man towers above

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them all. Sai, the guy who did that song Gong Nom style. But thanks to you, the

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viewers, we haven't done too badly for ourselves here at TechWiki either. We

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passed 1 million subscribers not too long ago, and are hoping to hit a

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million and a half sometime this summer. So, let's have a look at how our little

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technology compendium all started, as well as a bit of a behind-the-scenes

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look as to how we crank out new videos for you guys every week. You see, back

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in 2013, the channel was originally envisioned as a place for paid content,

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basically meaning commercials for products from companies like Corsair,

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who was Linus Media Group's first ever sponsor. And those commercials were a

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little interesting, but we thought our viewers might like them. Sort of like

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how some people watch the Super Bowl just for the advertisements. But the

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idea for fast as possible followed soon after. And if you have a look at some of

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our older videos, they were much shorter. one or two minutes of defining

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a term and running through some bullet points. In fact, early episodes weren't

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even scripted and were shot in batches five at a time. In those days, poor Edel

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was editing all of them. I didn't just edit fast as possible

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what it is, as well as all daily videos

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over online as tech tips as well as sponsor projects. So, it probably isn't

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surprising that we started hiring more editors soon after, including Taran and

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Nick Van Burkel. Taran really helped jazz up the channel with higher

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production values that made our videos more visually interesting. And Nicki V

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brought his own sense of humor to Tequiki with his silly editing style

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that we've tried to continue to maintain to this day. And with this expansion of

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our team, TechWiki started to become a place for more conceptual videos instead

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of just spouting off features for things like new revisions of USB. Episodes

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explaining topics such as safe PC temperatures and how to pick a power

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supply became the norm. But these kinds of episodes took longer to write. And

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because Lionus was writing most of them on his own with some help from Nick

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Light of all people, seriously the sales guy, he hired yours truly. And running

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the channel became basically my full-time job. Dennis, our current

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Techquickie editor, started here at Lionus Media Group the exact same day as

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I did, actually. And we're currently a twoperson team. I contribute scripts,

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research, and ideas for visuals, while Dennis does a fantastic job shooting and

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editing. So, how does a techquickie episode go from a spark in someone's

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head to a finished episode? Well, first, either I or another team member comes up

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with ideas or gets inspiration by keeping an eye on various trends or even

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taking suggestions from our viewers on the forum, the comment section, or

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Twitter. The next step is for me to research the topic and write the script,

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making sure, of course, that everything we say is well sourced. After reviewing

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the script with Lionus to make sure he thinks it's not a worthless piece of

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poop and that I should just pack my things and move back to North Carolina,

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Dennis shoots the episode with the host, typically Lionus or Luke, on our green

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screen set. Then, after about a day of editing and creating animations and a

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quick review from me, the episode is basically finished. Of course, our sales

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team also works hard to get ad spots at the end of our videos so that we can

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keep the lights on and continue to crank out videos for all 1.3 million of you to

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enjoy. And while we're on the subject of our subscriber count, let's go check out

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the gold play button YouTube sent us to commemorate hitting the million subscriber mark. Come on, let's go.

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You ready, Dennis? So good. Get our own gold medal. You want to count to three?

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One. Okay. One, two, three.

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Hey, wait a minute. Look at this thing. This is like way smaller than LTS. Hey,

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Lionus, why do you get the big play button? Like, yeah, look at this. Like,

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do they not understand that I'm always out of ideas and Dennis's creativity is

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stunted cuz he's so far from Taiwan? It's a that much bigger. Yeah, like

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really? Well, anyway, guys, like this video if you liked it, dislike it if you

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didn't. Uh, leave a comment. Send me your ideas for new techie videos. Um,

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tweet me at JMart 604. Let me know what you guys think.

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Dennis, let's go set up a meeting with Lionus. We don't get paid nearly enough to deal with the stuff. Okay. Yeah,

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let's do it. Come on. Let's go.