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Caption: Journey
To
100,000
Subscribers
(Part 1/2) By @Benazio
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Caption: This is a story about a journey of a child who loves to save every moments of his life by making videos.
Yup, that's me.
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Caption: In 2006, I uploaded my first video on YouTube. It was me playing 'Drummania'. I play that arcade game almost everyday at that time.
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Caption: March 26th, 2006.
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Caption: I didn’t like making videos. I made videos just to save the moments so I can watch it again when I got old.
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Caption: The year of Rubik's Cube In 2009, I got addicted to Rubik’s Cube. I upload a lot of Rubik's videos and made my first tutorial video on how to solve a Rubik’s Cube. It was a big hit at that time.
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Caption: Fun Fact: Yeah, it’s a real thing. I’m registered to the World Cube Association.
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Caption: One day in 2010,
I stumbled upon this video.
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Caption: Guitar Impossible
(Feb 5th, 2009) by MysteryGuitarMan
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Caption: His name is Joe Penna aka MysteryGuitarMan.
I was amazed by his video, and since then, I started to learn videography, video editing, VFX, you name it.
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Caption: I made my first Stop-Motion video. It was nice, but it’s not good as today.
(July 14th, 2009)
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Caption: In the next year, I created a better Stop-Motion video. It’s a giveaway video in my blog.
I was really happy with the result.
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Caption: A phone giveaway in my blog. (July 22nd, 2010)
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Caption: I made another one for a competition, and I won. I was really motivated to create more and more.
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Caption: Anyone Else
But You (July 31st, 2010)
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Caption: Inspired by MysteryGuitarMan, I started to learn VFX (Visual Effects).
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Caption: Future Frames (Nov 13th, 2010)
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Caption: In 2010, not all people can made that kinda video.
I felt like I was a Wizard. People were asking
“How did you do that?!”
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Caption: In 2011, I made more videos, and joined a lot of video competitions.
I won some cash, laptop and even free trips!
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Caption: Won $100 from this 1-minute video for Chitato (Mar 25th, 2011)
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Caption: Won the Best Teen Blog of the Year Benablog.com
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Caption: Won Trip to Bangkok for this Coca-Cola Video (July 2011)
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Caption: At that time, my Youtube subscribers was only less than a thousand.
It was really hard to get people to watch my videos because the internet speed was very slow and hard to get.
But I didn’t stop making videos.
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Caption: One day, Mysteryguitarman sent me a DM on Twitter. He noticed me (thank you senpai!)
I was beyond happy. I asked him several questions about video making and he replied it all.
I got a lot of knowledge from him.
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Caption: Fun Fact: On May 28th 2011, I made my first Vlog (daily activities video) with my friend @shitlicious (May 28th, 2011)
Caption: On August 9th, 2011, I made my first Sketch video. It was a big hit and a lot of people were asking for more, my subscribers slowly increasing.
I finally reached 1,000 subscribers.
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Caption: Daily Habits - Puasa Click here to watch full video
Caption: On November 11th, 2011, I made my first big video project. It’s an Interactive Dating Video starring @KuntoAjiw who’s today is one of the most famous male singer in Indonesia.
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Caption: Interactive Dating Video The first interactive video in Indonesia. Featuring @Kuntoajiw @Nanathnadia.
Click here to watch full video.
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Caption: It was incredible. I got more than 30,000 views and reached 3,000 subscribers. I couldn’t imagined 3,000 people were looking at my Youtube channel. It was freaking amazing. 😭
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Caption: In the early 2012, one of my video was surprisingly got viral. It’s a video of me saying ‘NO’ in a lot of ways, funny ways. It reached 100,000 views in several months. I was shocked.
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Caption: JANGAN 15 types of saying 'No'.
Click here to watch full video
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Caption: A lot of people especially kids were making a remake video of 'JANGAN'.
I also got invited to a lot of Schools and Universities to talk about my blog and my videos.
It was an unforgettable moments to see so many people in front of me were laughing and cheering at me.
I felt so grateful.
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Caption: Their laughs are priceless. 😇 (Ehipassiko School BSD)
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Caption: On June 2012, I finally reached 10,000 subscribers. It was a big number back then knowing that not so many people in Indonesia were making videos on Youtube like me.
Caption: Sadly this story has met its limit.
So I'll see you guys in Part 2/2 of my Journey To 100K Subscribers!
It's in my Profile 😊
Follow me on:
IG/TW/SC: @benakribo
Youtube.com/benazio
#StellerID #indonesia
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Caption: Thank you for reading my story.
See you in Part 2/2! @benazio (@benakribo)