#and now he has over 1mil. crazy things

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Tommy’s still growing very quickly even on his main channel. His growth in the last year, and other CCs in his circle was so rapid that the current level of growth just seems less impressive. His growth has been slowing down more recently, at the start of the year he was gaining about 1mil/month, now its closer to 500k. 500k is still very great though xD, that like 15k subs/day. 

There’s probably a few reasons its slowed. Part of it simply that you can’t chase endless growth. Eventually all the people that your content appeals to will have found you and be watching you and you’ll be getting views but more views doesn’t always translate to new subscribers. You can try and change your content to attract more of an audience but you’ll also risk alienating your current fans. Funny minecraft videos are somewhat mass appeal but still pretty niche. And Tommy’s content won’t appeal to everyone either. Nor should that be an expectation - he makes content for his target audience. 

Additionally, his main channel content has started to stagnate some with weekly minecraft mod vids in that they’ve started to feel less fresh and more formulaic. The quality has remained great and everything but they’re far less of a must-watch. Tommy’s done little things to start to shake em up - different guests, custom maps, slightly different challenges but nothing really different. Something like a multi-part series to engage viewers with over one-shot vids is the kind of thing I’d personally love but there’s plenty of other directions to go while still keeping the humour and tone of a TommyInnit vid. Still, stuff like the you laugh you lose vid and meeting Drista in secret were cool. 

Tommy’s main channel was also growing a lot when he was streaming much more regularly so I think that has an indirect impact as well. More content can mean more new fans. Even if they find him through his streams, many would also check out his channel if they like him. A lot of people found him through the SMP and that’s not growing quite as much as it used to with content slowing down. Also, quarantine probably helped him a lot as so many people were looking for online content, but now things have been opening up more.

But yeah, Tommy has grown like crazy. I found him around this time last year. He was on ~300k then. Now he’s on 9.8mil. That’s insane. 

And yeah, Tommy’s not focusing so hard on the main channel right now cause he’s been putting so much of his effort into his vlogs. And his vlog channel has gained like 3mil in a month or so. He’s absolutely killing it.  

is it just me or has tommy stopped growing? like in subscribers? and his views have kinda gone down these past couple videos and i was just confused as to why that might be? feel free to ignore this if you want btw!! i am just wondering since i’m newer and people have said before about how fast he’s growing but it doesn’t seem like that to me? thank you!! /gen

two words: vlog channel

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03/19/19

02:57 am

*random thought: I have been going to sleep rather late nowadays. I have been working and getting late because of either the rough assignments, or I have been out late with carolyn and choose to go home after. The longs drives to work and back are starting to get to me, and i have to keep doing this until September. I can keep complaining but I would rather just keep going until I get to September. 

But tonight was different. As sleepy as I am writing this, i know I must write this down.This is what I will refer to in times that I want to remember how much my parents actually love their own children. 

My parents offered to pay my parent loans off, fully, by next month. With the help of their savings, my savings, and some compensation from my sister’s accident, we are able to put together enough money to pay off the biggest loans of our lives. I wondered what made my dad decide this, being that his initial plan was to pay off his own car loans first, and only give me a small sum of money. Then we both agreed that we would put all the amount to my fed loan and i’d pay the rest, AND pay both their cars off, while paying my student loan, and my own car loan.

I guess today I woke up and the first thing I said was, “Ama, i dont think we can go through the plan of putting all the compensation money into my parent loan. I can’t pay over 3K in loans a month. I wouldn’t even have money to spend to buy food. How am i ever gonna move out”. He didn’t say anything. He heard me though.

Tonight they came home from work, acting differently. Usually Ama would watch TV and blast the news or something, as him and ina both set up food for their midnight merienda. Tonight was different. They stayed in their room longer than usual, Ama never turned the tv on. I had to grab Prince in their room, and I saw them taking their time changing to home clothes, and it seemed like they were talking about something. I said, “you guys are being weird.”

A little while after, I went to the kitchen and Ama told me, “sit down. We have to talk”. My heart. dropped. It’s crazy that my initial reaction was, “did someone die?!”. I have really bad PTSD.

This time it was good news. My parents offered to give me not only the compensation money, but also their entire savings just so i can pay my parent loans. That with some of my savings, i will be off a loan!! 

(im falling asleep so i will finish this later. Here are topics i wanna discuss:)

- Carolyn and I talked until 3 am last night about everything: My finances, our connection, our plan of working at ICU or ER next, my “dark” side, her lack of response and effort at times, and me proposing that I will understand where she’s coming from in terms of being unable to always keep in touch as long as she makes me feel validated, important and loved at times. I told her im very sensitive, more so than i could ever show and she apologized for her lack of action, efforts, and that she was sorry for hurting me. Then we laughed about so many things. We cried, we talked about her life, her plans, my plans for this year and next, our plans for the future. We talked for so long and didnt notice til 3 am that we were the only ones left there. Everyone had left, and we never noticed til I had to stand up to use the bathroom. Sometimes I really do believe, this girl is my future wife. It’s just that now, we are good as friends. We are each other’s rock. Last night we both confessed that we didn’t want to lose each other. The other month she told me that when she first met me, “it was like I’ve known you for my whole life”.  I cant see myself sleeping with her though. But idk. 

-Talk about how thoughtful Ama is, and he actually pays attention in his own ways. He felt bad that I was worried about navient from what i just said. He noticed that my puppy likes to play and chew on things before he falls asleep. I never even noticed that. 

- Talk about how smart ina is. Neither me nor ama thought that we could just transfer the money directly to my account  and pay off my parent loan that way. 

- Talk about the 1mil house Ama sold in our property in the PI, even tho it was just worth 300K. Talk about how everything has worked out, and it seems it is because of our GOD!!

- Talk about them reminiscing on taking me, as a child, to the CFC meetings because I love the dinners/food. 

- Talk about them 

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