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haatveit
Posted 5 years ago

Hello, all of you weird and wonderful people subscribed to this weird and questionably wonderful channel. I have spent most of today reading comments on my videos, and I feel the need to perhaps get a message out there and respond to many of you at once. I know most people probably won't see this message since YouTube Community features are pretty obscure at this point, but, hey, I will make an attempt. If you read this far, I hope you take the time to read my whole post!

First, thank you for watching my silly dumb videos. Especially the big one, you know the one. It's been a strange experience to be the author of an original video, that went viral, for real.

Secondly, before I get to my main point, I want to apologise for two things:

1. Lack of uploads. There is a reason for this, and I will get to that in the story below. But I want to apologise not so much for lack of uploads, but I am more really apologising for making some of you think that this channel is something, that in actuality, it is not.

2. Lack of replies in the comments. The "Stupid Cheating" video has over fourteen thousand comments, and more come every day. It's very overwhelming to even attempt to read them all, never mind responding to all questions or suggestions. It is an astonishing amount of comments. I have done my best today to respond to a lot of them, and I've gone through my less popular videos as well and done the same.


With that out of the way, I want to explain a few things about my channel. I hope some of you have the patience to read:

This is and always was my personal channel. It is not a YouTuber's channel, it is not my job, heck it's hardly even my hobby, it's just ... my little silly YouTube channel, where I upload videos so that I can easily share them with my friends and family. That's all this channel ever was.

Back in 2016, I made a silly little video called "Stupid Games call for Stupid Cheating" - you may have heard of it... Nobody really watched or cared about this video for almost a year.

In early 2017, the video went ... sort of weakly viral? I gained tens of thousands of views, and I was astonished. It was amazing to me! I never imagined I would have a video with 25 thousand views. Insanity I thought. But I didn't think much more about it, I had no plans to do anything about it.

Then came late 2017 / early 2018. During this period the video went viral for real; and I gained one, two, then three million views, in just a month. It was complete insanity every time I looked at the view count. Friends and family talked about it almost every day, and we were all equally stunned by this weird phenomenon.

But this, in the end, would prove to be nothing compared to the rest of 2018. At the end of the year 2018, the video had received over 8 million views in total. As of this writing, we're at 8,449,716 views, exactly.

I lack words to explain how bizarre this fact is to me. I have absolutely no idea why this happened, and to be completely honest with you, I never lifted a finger to promote or spread my video. When the video started exploding in late 2017, I was contacted by, and I signed a contract with Storyful, a social media agency, to help manage my video for me. But honestly, I don't think it changed anything. The video was already exploding at that point before I heard from them.


The reason I'm saying all this is to help you understand that I never intended for this to happen. This is just my silly little personal YouTube channel... Where I put random unrelated video clips of me doing things I care about. And now, all of a sudden, I have millions, literally, millions upon millions of views, and I have fourteen thousand subscribers that I have NO IDEA why they are here. I mean, I don't hate you - not at all! I'm just VERY surprised! I never alluded to nor suggested that this was an active YouTube channel, run by some content creator. It is not. It never was.


I don't know what to make of it all. I've just been riding the wave for the last year and a half, my friends and me, and my family alike, are all as perplexed as I am.

I wanted to send a message to every one of you who are asking when my next video is, asking if I'm dead, asking if I can make a video about this, and that, and all sorts of things... The answer is; I don't know when I will do anything. I never plan a video; I make one when the mood strikes me. When the creative spark lights up, and I feel like I have an idea, or when I want to share something I just find really cool (my DCS helicopter videos come to mind), that's when I make a video.

I can't promise there will ever be another video on the channel. I very much expect there will be - I'm not shutting it down or abandoning it. But it's just a matter of the fact that I never "started" it in the first place. There is no content creator behind the curtain, planning their next move... The only thing behind the curtain is a very, very, very confused Norwegian.


Thanks for reading, thank you all for watching and engaging with my video(s), and I hope you understand what a strange situation this is for me. I appreciate it!

And no. I am not dead. But thanks for asking!

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