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I Reached 800 YouTube Subscribers Today. I Didn’t Post This On Threads.
Here’s why.
Milestones are fun. It feels great to earn your first subscriber, your 10th subscriber, your 50th subscriber, your millionth subscriber.
Eight hundred subscribers is 80% of the threshold required for monetization. (The bigger deal is 4,000 watch hours per year. I’m barely a quarter of the way toward that one.)
The Threads community is very supportive.
I had been spending some time interacting with other creators on Threads, and it’s a generally very supportive place.
There’s a lot of encouragement when people reach milestones — even one subscriber! — or if they get their channel monetized.
I’ve tried to get a bit smarter about how I comment, but I’m also known simply to say congrats.
In this spirit, I was just about ready to post my subscriber count to feel all the feels that I had been giving out over the past weeks.
Fishing for compliments (and subs) is a risky easy button.
I resisted posting my sub count though.
Mainly because along with all of the encouraging posts, there are many “drop your channel here”…
