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...for my YouTube channel Abilene Cowboy Shooter (link at bottom) plus 1.4 Million subscribers. What a long strange trip it's been! Except that it really didn't take that long - about 3 1/2 years. Hoss was a major part of it with his 285 Million view video of course but if you add up his other videos they are fully a third of the views on the channel. Thanks again, Hoss, you're a star! Some trivia: top 5 countries are India, Brazil, USA, Indonesia, Mexico. And that's just 41% of the views, they really are world-wide (17 million views from Bangladesh. 4 million from Nepal. Sherpas watching from Everest base camp?) 7.1 Million watch hours. That would be like one person watching non-stop for over 800 years. There are 1700 videos. A lot of them are of the same people because that's who I shoot with. I have no idea how many different shooters there are but I'd estimate over 300. At about the time last night that the 1 billion threshold was passed, a Video of Phantom was "trending" in India. Totally impossible to know, but decent odds would be that the billionth view was a customer service rep in Mumbai who was watching shorts on his phone between (or during) calls. Disclaimer: when I say Videos, these are Video Shorts. The channel is 99% Shorts of people shooting. Shorts get more views and are much easier to make than videos with "real content" that gives you information of one sort or another, but I'm still pretty stoked. I have an article written about this for the Chronicle, however it needs to be in a digital issue because it is a long article plus it can have links and pics. But I missed the deadline for the digital issue that will be out in a few weeks (edit: it came out today). So it will be next spring before the next digital issue. You can wait.