Abilene, SASS # 27489 Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 Last August I posted about views starting to go crazy on my channel, @abilenecowboyshooter . I updated it in September, and thought I'd give another update now since it is now one year since things "started happening". Here is the thread from last year: https://forums.sassnet.com/index.php?/topic/337735-youtube-craziness/ One year ago today, just before views started taking off, the channel had 334 subscribers, and at the end of 2022 it was 126K Then Mar-Lynn and Hoss went viral and January was as big as all of 2022. Right now it is 645K subscribers and 386M views. 99% of the videos are still just people shooting stages. USA, Brazil, and Russia are about equal in views, with India, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey next. Oddly, Mar-Lynn's are mostly from India. A large percentage of the comments continue deride us for how ridiculously close the targets are. Besides myself, there are 8 shooters in the "million views club" including Sheriff Robert Love, Dutch Van Horn, Texas Mac, Coyote Catcher (the only sub-20 second stage) and Outlaw McCloskey. A D will hit 1M soon. Skyhawk Hans is up to 83 Million views and for a while had the most seen cowboy action video on the internet, but Lever Action Kid slowly passed him up. Then Mar-Lynn went to 43 million, and while hers was still rising in January, Hoss took off and by next week should be at 160,000,000 views. That is not a typo! Well, I wanted to recognize the 3 shooters with the most-seen videos since they comprise 75% of the total views on the channel, and I knew they would all be at the Texican Rangers' Comancheria Days last week, so I planned a surprise award presentation for the banquet, and Shooting Iron Miller graciously found a few minutes to squeeze me in (thank you La Sombra for shooting the video): 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Needle-Nose-Tom Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 I found out about the sport on YouTube myself a few years ago. Hope it helps bring a new generation of people to the game. It's too much fun and the people are the best!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totes Magoats Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 3 of the top ten from our tiny little club in South Texas! I'm getting Hoss a hat stretcher for Christmas. Great idea for the awards Abilene, it was a nice presentation at the annual! Totes 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Sombra Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 @Abilene, SASS # 27489, You are more than welcome. I enjoyed being the videographer. Maybe you should get with @Skinny and work an an article for the Chronicle? La Sombra 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totes Magoats Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 14 hours ago, La Sombra said: Maybe you should get with @Skinny and work an an article for the Chronicle? Great suggestion! Totes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griff Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Congrats Abilene! I still remember how surprised I was when I got my 1st subscriber... and it wasn't even a family member! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Abiline, it’s been a lot of fun! I’ve had total strangers stop me and ask if that was me in the cowboy video! My granddaughter, who is 8, has a YouTube channel. She is excited when she get 100 views. She is amazed I gave so many! (I’ll have to admit she is a lot cuter than me!) thanks for the award, primers and especially for promoting our game! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene, SASS # 27489 Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 (edited) 5 hours ago, Hoss said: Abiline, it’s been a lot of fun! I’ve had total strangers stop me and ask if that was me in the cowboy video! My granddaughter, who is 8, has a YouTube channel. She is excited when she get 100 views. She is amazed I gave so many! (I’ll have to admit she is a lot cuter than me!) thanks for the award, primers and especially for promoting our game! You're a legitmate phenomenon! I just saw a comment on one of Dutch Van Horn's videos that said "Do more Hoss" Tell your granddaughter to post some shorts and see what happens. If Shooting Iron Miller hadn't turned the phone vertical when I asked her to video me on a Texicans stage last year, I might have never learned what a Short was! Edited May 5 by Abilene, SASS # 27489 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Sombra Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 11 minutes ago, Abilene, SASS # 27489 said: You're a legitmate phenomenon! I just saw a comment on one of Dutch Van Horn's videos that said "Do more Hoss" I swear that I did not make that comment. La Sombra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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