new apartment with another youtuber known as the well of dc as for the background those are pages from the NUMBER_TOKEN comic book watchmen with rey being a connoisseur of comics and other forms of graphic novels even set the background of his youtube page to batman you see one of rey's primary forms of entertainment growing up was reading comic books not only did he enjoy reading them but also illustrated his own scenarios even in adulthood rey maintained close ties to comics and was a cartoonist for his school's newspaper his freshman year going back to his channel and moving on to the next months while the results lay similar to the months prior and doubling in average views there was an even more significant aspect about the month of september and that was he was finally hitting the front page of youtube this is a very significant development in his growth because unlike today the front page of youtube was not necessarily based on promoting safer forms of content as it is now it was more of youtube promoting a mix of its most successful channels alongside viral and few niche videos so if you were a large established channel and posted consistently you and other similar channels had a monopoly on the front page as when your video first appears on there it will bring in many viewers and potential subscribers alike abuse your viewership this then increasing the amount of people watching your old and newer videos and therefore raises the chances of you popping on the front page once more to further prove this we can look almost two months ahead on november NUMBER_TOKENth where you will see no ray william johnson but the following day november NUMBER_TOKENth one of his videos with significantly smaller viewership is being promoted five days later again he's on the front page with a video that has even less viewership than the prior one so now even his less popular videos are being promoted to anyone entering the website and this change was more than notable on august NUMBER_TOKENst he had around NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN subscribers and averaged NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN views per video but now going exactly four months later to december NUMBER_TOKENst he was sitting at around NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN subscribers and now averaging well over a million views per video so in a year's time he went from practically not existing in the youtube community to being the NUMBER_TOKENth most subscribed channel on youtube while this was a massive achievement within itself rey was still some distance from the top and as he did he still experimented and tried to find other successful formats it was ultimately this habit that brought him to where he is now and what a better way to experiment on youtube than to start a second channel this channel created on january NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN was known as breaking nyc a channel meant to host his nearly daily vlogs this of course added more stress to his noisy schedule because as ray mentions in a later vlog creating equals three is an endeavor that takes up an entire day or rather NUMBER_TOKEN hours of his day every sunday and wednesday entire day making an equals three episode and it literally takes me from the time i get up in the morning till late at night to upload i have to edit i have to film i have to go through all of the response videos by then i've usually read all the comments but yeah making an episode is an all-day process that's why they come out so late this consists of writing filming editing and trying to read every
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