ObviousPath

ObviousPath is an American YouTuber in the English Statistics Community. Commonly known as Obvious or OP, ObviousPath is known for his unique style of statistics videos and mesh of multiple techniques and inspirations from others.
== Early History ==
ObviousPath created his channel on May 12th, 2022.https://www.youtube.com/@ObviousPath For the first several months of his YouTube career, ObviousPath made a mix of Territorial.io> gaming videos such as "Beware the Bots in Territorial.io"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-05HwrGQ074 among others. Along with early statistical videos such as ObviousPath first, "Beluga passes Mumbo Jumbo," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2YjEjY8Srs these early videos had no consistent schedule, were low-quality and had very few viewers at the time, few of them cracking 100 views.
=== MrRexta vs. T-Series LOFI ===
The first time ObviousPath got any significant community recognition/involvement was when MrRexta challenged T-Series LOFI to a subscriber war in early September 2022, intending to mimic the PewDiePie vs. T-Series war. ObviousPath was one of many to make videos in supporthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opc5NLwlBVo, and he did so in three videos over the course of the war.
MrRexta among others commented on these videos, which led to ObviousPath gaining credibility as a Statistics channel, even with only ~20 subs at the time. After this point, ObviousPath processed a viable base which was watching his videos. Although it was small at first, it would only grow as time went on. 
=== The Start of Livestreaming ===
After ObviousPath's first stream on October 23rd, 2022https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW9aMVbF7eI was met with relative success, more streams would be done, with a variable schedule. Despite his continued inconsistency, however, ObviousPath was now active frequently, streaming almost every day. After a series of "MrBeast vs.___" streams, ObviousPath would go on to hit 100 subscribers on November 19th, 2022,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BhPVNALZFA his first major milestone. 
=== Early 2023 Content ===
While the community was growing, the quality of ObviousPath's videos has remained fairly bad. this began to change, although not entirely, in February 2023. During this time, ObviousPath learned to use OBS Studio more efficiently than before, he also acquired a more powerful PC in January of 2023, which aided in his stream's quality growth. Compared to what came before, these changes were a great improvement, but in retrospect, it was still lacking in several regards such as ads in ObviousPath's streams and layouts being cluttery with inconsistent counter choices for live subscriber of view counts. 
== Subscriber Battles ==
=== ObviousPath vs. MrCounts ===
Starting in late November, 2022, ObviousPath had noticed that another up-and-coming channel, MrCounts was gaining on him in subscribers.https://socialblade.com/youtube/compare/UCxGxH2Iht7cL0UMzLU3dhiw/mrcounts Then, for the 1st 1/3 of December, 2022, ObviousPath and MrCounts engaged in a race to their next major milestones- 200 subscribers. In the end, ObviousPath hit 200 subscribers first after a viral stream which peaked at 80+ viewershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScHjmPlbhdw. Around this time, ObviousPath would meet two other people integral to the ObviousPath Community, PewDieMelon and CCX Adventures. Them and others, "OGs" of the community mostly go back to this time. 
=== ObviousPath vs. Russian Gamez ===
From the first stream by Russian Gamez on February 13th, 2023, to its end on May 27th, the ObviousPath vs. Russian Gamez sub war grew the ObviousPath community greatly, in large part due to the promotions of ObviousPath's channel and ObviousPath's many streams regarding the event, although many others streamed it and contributed too such as Top Sabey (now deleted), MPSextra and more. The goal of the war was to get ObviousPath to 1,000 YouTube subscriber first, which he accomplished during a stream on May 27th, 2023. Following this, despite using subbots to reach 1,000 first temporarily, Russian Gamez conceded the sub war to ObviousPath. This proved to be ObviousPath's peak (as of this article's creation) in subscriber and view growth, gaining 74 subscribers in a day on May 27th, 2023, and 318 subscribers and 66,430 views in the month of May, 2023.https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCxGxH2Iht7cL0UMzLU3dhiw 
== Controversies ==
==== The flame hackings ====
Starting in late June, 2023, several of the members of the ObviousPath community became involved in a drama with a discord hacker named "flame," who also went as "jetplayz" or "gerix." The Usa Man and Top Sabey, two members of the community, were particularly involved against flame along with many others who were drawn in, as these discussions dominated group chats. This escalated when, after The Usa Man's alt channel, "The Anti-Jetplayz Movement," had been hacked, The Usa Man's main channel with 14.8K subshttps://socialblade.com/youtube/compare/UCjkGIVlnNDyDRLM2KN2qUGg/mrcounts at the time got hijacked by the hacker, and flame proceeded to delete all of The Usa Man's videos. Later, he also uploaded an inappropriate video to The Usa Man's channel, which got him a strike, forbidding the channel from uploading. Another channel, Top Sabey, had also been compromised multiple times, along with his discord account, and this would continue until late August. While The Usa Man regained control of his channel, the damage had been done, and it would slowly lose subscribers until its owner deleted it on August 15, 2023. All this time, ObviousPath had been assisting his friends in their efforts, but his stance to continue fighting flame grew unpopular as the conflict elapsed several months. Although most of the fighting was done come September, many people in the community such as LS Statistics and Mr-TR became much more inactive due to it. 
==== The ObviousPath community-United Server of Statistics war ====
Prior to the drama, ObviousPath had joined a particularly toxic server, then called the United Server of Statistics, a.k.a. United Statistics with ~300 members at the time. After seeing the vile nature of the place, ObviousPath took to his YouTube community tab to report the behavior. This infuriated several of USOS's members, such as GNZGUY, TCA (Owner of Graphify), and JipStats, the owner of USOS. They took to ObviousPath's server, with ~30 members at the time to confront him and make him take back him comments on USOS, however ObviousPath refused and many people supported him such as BrMeast, The Usa Man and FacelessSpaniel. JipStats made a community post to refute ObviousPath's claims, claiming that he was a "vegan teacher" and that he and others on his server bullied GNZGUY. The arguments persisted for three days until an agreement was made via DM between ObviousPath and JipStats, where they both agreed to remove all YouTube community posts related to the drama. Afterward, tension remained fairly high, but never hit the breaking point again, and they slowly cooled down over time.
== Current Events ==
Throughout the second half of 2023, ObviousPath's content improved, however was limited still. Due to an intentional stop of streaming on September 7th, 2023, after reaching 3,000 watch hours, ObviousPath's channel began to stagnate in subscribers, received a major audit on November 3rd, 2023,https://socialblade.com/youtube/compare/UCkaQHnnaXDmdu-OhaCeJUGA/obviouspath and his views slowed to a trickle, rarely getting over 200 views/day and under 50 views/day became common. In addition, many of ObviousPath's videos underperformed during this time, a reminder that much progress was still yet to be made in terms of quality. After a copyright strike on Friday the 13th, October 2023, ObviousPath became ineligible for monetization, which he still hadn't applied for. This strike would last until well after ObviousPath fell below the 3,000 watch hour threshold, leaving him incapable of reapplication.
Starting in January of 2024, ObviousPath finally began to stream again on January 13th. This revived his channel in many metrics. In addition, a steady increase in quality had begun, fueled by a surplus of opportunity and motivation, which had led to more and more of ObviousPath's long form videos breaking the 1,000 view mark. These factors continued to grow the ObviousPath community, with the underlying goal of attempting to monetize again. As of June, 2024, ObviousPath is still around 2,000 watch hours, but will likely try to attain the 3,000 or 4,000 threshold in the second half of this year. The increase in long form video quality also led ObviousPath to break his concurrent view record and total view record on a long form with his "What if MrBeast vs. T-Series happened?"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4gcnddX7g video, which has amassed over 6.6K views. ObviousPath's stream quality has greatly improved even from September 2023 too, with many being used as raw footage by others.
==References==
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2022