Hitting 1,000 subs is nothing new on YouTube, but what actually led up to this moment for me, Top Ranky? A number doesn't tell much of the TRUE story and neither does a regular 1,000 sub special. Join me in understanding the struggles of being a small YouTuber, my failures and past experiences, a termination of my channel that happened 2 years ago, losing hundreds of dollars, and working my way back up to a milestone that many have eased past.

Timestamps/Chapters
0:00 Introduction to Reaching 1,000
1:15 Introduction Montage (High Hopes)
2:14 Chapter 1: The Early Days 2017
3:11 Discovering Audiobook YouTube Channels
3:36 Creating my First Channel: Wimpy Kid Alreads/Top Rank Audiobooks
4:57 How Running was tied to my Early YouTube Days
6:10 Some Unanswered Questions
6:41 2018 Top Rank Audiobooks
7:30 My Giveaway Addiction
9:17 I was So Overrated
10:04 Chapter 2: Everything is Gone 2019
10:53 Full Books Free’s Channel Gets Terminated
12:07 Fears of Termination
12:41 My Channel is Terminated
13:21 Grieving over the Deletion of my Channel
14:20 Restarting and Creating my Second Channel: Top Rank Audiobooks PLUS
14:39 Motivational Messages Montage
15:07 Chapter 3: Rebirth of my Channel
17:17 My Interesting Music Career
18:14 Creating my First Wimpy Kid Parody: Empty Pockets
19:05 Experimenting with Videos and Trying to Imitate the Big Channels
19:47 Mid-Summer 2019
20:38 Recorded Books Strikes my Channel Again
21:21 Mediocre Reception of Empty Pockets
23:22 The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: November 2019
24:29 Post-November: A Silent Channel
25:07 My Next Project: A 2010s Decade Rewind Video
26:25 Chapter 4: Insane Grinding 2020-2021
27:14 Diving into the Big Nate Rabbit Hole
27:33 My 2010s Rewind Video Tanks Terribly
28:20 Studying the YouTube Algorithm
28:42 Another Big Project: My Gigantic Wimpy Kid Poster
30:02 A Stressful Summer in 2020
30:25 My Lone Defender: Serbian Wibba
30:51 Did my Channel Already Reach Its Peak?
31:31 The Loded Diper Admin Reached Out to Me!
31:43 Trying Out “Commentary” Videos for DOAWK
32:22 High School Stressed Me Out So Badly
33:35 My 150-Hour Wimpy Kid Poster Tanked As Well
35:00 My Flawed Anger and Jealousy Towards Other People
35:47 Discovering AJR and Thinking Positively
36:41 Montage about Focusing on Yourself
37:03 Creating my Wimpy Kid Parody Finale: Long Story Short
38:44 2021 and Mental Struggles
40:06 Next Up Forever Montage: When will I make it on YouTube?
40:57 My Work Finally Paid Off with Long Story Short!
41:44 Epilogue: New Horizons
42:56 What are my actual goals on YouTube?
43:32 The Message from my Experiences
43:52 Advice to Small YouTubers
44:27 Hope for the Future
45:27 End Credits