I figured something must be up when I checked my email inbox this morning...over 100 messages - and they kept pouring in all day. I get email notifications when someone comments or subscribes to my YouTube channel. Seems
the bucket is pretty popular online since I posted it. I had no idea it would go viral(ish)...I still consider true viral to be over 1,000,000 views. Anyway, it did pretty good today with an average of over 8,000 views per hour and over 110,000 since I posted it last night as well as drawing in about 10,000 views for some of my other videos. It peaked at over 17,000 views between 9 and 10 this morning. Someone from Norway posted it on
Reddit and that certainly helped give it a boost. I also got swarmed with media offers to license the video. As you may remember, I did that with
the horn cam video and it really didn't really amount to much. I turned down all the offers to split the revenue with these sharks. One company offered to buy the video outright for $200. My counter offer was $25,000. They declined. When it comes right down to it, the video will make me at least 200 bucks and these companies all make the same lame promises of being able to sell it elsewhere with "their major media outlet connections". The problem is, these guys are in the business of pumping out viral BS hourly and we all know how short the public's attention span is. They make their money suckering in and chipping away at the tiny profits of thousands of creators - that is the only way the numbers work for them. I also picked up over 200 new subscribers which was nice (but also means the pool for the free snakeskin just got a lot larger). Special thanks to the stars of the video. It was there dedication and hard work (and thirst) that made the production a success. If the video reaches 1,000,000 views, I will put out a call for votes for best performance by a water drinker (I personally think George has the edge). 90,95,51,0,B
