Two years on YouTube

Yesterday was Somegreybloke's second birthday. 56 videos uploaded to the account; 5.6 million odd views, and an overwhelmingly positive response from the people who bother to comment or award stars.

Best thing, though, is the number of excellent creative types I've met and had a chance to work with - even if they all live selfishly far away in other countries. This was a truly unexpected consequence of putting videos on YouTube, and it's no overstatement to say that it has changed my life. Just knowing that there are a bunch of people out there who are prepared to lend their talent - for free! - is very motivating.

All in all these last two years have been the most productive I've ever had, and I'm very happy to have internet-met you.

Cheers!

Word for Word 2

I can haz job with Nashunal Geografik?

In a totally selfless bid to reboot the economy I handed over some cash for a brand new Canon EOS 1000D digital SLR, and then took this picture with it.

Silly stop motion animations now added to production list.

And, ho yus! Somegreybloke has moved up to 5th place in the "YouTube UK> Most Subscribed Channels > Comedians" list, with close to 25,500 subscribers.

Fundie Sunday

Not sure if this is satire or not.

Word for Word

I thought it might be fun to collect some of the comments that the Some Grey Bloke videos inspire. This one's from one of the BNP videos, ripped out of context from a discussion of why racism is perfectly acceptable.

Some Grey Bloke mentioned in national newspaper shock!

In November last year, in fact. Somehow I managed to miss this:

Daily Telegraph's "Top 10 You Tube celebrities".

Graham is number 9:

""Graham" might be one of the finds of the year on YouTube. Dreamt up by a British animator operating from Spain, SomeGreyBloke is YouTube's only animated vlogger: he comments on other people's videos, relates stories sparked off by online discussions and vents his spleen in the same way as "live" vloggers. With more than 12,000 subscribers and videos topping 1,000,000 views, Graham is a cult hit."

I'm trying to work out where the author got the idea that I'm in Spain. Apart from that, all good.

More please, journos.