I hit 4k watch hours and doubled subscribers in under 3 weeks

It's been a crazy few weeks for me. I just returned from vacation in Taiwan where I cranked out 13 videos while there in less than 3 weeks. I knew I wanted to make videos about my trip there and a YouTube friend of mine who lives there part time suggested I put Chinese captions on the videos. Boy, did that pay off. I recorded my first video at my airport 3 hours before the flight titled "See You Soon, Taiwan". It was a simple, no edit video...only 2 1/2 minutes long. I quickly added captions (thanks Chat GPT) and uploaded it before the flight. To my shock, I had several thousand views by the time I landed 16 hours later. That one has over 7k views right now. Well, I continued to put our more and more videos...all of them have over 1k views and my best, talking about possibly retiring in Taiwan, has over 17k views. I went into the trip with about 1,100 subscribers or so. That has since doubled. And my watch hours dramatically increased to just over 4k today! Going into the trip I had less than 2k. The feeling has been unreal. I have several more Taiwan related videos I'm going to put out now that I'm back home. That's going to be a tough niche to keep going though. I have another trip booked there in the spring so I will put more out then. I just wanted to let you guys know that you never know when your time will come, just keep plugging along and sometimes think outside the box. Or maybe book a trip to Taiwan!

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