Axanar got a YouTube award certifying that it reached 100,000 subscribers, the interesting part was a comment made by Alec Peters.

‘You grow subscribers by giving them, enjoyable, useful content. If you’ve been streaming for 15 years, and have less than 3000 subscribers, you should probably quit and do something else.’

It feels like we’ve been down this road about subscribers before, anyway It was pretty obvious that the comment was directed at Matt Miller and Trekzone because they have been around for that long and have that number of subscribers, it is also obvious to everybody in fan films that the two don’t like each other.

Trekzone does have enjoyable, useful content, people are kept informed about the space programs of India, Australia and China, the latest at NASA, Space X and all the rest plus more, some videos get hundreds of views or more and others get a few, that’s the way the cookie crumbles on YouTube, you can have a big day and then a small day.

Axanar got a big leg up on people in the fan film world because of Prelude to Axanar and the press that it got which then followed to Axanar and then the lawsuit came along and pushed things along further especially from those who believed that a little guy got a bad break from a corporation.

If those events didn’t happen, would they be near 100,000 subscribers? Probably not.

Let’s take a look around to see how other people in the fan film world are doing compared to Axanar.

Jonathan Lane has 3.28k subscribers after seven years, should he probably quit and do something else in eight years’ time because he is nowhere near 100,000 subscribers? No.

Potemkin Pictures has 5,1k subscribers, they’ve been around 13 years, should they probably quit and do something else in two years’ time because they are nowhere near 100,000 subscribers? No.

Avalon Universe has 19.4k subscribers after five years, should they probably quit and do something else in ten years’ time because they will still be still more than 40% behind Axanar’s subscribers? No.

I have a friend who has 258,000+ subscribers but she doesn’t go around telling other singers who have been streaming for 15 years, and have less than 3000 subscribers, that they should probably quit and do something else, people have the right to put on YouTube what they enjoy showing people, as long as it fits with YouTube’s rules of course.

It really should not matter how many subscribers a YouTube channel has; my personal YouTube channel has 184 subscribers and 65,000 views, and I am happy to have that total, I like doing what I do because it is fun for me to make something and if that makes one person happy, that’s all that matters to me.

It makes me wonder how many fan film groups or people live up to Axanar’s standards for success, people could be praising the heck out of Axanar and unknowingly being privately treated with distain because what they have is nowhere near Axanar’s standards from occupations to subscribers.

There is another thing to consider, perhaps the wheeling out of the old subscribers’ chestnut is to make everybody at AxaMonitor get all nasty talking and drag conversations away from the potential $292,000 judgement that is just weeks away from being certified or not certified.

Keep on streaming and having fun readers.

Until next time, be good to each other.