700,000 YouTube subscribers is pretty neat

You gotta appreciate the wins and moments

Just the other day, as I was traveling from Cambodia to Thailand, my YouTube channel hit a pretty cool milestone: 700,000 subscribers! I know it feels like just yesterday that I hit 500,000, but in social media terms that was a lifetime ago! In that post, I blathered on and on about how I became a content creator and how I became the “Geography Geoff” (leaving out the “by” most times) that I’ve become most known by.

I’m not going to repeat that kind of post here. Instead, I just want to take a little bit of time to say thanks to everyone who continues to watch, follow, and engage with the content I make. It’s crazy to me that I’m able to do what I do for a living and it’s because you all find value in that content. So thank you!

Now, obviously, you’re reading about this on my Substack newsletter, for which there’s only a couple thousand of you. This is primarily because:

1. I’ve struggled with figuring out what to do with this Substack; and,

2. I’ve been inconsistent with the content I do create here

In a lot of ways, even though I always feel like I’m a writer first, it feels odd trying to make articles about the same kind of content I make for YouTube. Being a geographer video creator is a lot easier than being a geography writer in some ways. Geography, at its core, is a visual medium. Geographers tend to like having maps and images that help decipher the spatial relationships between whatever the topic might be. Writing about it though? Much more challenging.

All that’s to say though, I’m looking to change that. I definitely think that Substack is the most important place to grow as a content creator. YouTube, Instagram, and Threads (the other three social media networks I use mostly) are all so fickle. You can, and will, be punished for creating content that those platforms don’t think you should create. Substack is much more liberating.

So, it’s for that reason that I’ll continue working on this Substack! Hopefully I'll be able to grow it. Because while 700,000 subscribers on YouTube is nice, I’d trade it for 100,000 subscribers on Substack any day of the week!

Cheers and thanks for reading! Onward to 1 million subscribers!