Over the next week things pretty much stayed the same as those two nights, Mark would come over to my apartment or I'd go over to his apartment, and the three of us would talk or play games and just hang out. Mark even managed to make my computer more...apt for the work choice we all had. We all had also done some collabs like Mark would come in on a musings and then I'd web cam with Sean and they'd be my special guests. The end of that week was amazing though.
I woke up Saturday morning and got on YouTube. The first thing I saw was how many people had watched my last video and I was amazed. Then I looked at my subscriber count.
'That can't be accurate.' I thought as I refreshed the number actually grew.
I grabbed my tablet to check again. The number grew again. So I ran next door.
"Mark! MARK!" I called as I knocked on the door.
He opened the door rubbing his head. I winced I forgot it was drunk Minecraft night last night.
"Sorry for being loud..." I said softly.
He just shook his head and waved me in. Mark wandered into the kitchen and made some tea.
"What has you up so early, or so excited for that matter?" Mark asked as he came back with the tea.
"Can you do me a favor and check my subscriber count? It can't be right on my stuff." I said as I sat down next to him.
He just nodded as he started his computer. I tried to stay quiet but I was tapping on my tablet the whole time.
"HOLY FUCK!" he yelped and I looked there on the screen is what was on mine only bigger.
"How did it go from like maybe a hundred thousand to that?" I said softly as I looked at the subscriber count.
"In a week too no less. Sean's trying to call in." Mark said and switched to skype.
"HOLY SHIT KALEY! CONGRATS!" Sean yelled, Mark and I both winced.
"Sean shhh! It was drunk gaming for Mark last night! But thank you!" I said semi- softly then I thought for a minute.
"No you know what I should say that differently, its thanks to you both that I got this, so really thank you." I said with a smile.
We all laughed and talked about the day and how the next week was going to go, when an email came in on my tablet. I looked at it, that email looked very familiar.
"Guys...Yami...email..."was all I could get out.
Mark grabbed my tablet and opened the email. I was used to this we did this to each other all the time.
"He wants to do a collab with you." Mark said.
"How am I going to do that? I don't have steam...actually I could get steam...Oooh im gonna do that...but you two have to play with us...I can't no..." I said softly.
"Im game." Sean said. Mark nodded and passed my tablet back to me.
We continued talking and I realized I had to make a video...
'maybe just a thank you get to know me kind of thing?' I thought as I typed out the reply email to Yami and Mark and Sean where talking. I growled lightly.
"What? What, was that?" Mark asked looking at me.
"Sorry...apparently people take 'don't fucking contact me ever again.' A little too lightly." I replied as I deleted the fourth email from my parents.
Mark and Sean both looked at me, I knew they wanted an explanation.
"Basically all that happened is...hmm...the long and short? My parents tried to make sure I didn't succeed in this." I said simply as I did the profile thing for steam.
"You have all the luck, don't you?" Sean asked sarcastically.
"Yeah, my dad wanted me to be a lawyer mom wanted me to do something productive with myself. Speaking of productive. MarkiMoo?" I said in a sweet voice.
"Yes you're on the table for the live stream." He said with an eye roll. I cheered.
We all laughed and joked then I thought of something.
"Mark, Sean." I said looking suddenly serious.
"Yeah?" Mark asked and Sean just looked at me.
"You two wanna do another video with me? One for all of our pages?" I asked with an odd look on my face.
"Sure! What were you thinking?" Sean asked. Mark made a similar comment.
"A game. Like an actual we made it game, uhm...kind of like the draw my thing epi of drunk Minecraft. Like we all write questions and we'd share a list obviously and we'd play some game and whoever loses has to answer one of the questions that the winner picks. Or something similar to it." I said.
"That sounds absolutely amazing!" Sean said.
"How would we do that though?" Mark commented.
"Well we all have steam now so we could do like prop hunt or murder and play that. And as for the list we would have a written copy...and we'd send a digital or picture or typed copy to Sean so he had it to." I said simply.
Mark thought on it and agreed. So that day the three of us spent thinking of and writing questions, and like the rules of the game and everything. We were going to film that night, but not post it until tomorrow.
"This is going to be interesting! How are we all going to do our intros? Or hell our outros?" I asked them as we set up later that night.
"War." Sean suggested.
"one at a time?" Mark suggested and his face showed that he knew it just wasn't going to happen.
"I'm gonna say...all together but our own individual ones...I love the fact im going to be drowned out by you both!" I said with a small smile.
They both smiled and shook their heads.
"...annnnd clap!" Mark called the clap and we managed to almost get that one. We turned our webcams on and started the recording.
{video: Mark Sean Me}
"Hey guys! Im, Kaley the night-owl! And welcome to...Random Facts?/Hello everybody my name is Markiplier and welcome to...I guess its Random Facts?/whoopshTOP OF THE MORNING TO YA LADDIES! My name is Jacksepticeye...and welcome to...Random Facts!" 'well that was loud.' I thought.
"Kaley why don't you explain this since it was your choice!" Mark said.
"Thanks Mark! This is just a fun little game to pretty much say thank you from all three of us. The game we are doing today I believe we decided on prop hunt and murder, as the main like actual games, but the game we made up is I guess we're calling it Random Facts? All it is is a simple game. We play prop hunt or murder and the two who loose have to answer a random fact question from the winner. We all have the same questions and questions can be asked twice. After that its off the list. This is going to probably be a long video. It's also a really nice way for all of you to get to know us." I said with a lot of enthusiasm.
"Can I just say quickly that I love the fact that Jack was much more, sure of the name of the game. I mean the way me and Kaley said it it was a question. Jack said it and it was like stating a fact!" Mark said.
"Aww thank you Mark! Honestly I was fallowing you guys." Sean said with a laugh.
"We are off with a bang! Also I'd like to point out, because apparently that's my thing I point things out, uhm that we are all continuing a long tradition...of eating on camera." I said with a laugh.
We loaded up Prop hunt first and started to play. Sean against Mark and I.
"No! nononononononononononono! Shit shit shit shit!" Mark called loudly and me and Sean cracked up.
"Damn it! Mark you distracted me! Now im stuck!" I called back, trying desperately to get free.
"Oh, is that a struggle I hear? OH MY GOD! REALLY? Is that Mark? Really?" Sean called and laughed.
"Yes, give me another prop and I can...im dead! Jack! You could have given me a chance!" Mark said.
"I could have...it was funnier to shoot the backwards washing machine. Im coming for you next Kaley." Sean said the first part normal, then got real close to the mic for the second part.
"Splish splash?" I said asked.
"Nope, could that possibly be a struggling watermelon?" Sean asked as he shot me.
"Damn it! Time for a question. Jack since you won you ask the question." I said as I ate some of the pizza sitting next to me.
It took him a minute to find the question.
"Most people know this about you both, possibly, but here's the question. What did you do before YouTube." Sean asked.
"uhmm, college, and I worked a horrible desk job." Mark said as he took a bite of his pasta.
"Awesome! How about you Kaley?" Sean asked.
"Actually I haven't talked about this before so good first question! Uhm, I did college. Or tried to really. It didn't work the first time." I replied
"That's amazing. You know as a side note... or side thought it really is amazing how many of us actually tried college for a "normal job" before we decided on YouTube." Sean said and commented.
We started up another round of prop hunt. Me against Mark and Sean.
"Is this even fair? This place is huge!" I said as I walked the large map.
Sean and Mark just laughed.
"Mark, that's not how you want to be I can tell you that now." I said as I fired a couple shots into the backwards refrigerator.
"Uh...actually that was me!" Sean said with a laugh as he readjusted his headphones and hat...eating his Doritos.
"Aww! Sorry Jack! I was gonna save you for last." I commented with a laugh.
"you will never find me NEVER!" Mark said with a laugh as well.
"Hey mark, I see you." I said with a laugh at the only standing garbage can.
"NOOOOOOO! YOU WILL NOT GET ME! And im dead. Alright your win your question." Mark said.
"I know I know give me a second...hmm actually ok ok. Here it is. Why did you get into YouTube? What was or is your push? We had that marked as one so bleew." I said with a laugh and stuck my tongue out at them.
"Honestly at first it was hobby, posting once or twice a week while I was in college...the first time. Uhm I honestly didn't want to be one of those you know money hungry people who only went for the views. And what really is my push? Probably the...damn it I hate calling them this but the viewers." Sean said.
"That's...truly awesome." I said softly then we both turned to mark.
"For me? It probably was my dad's passing that pushed me and made realize that you know you can do a desk job and be fine but if you're not happy what can you really do? After that my day to day push became the viewers and the hope to help even just one person that day." Mark said softly.
"That was truly beautiful, Mark truly." Sean said softly.
"It truly is amazing the different things that push people...plus im getting sick of the questions...I don't know about you guys, but this is one of those things that sounded better in theory." I said also softly both the guys agreed.
"Ok, ok so wait Jack what did you do before YouTube?" I asked a little while later, as we messed around on Gmod.
"College actually, didn't work so well the first time." Sean said as he spawned the jet engines onto what would surely become a rocket.
"Alright I've heard that from both of you now...the first time...is there a story behind that?" Mark asked as he tried to make the rocket body.
"Oh, yeah/ Mhm." Sean and I said as we continued to just spawn random things.
"Are you going to share?" Mark asked when neither Sean nor I said anything.
"Uhm, maybe." I replied.
"What did you do?!" Sean asked being the closet one in game to me.
"I spawned a monster help me kill it!" I commented back.
"REALLY GUYS?" Mark asked coming over.
"Yes, really Mark you should help us beat it." Sean said.
Mark sighed and came over. With his help the apparently huge monster I spawned went down easily.
"Alright just for that now you two owe us all a story." Mark said.
"All right, all right. Jack you want to go first?" I said as we all took the chance to just hover.
"Uh, no no ladies first." Sean said.
"Fine. So basically here's what happened. I was in pre-med and I liked it it was ok. You know? Something to do. I was really into it to going to class and just not much time for other things. I got decent grades and really after a year or two I just didn't want that to be the only thing in my life. I had started YouTube as literally just a hobby something for music when I did homework. Nothing more. Then I just said no more. I left school and did a boring job, well as boring as a medical job can get. I used to write, I still do actually. I just loved the creative aspect of it. But I knew I could never support myself on writing. So I started looking into YouTube as more than just a music source. It seemed, not easy by any stretch but do able definitely do able. So I started with my first late night video. I realized maybe a year into it that in case this failed I needed something to fall back on and so with that in mind I applied to another college, and I got accepted for English. I fell back into writing and I did my musings videos mainly later at night simply because I was awake and free of work usually. I did actually graduate, I've got my degree in English. As a little shocker for some people I actually have a book published too. 'A Musers Thoughts on Everything from Water to What Type of Cheese the Moon is Made of.' It was my first published piece and I got a couple thousand sales I was happy with that and now you can find it almost anywhere. Each page is a new adventure! Haha alright, Jack your up." I said.
"Alright, my story is even less awesome then that! Haha, I started out going to school for music, but it turned out to be mostly physics and hardly any music. I never lost the passion for music, but I lost the want to study it. So I did YouTube after that. Like full time that's all I did. I had the same thought though Kaley what if you know my page failed or YouTube crashed or it all just ended? I needed something to fall back on. So I went back to school, for hotel management. It's what October now? Yeah, yeah it is. Ok so SWEET! I graduate this month. But yeah just something to fall back on. Honestly though...I'd probably be the worst hotel manager." Sean told us.
Mark and I looked at each other.
"it's not that you'd be bad Jack, just that it wouldn't be a hotel for everyone." I told him.
"Yeah Jack, a person who likes extra pep and someone who doesn't need a microphone to be heard would be well liked at certain hotels. Just not ones in like Florida...or other retirement resorts." Mark said.
After that we played more question and answer Gmod with random questions just falling out of our mouths. When we figured it was long enough we got ready for the outro from hell.
"Guys guys its time." I said quietly.
"Alright! so with everything that's been done I actually want to say thank you first and I hope to see you all on the next one! Many hugs and much love until next time!/I would like to say thank you as well. And also thank you for watching! And as always I will see you, In the next video Bye-bye!/Id also like to say a big thank you! But anyways! Thank you for watching this video! And if you liked it punch that like button in the face like a BOSS! And high-fives all around whoopsh whoopsh. Thank you guys! And I will see all you dudes in the NEXT VIDEOOOOOO." The three of us said as we ended the video.
"Do you guys want to each take the raw footage and edit it for our pages or do you want to do rock paper scissors and the loser edits for all three videos?" I asked them as I finished my pizza.
"How long did we record for the video?" Mark asked.
"According to my watch like three hours." Sean said.
I sighed. That was gonna be annoying, both of the guys sighed as well none of us wanted to edit that.
"We should all just edit it ourselves...our styles really are different enough that its needed." Mark said.
Sean and I let our heads drop back with a groan.
"That's gonna take for fuckin ever!" Sean groaned out.
"Maybe...maybe hmm hang on." I said as I jumped up.
Mark and Sean looked at me strange. I ran into the kitchen and opened the fridge.
"FUCK YEAH!" I called walking back with a smile.
"Ok im good for editing." I said with a smile.
"Should we ask?" Mark asked giving me a strange look.
"I have the greatest cure for an editing headache ever invented." I told him with a smile.
"OH! Hahaha Mark she's gonna do drunk editing again." Sean said with a laugh.
"No not drunk editing a shot every twenty minutes or half an hour of editing though." I told them.
"Awesome, alright so are we all going to edit ourselves?" Mark asked double checking.
Sean and I nodded. After that we all just played more games and talked. Around two am Sean made a comment.
"I should go...maybe sleep an hour or three...its seven am here." Sean said.
Mark and I looked at the clock, then back to Sean.
"Yeah, we'll talk to you later. Good night." Mark said.
"Good night sleep well!" I told him.
"Wanna come over and edit over here?" Mark asked.
"Yeah, sounds good just give me a couple minutes. I wanted to start a program." I said.
Mark agreed and then we ended the skype call. I started to run a scan on my computer, it had been acting weird and I made a post to twitter and facebook thanking all of the viewers again. I triple saved the video too. Then once the scans finished I grabbed the laptop moveable portion of my computer and headed over to Mark's.
"Come on in!" Mark called from inside after I knocked on the door.
I walked in and over to the desk. I set my computer up and began my editor. I looked around Mark was in the kitchen.
"I don't know why you knock...I mean its polite and all but, I don't know where this was going." Mark said as he walked back in with two cups.
He passed me one. I took a small sniff.
'mmm coffee.' I thought with a smile.
"When do you have coffee?" I asked then took a sip of the delicious life saver.
"Since, last week?" Mark said, with a scrunched face.
I laughed and we started editing. Three hours of editing was going to take forever. Mark and I just talked and laughed while we edited. It was four hours later that we decided enough was enough and set the videos to render.
"Mark? I don't think I can walk! Haha I've been sitting to long!" I said with a laugh.
He laughed too as he stretched. I ended up stealing the guest room again that night.
