Early April 2017 :-
A video from an absolutely new channel, Hardik Sapra, comes up. It shows a young boy, twelve years of age, solving the Rubik's cube five times and getting an average of 23 seconds. The video quality is similar to that of 1970 movies. The view count is not too high. The boy with a Gan
cube as a display picture started his YouTube career.
Over the next one week he dropped two more videos. He started getting the hang of the whole thing. However he still had many problems to encounter : the video quality, the content, the audio, etc.
He next uploaded after a month. Even this video did not get too many views. He soon realized that he was not to get too many views. None of his videos had even hit a fifty.
Over the next few months he kept uploading videos. However, none of them still crossed the 50 view mark. His content was not too interesting. He himself started losing interest in his YouTube channel. He, however, did not lose his love for cubing.
It all changed in August of 2017. He got a record 13 second solve which he was quick to upload. The video reached a hundred views in a couple of days, while none of his other videos even reached a fifty. Another one of his videos from the same day hit 50 views soon. This day is often known as the day the channel changed.
His next few videos could not mount to the success achieved by the thirteen second solve video. He uploaded many more videos with only one of them becoming famous i.e full form of alien. This video is currently the second most famous video on his channel.
Hardik barely uploaded in 2018. It looked like 2019 would be the same. He had lost most of his love for Cubing. Enter April of 2019 : he uploaded a video showing himself performing football videos at his terrace. This was his first video related to football. It got him the views he wanted. It broke several of his records. While it is not on top of the view charts it did tell him how good content fetches views.
After nearly a month and a half he uploaded again. Another new type of video : Hardik made a vlog out of his journey to Amritsar. He added some humour, people and loads of other things which were missing from his videos earlier. The video has not fetched too many views but has been liked by many of those who have seen it. His accent became a meme. He was fine with that. He now knew what videos to upload. He also changed his name to The Cubist.
Next month he uploaded a video of his father riding in the world's fastest train. He edited the video a bit, gave it a description and added some background music. The video went viral immediately after it was uploaded. It reached 500 views before half a week. Around this time Hardik really improvised his content.
His next big thing came out in October of 2019. He made another vlog, this time from Chandigarh. This video shows the beauties of Chandigarh, rounded up by some humourous commentary by Hardik. This vlog quickly overtook the previous vlog in the view charts, primarily because of the experience factor. He did not forget to use the same accent as he did in the Amritsar vlog. He also made the intro with a face pack on, once again pulling out his humour card.
His next video was also some good content. He showed himself reacting to a live football match going on, in a stadium. This video did not reach his expectations but it has done relatively well view wise.
This is how his YouTube channel stands so far. 2019 has been the best year for him by far. His views per video stats have drastically improved. His content is getting better. His editing is getting better. Who knows, he might just be the next PewDiePie in the making.
Note : This article makes Hardik look like a big celebrity. He's not.
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