HAPPY 2024 from FEROCIOUSGUMBY!

HAPPY NEW YEAR from ferociousgumby! I thank all my 17,800+ subscribers for making my life a little more fun, a little less humdrum, and a lot more incomprehensible – just like this channel! What started off as a teensy-weensy baking and crafts channel in 2011 has so far received more than 14 million views. All the best of 2024 to EVERYONE who watched, and especially to EVERYONE who didn’t!

💗🧡💛Ferociousgumby THANKS YOU!💚💙💜

Not that I'm proud of my channel! Well, yes. From its beginnings in 2013 as a baking/crafts channel with Caitlin, to the indefinable weirdness of today, it has been a constant source of - what? Lots of things. I attempt to explain it here. Weirdest of all, I was just contacted by the producer of an MTV video clips show called Ridiculousness, asking my permission to use a video I made years ago - of Bill sneezing. How they found it, I do not know. It got 61,000 views, which for me is astronomical, though the highest one so far is 9,100,000 for a really stupid one with a rubber robot singing Daisy (like HAL in 2001).

It's is still getting multiple comments a day, but it's a complete coincidence. I had no idea it was "trending" on TikTok, and it still must be or I wouldn't be still getting so many views. I don't want to get caught up in views and subscribers, but being up to 14,800 subs is something I never expected. What's most gratifying is that my granddaughters, particularly Erica, think this is all WAY cool, especially the MTV thing. 

Whether they actually use it or not remains to be seen, but just being chosen is - well, something, I guess, out of the multi-millions or even billions of channels and videos (and Gangnam Style long ago surpassed a billion views). So here I try to explain it all, or at least talk about it. I've kept this blog for more than ten years and barely know if people read it, but I do get comments, several a week, usually from VERY old posts that people must have googled up. I also google MYSELF up quite frequently. When I do an image search, half the time images from my own blog posts come up. Which is kind of strange, but not for the internet.

The Troll Doll Channel: TRIPLE UNBOXING! Viking Bank, Cave Man Plushie, ...

A triple-troll triple threat! It's amazing to me how many of my subscribers are now watching my troll videos. This is one of the very rare videos where I actually address the camera. My channel is still booming at a ridiculous rate, and all due to one very DUMB, short, thrown-together video. Well, it happens! I recently saw a small channel which garnered 50 MILLION VIEWS for a 30-second excerpt from somebody else's video. Not even original material! And, typically, the views dropped back down to the usual few hundred after that one. But somehow or other, people are subscribing, including my grandchildren and their friends! I am now known as "famous Nanny" or "Erica's crazy grandmother". This is full-circle, as I started the channel to post videos of Caitlin and I doing baking and crafts. The coolest moment of all is when Erica's boy friend Ryder posted a comment under one of my videos, and I thought - oh no. It can't be "THE" Ryder, is it?  IT WAS!!!! I asked him to say hi to Erica for me, and he said, sure, next time I see her. It was probably the highlight of the whole ten-year-long ferociousgumby experience.

Short takes from my YouTube channel