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1,000 subscribers

Compared to this blog, which is more than ten years old, my YouTube channel is quite young – just a bit more than five years old. The number of popular videos is fairly small. They are usually watched by non-subscribers and somehow these popular videos seem to be the ones without much substance, while the more in-depth videos don’t tend to be popular overall, but are popular with subscribers. This is a surprise to me, even though maybe it shouldn’t be.

Today, I was quite surprised when, within a short period of time, the number of subscribers jumped by more than 50 to 1,000. Thanks for that to all my viewers and subscribers.

Also thanks to Sean of Contrapuntalism fame. Some of the videos feature a beautiful intro music that Sean made for me.

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HB birthday

HB birthday, Bleistift blog!

Over the last ten years you have made Bleistift part of your stationery reading. Thank you.

Coinciding with Bleistift’s birthday is the belated start of Stationery.wiki‘s Mechanical Pencil Day Contest 2019, running until 7 January 2020. You can win mechanical pencils from Lamy, Caran d’AcheFaber-Castell, and BIC. Please visit Stationery.wiki for more information.

As far as I can tell Bleistift blog must be the longest-running English language pencil blog that operated without a break, but please leave a comment if that is not the case.

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