School project, we had a social media blah blah project, and we had 7 days. After 6 days I told my friend that I couldn't play minecraft with him, even though I wanted to, because I had to do it. He told me I could just record us playing minecraft, and upload it to Youtube, win-win I can do both. Overnight the video randomly got 18,000+ views and I got top grades.
Ever since I just uploaded whenever, but when I really picked up on subscribers around 10,000, I took it more seriously and uploaded more often

now it's my full-time job, I'm forever greatful towards my friends suggestion.