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Socialblade is a site for monitoring social media engagement metrics. They've already linked the livestream on their page about Yuzu's channel. My guess is that he's already opened the stream but has it hidden from public view, and socialblade is using some backdoor monitoring of YT to find it.

In the words of Robbie Williams... hell is gone and heaven's here. (You know you all have the song stuck in your heads now, too.)

Who has time to think about antis when we've got a flood of Yuzu content headed our way? Not me.

New addition to my morning routine: wake up and check YouTube.

I'm far from fluent in Japanese (and will happily defer to anyone on here who does speak it fluently if they have anything to add or correct) but extremely (probably too) fluent in English-language cursing. Japanese doesn't really have curses like we do in English, but the word くっそ in that context... I can't really think of a better way to translate it and still keep the informality. "Damn" might work too, I guess.

I think we're all in our f*cking carefree era of figure skating watching. It's glorious.

Heck yeah, Yuzu. Have yourself a 「くっそ自由な」practice. It’s even at the right time that I can have a drink and forget about work while watching.

I thought we weren't going to get to watch Yuzu's practices anymore. (And I really, really love watching him practice.) AHHHHHHHHHHHH

12 noon JST. And here I thought I was going to catch up on sleep this season...

That’s pretty much what I did.

Someone at YouTube is going to be so confused. They'll get a notification that an account hit a subscriber milestone and needs to be reviewed for a creator award, and open said account to see that it's a three hour old account with one video uploaded that is just a man talking in front of a white wall.

100K subscribers! Congrats Yuzu! My guess of "by noon my time" was way off. It's 8:40 AM and he already did it.

99K so close!!!

Just 5K to go until he hits 100K subscribers. The channel's been up for... what, 2 or 3 hours?

90.6K now

I'm not super familiar with the platform - I've liked, subscribed, and turned on notifications. Is there anything else to do to support him?

He's going to get a silver play button in no time flat. The number just keeps climbing every time I refresh his page. EDIT: In 2 minutes he added 3000 subscribers.

Will they ship overseas?

Hey, we write enough notes already!

I was fine until he did the Seimei pose. Why did that set me off???

PLEASE

Ooh, you know this is going to be good.

Pro athlete. So he’ll continue skating in shows, but no more competitions. It has truly been an honor, Yuzuru.