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• Wow.

We actually hit our goal of planting 20 million trees.

That’s insane.

Normally I don’t make short videos like this

but I have a few very important things about Team Trees

that I want to tell you,

and I just didn’t want to cram it at the end of a video.

First, 20 million trees is insane.

If they were planted eight feet apart,

that’s enough trees to plant around the globe.

There’s just so many.

Second, I wanna on the record say that

I know I’ll get most of credit for Team Trees,

but I really shouldn’t.

This all started when I hit 20 million subscribers,

and as a joke, we were like, let’s plant 20 million trees.

Team Trees might have started with me

but it definitely outgrew me.

Over 500,000 unique people donated to the campaign

and hundreds if not thousands of people with influence

promoted it.

What I’m trying to say is yes,

Team Trees might have started with me,

but it’s grown its own brand and it’s way bigger than me.

What I genuinely want is after you watch this video,

go to someone who promoted Team Trees and just thank them.

Just say, Hey, thank you for promoting Team Trees.

Team Trees isn’t me.

It’s a YouTube community, the Twitter community,

the Reddit community, the meme community

and many other communities combined together for good.

You guys did school fundraising for trees.

You donated your tooth fairy money.

You started lemonade stand.

You guys were just so passionate about this project.

It was just truly amazing to watch.

Watching Team Trees unfold

and just seeing you guys care so much about the environment

is just, I don’t know how to put it into words,

but I just genuinely, I feel fulfilled.

I feel like we’re just doing something good.

My third and final point is, yeah,

Team Trees does end soon

but I’d love to make this a yearly thing.

There are a lot of problems in this world.

And if once a year, we can get the entire internet together

to just try to make a change,

then I think that’s amazing and I think it’s worth doing.

So Team Trees isn’t where this ends.

We got a lot more to come in the future.

And just thank you.

Anyone who just contributed to Team Trees in any way,

thank you so much.

And I wanna reiterate its way bigger than me.

It’s a community.

It’s many communities that came together

and Team Trees is its own community

and I’m just a part of that community.

So don’t forget, go say thank you to anyone who promoted it.

And I love you guys.

If you had no idea what I was talking about in this video

then just click the end screen video in front of you.

Basically Team Trees is a campaign we started

where every dollar you donated,

a tree will be planted by the Arbor Day Foundation,

somewhere in the globe.

So yeah, click the video right there.

It’s in front of you.

If you want more information, click it.