猫へ恩返し Oct 30, 2026 19:02 Sunday night, July 26, 2026. I created the "Kochome Channel" on YouTube
The first video I published was, of course, "Night 1." It was the video from the day I found her on the sandbar in the river
From then on, one video every morning and one every night. "Morning of Day X," "Night of Day X," in order from the first day. It is a channel where I retrace Kochome's daily life from two years ago, one day at a time
Even so, there was one happy discovery. Even after three days, then four days, the views for "Night 1" kept growing. It seems that people who found the channel later were going back to watch from the first day
You get curious about what happens next, so you go back to the beginning. I think that's just how stories are
Around the time 10 days had passed since the launch, the situation changed completely
That "thump" video from Night 6 took off on YouTube as well. In the blink of an eye, it hit over 30,000 views. Moreover, almost everyone who watched it stayed until the end
Around the same time, I published my first long video. It was a compilation covering the 10 days since we met
"If I could get 1,000 views, that would be great." That video, which I thought would be lucky to get that many, easily surpassed that number within half a day of being published. Now, it has exceeded 47,000 views
But there was something that made me happ