# Stefan Che — My story

[All chapters](https://stefan-che-site.vercel.app/about.md)

## Moscow

At 14, I moved alone

From Minsk

To Moscow

10-hour hitchhike

Moscow was a city of opportunity and my launchpad to the international stage.

I couch-surfed at the place of a friend I’d met online, spending every waking hour working on my videos.

Six weeks later, I reached 1M subscribers

Channel analytics, November 2026 · videos still up. 14.2M hours of human attention = 1,620 years. Roughly everything since the fall of Rome. Peak in 2019: 2M subscribers.

### Image captions and sources

- [Stefan with the YouTube Gold Creator Award](https://stefan-che-site.vercel.app/images/s10-card-gold2t.webp)

- [Letter from YouTube for one million subscribers](https://stefan-che-site.vercel.app/images/s10-card-letter2t.webp)

- [YouTube Studio channel analytics: 140.4M views, 14.2M hours watched](https://stefan-che-site.vercel.app/images/s10-analytics.webp)