Key takeaways
The Inner Circle Trader, YouTube channel ID UCtjxa77NqamhVC8atV85Rog, published a 3 minutes 42 seconds video on 6 February 2024 showing ICT unbox and read the letter for YouTube’s Gold Creator Award at 1,000,000 subscribers, then thank viewers and say the milestone means he is heading to publishers for book one.
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The Inner Circle Trader, YouTube channel ID UCtjxa77NqamhVC8atV85Rog, published a 3 minutes 42 seconds video on 6 February 2024 showing ICT unbox and read the letter for YouTube’s Gold Creator Award at 1,000,000 subscribers, then thank viewers and say the milestone means he is heading to publishers for book one. YouTube’s documented award thresholds are Silver at 100,000 subscribers, Gold at 1,000,000, Diamond at 10,000,000 and Red Diamond above Diamond, with awards issued at YouTube’s discretion after reviewing channel standing and artificially inflated subscriber counts. ICT calls the plaque a bona fide verification and says he guesses the audience is not bots or fake subscribers, but the clip provides no analytics or independent audience audit, while the book comment includes no title, publisher, contract or date. The watch page showed 82,345 views and playable status when read on 14 September 2026. The video contains no market lesson, chart, instrument, trade setup, entry, stop, target, performance claim or financial advice.
How we researched this article
BestProps used document-based research from primary firm sources, checked September 24, 2026. The complete source list, scope, limitations, and commercial-state record appear near the end of this article.
In 1 Million Subscribers Award – Thank You, a public upload on the channel The Inner Circle Trader, ICT documents the arrival of a creator milestone award rather than teaching anything about markets. Its watch page reports an upload on 6 February 2024 at 1:35 p.m. Pacific (21:35 UTC the same day), a runtime it gives as 3 minutes 42 seconds (PT3M42S, 222 seconds), and a playability status of OK with the video neither unlisted nor private when read on 14 September 2026.[1]
That framing matters for anyone arriving from ICT’s trading material. This upload sits in the channel’s history, not its curriculum: it is a short first-person clip about a subscriber milestone and a book, and it should not be read as a source for entries, levels or market bias.
Opening the ICT Million Subscriber Award Package
The first minute and a half is the unboxing itself. The recording opens with the exclamations “Oh, what could that be?” at 0:18 and “Oh, would you look at that” at 0:26, then the comment that it “looks like something” at 0:29. A dog named in the transcript as “Miss Scout” is greeted at 0:33.
The middle of the clip is spent getting into the packaging. At 1:29 the recording remarks “they really put some tape on this, don’t they,” and at 1:35 the contents are reached with “there we go.” None of this establishes the award’s material, size or appearance. The source behind this article is the recording’s audio, and the physical object was not independently inspected.
Reading the ICT Million Subscriber Award Letter
From roughly 2:08 to 3:06 the recording changes register and becomes a read-aloud message. It opens with “it says, you did it,” followed by the line the transcript renders as “one mission, one channel, and one more thing, 1 million subscribers.” The body of the message congratulates the creator on starting with a few viewers and reaching people worldwide, and credits the community as being “enriched by the stories you’ve shared.”
At 2:38 the message states that, in recognition of the milestone, the sender is “proud to present you with the Gold Creator Award,” and it closes with the hope that the recognition “will remind you how much you mean” to many, adding that the sender “can’t wait to see what you do next” and signing off with a name the transcript gives as “Neil.”
That the object is a Gold Creator Award is supported by the letter being read in the recording and by YouTube’s own published eligibility criteria, which place the Gold award at the 1,000,000-subscriber mark, above Silver at 100,000 and below Diamond at 10,000,000.[3] The recording is not evidence of which eligibility conditions were reviewed or met, and YouTube describes the award process as discretionary, requiring a channel in good standing and free of artificially inflated subscriber counts.[4] The phrase “one mission, one channel” is quoted as the automatic transcript renders it; the surrounding words are clear, but that particular wording cannot be confirmed word for word from audio alone.
ICT Thanks Subscribers and Addresses Fake Subscriber Claims
The last stretch of the clip is reaction. At 3:18 ICT calls what he is holding “a bonafide 1 million verification” and says “so I guess it’s not bots,” continuing at 3:29 with “I guess it’s not fake subscribers, so thank you so very much for that folks.” He closes at 3:34 with “you know what that means, we’re off to the publishers for book one.”
Two limits apply to how that should be read. First, the “not bots” and “not fake subscribers” lines are ICT’s own inference drawn from receiving the award. The clip supplies no subscriber analytics, no audience-composition data and no issuer audit, so this article reports the statement as his and does not treat the milestone as independently verified. Second, the publisher remark is a single forward-looking sentence with no title, publisher, date or contract disclosed, so it is best recorded as stated intent at that moment rather than a scheduled or completed project.
What the ICT Million Subscriber Award Video Contains
This page is deliberately short because the source is short. In summary, the recording:
- documents ICT opening a package and reading a letter that identifies the contents as a Gold Creator Award for one million subscribers;
- contains his thanks to viewers and his own comment that the award answers claims about bots or fake subscribers;
- contains one sentence about approaching publishers for “book one,” with no further detail;
- contains no chart, instrument, session, trade setup, entry, stop, target or account result of any kind.
Nothing in it establishes trading performance, and nothing in it should be read as advice or as a recommendation to follow any trading approach.
Watch the ICT Million Subscriber Award Recording
The embed above is the upload’s own YouTube player, and it is left in place because it plays. The saved player was loaded from a BestProps origin on 14 September 2026 and clicked: playback advanced to about 4.9 seconds of the recording’s own 221.4-second duration with no error notice and no owner restriction reported by the player. The watch page independently reports the video as playable in an embed.[1] All timestamp links in this article point into the same recording.
ICT Million Subscriber Award Sources
The transcript behind these timestamps is a local automatic speech recognition of the recording’s complete audio, not YouTube captions and not a human-verified transcript, and the video’s visuals were not reviewed. It is reliable enough to establish the sequence of the clip and the substance of the letter, but it cannot distinguish a misrecognised word from a spoken one, and it cannot settle who was speaking at any given moment (for example, whether a thank-you was ICT’s own or part of the letter he was reading aloud). Where wording matters, it is quoted as the transcript renders it.
- 1 Million Subscribers Award – Thank You The upload itself, on the channel The Inner Circle Trader (channel ID UCtjxa77NqamhVC8atV85Rog). Watch page read 14 September 2026: 82,345 views, 221 seconds, published 6 February 2024 at 1:35 p.m. Pacific, playability status OK.[1]
- The Inner Circle Trader The publishing channel’s own page, and the first-party record of what this channel uploads and when. It takes precedence over any reupload, mirror or third-party archive of the same clip.[2]
- YouTube Help (YouTube Creator Awards) The published criteria referenced above, including the Gold tier at 1,000,000 subscribers.[3]
- YouTube for Creators (Creator Awards & Recognition) The creator-facing award page, which states that awards are given at YouTube’s sole discretion and that channels are reviewed for standing and for artificially inflated subscriber counts.[4]
On third-party material: any ICT, smart-money or indicator-related script, spreadsheet, note set or social-media summary is unofficial and untested unless it comes from the publishing channel’s own upload page. No performance test, backtest, win rate or account result is claimed anywhere in this article, because the underlying recording contains no trading content at all.
- [1] 1 Million Subscribers Award – Thank You, The Inner Circle Trader (watch page read 14 September 2026)
- [2] The Inner Circle Trader, official YouTube channel (channel ID UCtjxa77NqamhVC8atV85Rog)
- [3] YouTube Help (YouTube Creator Awards) (subscriber milestones and eligibility criteria, read 14 September 2026)
- [4] YouTube for Creators (Creator Awards & Recognition) (read 14 September 2026)
This article is educational and reports a creator milestone, not a trading result. It contains no market analysis and no individualized financial advice. Leveraged trading involves substantial risk and is not suitable for everyone.
