It is time for the big reveal of The Secret Message hiding behind me. Hey guys, it's Sasha A few of you noticed that I recently reached 100 000 subscribers on my channel. Thank you to all of you who have subscribed and I promised that when I hit a hundred thousand subscribers I would reveal a hidden message hiding in the background of every single one of my videos. It's hidden right there and I will show you exactly what it is I am not going to make you sit there and wait all the way through to the end of this video.

No I am going to reveal the secret message right up front all I ask from you is for you to hit like go ahead and smash the like button for the YouTube algorithm so that maybe I can reach 200 000 subscribers and then reveal me talking in Russian but that's for another day now before I explain the secret message behind me I Wanted to show you a few other things in the set because I know that my videos are so insanely boring and talk about finance and investing that you probably sat there trying to figure out what's hiding back in my Ikea furniture wondering what it is that's sitting there that you can't quite I see and even though I record and upload these videos in 4k, even if you have a giant TV you're going to struggle to see anything in my background except for the message because of the bokeh effect you see. The technical reason is because I use a particularly fast prime lens on my camera with an F 1.4 aperture and I sit relatively close to the camera compared to the focal length. But basically I make the background blurry so that you focus on me and what? I'm saying it's a videography trick to make you focus on the subject. But even though it's blurry that background, there is one thing that you probably can still make out and that's the chessboard down here.

It's just a very regular small chessboard. You can see all the pieces inside over here and it's there for when my son comes to the office so that he can beat me playing sat on that sofa, but that's not the only chess in the background. I've also got this chess set up here. this one is made out of Lego I Got it for my birthday because I'm a complete nerd and I like both chess and Lego so I had to go and sit there assembling the 10 gazillion pieces to make this thing.

Next up is this little thing over here. Now there is absolutely no chance whatsoever that you will be able to see what it is, but it is a little cyber truck as well as owning a big position on Tesla the stock. I Actually have placed an order for a cyber truck a long time ago I Have absolutely no idea when or if a cyber truck will even arrive in the UK but I want one so the order is informed. But for now I have this little guy now I know you might be sitting there thinking Sasha you said you're not going to make us wait for the secret message reveal right? Well, if you've not been paying attention, hit like Go and hit that like button for the YouTube algorithm and help me out to make more content that reaches more people.

It really helps just before the full explanation though. I have a few more random items that I wanted to show you I have three items in here that don't really mean anything I have this random fan that is so bad at blowing air that I have made it into an ornament and I have this weird metal dog I have no idea why I have a metal dog it just turned up one day and I also have this very modern phone. For those of you under 30 know this phone does not play Snake and there is no WhatsApp The truth is I have no idea why I have these things. I'll probably find better things to put up there at some point that actually means something.

but a year ago I first built this studio. You can't see it because it looks like the corner of my living room, but there are lights and cameras and screens and sound deadening panels and all kinds of stuff around. And I have this microphone up here millimeters above the picture so that you can't see it in the video anyway. I Build the studio and after putting in all of the baskets, I had a few empty spaces so I had to put something there and these were the items that I landed on because they were just lying around and actually not because I'm so incredibly creative.

These items haven't moved or been replaced by something of actual Merit in a whole year now here. I have another lens and some lens rings and filters and all that good stuff. There's absolutely no way that you can tell this is what it is, but it's just camera equipment and gear. and just over my shoulder over here that is a cactus.

It's not real because I'm so bad at watering plants that even a cactus would die from me for getting to water it. But it's a reminder for me most of you don't know, but there is a whole other side of the content business that I run which is focused on websites as well as YouTube and the biggest website that I work on is all about road trips and the first big road trip I did around the United States started and ended in California and we also went through Nevada to Vegas and then around Arizona including a stop in a place called Nothing. and there were a lot of these saguaro cactuses out there. It's a nice personal reminder for me and by now you're probably wondering what is the secret message Sasha Come on I don't care about your Cactus Well I have told you two times already, but let me tell you again for the third time.

Hit like and need you to hit that like button so that I can explain the secret message. Now you might be wondering what's inside all of these baskets back there. The truth is not much, mostly random gadgets and random camera equipment stuff like that. but what is important is why those baskets are there.

You see this: Ikea unit is five squares tall and five squares wide which makes for 25 squares in total and in the year since I put it there. only one person in the comments asked the question. Three weeks ago somebody said good video so your cupboard in the background what order are the boxes basket draws in not agreeing with my OCD well that's a great question I am going to answer it. It is time for the big reveal of The Secret Message hiding behind me because you see I have two different types of baskets and I have one a random door over there as well and if you look at the baskets closely, these white baskets have a small narrow Gap at the top for pulling them out and I really like these wooden baskets.

They have a wide Gap at the top and there is a reason why they are arranged as they are because the white baskets represent dots and the wooden baskets with the wider handles represent dashes. The one door that you can see over there is a slash or a double slash that people sometimes write to split up words in Morse code. And if you look at the baskets you can see that there are four white Baskets at the top. That's four dots followed by a space.

Then there are two white baskets, another two dots followed by another space. Then there is one wooden basket which is a dash. Then we have the door which means it's the start of a new word. Then we have dot dash dot dot space, then two dots and you can see that there's two dots in two different places because it's the same letter being repeated.

Then at the bottom. Over here you have dash dot dash and then another single dot at the end. And if you go and look up what this means in Morse code it means hit like And if you remember right at the beginning of the video, I literally told you what the hidden message was. I Am not going to make you sit there and wait all the way through to the end of this video.

No. I am going to reveal the secret message right up front. all I ask from you is for you to hit like and I then told you again now I know you might be sitting there thinking Sasha you said you're not going to make us wait for the secret message reveal right? Well if you've not been paying attention, hit like and again and by now you probably wondering what is the secret message Sasha Come on I don't care about your Cactus Well I have told you two times already but let me tell you again for the third time. Hit Like So there you go now you won't be able to unsee it and if you found this video funny, you can hit the patreon link in the description and I'll see you in the Discord.