Update Blog - 8/22/20 (Patreon)

Not only I didn't expect Patreon to create a handy new feature for you Patrons, but it also seemed to have made some weird results with the system. As crazy as it looks right now on my Patreon page, the amount I get per month is not actually that. For now, everything is still the same and I'm still working on my videos during my week.

- Released my review of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run: As a Canadian, guess I'm one of the lucky few that got a chance to see this movie before anyone else, and on the big screen, too! Was it worth going back to theatres? Well...not really. Not to say that it's bad, but I wouldn't call this "Worth going back to cinemas for the first time in months because of a global pandemic" good. In fact, it was hard to really criticize the feature because there isn't really anything about it that's bad. Heck, I even had some fun while watching it. It's just that it's generally okay and the disappointment comes more from the comparisons to its predecessors. Granted, the animation is great and worth putting up on the big screen, but with this kind of writing that, at best, holds the same power as one of SpongeBob's TV specials, it shows how there's a major difference when something like this doesn't have the Stephen Hillenburg touch. So if I may offer advice to those who don't have it yet, there's no rush to see this and you don't need to pay a premium. It's not THAT worth it. Wait 'til it's up in a streaming service where you don't have to pay for the movie alone and you'll be fine.

- Patreon now offers Annual Pledges: This week, Patreon introduced a new feature where Patrons can pay annually instead of the regular monthly and I decided why not and try it out. I set everything up where, if you choose to go annually with your support, you'll get 10% off than if you stay for a year with your pledge with the monthly fee. As a result, some of you jumped to the opportunity to try it out and it ended up messing up with number displayed that I get per month. No joke, it showed that I doubled the amount because of this. I contacted Patreon to see if this is like a weird glitch or if any of you did something wrong and it seems like everything is fine, but they're in no rush to fix it to correctly display what I make per month. So I hope you enjoy this new feature and benefit from the discount in case you need it. Hope this help for both present and future patrons!

- Created some AniMat's Classic Reviews: After doing my first review with my traditional format in a long time with SpongeBob and finishing Part 10 of AL:WDAS+, I decided it was time I had to get back into more reviews to sharpen up my critic skills and keep making more ACRs. I noticed that they are starting to grow a little bigger than usual. I don't know where the motivation came from, but there was something with these reviews that made me decide to take the opportunity to become a stronger reviewer than I was before without breaking my format. These will be a bit longer than usual because I'll be going even more in depth with my thoughts and criticisms with these features. In fact, without the post on-camera talk, the reviews will be around 12-13 minutes each (which can be quite big by my standards). Hopefully this will help myself out to be a better critic and be much less of a "Nostalgia Critic Wannabe", but more importantly, that you'll enjoy these upcoming reviews I have in store.

- Collaborating with an Upcoming Sponsor: I recently got a deal with a company who is often known to make prominent ads with big-name YouTubers and, I guess now that I got 109K subscribers, I count as one of the big boys and I get to work with them. I won't be making any crazy sketches like the body pillow commercial of do some AniMays infomercial with this. I'm just going to do some straightforward and short plugs I'll be putting in in a few of my videos for the following weeks (during the next 3 weeks, to be exact). For now, I'm just planning on what to generally say and how will I fit them onto those videos. I'm make sure that they'll be short, quick, straight to the point and they won't take people away from what they actually want to see. Also, I can 100% confirm that Part 10 will not be one of those videos that will get this sponsor.

And that's how my weeks has been. Got myself back into working as a critics, making some sponsorships and hoping that Patreon can fix that counter to not make it look like I'm making much more than I actually am (although I do wish I can make more than $2200/month on Patreon alone). Anyways, until next time...

See ya later, dudes!