Brainstorming new content/pulling back a little bit due to health reasons (Patreon)

Hey everyone, wanted to brainstorm with everyone for new content for the summer patreon tier.

So I didn’t want to have to make this post but it’s been pretty bad the past few days and I feel like I have no choice.

I am officially taking on more than I can chew. As it currently stands I work about 70 hours more than the average monthly hours of a full time employee in America. I have been pushing and pushing myself for the growth of the Patreon but I’ve been hitting some roadblocks recently.

In the month of June I had a month long ulcer (google it). It was present in all my videos and I just fought through the pain but when the cameras were off I was screaming and crying my eyes out.

I pushed and held onto the pain for the sake of the work. I had a doctor’s appointment coming up in the first week of August anyway so I held on ‘till then.

And it was at my regular checkup that I told my doctor about my ulcer. That coupled with my symptoms, my doctor suspects that I may have stomach cancer. If you’re at all familiar with my origin story, you might think this would be the worst news on the planet, and you’re right it is. The possibility of having cancer has been eating away at me. What’s worse is that stomach cancer is extremely common amongst Koreans apparently due to our food????

I will not know until possibly September or November. I am having an ultrasound in September. If the cancer has grown it will be detected by the ultrasound. If it is still in the early stages it is not detectable by ultrasound and will need an endoscopy. My endoscopy consultation is in October and so I’m assuming the procedure will probably be November.

I haven’t told any of my family, only my partner because I figure she’d see this post anyway. I didn’t want to worry anyone for what may have just been an ulcer.

But the past month has been… hell. I don’t know if it’s just fatigue or overworking myself, but my body is in constant pain, I occasionally find myself trembling, my legs are always in pain and it hurts to be sitting, and I do vomit on occasion (for reference I have only vomited twice in the past 15 years and now I am finding the compulsion to vomit regularly).

It’s bad. It’s pretty fucking bad. I know I need to take a break but I can’t do that until I get ahead on Patreon releases again but with the current workload that’s not possible.

And mind you, the regular schedule was FINE but because we lost a month, it is becoming near impossible to keep up with these day to day. We’re just chasing each day release and not getting ahead at all.

So we really need to get ahead in September so that I can take a break in October but without dropping the ball on any content.

What this means is that I need to cut back on some variety content in September. Unfortunately, the variety content is the biggest contributor to making my schedule difficult because they are EXTREMELY time consuming. I will need to cut back a bit and in exchange do many more listening parties in September but also find some new content that would be less time consuming but things you’d like to see.

I’d like to hear from you guys the community to know what you’d all like to see on the Patreon that we haven’t done before. Depending on the difficulty of the execution I will weigh the options!

And as a side note, there’s no need for the “you should take a break”, “health comes first comments”. While some of you may feel that way, that is unfortunately not how capitalism works. Even just last month when I announced that we would be pausing some of our series, we lost nearly half of our revenue. It was so shocking that we still don’t know how to make rent this month. So I’m just gonna say fuck it and get back to working. I will bring back our intensive schedule in either October or November ONCE I actually get ahead.

So please sound off in the comments below!