Last December Update Post + Award Shows Next Week (Patreon)

Hey guys PD here!

This will be the definitive last update post of December :)

Just to get the quickest news out the way:

-BTS YET TO COME will still be releasing. I panicked because I didn't realize that there's no official release of it yet, and most of the rips I saw online were absolute gas. But after I made a post about this earlier, one of our Patrons pulled through with a decent quality rip!

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For my mental health, I'm going to push the rest of the Award Shows back by a week and instead go camping. They will resume on January 4.

I had a really shitty Christmas where everyone both friends and family kinda bailed on me and I didn't receive any gifts. Gifts aren't important to me but more so the thought. And I was livestreaming a few days ago and viewers were asking me to unlock my SuperChat so they could send me money which I refused. It's quite literally just the thought that matters!

While I'm over it now, I just wanted to give a Christmas gift to myself, and for my mental health I just really need to be in nature at the moment, so I'm going camping tomorrow. I will be back January 2nd and the official schedule for January along with other award shows will be posted January 3rd.

I was also planning to check out AAA and SBS Gayo Daejeon but currently I'm not sure where to watch AAA other than a few random clips online and waiting on a playlist for SBS Gayo Daejeon to pop up on YouTube.

Tier/Patreon Changes in 2023

Starting in the new year there will be two massive changes to our Patreon.

1. $2 Patrons will be a support-only tier.

This is the biggest change I'm making to my Patreon and it took me over 6 months to make this final decision. Going forward, $2 patrons will only receive early access to YouTube videos and that is it.

This is something I mentioned last spring but the $2 tier is unfortunately not sustainable and costs us money. 

This tier will be reserved solely for Patrons who wish to support me and my channel looking for no other reward in return. All bonus drops will be moved to the $10 tier.

I hope people understand that I'm only doing this because it quite literally costs us money now to serve videos to our $2 Patrons. We have to pay for bandwidth for every person who plays our videos, and unfortunately $2 Patronage no longer even covers the cost of just one video.

2. The following tiers will be rebranded as such:

SPRING -> SUPPORT

SUMMER -> SPRING

SUMMER+ -> SUMMER

 This rebranding is purely to make it easier for new Patrons to understand the clear difference in tiers.

3. We are leaving Vimeo

You may have noticed there have been a lot of annoying video issues as of late, and broken links of our older videos. Vimeo as a service has dropped a lot in quality, quite literally their team takes ages getting back to us. We pay them an extremely large amount of money to host these videos and the severe lack in stability on their side is forcing us to leave as they had already screwed us a bit before. 

4. Old videos will be vaulted (eventually) to Autumn tier

It will be a bit of a learning process but we will be hosting our own videos rather than using a second party dealer like Vimeo. Getting into this process has taught us quite a lot and explains why my debt is growing deeper and deeper.

But basically, it costs us money whenever people watch our videos because it requires bandwidth. But imagine, we have like a 1000+ video backlog, and it costs us say $1 when just ONE person watches a single video. Then if you factor in that people watch MORE than one of our videos a month, and then rewatching old content on top of that? It costs a lot.

The only way to combat this is to host videos ourselves to keep our bills cheaper and not raise prices on our Patrons. However, going forward we will start vaulting videos. 

How vaulting will work:

Videos older than 2 months will be vaulted and only accessible to Autumn tier Patrons and up. This means if you join the $10 tier in January, you can watch all January content and all December content. Autumn tier will have no restrictions.

Similarly to our $2 Patreon tier we have to make this hard decision because unfortunately we're like $30,000 in debt due to bandwidth consumption. 

In simple terms, $10 tier patronage barely covers the bandwidth usage for one month and if people continue to watch our older videos, especially rewatching, it will further cost us money.

But if we make these adjustments, we think we can start publishing our reactions in 1080p again.

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I'll post a video explaining the new changes more in depth after I return from my camping trip. But I hope everyone had a good rest of your holidays and I'll see y'all soon :)