🎂🎉 It's OSW's 15th Birthday Today!! (Patreon)

Well helloooo!

15 eh? Any chance you could run into Tesco and buy us some of their cheapest, strongest booze 😃 Crazy. Thanks for being with us brahs - we wouldn't still be doing it if it wasn't for you!

^ pixelart anim by the wonderful FrazDav at Cubstudio!

I'm not big on anniversaries or celebrations, so here's some advice for doing a project this long:

Do exactly what you want. Because in case you blow up, you want it to be something you enjoy making!

Do it with people you love. V1 & OOC are literally my two favourite people to chat to in the world.

Stand behind everything you produce. Paul Heyman (recounting at his HoF speech) told Roman to treat every match as an audition for the next. And I still think about that quote. Make every show an advertisement to stick around for next time 🤘🙂

Smaller bits of advice:

Sort out your audio asap! People can stand crap visuals, but crap audio is a difficult hurdle. Still getting haunted by the "rock band mic in a popcorn tub" era of OSW 😂

Upskill in every area. Video editing, audio editing, research, presentation. Try find interesting ways to frame and deliver information, and let curiosity drive you.

That said, it's more important that people enjoy you, rather than your technical prowess.

It's a terrible time to be a worldwide rock star, but a fantastic time to possibly do something as a living. You don't need a million fans. Or hundreds of thousands of fans. If you had 1,000 dedicated fans, you could do it full time. Like, OSW isn't actually that big, but YOU GUYS make damn sure that "the algorithm" doesn't have final say! 🔥🔥

Anywoo, it's mad that I get to do this as a living. I'll keep trying to impress and surprise ya brahs. Here's to the next 15 🙂🍻

Lots of love,

Jay 💚