Teaching Jake | BEHIND THE SCENES (Patreon)

Howdy, y'all. I accidentally made a jokeless video. Oh shoot!

But at least you can now watch how I made that jokeless video right here! 

PASSWORD: bitmuspark 

This video had a LOT of planning going into it, and I am VERY BAD at planning. I usually prefer to have a three hour impromptu filming session followed by a 20 hour editing session where I scrub through three hours of garbage looking for the funny bits. But in this case, I had to do lots and lots and lots of prep work to make sure everything sounded right and was filmed correctly—followed by a short and enjoyable edit. Honestly, I kind of liked it. 

But I will never get good at planning. I refuse. I won't change even if it's good for me.

This was by far my weirdest/most uncomfortable/most ambitious/least-likely-to-get-people-to-watch-it video I've ever made, and although I'm super proud of it, I have been incredibly anxious about posting it for the past week or so. I've made serious longform videos and a few horrors before, but they all started in jokey formats. This one doesn't have that wonderful joke cushion, and as someone whose number one defense mechanism is resorting to humor, I gotta say: Wow That's Tough To Deal With!

I definitely wouldn't have done this if I didn't have y'all supporting me, so thanks for allowing me to branch out a little! I don't think I'll ever stop feeling the pressure to make clickable, easily enjoyable videos, but knowing that I have a strong support network allows me to try new things like this. I hope you enjoyed it!

And if you only supported me for the funny videos, well, whoopsie! My bad! The next one will be funny again. Or at least an attempt at funny.

I'll send some updates on the next videos later this month. Catch in with you then!