Sirius Times Media Now on Vimeo! (Patreon)

First we want to thank all of you for your support and kind words during this ordeal. We can feel the love and we really appreciate you all. We lost years of our work building those YouTube channels in the blink of an eye, but our mission must continue regardless.

We've had a number of issues with YouTube since we started our channel back in 2015. After just six months in, we noticed that our subscriber growth just seemed to stop and just level off. Even when we were showing hundreds or even thousands of new subscribers, our total subscriber count rose very slowly. After four years our Sirius Times Media channel only recently cracked the 40,000 total subscribers.

But Spirit has a way of showing you what's really going on. The photo above shows the screen on my wife's desktop. She had noticed this before and was able to re-create it. When she went to this video in a particular way it displayed what we believe to be the more accurate subscriber count of over 107,000 subscribers! Proof positive to us that our subscribers and account were being suppressed behind the scene. 

But this post is not about YouTube and our problems with them. This post is about moving forward. After quickly researching other available video streaming options, we decided to go with Vimeo because they offer the most cost effective solution. As you may have noticed, we have already started to put videos back up, placing new video links in our posts starting with the most recent. We will continue to do this until all current Patreon video links are re-established. At the same time, we will also upload new videos as well.

Since Bobby has so many videos, and all of ours on YouTube are gone, it would help us if you would leave suggestions in the comments below about which Bobby titles you'd like to see us prioritized for upload.

An additional benefit of being on Vimeo is that we will be able to sell the videos we upload as downloads that you can watch at your convenience without an internet or wireless connection. We are still researching how to set this up, and we will notify you when it is available.

Obviously, with the loss of YouTube ad revenue, we need your support more than ever. We noticed that many of you have decided to stay with us and some are even upgrading their patron tier from $2 to $8. We appreciate this so much, I can't even find the words to describe how grateful we are for you all. But we still need to do more, so we have increased the number of Platinum level patrons we can support from 25 to 50, so that any of you that want to upgrade to the $40 level may do so. 

Finally, we are asking those that can afford it to make a one-time donation of $20-$30 (the cost of one of our DVD videos) to help us with some of the transition costs we are incurring. We had to spend $400 just to get the Vimeo package that can support our storage needs. Those that would like to make additional donations , can donate directly to our PayPal link here:   https://www.paypal.me/siriustimesmedia or if you have problems with the link you can send to us directly to our PayPal email address: wesley@siriustimes.com.

So, that's it for now. We've got a lot of work ahead of us, and your continued support is the wind at our back. With your help, we're going to come back stronger than ever.