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a guide to flaming out: finding fun (Patreon)

Published:
2026-02-26 17:34:53
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2026-02

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pretty much all footage from from my own work

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SimplySnaps

beautiful stuff, as someone much earlier in my journey with a promising channel that has NOT become my job, I really appreciate this level of insight into your burnout. Even just having done this for two years part-time, I can also relate to January-March sucking, this is the THIRD time I've felt February Fatigue and like my channel is dying. It's nice to see the seasonal effect happens to more than myself. Your work is important, and while your passions don't align with my specific media fixations, I do like listening to you discuss them. I'm excited to see how, if at all, you might find that spark again, if it's what you want to do, and something you can do.

Jason Birzer

The problem with doing something you love as a job is that it is still a job. There is a lot attached to "making a living" that just isn't going to be fun. Appeal, deadlines, etc.

Davis Fay

As a fellow late-diagnosed ADHDer, "you don't have to view your passions as a threat" is salient advice even half a decade after getting diagnosed/medicated. Thanks for a much-needed reminder!

PC Escobar

Quickly compares release dates for "a guide to flaming out" to the color wheel calendar and ... holy shit, it's all in the red zone! Maybe "a guide" is like TARP, it's a have to do? Also, I've been avoiding initializing "a guide" because it's GTFO, which, whether intentional or not, is funny as hell.

KSCHatch

Genuinely curious about that list of all your most fun to make videos and which I have found most fun to watch.

Mateo Schwartz-Torres

I dont know how something so specific and personal is also so comforting to me, someone who is not going through the same things. But there's catharsis in the act of letting yourself be happier, and I think I'm going to try it. Maybe I'm burned out too.

Dyllan Coop

Fwiw, wsgt3 and Taking Back What’s Stolen are both just comfort watches a put on every 6 months or so (probably less) at this point, and two of my favorite pieces of media full stop.

gunduzc

Despite following you for a few years now, I just today watched your Phil Fish video. It's one of the most popular videos you made, and I never saw it until today, why? I didn't know who Phil Fish is, and I didn't care. I stumbled onto your content when I saw "How to Radicalize a Normie". I have been moving more and more left, and knowing that I have been previously radicalized by some media at some point, I wanted to see what it had to say. Since it's one of the best videos not just on your channel but on the entire platform, I was blown away and ended up watched all of TARP over the course of a week. I still haven't seen some of the entries in your "most fun" list. I have zero doubts that they're amazing, because in my humble opinion, from what I've seen of your channel, that's just what you do. But I haven't clicked on any of them yet. Mainly because of the time pressure in my personal life. But there's another reason that may be effective over a larger audience. Unfortunately, the thumbnails, the hooks and the clickbaits are the soul of Youtube. The "how to radicalize a normie" had a great hook, at least for me. After that, the rest of the TARP is vouched for by that video (and to be fair, TARP and the respective titles of episodes are relatively thumbnail-friendly). You have other great hooks on your channel. And yet, some of the "fun" entries in the list do not. In this platform, the thumbnails determine how enticing a video is. Something similar happened with "Why are you so angry". I saw it beforehand, I didn't know who an "Angry Jack" was. It wasn't until I saw the fourth entry on the series, "An Autopsy on GG" video that I clicked on, watched, and subsequently watched all of the series. I just wanted to provide some third party insight on "why fun videos perform worse". It's probably not the quality of the videos, or the fact that you enjoyed them. It's likely our... ugh, sorry for sounding like everyone else on the internet, but it's our attention spans, probably. Before you can register "bringing back what's stolen... what has been stolen?" (or in my case, "who the heck is Phil Fish"), you register "LOOK, creator XYZ did something dumb, let's go watch this hitpiece on them". I do realize that maybe you have this figured out already, but maybe hearing it from a stranger helps. Anyway. I hope you're doing well, and I hope you are able to find more fun out of the process. - CG