Now what...lol (Patreon)

Fellas, thanks for your patience. And welcome new patrons to an exciting point in this journey of mine, if you're not a part of the discord and want to be let me know and I'll send you an invite, sorry it's not automatic. I'm gonna ramble a bit, give you a sense of where I'm at currently now that the albatross has been removed.

Naruto trilogy took me 15 months to make start to finish, but if we're looking at time actually spent on the project it'd be closer to 2, maybe 3 months. That's not just bc I have other jobs and obligations, as I'd tell myself, I just managed my time horribly and the project totally ran away from me. There'd be months when I didn't touch it at all, honestly I'm not totally sure why. My two jobs? Streaming? Digest? One Piece? No excuses, I can't take it back, we're moving on.

I've come to really love what I do here. While I still hesitate on making it my living since frankly it's too volatile and I'm not wholly compatible with the TRUE YouTube grind-set, I decided a month ago that after my contract with my job in Scouting expires in September, I won't be immediately renewing it and will in fact be trying to go legit with this. That includes actually monetizing my channel, changing the way I do content a bit, produce more regularly, and also figure out how to provide more value for your patronage which I intend to mostly rely on and promote/grow further. In terms of the content itself:

1) No more 1hour videos for at least a year, if not more. Maybe not even exceeding 30min. I've made 8 feature length videos now, that's more than enough. My logic is if I make more frequently, I can just redirect new viewers to that catalogue.

2) Apart from misc. teasing, I won't be so transparent about what I'm making next. While there is anticipation currently the vids are lacking surprise (apart from I guess when they're suddenly available lol). I'm gonna do my best to be quiet about that, but I will tell you that I had a ton of ideas while slaving away at Naruto.

3) Think I might be less overt/eccentric about my music selection. I'm not going completely royalty free, just actually try to avoid ALL copyright, not just video as I've done. Especially when I'll be starting to monetize the vids. I'm pretty much starting at 0 revenue from backlog because literally 99% of those are claimed. Heck I hope I even qualify for monetization due to that... That MIGHT mean remaking vids to remove/change that music...idk yet, I've kinda wanted a redo on a few of those vids anyways...

AMVs might be moved to 2nd channel or new channel altogether, not sure. Some stay, ideally none of it will be privated or removed entirely.

4) I want to avoid giving so much gusto to EVERY video for the sake of my energy. Some will be deliberately unscripted as a way of nerfing me. I also just got in contact with a group who might help me with editing too, not that I'll give that up completely. Both qualities will be something I want to be upfront about so as to not take away from the vids that I care about most, but still get these other ideas out to you, again I really want some consistency for a while.

I can't promise any of this starting now bc I still have that 2nd job, but I'm feeling streams once or twice a week, Digest once or twice a month, video essay at least once a month, if not twice. Vids and Digest being early access by 2 days. (it's been 1 day historically but I think I feel better about 2) But aside from that, private discord and commissions, idk what else to provide. Maybe poll on what I work on? Return of AniTube Tea? Returning of any former ideas like backstages or BRAWL (both of which could be exclusive streamed). Obv should return to groupwatches but this time have a set day like they used to, having it be sporadic I think was too much for me. If you have any ideas or know of interesting things other patreons do let me know, I want to do better for the people who actually support me!

I think that's everything. Thanks again for your patience and continued enthusiasm. The patreon will continue to be by video until I reach that point of regularity sometime hopefully in September, we'll see. Yo pce! ✌️