max0r

Quick Status Update & Thoughts

Added 2024-04-13 08:53:29 +0000 UTC

Hi all,

At the moment, the channel has hit a part in its life where I am appealing to a core audience that I can rely on, but isn't being recommended quite as much outside of that. Still, I have a big core audience and I'm very comfortable where I am.

Experimenting with the Helldivers video, I could theoretically say that it "Isn't worth" making long, big projects and videos with a lot of time and production effort as much as trying to get out more 10-15 min videos, because I can expect similar views for both projects, but shorter turnaround times give me more opportunities in the YouTube algorithm.

However, Patreon and sponsorships enable me to make the videos that I want to make. Not the ones that are monetarily optimized.

Therefore, I am going to be making the video that I want to make next and not worry about that kind of performance. Obviously, I want to produce all of my videos at a full quality, and I'm not discounting the need for more views, but I will not let it hold me back when I think I can make a funny and entertaining video.

So, thank you all for the support. The next video is going to be a (probably fairly long) Dragon's Dogma 2 video. By which point, Elden Ring's DLC will have released, and that video I can easily imagine being 20-30 minutes long as well. These are the videos that I really wish to make. They will take longer to create, but I will be pumping out minutes and seconds just as fast as I did in my Helldivers video - there's just going to be more.

UPDATE: I finished Dragon's Dogma 2, and upon realizing how badly suited the end of it and the pacing is for a summary, I think the best kind of video for it might not be very long. I probably have a choice of a 15-20 min video and a 40+ min video, and the second is too long for my mental health.