 How did I start this last time? Happy New Year! What's going on guys? My name is Jack Jack the bus. I should know be whatever you wanna call me. Welcome to Dear 2022. Now, if you are not familiar, last year on January 1st, I did the Dear 2021 where I sort of outlined my thoughts on the year, the past year, the goals I had in mind, and sort of my current mental state. So I invite you in if you're curious about all of that because I don't talk about it a ton in terms of just my regular videos. So yeah, once again, happy New Year. I'm back. I took a little bit of a break. I took about a week off in terms of uploading to sort of reset my mental. I tend to not overwork, but work to the point where I don't focus on any of that. Where if I'm feeling burnt out or anything, I don't notice until it's too late. So I had to take some measures and just kind of relax for a bit. And I think it was a good time because again, it's the end of the year. Things are starting to wind down after all the holidays. We have New Year's and then boom, we're into 2022. So welcome to the video. I wanna start off by thanking you for such an amazing year, an absolutely life-changing year as if last year wasn't, this definitely was because last year was sort of my venture out into the real world because I had moved out, gone content full-time, and was sort of finding my way in terms of YouTube still because there's always more to learn about it all. And going full-time is a different sort of monster in terms of tackling all the problems, challenges that you face. So again, life-changing year for a number of reasons and one of those main ones being the non-reaction channel, Jack the Bus. At this time last year, I had maybe like focused a tiny bit on it, but not at all. I've had the non-reaction channel far longer than I've had iShinobi and focusing on it has made my mental miles better. It's given me this creative fulfillment and it was one of the goals I outlined in Dear 2021 was to have more creative fulfillment because reactions have never been my end goal. My end goal has always been just to make content that I wanna make that you guys wanna watch. That's why reaction videos aren't going anywhere. I still adore making those. I still love it. I still love connecting with you guys over the new shows. That's why we're starting One Piece and Hunter Hunter this week. This kickoff 2022, we're starting two gigantic anime that I couldn't be more excited about. So we have grown the, I believe Jack the Bus from 40 or 50,000 subscribers up to 175,000. My goal that I outlined in 2021 was 100K on Jack the Bus and we absolutely smashed it. We smashed every goal in fact that I set out in the 2021 video. We passed 150K on iShinobi. Oh my God. We passed 150K on iShinobi, six uploads a week on iShinobi, mostly two uploads a week on Jack the Bus and three streams a week. So I think we've absolutely obliterated it on the content side of things and I don't wanna slow down anytime soon, which is why I took the little bit of a break. In fact, I will take a little bit of a second here to give you guys a time capsule. So this time back in January, I had moved out slash gone full time a few months before, I believe three or four months before. We were only 38 episodes in the Boruto. Now we are basically caught up. AOT season four was premiering, which it's about to start up again next weekend. Very excited about that. And I had barely ventured into the Jack the Bus stuff. So I've really come full circle in terms of connecting that goal and making that happen. And I couldn't have done it without you guys because the support on that channel, on the non-reaction channel has been immaculate. It's so iShinobi surpassed it and now it's surpassed iShinobi. And we're just gonna keep on climbing baby because I'm still loving what I do. So with that being said, I wanted to talk a bit more about sort of my mentor and whatnot and how I felt about YouTube at this time. I don't want this video to be as long as the first because I was the one last year because I felt like I kind of dragged on a bit, but I still want to explain myself. So we found immense success in Jack the Bus and I couldn't be more happy about that. I literally have editors that I pay part-time and full-time because there's so much content that I want to push out constantly. And with that does come a little bit of repercussions in terms of disconnect from content. I've experienced a little bit of frustrations in terms of, I guess, audiences asking for things. And I know you guys always want to see something in particular from the channel, not all of you, but some. And I felt frustrations with that and I want to be honest about that. I think the main one, the one I've dealt with on iShinobi before is one that I've kind of grown used to is just, Jack, can you react to this? Jack, can you react to this? Which it is what it is. I get a thousand recommendations for anime every single day, so you aren't alone. And if you do want to recommend me something, it is what it is, I'll listen to it. But listen, if you're recommending me something, I have probably been told it. And I do have a list, if you want to follow my analysts, it's like analysts.com slash iShinobi or whatever. I use analysts to track all that. With that being said, I have experienced a lot of frustrations on Jack the Bus, mostly towards the Dragon Ball side of things because if you're not familiar, I'm doing the playing Dragon Ball Z Kakarot without watching Dragon Ball. And that series has been a huge success. It's a more success to the Attack on Titan game series that I absolutely loved. It's gone to the point where if I go a little bit without posting Kakarot and I post anything else, any other video, even if I put my heart and soul into it, people question why it isn't Kakarot and I get it. Like, some people subscribe to a channel for one thing, one series. It is what it is. I've let that take a bit of a toll on me this year. And I know a lot of you are gonna just be like, Jack, just don't read the comments, forehead, you know? And I should, honestly, that's true. I really shouldn't read a lot of the hate comments I get and respond to a lot of the hate comments I get, but it kind of eats you away to a certain extent. And of course the hate is much more in the minority, but it's much louder, unfortunately. It's just the way things go. I think I've gotten better about not responding to hate comments and replying more to positive comments because so many of you guys show me so much love on every video, every single day. Thank you for that. But I have to be honest with myself and honest with you guys in terms of like how that affects me and how that feels, because sometimes it does eat me up inside whenever I spend hours and hours and hours planning, recording, editing a video just for the notification squad, five notification squad comments saying, Jack, when's the next Kakarot? Jack, I don't wanna see this. Jack, this is trash, just post Kakarot. It can take a toll. It is what it is. So I always just wanna be open with you guys about that kind of stuff, because I pride myself on being transparent with my community and I think I am most of the time with you guys for the most part. Of course I can't tell you every single little thing about my life, but I think it's good to maintain that healthy communication with you guys. Now, with that being said, let's talk about more of the positives, especially from this year. Again, absolutely obliterated the goal on Jack the Bus, been uploading like crazy over there, been loving the content that I've been posting. I think that's when I'm happiest, is when I love the content that I'm posting, whether it's successful or not. It makes me so happy, especially to see you guys happy. We've caught up on Boratow, loving that show to death. I still, it has such a place in my heart. Now with also catching up on Boratow, we'll get to watch that weekly. I get to talk about that with you guys every single week and we'll get to add these shows that you've been asking for forever. Hunter, Hunter, One Piece, all that good stuff and I couldn't be more excited. So with that being said, I wanna outline a few more goals for this year. I don't think I've outlined any goals for this year, but in general, I wanna outline some goals for this year and I'm not gonna set any subscriber milestone goals this year. I think I will next year, but this year, this year I literally just wanna focus on content. I wanna shoot for seven uploads a week on iShinobi, three uploads a week minimum on Jack the Bus, three streams a week no matter what and focusing on staying ahead and keeping myself straight in terms of working out, eating right, all that good stuff because whenever I take care of that side of things, it shows in the content. Honestly, maybe you guys don't notice the small differences like that, but like recording, I have more energy, stuff like that. It shows up in the content. So that being said, I don't have much else to cover in the video aside from a big fat thank you to you guys. Again, this time last year, I had just moved out. I was still finding my way in terms of doing full-time content and now I feel very established in my own way as a content creator. And I'm just glad you guys are here to join the ride. Again, we are just getting started. Of course, we watched through Shippuden and Boruto. Now we're getting started on Hunter x Hunter in one piece, two absolute monstrosities that we may be, I mean, we'll probably be towards the end of Hunter x Hunter this time next year, but one piece we will not even be halfway through this time next year. I'll check by a check. Dear 2023 Jack, how's one piece? Are you liking it? I hope so. It's quite a commitment. But that being said, I love you guys. Thank you so, so much for checking out this video. If you stayed till now, I know not many people are that interested in my mindset in terms of YouTube, which that's okay. It's just some extra stuff, but I just wanted to kind of check in with you guys. We hit 1500 patrons on Patreon. Thank you. Again, if you want to check out the Patreon for uncut stuff, that's, I can't believe we hit 1500 people. Of course it's gonna drop every month when people, you know, we've caught up on Boreto, some people want to watch Hunter x Hunter in one piece, et cetera. Thank you. I cannot say thank you enough times. I'm so blessed once again to be in this position that I am, and I'm having so, so much fun. I hope you guys believe me from the bottom of my heart that I literally can't see myself doing anything else. I really can't. I don't know what I would be doing if I wasn't doing YouTube because I love this to death. With that being said, I hope you guys have an amazing, amazing 2022, a new year. Let's kill it, honestly. Let's kill it together. Drop your goals down below. Go encourage some other people down in the comments and let's kill this. Love you guys a lot and I'll catch you in the next one. Peace, peace.