 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything one piece, except for today, because we are going to have a brief discussion about the future of the channel itself. Firstly, just to alleviate any fears, this is nothing bad. If anything, this is something to be very potentially excited about. Basically, I am going to outline my admittedly ambitious plans for the future of the Grand Line Review. Here is the format of the Grand Line Review as it currently stands. I upload four times a week with single day gaps at most. But eventually, I want the channel to look more like this. And if uploading daily wasn't ambitious enough in the near future, I would also like to start a sister channel that applies the Grand Line Review formula to any number of other anime and manga series. Unfortunately, this reality is a long way off at the moment. But we are looking to make our first big step towards realizing it with the announcement of the Grand Line Review Patreon. To some of you, that might be a dirty word. I mean, ugh, Patreon. However, in the interest of full disclosure, I would like to reveal that I currently make a grand total of zero units of money from YouTube. I submitted an application for monetization in January of this year. And despite YouTube saying that most decisions are made within a week, it is now almost July. And YouTube have done nothing except continually push back their expected completion dates. Sadly, I don't think that this is incompetence. On the contrary, I believe that this is a purposeful strategy to quell smaller creators. But thankfully, we live in a world with other options forward. Patreon being one of them. And to those of you who still aren't interested, that's cool. Content on this channel will continue to be just as free, just as frequent. And I want to thank you for supporting the channel in the form of views, likes, comments, and or a subscription. But for those of you still here, I will now go on to explain my Patreon model, as well as its wonderful goals and rewards. Essentially, I am going for a monthly donation system with five different tiers for your perusal. The most basic of which is the Grand Fleet Recruit. In addition to being bloody amazing and propelling this channel into the future, you will also receive Patreon exclusive content, as well as selected early release videos that will end up on YouTube eventually. For example, at the moment for patrons, there is a new episode of One Piece 101 on Devil Fruits, as well as a long rambling of how I originally got into One Piece, and my journey with the series over the course of the last decade. And a short little outtake video featuring my wife. All of which will be made available on YouTube eventually, but for now, they're here as a little thank you for patrons. But more importantly, becoming a patron at this or any other tier will give you the ability to vote in patron polls. And that probably sounds a bit underwhelming at first, but let me tell you, this very first poll is a huge one. At the moment, there is a live poll on my Patreon that is asking you to vote for which series other than One Piece you would like to see me cover in the future. Because to tell you the truth, I have already started a sister channel to the Grand Line Review, called the New World Review, and it is currently empty but itching for some content. So I will begin producing videos for the winning series on that channel, not as frequently as the Grand Line Review, but enough to get us going. And of course, there will also be a frequent series of polls asking patrons to vote for things like characters to examine for One Piece 101, a particular kind of top five list, or when the Arc Review series is coming to a close in the next few months, I'm going to ask you all to vote for the next series to replace it. So I feel like that's quite a fair amount of power for $1 a month of your hard-earned money, but let's examine the next tier. For $3 a month, you become a Grand Fleet Lieutenant, which will result in all of the rewards from the previous tier, plus lieutenants and above will also receive the special roll of Celestial Dragon on the Grand Line Review Discord server, and will have access to the Marijua Channel, where once a month a reverie will be held for all Celestial Dragons, where I will be present in voice chat to answer any questions you may have, or just to hang out in general. Moving on, the next rank is the Grand Fleet Captain, the selection of which will result in all of the rewards from the previous tiers. However, you will also receive a producer credit that will show up at the end of all future Grand Line Review videos. Then we have the tier of Grand Fleet Vice Admiral. This comes with everything we've mentioned thus far, being exclusive videos, voting in extraordinarily important polls, the roll of Celestial Dragon on the Discord server, and an invitation to the monthly reverie session, but it does come with one important distinction, and that is that Vice Admiral's will be credited as executive producers at the end of each future Grand Line Review video. Now, very fancy. But finally, let's have a look at my favorite tier by far, and that is the Grand Fleet Admiral. This gives you everything I've mentioned previously, but it comes with one exceptionally important perk, and that is the ability to invoke a Buster Call. When a Buster Call is activated, an Admiral can task me with making a video on a topic of their choosing. For example, they could directly have me make a One Piece 101 on a particular character, but you know what? Actually, the video doesn't have to even be related to One Piece at all, or fit into any of my current formats. That is how great the power of the Buster Call is. And that does it for the reward tiers, but we're not done quite yet. The Grand Line Review Patreon also has a sequence of goals to reach, and general rewards to be unlocked upon achievement of said goals. The first of which will be my wife reacting on camera to a selection of One Piece scenes to be chosen by Patrons. So that's another one of these situations where voting in polls is super important. After this initial goal has been reached, further goals will be spread out over $50 intervals, with the ultimate end game to have raised $400 a month, which will be the trigger to commence a new weekly Grand Line Review series. To be chosen, of course, by Patrons. And that really is the point of all this. This is essentially a big drive to support the expansion of the Grand Line Review in order to continue making more and more amazing content for all of you. But that's kind of it for that. If you aren't in a position to become a Patron or simply don't want to, I completely understand. And thank you once again for supporting the Grand Line Review with your views. But if you are in a position to support independent creators, and you want to see a lot more of what I have to offer going forward, then I strongly encourage you to visit my Patreon, the link to which is in the description below. This has been the Grand Line Review, and I hope to see a lot more of you in the future.