 What's up guys, it's been a long time since since I posted a video on YouTube I've been kind of MIA for a little bit and I thought it was important to make a video kind of talking about why I stopped posting on YouTube There's been a lot that's happened. I think it's been over a month now But what it came down to is basically I got a strike on my channel I got a I got a DMCA strike on my channel from actually a it was a smaller streamer who threw out a DMCA Claim on me reacting to one of his clips and it actually got resolved Which is what I'm posting again, but during the time that the strike was active it basically completely killed the channel in the algorithm, right? There was a nobody was getting recommended my videos I mean obviously you guys know I stream every day at like noon Texas time noon central time So, you know people are always in champion like I didn't even see this video. I didn't even see this thing get posted I didn't even know this and Yes, it turns out pretty much unless you were actively like going to my YouTube channel and you had notifications on like you had all Not even personalized all notifications on you wouldn't even get it Well, actually some people said they still weren't even getting notifications I don't know basically if you weren't going to my YouTube channel You you weren't gonna actually see if I posted a new video or not anyway What happened was I got a DMCA strike That is now resolved so I had to stop posting because it was basically taking every all the hard work and everything The editors were doing on the YouTube channel and basically like punching it in the nuts I basically told the team I was like guys Let's take a break from YouTube for a while take some time to evaluate take some time to think about what we want to do on YouTube But also I was working on some other stuff with Twitch and with OTK and I'll actually talk about that too I'll talk about that a little bit too. I just got back from EU twitch con and We have a lot of very fun exciting stuff coming up in the fall So I'll give a little bit more of an in-depth look at that while I'm here first things first We've been doing boomer month over on twitch It's been absolutely great kind of coming to to ahead with Metal Gear playing Metal Gear Solid 1 Metal Gear Solid 2 And now I'm playing Metal Gear Solid 3 and dude I'm telling you that the experience of playing Metal Gear Solid for the first time There's so many you guys have who have told me I would love these games and I feel Almost stupid for having not played them until now. It has been an unbelievable experience It is it is fun to play it is fun to stream it is me me It's the perfect combination of nostalgia for people who've played the game before but for people like me who've never played the game It's amazing to react to it's like I'm watching a movie the gameplay is phenomenal the story the everything about it man Metal Gear has been has been unreal all the vods for this stuff is actually over on my s-fan streams channel Which I will link in the description all my gameplay Playthroughs that I'm gonna do from now on I'm gonna I'm gonna put them over there So if you guys ever get bored you guys want to go back and watch some of this stuff. That's all over there So yeah, so boomer month has been fantastic. We just got back from you twitch con I went solo and that was a whole ordeal in and of itself because I talked about how I Wanted to go but I couldn't go because I had a lot of OTK stuff that I couldn't really talk about Which now I can talk about you know as you guys know I'm one of the owners one of the founders One of the founders of of OTK and The the stuff that's that's gone on with OTK and there's still more than again I can't talk about yet. It's very exciting over the course of the past couple months has been phenomenal, right from the games expo to Literally, we just had chance get announced. So OTK soda poppin is official. Yes, very good Very excited about that very very good friend of all of us. I can't express how happy I am I like words can't do it justice for how happy I am to officially have chances a part of the org That's actually the reason why that's That's the reason why I Almost didn't go to twitch con and it's the reason why I came back so quickly We went out to this abandoned hospital Which you guys some of you guys have maybe saw the stream Maybe you guys saw the announcement video We went we went to this abandoned hospital and some of you guys have probably already seen the video of the announcement We were out there filming not joking until 5 a.m. We were filming until 5 a.m. The night before I went to twitch con so and I still did I was like there's no way I can go You know, I would get there the morning of I'm gonna be beat I'm gonna be exhausted like I didn't sleep at all the night before and I got home I got home. It's about 5 30 or something and I'm watching streams and I see Canute I see Jay Streets. Yeah, I see Ginny. I see Bonnie I see all these people right and everybody's picking up their partner badges and I'm like damn I want to be there so bad like I want to I want to go to twitch con I want to I want to hang out with everybody I want to see a lot of these people that I haven't seen in years Some of them I haven't even met yet, but but for a lot of people like we haven't gotten to hang out because we So go to conventions and stuff together all the time but before Covid started I saw these people a few times a year at least Jay says at one point Jay goes, where is S-Fan? S-Fan is the convention guy. He used to go to every convention. He would stream everything and And the second he said that I said damn it He's right and I go to my frickin browser and I immediately I'm like And I buy a ticket and I buy a ticket three hours before it's time to fly out Grab a ticket throw a bunch of stuff in a bag hop of the car and I leave and I fly to I fly to Amsterdam Just on a whim and we ended up having an incredible time at EU twitch con We made some new friends. We got to see old friends We had some great streams and it was it was an absolute blast It kind of sucks because all that stuff I can start posting on YouTube now, but I really want to make this video first It's hard to have a YouTube channel where you're basically like shooting yourself in the foot If you have a strike on your channel and it's like kicking you out of the algorithm It's better to take a step back and reevaluate and figure out what you want to do and post again whenever you're ready then Just kind of keep force-feeding Bull crap into it and then it's just not good, right? We'll have some recaps of some of this stuff and it's gonna get posted in case you guys missed it I know twitch is like the big thing for me But there are a lot of people that do watch on YouTube that I'm time to watch twitch So that stuff we're gonna go back and we're gonna post recaps of that kind of stuff and show some cool things That we've done over the course of the past month or so I didn't want the editors to be making videos and stuff that we're not generating enough revenue to Be worth the time and effort for them to do it They all work really hard on this stuff and then it's like you make this really good video and and you know It's it's just not getting pushed and it's like I you know, it just it feels bad man, right? so I was like take a break we'll come up with a plan and We'll move forward. I want to make more plans for for specific YouTube exclusive content. I've talked about it before people keep asking me about a setup video I mean my room kind of seems like a mess right now And that's because it is I'm getting some new shelving There's a lot of stuff coming up canoots coming for Camp Canute my weight room my gym my new home gym that I'm working on It's gonna be badass, but it's not gonna be done for another few weeks But when that's done, we'll start doing gym streams again We'll start doing workout streams at home cooking streams are coming up soon. That's that's like twitch stuff, right? I'm talking about more YouTube specific content people always ask about like my retro gaming setup I want to do a whole setup and show my entire stream set of the people really know like what all goes into the Process there's been a lot of stuff with like my cameras and you know, this is the this is the f-stop 2.8 12 to 24 Millimeter focal length lens. This is a big boy There's a lot of like tech stuff that I want to share, you know I just have like I literally have just cameras just like laying around now But a lot of these cameras and stuff that I use I think a lot of people are interested in I think a lot of People that watch my streams are into the tech stuff not everybody right? But some of the stuff that I do people are like wait, that's really cool I wonder how that works because I'm always trying to find ways to kind of take take everything to the next level Production wise and try and be innovative and all that so stuff like that I definitely want to share with you guys just give you guys like more of a behind-the-scenes look on YouTube from Like what I do on twitch so all that stuff's coming long story short I did want to talk about why why I stopped posting on YouTube and we're back Hey, we're back, right? It's good. It's exciting. My thumb's not back. My thumb is still broken. It does this now look at this I like the worst than normal, but yeah, my thumb is still broken, but we're mostly back and We have a hell of a lot of stuff coming up in the fall here Let me give you the quick rundown after boomer month. We have I'm gonna finish that FC Dallas franchise and FIFA Basically, we're gonna try and win it off. We're gonna win the Super Bowl with FC Dallas That's what we're gonna do whatever the hell they do in soccer. We're gonna win it We may do another Madden franchise before Madden 23 comes out. I'm very excited about Madden 23 That's coming out. I'll be doing a PO box stream soon So if you guys want to send something to my PO box make sure to send it now That'll probably happen within the next week or two We'll be doing some setup reviews if you guys haven't joined the discord discord.gg slash s-fan TV I'm gonna be doing setup reviews and we'll be doing something fun with that in the next couple of weeks Like show your computer setup and everything show some pictures. You'll there's a channel and discord about that tailgate tour is coming back Tailgate tour is gonna be very exciting as fans tailgate tour season two will be coming back and also there's It's not official yet, but I'm making some changes to it. I'm working with We're working with the staff and with the team and a new season of Luke goblins is gonna be coming up potentially at we play studio So that's gonna be really really exciting too. So the fall is gonna be nuts Wrath of the Lich King is gonna be coming out September 26th allegedly. They do oh, that's a whole man I could make a whole video talking about some wild stuff. So we have a lot of content. There's a lot of games coming up There's a lot of IRL coming up There's actually a ton more OTK stump coming up in the next couple of months that you guys should be staying Tuned in for we have guests coming. People are gonna come visit. It's there's a lot of stuff planned for this fall It's gonna be incredibly exciting and I cannot wait to get it rolling with YouTube twitch everything So if you haven't yet make sure to subscribe. I don't know why you'd watch this whole video this If you watch this whole video and you're not subscribed to this point The hell's wrong with you. I mean, how are you this invested without being subscribed check out my twitch Twitter Instagram discord reddit everything is s-fan TV and I will see you guys Wanna brush you guys