 The camera is all the way at the end of the table, and I can't quite see if it's a focus But the box is around my face, so I'm assuming it's in focus. Hopefully. Hello. I Wanted to film I was gonna just film like a little update video just because I had things to say And then I sat down to record it in my office where I normally record stuff And I was like what if I just went outside with the dogs the dogs are playing in the yard I was like what if I just went outside with the dogs and just set up a camera and Use this handheld mic, and it's easy peasy. So that's what we're doing. I can't see if it's in focus I didn't test the audio to see if the levels are correct. Everything looks correct Relatively I'm not even using a tripod. I'm using a monopod and it's pressed up against the table So if a strong gust of wind comes over and my whole camera setup is going down So hopefully that doesn't happen, but I just kind of wanted to make this video to just say Thank you and to let you guys know that I appreciate you. I feel like I haven't done a video like this in in a while I Did a little bit of a video of me just talking Maybe like a month ago. I played power wash sim It was after me and mark played and it just got me thinking about a lot of stuff And so I had a very like honest talk about everything that'll be in a card Up there if I remember to put it there or maybe it won't be But I just kind of wanted to Sit and talk and just say thank you. I made a challenge for myself In the month of August to upload every single day Because I hadn't had a solid schedule like that in a really really long time And so I made a challenge to myself because at the end of the month It was my 10-year anniversary or our 10-year anniversary But I wanted to make the challenge to myself to upload every single day like I used to And I just it wasn't I don't even know why necessarily because now I'm I'm sort of up the mindset of It's more quality over quantity in my like I'd rather make better videos than more videos And I've kind of been like that for a while not saying that my videos have been like crazy much better That's a sentence for a long time now. I haven't been like, okay I'm just gonna make sure there's any video up every day And so I made a challenge to myself to try and upload every single day in the month of August And and I did hats off to Justin and nerve Lee though They're the real hero like I record everything but editing is way harder than recording is and that's where the actual finesse comes in And that's what makes like a Bad video a good video and a good video a great video is in the edit So it's really like hats off to them But I just wanted to say thank you for all of the like the tremendous amount of support in August You know, I think a lot of it has to do with me Being consistent in uploading every day and like that helped a lot But like the channel hasn't done Like numbers like that in a while not saying that everything is numbers related at all But it was just really cool seeing how supportive everybody was and seeing everybody excited about a video every single day And that was that was really really cool And so going forward. I want to I want to do more of that I'm not gonna dedicate to every single day Because it's it's just not something that I want to do But I'd like to upload most days and I think that getting into that groove of Uploading every day was really nice and like I even though I was like, okay I need to get a video up today. It never felt forced which was nice There was a couple of days where like shit happened and I didn't have a video And so there was like that bullshit video of me like in the dark with night vision talking about like what is a video? There was a few like bullshit uploads like that But uploading every day it got me it got me just like excited And I was actually like pumped to be recording and I was having a lot of fun And I was getting back into the groove of everything and I really really really loved that And so going forward I kind of want to have more of a daily schedule not every single day But like trying to get a video out every day ish And then if I can't get a video out for a day or for a few days then I'm not gonna stress about it But I think that me Uploading more regularly helped my brain a lot like I was getting up at like 6 30 every morning And I would have my little me time in the morning I would have my cup of coffee I would go and see what I needed to record for the day I would upload that day's video and make the thumbnail and stuff and it was just really nice I just felt really productive and when I feel productive I feel really good And so August was a really really great month and it was really fun I I filmed a lot of really fun videos that I really loved And the community was just like all of you guys were so pumped about everything and so supportive of everything And that was really really really awesome And again huge huge thank you to Katherine very tired cat One of my best friends in the whole wide world for editing the ten-year montage I was so excited about that video And I'm I'm super happy with how it came out I'm very proud of it even though I didn't well I guess I did make all of the content that went into it, but I didn't edit the video I feel weird being like I'm so proud of that video because I feel like I didn't do anything But I did make ten years of content that was used in that video So I can give myself a little bit of credit But Katherine did a really really fantastic job with that video And the wind got taken out of my cells a little bit because as you guys know the video got age-restricted And so I edited sort of like a petty version to upload which was ten years of crank gameplay But it's heavily censored so YouTube doesn't age-restricted But exciting news the video has been un-age-restricted I got into contact with some people at YouTube Which I feel very lucky to be in that situation And I wish that it didn't have to be like that because I did technically get special treatment And I talked about this in that other video that I made about YouTube I'm very grateful for the help that I received from YouTube and they were very helpful but it does kind of suck that I get special treatment and That's not normally the way that it would go about it And if you have an age-restricted video that shouldn't necessarily be age-restricted Then you're just kind of left in the dust But any who they un-age-restricted the video after they went into detail about what in the video Was age-restricted? It was a seven second montage of me saying fuck over and over again and they did not deem that Age appropriate which if I'm being honest I kind of think that they just said that and they were like yeah, it's this part because I Don't I don't I don't think that that video should have been age-restricted at all like at all at all I think I if they had hit me with the if you're not familiar YouTube can hit you with a limited ads feature where the video isn't age-restricted But they don't deem it to be ad-friendly because of this that or the other thing if they had hit me with That I would have understood that because there is a lot of swearing throughout the entire video, but age-restricted I don't I don't I don't think that that falls in line with that if I'm honest the main reason why I was upset about that though is Because I was really excited for that video and I thought that that video and it still is But I wanted it to be a staple of the channel. I wanted to use it as My like if you're not subscribed here's the video that comes up kind of thing And I wanted it to sort of do rounds a bit and just show like hey Here's ten years of this thing that I've been doing And when it gets age-restricted one, you can't use it as your channel trailer to It severely throttles the views obviously And if I can be selfish for a little bit, I wanted that video to do really really well like I I Really wanted that video to go above and beyond and I think that it would have if it had not been age-restricted Because I did the YouTube premiere of it and everybody in chat was so Excited about it and it was so much fun getting to watch that with you guys live And the thing that I'm also pissed about is that because it was age-restricted the live chat replay No longer exists because that can't exist on an age-restricted video apparently So that is a bummer because I can't go back now and watch the video and look at the live comments because I wasn't able to Look at everything because there was a bunch of comments, but now I can't do that. So that's cool But yeah, I'm a bit bummed about that because I really wanted that video to do really well But now it's under age-restricted so if you feel like going and sharing a bit I mean if you feel like going and sharing it with everybody that you know love I mean I can't stop you regardless of the age-restriction on it. I really was so happy with the feedback and The amount of love that was on that video because everybody that could watch it Really really loved that video And as they should because it was a really great video and Catherine did such a good job just highlighting everything on the channel in the last 10 years and what a fucking What a task to put on Catherine But you know like I said Catherine is one of my best friends and that is the kind of thing that Catherine actually really Catherine loves tedium and if you give her 10 years worth of content to comb through You know, she's gonna do it really well And a part of her is really gonna love it And so Catherine did a such a good job So make sure I'll leave Catherine's Twitter in the description So make sure to go and give her some love and go and go and watch the video Even if you've watched it already go and watch it again because now there's no age-restriction Okay, you don't have to do that. You can do whatever you want and go but yeah, there's been a few changes as well that I just kind of wanted to Talk about not even just say like this is a thing that's going on What are the things that are going on in the month of August? I guess was it August? Maybe it was before but it really started kicking into gear in August and this month The crank gameplays clips channel now exists, which is cool. And then also cranky bots is still a thing I haven't streamed as much obviously Because I was uploading way more But now if you go into the channels section also just as a rule of thumb if I ever make another channel That's related to crank gameplays. You'll know that it's actually mine because I will have put it in my Suggested channels tab on my channel. So there's Crank gameplays clips and there's cranky bots there as well So if you want to check those out the the clips is just very short clips that go up I think Justin's been uploading them like twice a day, which has been awesome So yeah, there's that and then there's also CGP clips on tiktok if you want to follow that as well But yeah, I mean I'm excited about the clips channel just because there's a bunch of stuff that I've forgotten about And Justin's just been thrown up Justin basically runs that entire channel But he's just been like throwing up random clips from Recently and from years ago. And so that's kind of fun. Yeah, I'm just feeling really good I'm feeling very grateful for Just the the position that I'm in and I feel really grateful that I get to do this as my job still 10 years later I mean I haven't been doing it as my full-time job for 10 years But 10 years after I started I'm doing this still and I'm still loving it and I'm doing it as my job And I just feel very grateful and so I wanted to say thank you for all the support And I wanted to also say don't have chance But I wanted I wanted to say thank you for For everybody who got a signed poster. I went to Chicago and I signed a bunch of posters and I streamed the entire thing And so I signed 4,000 posters And those are all sold now because at the time of the stream I had been stream I had been signing for about 14 hours And by the end of that I had signed By the end of the stream, I'd Signed 3,500 posters and we had sold about 3,000 and then I went back the next morning and I signed another 800 or a thousand I think Somebody wait, what did it know? I signed 3,500 during the stream or just under 3,500 I can't remember I signed 4,000 in total because Originally there was 10,000 But I think that was that was a very lofty goal, but I was still so insanely surprised with 4,000 people then getting the signed posters, which was amazing And so now if if you missed out on the sign posters or if they were a bit too pricey for you we now have the 10 year the same poster just unsigned for $15 and I told the the merge company because It's the 10th year of cranking plays. We're just gonna leave those up until they sell out For the next for the next year. So you don't have to worry about like you don't need to get it right now Those are gonna remain up until they sell out. I don't know how many of them are well. I Guess there would be 6,000 of those But I don't know how many are left because I don't know how many we've sold anyway It's not important if you want to go and grab the signed the unsigned on that's not signed. I didn't sign it You want to go and sign the on if you want to grab the unsigned poster you can do that there's also shirts and hoodies If you want to check out those as well you can yeah, I'm I'm just I'm just excited There's been a lot of stuff going on, you know with August there was everything going on just day-to-day I was very very busy and then I also a couple days ago now just got back from Korea. I was in Korea With Mark and Amy and Mika and Mark's mom And it was super super fun And I had a really really great time It was it was wonderful But that was super fun and now I'm back And so just gonna get back into into making videos And so sorry for the for the last few days not having really anything But jet lag hit me a bit harder than I thought that it would coming back going there I was totally fine, but coming back it hit me pretty hard So I'm still kind of recovering a little bit And then the last thing that I wanted to say is I made a post about it a while back But there's been memberships enabled on the channel for a bit Memberships are basically like the same thing as like a twitch sub So it's like four or five bucks a month And for a while it was just a way to Monetarily support the channel if you felt like doing it But you didn't really get anything other than like some emotes and stuff like that And so I was like well, I want to give people Who are doing that just something? And so I came up with the idea of Of just doing members only series Once a month where I just go and play a game that I wouldn't play On the channel because it probably wouldn't do super well And so right now I started alien isolation Which is a game that came out Way long ago, but I never played it and so I was like oh, that would be a really fun game And so now every month I'm letting you guys choose between like four or five different games that I want to play And then you guys can vote on it and then we'll do Whichever And so we're doing alien isolation this month But it's been really cool because it's I had this like weird realization while I was recording it where I was like wow, this is really going to be like old YouTube in the sense that you know the the video as of now I think has like maybe 100 views There's like 10 comments on the video because there's not a ton of members And so it's just been really cool Seeing that and like making this like it's like a two hour long recording It's been a way that I've been like warming up in the morning I'll just go and record an episode of alien isolation I say this as if I've been doing it I've done it once but it was a nice way to start my day and I plan on doing that going forward. Okay It was just kind of nice because it was just like oh, I just Record an old-fashioned kind of let's play. There's barely any editing The thumbnails and the titles are not I don't have to make them like clickbaity or anything like that So it's just alien isolation part one and the thumbnail is Alien isolation and it says part one in big red text so then people can see which part they're watching Um, and so it just kind of feels like old YouTube and the comments There's not a ton of them so I can respond to basically every comment Um, and there's no spam because it's everybody who's a community member So the comments are all genuine. It just feels really cool and it feels really nice. Um, and it's kind of Brought me back to when I first started to where I was actually able to interact and stuff. Um And it's really cool And I do have I do have a a few more plans on uh, some things to do for members I think going forward with um, I've been uploading like bigger videos Every few Saturdays and I want to make it a weekly thing where every Saturday video is like a bigger video So it was like the bartending video that I did with Eddie Burback or the drag queen video that I did with Persephone recently Or when meek and I went to the farm those kind of videos. Um The playlist is called crank gameplay has gone wild. Thank you to community member cutie for The suggestion of what to call that playlist crank gameplay has gone wild I think it's fantastic title But all of those videos usually I upload those on a saturday And so, you know, we film for a couple hours usually but then it's cut down Usually to a 20 or 30 minute video And so going forward, um, I'm gonna have Justin or nervely whoever's editing it because most of the time the way that they edit They do like a rough cut down of everything and then they go back and put in the big edits and then trim more fat Um, and so I asked them about it and I was like, hey, would it be possible if You guys just export the first rough cut Where it's like an hour and a half or whatever an hour an hour and a half of footage Before you trim all the extra fat before you add in the edits Um, what if we just export that and we put it up for community members? So then Um, people who are community members, you know, everybody gets to see the actual final video But then you sort of get a Longer directors cut version and kind of a, um Media Media and you're full. Oh god, you kind of get a directors cut version And a behind the scenes kind of thing my memory card is almost out. Oh, I have four minutes I don't have to rush that much. So yeah, you kind of just get a little extra extra Directors cut if you will where it's like minimal editing, but you get You know, almost the entire recording session and some stuff that we cut out and stuff like that Um, and so they were down for that because it's like, yeah, it's an extra fun little video And it doesn't require any other work on their part other than just exporting another version of the video. So Very very cool. Lastly. I just want to um I want to extend a thank you to like it's very weird being able to say this now, but My entire team You know, I'm the one that records and uploads and stuff like that and I'm the face of the channel But I really really want to thank Justin and nervly and jocelyn and parker and everybody At scp with the merch and just like everybody who helps me out day to day They're sort of more behind the scenes Obviously because again, I'm sort of the face of this and I'm on the videos But nothing would be possible without them. Um, and I'm just really really really. Thank you I I'm really really thankful. Um, and so I want to I I want to just say thank you to them Um, because nothing that I do would be possible without all of those people and uh, especially in the last year They've helped me so much like not only expand the the channel But just like make me a better person. I think, you know, like working with more people you Learn how to just like be a better Creator and like I am people's boss and so I've learned how to try and be a better boss And I'm still trying to learn how to be a better boss and communicate better and just I'm just very thankful for the people that I get to work with every day. Um, and uh, the people that That help make the channel what it is including you guys. So thank you so much for being here I'm gonna go before the sesty card fully runs out. Um, But expect more fun videos soon. Thank you for everything and, uh I'll see you tomorrow Bye