 What's up guys, it's S-Fan here. So this is actually my second take of this video. The first one, I went way too long because I didn't want it to be a long video and I just started rambling about life and existence and stuff. But, so yeah, basically guys, I wanted to make this video real quick just as a channel update video and kind of talk to you guys about where I'm at, like some things that have been on my mind lately and just kind of sharing with you guys what my plans are going forward. Of course, we're here, we're on the cusp of summer. It's gonna be a classic summer of course. So people are very excited about beta release, all the stuff that's gonna come this summer and it's kind of crazy because it's been like a year and a half since my band basically and how much like my Twitch channel has grown. I kind of wanna talk about what I wanna do with my channel going forward because my channel has changed quite a bit. No changes, right? Okay, well we're gonna go back, right? We don't worry, we don't worry. No changes, we're going back and I've been doing a lot more variety and IRL and it's been essentially like my stream now is essentially like a just chatting stream where I will talk about classic and we do Reddit recap and it's not even like, cause I can't stream vanilla wow anymore, right? That's how it works. It's DMCA, it's private servers. I say can't stream vanilla anymore. I can't stream private servers anymore. I should correct myself after that whole band and I can't do private server videos and it's been frustrating for me from a few points, right? Because I feel like I'm not doing content at the level at which I can do it. I'm a gameplay guy, right? At this point, I'm a personality streamer maybe. Like I said, I'm a just chatting streamer at this point. Like I sit there and we do just chatting and we'll do that, we play games, we do variety, we do IRL. That's what we're doing right now but the goal is for classic. That's the wow classic waiting room. I've gotten to almost, I've gotten like 125,000 followers or something without even, I don't even have my game, right? My game is classic, my game is Burning Crusade. Like I'm a gameplay guy. So I'm really, really excited to get a chance to go back to that and go back to like how the channel started in the first place, which was playing a vanilla wow ret paladin. So yeah, that's something I wanted to talk about just because like there's a lot of stuff I wanna do like class guides, ret guides, even stuff for other classes. Like I know quite a bit about the other classes but I feel like I haven't been able to do the content the way that I wanna do them because I can't use private server footage, right? For those of you guys who don't know, cause here's the thing and I forget, I forget a lot. The overwhelming majority of people who watch my channel, watch my YouTube, watch my Twitch, all this stuff. A lot of you guys weren't around for like the original like the original streams whenever I was streaming on YouTube and it's weird cause I just, it doesn't like, I don't feel that way. I don't feel like it was that long ago. It was a year and a half ago but it's gone over like that. And that's the thing. Like, you know, I used to stream vanilla wow private servers over the course of Elysian Lightbringer. I was the biggest streamer over the course of the whole lifespan, I guess. It became the biggest streamer, I should say. And then I ended up getting banned after the classic announcement. So I get banned after the classic announcement because it's copyrighted material, it's DMCA. And at that point I basically had to stop, right? I did a little bit of stuff here and there before I really found out what the rules were. And I got to the point where, hey, these are the rules. This is what I have to do. I literally emailed Blizzard and I asked them, like, hey, what can I do? What can I not do? And they're like, yeah, you can't stream private servers. You can't do private server footage. And I was like, okay, well, I'm getting like cooked, right? Out of what I want to do. But yeah, I mean, that's fine, right? Like that's part of being an adult. Part of being an adult is finding out like, finding out like what I have to do and doing that the right way in order to do what I actually want to do when the time comes, right? And that time is coming, right? It's a classic summer. It's going to be a classic summer. And like I said, we're right on the cusp. So, and that's really what I wanted to get into is basically my, the content on my YouTube channel, like, and obviously you guys are subbed and you guys are watching this. And I think a lot of you guys really enjoy that, right? That's why you watch. But for me personally, I don't feel like I've been doing, I feel like I haven't been able to do stuff the way that I want to do it, like at the level at which I want to do it, right? Gameplay footage, stuff like that. My channel so far has basically been like Classic Cast, which, you know, it's great. Classic Cast is awesome. Like it's gone really, really well. The biggest wild classic podcast and like just very good reception. It's gone very well. I'm very, very thankful for how well-received Classic Cast is. But then I do like news update videos and that's pretty much it. Like I haven't really done like opinion videos on stuff very recently. Most of the stuff that I've done on that front has kind of been like behind the scenes, like getting an opportunity to talk to Blizzard and being like, okay, this is what I feel about this and why, which has gone over actually shockingly well. Like a lot of you guys already know about the six phases thing and you guys have heard about like, you know, the reaction to or the decision behind spell batching and some other things that they've fixed like the loot trading stuff and whatnot. There's a lot of stuff. There's a lot of stuff that we still don't know, actually. There's a lot of stuff that they've kind of gone from that BlizzCon announcement where I came in hot. Like a lot of you guys, if you guys watch Classic Cast live the second day of BlizzCon after the announcement, I came in hot. Like I was really upset about it. I had a meeting with Yethisons, with Sikar who unfortunately was laid off during the big layoffs at Blizzard. I talked to him for like six hours the day after BlizzCon and kind of talked about all this stuff and I had opportunities to interface with them more after the fact and instead of doing videos and stuff which like it would have been great to do videos like that, you know, it would have been good for my channel and all that. But I really didn't really take the chance to do that and instead like if I had the chance to talk to them about it or talk about it on my stream. That's one thing. I talk about stuff on my stream all the time but like doing a video is different. Which again, I wanna get to right now. Basically, what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get back. Right, I'm trying to get back. Like I said, no changes. Go back to your original S-Fan, old S-Fan. The stash is back, okay. I wanna start doing more like gameplay videos and more stuff like that but it's not gonna be till like the beta comes out. Like I have plans for stuff I wanna do. I wanna just show off the game, right. Be able to do footage, be able to do stuff but then also as far as my stream goes when I can finally stream the game again one thing that I'm actually concerned about that I've never really done at a high level is speed leveling. So I know the game. I know the end game. I know how to play a ret paladin. I know how to raid lead. I know how to guild lead. I know all this stuff, right? But the one thing I never really put a strong emphasis on while I was playing the game was leveling. Like I know how to level. I have fun while leveling. I have PvP, I do dungeons, I do all this stuff. And I play the game like, I play the game in that way. That's the way that I prefer to play the game. However, the way that I'm going to wanna play the game in classic in terms of streaming and PvP server and this and that I feel the need to speed level. So that's something I'm gonna be working on quite a bit in the beta. So that's gonna happen on my streams. Again, so this video, this is not a video where I'm expecting like, this is not like a mass appeal video. Okay, like that's, you know, you guys know me, I'm very real talk. This is a video for you guys. This is a video for the subscribers. This is for the people that watch my channel and kind of like let you guys know like, okay, this is kind of where my mind's at, right? And those of you guys who are in my Discord, right? Discord.gg slash sfanTV. Some of you guys already know this, right? Cause I'm always typing in Discord or like I get in voice chat with people and I just chat and I like to talk to you guys. Almost 10,000 people in the Discord, by the way. That's insane. Like, I think we're like 200 short of 10,000 people in the Discord, but yeah. So a lot of you guys kind of already know this, that I'm just kind of like chomping at the bit to get to start doing more gameplay videos and more stuff like that, more content for my YouTube channel again, even if it's like a 10 minute clip from the stream or something, right? 10 minute meme, right? The reason why people do that is like algorithm stuff for YouTube, but I don't really like that. I think that kind of stuff is like, if you're doing like a highlight video, like stream recap, stuff like that, like that's kind of like what you would want to do for that. But anyway, that's like a whole meme, right? But oh, speaking of which, I've been doing stream highlights on the channel. I think I want to stop, right? There's going to be stuff that I take from my streams and put them in my channel, but as far as like having stream highlights directly posted on my channel, we're not going to do that anymore. I talked to Taz, who's my editor, he likes to edit videos on a channel. I said, hey, look dude, let's do this. How about you take those videos that you're making and putting it on my channel? How about you take a channel that you run that you manage on your own and you deal with it, you manage it. And so, and I'll give you guys the link in the description. You really should go sub to Taz, go support him. He's going to be doing stream highlights. And especially now with like classic coming, there's going to be a lot of classic stream highlights, stream recap type stuff, S-fan react. I think the channel is called like S-fan to highlights and reactions. So you should go sub to him for sure. Go check out his channel. That's what he's going to be doing. So there's that. And I won't have those on this channel. This channel is going to be more about like, at least so far, right? This is what I'm thinking is this channel will be more for like guide type stuff like classic guides and opinion pieces and some stuff like that. Maybe if I get around to doing another S-fan IRL, stuff like that, right? Yeah. So that's kind of what I'm thinking so far. Something else is like, as far as like classic content has gone so far, I know that a lot of people have been doing like private server footage and doing videos and a lot of people have kind of come out of the woodwork since the classic announcement people like you've never heard of and all that stuff. A lot of people have just kind of been like showing up now and have been not getting in trouble. And my thing is like, okay, just cause they're not getting in trouble doesn't mean that somebody else won't, right? And in my personal case, I've already gotten in trouble once, right? And I think following the rules and doing things the right way and basically going variety with my channel instead of, and talking about classic has basically gone, I think it's gone better for everybody, right? For everybody involved, for myself, for members of the community, like our community, right? The people who watch this channel, the people who were involved in the Discord, all that, people who are excited for classic. I think it's been good, man. I think it's been really, really good. But I just really wanna get back to doing classic. And I'm still going to do IRL. Don't get me wrong, I'm still gonna do IRL. I'm still gonna do variety a little bit. But the main focus of my channel is going to shift back to classic as soon as not, like as we get the beta, as we get the main game release, all that stuff. I really, as soon as we get the main game release, it's gonna be pretty significant based on classic. But with the beta, you know, stuff like that, right? And if you don't follow me on Twitch, I know like content that I do on YouTube and Twitch, it's not for everybody, right? Like one thing, it's not, both of them aren't for everybody. For me personally, whenever I talk about the channel, I talk about Twitch and I talk about YouTube together, right? To me personally, it's like all-encompassing. However, that's not the case for everybody. But if you guys watch my YouTube channel and you don't watch my Twitch, I would very, very, very highly recommend you go check out my Twitch channel. Things are going well. Now, we don't have classic yet, and I know that's why most of you guys watch my channel in the first place is you wanna watch classic stuff. But I talk about classic, we do a lot of stuff like that. We have a good time in general, it's just getting involved in the community and it's been really, really cool to see it grow. So that's something I'm very, very happy about. And I feel very fortunate for, is that like the channel has grown to have a strong community behind it too. So yeah. And of course, whenever we get classic stuff, whenever we get classic release or beta or whatever, that's gonna be very exciting as well. So that's really the main reason I made this video. Like I said, this is the second time I recorded this and the first time it was like way long, I still ended up going long. You guys know me, I'm a Rambler, I talk a lot. So anyway, this video is like kind of like an update for you guys and kind of letting you know where my head's at and I'm looking at doing more classic content soon. And there's some people who've like, I got a member button, right? I got a member button on my YouTube channel like a few months ago, but I didn't feel comfortable like being like, hey guys, I got a member button. Like remember to hit that member button and it's basically like a sub button on Twitch. But I know there's some people who've done that and they've become members on YouTube and it's kind of, at the end of the day, I know for those people, it's like, it's not that big of a deal because they just want to support me and they want to support what I'm doing. But yeah, it still kind of feels weird because I feel like I haven't done my fair share and I haven't lived up to the standard of somebody who's like a YouTube sponsor like doing content in order to have people who are like, not YouTube sponsors, they're called members now, YouTube members. So yeah, that's gonna be coming for those of you guys who have become members of my channel and thank you for that. Anyways guys, follow me on Twitter, Twitter.com slash S-Fan TV, Instagram S-Fan TV, Discord S-Fan TV, Twitch S-Fan TV. It's gonna be an exciting summer, man. It is. I mean, again, most of you guys already do all that stuff but in case you don't, you should definitely go do that, get involved in the community. It's gonna be a lot of fun, man. So thanks for watching. And if you see this on Monday or Tuesday, we will be doing a classic cast at 4 p.m. central time on my Twitch channel. On Tuesday, the 14th. So you should watch that. If you missed that, you should check it out whenever I upload it the next morning. So that's gonna be there. Anyway, thanks guys. I will see you guys soon. Peace.