 All right, it looks like I am live streaming on Facebook If anybody's watching, I don't know And if I guess people would leave comments over here on the right if Yeah, I don't know. I've I've not had luck with Facebook in the past and I'm not enthusiastic about Drawing any attention on Facebook now the reason I'm doing this is because YouTube What's it called terminated my Livestream access Because of the stupid mystery science theater movie I was playing while I was Streaming last time the copyright owners of The castle foments you were very frightened of all the millions of dollars I might make From castle foments you so my Livestream privileges at YouTube have been terminated For 90 days. That's a long time that's a very long time and I'm very unhappy about it and That's what this final Live risk hit live wrist get stream is going to be about is It's going to be about me ranting and self-pitying and I will be making a number of announcements along those lines while I finish up the The last sketch for this series What you're seeing on screen right now in addition to the msc3k episode of Master Ninja 2 Which was the sketch that I started last time I was live streaming, but in the middle of the screen here is Pointed over here is the sketch that I did for castle foments you The entirety of this sketch by the way was blocked From YouTube I had to remove all of it so you can't see it on YouTube and At a certain point my live stream was actually it was actively cut off by YouTube So the sketch that I started for master ninja 2 was not broadcast and not recorded at all and And here is that sketch As far as it got I'm going to finish that one up and that's going to be it. This will be the final Rift sketch Livestream the final sketch The original goal of this series of course was to draw a sketch for Every episode of the original mystery science theater Be that would be hundred seventy What is it? It's over here on my thing on the screen hundred seventy six drawings And the the number one announcement I'm going to be to make during the stream is that the rift sketch project is officially canceled I started this project in November of last year I've I've spent many hours live streaming these drawings in all of these live streams. I've had a handful of viewers Only a handful of a couple of And all this time I think I think there's been a total of three visitors In the fall those visitors came regularly back when I when I streamed last Last week one of my regulars was Javier Who used to come back in the fall I appreciate his showing up anybody else who showed up to those streams in The past was a One-time random visitor And the goal of the project of course was to sell sketchbooks that would contain All the sketches plus other material In all these months since the project started I have sold two sketchbooks to That is That's unacceptable that that's that doesn't help me that's not worth My spending all this time and effort I see that Brian Jennings has joined the The Facebook stream Brian if you're still here It's nice to see you please leave Please leave a comment Facebook as usual does not tell me they tell me when people join Join the stream, but it doesn't tell me when they leave so when I talk to people who Are supposedly watching the stream? They're usually long gone and my experience with Facebook live streams Is that even when people are? Are actively watching they will not chat with me It's it's infuriating that's why I don't stream on Facebook the only online What's the word the only social network Online that I'm involved in that is that has that is actively growing is YouTube My presence on Facebook Is not growing my presence on tumblr is not growing my presence on Twitter is not growing my presence on Instagram is not growing The only social media that's growing for me at all is YouTube So that's why That's why I've been Concentrating all my efforts on YouTube my my sponsorship on YouTube. However is not growing Two months ago when I spent I spent most of the month Was it February I guess posting videos literally every day Running a campaign to rain to raise $500 to to To pay my bills and to help me do some traveling to a convention Which I ended up covering on my own without Without the money that I needed The amount of money I raised from that was $24 out of the 500 which was my goal I raised $24 And again, I spent I Think for three weeks I've posted videos almost every day with new material and Starting each video talking about my fundraiser. I only got $24. It was It was shocking to me the lack of response It was I'll admit that it angered me and it was embarrassing and because of that I Said at the end of that fundraiser that I was going to drastically Back off on the amount of material that I'm publishing on YouTube Every month and that's the other announcement That I'm gonna make in addition to Canceling the risk at your fun. I Am canceling talk to the hand The Man of talk show I Recorded two new episodes of the Man of talk show more than a year ago more than a year ago I've been talking about it for a full year, especially on Facebook Everybody I know on Facebook has seen my posts about that I've posted several times just in the last two weeks That I need to raise funds To be able to take the time to finish those two episodes editing these videos takes a very very long time Each of the two videos that I those two new episodes that I shot last year. I anticipate each of those taking Four to six hours to edit I can't keep doing that But in the year again It's been more than a year since I recorded those two episodes and more than a year that I've been telling people that I need to raise funds for those There has been zero response none Just earlier today Deanna Dolphin at the Who does a show on YouTube called the Misty Minute she mentioned? Talked to the hand and she mentioned my coloring book But I already made the decision to cancel this The coloring book by the way I Made that coloring book. I think five years ago at least four maybe five and In that time I've sold 60 or 70 copies that is a failure That is not a finance financial success This year Counting all of this year. I think I've sold three copies of that of that book three and I talk about it all the time People are always telling me that I need to you got to promote yourself. You got to promote your stuff You got to get out there. You got to I Talk about it all the time. I've posted Links to my coloring books on Facebook so many times Everybody who knows me has seen it so many times I'll post I'll post my drawings. I'll post links to my work they'll get to They'll get views and views and views My Mystery Science Theater sketches will get hundreds of views they'll get Sometimes they've gotten hundreds of thumbs up. I post about the coloring book nothing. I post about my latest My latest videos I Know that people on Facebook are seeing links to my latest videos because Facebook tells you that they're reaching people Ten twenty thirty a hundred people will be reached by a post to my video not one click-through to the video not one I can't keep I Can't keep doing this It's not worth my time. It's a waste of my time. It's a waste of my effort I have never I See a dawn Facebook is telling me that dawn has joined hi dawn if you're actually watching because again Facebook doesn't tell me if If people stay that it tells me when people join it doesn't tell me if they leave If you are in fact watching please say hello in in the comments I was just complaining earlier that I Don't live stream on Facebook because when people watch my streams on Facebook they do not respond when I asked them when I say hello to them when I asked them to to say something and See Facebook is telling me right now that Brian and Dawn have joined But I don't see any I don't see any comments from them if they're here. I can't tell Facebook doesn't tell me So I've canceled I've canceled the rich sketch-a-thon due to lack of interest I've canceled the talk to the hand show due to lack of interest and I'm canceling everything else Everything else that I do even on YouTube the only Videos that I post on on YouTube that regularly get An amount of views that are worth bothering with are my my monthly reads videos They routinely get more views than my my book review videos. I don't know why I Don't review books in my my monthly reads videos I Don't review movies All I do is talk about books that I bought that that month and books that I've read that month And those are the videos that get all the views the latest episode of the the 32nd half hour with with Becky That I posted last oh god look at this sketch This is awful The latest episode of the 32nd half hour Where Becky and I discussed Binti and Lagoon There are popular books popular books and Episodes of 32nd half hour In the past I've gotten decent numbers of views, but as of today I posted this last Sunday today. It's Wednesday That video has gotten 18 views 18 That is unacceptable It's not It's not only a Disappointing number. It's an embarrassing number And I'm not gonna do it anymore a Becky and I have talked about doing a movie review discussion We might go forward with that. We might not depends on how I feel Which I guarantee you I'm not gonna be enthusiastic about anything in the near future God this sketch is terrible. This is really awful So I'm canceling the 32nd half hour. I'm canceling the regular book reviews. I have a number of Videos that I've been planning to do this month Particularly a video about Thanos an introduction to Thanos the stupid Infinity War movie is already in theaters. It's already in theaters. It came up so fast So I think it may already be too late for that. I might not even bother. I wanted to do an angry rant about the annihilation movie I've talked about that on the the channel here on youtube before and uh I don't think anybody cares. That's in the past already What I'm gonna do I've got some videos already in the can that I've recorded a video with Adam Hughes the artists that are recorded at Emerald City He wanted me to let him know when I posted it. So I think I think Just out of Deference to him. I'll finish that one and post it. There's not much to it The I'm going to cancel the the regular book reviews that I've been doing every week. Yes, I'm going to cancel those And what I'm going to do instead is make one video a month one at the end of every month It'll be my monthly reads video Where I'll do a handful of 30-second book reviews and talk about the books that I've read and the books that I've bought Because that seems to be the only thing that anybody watches The messages is pretty loud and clear Um I have uh I have I think now five uh sponsors Who are bringing in um Who are donating 40 dollars a month now? To whom I'm grateful Uh That's not enough for me to justify anything Uh other than Just uh just one video a month I'm exhausted. Um, I'm I'm I'm past frustrated. I'm past disappointed I'm I'm downright disgusted I see Uh new booktubers. I joined this thing on facebook called the booktuber army and we all Several times a week we Uh, we we post a thing on the on the facebook page Where we look at each other's Uh videos I see these new booktubers who have been doing it for They've only been making videos for six months three months And they already have as many subscribers as I have when I've been doing this for six years And their videos Their videos get more views than I do their book review videos They get twice as many views as mine do Three times as many ten times as many And like I said, I'm past frustrated and disappointed at this point. I'm I'm downright disgusted Um, the same thing is going on with my art with this this rift sketch stuff I've been making my living doing, uh Custom cartooning art for many years Uh, I'm in my mid fifties now and I can't make ends meet. I'm starving Uh, and I see I see other artists and other creators. I know online doing doing kick starters doing Gofundmes and getting fully funded bringing in thousands of dollars And my projects don't get funded Uh, I don't know what they're doing people always tell me where you just got to you got to promote your stuff You got to talk about your stuff What? That's all I do I don't do anything else That's all I do I don't have a day job And my projects don't get funded Uh, nobody gets excited about them. Nobody talks about them. Nobody links about them Um, a couple of months ago the guy at alt histories Uh, he has a twitter called alt histories And he's on facebook, um, he was kind enough to buy One of my, uh Coloring books and he mentioned it. He talked about it on twitter. He mentioned it on facebook There was zero response to that zero No sales None the uh The manos uh graphic novel that I started work on back in 2012 Maybe even 2011 Uh, I started fundraising for that project back then five years ago Uh for months, uh, I posted new work for that project every day lavish drawings um And and the uh the fundraiser of course The the aim being to pre-sell copies of the book I sold one copy one In five years one That's unacceptable. That is unacceptable That project is canceled Uh, what was I doing here? I'm going to duplicate this layer Um, I'm going to make uh Look at this awful sketch. Look at this terrible terrible sketch But you know what I don't care. I don't care anymore the the point of this video Is to publish the last Is to create the final sketch For this project. So I don't care Nobody's buying this stuff I do like the um The uh, let's see I do like the dialogue that I chose for this For this particular uh for this particular drawing Boy, this is a long sentence You listen to me jack whipster, you got a couple of things to learn about running this cannery I like that line Uh, I think I'm going to have to reduce the size of the font again Uh, I don't care the uh The purpose of this drawing is to announce the cancellation of the project. So I'm past caring I'm not live streaming this on youtube obviously I'm going to record this and then edit it and post it on youtube later. And if there's copyright problems with this With this stupid Master ninja movie, I am going to lose my shit. Yeah, um, I had such big plans for uh Talked in the hand I had uh I had plans for great new interviews the uh The last episode I recorded Was a live it was a video episode. It was a live appearance by jackie naming jones with me at the portland uh mystery science theater fan club Where she talked about the movie the the new sequel which is premiering next week It would have been nice to have had this episode done before the premiere of the movie That was kind of the point, but it's not going to happen. It's one of the reasons that i'm canceling the whole the whole damn thing um The members of the portland mystery science theater fan club have expressed zero interest in supporting That episode which they appeared in Uh, I attended another one of their meetings. I brought a stack of my coloring books They turned up their noses at those books I was I was astonished. Uh, it's like everything else Um, that that's been happening with my uh with my projects. It was embarrassing Um, I I know so many artists now who attend Conventions I see the same artists at these conventions that I cover for 50th street all the time Uh, I show them my work and they always say you should you should get a table at these shows My experience with merchandise is that it doesn't sell Um Last month maybe two months ago there was a drawing I did of alvira. That's an alvira mashed up with The the bewitched cartoon People have always liked it but uh A few weeks ago alvira herself Reblogged it on instagram She she reposted it as part of a Montage of other images. So there was no direct link to me. There was no direct credit to me But people saw that I guess they went looking for it. They found My original post on instagram People saying that they liked it Um And then one woman said that she had a tattooed on her ankle my art. She had it tattooed years ago I I had no idea she didn't tell me I've had that that drawing and others available uh for sale online as posters I've never sold one single poster in all the years that I've been online Um I have t-shirts available for sale. I have never sold one t-shirt I sold one one of my t-shirts is a mr. B natural t-shirt I sold one mr. B natural t-shirt a month ago and that shirt has been available for Four years at least The shut up about star wars t-shirt has been available for years years. I have never sold one Uh These people who run this um This youtube show called critical roll a number of years ago. They um They created a t-shirt that just had their names listed on it just their names in in plain A plain font no art on the shirt No creative design just a list of their names The shirt was available for 24 hours. They showed they sold 1500 shirts in 24 hours And uh a couple weeks later. I saw felicia day wearing one of their shirts On her uh on her vaginal fantasy Show uh last year um Grace helbig created a sweatshirt a $35 sweatshirt That said on the lapel it just had the words. I don't know on it Again, no art No creative design no thought put into it at all She made those sweatshirts available $35 She sold 3,500 of those shirts in 48 hours 3,500 I have Numbers of shirts available with art on them art that I have drawn creative stuff I have not sold one shirt years Years I have had these things available. I have not sold one It is uh it is so disheartening Speaking of vaginal fantasy I've mentioned this here on my channel before The vaginal fantasy website Has my art on their banner It has the same art on the top of their uh twitter page The same art on top of their tumblr page Um It's it's art that came from my manos graphic novel That I started working on back in 2012 I put them in the graphic novel and I made this color sketch Of how I thought I would like to see them appear in the thing they like the art Uh They put it on the the banners of all of their their pages It's it's it's the banner on top of their youtube page as well All all of these banners went up Excuse me without telling me Without asking me And I'm okay with it because I'm a fan You know, I I didn't say anything. I said, oh, I had I had to contact Bonnie Burton and say oh, I see you've used my In fact on Bonnie Burton's twitter. She uses my drawing of her As her twitter icon at least she did last time I looked um But they've been using my art On the top of all of their social media pages. I have never been credited And that it's been up there for years five years at least I've never been credited. It has never brought me any business It has never brought me any attention. I have never been thanked Uh on their show They just did their final show last night the the final show of their series so any Uh anything I may have gotten from that It's there's just no possibility In fact, um another announcement I'm gonna make right here is that I'm gonna ask them to take it down Uh So basically what the purpose of this Stream is for is to announce that everything is canceled All of my creative projects are canceled They are dead Um my creative career has basically been a zombie It's been walking dead for many years Uh And everything is canceled Uh I've even lost interest in mystery science theater, you know You know what I have lost interest in mystery science theater So yeah, there will be one video a month I may do a couple more In the next couple of weeks things that I've that I've planned for some time But from now on there will be one video Per month on this channel It will be my monthly reads which is my viewers have made clear that it's the only thing they're interested in Thank you for sending through this if you did. I see that brian and dawn Facebook says they're still here, but I guarantee you they're not they have not chatted with me Uh But thank you for watching whoever watches this in the future on youtube And uh, please become a sponsor Please help me uh bring in More than 40 a month for doing all of this. Thank you