 Hello, I'm Dr. Sumerian and I'd like to try something new. It's me a bloated corpse Okay, well now that that's out of the way. This is what I look like drink it in drink it in All right, we're done good. A lot of people don't know this. I have a full video set up I've got lighting got a green screen although. I don't know how to chroma key So I don't know what the good this green screen is gonna be I'm gonna try some stuff I don't know if this is gonna work It may not may not work at all, but let's put myself in space Am I in space? I have no idea if I'm in space. It's gonna be something I do in editing either way. Hi The reason for this video is fairly simple today. I'm gonna hit 2,500 subscribers Probably I got about 13 14 hours before this video comes out and I'm about 16 subscribers away So even if I don't hit it today, I'll hit it tomorrow Regardless, that's a huge milestone for me It's like the main milestone I've been aiming for since I started like a thousand was great 2000 was great but 2,500 like That's how I know The things are gonna continue that things are serious that things are real, right? I went from nothing in December of last year to 2,500 subscribers in December of this year That's a huge huge shift and it's the kind of thing that makes me think that I can maybe make a career out of doing this sort of thing And I don't know what the upper limit is I know that like the Vulcan a good example is it almost 250,000 subscribers right now. I'm down here at 2,500 I don't think I'm gonna get up here, but if I can get somewhere in between So the important thing is I want to thank all of the subscribers that I have now Thank you So much for making this a reality for me and on top of that I want to really really thank my patreons who have decided that paying me I don't know. What is it now? Almost $60 a month is a good idea about almost I've over a dozen patreons and each and every single one of them is Invaluable to making sure that I can you know continue to pay the rent and continue to buy food And continue to pay my bills. I mean, I know $60 a month doesn't sound like a big deal But it's an integral part of my budget at this point That's because I've committed a lot of my time to doing this and yes right now It doesn't pay off as much as I would hope it would but one day And that's where I'd like to go into the idea of expanding this channel because I'd like to do that I'd like to not just increase the number of subscribers I have with what I am currently doing, but I'd like to increase the amount of content I'm giving to you and to my patrons and to that end I'd like to go from Three videos a week to five videos a week and you may be saying to yourself you only do two videos a week right now That's only partly true. I do two videos for this channel I actually do a third video for sherms channel on Saturday So right now my schedule was actually three videos a week and there's a lot of Time and effort put into recording. I mean hell I've recorded this I've recorded this video about three different times because I keep going off on rants and stuff and I didn't script it So I just keep ranting about specific things one time I went into a whole diatribe about scope and how suicide squad can apply lessons of scope and limiting scope to the SCP wiki We're not gonna do that again. I almost did it again We're not gonna do that again It's a whole video of its own and in fact that reminds me I'm gonna do specific types of videos on specific days So Tuesday is going to be an SCP reading of some kind as always The old faithful is kind of stuff that a lot of people tune in for I want to keep doing it because that's the red and butter of the SCP YouTuber community and I ain't too good to keep doing what works and I'd like to add to that with Wednesday and Thursday doing more critique based videos or writing advice based videos It's gonna be a mixture of the two But I've got stuff like I said earlier with pop culture and lessons You can take from pop culture and apply to your SCP wiki articles. That's like like the suicide squad thing and scope or Taking a look at a specific article. Maybe it's popular. Maybe it's unpopular. Maybe it's successful It's unsuccessful but taking a look at something that's been posted onto the wiki and survived Now it might be in the single digits after a year or maybe in the triple digits after a year Maybe it's 500 plus 500 who knows Point is I'll be looking at articles and helping to explain how and why they are Successful or aren't and finally my Friday video is just gonna be a let's play now This could be an SCP based game and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna do a lot of those Those are gonna be mixed in no matter what but there are other games I enjoy playing and I might play some of those and I mean I'm gonna continue to talk during the video about SCP topics if I possibly can and mainly that's because there's a lot of SCP and SCP adjacent games that you could You know enjoy whilst I talk about SCP related topics I can see myself playing Stellaris for a long time and I mean heck I played the Stellaris game recently before the latest patch where I played as the SCP foundation That'd be a fun let's play and it could last a quite a long time. Let's start doing that in January And I am very aware of the concept of youtuber burnout And that's where a youtuber starts, you know a plot Let's start saying they're gonna do say a video every day and that ends up burning them out And they can't do it They keep pushing and pushing and pushing until they can't even do their old schedule anymore They just run out of steam and that's that I'm not gonna do that if I can't do it I'll bring my schedule back down to what it is now and I'll be trying try my best to stay completely aware of when that happens So that's one thing I've decided to do to help grow the channel and they're one other thing I'm going to open my private patreon discord to the public right now I've got about a little over a dozen patrons and Those people have been in a fairly quiet server for a very long time. They talk to me every once in a while It's not a lot But it's nice for them to have that access because they pay me to make content So I feel like they should have access and they're gonna retain access to a lot of private channels but Recently I started inviting authors that I know and I've actually invited almost Somewhere between two and three dozen Authors all of whom have one or more articles successful on the wiki So I invited vulgar and the shirm Technically you're also authors because they both have at least one article on the wiki I think shrooms got more than one But these are just people who You know you can be around and bounce ideas off of and I'm gonna open this private discord server to the public starting right now There will be a link in the description in fact I'm gonna put it at the top of the description Before I even put in the little hey, this is how this goes or thank you for the 2,500 subscribers We're just gonna be the main purpose of this video. It's gonna be at the top And if that discord link does not work for you Let me know in the comments and I will check it and make sure it's still active And if not, that's you're gonna have to figure that out on your own But if it isn't active, I'll put a new one in because I don't know when you're gonna watch this You could be watching this today when I'm making it or you could be watching this two years from now and the discord link might have expired So, you know, let me know And that's it. You can kind of tell that this is off the cuff. In fact, it's so off the cuff I've had to record it like four times But yeah, that's what we're gonna do so Thank you very much for watching. I'll see you in the next video on Thursday I believe that video is going to be about how writing for the SCP wiki. It's not as hard as you think See you on Thursday