 Hello YouTube friends, acquaintances, enemies, and people who don't know who I am but clicked on this video for whatever reason. This is going to be a brief channel update, like the beginning part is really just me explaining what's going on now, and the rest will be like me going into some of my reasoning for why I'm doing the change, so if you're interested in that, feel free to keep watching. If not, then just watch the beginning part. Basically, for a long time I've been releasing one video every week, specifically every Wednesday, and I am no longer going to be doing that. I'm going to be doing it every two weeks now, so it'll be every other Wednesday at the same time, but I might wind up shifting it in the future. As always, these things are subject to change, and on top of that I'm going to start putting out one Patreon slash YouTube channel member exclusive video per month, so they'll be the only ones that get to watch it. Everyone else will just have to look on from outside and wonder what's going on. So yeah, if you want more of me, more of my dumb face, then go ahead and consider donating to me there. Otherwise, yeah, I'll see you next week. This is just a quick update. Now, as for the rest of this video, this is going into my reasoning. So I did put out a video last year where I was kind of upset that my channel was just not doing very well, and there were several reasons for that. I got some good feedback for that. I appreciate people giving me some advice there, and so I changed the day that my videos came out. They used to come out on Saturdays, now they came out on Wednesdays, and I've also just been changing some other stuff like my thumbnails and the way I title my videos, and it has helped a little bit, but overall my channel is still largely just a couple of videos that do extremely well, like my fourth-wing video, my Red Queen video, it wound up getting demonetized, but my Divide We Fall video, those all did amazingly well, but then other ones after that are not even really breaking 10K views, and I think the real reason for that is that while I do appreciate the small core of people that watch all of my videos, or almost all of my videos, the fact is most people are more interested in my bigger projects, like my super long and deaf book reviews, or my very brief summary videos, or my world-building videos, things like that. Those are the ones that people are more interested in, and so those get recommended to them, and they actually watch them, and like them, and comment on them and stuff, and so those get spread around YouTube a lot, but then the ones in between just, they just don't. And as annoying as I find it, a lot of people these days just do not look at their subscription feed. Like, I really don't understand why people do that. Like, why would you want to let YouTube dictate what you see and what you watch? Like, wouldn't you want to curate that yourself? But no matter how much I rail against it, it's not going to change anything. Like, people are going to continue doing things the way that they prefer doing them, and I need to adapt to that. And so I think what happens is that I'll have, you know, one video does really, really well, and then a week later I'll have one that people just don't really care about so they don't watch it, and then they don't get recommended my next one or my next one, even if they think that, even if they maybe would be interested in that. And honestly doing one video every week is a lot of work. Like, I have a full-time job on top of YouTube. This is not my main source of income. So it feels like I'm just putting in a lot of effort to not get much back in return, and on top of that I think that releasing every week and putting out, you know, smaller discussion videos, which I do like doing, you know, smaller discussions and smaller reviews of lesser-known books and stuff, those are fun, but a lot of people just don't care about them, and so it's just kind of dragging down everything, including my bigger videos. So I think that by doing this new schedule where I am doing fewer videos, because I'm only doing three a month as opposed to four or five, which I currently am doing, or I guess not currently, but I was until I started making this, whatever, not the point, this will give me more time to work on each individual video and have it be a little bit more entertaining, at least I hope it'll be more entertaining and more well thought out for you guys, and also I can do bigger projects more frequently. Like, right now I've been doing, every three months I'll have either a very brief summary or a very deep, in-depth book review, and I'm hoping maybe I can shorten that timeframe a bit. I guess we'll see what happens exactly, but I just really want to be able to do those more often, not just because they get more attention and more views and everything, but also just because I like doing them and that is what the majority of you seem to be here for. And as for doing a Patreon slash member channel exclusive video every month, well, yeah, I mean, I don't think that I have been properly rewarding my patrons and channel members for a while now, like I've done a couple of exclusive videos, but not that many. There are really just vlogs about books that I have read and I'm going to do bigger videos on in the future, but I just haven't gotten to them yet at the time the vlogs were put out, and they also get their name in the credits and they also get early access to videos, but I don't think that's quite enough. So I just, I want to not only encourage more people to sign up for that, but also just like I want to show the people who are currently there and who will continue to be there that I do really appreciate them. And you know, if you feel like, because I'm not putting out as much stuff that you're not getting as much out of your channel membership or Patreon support, then don't feel bad pulling it. You know, you don't owe me anything. Like I, and I appreciate you giving me any support at all up until this point, but I just am changing things up a little bit so that I can give them more, because I do feel that they deserve more. Because in the past like six to seven months, I have been experimenting a bit more with like different types of videos. Like a couple of weeks ago I did my reactive video, which was a review of a book that's not very good, but I did it in kind of a fun way. I think it was a fun way at least. You know, I was just in front of a green screen arguing with myself and I just thought that was a more fun way to do it than just sitting here and talking about my thoughts on the book, which I normally do. But I also was watching that video and thinking like, man, I could, I could have made that a little bit longer, a little bit bigger, but I just didn't really have time for it because again, I need to do one of these every week. And I don't know. Again, I just, there was a video put out by SuperIpatchWolf on his secondary channel a little while ago, which I watched and really did hammer this home for me. Like this is when I started really considering changing my upload schedule so I could do fewer videos, which are a little bit bigger and higher quality. And he basically says in that video, I'll link to it if you want to watch, but he basically says in that video that the more time you spend on YouTube, the more time you learn about how to make something quality, how to make something good and how to make something big, but it also takes a long time to do that. And yeah, he is right. Like again, he goes into more detail than I can because he's a much bigger and more successful channel than I am. But again, just listen to his words if you are interested. But like that's what got me thinking about this and thinking like, yeah, I do want to put out less stuff that is higher quality. And I think it'll probably be around the same amount of work. We'll have to wait and see about that. But I just want to put out less stuff that is higher quality, not just because it's better for the health of the channel, but because that's what I want to do. Like that's what I want to make. I don't have a whole lot else to add regarding this. That's my basic reasoning. I want to make higher quality videos and unfortunately, as things are, I can't do one really big, high quality one every week. And even if I could, I don't know if I'd be able to keep that up forever. I'm not going to say I'm burning out because I don't think I'm burning out at all. I enjoy doing YouTube. But I just also feel that things do need to change right now, not just for financial reasons or anything because I'm doing fine financially, but just for my own well-being and for my channel's well-being. Because this will help prevent it from fading into obscure mediocrity. At least I think it will. But that's about all. So if you've watched all this, I guess thank you. And I will see you next week for a video on the Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's Court, which was a lot of fun. So I'll see you then. Goodbye.