 hello everybody welcome to another episode video thing today I've got something special for you guys today I have recently been making a few steps in my YouTube journey I guess and I've set myself up a patreon account for all of you who don't know what patreon is patreon is basically a sort of like a crowdfunding style thing that allows you to so I give some money maybe monthly to a youtuber or some kind of creative content writer and to give them a little bit more revenue to work with in terms of video equipment production just desire to do YouTube videos the reason why I have actually started to do this patreon is because a lot of the videos that I want to make are actually unmonetizable so it means that I can't make any money on them usually because they're to do with controversial subjects especially when I do some you know meaningful videos on you know like suicide and depression and self-harming I would never get any sort of revenue from that at all and a lot of the videos that I make that I make a lot of more of my money on are actually the ones that mean less to me so it's it's a bit of a trade-off there and I have to sort of put a lens on my content a little bit so that I can actually sort of make any any sort of money on this that's the reason for my patreon account obviously if you don't know what it is before it might seem a bit strange I obviously I'll link my patreon down in the description if you'd have a look at I have set it up all the goals and stuff that I'm gonna do if I reach a certain amount of money per month and there's also this tier system that allows you to donate as certain amount of money and if you pass a certain tier then you get certain rewards or stuff like that so I'll just break down some of the tiers that I've got the first tier that I've got is sort of the bog-standard one just for anybody who wants to donate a little bit of money to myself and maybe like one dollar a month which is obviously not that much but in that in that reward sort of a Facebook group so I've set up a specific Facebook group and invite people on patreon who have you know don't start to donate some some money towards my my content and that Facebook group will sort of provide you a bit more insight into my videos my ideas I'll do some polls on it and all around us give you the opportunity to give your your opinions and that will be taken to you know more of a high degree into consideration when I make my videos so it'll mean that you'll be able to if you if you're supporting me you'll be able to sort of dictate to some to some level and what kind of content I put out in the second tier I think it's like five dollars you'll be able to I'll list you at the end of my YouTube videos and the patreon I'll give you a shout out for you know the support that you're giving me which I think is fairly due I do believe that in that tier you'll you'll receive opportunity to get first dibs on the merchandise that I'm trying to work on and if you want to get them and obviously in the future once I've get it all set up I might add some some discount codes or put some deals on for anybody who's part of that tier this the third tier is sort of a more personal side to it and if you if you really join my content and want to sort of getting in contact with me just just have a chat or just a sort of brainstorm some ideas that you may be having for the channel that that tier is sort of like a Skype tier so every every two months I'll give you a give you a video call and we can we can chat about stuff if you want to anything that you want to chat about as long as it's Pete it sucks it's friendly and you're not just trying to slide in the DMs or something the third tier is the the gold subscription thingy subscribe a group I can't remember what I've called it but basically all that happens in that one is I'll highlight you at the end of my videos as kind of a gold member thing and I'm also going to set up a Facebook messenger group with myself and any of any of the people who get that tier meaning that you can have more interaction with me and give them up more of your opinions on stuff and then obviously as my channel grows and I get a bit more of my merchandise sorted out I'll try to sort of hook you hook you over some new free gear if I can and try and try and get your opinion on the type of you know t-shirts and merchandise and stuff that you want and that's the that's the main thing I'm not going to be buying these I'll probably buy one just as a so I can wear it around and be like hey this is my merchandise but for most of it will be based on you what you what you want to be honest and the last tier is the moderates tier so this is this is for anybody who is who is really really into into my channel and it's basically it's got all the benefits from the previous tiers obviously and probably out in the future when I set up my merchandise you'll get a lot more merchandise considering you're a moderator of my channel and you also get moderator status on YouTube meaning that you can help me sort of sift out any of the unruly comments and stuff like that but if you abuse this you will not be able to be moderator and I'll have to have to have a little bit of a chat with you beforehand just to make sure that you're not gonna delete everybody's comments or something and but hopefully hopefully that doesn't happen and you know if you want to to be a part of my channel in a significant way that might be a good way to sort of get yourself in there and obviously because you're a moderator I'll take you vet you your word in your opinions very very seriously but yeah so all of these tiers that I've covered are they do have certain prices to get to them but I am very willing to you know if you send me a inbox on Facebook at my Asperger's growth page asking you know you know maybe you want you want a certain tier and it's a bit too expensive and then maybe I've made it too expensive because you know I'm not really sure what what the average price for stuff are but we can always we can always chat about that if you want to and if you you know if you're if you're a big fan and you've been a part of my channel for a while obviously like I'll give you those those statuses anyway and you know for a lot less and then I would throw someone that I didn't really know that well so I hope this will be a positive step for my channel you know it's very hard for me on youtube considering the kind of stuff that I like to put out and I think just having this aspect of more community engagement and more more reason for my for me to and communicate with you guys and will help me a lot to sort of grow and let you know you can let me know the kind of stuff that you want to see which is the main thing and I'm here for I guess yeah my hand is getting very shaky right now it's very sunny out today it's a Monday and it's absolutely beautiful yeah so it's a positive day to start this new section of my channel as I said down below in the comments I'll post the link to my patreon and also put it in the description and whatever so if you want to check that out please do and even if you do even if you're not wanting to you know have a go at it or anything just having a little be will be nice yeah so thank you very much for watching it's been a short video today just to highlight new changes in my channel I hope everyone receives this very well and obviously if it is too expensive don't go in the comments and raid and tell me such a I'm such a horrible person just let me know and I can I can change it around and stuff so yeah thank you very much for watching guys see in the next video and hopefully see you on my my new patreon page see you later guys