 The last couple years on this channel, Adam Does Movies have been shaky at best and embarrassing at worst. I've dedicated myself to putting out weekly content for the last couple months, and the results have been pitiful. I could blame YouTube and say it's the algorithm. I could point to shadow banning and say, hey, that's the reason why every single time I upload a video, I instantly lose 5 or 10 subscribers. But since it's not possible to prove it's unhealthy and it's not going to help me in the slightest, let's look at things I can do. The first thing I did is I went to a bunch of the other successful channels on YouTube, mainly in the movie review space and saw what they were doing, and every single one of them is doing the exact same thing, which is one thing. They aren't doing three things or five things. They're for the most part doing one singular thing. When you come here, it's, I mean, it's, it's bedlam. It's chaos. It's Russian roulette. You don't know what you're going to see. You know, whatever the chamber lands on is what I might put out, whether it's a cringe video, whether it's a review or a rant, or just some random one-off thing I decided to do. And I've said this time and time again. I'm my own worst enemy. But now, with my wife having left her job because of me, because she was miserable there, it was thankless. It was low pay. I, I said to her, let's just make this happen. Screen rant has been awesome to me. I have real rivalries going on there. They're paying me more per video than I make on this channel in like three months. Again, that's not a testament to how much they're paying me. It's a testament to how badly this channel is doing. So once again, after some soul searching, after confronting myself, I decided, you know what, let's just do one or two things really well. And the rest of it, we'll just leave it be. Maybe, maybe Patreon can make up for that. So I leave with the new plan of action. One, the things I'm doing now are not working. The podcast has to go. It got like 700 views for the first and 600 views for the second. That's telling me the subscribers I do have do not care. They don't want to listen to me ramble for 45 minutes. Fair. I get it. Those that do, I'm sorry. It's just not going to happen. The Harry Potter podcast gave me $3. Okay, the thing took me, the thing took me like seven to make. Like, there's no recouping that cost or lost time. Unfortunately, the cringe has to go to Patreon exclusive. The ones I've done will stay here. People don't often go back in the, in the backlog of new channels anyways, unless they are really interested in what I used to have to say. But for the most part, people don't care about your backlog. So the cringe will stay where it is. But further episodes, which I will be doing, will be for Patreon and for YouTube join members exclusively. I can't do that here anymore. It's turning off new viewers. The ones that are here, like some of them like it, some of them don't. So it just doesn't make sense. The focus for the channel is going to be on two things and two things only. Movie reviews in the form of Adam Rantz and a show I'm bringing back that I think will make people happy. The best and worst series. It used to be a movie feuds best and worst. I'll kind of tweak it a little bit without the movie feuds, you know, branding, but it'll still very be much that same style. So those shows are going to be in effect right now. So come next week, you know, mid-May, you're going to be seeing best and worst, you're going to be seeing a lot more reviews of Adam Rantz movies. With all this said, if you like the channel, if you're a big fan of what I had been doing over the years and continue to do now, please check me out on Patreon at Patreon.com slash Adam does movies. If you don't want, if you don't have any extra income, not even a dollar to throw away a month, which I mean a dollar, it's a dollar. But as I said, if you don't have even a dollar to throw and you have an Amazon Prime membership, I am on Twitch a couple nights a week. It's random. I don't know when I'll be there. It's basically when I'm comfortable with the videos I put out, then I'll treat myself to some gaming and I figure I can have an audience. I'm doing it anyways. So twitch.com or twitch.tv slash Adam Olinger. That's my first and last name. It's also the name of my second channel, Adam Olinger, which not really changing. That's going to be focused primarily on rant videos that aren't movie related and video game kind of compilations from Twitch as I get them edited. So it's basically a gaming slash ranty channel, just other stuff that isn't movie based. Lastly, I'm on the kids platform, TikTok. I'm there. You can find me. It's kind of funny. Someone was, I guess I was already there and I didn't even know it because there is a Adam does movies TikTok that has like 18,000 subscribers and or followers. I'm sorry, 18,000 followers and two likes and no videos. So that was nice. Someone took my logo. They took my name. They parked it. They threw some bots on there, some fake followers and that's that. So I am Adam does movies with a little underscore. It's the same as my Twitter handle, which was also taken by someone. Here's a tip. If you're going to start doing a channel on YouTube or anywhere, make sure you get all the different social media platforms at the same time, even if you don't think you'll ever use them. Better to have them locked down than to later kind of crawl over there and find out that someone's bagged it for you. As of right now, my TikTok consists of nothing but some previously released YouTube videos that I've just trimmed down to those 30 to 60 second marks for people to enjoy in a different way. Moving forward, I think that's the perfect place to do my bad movie edition series. If you like that, I think that the bad movie additions falls really well into that 60 second window. It'll force me to make things more concise. I think that's it. I want to apologize if I dropped the ball or let any of you down. Personally, I kicked myself a little bit for not doing any of this sooner. But as I've previously stated time and time again, I'm my own worst enemy. I like to shake things up. I like to try different shows and experiment, and I really need to understand that people don't like when you do that. They want one thing and one thing only, and it's so foolish that I don't know that because I myself look for that in other channels. When I watch a channel, it's usually because I got hooked by one of their shows, and I don't care about the other stuff. I just want that one show. So yeah, now Adam Does Movies is kind of two shows. The Rants slash Movie Reviews and the Best and Worst series. They're both me still. They're just more honest me without the satirical stuff thrown into the mix. You can find that on Patreon, you can find that on TikTok, and you can find that on my second channel, Adam Olinger. Thank you once more for those that have supported me over the years. I look forward to releasing weekly content going forward still because as I stated, we're down to one income here. It's all on me at this house, and that's what I wanted. I think it can work. We can bring this channel back from the dead and make it something special. Alright, take care. We'll see you soon.