 Hello, how's it going? I kind of already made a video like this already coming into the new year, but I felt like making another video today, just sitting back and talking. So yeah, I said in my goodbye 2021 video that a bunch of stuff was gonna be changing. Did I even say that? I said that I wanted a bunch of stuff to be changing and that I wanted to take things a lot more seriously and treat YouTube like my actual job and have a bit of a more healthy relationship with YouTube. And so today I'm just kind of updating you, letting you know that I'm sort of like taking steps towards that and sort of letting you know what my plan is. Yeah, because I've felt very, very excited recently and I've felt just like more pumped to be making videos and I've been having a lot of fun making videos and I hope that that's come through on the videos but I just wanted to let you know, it's one of the changes that are happening and have happened and some of the stuff that going forward I want to happen. So the first big thing is that there is another editor on the channel. So don't worry, Justin is not being replaced, Justin is still editing for the channel but we now have Vincent who some of you might remember from Unisonous because he edited a lot of the stuff on Unisonous. We had four different editors for Unisonous, not including me, Mark and Amy who we sometimes edited the videos but yes, Vincent is joining the Crank Gameplays team and is gonna be the second editor for the channel which I am super, super, super excited for. So a lot of you might be thinking, Ethan, why do you need a second editor? The reason is because I want to get back to doing more daily stuff on the channel and you might have noticed recently that I've been posting more frequently and more consistently and yeah, I'm just trying to have a healthier relationship with YouTube like I said before and I want to get back to doing stuff semi-daily again. My goal is to be like five times a week but overall I'd really love to be daily. I recently got a new manager which I'm really, really, really excited about and we sort of figured out a plan for how I want to be making videos and how I should be making videos because for a while there was this thought in my mind and I don't know why I had this process in my mind of like if I want to be making daily videos that means that I have to be recording every single day which is not true at all in any way. If I want to be making daily videos it means that I should have specific recording days and just be recording a ton. So that is sort of the deal going forward is that I've now realized that it's like oh I don't have to be recording every day I just need to block out two maybe three times a week where I'm recording a bunch of videos like four videos in one day which you might think that that's a lot. It's not really, I think the most videos I've recorded in a day is like 18 or maybe like 20 videos in one day. That was back like a few years back when I was like prepping for a convention. So four videos a day three times a week is really not that bad or even like three videos a day three times a week. Yeah, it's really not that bad and it'll help just like keep me on task because then I can figure out earlier in the week or at the beginning of the week like okay these are the videos that aren't gonna go up this is what I need to record. So then I'm not wasting time during those days figuring out what to record. So I'm excited about that and it's been nice like in this last week I there was many days where like I was finished working for the day and then I was like I'm gonna go and record two more videos because I have different ideas and I'm excited about it. And I was going and recording because I wanted to not because I felt like I had. And that's really exciting. Like it's nice to feel excited about stuff again. And so with that workload I thought that it would be a good idea to get another editor. It wasn't even really me that had that. So it was more my manager being like you need to get another editor if you wanna do that because I don't wanna completely kill Justin because obviously I've done daily stuff in the past. I've done two videos a day in the past and it was all just me but that is not a fair thing to just put on one person of like hey you need to make sure videos are going up every day. That is not fair I don't wanna kill Justin and so I've hired on Vincent who does a really really great job editing and I'm super excited to see his edits because he's really good at it. And I'm excited to see like how they differ too. It's gonna be cool. It'll be nice to be like okay here are the videos for the week guys and then they can take them and split them up because I absolutely don't want everybody like working every single day. You know this is my career or whatever. You know I'm down to sacrifice sleep but I shouldn't be asking that of my employees. But yeah I'm super excited that Vincent was on board and Justin has edited for the channel now for like three or two and a half or three years. He's done a super super super good job and I'm excited for him to have just someone to bounce stuff off of and like work with and you know it's nice for them too because if they get stuck on an edit or stuck on a video they can go to each other and be like hey do you mind working on this for a little bit or like do you have any ideas for this? So that's really nice but the other thing that I wanna be doing is using that daily stuff to help me do bigger stuff and more involved stuff and so we have like the more like the normal videos that I would have on the channel of like you know gaming stuff and reaction stuff and Reddit stuff and stuff like that. So that's going up on the channel like every day or whatever. On top of that I wanna also be filming like a more special video every week to go up maybe sometime on the weekends. Again, these are all the ideas that I have and what I want to do and it's probably gonna take a bit for everything to like fall into place especially with tour coming up. Please, oh God, come to the tour please. It's only in two months now. It's insane. But I wanna be sort of making, I don't know how to describe it other than like an unisonous style video on the weekends because I think it would be super super fun to that light died. I'm back. Hopefully those batteries will last. I have no idea if they're charged or not. So what I was saying was I'd really like to use those normal videos as like the day-to-day stuff and record like two, maybe three times a week of normal videos and then once a week go out and film something really fun whether it's just me or me and a friend or whatever, just film something out and about doing something different. And it also is fun for Justin and Vincent too because then they get to edit something different every week. Yeah, because I've really missed doing that kind of stuff like going out and experiencing different things and trying new things. And so we've already got a few ideas down of what we wanna do. Justin and Vincent have been helping me come up with some ideas. And there's even some video ideas like back from the Unisonous days that never got filmed. So I might try and do something with those like with Mark or even with somebody else. But it's exciting because I wanna just get back into doing stuff like that. And I really miss going out and filming shit like that. And so obviously right now like I'm gonna make sure to be careful. I'm not gonna be stupid about anything like that as far as COVID goes. I'm really, really, really, really, really excited. And I'm pumped too. I haven't, I talked about this in the last video that I've been looking for an assistant. And so I haven't hired anybody yet but that'll be really nice too because that'll sort of be one of their things is like helping schedule all that and like contacting different places and being like, hey, here's what we wanna do and making sure we can film there. And that'll just take a lot off of my plate. So then all I have to focus on is showing up and filming and making the actual content, which is my job. And so it'll be nice to hand that part of it off to somebody else. So then I can be like, hey, here's what I wanna do. Here's the video. Help me find a place to go and do that and make that video. So I'm very excited. I feel a lot more efficient and I feel like I'm working a lot smarter and not necessarily harder because hard, working hard doesn't equal good necessarily. You have to work smart and you have to work in a way that's fulfilling for you and to make sure you don't burn yourself out because if I burn myself out again, that's not helping me, it's not helping you. So yeah, I'm really excited. And I honestly hope that it helps the channel a lot too because I feel like everything on the channel, like back end, like have really fluctuated for a long time. And so it'd be nice to sort of build the fan base backup and like build the viewership up again. And I know that numbers aren't like the most important thing. I absolutely know that I've been doing this for a long time and it's bad to just like focus on numbers, but I hope that it can just kind of, I don't know, help the channel a lot. And I hope that it's fun for people watching at home. And I hope that like day to day stuff, it'll be like, oh cool, like Ethan posted a video, I'm gonna watch this while whatever, while I'm bored or like while I'm doing something and then it'll give people something to look forward to, like for the weekend or something like that, being like, ooh, Ethan's like weekly video is coming out where he goes and does something different. And so I hope that will sort of catch on new people and get people excited. So very, very, very excited. Another thing as well is I wanna shout out Charlie, who is one of the mods. I wanna shout out all of my mods. They do really like, they help so, so much, but a lot of people have been asking for captions on videos and there's automated captions that come on but they're not super reliable. I can't remember if I already talked about this, but Charlie is coming on to help do the captions for the videos, which I'm super, super excited for and very grateful that they're down to do that. So yeah, just trying to make everything a bit more accessible and a bit more fun and yeah, just a bit more efficient on my side. So then like I have a plan and I don't burn myself out and I'm still having fun and making cool shit. So yeah, I hope that this video wasn't super repetitive and just a copy of what I made before, after New Year's, but I just sort of wanted to update you and let you know where I'm at and what I'm doing. And I wanted to let you know about Vincent coming on board and make sure to go follow them too. Go follow Vincent and Justin. Thank you guys for being here and for sticking around. Yeah. Let's have a fun year.