 Hi folks, I'm gonna take a few minutes to talk about the state of 30 second sci-fi and My other projects and the thinkbolt YouTube account first of all this has been a Difficult couple of months. It's been really difficult financially as well as Physically and emotionally for a while there Two months ago. My health was really bad. I was I was having a really rough time. There's nothing specific Last time I did one of these updates Which was last year. I believe I said that the one sketch today Project that I've been running on tumblr for some time now Was my most followed and most active Project. Well, that's not true anymore Since then one sketch today has not grown at all In fact, I'm I'm gonna let it go and And in the meantime new subscribers have been coming to the thinkbolt YouTube channel Steadily every month. I lose subscribers all the time, but I'm gaining more than I'm losing I don't know why I don't know where they're coming from. I don't know how they're finding it And you'll see here. I've got to as of today. I have 321 subscribers almost 117,000 Channel views over the course of the life of this channel. I think I started it in 2008 Take a look at the statistics just for the last 28 days 7,800 views That's that's amazing to me 14,000 minutes watch. That's that's kind of frightening actually I think I said that before too 14 new subscribers in the last 28 days. That's amazing I don't know where they're coming from. No nobody tells me although the the videos that I've posted over the course of the last month have gotten comments from New viewers or from people who haven't commented before Which is a good sign I suppose As far as 30 seconds sci-fi goes The only activity it's getting is on YouTube 59 followers on tumblr. It's been stuck there for months and months There are 31 followers on Twitter. There's nothing going on there at all zero likes on Facebook The tumblr the Twitter and the Facebook were all started at the same time and Nobody uses them. You should go to the tumblr though. That's where everything is I post photos Every time I get new books in I post links to other science fiction stuff You should go to the tumblr as far as views of The recent videos go in order to find the most viewed recent video You have to go all the way back to Ringworld and it only has 90 views. It's been there for a month and only 90 views. That's That's Actually pathetic. I think it's interesting that Ringworld got so many views and continues to keep getting views the thing that people give me feedback about More than anything else is that they they want to see books that they've never heard of they want to learn about Unusual books and I'm good at doing that. So I post Ringworld, which is one of the most popular science fiction books in the genre and People going us for it people are clicking on it because it's familiar and it got a lot of comments too And it's all all the comments were the same people say oh, I remember that book. Oh, I feel the same way about it I need to keep introducing Things that will be new to viewers old books that will be new to viewers and every once in a while stick in something familiar People had a lot to say about the Stephen King book mostly people telling me that that that's his worst book ever But I liked it Looking at the top 10 YouTube views recently It's that video I made more than a year ago about the OBS video streaming system Every month it gets the most views month after month after month once or twice a week. I'll get a comment On that video and it's always the same. It'll be someone yelling But there's nothing listed on my graphics card if they would watch the video They would know why but of course they're they're not paying attention And I never allow those those comments to to show up looking at the top few videos of all time you'll notice that There aren't any book reviews on the top 10 Well, there's Hyperion that was my first one that got a lot of views when I first posted it because the sword and laser people used it It continues to get views because people hate it Other than that The book reviews are not getting the views the handful of videos that I made about computers About the OBS software and about unboxing and and reviewing the the cano computer. Those are getting all the views That's where all the views are going The number one viewed video is still I Think it's either the unboxing or the reviewing of the cano computer Yeah, outside of that my board games are getting all the views I I really want to do more of the board game reviews, but I don't want to do them The way I've been doing them with just me looking at them talking about them I want to play them I want to get people to play the games with me and I'm working on that I am working on that look at my top 10 stats for daily motion and Vimeo They're completely different lists and almost no views So YouTube as many problems as YouTube has YouTube is where you post your videos if you want to get the views It's very good at getting your videos seen by people who are interested in them. It has an excellent Database system. It has an excellent social platform You have to admit it as many problems as YouTube has as many problems as Google has This is where it's working. I wish I could get these kind of views at daily motion Daily motion has a lot of problems. The one thing that daily motion is really good for is at the top of my tumblr page When you look at it on from from your desktop computer not from your phone But from your desktop computer the first thing you see at the top of the page is What they call a video jukebox which has all the book reviews in it You can watch them one after another after another and you don't have to scroll through all the entries on the tumblr The tumblr if you look here at the top of the page Also categorizes all my other videos and all my other entries on the tumblr as well. They're they're separated into book reviews movie reviews Odd comics the board game reviews all those things are separated out You should go to the tumblr if you're not going to the tumblr then Go to the stinkin tumblr So as far as the future I'll keep doing The the book reviews. I think I'll slow down on them a bit and I'll work on Other projects in the meantime again with every video. I plug the tumblr and I plug Becoming a patron. I have one patron just one he his support is much appreciated And if you'll follow the patronage link you'll notice that I'm changing the way I do that And there are more changes to come as far as that goes. So look for that as far as upcoming books I finished a strength of stones which I just got in and I'll review that and I'm gonna review pyramids by Terry Pratchett and And I'll have some older books to review one other thing that I would like to do is Have Conversations with other readers about books that we both read I've I've exchanged emails with one of my viewers about having About recording a conversation about 2001 space Odyssey I'd like to talk with other YouTube reviewers about books that we've that we both read so we can both have an intelligent conversation about it and record those Discussions call it something like the 30 second half hour or something like that Which is a good sounding science fiction name the other youtubers that I'm talking to all the time get in touch with me Let's let's pick a book that we both know and talk about it Okay, I think that's it for now look for a couple of things tomorrow and over the weekend and then some more stuff next week I'm not sure what bye You can support 30 second sci-fi and my other projects by becoming a patron There's a link in the description below and visit the 30 second sci-fi tumblr That's my headquarters in addition to my videos. 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