 Strap in because for the next couple of minutes I'm gonna talk some shop about the channel and where things are headed. Uncut, uncensored, all real. That's not a phrase. Anyway, I'm Adam Wollinger. I've been running this show, Adam Does Movies, for what seems like an eternity now, six or seven years off and on. Like a high school relationship, you don't really know where it's gonna go. But I know where it's gonna go. I've grown up, I'm an adult now and there is a few things going on in my life that are steering this ship. So before on the channel, I'm being asked to YouTube or what they want me to do. I just kinda did my own thing. If I wanted to do a movie skit show, I did one, like Movie Boss. If I wanted to do a satirical show, poking fun at the overall feeling of some YouTube creators and how they kinda go for the click baits, I do the cringe as a different character entirely, which can confuse people, I've realized that. But then I also have my more brutally honest takes on things with Adam Rantz and then my classic movie feud series, which is what started all of this. Years ago, I'm gonna take you back on a journey, sorry. Hang with me. Years ago, when the channel started, it was just movie feuds. It was me and Corey Williamson. He did the show with me for, I think two years maybe. It was very off and on though. We went like six months without posting anything. So I don't know if you count that, like a year and a half. Anyway, we struggled to find out what kind of show we wanted to be. Did we want to be like more ridden out, more skit based, more just genuine honesty, whatever. We played a lot with it. The course of things changed obviously, that was a sentence, and Corey decided to leave. We weren't making money, we weren't getting views, we weren't getting subs. And then I decided to take a big break and figure out what I wanted to do with the channel because we had a few hundred subs, nothing big. But we were growing a little bit. So I rebranded a bit. I decided to do the movie feuds solo, which was difficult at first because I didn't really know how to approach it. And then later I realized, it's not really so much about me as it is about the movies. Just talking shop, letting people vote, speak their voice, that's what it comes down to. Obviously they respect my opinion, but really it's the engagement with the audience that I think people liked. I try to reply to comments whenever I can. I'm a busy guy, I have a full-time job, I got kids, I got a wife, I have freelance work, this is just mixed in. But I don't want it to be mixed in. I want this to be a serious job that I'm making a lot of money at and that I can be proud of from the ground up. Of course I love the shows I make, I think they're funny, I think they're creative. But when those shows are making me $2 an episode, that's pathetic and there's no other way around it. I'm gonna keep this video up for a few days and then I'm gonna take it down because what I'm... Let me back up. I branded it Feud Nation. I was gonna do movie feuds, game feuds, food feuds, every kind of feud under the sun. YouTube didn't like that idea. I was doing rants on random things. It just wasn't giving me the algorithm I needed. I wasn't falling into their related videos. YouTube didn't know how to classify my channel. So then I focused on movies. I rebranded, pulled down a ton of content, put it on a second channel, Adams Take Two. That skyrocketed my subs from, I believe 20,000 at the time to where we're at today, almost 50,000. But I'm going backwards now. I'm going in reverse. I was almost at 50 or 49,000. I don't know. Now I'm barely at 48. Those numbers might be not right. But all I know is every day, every time I upload a video, I lose subs. And I stopped and thought about it. Why is this happening? Why am I losing subs every time? Is YouTube like doing some evil trickery in the background where they pull subs every time I upload as like a screw you, Adam? No, I don't think so. I think what's happening is people are confused about the channel still, even though it's just about movies. It's still a little too nuanced, maybe. It needs to be bold. It needs to be straightforward. When I upload a movie boss, I'm playing a character. I'm playing a complete jerk, a complete loser who doesn't respect his staff or anybody. When I'm doing the cringe, I'm playing a character named Khaleesi Grimes 82 who is just a complete suck up to movie industry people. He never really is honest. And that's a lot of fun for me to do. But I can totally understand when a new subscriber comes in because they watched a movie feud. I'm like, I like this guy. He seems genuine. And then the next video comes up is the cringe. I'm like, okay, this guy's completely lost me now. And then the movie boss comes up. And they're like, okay, I'm just out. I have no idea. Unsub. I get it. So after a lot of reflection, I've decided to once again reinvent the wheel that I have broken myself. Because it was going well for a while because I was just focusing on movie feuds. And I was just focusing on my Adam Rantz which are basically reviews, but in a less structured manner, kind of like this video. I lost sight of the ball. So what's gonna happen? And I don't like it any more than some of you are going to. It's far more of an inconvenience for me than it is for you. Let me tell you that much. I have rebranded my second channel, Adam Olinger, which is my real first and last name. I'm already in the process of pulling down any video on this channel that's not PG or PG-13, no swearing or very little swearing is gonna be on this channel. This is for families now. This is for the masses or that's the goal. It's to bring in new subscribers. Adam Olinger is going to be passionate Adam. The artistic Adam that doesn't get his due. He's doing the paintings for weeks and my computer just made a noise, sorry for that picked up. And he's getting paid nothing because right now I don't get monetization on my second channel. It does meet the subscriber threshold but not the view threshold. Hopefully that'll change in the coming months. But for right now it doesn't. Anyway, I'm pulling down movie boss videos from Adam, what is this channel? Adam does movies. I'm pulling down the movie boss videos. They're gone already actually. I'm pulling down the Adam Rantz. I'm pulling down the cringe and they are getting re-uploaded to Adam Olinger. Those shows going forward will be uploaded there. This channel will be movie feuds. My best and worst series which I've rebranded Hot Takes which is just ranking. And then anything else that I deem of quality for this channel. Adam Olinger is going to be the experimental stuff and the funny skit stuff, movie boss, the cringe, Adam Rantz. It's rated R stuff. Not always, I'm not gonna just swear for the sake of it to be edgy or something but that's where you're gonna find that. What else can I say? Yeah, it's been an experience. It's been a journey. And it's not something I take lightly. So my end goal here is to increase my subs 10-fold on this channel. I want to be in the big leagues with the Chris Stuckmans and the Jeremy Johns and whoever else is there. I think I can do it. But I have to play ball with YouTube. I have to play the game. I gotta get in the algorithm. I have to have them know that I'm safe for all ages because I do want people at this channel. I do want to make money off of all the work I put in and I don't want to beg my viewers to go on Patreon or to do the YouTube join stuff. That's not what I want. So I guess that I just wanted to be honest with you and tell you where things are at and you can say I'm selling out or whatever you want. Maybe I am, I don't know. But I am not going to lie. I'm still going to do honest movie reviews and my rankings and movie feuds. Well, it's all still me. It's just, I guess a more grown up version if you want to say that. A more censored version here. Whereas my other channel can be more fun, loose, not have to worry about whatever YouTube wants me to be. And I won't give good reviews ever if it's a Disney movie. That I will still be completely honest. So that's just, that's where things are at and I really appreciate those have been with me since the early days when it was just movie feuds or when they joined me for Feud Nation or now Adam Does Movies, which it still is and is for this foreseeable future. So thank you if you've been on this journey and I hope to continue to entertain and make you laugh. Okay, I think that's all I needed to say. And if you are a Patreon or a YouTube join member, really thank you. But make sure to subscribe to Adam Olinger if you want to see The Cringe, Movie Boss. Those shows are gonna come out on a weekly basis just like on this channel. If I put a video here, there's gonna be a video over there. That's the goal, even without the monetization because the end goal is to get Movie Boss, The Cringe and that stuff just as popular as this stuff if not more so. And I was very disheartened to see my new series getting like 600 views. That sucks, especially when I have other people joining me on those videos. Anyway, thanks again and we'll see you soon.