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PATRON SURVEY & March Progress Report!
🕑 Added 2022-03-29 19:10:01 +0000 UTCTLDR: If you'd like to help me make this patreon better, it'd be wonderful if you filled out this survey!
I'll start this message off by saying, hey, whoa, I'm super glad that so many of you seemed to connect with "i wish that i could wear hats." It's always strange to share something you created with a large audience, but it's extremely strange to do that with something that's more vulnerable than you usually make, so it means a lot that people seem to like it!
Also, my YouTube has broken 900k subscribers as a result of this video! Wild! Thanks so much!
OKAY HERE'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON
Most of March was spent on YouTube-adjacent projects that I have been neglecting (which of course means I've been neglecting my actual YouTube projects and am behind on my next video). Here's a list:
- finally set up an archive channel for my Twitch streams
- finally released the songs from my videos as an album on Bandcamp/Spotify
- finally worked on some new things for my merch store (which should be up soon)
- worked on my taxes, because I need to do my taxes, and boy are my taxes a real mess this year
- wrote stuff with Karen for projects/pitches that I can't talk about now
- did a few video things with Dropout (like Um, Actually and Dirty Laundry)
- started working with some folks at Patreon to do a refresh of this page...
... which brings me to this SURVEY. I saw a few of you responding last month, saying you'd be happy to do a survey about the Patreon, so I've finally got one! (I ended up getting help from the people I've been talking to at Patreon, mostly because I don't actually know what questions are useful.)
If you've got strong feelings, or even lukewarm feelings, it would be great to have your input on what I could do to keep this Patreon going strong!
The survey will be available through Apr. 15th, and you can find it here!
Hopefully, this will help me find what's working and what isn't, and then I can focus on only the things that work.
WHAT I'M WORKING ON NEXT
Man, who knows. To be (maybe a little too) honest, I haven't got much in the ol' brain these days. Lots and lots of mush. Trying to juggle all of the projects I've been working on has meant I can only devote about 3% of my brain to any one of them at any given time, and that's been tough.
But I've got a silly little something-or-other for my April video! After Pumpkin Cowboy/i wish that i could wear hats, I needed a little refresher, so I am making the most nonsensical video I have made in a very long time.
Other than that, Karen and I are still writing a ton in our pursuit of goal to write things that aren't for YouTube, and maybe someday I'll have good news on that front!
THAT'S IT FOR NOW
Be on the lookout for a shiny new Patreon page (and by shiny/new, I mean I will finally do the stuff I should have done when I started the page) around May! Thanks for being here!
Comments
Landon Beadle
Survey taken! And wholly unrelated my toddler asks me to play Pumpkin Cowboy for her pretty much nightly. Itβs been that and Magic Dance from Labyrinth for like two months straight. π
Shiftweave
i got a caterpillar in the mail from you and i love him. that is my patreon feedback
Alec the Frog
beautiful, truly an inspiring masterpiece at the end of the survey.
Brian David Gilbert
It's mostly the first thing you said: it just didn't come together. There is a part of me that hopes that I can get good enough at Blender/other VFX to save it, but the complexity of the shots just got a little too wild. Once I finally accept that it's dead, I'll probably make a full post mortem post about it!
Unhuman
Heck, it's not often I feel like a survey isn't long enough, but that's what I'm feeling right now. Hope you get some good, informative answers
Morgan
I have a random question; what happened to Mr Smock? If itβs a project that just didnβt come together creatively for one of a billion possible reasons thatβs totally understandable, but I have to admit Iβm a bit curious what happened. Unless I just missed a Patreon post, Iβm still pretty new around here
Jeff Truelsen
Of all the Patreon surveys from you I've ever completed, this was definitely in maybe the top six.
Colin Fogt
great survey! excited for silly video incoming!!!
spacecadet
Congrats on the 900K!! That's awesome! :D
Christian Haney
Survey complete, thanks for checking in with us and keep doing what you do! β€οΈ You and your content, sending good vibes your way!
TDE
Looking forward to seeing what you got coming up big guy :)
Well-Spoken Rambler
[existential crisis of βi stream and I consider it a hobby but also people have subscribed to me so Iβm also a little bit paid for itβ, before clicking βhobbyβ anyway] Thank you for both the opportunity to offer feedback and for the truly awe-inspiring end-of-survey image
Maia
just finished the survey, 100% agree everyone fill it out for an incredible gift at the end
Maia
SO excited for the new video to drop, about to do the survey. and tbh, 3% is better than you're giving yourself credit for, the world is very messy and taxes are unnecessarily complicated
Friederike
That sure was an unexpected surprise at the end there.
Excited for the most nonsensical video in a while!
Hannah
The Survey was worth it just for the beautiful self portrait, and dont worry too much about content, life first!!
Well-Spoken Rambler
A good idea! I will give this my full attention once no longer stood upon an Atlantic clifftop
Dellamore
Can't wait to see everything. Don't overwork yourself! Stay happy ^-^
