My channel just reached 110,000 subscribers! ๐ฅณ
๐ In addition, my fundraiser for the American Tinnitus Association (www.ata.org/) has reached USD $3,000! I was going to say "I can't believe my generous listeners have donated so much!" โ but you know what? I can. I do believe it. And it's not the least bit surprising, because y'all are awesome. Thank you for being part of the movement to search for tinnitus cause(s) and relief. I would certainly love to enjoy silence once again someday.
There haven't been a lot of big changes since my last update because I waited too long to post that one. ๐ As always, I'm doing my best to work on things that I believe will help more listeners.
๐๏ธ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐น ๐๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ผ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ผ
When new viewers (those who haven't subscribed yet) land on my channel's home page, they're shown a little introductory video to get them acquainted with me and my content. The video I've had in this spot up until yesterday was made in 2022, and a ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต has changed since then! I figured now was as good a time as any to update it, and since I'm more of an audio producer and not a great video editor, it took way too long to get this done. ๐
Here it is, if you're interested: https://youtu.be/VEHWEUy1smU
๐ป ๐ฆ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ
The physical prototyping phase is complete and we've chosen the size (we went with the slightly smaller option)! I actually have the unit in my studio right now, and it's incredible to be holding this thing I've been working on and investing in for over a year. The next step is to assemble a team for acoustic and electrical engineering so we can sort out the internal components. I especially want to make sure the driver (the device that converts electrical signals to sound) is of excellent quality, since my market research found that competing sound machines often sound like poo. As noted previously, this is where things are anticipated to get pretty expensive for me, so a fundraiser is imminent.
๐ฑ ๐๐ฝ๐ฝ
It's been over 3 years now and YouTube still hasn't fixed the long video mid-roll ad problem, so I'm taking matters into my own hands and developing an app. I spent the last two decades as a software developer by trade, after all! Once it's ready (which could be a while), I plan to make it available on both iOS and Android. For those interested in the technical details: I'm writing it in C# and using .NET MAUI in the hopes that this lets me manage a single codebase with relative ease. I already have working code to generate the colors of noise and am going to be building out a bunch of filters next so that users can craft the exact noises they want. There are almost certainly apps like this available already, but my goal is to make something we can all say we've had a hand in building โ so now's the time to start adding your ideas to the suggestions box. ๐ณ๏ธ Just keep in mind that the goal with version 1.0 is to produce the MVP, or "minimum viable product." That means bells and whistles come later. ๐ More details to come!
๐ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐
I've still got my list of 50+ requests from you, and I'm working through it as well as I can. I mostly go for the low-hanging fruit these days because I tend to be preoccupied with other tasks. Don't let that stop you from adding your idea to the list if there's something you'd really like to hear, though. ๐
๐ซง ๐ฉ๐ถ๐๐๐ฎ๐น๐
The artist I'm working with has been pretty busy, so it's been tough to get these completed and published. All I can say at the moment is that they're definitely still in the pipeline!
๐๏ธ ๐ฉ๐ผ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ and ๐ต ๐ ๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ
I know this will disappoint some of you, but I had to make the difficult decision to put this content on hold for right now so I can focus on developing the app. It's particularly frustrating for me because I firmly believe that my channel ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด this content in order to grow and differentiate itself from similar channels, but I can only do so much at once. I want to offer beautiful, relaxing ambient music, and writing that takes a lot of time and effort for me. Without it, I won't have anything to play behind anxiety/panic relief speech, so it's all got to wait a bit longer.
As always, thanks for sticking with me on this wild journey. ๐
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๐ฅต ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ'๐ ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐บ๐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฟ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ป.
Brand new system, too. I'm not happy.
You know what's funny, though? I bought a little window unit off someone on Facebook Marketplace in early 2023 so I could record it for content. https://youtu.be/VErMYF5qvZ4 Once that was done, I put it up in my attic where it has been taking up space that could have been used for other stuff, but...
I'm an "Elder Millennial," so my career started around the time of the Great Recession. Much like many young people today, we were chronically underpaid and "lucky to have a job at all." Good times. Anyway, I very quickly learned to hold on to extras and backups because ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ?
And here we are. ๐
I think it's cool that something I purchased specifically for my channel is coming in useful for life in general. Granted, it can't keep up with the miserable Texas heat, but it's better than nothing and it should keep me going until the HVAC repair tech gets here late this afternoon.
It's gonna be a long day...
๐ UPDATE: The system turned out to be fine. Texas has an awful unregulated power grid that's rife with surges and interruptions. One of these occurred the night before the system stopped working which caused it to shut off to prevent damage to its components, but it wasn't able to recover automatically afterwards. I turned everything off and on again at my breaker box, which was the solution โ only I didn't know that because I didn't wait long enough for the system to fully come back online and actually start blowing cool air. I felt uncooled air coming out and thought it was busted, so I set it to off because I didn't want it to damage itself if something had really gone wrong. A day without AC because I was impatient! ๐ซ Oh well. Everything's OK now, and maybe someone will see this and learn from my mistake.
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๐ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐น ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฌ,๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐! ...two months ago! ๐
I've been pretty consistent about providing a State of the Channel for every 10,000 subscribers gained, but I fell behind this time because I've been working on a ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต of stuff. That's okay โ better late than never! So, let's talk about what's going on over here and what you can expect to see from me in the future.
๐ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐๐ง๐๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ถ๐น๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ
We can't talk about reaching 100,000 subscribers without talking about the cool plaque that comes with that huge milestone! I've attached a photo of it to this post, but you can also watch me earn, order, and unbox it here, if you're interested: https://youtu.be/jERbSvd-Ga0
๐ป ๐ฆ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ
We're officially in the prototyping stage! At the moment, we're evaluating size options. A bigger machine means better low frequencies (bass) which is very important to me, but I also don't want it to be ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ big. It's a delicate balance. To help me cover the costs of researching, designing, engineering, programming, manufacturing, and marketing this awesome device, I'm planning some fundraisers in the near future.
๐ข ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐ฑ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป
For those of you keeping up: can you believe it's been a year since I quit my job to work on this channel full-time? It flew right by, at least for me! I started my own limited liability company (DJ Grossman, LLC) a while ago to make it all official, and I can say with certainty now that doing so was a smart move. I love being my own boss, but it does come with a lot of responsibilities and administrative burdens that, while necessary, cost time that could have been spent on the creative work that makes the channel what it is. I'm not complaining โ I actually like this stuff and am moderately good at it (I earned an MBA 15 years ago in preparation), so I'm very happy with how things turned out. I've still got a lot to learn, but that's part of what makes it fun!
๐ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐
I have a list of about 50 ideas (many of which are your requests) and I'm doing my best to work through as many of them as I can before I dive into any huge new projects. Feel free to add to this ever-growing list if there's something you'd really love to hear!
๐ค ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐๐พ๐๐ถ๐ฝ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐
I love my ZOOM H6, but it's a bit unwieldy and tends to work better in situations where it gets to be completely stationary. I recently invested in a ZOOM H1essential and some accessories so I can more easily record things like walking around in places with pleasant atmospheric audio. For example, a stroll through the shopping mall might be nice.
๐ซง ๐ฉ๐ถ๐๐๐ฎ๐น๐
Periodically, I brainstorm about what kind of visuals I could pair with my audio to attract more viewers and grow the channel in new ways. The time and effort required to do what I think I want to do seems overwhelming, so I give up and go back to focusing strictly on my audio offerings. To resolve this, I'm collaborating with an artist who is going to create a series of visuals so I don't have to. I'm not sure when they'll be ready, but I hope you'll have the opportunity to see them (...literally) in the near future.
๐๏ธ ๐ฉ๐ผ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ
I've been promising to use my voice in relaxation audio for quite a while now, but it just hasn't happened because I want content featuring my voice to have music backing it, and I want it to be ๐ฎ๐บ music. The holdup there is that I haven't gotten back into writing music yet.
๐ต ๐ ๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ
Why haven't I gotten back into writing music yet? Well, I've always been very particular about my compositions (surprise!) and I don't want to produce bad stuff. I'm concerned that if I start composing without having most of my other tasks under control, the quality of the music won't be all that great and we'll all be terribly unsatisfied. I've got to get some other things done first.
๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต
Not a lot is going on with regard to merch at the moment, but there should be a new design featuring Blossom, the Pink Noise Cat, coming soon! You can browse my shop at shop.djgrossman.com/
๐ฎ ๐๐ฒ๐'๐ ๐ฃ๐น๐ฎ๐๐
My Let's Plays (recordings of me playing old games) have been getting a little bit of attention recently, which is nice. It helps to be reminded that there are viewers out there who enjoy them and would like to see more. The challenge is that it's extraordinarily difficult to find time to work on them, and they're probably my lowest priority because they're essentially a hobby.
๐ฃ ๐ ๐ถ๐ฑ-๐ฟ๐ผ๐น๐น ๐๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต
I don't have any news about the mid-roll ad bug (https://youtu.be/ndeUVgZMh1Y for more information). I'm not sure if I ever will, because YouTube's been very consistent about saying they're going to fix it โ and then not fixing it. I've taken to advising viewers who get mid-roll ads during my content to either subscribe to YouTube Premium if they can afford it, or just switch to Odysee. There's nothing else I can do at this point. Here's my Odysee channel: odysee.com/@DJGrossman
I'm turning a corner on a lot of the tasks I've needed to get done over the past few months (writing this post was one of them, in fact), so I expect to have a little more time to devote to the upcoming projects I've shared here. At the very least, you know I'm always working on ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. ๐
Oh! I almost forgot: about a month ago, the channel reached 100,000,000 total views! ๐ฒ It's incredible to know my content has been used that many times over the years.
Thanks so much for being part of this journey with me. There's no channel without you. ๐
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๐ From the highest high, to the lowest low...
The channel just reached 100,000 subscribers a few weeks ago, and my YouTube Silver Creator Award (the cool plaque thing you might see in the background of some YouTuber's videos) arrived two days ago. I've recorded a video about it and am in the process of editing it before uploading. It's very exciting and I can't wait to share it with you all. ๐ I'll also be sharing my State of the Channel update, which is several weeks late by now.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that after nearly a decade of uploading things to this channel, and a mere few weeks after reaching 100,000 subscribers, I just received my first antisemitic comment.
**UPDATE: Let me interrupt myself and be crystal clear about something that a few knuckle-draggers who have responded to this since I first posted it seem to have been incapable of understanding. This isn't my first rodeo. I get rude comments all the time from cruel, nasty people. I'm not sure what drives a person to be like that in response to a relaxation noise video, but I accepted long ago that if that's how they choose to spend precious moments of their life, that's their problem and I can't help them. To preserve the safe and welcoming environment here, I delete those comments, ban the people who leave them, and maybe even report them to YouTube if they're really bad. Life goes on, no harm done, and I sleep just fine at night. However, what I'm talking about here isn't your average mean comment. It's antisemitism; full-on hate speech. This is an entirely different problem and it's not the kind of thing we just shrug off and allow to keep happening like it's normal. It's not, and we must call it out and humiliate anyone engaging in it.**
I've been holding my breath and waiting for this to happen since day 1 because my last name โ Grossman โ is often (though not always) associated with people of Jewish heritage. I've always known that could make me an accidental lightning rod, and I've been fortunate to have avoided it for as long as I did.
The irony is that in my case, it's simply a name. I have no particular ancestral/ethnic/cultural background beyond "disaffected Texan," and religion is not a part of my life. The fact that someone said something so vile was bad enough in its own right, but to say it to me was flat out weird because I'm not even a member of the group being targeted โ which only underscores how absurd the bigotry is in the first place. If you're fortunate enough to not know this already, let me tell you: it's surreal to have someone spew pure hatred at you for something you don't identify with or understand. Sadly, I know this won't be the last time.
The world today is such that this sort of behavior has become widely accepted. I'm only 40 and I can still recall a time when people mostly kept that filth to themselves because society was quick to shame them for it, but it's not like that anymore. It's important to remember that hate speech is not the same thing as free speech. Antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, transphobia, racism, and all other forms of bigotry are reprehensible and have no place in a civilized world. We can have grievances with one another as we navigate these extremely turbulent times, but make sure they're for the right things. We don't have to be best friends with everyone, but hating someone because of their appearance, accent, background โ or name โ is senseless.
In the moment, all I could do was hit the "Report" icon and hope YouTube takes care of it appropriately. I felt like that wasn't enough, though, so I'm making this post to share the experience with anyone who cares to read about it. Looks like you read it, so thank you.
UPDATE: Take a look at the pinned comment. That makes number two. ๐
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๐คฏ ๐ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐น ๐ผ๐ณ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฌ,๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐!
I don't have my usual State of the Channel update prepared yet, but I'll share more about my current work and upcoming plans a bit later. I just wanted to mark this moment because it's kind of a big deal. We're in "YouTube's going to send you a silver plaque" territory, here. Very exciting! ๐
Thank you to everyone who's hit the Subscribe button over the years and tuned in on the regular to hear your favorite audio. Sure, I made the content... but you made ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด. ๐
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๐ต๏ธ You're not getting mid-roll ads during my videos... ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต?
YouTube's got a bug that plays mid-roll ads even when the channel owner has disabled them. It's awful and I can't get a clear answer about if/when YouTube's engineers are ever going to fix it. If you start getting mid-roll ads on content that shouldn't have them and aren't in a position to get YouTube Premium, you may want to try Odysee because they're 100% ad-free: odysee.com/@DJGrossman
That said, my channel currently gets 160,000 views per day, and a whopping 85% of those are from return viewers. My dedicated core audience is keeping this whole operation afloat! THANK YOU! I figure you wouldn't all return each night if you were getting mid-roll ads blasting you awake, but it's important for me to check anyway.
So... do you get mid-roll ads during my videos?
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My channel just reached 90,000 subscribers! ๐ฅณ
I shall now regale you with what's happened, what's going on, and what's to come. That's right: it's the State of the Channel update!
But before we jump in, I just have to say ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ธ โ this one really snuck up on me! One minute, I'm working on my thunder audio, then before I know it, the channel's earned its 90,000th subscriber. It's absolutely incredible. We're ๐ด๐ฐ close to 100,000 โ the big one! ๐คฏ How is this even real? OK, OK, onto the news...
โ๏ธ ๐ง๐ต๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ
After nearly a year of working on this project on-and-off, I finally got it done and can now produce beautiful thunder mixes with the push of a button. How? Well, I recorded 72 hours of thunderstorms, isolated the thunder audio from the rain and other background noise, saved and categorized over 300 individual thunder samples, and wrote a program that can use them to generate audio that sounds like natural, unpredictable thunderstorms. I'm a nerd, so I named the program Thor. ๐จ I've only published one of its results so far (Relaxing Thunder + Rain on a Porch, Black Screen โ๏ธโฌ โข 12 hours โข No mid-roll ads โ https://youtu.be/il_7Fys4yKg), but I've got others in the queue and will be uploading them in the coming weeks if I'm able to stay on schedule. I really hope you like these because this is far and away the most time I've ever spent on any individual project!
๐ป ๐ฆ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ
I met with my product designer about this earlier today, in fact! We've come up with something ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ unique and cool, and I can't wait to share it with you! It will likely be several months before I'm ready to share the feature list and conceptual renders, but once we reach that point, you'll have the opportunity to invest in the product shortly after.
๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต
Plenty of great apparel featuring Chloe and Terra is available in my shop at shop.djgrossman.com/! I do take requests, so if you've got a great idea, reach out and let's make it happen. ๐ I need to get things moving for the as-yet-unnamed Pink Noise Cat, too โ but she definitely needs a name first. Any ideas?
๐ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐
My to-do list has nearly 50 ideas on it right now, so I've got my work cut out for me for... ever. ๐ Really though, there's no shortage of stuff for me to engineer and/or record. I'll do my best, but time's in very short supply lately!
๐๏ธ ๐ฉ๐ผ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ
I still get compliments on my voice (thanks, by the way ๐ฅฐ) and have every intention of using it in new content. The hold-up is that I'm going to need background music for that content, which means I need to start composing again!
๐ต ๐ ๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ
Speaking of music... ๐ We're getting there, I promise. Now that most of the hard work for my thunder project is done, I can finish up a few other things and then get back into composing. I'll be purchasing a subscription to the software I became comfortable with a long time ago, but I'll have to re-learn a lot because it's received over a decade's worth of upgrades since the last time I used it. That's... quite a while.
๐ซง ๐ฉ๐ถ๐๐๐ฎ๐น๐
I played around with Midjourney to produce my most recent video (Light Rain, Blue Veranda ๐ง๏ธ๐ฆ๐ก โข 12 hours โข No mid-roll ads โ https://youtu.be/XKk-nS4q8TA), and I think the result is gorgeous. The video isn't getting as many views as I'd like, so it may be difficult to justify doing more stuff like this right now. Sometimes, the world makes it painfully clear what deserves your focus (and what doesn't). ๐
๐ฎ ๐๐ฒ๐'๐ ๐ฃ๐น๐ฎ๐๐
I really miss recording my Let's Play of Morrowind, and I'd like to get back into it this year. You know, with all this spare time I have. ๐ I'll do my best...
๐ ๐๐น๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐
I'm very focused on YouTube right now, but if you're getting hit with mid-roll ads that are disrupting your focus or sleep, you can always give my Odysee channel a try: odysee.com/@DJGrossman
๐ฃ ๐ ๐ถ๐ฑ-๐ฟ๐ผ๐น๐น ๐๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต
If you've been on my channel long enough, you've probably seen me talking about YouTube's bug that lets mid-roll ads play during videos that have mid-roll ads disabled in their monetization settings (and if not, you can watch https://youtu.be/ndeUVgZMh1Y for more information). Unfortunately, the latest update from my contact in YouTube Partner Support isn't encouraging: ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ๐ฃ๐ฆ we'll have a fix by April. The engineering team has made a habit of pushing this back over and over again, and I've lost nearly all hope that we'll ever see a resolution. I'll keep checking in because this is important, but I'm not holding my breath. If you're getting mid-roll ads during my content, your best bet is to either try one of my live streams or switch to my aforementioned Odysee channel.
๐ ๐๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ
I already posted about this a little while ago, but my fundraiser for the American Tinnitus Association has shot way past USD $2,000 in donations! Y'all rock. Click here for more information about the ATA: www.ata.org/
I say it a lot and don't want it to lose meaning, but I have to say it again: thank you, thank you, thank you. Wanna know something? I wasn't kidding when I said everything is just flying by quickly. I turned 40 two days ago, which means I'm officially in "blink and you'll miss it" territory. I wake up each morning marveling that I have somehow been given the opportunity to take things slowly and contribute to the world in ways that I find meaningful. That's all thanks to you, my audience. You've given me the option to live life on my terms, and I'm ever-mindful of it. ๐
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โ ๏ธ I have to reupload a couple of my videos!
I recently uploaded Relaxing Thunder + Rain on a Porch, a project that took me most of 2024 to complete (yeah... I'll talk about that in another post! ๐
).
Unfortunately, unbeknownst to me, the video was breaking and buffering for many viewers. Once I knew this was happening, I reviewed several of my other recent uploads and discovered that my Dryer Sounds + Deep Green Noise had a similar issue. Yikes!
As it turns out, the files are perfectly fine on my computer, but something is wrong with the versions on YouTube. Either there were network problems during uploading, or YouTube's just experiencing technical difficulties of some kind lately. There's no way for me to know, but at least reuploading seems to fix it.
You'll see that I've already reuploaded the dryer video. The thunder video will be replaced this coming Sunday, January 5th.
๐ I wish to offer a huge and sincere ๐ง๐๐๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ to โช@gaminginthestars4262โฌ for being thoughtful enough to leave a comment and let me know something was wrong.
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๐ต Did you know I'm on โชโช@Spotifyโฌ?
You can find my work here: open.spotify.com/artist/7qC0sPEhnlG7oulFKRNj8J
Anyway, they just sent me this cool #SpotifyWrapped summary for 2024. ๐ค
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๐ My viewers have generously donated $2,000 to my fundraiser for the American Tinnitus Association!
I saw the number as I was checking on my channel this evening and it brought a huge smile to my face. ๐
As someone with tinnitus, this fundraiser has a personal element for me. Millions of us suffer in silence (literally โ a quiet room is torture), so it's mystifying and frustrating that there hasn't been more research into the condition. We're usually told we can either live with it, mask it, or try some kind of experimental doodad that may or may not work. It's not enough.
The โช@AmericanTinnitusAssociationโฌ (www.ata.org/) is one of several tinnitus-focused organizations working towards finding causes and cures, but clearly more help is needed. It's going to take a lot of effort (and money โ it always comes down to money, unfortunately) to make meaningful progress.
I'm hoping to bring more attention to tinnitus as my channel grows in the coming years, though I'm not sure how just yet. One thing at a time.
I appreciate your contributions so very much. Thank you. ๐ฅฐ
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โญ The best relaxing noise videos and streams on YouTube โ over 100 million served!
๐ I've covered the entire noise "color spectrum" and have also published recordings of real-life sounds like fans, rain, and more, so hopefully you can find something that meets your needs.
๐ฎ I love Let's Plays and decided to make a few of my own. I mostly do games from my childhood and my style is very methodical, detailed, and relaxed. They may put you to sleep better than the noise videos do!
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