Monday uploads are coming back!
I wish I could say this was because of fun reasons, but the fact is Youtube demonetizes most of my videos these days, the algorithm hasn't been kind to me in a while, and my Patreon payouts have been decreasing every month for the last few months. I've gone from gaining 1k subscribers a month to less than 300. I don't say this to make anyone feel bad, they're just facts and they've been stressing me out. As some of you know I'm trying to move out as I'm not in a great living situation, and then once I'm moved I need to be making enough money to stay in that apartment. I don't know what else I can do to try and get things back to where they were other than go back to what I was doing when things were at their peak.
For those unaware, back in September 2023 to December 2023 I temporarily switched from 2 uploads a week to 3. This was because of Youtube demonitising most of my videos. I dropped back down to 2 a week as doing 3 a week was stressful and burning me out. However, it was the most successful period I've ever had on Youtube so I think the smartest move would for me to go back to that.
Hopefully it won't stress me out as much as last time, and at the very least I shouldn't have to worry about running low on audio ideas as I have many Patreon members now who leave requests on our audio requests roundup posts over there every month. (Requesting an audio on Patreon doesn't guarantee your request will be fulfilled, but I prioritise Patreon requests over requests from social media). So if you want to keep the idea pool full then please be sure to leave your requests for audios on the request roundup posts over on Patreon.
Thank you guys so much for your continued support, I know I'm incredibly lucky to be getting any views and be making any money from my audios and art. I have so many ideas of OCs I want to introduce you guys too, taking other OCs of mine and making them into audio OCs, comics, multiple-choice-ending audios, and so much more. It's just finding the time between audios, running my Etsy shop, apartment hunting, streaming, general life stuff, etc. But I hope you guys stick around. Thank you.
All the original character stickers and keychain rewards from the double donothon are done! All the stickers are in stock and the keychains are up for pre-order. New OCs, Valentine and Father Hawthorn (aka the Guilty Priest), have been added as options on the older listings. The sticker and keychain versions of the flower portraits have been split into two separate listings. And the Ambrose and Arden keychains are getting re-stocked after selling out last time.
These stickers and keychains were rewards requested by my Twitch chat and Discord members and I can't thank you guys enough for coming along to the donothon streams, whether you donated or not, and for liking my original characters enough to want more merch of them. I feel so incredibly amazed and grateful that my silly little boys are so well loved.
Full transparency with the keychains: last time I ordered 25 of Ambrose and 25 or Arden and sold 24 or each so I could keep a copy for myself. However some of the keychains arrived damaged (the printing of the image in places looked as though liquid had gotten in there, like little splotches of water) and I had to reduce the amount of keychains left available and some were kind enough to want the defective keychains. I reduce the risk of this happening again I'm going to order 25 or each but only sell 19, that way there's some wiggle room if some arrive defective and if none of them arrive defective then I will increase the amount of stock listed on Etsy.
Thank you guys so much for the support during the donothon!! Though it isn't over yet, and I have many more stickers left to make. I also have a couple more original character merch rewards to make in the form of bookmarks of all of them that look like body pillows, and a double-sided body pillow with Ambrose on one side and Arden on the other but those won't be made for a while yet.
Etsy Shop Home: emptymasks.etsy.com/
Goober Stickers: emptymasks.etsy.com/listing/1629094530
Pixel Chibi Stickers: emptymasks.etsy.com/listing/1643268921
Flower Portrait Stickers: emptymasks.etsy.com/listing/1726363599
Flower Portrait Keychains: emptymasks.etsy.com/listing/1629097858
Update to the donothon and how it's going! We were raising money for my partner's dental bills, and within 2 days of streaming that goal was met! Thank you guys so much!!
We had said if we reached the goal then anything extra will be going towards my moving out (expenses like a deposit on an apartment, furniture, a new pc as my current one is 15 years old, moving van costs, travel) and my top surgery fund. I'll only be able to get top surgery once I'm moved out and in a better environment. If you would like to contribute towards that I have made bonus goals that donations will count towards. Ko-Fi lets you donate at minimum £1 and no donation is too small, every little bit really does help and means so much to me. You can donate without watching the streams and while I'm not live and your donation will still count towards unlocking these extra goals. My partner is also continuing with her wheel spins for stickers, buttons, bookmarks and more! Each time the total donated to my Ko-Fi reaches a multiple of £20 that equals one spin of the wheel. Any rewards I've crossed through with a red line (on my image) means we've already unlocked those ones, any not crossed through are ones we haven't reached yet. All of my partner's goals have been locked, it's just the wheel spins left.
I'm trying to go live every Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday until the timer reaches zero. The timer is currently at 68 hours so I'll be here a while as every £3 donated adds 5 minutes to the timer. We also have 4 giveaways going on right now, you need to come into stream and tell me in chat while I'm live if you'd like to enter any of them, but remember my Twitch streams are 18+ only.
Thank you so much to anyone who has donated, who's taken part in the group Magma drawing we have going in the background during streams, and anyone who's just come along and watched even if you've just been lurking. This all means so much to me, I can't thank you enough.
If you have the means to donate and want too, here is my Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/dervampireprince
julia_b00’s dental bill donothon! (co-hosted by dervampireprince)
Staring on Thursday 11th of April 2024 - Staring at 10am BST / 2am PDT / 4am CDT
My partner @Juliab00audios suddenly has a very expensive dental bill that needs paying and in order to afford it her and myself are hosting a joint donothon across our streams with our own individual different goal rewards. Please come along to both our channels, donate if you can, and even if you can’t just showing up for moral support means a lot, and sharing our posts about the streams to boost it’s reach would be really helpful.
All donations should be sent to ko-fi.com/juliab00 ! You can donate even if you can't make the streams, they just won't count towards the goals and rewards unless you donate after April 10th.
The full dental bill is $3500 and I will make further push goals if we get past what I’ve listed so far.
After hitting $3500 any extra money raised will go towards my moving out fund to help me move out of my current bad living situation. Due to the timing of this donothon and it’s importance, my moving out donothon has been cancelled as it feels unfair to do two big donothons right after each other. So if you would like to contribute to help me move out, please help us hit Julia’s $3500 goal first, and then anything extra will go to me.
I will stream for a minimum of 6 hours per day and a maximum of 10 hours per day. If we hit 10 hours in one day I will continue the stream on later days until the timer hits zero.
How this works: Julia and I are sharing the same $3500 goal, which you will be able to see on her Ko-Fi page. Donating money to her Ko-Fi while Julia is live unlocks rewards on her list, donating while I am live unlocks rewards on my list. These are group goals meaning if two people donate $25 each that unlocks all goals up to and including the $50, they're not individual goals. For example: if Julia raises $500 during her first stream that does not unlock the $500 reward on my stream, we're reaching the rewards individually. If there's $500 in Ko-Fi after Julia's first stream, donating $50 on my stream only unlocks up to and including the $50 goal, we wouldn't be starting from the $500 reward. I hope that all makes sense, if not it'll probably make more sense as you see us reach goals on stream.
Streams will be on twitch.tv/julia_b00 and twitch.tv/dervampireprince ! Please be aware both our Twitch channels are 18+ only.
The Ghost stickers I've spent 2 months drawing are finally done! 69 different characters/designs available as both stickers and badges. It took so long because I wanted to be a completionist and get every Papa in all/most of their outfits and every ghoul in each outfit. Thank you to those who've been encouraging me to get these done, anyone who watched me draw them on stream, and everyone in my Discord.
(I didn't include young Nihil's ghouls because I didn't think there were proper designs or pictures until I accidentally came across a photo-op exhibition they did with young Nihil's costume and ghoul costumes on mannequins but by then I'd almost finished all of these and they don't have names and I didn't want to add more work for myself so I know this isn't 'technically' a complete list but please I've been drawing ghouls for so long please let me rest).
Etsy Shop Home: emptymasks.etsy.com/
Ghost Stickers: emptymasks.etsy.com/listing/1679660470
Ghost Badges: emptymasks.etsy.com/listing/1679663008
Karaoke VOD is live! Sorry for anyone who wanted to come and missed it, but last Saturday I finally did the 600 Twitch follower celebration karaoke stream, and the whole stream is up on my other channel @dervampireprincevods (I back up every single one of my streams here on Youtube). If you missed out but want to watch and see what I sing like, the video is here: https://youtu.be/tOA-M6zbqm4 . And if you want to come along to the next one it might not be far away, I do karaoke every +100 Twitch followers and I'm currently at 654, once we reach 700 it'll be karaoke time again. A reminder my Twitch and other socials are 18+ only, please respect and follow that. And thank you to everyone who came along to the stream and requested some songs!
Re-Re-Schedule Karaoke Celebration Stream and Other Updates
Alright we're all sick of me doing this. I still can't talk without pain and coughing and saying I'll be singing all day on Saturday just seems ridiculous and unhealthy. I'm not making a new post saying when the stream will be rescheduled too because I have no idea how long I'm going to be postponing it for. I shouldn't have pushed it back a week last time but I was being hopefully. It's just postponed until I do it now. So if you see me streaming on a Saturday it could be the karaoke stream, it could not be. Whenever I decide it's going to finally happen I'll say on Twitch the stream before and I'll put it as an event in my Discord. But I'm not trapping us in a loop of me making a big announcement post every week pushing this thing back.
I need to get over this cold, I need vocal rest, and I need to then prioritise recording audios because I only have until January 31st's audio pre-recorded and then I'll have run out. I hate falling behind with them but I literally haven't been able to talk. And while I appreciate the comments people have left saying you guys don't mind if I miss some uploads, it's not just about whether you guys get disappoint. These audios are my job, my income, income's already down this month since I dropped back to 2 uploads a week from 3 and closed audio commissions and I did not expect I'd also be unable to work for over a week on top of that so if I end up missing uploads that's bad news for me wanting to pay rent this month. The new stickers I was making for Etsy had to get put on pause, but I'm back to working on them now (...anyone like the band Ghost...) and I going to try and stream myself drawing them over on Twitch even though I can't talk much just for a bit of interaction and income. Going to try and do that today and maybe each day this week if it goes well. Hopefully I don't have to miss any uploads and I can be back to talking soon, at least enough to record once a day.
Thank you guys for your patience and well wishes.
Re-Schedule: Prince's 600 Twitch Follower Karaoke Celebration Stream!
I'm sorry for doing this, I hate announcing things and cancelling them, but some of you saw throughout Monday's stream I started getting sick and I definitely have some sort of flu or bad cold. I can't do much other than sit up in bed or lay down in bed at the moment. I don't think I'll be feeling better by the weekend, and even if I do I don't think it would be smart to exert myself by standing up singing on day on Saturday. And I don't think I'll be streaming on Friday either.
So the karaoke celebration stream will be pushed back a week to Saturday 27th of January. I hope I'm better by then. Audios will still be going up as normal as I always try and have a couple weeks recorded in advance in case something like me getting sick ever happens.
I'm sorry for the sudden change in schedule, I don't know how I got sick but I'm really not feeling well at all. Hopefully I'll be seeing you guys live next week.
Prince's 600 Twitch Follower Karaoke Celebration Stream!
Thank you guys so much for 600 followers on Twitch! Usually every 100 followers I do a karaoke stream to celebrate, and that's what we're doing! On Saturday 20th of January at 1pm UK time I'll be doing a karaoke stream over on Twitch.
The way they work is I have a list of 130+ songs I am willing to try and sing and you guys watching stream will request songs off that list for me to sing. I've got a range of pop, rock, musical theatre, anime, vocaloid and more songs for you guys to pick from. I always get really nervous with every karaoke stream, but you guys always seem to enjoy them so I try and be brave for you all. I hope to see some of you guys there!
www.twitch.tv/dervampireprince
Hi guys, firstly Merry Christmas and I'm sorry you're getting so many updates and pings from me so many days in a row but... Well Christmas isn't a fun time for me, it's very stressful and anxiety inducing here due to a certain family member I currently live with and am trying to get away from (hence the rush to move out this year that I keep mentioning). And the stress from just this morning has me hiding out in my room and looking at my list of things I need to do and... I think this has been coming for a while now, and I think you guys can guess what I'm going to say next when I say that I'm burning myself out.
Until September 2023 I used to post 2 audios/videos every week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Then around that time Youtube started hitting ASMR channels with lots of demonitsation (meaning Youtube won't allow ads on that video meaning I can't make any ad revenue from those videos). Videos that were completely safe for Youtube and within their guidelines were just getting flagged and I was suddenly not making as much money. In that panic I suddenly decided on upping to 3 audios per week... This had been very stressful to maintain. I said back then that it probably wouldn't be forever, that I'd have to drop back down to 2 audios once I felt more secure or until I burnt myself out... Well... the later has happened. Youtube is still putting restricted ads on a lot of my videos. Out of the last 8 videos 5 of them have limited ads, now yes that does mean the videos could in theory have some ads but in my case it means where I would have made £1 I'm now making around £0.15. And while I know dropping to 2 videos a week will be a dip in income, it hopefully with be a net positive in my mental health and stress levels.
We'll be going back to just Wednesday and Saturday uploads starting in 2024, as I already have today's audio made and scheduled and it's a big special one that's taken a lot of time and effort and maybe you can consider it my little Christmas gift to all of you.
Nothing else is going to change. Patreon will still have 2 exclusive spicy audios every month, I'm still streaming on Twitch (every Monday, Friday and Saturday and sometimes other days too), I'm still doing Etsy, I still have art commissions open (though audio commissions are now closed). Audios will still be a mix of fandom characters, original characters, royalty roleplays and BFE's with at least one of each types of those audios per month. And having more time to work on the audios means I can spend more time planning out and writing more series (like the visiting king and villain x hero series which have been so popular with you guys and brought so many of here, thank you so much for being interested in them) and expanding on my original characters.
Thank you so much to my amazing Patreon members and those who come along to my Twitch streams, especially those that give subs or bits or donations. Because of you guys and your support I feel financially secure enough to make this decision.
I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the year and a great 2024. And I hope to keep making content you all enjoy.
Hello my lovelies, you can call me Prince. I'm a neurodivergent trans man vampire, you're welcome to become one of my children of the night. I'm a voice actor and illustrator, making comfort and spicy audios. These videos are made possible by my Patrons. My Patreon benefits include Discord access, downloads and streaming of all my audios in HD and without ads or video intros and outros, and 2 exclusive spicy audios a month (depending on what tier you select). I also stream over on Twitch a few times a week.
My thumbnail art is by myself, and any photos in thumbnails were taken by myself of myself. Thumbnails prior to November 2022 featured images of myself and screenshots from the source material the fandom characters were from.
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