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in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
I'm not enjoying the "darned if I do, darned if I don't" scenario making unedited videos on epic auto towers is putting me in.
Take my time to read things? Viewer retention tanks (that's just how it works across youtube - people don't click videos to watch a guy read text on the screen).
Don't take the time to read things? Complaining comments on every epic auto towers video about how I didn't take the time to read something.
If the comments for that game keep annoying me - I'm just going to disable comments at some point on future episodes. Hopefully it doesn't come to that and if it does, sorry to all the nice commenters who don't deserve that. I want to enjoy reading comments, not get annoyed every time I open up the comments section.
In the future when I stumble across games that get an unusually high number of annoying comments I won't make a community post explaining why - I'll just disable the comments (maybe pin an explanation on one video). So if you come across a new series on the channel with comments disabled - you know why. I'm also going to disable comments on this post because this isn't meant to be a debate (which some people will try to turn it into), it's just a casual fyi.
I like making videos but the social part of social media is very much a mixed bag from the content creator side of things. I just want to chill and play games, not get nitpicked to death over every minor misplay I make on a game from the minority of viewers who take it way too seriously.
Sorry to everybody else who's chill and cool. I'm just not built for the "dealing with the conflicting desires of the masses" aspect of content creation. I'd rather focus on having fun and being entertaining than worry about "oh no, if I don't pause to read this really well 3 people are gonna be annoyed in the comments section" and all that.
Rant over, take it easy.
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I offer you more videos per day and greater game variety on the channel... but the price is they're unedited.
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Won't matter to most of you but thought I should be open and upfront about it:
I have a few of my older videos that just keep getting views (good problem to have) BUT they're in an old niche I don't make content for anymore AND they get a lot of repetitive annoying comments (can't tell you how many times I've been asked "game name" on a video where I literally have a pinned comment saying the game name).
So I turned off comments on two of them and paused comments on a couple other (should have just paused on all of them but I didn't think to do that until too late for 2 of them).
Doesn't really matter (except maybe to people who really want to comment on years-old videos). Just making this post so there's a clear record showing when I started doing this, and why.
I do get tired of annoying comments in general. I'm considering having a side channel where comments are turned off for the entire channel - so I can have a place where I can make content without getting annoying comments from a vocal minority. Don't know if I'll bother though, I'm pretty busy trying to get better at making videos here for the main channel, don't really need a distraction like that.
Anyways, if you see other videos having comments paused or turned off on my channel - just know it's because there's a vocal minority that leaves really annoying comments sometimes and I'm just tired of them making me hate reading comments.
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Variety content enjoyers:
How important is me winning games in my videos to you?
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I chatted with viewers on stream a bit (I unlisted the vod so the algorithm doesn't push it). Somebody suggested taking old game series I retired from the channel because their views were too low (like Peglin) and making them into member's-only content.
And I like that idea. There's a lot of games like Peglin that I enjoy and like a lot but just don't get the views for whatever reason. Turning them into member's-only videos/streams (probably videos) sounds fun and also sounds like a nice way for me to say thanks to the people who support the channel for no reason other than the goodness of their hearts (I've never done member's-only content before so they've been supporting literally just for kindness' sake).
I don't know if I'll edit member's-only videos or not. Might mix it up, some get edited, some don't, idk.
I might also make videos on games that don't really fit the current niche of the channel but I just want to play for fun (my "me games" list).
I know some people are going to complain that the extra content is hidden behind a pay wall. I get it but these are games that don't do well on the channel anyways (meaning I gave everyone a collective chance to watch them and have them become series but most people said "nah, I'll pass"). So it's either retire them or do the occasional member's-only video (because as far as I know making unpopular member videos doesn't hurt a channel in the way that make unpopular normal videos does).
tldr: There are games I like that didn't do well on the channel (or I anticipate won't do well). I might start doing the occasional/rare member's-only videos on some of those.
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I have a list of "just for me" games that I want to play but don't quite fit the channel right now for various reasons.
Typically I just play and enjoy these games off-camera, but I had someone become a channel member recently even though I haven't streamed in a very long time.
So I'm considering doing (rare and infrequent) members-only streams where I just chill out and play some of my "me" games, as kind of a thanks to the channel members.
Both the streams and the vods would be kept as members-only because the quality is honestly just not content-worthy except for the super fans who just want to vibe with me. I imagine some of the time I probably won't even talk much, just vibe.
This isn't an attempt to get more channel members or anything like that (I'd stream more regularly if I cared about that).
Not sure yet though, just thinking about the idea out loud here.
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They put me in a video game!
Check out the demo on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2682860/The_Dark_Horde/
Not sponsored, just wanted to share!
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Had to delete the stream and also the video for the game "The Dark Throng" because the game used a bunch of copyrighted music and I got a bunch of claims. Figured it was smarter to delete it before some of those claims get turned into strikes. The Dark Throng is a fun game, just unfortunately the dev picked music that isn't youtube-safe. Hopefully they address that in the future.
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