Thank you so much to everyone who left a comment on my latest video, even if it was just a comment you said silently to yourself in your head.
I've waited until now to read over them all, and it's been inspiring to see so many people sharing their own stories, humbling to read such lovely and supportive comments, and genuinely emotional to know that there's people out there now who are at least planning to speak to a doctor after watching. I was hoping by being open about my health that I might help some people on an emotional level, but knowing that someone might end up *physically* better off as well is such an incredible bonus side effect!
I also want to give a special shout out to any fellow AS suffers who have offered advice based on their own experiences. You've actually made me reflect on my own treatment and I'm already considering speaking to my doctors about some changes.
I probably won't give any more health updates after this; it's really not the focus of my channel, and I'm not super into the idea of sharing more personal things than I already have. At the same time, I am really fortunate to have such a kindhearted audience who is nothing but supportive to me (and their fellow viewers!) whenever I do decide to talk about something like this. So once again, thank you so, so much, you beautiful, beautiful souls <3
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In my latest video I speculated that Valve releasing TF2's SDK could be a sign that they might not even continue with the seasonal workshop updates (Scream Fortress, Smissmas, etc) moving forward.
However not only have they just put out a call for community arms, but this time it is for MvM content for the first time LITERALLY EVER!
Man, sometime it's *great* to be wrong about something 😅
ICYMI: www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=247188
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Team Fortress 2 fans, would you be interested in a video covering the final comic's biggest reveals and the story's still unanswered mysteries if that video released 2 weeks from now?
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My next video is two things: first, a celebration of a *decade of doing YouTube!* On 24 May 2014 I released “5 Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know About Spy” - my first video with voice over and the point where I decided to “do YouTube” with any sort of conscious effort. And now, 10 years later, I am STILL doing YouTube in part thanks to what I learned and experienced making and releasing that now ancient listicle. So tomorrow’s video is as much a callback to that seminal release as much as it is a “greatest hits” of many of the cool things that have featured on the Casperr channel over all these years… It’ll make sense once you see it!
Secondly, tomorrow’s video is the bookend for the current era of Casperr. I’m going to spend some time working on multiple videos simultaneously - an intentional effort to craft a “season” of content with a common theme and style between all the videos - so when I eventually return it will be a sort of “soft relaunch” for the channel. Still very recognisably Casperr, but with a shiny new vibe that I am really excited about creating, and I hope that you will enjoy once it’s here!
Of course if Valve just so happen to launch a brand new free-to-play class-based shooter in the meantime then I may show up before all of that new stuff is ready, but we’ll cross that bridge if we come to it 🙂
Until then, all I have left to say is *thanks everyone for a decade of tuning in* <3
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ICYMI: 🎞🎥 My latest video is EVERYTHING we know about the Administrator's real identity, and all the other interesting lore that comes with such a secretive person. Check it out if you haven't already, and do let me know what YOU think the truth is of her name, her age, and her super mysterious grand plan! watch video on watch page
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*IMPORTANT UPDATE ABOUT TF2 SUMMER UPDATE*
Valve have now updated the blog post to remove both of the contentious phrases. "Full-on update-sized" and "who knows what else" have both been removed and replaced with "full-on holiday-sized" and "other community-contributed fixes". They are making it as clear as possible that they (Valve) will not be making content for this update, essentially confirming everything I tried to stress in my video. A shame, to be sure, but an expected one - www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=189493
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*What was YOUR favourite Casperr video in 2022?* What would you love to see more of in 2023 and beyond?
I won't have anything else out this side of the new year, so I just wanted to say thank you *so much* for your support in 2022.
Despite being my lowest amount of uploads ever it a year, in was the biggest year for this channel in pretty much every other metric, which is insane! I hope that's a sign that my videos are genuinely some of the best I've ever made (they're certainly some of the ones I am most proud of), although I'm sure that some algorithm-beloved Shorts helped along the way.
Either way, this was also the year we hit *100,000* subscribers on the channel, which for the longest time I genuinely thought I would never hit, so once again a sincere and massive thank you to every one of you!
I hope you all managed to achieved something you set out to do this year, but if you didn't then don't worry, because next year is right around the corner :)
Wherever you may be in the world, I'll see you here soon for more TF2 and video gaming trivia/interesting facts/stories/whatever <3
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*Sorry about the recent Short ending up in your sub feed!*
My fault - I completely forgot to untick the "send to subscribers" box like I have on all my previous Shorts.
I make Shorts based on my regular videos as a means to share my content and channel to an audience who otherwise wouldn't see it. This channel has nearly doubled in size since I started doing this, so it's obviously effective. All the same, I don't want to annoy my existing subscribers with content they have already seen, so I always untick the box that says "send to subscribers" meaning you should never see these videos in your regular subscription feed.
Unfortunately there is no option for me to associate Shorts with a long-form video or to prevent YouTube recommending the Shorts to you outside of the main subscription feed.
If I could tick a box that says "don't show this to subscribers even in recommendations" then I would.
If I could tick a box that says "don't show this to anyone who has seen the long-form video these are based on" then I would.
I do what I can to stop duplicate content for people, but I can only control what goes out to subs and nothing else.
If you get recommended a Short and you don't want to watch it then don't watch it. Hopefully the time it takes to skip or scroll past a Short is a minor inconvenience that fans don't mind.
Obviously if you do perceive this as more than a minor inconvenience I would love to know why, so please do let me know so I can understand how this impacts people.
But my bad on the most recent one - I've double checked the other Shorts scheduled to release and nothing else should appear in your sub feed.
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*Which impossible unusual would you most like to own?*
All these 1-of-a-kind unusuals (and more!) are showcased and their stories told in my latest video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSOAE...
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Trivia, interesting facts, video essays about video games (mostly Team Fortress 2).
Check out my "NEW VIEWERS" playlist for a great cross section of my content youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQEGdhQmGLeGEEA9hNQaQPV…
Also featuring popular PC games, sometimes Nintendo games and oftentimes indie games, particularly wholesome ones 😽