I busted my hump all day today sanding and oiling a door from the 1880’s for a job, and I come home to this. What does this mean? I have no idea what they’re talking about.
Is it because I’ve been getting thousands of views posting short clips of Family Guy? For one thing, they’re not monetized, and for another, I make it crystal clear that it’s not my content (and they permitted it). Take a gander at my Videos page. I’ve made three What’s The Deal videos, all of which took no small amount of effort, and not one has cracked 100 views. Combined, they don’t even crack 200.
As far as my original shit goes, “John Vomits” is my most popular video of all at 45K views… but I posted that 6 years ago. My flawless impersonation of Droopy Dog as Fredo from The Godfather has 26K views, but those took 5 years to accrue. Droopy Dog from The Dark Knight has 1K views so far, after 2 years. Meanwhile, my feature-length, award-winning 2008 animated movie that took me three years to produce? 362 views at present. With creator commentary? 50 VIEWS. 50.
Hey- how about that special Ceaseless Fables trailer for the strip’s 2/20/2020 relaunch, that took me forever to painstakingly edit? 60 VIEWS. There are literally videos of me belching that get more traction. Now I don’t have “sufficient channel history”? I might have broken “Community Guidelines”? Why, because I’m not a pederast like literally every major YouTuber? Because I’m not a fatherless female idiot teasing equally fatherless male idiots for “superchats”? WTF did I do wrong exactly?
You know what folks? THIS is why I lose motivation to create video content. THIS is why I don’t livestream. Why bother? I can post content here, on Bitchute and on Rumble and they leave me alone. Granted I get even fewer views in those places, but c’est la vie as the old folks like myself say. What is YouTube’s problem exactly?
My latest animated cartoon, which I’ve been working on over the past three years (thanks as always, paid-subscription-based Adobe Creative Suite), is nearing completion. Actually it’s one of two cartoons that I’m working on finishing before the end of the year. I’m gonna put a work-in-progress video of the former up here on my Patreon either tonight or tomorrow, schedule permitting. Behind the paywall, for my paying customers. I’m considering never putting it on YouTube for free, once the cartoon is completed. I have literally no reason to give it away. I’m sitting here counting loose change so maybe I can have something for lunch tomorrow. As it is I’m eating frozen catfish for dinner that I got at a food pantry back in February. Everything I earned working today goes to late bills and (if I’m lucky) late rent. I am flat broke. Again. Think how stupid I feel giving away my hard work on YouTube when it gains me nothing.
So yeah. It’s long past time to start focusing solely on paying customers. If you hate the idea of joining my Patreon, I have an option wherein I can charge a few bucks to view a post. This is new, so it’ll be an excuse for me to try it out.
This is one of the first animations I ever did, over 20 years ago. Back then it got something like a quarter-million hits and was seen around the world. It currently has 360 views. Gee, you think maybe the fix is in? How do you think that makes me feel?
Thanks for reading. You know where to find me. God bless.