{"id":3295,"date":"2025-07-01T04:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2025-07-01T04:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:31:14","slug":"wtf-does-this-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/2025\/07\/01\/wtf-does-this-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF Does This Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. <\/p>\n

Is it because I’ve been getting thousands of views posting short clips of Family Guy<\/em>? 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)<\/strong>. Take a gander at my Videos page<\/a>. I’ve made three What’s The Deal<\/em>\u00a0videos, all of which took no small amount of effort, and not one has cracked 100 views. Combined<\/em>, they don’t even crack 200. <\/p>\n

As far as my original shit goes, “John Vomits<\/a>” is my most popular video of all at 45K views… but I posted that 6 years ago.<\/em>\u00a0My flawless impersonation of Droopy Dog as Fredo<\/a>\u00a0from The Godfather<\/em>\u00a0has 26K views, but those took 5 years to accrue. Droopy Dog from The Dark Knight<\/a>\u00a0has 1K views so far, after 2 years. Meanwhile, my feature-length, award-winning 2008 animated movie<\/a>\u00a0that took me three years to produce? 362 views<\/strong>\u00a0at present. With creator commentary<\/a>? 50 VIEWS. <\/strong>\u00a050.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hey- how about that special Ceaseless Fables<\/em>\u00a0trailer for the strip’s 2\/20\/2020 relaunch<\/a>, that took me forever to painstakingly edit? 60 VIEWS. <\/strong>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? <\/p>\n

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<\/a>\u00a0and on Rumble and they leave me alone. Granted I get even fewer views<\/em>\u00a0in those places, but c’est la vie<\/em>\u00a0as the old folks like myself say. What is YouTube’s problem exactly? <\/p>\n

My latest animated cartoon, which I’ve been working on over the past three years<\/em>\u00a0(thanks as always, paid-subscription-based Adobe Creative Suite), is nearing completion. Actually it’s one of two<\/em>\u00a0cartoons 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.<\/strong>\u00a0I’m considering never<\/em>\u00a0putting it on YouTube for free, once the cartoon is completed. I have literally no reason<\/em>\u00a0to 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.<\/strong>\u00a0Think how stupid I feel giving away my hard work on YouTube when it gains me nothing<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

This is one of the first animations<\/a>\u00a0I 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? <\/p>\n

Thanks for reading. You know where to find me. God bless. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … <\/p>\n

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