Regarding the series (A lot to read, but important)

Hello everyone, I want to start by apologizing for being inactive this month. A number of health-related issues have come up within my family, and I spent some time away to be with them. I’ve also been inactive because I’ve been working hard to strategize exactly how I’m going to continue the series. In all honesty, I didn’t receive even a quarter of the support I was hoping for—not just financially, but overall. I truly thought the pilot episode would gain more traction, but I severely overestimated the level of interest it would generate.

I recognize that the people who did watch it genuinely enjoyed it and want to see more, which makes this situation even more difficult. Realistically, there isn’t a clear pathway to continue the series in the way I originally envisioned. If I do continue, the episodes would need to be short-form (around 3–5 minutes) and I would need to appeal to a broader audience beyond the Brony community, which might require rebooting the series altogether (though I haven’t made a final decision on that yet).

My hope was to receive enough support to fund a small production team and release episodes more consistently. I want to make it absolutely clear that I place the responsibility for this entirely on myself—not on the algorithm, not on attention spans, and not on the audience. I created a pilot for a series that, frankly, doesn’t have a viable market. The video currently has around 170–180k views, but it’s completely flat-lined and is barely gaining any views daily now. 70% of all the viewers the clicked on the video clicked off within the first 10 seconds. So while those who did watch the whole thing seem to have enjoyed it, the numbers don’t lie: the majority simply aren’t interested.

While this is my passion, it’s also a business. It’s not realistic to try and run a business model where I make a series all on my own and release a new episode every 1-2 years for a series that most people don't even find interesting. This isn’t an announcement that the series is cancelled—it’s simply me being transparent. I’m currently in a tough spot, trying to figure out a realistic path forward for the series, if there even is one. I’ve been thinking about this for weeks and haven’t landed on any solid ideas yet, but I’ll continue to update paid members here as plans develop. Posts may be slower for a bit as I sort this out.

As for the new memberships that I talked about adding this month, I will not be adding those because of this, at least not for now.

And on top of that, I've been applying for jobs (no luck so far) because I barely make enough to afford rent and basic things, and when I do get a job, that's even more time away from working on content, so it's really insult to injury on that part. This was basically the worst case scenario for the pilot. I've made animations and videos that I've put little to no effort into that have gotten 500k - 1 million + views in less than a month before, so I really did a bad job and overestimated the potential of this. My animation "How to be cute" literally took around 8 hours to make and it got nearly triple the attention of this pilot.

If I do decide to cancel the series, I will of course let you all know that. And the chances of me making that decision is not low.

I will say though, in case anyone was worried, mentally I am doing great. If anything I feel more motivated than before because when things don't work out as planned I look at it as a learning opportunity to do better next time. So don't be worried if you think that this is a mentally draining or demotivating experience for me, it's not at all, and quite the opposite actually.

I truly hope you all understand. And thank you for your support.