June Update

Hello you exceptionally exceptional Patreon people! I hope that all of you are doing wonderfully, that all of you only roll nat 20’s for the rest of your entire DnD campaign and that your home country is going to win the upcoming European Soccer Championship even if your country isn’t competing!

The Subnautica video is online and overall I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. 

Production on this one was very difficult and chaotic because of me moving.

I often only had time to work on it for a very short amount of time or was working on it in a suboptimal setup - so I’m really happy that the video came together in the end.

The clicks on the video are terrible but I was honestly not expecting much. 

It’s an old indie game and thanks to me moving there was an almost two month break so whatever really.

I’ll have to see how the next couple of videos perform, if none of them manages to get some algorithmic traction I’ll probably have to experiment with the format a bit.

Though on the positive side, those videos tend to have really long legs - the Bloodborne video for example somehow managed to get a bit of traction out of nowhere months after release so we’ll see how it goes.

So on to the good news.

I finally managed to find a used copy of Twilight Princess for the incredibly cheap price of only 70€ - what a bargain! Thank you so much Nintendo for making old used games rise faster in value than Gamestop shares! (One day I'll sell my used copy of Super Mario 3D All-Stars and buy a house with the money. )

I’ve already started working on the Twilight Princess video and things have finally settled a bit.
I should be done with it in four to five weeks if nothing major goes wrong.

After that one it’s time for either Celeste (already feeling a bit guilty for how long that one takes to finally get produced) or I’ll do a video on the Paper Mario Remake which is one of my all time favorite games and something people probably enjoy me waffling about.

Both videos will be made - I’ll probably throw a coin to figure out which one to produce first and then go on to ignore the result of the coin toss and do whatever I feel like doing.

Finally - I often get asked if I’ll ever do a video on the Outer Wilds DLC so let’s solve this riddle together. 
The answer is yes, I just have to be a bit careful with the timing.
See, this video is very likely not going to do well on YouTube thanks to how the algorithm works - which is fine in theory. 
It’s okay to release a video not entirely for the algorithm every once in a while. 

I just have to be careful when I release it.

The thing with YouTube’s ad revenue (and pretty much every ad based industry) is that ad revenue rises over the year until it peaks in December (because of Christmas) and then drastically drops down in January (because of no Christmas). 

It’s a very noticeable drop.

A click in November/December is roughly worth five times the money a click in January/February is.
What that means for people doing YouTube professionally is that you really have to be on top of your game for the final half of the year and that it doesn’t matter that much if your clicks drop down during the first quarter of the year.

It’s also why channels often drop videos on topics people have been asking for in November/December and often take a break in January.

In short, if you get good traffic in the final quarter of the year it often earns you more than the three quarters before combined.

So my plan is to do videos about topics that are unlikely to pull a lot of traffic (like the Elden Ring or the Outer Wilds DLC) in the first quarter of next year and to focus a bit more on stuff that traditionally works in the second half of this year (wrapping up the Zelda series, Paper Mario, Celeste, etc..) Things are a bit tight financially right now and I hope to be able to balance things out this way while still getting to produce videos on topics that a lot of you wonderful people have been asking for.

Awesome!
Finally a huge thank you to each and every single wonderful person reading this.
Your generous support is currently keeping me afloat and I can’t thank you all enough for it.