G'day everyone, sorry for the radio silence for a little while. Some important life shit happened that had to be dealt with which I'll... I can't really go into. Like I want to but there is legal stuff involved unfortunately so it's a bit tricky.
Just know I've been deep into research, writing and working to help someone close to us be safe and get away from a potentially harmful environment... again! They will be ok now but we're still gonna be rattled by it all for a little while.
Anyway... YouTube update! 😅
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Back to work) While it's been super difficult to get any content work done in April, I was able to write a couple basic scripts and play some things in my downtime I'd like to work on. CONTENT IS ON THE WAY!!! As of writing, I've just filmed 2 videos today for the upcoming weeks.
- One is talking about some hidden gems across all eras and genres of gaming
- The other is a discussion about depression and the games I lean on when I'm struggling. I'm hoping it can create for a powerful discussion in our communities in the comments, social media and the Discord group.
We also played through Clive and Wrench, was planning to have a video up on it by now so that might be something to do later on in the month. Nothing big and crazy, just a simple review.
Crash Team Rumble) On top of that I'm sure you've seen the CTRumble video that went up earlier in the week. I did have the planned for release before the BETA ended but I had to fly away on little notice so it was the first thing I did when I got back home last week, was film and smash that out in a couple hours. Just decided to throw it up since it was kinda time sensitive. I'm going to try and keep content flowing consistently until the actual game releases which of course, I'll cover on the channel to go along with the rest of my series reviews!
Channel Performance) I won't sugarcoat, the channel has been kinda dead this year. Starting off with GTA went REALLY WELL, far beyond my expectations and it like broke a few of my personal records performance wise. Since then things have dramatically dropped off. Bro i'm fucking tired of trying to figure this shit out.
You can see how my average has been the past few years coming off of 2020 which was my strongest performing year. All of the spikes are Hawktobers and Every Level Ranked videos. The final one from Feb of 2023 is the GTA content.
Since then, [PROTOTYPE] bombed, nobody watched. After that I reviewed GAMER: The Movie review. BOTH of these videos broke the record for my worst performing SEJ videos EVER at launch. It's been a month now and the latter is only at like 5,000 views which for a channel of my size is really bad. So that's kinda contributed to the stress and depression lately and I've been finding it quite difficult to get motivated (on top of everything else going on). I decided to bite the bullet and UNLIST a HEAP of my older videos while the analytics were already in the shits.
I've been meaning to do a serious cleanup for a while but that obviously comes with it's negative impacts on the algorithm. What was changed???
- Older Game Testing content has been unlisted from search results (still watchable via the series playlist)
- Some older poor Square Eyed Jak episodes that nobody has really seen since they went up YEARS ago were unlisted (still watchable via the series playlist)
- Also updated a lot of older videos to have "OLD" in the title as I know a lot of people still find me through that content and get an inaccurate impression of the stuff I make now
I wanna stress that everything can still be found, I'm thorough and organized with playlists on the channel. Just because it doesn't show up in search results, you can probably still find it going through playlists. The timeframe of affected content ranges between 2014-2017, a little in 2018 I think.
Goals) In the coming weeks, I just wanna focus on smashing out some content. I wanna start getting prepped for the second half of the year which means Hawktober and some other things I'd like to try and do. I wanna get back to GTA reviews, I've got a 3ds now so I'll be hunting Skylanders again and I'm slowly getting ready for an Every Level Ranked to finish the year off. I'm also trying to work on myself: gym, mental health, diet and routine. It's a work in progress but you know I always try my best! 🙂
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Closing Thoughts) I just wanna work right now. I'll be in Sydney for my birthday in June and for a concert so I'm excited for that as I've never actually been to Sydney before. Looking forward to seeing friends and having a positive little holiday to reset after everything. Then we're gonna kick ass people.
Thanks for reading and as always, thanks for your patience guys. Have a great fucking day, cheers! 🤙