TD Wonderer

Of course within the week I upload a video to mark my return on YouTube my wifi connection breaks for my house….. sorry about the inconvenience I was gonna have a shorter video out on Sunday but its looking like that will probably be delayed till the next because of this. I’ll continue trying to fix it or consider other ways to finish the video on time but its not looking promising…

4 months ago | [YT] | 94

TD Wonderer

Hey, I finally made a Patreon. Link for it is in my channel info and below

patreon.com/TDWonderer

My journey on YouTube has been bizarre to me, I've had a lot of ups and downs and especially as I am coming up on the end of my 2nd year on YouTube, I look back at my upload schedule and I am disappointed with myself. It has been far less than the standards I try to hold myself to and due to personal stuff in my real life, it has been difficult to say the least.

I've said in the past within comments that a Patreon was never something I really wanted to do because I never felt like I had enough to offer to people who would support me in that way and just felt iffy about asking money from people when I am no position of desperately needing this money.

But as I have been trying to get back into the swing of YouTube and getting a consistent upload schedule I have been spending many hours writing, editing and recording. My intention is not to be a sob story, everyone goes through shit and I am sure that there are many of you who are much less fortunate than me and I know a majority of my audience is very young or potentially doesn't have the means to support me and if that's the case... don't.

I would much rather all of you be safe and have the means to support yourself over me and this decision to start a Patreon is one that came with lots of mulling over on my part and more so for the people who tell me they really want to have a way to support me, so here it is!

In case you are interested in supporting me on Patreon I will quickly explain in more detail what you benefits and tiers there are so you can decide which best suits you. Currently I have a $1, $5 and $10 a month tiers, the $1 only comes with being credited in videos on YouTube because I wanted to make the others options feel more worth it and this tier mostly exists for people who want to support but don't have much to give because I'm not trying to Mr Krabs anyone who wants to support.

$5 comes with crediting on YouTube like the $1 tier but also sneak peaks to upcoming videos with the thumbnail and announcement, the ability to offer ideas for upcoming videos (including What ifs) to be potentially voted on. I do wanna say that the video ideas will usually be locked to a certain season I feel like doing next (ex. World Tour, only accepting World Tour suggestions in that post). And then the ability to vote on those new video polls.

$10 comes with same stuff for $5 but instead of just a thumbnail to upcoming videos they will get access to a short teaser trailer with some lines to give a clearer idea of what will happen in the video. They get to vote on more exclusive polls than just the video ideas like thumbnails if I'm struggling to decide between some versions, channel decisions if I have to try and prioritize a specific video coming out first or just want to try a new thing for the channel and interaction in videos: comment your opinion on a future video topic and get to be featured in the video (ex. ranking seasons video, you can leave a comment saying your opinion and I will discuss it in the video along with my opinion)

I am planning on trying to add more benefits to patreon members as this goes along but for now this is what I got, I'd love to see you over there and interact with you all! I feel as I've gotten bigger I haven't had as much time to look over and respond to every comment I get but I will try my best to do so on there because it should be easier with a smaller pool of people.

(Currently there is an 14 minute uncut exclusive question discussion with Cove for $10 members, a poll for the thumbnail on the next video for $10 members and a suggestion post on my next what if after this one comes out for $5 and $10 members.)

9 months ago | [YT] | 107

TD Wonderer

Hey, I've recently been thinking about creating a Patreon to support the channel. I've never really wanted to do something like this because YouTube has always been more of a hobby than a job to me, but this hobby has been taking A LOT more of my time recently as I'm starting to get into the swing of a consistent upload schedule.

I still haven't really decided if I'm going to create one because I don't really like the idea of mooching off my fans, the support you all give me through watching, commenting and liking means a lot to me already and I don't wanna make my fans feel pressured to give me their money.

However, if I were to start a Patreon I would like to be able to give back to the people who would choose to support me as much as I could, unfortunately I don't believe I have much to offer or really know what people would want, so I figured I'd just ask directly and see if anyone has suggestions of what they would like to potentially see as benefits for Patreon donators? Let me know!

9 months ago | [YT] | 108

TD Wonderer

Hey, a while ago I saw a comment asking me to upload my videos in purely audio form as a podcast on Spotify. So I just decided to ask here if that's something that intrigues yall, would you watch my videos in podcast form on Spotify?

1 year ago | [YT] | 34

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IGNORE PREVIOUS POST. Issue has been resolved, I found World Tour on YouTube I'm not gonna link it because I'm pretty sure the only reason it hasn't been taken down is because the videos haven't been viewed much so I don't wanna mess with that, but I have downloaded all the episodes and the next video to come out will be Part 2 of TDWT: What if World Tour wasn't a musical.

Thank you all for your suggestions and understanding about the previous situation ❤️

1 year ago | [YT] | 168

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Hey, so a bit of a problem has come up. I have talked a bit in some videos about my process to writing, in that I will watch the original episodes while writing to catch small details and have as much information at my disposal for making decisions of how to continue the story.

Now usually I watch the episodes on YouTube but as some of you might've noticed Total Drama has seem to taken all videos including World Tour full episodes down and me, being the royal idiot I am, didn't think to save or download the videos myself so I no longer have access to full World Tour episodes. Because of this development I don't feel comfortable continuing the 2nd part of TDWT: What if World Tour wasn't a musical, as I want to be able to watch the episodes as I write it, to do it justice.

Luckily, other seasons don't seem to be taken down yet and I have downloaded all episodes from other seasons so no more worries there even if they do get taken off YouTube. I will be working to access to the full World Tour episodes as soon as possible to get the next part out. But as of right now having no way to continue writing for it, I've decided to start writing for the next what if that you all voted on a while ago (TDA: What if Trent didn't go crazy)

Sorry for the inconvenience, I know this is less than ideal and I try really hard to never put other what if videos in between multiple part what ifs as I know its easy to lose interest or lose the plot if there's switching between stories but I don't feel I really have a choice at the moment.

1 year ago | [YT] | 131

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Hey... been awhile, sorry about the long video delay I've been busy becoming a high school graduate (yippee) and some complications moving houses so I didn't have internet for a week or so. I've really been wanting to work on YouTube and its been difficult with the set backs I keep facing but as we are heading into the summer my schedule will become more consistent as I'll finally have no more distractions from this (hopefully)

Thank you all for your patience, a new video will be out as soon as possible and because I know you all like hearing what's coming up, my next video will be: What if World Tour wasn't a musical. Basically if World Tour didn't have song breaks I know it sounds kind of inconsequential but trust it ends up changing a good amount.

Also I don't really like just having these boring update posts so I'll give yall a poll for what my next project should be one after I finish this what if.

I'm looking towards the bigger seasons as I feel like its been a bit since I worked with the OG cast so yeah, go bonkers for that.


(the full choice couldn't fit in the character limit for the poll so im just gonna put the choice here)
TDI: What if the Screaming Gophers went before the Killer Bass in the first challenge

1 year ago | [YT] | 70

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Hey, really sorry about the long wait between What if's, I had a lot of medical things going on in the last couple of weeks (burst eardrum) so its been hard to find time to write. I did however just finish writing the next what if but I've recently had my wisdom teeth removed and can't really talk so I can't record the audio yet and that video probably isn't coming out till next week (sorry!)

But since I've finished writing I figured I should probably start writing the next one so the wait between my next upload and the one after that won't be as long to make up for this wait. And because I'm making an update anyways I figure I should let you all decide which what if you are more interested in seeing, so please vote and let me know and again REALLY sorry about the month long delay.

(I probably don't have to say this since its one of the options but yeah, reboot spoilers might be in the comments so don't check the comments if you haven't seen the reboot season yet)

1 year ago | [YT] | 91

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I'd like to start off by asking that you please put a spoiler warning in your comment, if you are going to talk about the new season, I will most likely delete your comment if it talks about the new season and doesn't have a spoiler warning. Its nothing personal I just really don't want this post to the be reason someone got spoiled on the season. (if you're wondering how just write SPOILER and shift down 4 lines to write the rest of your comment so someone would have to press read more to see the rest of your comment)

I was originally going to wait until the new season of Total Drama officially came out in the US but it has taken embarrassingly long that now the second season is almost already fully out, I went out of my way to watch somewhere else. This post primarily exists just to let everyone know that I have finished watching the first new season and am now going to try and do some what ifs on it in the future. Not my next video cause I've already started writing for it, but soon. (also im going to try and spread them out since I know some of my audience hasn't seen the new season yet and I don't want to marginalize my content from them)

However, I was also curious if you all would like to see me do a character tier list since I've seen people recommend me to do ones for the original cast but never really got around to it since they're are already SOO many other tier lists on the OG cast. But I think there's a really unique opportunity for this type of ranking since I was planning to rank every character based on my impression of them first season and then revise it after the 2nd season so we can see the changes.

This would obviously take some time away from other videos and im well aware that the "hype" of the new season has died down at this point so I figured I should ask you all if it would be something you are even remotely interested in seeing anymore as im aware that probably about 80 percent of you have already watched the new season so my talking about the characters now might just be old news?

Not sure, just let me know your thoughts!

(Also happy new years!!!)

1 year ago | [YT] | 92

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I am thankful for my consistent upload schedule.....about that. I am very sorry for the about month long wait between videos, the COVID that I talked about having in my last video turned into the flu which ended up taking me out of school for a couple weeks and made me have to invest a lot of time to get caught up in school before break.

I have been working really hard to get part 2 finished and after this I should hopefully be able to get to upload every two weeks again (I am aiming for once a week after this but it probably won't happen). Don't really have much more to say than this, i'm glad you've all been very patient with me during this and even checking up on me to make sure everything's ok which is very sweet. I am about 99% confident that part 2 will be uploaded this Saturday but as for now I hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving! or if you don't celebrate that then a wonderful Thursday!

2 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 238