Charo Lyn

New haircut 💇‍♀️

I’d like to thank everyone for all the kind words on my previous posts, you guys are the sweetest, and I legitimately teared up reading your comments. Thank you so much for all the support 🩵

I’ll take a break in the end of the month, until late January/early February, and I’m still figuring out what kinds of videos I’ll schedule for that period. My plan was to prepare enough content in advance to continue posting normally, but I’m too tired for that. Then I considered not posting anything at all, just going on a month-long hiatus, but that’s too drastic, I can afford to prepare a couple of videos, so I’ve been thinking: I’ll prepare a couple of videos that are easier to make, like for example a “best of the year” compilation for each series of my channel. Maybe some drawing/writing challenges as homework for you all while I’m gone lol

If you have any ideas around these lines, feel free to tell me! I’m still figuring out what I’m going to do ⭐️

I have big plans for next year, and I’ll do everything in my power not to repeat the same mistakes I made this year. I want start making long-form videos again, having more community events, and I want to draw!! I spend all day everyday drawing, but it’s been almost 2 years since I last finished an illustration for myself. Also, I want to put a little more of myself in my content, most people don’t even know who I am. Anyway, I’m rambling, so in conclusion:

I’m doing better and I’ll take a break soon. Thank you again, for taking the time to read my unnecessarily long vents and commenting the kindest words, you guys are the best 🩵

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 6,095

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Would you be upset if i just vanished for a month or two and then came back?

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 6,149

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🇧🇷 BRASILEIROS, atenção!! Contratação Urgente ‼️🇧🇷

(Just some context for my general audience: This post is about me looking for someone to work for me, but they have to be Brazillian because of taxes and all that, so this post will be in Portuguese. If you’re not Brazillian you can skip this one.)

Seguinte: Preciso de alguém pra me ajudar com o canal URGENTE! Vou tirar férias no final de dezembro e vou precisar de ajuda para isso. Aqui a descrição da Vaga:

Assistente de Criação de Conteúdo
Contratação PJ - Período 01/12 à 19/12
Horários e Pagamento: A combinar
(Não será full-time, apenas algumas tarefas por semana)

Requisitos essenciais:
• Experiência prévia com edição de vídeo e design gráfico
• Domínio de CapCut
• Inglês avançado ou fluente
• Ser maior de idade (18 ou mais)
• Ter MEI/CNPJ ativo

Diferencial:
• Ilustração

Se você se encaixa nesse perfil, está aqui o formulário para se inscrever:

forms.gle/DYDkMuoXzSt1Vhyu6

Observações:
. Os horários e pagamento estão em aberto pois eles dependerão das habilidades e disponibilidade do candidato;
. Horário flexível, apenas será necessário o cumprimento de prazos;
. Existe a chance de uma contratação fixa para o ano que vem

Se você conhecer alguém que pode se interessar pela vaga, por favor, compartilhe! Realmente é urgente 🫩

4 weeks ago | [YT] | 861

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Hi everyone!
Unvale is getting an app soon!! 👀⭐️

You can sign up for their waitlist for a chance to get early access + prizes! Here’s the link:

unvale.io/app/?ref=1UpZNt


In case you don’t know them, Unvale is a website (and soon app) made specifically for posting and sharing your original characters. It’s an amazing platform which I’m sure you guys will love! We’ve worked together a bunch of times now, and it’s always been great, so go check them out 🩵

(And use this link!! It’s my referral code, I want the special prizes)

1 month ago | [YT] | 1,596

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Hi.

This is going to be a long and personal vent, which I’ll definitely regret posting, but I feel like I have to get this off my chest.

Feel free to skip this one. I’m warning you: It’s going to be long and overly dramatic ⚠️


I’m SEVERELY burned out.

The thing is, in the end of 2024 I took a 3 week break, but continued posting daily through the whole time. For that to be possible, I had to prepare all of those (23) videos in advance. I wish I could say that I was able to accomplish this through rigorous planning and organization… but no. I pretty much made all of those videos in a span of about 2 weeks. (While also making the videos for said 2 weeks, so 37 in total) In my last day of work, I had 7 videos to finish (for comparison, 3 videos is already too much to complete in a day). But I did it, I don’t know how, but I did.

I can’t begin to describe how much those last two weeks drained me, I even had to start taking controlled medication to be able to accomplish this, which is something I never had to resort to before. Anyway, my thought process was clear: I’d exhaust myself in this period, yes, but I’d have a break after that. A 3 week vacation, then I’d be able to come back to work well rested, and make all of the cool things I had planned. Imagine my shock when, 3 weeks later, I come back to work… and I don’t feel like I’ve rested at all.

I burned myself out in the end of 2024, and have been on an endless crawl ever since. I didn’t take any breaks this year. I had promised myself I’d take holidays off, but I wasn’t even able to do that.

The truth I don’t want to accept is: 7 videos a week is way too much for me to make alone. Maybe it wasn’t last year, when my drawings were simpler, but it is now. I thought that if I became more organized, started waking up earlier and took fewer breaks, I could do it. But no. I haven’t lived these last couple of months, ever since I stated trying to be organized, I only work, from the time I wake up to the time I go to sleep, and still I can’t do anything aside from the 7 weekly videos. It’s been months since I went to sleep having done everything I had to do. I do take weekends off (most of the times), but I’m normally so tired I don’t do anything at all. My social life is pretty much dead, I haven’t been eating, I haven’t been sleeping, and I’m honestly freaking out.

You, reading this, might be thinking of a very simple solution: JUST TAKE A BREAK

And that’s when things start getting complicated. I can’t! Not without preparing content in advance, which I’m doing right now so I can take a break in December, but I’m terrified of repeating what happened last year. I can’t go without content, this is my job, my livelihood, but even more, the key to accomplish all my of dreams, as cheesy as it sounds. I can’t risk it!! I had so many cool stuff planned for this year, you may have noticed how many new things I announce but never proceed with, and that’s why. There’s so much I want to do, but I don’t have the time or the energy. I didn’t do anything new this year.

To be clear, I wouldn’t trade this job for anything, and that’s precisely the problem. I know all of this is nothing compared to what other people have to go through, so if I can’t even deal with this, I really can’t afford to work with something else. This is my dream job, I work for home, I’m my own boss, everything is perfect!! So why am I feeling like this? I’m very grateful for all of you, for being here with me, it’s been over 2 years now, it’s a long time. This is one of the aspects which I feel the worst about honestly, I really REALLY want to interact more with the community, I always have a blast when I do, but I haven’t even been responding to my personal friends anymore.

Well, I should be sleeping, so I’ll try to be brief: Now here we are, end of 2025, I’ve maxed out my medication’s dosage in the span of 1 year, had to start taking other 2 to counterbalance it’s side effects, and things haven’t been great. And it doesn’t help that the channel has been getting progressively worse throughout the whole year, but of course it is, I’ve been stagnant, making the same content over and over again for over a year now. Pretty much every week since January, I have at least 1 new video idea planned, but I ALWAYS postpone it because I realize I won’t have the time to make it. I freaked out in October, because I realized I was doing the same exact things I was doing last October. I had an identity crisis. I cranked up the quality of my videos, tried some new forms of content, finally launched my patreon (which I had scheduled for February 2025 btw), and now I’ve been having anxiety attacks pretty much every day, so congratulations to me, was it worth it to destroy my mind and body only to see the graphs plummeting again and again? No. But I’m still doing it.

Anyway, solutions:

1- Stop posting daily: I plan to, but I can’t right now. Every time I’ve tried to, the algorithm has been really punishing, and as I’ve mentioned, things are not great, so I can’t really afford that. But that’s the plan for 2026, for sure.

2- Hire people to help me: I’m doing that right now. The thing is, I should have done this LONG ago, but my thought process was: I need to earn more money so I can pay people fairly, and my hope was that that would happen at some point during this year, but that hasn’t. So I was waiting and waiting, until now, when I realized I’ll die at age 30 if I keep doing what I’m doing. So, I hired a friend to help me with the drawings, and I’m also looking for an intern to help me with the editing. Things will be tight for a while, but I hope it will give me time to do all of the cool things I want to do. It hurts so much to be stagnated when there’s so much you wish to make.

Things would probably be better now if I had taken a break at any point of the year. 1 week without posting probably wouldn’t kill my channel, people do that all the time. But I’m a coward, this channel is my baby and I’m too afraid of dropping it. But I’ve been holding it so tightly that I’m the one who’s hurting it.

In the end of the day, this image describes my situation. Everything is fine, so why am I putting myself through all of this?

I was invited to give a presentation at an event of my local University, I was so excited, was preparing for months.
It was last Friday.
I didn’t go.
I got too sick from an anxiety attack, not because of the presentation itself, but because of the amount of work that pilled up because of it. Baseline, I’m self sabotaging at this point.

In conclusion, I’m already in therapy, seeing a psychiatrist and exercising regularly (for the first time in my life) so I’m in the very least attempting to care of myself. It does feel a bit silly to write all of this just to end it by saying “don’t worry about me”, but, really, don’t worry about me! If you want to help me you can do it by supporting the channel, leaving a like, sharing and all of that, subscribing to my Patreon, or simply just being here, that’s more than enough!! 🩵

2026, I’ll have people helping me, and I’ll hopefully be able to work on some of my projects. Things will get better, I just need to power through the end of this year.

If you read all of this, thank you so much for caring, and for the support in general. I always say this, and I’ll say it again, I couldn’t possibly ask for a kinder community. And no complaining about how dramatic this was, you were warned!!


🩵🩵🩵

1 month ago | [YT] | 4,036

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⭐️ Have you seen my beautiful amazing EMOTES yet? ⭐️

They were made by ​⁠the very talented ‪@snickersdoodles‬!! I highly recommend commissioning them in case you need emotes or other kinds of drawing. Amazing drawings and amazing service 🩵

The emotes are available as a perk for the channel’s members, and on our community’s discord server, over at my Patreon ;)

1 month ago | [YT] | 1,713

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Should I bring the Worldbuilding series back? 🌐

I’m really into worldbuilding as a whole, and I’ve been thinking about making more content about it, is that something you guys would be interested in?

1 month ago | [YT] | 810

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⭐️🎶 Use this post to comment your SONG recommendations for my videos 🎶⭐️

I’ve noticed I’ve been using the same handful of songs in rotation for over a year now, so let’s try to change things up a little.

If you have any songs or artists that you think would fit my content, please tell me! I mostly pick indie songs, so it would be cool to get recommendations in that genre, but it’s not a requirement, comment any song you think would be a good fit.

1 month ago | [YT] | 1,405

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HOUSE OF THE UNDEAD 🪦🦇 community event!

To celebrate my Patreon’s official launch, we’re hosting a character creation event! What would happen if all of our characters were living under the same roof? Let’s find out!

www.patreon.com/posts/halloween-event-141988207

In my patreon’s page you can also find:

⭐️A link for a free subscription⭐️
For the first 50 people who click! ;)

1 month ago | [YT] | 1,455

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⭐️ Character Design Ideas part 120 today!!! ⭐️


I wanted to talk to you guys about this series. It’s by far my longest, and one of the most successful things I did in this channel, and I wanted to thank everyone for the support throughout this whole journey!

I don’t think this will be a surprise to anyone, but ever since Part 5, I’ve been purposefully making episodes that, when putting the 5 design ideas together, they would create a (somewhat) cohesive character. This wasn’t the priority, the main goal was always to provide ideas, but it’s something that I’ve been taking into consideration this whole time. I even had a series where I’d create these characters myself, called “All in One”, and it was very fun, and I might bring it back eventually.

The thing is, we’re at part 120 now, and I’m afraid this series is growing stale. My “idea bank” is still full, and it’s one of my favorite kind of video to work on, so I don’t want to just stop making them, but I’ve been thinking: What if we change the format a little? So here’s the idea I’m proposing:

Instead of having each episode be composed of a bunch of random ideas, what it each episode was themed? Like an episode with only medieval, or aquatic ideas, for example, like the compilations I’ve been posting, but with new ideas.

There’s two ways I think we could do this:

1- Continue the series as normal, but with themed ideas, like, instead of only being titled “Part 121”, it would be “Part 121: Medieval ideas” or something like that. The themes could be repeated, but every new episode would have it’s own focus.

2- Make “parallel series” for each theme, starting the counter from 1. Essentially, they would still be the same series, this would only be for practicality sake, so you know how many episodes of that specific theme have been made. So it would look like “Character Design Ideas: Medieval part 1”. And if we do this, the regular series could continue from where we left off (from part 120), maybe for more general ideas that don’t necessarily fit into any theme.

Or, of course, alternatively:

3- Don’t change anything, and continue making them in the way they are right now.

I think making this change could be a nice change of pace that wouldn’t impact the kind of content I make, it would just be a fresh coat of paint, and it would make things more organized. But it’s still a big decision, and I want to know how you guys feel about it. Feel free to leave any thoughts and ideas in the comments! ⭐️🩵

1 month ago | [YT] | 774