Narujen

Hiya Fire Famiglia! So, quick update! I am recovering from the burn out, but I'm not 100% back yet. With my boyfriend Rin coming to visit me for our first meeting in person (which I'm totally calm btw) from the 6th to the 15th of February I don't want to have to worry about scheduling reactions and stuff while I'm away, so I'm just going to return to content creation fully the weekend after. However, in the mean time I'll catch up recording reactions at least and before Rin visits I'll hold Community Time in our Discord Server on the 19th and 26th this month and then the 2nd of February.

Thank you all for your patience and understanding! 🧡

Keep Burning Bright,
Narujen 🔥

10 months ago | [YT] | 36

Narujen

Hiya, Fire Famiglia. I never know how to start these type of messages lol, but here we go. For those of you who are already on the first day of the new year I hope you had a safe and fun New Year's Eve! And how is it in the future? ;P For those of you like me, please have a safe and fun filled time! I'll be going out with my parents to eat, drink and relax.

I always write big messages for Thanksgiving and New Year's, but I feel like they'll start to sound the same. Because not much about them changes. This time I'll just be combining my Thanksgiving message with my New Years one since I didn't post one for Thanksgiving this year and TRY to keep it short (doubt it though lol).

First off, thank you for being a part of this community. Whether you're new, been here for awhile or are an OG, it makes me so happy to see how much this community has grown. Especially in the Discord server. To see everyone supporting each other, posting things from photos of their pet(s), what they ate for lunch, to rant about the ending of MD, to talk about their favorite show, etc. It never fails to warm my heart. Because that's why I started as a content creator. To build a community that was inclusive and felt like family. Sure, this community isn't BIG by any means necessary, but it doesn't make it worth any less.

Thank you for liking my content. No matter how many times I hear or read that someone likes my content, I'm always touched. Even more so for those that state they like me as a person. I don't look at myself as being that great or anything. Just me being me, so yeah.

Thank you for the support. Whether it's just liking, commenting, following, subscribing or sending me a tip/donation, I will always appreciate it deeply. Because I know you don't have to. You want to, and that means a lot. I wouldn't be doing this still if it weren't for your support.

Thank you to my mods for keeping the community safe and organized being by my side. I may be the foundation, but you guys are the pillars.

Thank you to those of you I consider to be close friends. My grandfather once told my mom that you're lucky if you find 5 true friends in your lifetime, and I've learned that to be quite true. I'd @ you all, but I'd probably forget someone and then feel *horrible* afterward, so I won't. I'm sure you know though if I consider you a close friend or not. XD Thank you for your friendship though. Couldn't have asked for better friends. 🧡

Thank you to my boyfriend Rin for being so supportive and loving. I'm not sure I'd still be here if it weren't for him. He's my rock. The N to my Uzi (couldn't resist the MD reference lol). He's been my mod for the longest now and has had my back through a lot. I'd like to say more, but I'll spare the rest of you the mushy gushy stuff and DM him my full message later. XD

I think that's everything? I'm still dealing with the massive burn out, but I am feeling better than I did when I started the break. Keeping fingers crossed that I'll be 100% back by the second Sunday of January, but I don't want to promise anything.

I love you all. 🧡

Keep Burning Bright,
Narujen 🔥

11 months ago | [YT] | 30

Narujen

Hiya, Fire Famiglia. I'm going to keep this brief, but I'm still suffering from the burnout. I was hoping to be over it, but by this point I believe it's a MASSIVE burnout.

What's lead to this? A culmination of things. 6+yrs of grinding as a streamer/content creator and outside stresses, but I think mainly it's a due to a lot of pressure I've put on myself as well as pressure from others to succeed and after 6+yrs of that my brain has had enough.

When I started streaming 6+yrs ago it was just something I loved to do and if I made a living from it, cool. Same with my reactions that I started up not quite 2yrs ago (or has it been 3?). Then they both slowly turned into me looking at every stream and video as, "Did I get enough views? How much money did I make this week?" and such. I'd find myself thinking about it throughout the day and sometimes before going to sleep. I'd even think about it on vacations.

I need to get back to the mindset of how it was in the beginning because stressing every day over analytics is going to make me go crazy (if it hasn't already lol).

So, after discussing it with Rin and my mom, I'm going to take a break from streaming and content creating in general until the second Sunday of January. Do my best to not think about any of it and let my mind rest.

For those of you that are subbed to me on Twitch or Patreon or have a membership on YouTube, I'll completely understand if you pause your subscription. For those of you who don't, I deeply appreciate your support. ♥️

I love you all, and don't worry. I'll be posting a New Years message. Until then...

Keep Burning Bright,
Narujen 🔥

11 months ago | [YT] | 43

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Hiya, Fire Famiglia! I just wanted to say I apologize for pretty much disappearing. I got a head cold and then after that I got major burn out. Not just from content creation, but being on the computer as a whole and my social battery felt constantly drained. Not sure what came over me. I think it's just a culmination of me grinding nonstop uploading on YouTube, streaming on Twitch and YouTube, reactions, interacting with the MD fandom, etcetera, without really taking any breaks for the last few years. Mainly streaming on Twitch since I had done it for 5yrs 6 days a week 8+hrs a day. On top of editing gaming videos for my other YouTube channel and Tik Tok.

Anyways. After taking this time to myself I feel a ton better than I did before it. I have that excitement again to react, create videos, stream, etc. Just getting back into the swing of things. I already recorded a few reactions yesterday, one of the HTTYD live action trailer, one of the latest Lackadaisy short and one of the Lackadaisy episode preview. Uploads will resume next weekend.

Again, apologies for going AWOL. I love you all and thank you for your patience! <3

Keep Burning Bright,
Narujen

11 months ago | [YT] | 37

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Hey there hi there ho there Fire Famiglia! c: Here's the weekly thumbnail voting for The Dragon Prince!

1 year ago | [YT] | 18

Narujen

Hey there hi there ho there Fire Famiglia! c: Here's the weekly thumbnail voting for The Dragon Prince!

1 year ago | [YT] | 17

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Hiya, Fire Famiglia!

I wanted to apologize for no reactions last week or this week. Had a couple things come up paired with a very heavy bout of burn out. There were 2-3 days where I barely left my bed. I just didn't feel like doing *anything.* I'm starting to feel better now, so reactions will continue next weekend. Again, I apologize for suddenly not uploading like that. I've never had burn out like that and hopefully it doesn't happen again. Thank you for your patience and understanding! Love you all!

Keep Burning Bright,
Narujen

1 year ago | [YT] | 32

Narujen

Hiya, Fire Famiglia! Apologies for no stream on Saturday or Dragon Prince reaction today. Got sick and it knocked me on my ass. I'm starting to not feel like I just want to steep all the time now, so I'll upload Vox Machina reaction either tomorrow or the day after. I'll also be streaming on Halloween.


Oh, and random announcement for Murder Drones content! I'm sure you've heard of the "Goodbye Murder Drones" project that was started by @rr. If you haven't, basically it's a bunch of Murder Drones content creators (Bee, SaltyPepper, Zander Russell, Vanitymoth, etc.) getting together to bid farewell to Murder Drones. Why am I talking about it? Well, because I'm happy to say I had the honor of being invited to it, so expect to see dorky ol' me in there!


I don't know if links work in Community Posts, but this is to the official teaser for the project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwdTK...

1 year ago (edited) | [YT] | 17

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Hey there hi there ho there Fire Famiglia! c: Here's the weekly thumbnail voting for The Dragon Prince!

1 year ago | [YT] | 11

Narujen

Hey there hi there ho there Fire Famiglia! c: Here's the weekly thumbnail voting for The Dragon Prince! (I totally didn't post the poll for the wrong episode hehe)

1 year ago | [YT] | 22