Adustus

Well, my Todd Howard ASMR video just broke 500k views.

I made this video as a dumb joke to show my friends, and it's become by far the most watched thing I've ever made. It's been seen and posted by a lot of YouTubers I watch, and by this point I'd be amazed if Todd himself hasn't seen it.

I never expected a video of mine to get this response, and I certainly didn't expect something this niche to do it. I'm glad it found an audience, and I'm grateful for the enthusiastic (if not bizarre) community that shares it around enough for it to blow up every few months, and get posted in celebration every time Bethesda does something.

And yes, I'm making a sequel. It's taken a while for me to figure out what I wanted one to be, since I don't want to just repeat this joke. But I landed on something that I think will be worthwhile. See you then!

6 years ago | [YT] | 9

Adustus

Hey everybody! Since the Whose Line video has been blowing up (at least, by my standards) I figured I should use the community tab to introduce myself to the new subscribers and explain what to expect; I haven't used this feature before, so hopefully it goes out correctly.

First, an introduction; I'm Chris, I'm an actor and filmmaker in NYC and I don't really consider myself a YouTuber. I've been posting stuff here for nearly a decade, and when I was younger I did have dreams of doing YouTube for a living. Then I got older, learned more about what I wanted and how my brain works, and got to make YouTuber friends and see how they live, and I realized it was better for YouTube to stay a hobby for me. I don't want to be worried about making the right kind of video to grow the channel, or having my income jeopardized by a site I have little control over. I don't monetize anything on this channel; the ads that are on the Whose Line video are there because of a copyright claim that came through a few weeks ago.

My content has evolved drastically in the time I've been making it, but over the last year or so I've decided the goal of this channel is to create things that haven't been made yet, that encourage empathy, and stay honest. A lot of that has taken the form of examining media that either isn't talked about much, or is often looked at it from a certain perspective, and showing why it has value to people. The Finding Film series is one of my favorite things to do, where I have people I know talk about how their unique perspective intersects with a film people generally don't expect.

I haven't uploaded since the Whose Line video, and that's because I've been pretty busy. My first short film as writer/director, Uncle Gareth, just started its festival run, and that has been demanding of both my time and money. I've been picking up as much extra work as possible to cover festival and travel costs, and the whole process can be mentally and emotionally taxing. So far though, it's been really rewarding; the Whose Line video is something I made over the course of six hours before I left for our first festival, because I had the urge to make it and wanted to get it done before I left for a week. We ended up winning the audience choice award at that festival, and I filmed a lot of footage of it with the lead actor Miles, who also went. I've been working on making a little mini-doc/vlog out of it when I have the time. A little under two weeks ago, we won a festival in Texas, and we should be hearing about entry to more festivals soon. So since my time has been devoted there, I just haven't been making many videos for fun.

That said, I DO have more videos in the works; there's the vlog/doc I mentioned earlier, but I've also got more videos in the vein of the Whose Line video that I've been wanting to do for a while. They're at various stages of development, but I want to talk about the Redwall books, the Burnout video games, Hey Arnold, and this graphic novel called God Country. I also have some more Finding Film videos lined up, that are mostly dependent on when I can get the subject in to record their story. Before Whose Line, my only really popular video was a bizarre meme called '(ASMR Roleplay) Todd Howard Seduces You in the Bathroom at a Fleetwood Mac Concert', and I've been scripting the sequel to that, and have it outlined as a trilogy.

The next video that will be coming out, though, is going to be a Smashtalk; these are podcast-style discussions with my best friend, Isaac, about Super Smash Brothers; it's what I started on YouTube making eight years ago, and with the new game out we've been doing one every few months. After that, I'm editing a short, unscripted video about my experience working with a no-budget production of Spring Awakening that ended last weekend. It was another reason I was so busy, but it was also a delightful experience and it had me thinking about the way my approach to art has changed even over the last few years.

As I said before, YouTube is just a hobby for me, and since I tend to work on multiple videos at once (on top of editing I'm doing for clients) I'm not entirely sure how quickly things will come out. But I do appreciate all of the support you've been showing over the Whose Line video, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel a certain amount of pressure to make these next videos something that will appeal to this new viewer base. Ultimately I'm just happy I got to share my perspective on one of my favorite shows with so many people, and read plenty of their stories in return. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on here (if that's possible, I don't know if there's messaging anymore) or on twitter @ChrisLondonFilm.

Thank you for watching, and take care.

6 years ago | [YT] | 5