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Happy Thanksgiving everybody! 🦃

1 week ago | [YT] | 19

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Hello. Is it me you're looking for?

Okay, silly song lyric aside, you've already known about my stagnant uploads and heard it enough at this point. The jump from high school to college is definitely a giant one at that and the workload makes it difficult to find time for videos. When I'm not working on college work, I get that burnout feeling and usually played a bunch of video games in my off time. The good news is that I am nearly out of my Nintendo obsession, so I will feel more compelled to think of video ideas.

Then there's the whole "figuring out my life" thing I'm going through. In this stretch of 3 months, I've been hammered with personal issue after personal issue. I began to notice many of my shortcomings as a human being, and it was painful that I got to a point of hopelessness and apathy as a result. My faults combined with the daily US news which I won't go into for reasons got me to start taking care of my mental health through therapy and my life goals. As of this day, I am not fully out of this figuring out cycle and I never will be out of it. But I'm hoping that I adapt to this new way of life and balance it with what I do here.

So, the lack of content on here has definitely impacted my analytics. Never have I had days where I lost subscribers on consecutive days. And to those people, I do not blame you at all. I genuinely don't think I'm pushing myself enough to make the content that you all know and love and it is because of what I just talked about. I know that people will say that my mental health is a first priority and I am definitely being too hard on myself like other YouTubers who have emergencies. But it doesn't stop me from feeling let down about the lack of activity here.

With that said, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Unlike high school, my winter break is not 2 weeks long. In fact, it's triple the length. 6 weeks of no school is a dream come true for me and this channel. After the week of December 8th to the 12th, I don't have school until the 21st of January which is awesome. That means I will have more time to make videos.

All that buildup has led to this revelation: I have never in the history of my channel have made a proper Christmas special. It seems kinda backwards because while Christmas is on that day, the 25th, so is my birthday! I'll turn 19 this year. (WTF time flies). It's a double holiday that is extra special and I feel it warrants a video. So, for this year, I would love to do some kind of Christmas special. And even better, release the video on that day so that your holiday season includes a brand new CoolGorilla video! Sadly, I won't be at my home on Christmas, but I will likely make the video before I head out for traveling and set it to premiere on Christmas.

I want to thank everyone who has stuck around during my inactivity. I really appreciate it. And for the people who decided not to stick around, thank you for your support as well. I will hopefully have a return to form and make videos during my break starting next month that last through January 21st. I look forward to seeing you all when that happens! (I am currently making a Laziness video and might release it tonight if I have time. If not, tomorrow).

Once again, thank you.

-CoolGorilla

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I need more of my kind 🥲

1 month ago | [YT] | 9

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Happy Halloween everyone!

1 month ago | [YT] | 31

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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day everyone!

1 month ago | [YT] | 31

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I am currently making a new Big Baby Tom episode. But it's slow going because of my current situation in my life. September was not a kind month to me. So, I'm hoping I get more motivation this month to finish the new episode and get it out in time. I don't have any estimated times for when it will come out. But I'm hoping to aim for Halloween at the absolute latest.

Thank you all for your continued support. I'll see you when I see you!

-CoolGorilla

2 months ago | [YT] | 19

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Hello y'all!


I'm sorry about the lack of activity recently. I had expectations that my video production would decrease because of college, but I didn't think it would be this lackluster. Here's why I haven't been posting:

1. College: Obviously, college has taken the main control of my life. After all, I cannot do this YouTube stuff sustainably unless I somehow gain a million subscribers or so (which is not something I ever expect so don't feel pressured to subscribe). I do need to find a more conventual job, hence why I chose to go to college. Anyways, college hasn't been bad but it's invasive enough to where, like my previous tenure in public K-12 school, I burn out due to all the loaded information in a day.

2. Nintendo Obsession came back: I have this weird loop of different hobbies that I love doing that changes every 3 months or so. About every 18 months, I get into Nintendo and it's the most unmotivating hobby for videos. Since Nintendo games require me playing them to fulfill my desire, I don't have time to make videos when I'm not working on college. This should go away or at least subside. But regardless, this is more invasive than college.

Luckily a bone has been thrown at me. (Well it was when I registered for classes but anyway). I have Fridays off on top of weekends, so I have more time to work on videos! 3 days out of the 7 total in a week to work on videos is really good and I'm hoping that when I get back to uploading, that I take full advantage of my extra day off as long as I do my homework and projects.

As always, thank you all for your patience. You guys really do mean the world to me. I hope that I get back to making the videos you love and cringe at soon!

-CoolGorilla

3 months ago | [YT] | 28

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It's been a while since I've done a quiz. So here you go!

How many times did I consider leaving GoAnimate?

4 months ago | [YT] | 266

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Coming soon to a channel near you!


I will begin my very own Big Baby Tom series; one created by ‪@EJCatoz‬. Big shoutout to ‪@marmalade32_real‬ for introducing me to this series. It's certainly intriguing and I'm excited to see what I can do with this absolute manchild.

I did make some modifications to the characters to differentiate them from Eric Catozzi's, most notably, the mom since her original hair style makes her kind of resemble Miss Martin, whom probably canonically doesn't exist in Catozzi's universe.

Anyways, I hope you all stay tuned for my pilot episode! See you until then!

-CoolGorilla

4 months ago | [YT] | 78

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Hello y'all!

I leave for San Diego tomorrow, so I won't be working on any videos during that time (ranging from July 1st to July 5th). In the meantime, I will ask you a question that I've asked over and over again in the past, but I do think is important in this time:

What other videos do you want me to do that aren't grounded, laziness, or Miss Martin videos?

I ask this because these videos can get very samey-samey after making a lot of them, and at this point I have hit a wall in terms of this content. I love what I do on here, but I don't have an infinite number of ideas backlogged in my head, nor any notes. I just like to make what comes to my head. So that's where I'll ask you all (if you want to) to suggest me a video genre in GoAnimate I have not done ever, or not in a long time. You are not obligated to do this unless you want to, I don't want to force anything on you.

This is not me announcing the death of any of my grounded, laziness, and Miss Martin videos. I will continue to make those videos for years to come. I just want to diversify my content profile and reach people who may not desire those 3 types of videos.

So, once again, feel free to suggest any content you'd want to see me make in the future. Bear in mind that I cannot guarantee that the content you suggest will be content I turn into a series on this channel.

Thank you all for the support as always, and I'll see you when I get back from my vacation!

-CoolGorilla

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