Sapphire Luna

Hey friends! Sometimes I need a break from animating, so I made a new channel just for cute silly pet videos! It mostly features my Shiba Inu and my cats, but also other pets I happen to film. The channel is still very new so if you'd like to support it, it's over here: www.youtube.com/channel/UC3HI...
There's something great about being able to make videos that do not require any drawing o.o

The channel name Kirameki comes from my Shiba's name, Kira. If you enjoy that kind of thing, please give it a watch! If you don't, that's ok, keep supporting me here!

2 days ago | [YT] | 46

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Hey friends. I just spent a good 2 hours reporting reposts of my videos on Tiktok and Instagram for copyright. I could have used those 2 hours for something fun, but no, I had to use it because people steal my work, and worse, most of them CROP OUT my name from the video to hide that they stole it and giving me no credit at all! You guys know I'm trying really hard to make a living out of Youtube, so all of these reposts hurt me, those are views I'm not getting, but also my name is not getting out there.

I reported a bunch but I'm sure there are hundred more that I haven't found. If you see my videos uploaded anywhere else whether it's Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok or Facebook, please alert me. I do not allow reposts of my work anywhere, ever. Sorry. It takes me days or weeks to finish an animation, but only seconds for a thief to take it and reupload it as their own, sometimes ever making money off MY work. I've seen one video that has less than 15k views on my account get 260k views on instagram, it's very very frustrating! And the guy was claiming it a his own work! To prevent having people crop out my name from the top, I'm going to add a watermark somewhere else that is hard to remove from now on. Sorry about that.

Big Youtubers can ignore this because they are so popular, everyone knows who they are and where to find them. I'm still small, not always recognized and can't afford to let it slide. I've seen comments saying "Where is this from?" and the reposter replied "no idea" because he stole it from another thief who probably stole it from another thief who stole it from another etc. etc. This is why I don't allow anyone to sue my videos, even for dubs or reactions. I lose control and there are reposts everywhere and I waste my precious time having to hint them down and report them. Wow I'm so angry right now... I spend so many hours of my life sitting down and drawing cartoons, giving myself back pain and carpal tunnel, and people just walk in, reupload my videos and crop my name out!

Thanks for supporting me here, and please alert me if you see reposts of my work. Only the owner can send a copyright claim.

5 days ago (edited) | [YT] | 310

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Here's an update on my situation that nobody requested. Last month I quit my job. Because I hated it and it was making me very depressed. Since then, my mental health has greatly improved! I have a lot of savings so I figured while I'm jobless, I'm going to try doing Youtube fulltime. If you saw me posting more often than usual, that's why.

Not gonna lie, my views are still way too low to be able to live from Yotutube only. Even lower than last year when I wasn't fulltime. It's nobody's fault, Youtube is just much harder now that it was in the past. There's a lot more competition, and the algorithm keeps changing. In order to be able to support myself at the bare minimum, I need to double my views. I need to triple them to live a normal life, and quadruple them to have a decent life. For now I'm just going to focus on doubling. Quadrupling sounds like an unattainable dream currently. The RPM for animation is very low, and due to my low views, on average I make only 20$ per video and it takes me a week to make one. That's just not sustainable. I make less money than I would be making if I worked part-time at minimum wage somewhere.

I really don't want to return to a normal 9-5 job I will hate, so I HAVE to succeed. It would make me feel like a failure, especially after I told my friends/family that I could do it and some were doubtful. There is a limit to how much time and money I can waste on something that is not successful, though. So I gave myself one year. If in April next year I still can't support myself, I will go back to a random job and greatly reduce the amount of videos I make, if not stop completely. Doing both is just too hard. I really don't want that to happen so I need to work super hard to make more views.

All my videos perform poorly, especially the Shorts. so I might stop Shorts. Recently, the Pikachu&Squirtle PMD video and Shadow Babysits Cream 5 did perform much better than the rest, but I'm not sure what to do with this information. I'm not sure what people liked about those videos that wasn't in my other videos. Looks like I still need to try something new/different until I find something that people really find entertaining and always want to watch. I would like to do one thing consistently, but so far nothing has been successful enough. Part of me still wants to only make what I feel like making and not care about views, but I need money so I kinda need to care. Also, I MIGHT be doing some sponsored videos, whether or not you like the product, please know I'm only doing it because I need the money D:

As usual, thank you if you read this far. If you have ideas/suggestions feel free to share. I will make another post about this later, but I did make a new, completely different channel just for cute animal videos. It's brand new and could use a boost, so have a look if you enjoy cat/dog videos: youtube.com/@Kirameki0

If you want to help, I also have a Patreon. The main perks is your name in the credits, seeing the videos a few days earlier than everyone else, and having your OC do a cameo in my video: www.patreon.com/c/sapphireluna
And, I draw commissions for people. Info on that here: www.deviantart.com/sapphireluna/journal/Commission…

If you don't have money, simply watching and sharing my videos is a big help. Thanks for your support, as always!

1 week ago (edited) | [YT] | 317

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✨✨You've asked for it, you requested it, you begged for it - well tomorrow (Saturday), after a wait of over 3 years, Shadow Babysits Cream part 5 is finally out! Yaay! ✨✨ Whether I make a part 6 or not depends on on many views it gets, so I hope you all watch~

I'm thinking of making it a Premiere, but I've never made a Premiere before so I'm not sure what to expect. I feel people would come expecting something amazing but then it's just a 2-minutes silly animation so I don't know. Either way, it will posted at 5PM EST. Please come see it!

Meanwhile if you want to watch or re-watch parts 1-4, there are here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 565

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Did you see my new video today?? What video do you want me to make next?

1 month ago | [YT] | 123

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I finally ran out of "old" Shorts (made out of my old videos) to show. Starting tomorrow, my Shorts will be completely new and never seen before!

2 months ago | [YT] | 122

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✨✨New 8 minutes long video dropping tomorrow at 12PM EST! As voted by you in my last poll, it's 8 minutes of Esper (Espeon) skits from Problematic Eeveelutions (the others show up too!) I wanted to test if a long video impacts views at all. It took a very, very, very loooooooong time to make so I hope you will watch it! 🙏🙏🙏 I look forward to your honest feedback too!

The video is already available to watch for Patreon subscribers: www.patreon.com/c/sapphireluna !!

3 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 558

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What's happening here? Right answers only.

(New 8 minutes video almost finished! Soon! o.o )

3 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 598

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Why is Jolt making that face? Wrong answers only.

3 months ago | [YT] | 577

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Do you like Sonadow?

4 months ago | [YT] | 121