All twenty-eight of the Some New Words videos I've been working on have now been uploaded and will continuing coming out daily until the end of the month. After that, I will be uploading the recording of my most recent livestream where I mainly discuss my thoughts about the series. Then, the next day, I will be uploading one more video where I will reveal a new short story I've written that will be readable on my website. Any allusion in the livestream to two more Dogwhistles 101 videos in the immediate future is no longer accurate.
After what I could consider to have been a fairly busy first third of the year for me on YouTube, the short story reveal will likely be the last regular content I upload here for some time. As I've foreshadowed an interest to in my livestreams up until this point, after much serious consideration and introspection, I have decided to try to learn computer coding. I'm giving myself at least the next four months now to go and do that privately, in which time I most likely won't be making any more YouTube videos.
I will reveal my progress in this, when and if the time is appropriate. When and if I have an update to make about future YouTube content, I'll make it here. I still have an interest in making YouTube videos, but it is not currently my creative priority.
Thank you for your continued support and viewership. Goodbye for now, and have a lovely day.
Once I finish up the Some New Words series (fifteen videos still to come), I'll be doing another livestream. In it, I'll probably reflect on that series a little bit, as well as talk about my creative plans going forward.
If there's any questions you'd like to ask me specifically, about SNW or otherwise, now's a good time. Comment below or email them in to the address listed in the description of every video.
For the past two weeks I have been working on the Some New Words video adaptation I've wanted to do for a while now.
I've got a preliminary version of the twenty-eight scripts done, and have even started filming a few and editing them together.
Not being completely sure how much time I'd have to work on them throughout late-March and April, my original plan was to aim to have them ready to come out, one a day, May 1st through to the 28th. But, now - being a bit ahead of schedule - I've decided I'll release the first four now, April 1st through to the 4th.
I'm doing this primarily because it seems pointless to have completed videos arbitrarily hidden for a month. But also, because I'm hoping for feedback. Watching these first four videos in the series will give you an idea of what the whole thing will be like, and what sort of project I'm trying to make here - but because it's such an inherently abstract and niche concept, I just wanted to make sure people understood the premise and could follow along alright.
Right now, these first few ones are basically what I was hoping to make - but I'd still be open to tweaking aspects of the series if people really need more clarification or desperately want more content in each instalment. If anything, the element of these videos which is most likely to change would be the thumbnails. Currently all the Some New Words videos use a very basic thumbnail design, and at some point I may go back and zhuzh them up a bit - but it's not necessarily a super-high priority.
But, once they come out over the next few days - feel free to let me know what you think.
If someone ever tells you they "won't be acknowledging your existence ever again", what it actually means is that they're just gonna mald about you in a private server forever. Also, bans don't work. And I want everyone reading this to remember the line "no growth potential".
Gotta say it's pretty disappointing how @PresidentSunday has reacted to my last community post on here, both publicly and behind closed doors.
It's not just how he very childishly, or naively, continued to argue that making YouTube videos is something you ought to be able to expect considerable financial compensation for doing in my comments section well beyond the point it was clear we were at an impasse. It's also largely how a great deal of what he's said himself on the matter is either incredibly blinkered at best or disingenuous at worst.
Despite his protestations otherwise; Sunday does think he should be paid talk on the internet, and he's making the case that people ought to pay him enough to sustain his lifestyle out of a sense of sympathy. That's why he's promoting his Patreon so aggressively right now, and why specifically he makes sure to mention in every Patreon sales-pitch his ever-dwindling savings, his encroaching living expenses, and the people in his professional orbit who apparently rely on being paid by him to live themselves.
Further still, Sunday's insistence that he doesn't know why he was demonitized is either a blatant falsehood, or proof of very little critical introspection on his part this past week. While pedants may argue no-one can know exactly why PS had his YouTube ad privileges revoked, it should actually be incredibly obvious to anyone who watches his content - and, of course, to the man himself. The thumbnail of one of his most recent videos prior to the demonitization, 'How PhilosophyTube Lies To You', was just a picture of another creator on the platform (and a transwoman, specifically) smiling happily as she's struck by a man.
Is that sort of imagery more than little a bit gross? Yes. Edgy enough to warrant pulling someone's ads? Maybe, maybe not. But I can't imagine it's the sort of content that wins you any points in the eyes of YouTube's ToS jannies. But no reasonable adult (especially one who's been in Progressive spaces long enough to know better too) can tell me that they can't connect the dots between publishing something like that and getting "unexpectedly" dropped from the partner program mere days later. (And he can't seriously blame anyone in PhilosophyTube's audience for possibly reporting it either - he should have known better as a 'professional YouTuber' than to give them something distasteful enough to report.)
And that's without even getting too deeply into how, when you sign up for a YouTube partnership, you explicitly acknowledge that you can have your partnership terminated at any time for any reason, so if you want to make a career out of YouTube, it would be wise to have a backup plan just in case - but I digress.
More to the point, Sunday's public facing comments throughout this entire episode just strike me as all incredibly shortsighted, or incredibly dishonest. But even worse, I think, is how he decided to react to my recent simple criticism of his actions in less-public spaces like the echochamber of his personal Discord. Despite presenting himself as being at least civil in receiving criticism, in his server (see the embed below) Sunday was actually going off on something of a deranged rant until about 4am his local time wherein he, projecting heavily, told his fans I was merely being resentful of others' success of YouTube. Which is pretty hilarious, given that I thoroughly denounce the very idea anyone should aspire to being careerist YouTube star at every possible opportunity. And I take YouTube so casually that a couple days ago I even announced a two-month hiatus from making videos on here. And also, as it stands, the twenty-or-so dollars my hobbyist YouTube page puts in my pocket every week is still technically more than Sunday's puts in his now - so if I'm envious of anyone on here, it's certainly not him.
Further still, I'm astounded how Sunday - despite presenting himself as above such petty squabbles - opted to whip his server into a two minutes' hate against me. And his strongest soldiers happily called my a psycho, a cunt, an anti-Semite(?!), and a sociopath for his amusement - all because I had the gall to suggest being a 100-concurrents drama streamer would not be a viable career forever.
But, don't let it be said that I won't choose to take the highroad here. I won't sink to his or his fans' level by calling him any similar derogatory things back. And I still sincerely hope Sunday finds a source of income soon, if only just so he can pay his editors who apparently rely on him to make ends meet, or so his poor financial instincts up to this point don't leave him and his partner unhoused.
But I will say this: Feeling entitled to a never-ending cushy online job is still incredibly immature, unrealistic, and extremely out-of-touch with anything approaching what I would call a serious left-wing worldview. And speaking as someone with a Real Job™ in academia - the way Sunday has been acting, publicly and otherwise, is incredibly unbecoming of someone who aspires to a career as a serious public intellectual.
@PresidentSunday just announced that his channel has been unexpectedly demonetized. He has my condolences (especially if he can't appeal it or have it overturned), but, at the risk of sounding like a bad guy - this doesn't seem like something the rest of us should really care about.
Just on the face of it, he's still got 21.5k loyal fans, he's still got Patreon, he's still got plenty of other platforms he can stream on or upload to, and surely he can still take independent donations through PayPal or similar. He's still got plenty of ways to make money from his cushy internet content creator job, even if the YouTube ad cheques never come back.
Theoretically, even if Sunday had no way of making money online ever again, and he had to get a 'real job' - that still wouldn't be anything to cry about. That's actually what most people do, have real jobs to earn money.
To be expected to sympathize for a YouTuber who loses their demonitzation feels to me like asking someone who rents to feel sympathy for someone whose mansion partially burns down. "Why should I cry for them, when even after their 'big loss' they still have more than me?"
I like Sunday's content. And he seems like a talented and nice enough guy from what we see of him. But with all due respect, I would have to recommend Sunday either:
- Call it quits on online content here, feeling a sense of gratitude for the fun he's had (and the money he's made) up until this point. And he can thank his audience for sticking with him this far, and possibly seek out a (similarly cushy white collar) job in the real world with his qualifications.
or
- He can keep doing YouTube and/or other online platforms. But do so for the love of making content, not out of the expectation that someone should be paid a full salary for making videos.
Personally, I just hope that whatever way forward he chooses, Sunday keeps his head up and remains positive. I mean, he's still got his fans, and presumably he enjoys making videos, and it seems like he's got a nice place to live, he's personable so presumably he has a good social life, and he's got the benefit of living in a First World country - so looking at the big picture, it seems like everything should be fine for Sunday. And I sincerely hope it will be for him.
But someone in that sort of position of socio-economic privilege losing (some) of the income they get from doing undergraduate level poli-sci and drama streams from the comfort of their home is not something I feel any sort of inclination to feel sad about.
Just released the last video I want to do for a while. I'm busy with IRL work and stuff for a while now. Next thing I'll publish here will be the twenty-eight part Some New Words series I'm hoping to do around late-April or more likely sometime in May, then a run of imageboard literature videos after that. And hopefully I'll get around to learning computer game design June/July/August. Bye for now, I'll see you when I see you. Have a lovely day.
Going to try another livestream once the weather allows for it. I'll be talking about the cyclone, answering some viewer mail, outlining my plans for a twenty-eight part standalone April/May miniseries, and thinking out loud about my plans for beyond then.
I've already got some viewer questions to answer, but if you've got any more - feel free to leave them below on send them to the contact email.
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All twenty-eight of the Some New Words videos I've been working on have now been uploaded and will continuing coming out daily until the end of the month.
After that, I will be uploading the recording of my most recent livestream where I mainly discuss my thoughts about the series. Then, the next day, I will be uploading one more video where I will reveal a new short story I've written that will be readable on my website.
Any allusion in the livestream to two more Dogwhistles 101 videos in the immediate future is no longer accurate.
After what I could consider to have been a fairly busy first third of the year for me on YouTube, the short story reveal will likely be the last regular content I upload here for some time.
As I've foreshadowed an interest to in my livestreams up until this point, after much serious consideration and introspection, I have decided to try to learn computer coding. I'm giving myself at least the next four months now to go and do that privately, in which time I most likely won't be making any more YouTube videos.
I will reveal my progress in this, when and if the time is appropriate.
When and if I have an update to make about future YouTube content, I'll make it here. I still have an interest in making YouTube videos, but it is not currently my creative priority.
Thank you for your continued support and viewership.
Goodbye for now, and have a lovely day.
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Once I finish up the Some New Words series (fifteen videos still to come), I'll be doing another livestream.
In it, I'll probably reflect on that series a little bit, as well as talk about my creative plans going forward.
If there's any questions you'd like to ask me specifically, about SNW or otherwise, now's a good time. Comment below or email them in to the address listed in the description of every video.
Have a lovely day.
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For the past two weeks I have been working on the Some New Words video adaptation I've wanted to do for a while now.
I've got a preliminary version of the twenty-eight scripts done, and have even started filming a few and editing them together.
Not being completely sure how much time I'd have to work on them throughout late-March and April, my original plan was to aim to have them ready to come out, one a day, May 1st through to the 28th. But, now - being a bit ahead of schedule - I've decided I'll release the first four now, April 1st through to the 4th.
I'm doing this primarily because it seems pointless to have completed videos arbitrarily hidden for a month. But also, because I'm hoping for feedback. Watching these first four videos in the series will give you an idea of what the whole thing will be like, and what sort of project I'm trying to make here - but because it's such an inherently abstract and niche concept, I just wanted to make sure people understood the premise and could follow along alright.
Right now, these first few ones are basically what I was hoping to make - but I'd still be open to tweaking aspects of the series if people really need more clarification or desperately want more content in each instalment. If anything, the element of these videos which is most likely to change would be the thumbnails. Currently all the Some New Words videos use a very basic thumbnail design, and at some point I may go back and zhuzh them up a bit - but it's not necessarily a super-high priority.
But, once they come out over the next few days - feel free to let me know what you think.
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If someone ever tells you they "won't be acknowledging your existence ever again", what it actually means is that they're just gonna mald about you in a private server forever.
Also, bans don't work. And I want everyone reading this to remember the line "no growth potential".
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It's been five days and I keep getting notifications because he's STILL arguing it out with nobodies in my comments section.
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Gotta say it's pretty disappointing how @PresidentSunday has reacted to my last community post on here, both publicly and behind closed doors.
It's not just how he very childishly, or naively, continued to argue that making YouTube videos is something you ought to be able to expect considerable financial compensation for doing in my comments section well beyond the point it was clear we were at an impasse. It's also largely how a great deal of what he's said himself on the matter is either incredibly blinkered at best or disingenuous at worst.
Despite his protestations otherwise; Sunday does think he should be paid talk on the internet, and he's making the case that people ought to pay him enough to sustain his lifestyle out of a sense of sympathy.
That's why he's promoting his Patreon so aggressively right now, and why specifically he makes sure to mention in every Patreon sales-pitch his ever-dwindling savings, his encroaching living expenses, and the people in his professional orbit who apparently rely on being paid by him to live themselves.
Further still, Sunday's insistence that he doesn't know why he was demonitized is either a blatant falsehood, or proof of very little critical introspection on his part this past week. While pedants may argue no-one can know exactly why PS had his YouTube ad privileges revoked, it should actually be incredibly obvious to anyone who watches his content - and, of course, to the man himself.
The thumbnail of one of his most recent videos prior to the demonitization, 'How PhilosophyTube Lies To You', was just a picture of another creator on the platform (and a transwoman, specifically) smiling happily as she's struck by a man.
Is that sort of imagery more than little a bit gross? Yes.
Edgy enough to warrant pulling someone's ads? Maybe, maybe not. But I can't imagine it's the sort of content that wins you any points in the eyes of YouTube's ToS jannies.
But no reasonable adult (especially one who's been in Progressive spaces long enough to know better too) can tell me that they can't connect the dots between publishing something like that and getting "unexpectedly" dropped from the partner program mere days later.
(And he can't seriously blame anyone in PhilosophyTube's audience for possibly reporting it either - he should have known better as a 'professional YouTuber' than to give them something distasteful enough to report.)
And that's without even getting too deeply into how, when you sign up for a YouTube partnership, you explicitly acknowledge that you can have your partnership terminated at any time for any reason, so if you want to make a career out of YouTube, it would be wise to have a backup plan just in case - but I digress.
More to the point, Sunday's public facing comments throughout this entire episode just strike me as all incredibly shortsighted, or incredibly dishonest.
But even worse, I think, is how he decided to react to my recent simple criticism of his actions in less-public spaces like the echochamber of his personal Discord.
Despite presenting himself as being at least civil in receiving criticism, in his server (see the embed below) Sunday was actually going off on something of a deranged rant until about 4am his local time wherein he, projecting heavily, told his fans I was merely being resentful of others' success of YouTube.
Which is pretty hilarious, given that I thoroughly denounce the very idea anyone should aspire to being careerist YouTube star at every possible opportunity.
And I take YouTube so casually that a couple days ago I even announced a two-month hiatus from making videos on here.
And also, as it stands, the twenty-or-so dollars my hobbyist YouTube page puts in my pocket every week is still technically more than Sunday's puts in his now - so if I'm envious of anyone on here, it's certainly not him.
Further still, I'm astounded how Sunday - despite presenting himself as above such petty squabbles - opted to whip his server into a two minutes' hate against me. And his strongest soldiers happily called my a psycho, a cunt, an anti-Semite(?!), and a sociopath for his amusement - all because I had the gall to suggest being a 100-concurrents drama streamer would not be a viable career forever.
But, don't let it be said that I won't choose to take the highroad here. I won't sink to his or his fans' level by calling him any similar derogatory things back.
And I still sincerely hope Sunday finds a source of income soon, if only just so he can pay his editors who apparently rely on him to make ends meet, or so his poor financial instincts up to this point don't leave him and his partner unhoused.
But I will say this:
Feeling entitled to a never-ending cushy online job is still incredibly immature, unrealistic, and extremely out-of-touch with anything approaching what I would call a serious left-wing worldview.
And speaking as someone with a Real Job™ in academia - the way Sunday has been acting, publicly and otherwise, is incredibly unbecoming of someone who aspires to a career as a serious public intellectual.
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@PresidentSunday just announced that his channel has been unexpectedly demonetized. He has my condolences (especially if he can't appeal it or have it overturned), but, at the risk of sounding like a bad guy -
this doesn't seem like something the rest of us should really care about.
Just on the face of it, he's still got 21.5k loyal fans, he's still got Patreon, he's still got plenty of other platforms he can stream on or upload to, and surely he can still take independent donations through PayPal or similar.
He's still got plenty of ways to make money from his cushy internet content creator job, even if the YouTube ad cheques never come back.
Theoretically, even if Sunday had no way of making money online ever again, and he had to get a 'real job' - that still wouldn't be anything to cry about. That's actually what most people do, have real jobs to earn money.
To be expected to sympathize for a YouTuber who loses their demonitzation feels to me like asking someone who rents to feel sympathy for someone whose mansion partially burns down. "Why should I cry for them, when even after their 'big loss' they still have more than me?"
I like Sunday's content. And he seems like a talented and nice enough guy from what we see of him.
But with all due respect,
I would have to recommend Sunday either:
- Call it quits on online content here, feeling a sense of gratitude for the fun he's had (and the money he's made) up until this point. And he can thank his audience for sticking with him this far, and possibly seek out a (similarly cushy white collar) job in the real world with his qualifications.
or
- He can keep doing YouTube and/or other online platforms. But do so for the love of making content, not out of the expectation that someone should be paid a full salary for making videos.
Personally, I just hope that whatever way forward he chooses, Sunday keeps his head up and remains positive.
I mean, he's still got his fans, and presumably he enjoys making videos, and it seems like he's got a nice place to live, he's personable so presumably he has a good social life, and he's got the benefit of living in a First World country - so looking at the big picture, it seems like everything should be fine for Sunday.
And I sincerely hope it will be for him.
But someone in that sort of position of socio-economic privilege losing (some) of the income they get from doing undergraduate level poli-sci and drama streams from the comfort of their home is not something I feel any sort of inclination to feel sad about.
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Just released the last video I want to do for a while. I'm busy with IRL work and stuff for a while now.
Next thing I'll publish here will be the twenty-eight part Some New Words series I'm hoping to do around late-April or more likely sometime in May, then a run of imageboard literature videos after that. And hopefully I'll get around to learning computer game design June/July/August.
Bye for now, I'll see you when I see you.
Have a lovely day.
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Going to try another livestream once the weather allows for it. I'll be talking about the cyclone, answering some viewer mail, outlining my plans for a twenty-eight part standalone April/May miniseries, and thinking out loud about my plans for beyond then.
I've already got some viewer questions to answer, but if you've got any more - feel free to leave them below on send them to the contact email.
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There's currently a cyclone hitting where I live so possibly no new videos for a little while.
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