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Remember the magic words: “F U, MAKE ME.”

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 1,275

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New Video Out Now! <ALSO!> I wanted to address some things I’ve been seeing in the comments.

"Why are your videos not doing well?"

It’s a little complicated. We were hit multiple times this year for copyright, almost lost the channel. This happened on very old and some new videos.
It happens and it’s the risk of staying independent in the anime sphere.
In addition, anime YouTube has been inundated with recap channels and AI slop. They post multi hour videos multiple times a week simply recapping anime. They grow fast and get a lot of views. It is what it is.
The global political atmosphere is a mess and news content is dominating YouTube right now. People aren’t as interested in creative analysis when there’s real life catastrophes going on.
Lastly, we haven’t had the time and space to make a long form video yet this year. We have a couple multi hour long videos that need to be put together, but we have major time constraints due to sponsorship obligations. It’s a double edge sword. Without the sponsors this year we’d be sunk, but views are also down because we’ve had to make more, but shorter videos.
Anime is also in a lull. Most of the series that brought in a fresh audience around 2019 are ending or already over. Casual younger fans have “aged out” and there isn’t anything major on the horizon to bring in fresh new eyes. This is part of a bigger problem I’d like to do a video on, maybe next week.

But yeah. Basically, don’t worry about it. We have our Patreon to keep us above water until things change. Things will swing back around, they always do, this is the nature of the machine. We aren’t going to throw in the towel just cause things are tough. If you’re reading this, you’re a real head, it’s people like you who keep us going, so thank you from the bottom of my heart.
-Mike

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 1,361

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See you in the morning.

1 month ago | [YT] | 403

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Saturday.

1 month ago | [YT] | 768

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IMPORTANT!
Ey comrades, YT has rolled out a new feature which auto-blocks our (and many others) videos from you depending on whether the app decided on its own whether you’re a kid or not 🙄

Here’s how to fix it.

You’ll want to go to to “you”

then hit the settings gear.

Hit general

Find “restricted mode” and switch it off.

This will be flipped on if YouTube thinks you’re a kid based on what you watch 😮‍💨
It’s been messing a lot of channels up and hiding content from millions of people.

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1 month ago | [YT] | 422

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Our occasional editor and good friend Axel dropped an awesome video on FF recently, you should check it out!

https://youtu.be/dVZtMAddAeM?si=aQhHi...

1 month ago | [YT] | 75

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Dropped a new video right on time. We’ve been dealing with a lot of copyright issues lately, strikes etc bringing the views way down. Would super love if you gave this one a chance. I really love this anime.

1 month ago | [YT] | 175

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Script, Voiceover and Facecam done! See you Saturday!

1 month ago | [YT] | 980

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Got a great video coming out this Saturday! See you there!

2 months ago | [YT] | 992

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HEADS UP! We’re under attack right now from a company called Molebeat. We currently have two bogus copyright strikes that are under review (but they still count, one more and we’re gone.)
This of course is tanking viewership. If you see our new video out there, check it out, it’s a fun one and it’d really help.

2 months ago | [YT] | 653