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I got caught up with another project and will need to slow down updates for the War Maps YT channel - for some time. The project is completely unrelated to War Maps and YouTube. I will do my best to figure out how to organize my time better ahead to not feel like WM isn't getting any time put into it. Sorry about that!

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 88

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Will USA strike Iran?

1 month ago | [YT] | 71

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Which side do you support in the ongoing unrest in Iran?

1 month ago | [YT] | 77

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For those celebrating, Merry Christmas! Hope you’re doing well wherever you are - thanks for being part of the community.

1 month ago | [YT] | 118

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Pardon the delay in updates — there just aren’t enough hours in the day to put into YouTube.

I wanted to share an overview of the channel’s finances and what running War Maps actually looks like - now that we've reached 80,000 subscribers (thank you!) and over 35M total views.

Starting in December, a discount I have on some of the apps I use will expire, and the total monthly cost of them will rise to about $125/month. Last month, the channel earned $365 in revenue.

So while I truly appreciate all the interest, feature and map requests, War Maps still has to remain as a side project. I really love working on it and will keep doing so, but realistically, it’s unlikely the channel will attract any sponsors or advertisers — and there’s always that risk of demonetization or just outright getting banned due to the topic.

Bottom line, if you’d like to support War Maps directly, you can do so by joining the channel’s YouTube Membership. There are currently 3 members supporting the channel with $3 per month. If enough of you are willing and able to join, and I'm able to foresee actually being able to pay some bills with YouTube, I’ll dedicate more time to War Maps and scale back other projects.

We'll list all channel members at the end of each video ahead, which is an incredible value for the money - to commemorate the few that help keep War Maps going.

3 months ago | [YT] | 128

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Which Germany had the superior military - WW1 or WW2?

4 months ago | [YT] | 62

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Which map types do you prefer? And I'll need to clarify this, because I make 2 types of maps.

First type is where we zoom in closer to any particular settlement and its immidiate surrounding - and every day is animated at multiple hourly points, giving us a more detailed movement / animation of the frontlines. This essentially becomes 'every hour' type of a map. Upside is a more dynamic view of the frontline. Downside is that I'm making implied movements based on reported attack directions (if I'm lucky enough to have a source to show it) and terrain. So while it's interesting to see, those are my own inferred / implied movements based on day to day frontline snapshots / attack directions / terrain. Accuracy is hence a concern.

Second type is where we zoom further out, normally encompassing multiple key settlements, and there are no detailed hourly movements, but rather every day is animated as a single point. It's then as accurate as the map source I'm using is.

I should also mention that hour by hour takes an (best described as) 'incredible' amount of time to do. I'd mark that as a downside, personally.

4 months ago | [YT] | 48

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Which nation joined WW2 out of a principle to save another country?

4 months ago | [YT] | 52