What I'm currently cooking, with some obvious inspiration from a recent Switch 2 game. Need to fine-tune, add more abilities and figure out a way to make the video interesting to watch the whole way through
Last week I released something new that took 4 weeks to build—and it worked. I’m grateful and want to keep making real gameplay videos with wild features. But part of me wonders... when you watch channels like BTG, Manx, or Arrowstotle, is it a little sad knowing most people will never play these due to legal issues? It can feel like a tease: “Here’s this amazing thing… but you’ll never touch it.”
Fans of the channel, I want to hear from you. After my last video, where would you like to see the next video go? I have my own ideas but I don't want to stick to the exact same template(new features + level built by someone) unless that's what the audience would like. I've looked into the possibility of co-op/versus play with my custom engine with another Mario Tuber, creating a level builder for the audience to make me levels to play, or some other type of collab or challenge to make the next video add new features + some other thing to make it unique
One more teaser before my video upload, faked footage versus a real playable game. Rejected Updates were all fun and games when we knew they were fake... but what about when they're real? I'm excited to finally show it off, and with one massive level built by another fellow Mario Youtuber
I want to make a statement and then I will not post any further comments or replies on any future videos about this.
I'm happy with my latest parody video trailer, "Super A.I. Maker 2" which, of course, did not actually contain any A.I.-generated content because the video(as all of my videos) is meant to be a joke to entertain you for about 2 minutes of your day. But I want to make something clear: I am NOT against AI-generated content in ALL cases, I support it(and I will use it) when needed to enhance something that would be difficult or impossible to enhance on my own. Fortunately in my channel, nearly all footage can be edited by hand so I rarely ever need to "enhance"
A few months ago I asked the community's opinion with a poll on if I had an idea for a video that included scenes that were impossible for me to create, if they felt it was okay to use A.I. to generate those scenes. The overwhelming response was "no, never". But here's the thing: I was just gauging the community's overall feelings on A.I.-generated content, I was NOT saying "whichever answer gets more votes will decide how I make videos from now on". Because here is the thing: AI-generated content has been around in my channel for years but just not as obvious.
People loved my "Super Immersive Maker 2" and "Super Mario + Real Life" videos and every scene used After Effects to rotoscope different things, allowing me to create scenes that I could never make in real life, and rotoscoping in AE heavily uses AI to draw around objects. Movie studios pay big money for artists that cut around people frame-by-frame but I am one single person with a few free hours per night so if I need a scene that places me somewhere else and a green screen can't work, I use AE's rotoscoping and that performs a similar task that movie studios would do with an actual VFX person. So if your reasoning against AI is "it loses jobs" then I've technically been losing peoples' jobs for years(even though I'd never actually hire a person to do these things).
If you're against AI and you like Vtubers, I have bad news for you.
If you watch any content with captions, nearly all of them are AI-generated, most are not transcribed by a human
As MM2 dies more and the Switch 2 comes out, I have ideas for Switch 2-related videos that would be funny and some of them would require scenes/footage/angles/whatever that are just not possible for me to create or find free on a stock video site. And since I might make $50-$60 on a successful video(which many are not), I'm not going to pay someone $100 to use their camera skills to create one single scene that I need. I created a video that used an AI-generated image of the Switch 2 as a plastic toy. Sure, I could have hired an artist to make this, but my current earnings on that video are $42 and I guarantee a talented artist would charge much more than that to create the toy image. If AI image generation didn't exist, I would have just done my best at trying to make the image in photoshop and it wouldn't have looked nearly as good and that specific video really needed the visual to look accurate to sell the gag.
This channel started as a hobby and it is still a hobby so unless I have some kind of mind-blowing idea that's guaranteed to get a lot of views(which has never happened in my 8 years on YT), I'm simply not going to spend more money than a single video is likely to earn, that's how someone gets into debt and I won't let a hobby put me in debt. This is not a MrBeast channel where he can spend $500k on a single video because he knows he'll earn more than $500k in the ad revenue.
That is my statement and my reasoning. If anyone feels like I am wrong, feel free to unsubscribe because I'd prefer viewers who are understanding in these times of advanced AI technology. I won't argue with anyone who posts negative comments.
I love my viewers, but if you read this and still think I should never use AI-generated content for any reason, I hope you're aware that nearly every other channel you're subscribed to very likely uses AI-generated content in some way or another, whether for video ideas, editing, B-roll, script editing, voice enhancing, etc, not all AI-generated content is the obvious AI images and video that you've seen. Probably 80% or more of it on YT is for the smaller details to make a video's overall quality better.
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Years ago I tried launching a successor to "Rejected Updates" but botched the title/thumb/timing
The analytics show that the people who found it loved it... but almost nobody found it.
Relaunching Saturday morning, revised and remastered, so please watch and like when you see it! OGs might recognize it.
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Still working on the DK powerup abilities... video soon but I'm not sure how soon. Need to add a few more features and then get a level built
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What I'm currently cooking, with some obvious inspiration from a recent Switch 2 game. Need to fine-tune, add more abilities and figure out a way to make the video interesting to watch the whole way through
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Last week I released something new that took 4 weeks to build—and it worked. I’m grateful and want to keep making real gameplay videos with wild features. But part of me wonders... when you watch channels like BTG, Manx, or Arrowstotle, is it a little sad knowing most people will never play these due to legal issues? It can feel like a tease: “Here’s this amazing thing… but you’ll never touch it.”
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Fans of the channel, I want to hear from you. After my last video, where would you like to see the next video go? I have my own ideas but I don't want to stick to the exact same template(new features + level built by someone) unless that's what the audience would like. I've looked into the possibility of co-op/versus play with my custom engine with another Mario Tuber, creating a level builder for the audience to make me levels to play, or some other type of collab or challenge to make the next video add new features + some other thing to make it unique
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New video just dropped!! Might be my favorite I've ever made, go check it out!
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One more teaser before my video upload, faked footage versus a real playable game. Rejected Updates were all fun and games when we knew they were fake... but what about when they're real? I'm excited to finally show it off, and with one massive level built by another fellow Mario Youtuber
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Little Timmy would love these pipes (video coming soon.. I'm excited)
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DannyB Plays
So I've been working on something for a while. Nope, this is not fake video editing like all of my past videos. Exciting video coming soon🙂
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DannyB Plays
I want to make a statement and then I will not post any further comments or replies on any future videos about this.
I'm happy with my latest parody video trailer, "Super A.I. Maker 2" which, of course, did not actually contain any A.I.-generated content because the video(as all of my videos) is meant to be a joke to entertain you for about 2 minutes of your day. But I want to make something clear: I am NOT against AI-generated content in ALL cases, I support it(and I will use it) when needed to enhance something that would be difficult or impossible to enhance on my own. Fortunately in my channel, nearly all footage can be edited by hand so I rarely ever need to "enhance"
A few months ago I asked the community's opinion with a poll on if I had an idea for a video that included scenes that were impossible for me to create, if they felt it was okay to use A.I. to generate those scenes. The overwhelming response was "no, never". But here's the thing: I was just gauging the community's overall feelings on A.I.-generated content, I was NOT saying "whichever answer gets more votes will decide how I make videos from now on". Because here is the thing: AI-generated content has been around in my channel for years but just not as obvious.
People loved my "Super Immersive Maker 2" and "Super Mario + Real Life" videos and every scene used After Effects to rotoscope different things, allowing me to create scenes that I could never make in real life, and rotoscoping in AE heavily uses AI to draw around objects. Movie studios pay big money for artists that cut around people frame-by-frame but I am one single person with a few free hours per night so if I need a scene that places me somewhere else and a green screen can't work, I use AE's rotoscoping and that performs a similar task that movie studios would do with an actual VFX person. So if your reasoning against AI is "it loses jobs" then I've technically been losing peoples' jobs for years(even though I'd never actually hire a person to do these things).
If you're against AI and you like Vtubers, I have bad news for you.
If you watch any content with captions, nearly all of them are AI-generated, most are not transcribed by a human
As MM2 dies more and the Switch 2 comes out, I have ideas for Switch 2-related videos that would be funny and some of them would require scenes/footage/angles/whatever that are just not possible for me to create or find free on a stock video site. And since I might make $50-$60 on a successful video(which many are not), I'm not going to pay someone $100 to use their camera skills to create one single scene that I need. I created a video that used an AI-generated image of the Switch 2 as a plastic toy. Sure, I could have hired an artist to make this, but my current earnings on that video are $42 and I guarantee a talented artist would charge much more than that to create the toy image. If AI image generation didn't exist, I would have just done my best at trying to make the image in photoshop and it wouldn't have looked nearly as good and that specific video really needed the visual to look accurate to sell the gag.
This channel started as a hobby and it is still a hobby so unless I have some kind of mind-blowing idea that's guaranteed to get a lot of views(which has never happened in my 8 years on YT), I'm simply not going to spend more money than a single video is likely to earn, that's how someone gets into debt and I won't let a hobby put me in debt. This is not a MrBeast channel where he can spend $500k on a single video because he knows he'll earn more than $500k in the ad revenue.
That is my statement and my reasoning. If anyone feels like I am wrong, feel free to unsubscribe because I'd prefer viewers who are understanding in these times of advanced AI technology. I won't argue with anyone who posts negative comments.
I love my viewers, but if you read this and still think I should never use AI-generated content for any reason, I hope you're aware that nearly every other channel you're subscribed to very likely uses AI-generated content in some way or another, whether for video ideas, editing, B-roll, script editing, voice enhancing, etc, not all AI-generated content is the obvious AI images and video that you've seen. Probably 80% or more of it on YT is for the smaller details to make a video's overall quality better.
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