TLDR: I’m not making Mecha Break Content anymore. Why? Read below.
I don’t know who will see this, or who will care, but just in case there’s even 1 person out there who discovered me through my Mecha Break Videos, I want to give them the generosity and courtesy of being transparent about the content they came here for. Any one who has a following owes that to their audience regardless of how small it is.
Since Mecha Break came out I was on a roll with releasing weekly videos. It has been the most video material I’ve released consistently ever in my life, and the initial plan was to keep doing it. However, the “What to loot” video has been my only successful video. Despite me using that video as a way to funnel people to my other content, it has done nothing to boost the rest of the videos.
Ever since the “Mecha Break Isn’t Dead” video, the viewership has completely tanked, and each video performed worse than the last. I wanted to stick to a weekly schedule because I was under the impression that the more videos I pumped out at a consistent basis, the more it would be pushed by the algorithm. Evidently that didn’t turn out to be the case at all.
It was a struggle to keep up with a weekly upload schedule, and it was taking away time I wanted to spend on other things. The truth is, I don’t actually want to be a youtuber. I follow a lot of youtubers, most of them doing this full time, and I see first hand how this career practically destroys them mentally, and how in spite of all the effort, many of them still struggle to make ends meet. All in the name of compromising their art and vision because youtube is more concerned about being a sanitized corporation now more than ever.
It’s not a life I want to live, it’s a life I can’t pursue because I have a family that I can’t take care of or give enough attention to if I tried to be a youtuber. All this channel will ever be is a strictly hobby space, and occasionally a place I can promote whatever my latest project or product is. But it will never be my medium of choice.
Obviously if doing Mecha Break content was pulling in numbers then maybe I could make youtube a side hustle to pay the bills instead of my current day-time job. But it’s clear now that’s not going to happen. I don’t know if it’s because the content itself is subpar, or Mecha Break really is dying and it’s not going to pull in a large enough audience to make channels like mine a worthwhile niche to carve into.
I don’t want the game to die, but even I can’t deny the declining numbers, and I myself haven’t played in ages. Not because I stopped having fun, but I had to spend my time making videos about it instead of playing it. But Nowadays my days are so busy and stressful that I don’t have the energy to play anymore. I’m not a teen or in my early 20’s anymore, I just don’t have the energy, time and motivation to keep up with a fast paced competitive game.
And I’ll be honest, it’s hard to not let all the doomers get to ya. I had to stop following the mechabreak subreddit cuz everyday there was another post about how the game is dying, and it really does become an obnoxious bummer after awhile. As an American I’m struggling to fight for so many things right now, I don’t have it in me to add another struggle on the list, especially when it’s something so inconsequential as a videogame from a foreign country that I realistically won't have a big impact on.
I could go on, just bearing all my emotions, but I think I made my point clear. I don’t plan on making any more Mecha Break content in the near future, not even more ‘State of Break’ episodes like I initially promised. I’m not a youtuber, I’m an artist and storyteller. I started making Meche Break vids cuz the game excited me, but now there’s another project that’s excited me, and I’ll share more details on that in my monthly reports on all the other platforms I post to.
To the person or people that subscribed to my channel or discovered my stuff because of my Mecha Break content, I’m sorry I’m unable to deliver the kind of entertainment you were seeking. But it’s my firm belief that an artist can’t perform if their heart isn’t into it, and providing a subpar performance to your audience is a form of robbery. They are giving you time and/or money because they trusted you to give them a good time, and being unable to meet that promise but demanding that time and money anyways is dishonest.
Whatever you may think of me, I hope to at least demonstrate honesty to you and to myself. But I wont stop making videos entirely, and if you’re at all curious as to what I’ve been working on instead and what I’ll be doing from here on out, read up my blog on my website, elonyx-media.net
Elonyx
AUGUST 2025 UPDATE (YOUTUBE VERSION)
TLDR: I’m not making Mecha Break Content anymore. Why? Read below.
I don’t know who will see this, or who will care, but just in case there’s even 1 person out there who discovered me through my Mecha Break Videos, I want to give them the generosity and courtesy of being transparent about the content they came here for. Any one who has a following owes that to their audience regardless of how small it is.
Since Mecha Break came out I was on a roll with releasing weekly videos. It has been the most video material I’ve released consistently ever in my life, and the initial plan was to keep doing it. However, the “What to loot” video has been my only successful video. Despite me using that video as a way to funnel people to my other content, it has done nothing to boost the rest of the videos.
Ever since the “Mecha Break Isn’t Dead” video, the viewership has completely tanked, and each video performed worse than the last. I wanted to stick to a weekly schedule because I was under the impression that the more videos I pumped out at a consistent basis, the more it would be pushed by the algorithm. Evidently that didn’t turn out to be the case at all.
It was a struggle to keep up with a weekly upload schedule, and it was taking away time I wanted to spend on other things. The truth is, I don’t actually want to be a youtuber. I follow a lot of youtubers, most of them doing this full time, and I see first hand how this career practically destroys them mentally, and how in spite of all the effort, many of them still struggle to make ends meet. All in the name of compromising their art and vision because youtube is more concerned about being a sanitized corporation now more than ever.
It’s not a life I want to live, it’s a life I can’t pursue because I have a family that I can’t take care of or give enough attention to if I tried to be a youtuber. All this channel will ever be is a strictly hobby space, and occasionally a place I can promote whatever my latest project or product is. But it will never be my medium of choice.
Obviously if doing Mecha Break content was pulling in numbers then maybe I could make youtube a side hustle to pay the bills instead of my current day-time job. But it’s clear now that’s not going to happen. I don’t know if it’s because the content itself is subpar, or Mecha Break really is dying and it’s not going to pull in a large enough audience to make channels like mine a worthwhile niche to carve into.
I don’t want the game to die, but even I can’t deny the declining numbers, and I myself haven’t played in ages. Not because I stopped having fun, but I had to spend my time making videos about it instead of playing it. But Nowadays my days are so busy and stressful that I don’t have the energy to play anymore. I’m not a teen or in my early 20’s anymore, I just don’t have the energy, time and motivation to keep up with a fast paced competitive game.
And I’ll be honest, it’s hard to not let all the doomers get to ya. I had to stop following the mechabreak subreddit cuz everyday there was another post about how the game is dying, and it really does become an obnoxious bummer after awhile. As an American I’m struggling to fight for so many things right now, I don’t have it in me to add another struggle on the list, especially when it’s something so inconsequential as a videogame from a foreign country that I realistically won't have a big impact on.
I could go on, just bearing all my emotions, but I think I made my point clear. I don’t plan on making any more Mecha Break content in the near future, not even more ‘State of Break’ episodes like I initially promised. I’m not a youtuber, I’m an artist and storyteller. I started making Meche Break vids cuz the game excited me, but now there’s another project that’s excited me, and I’ll share more details on that in my monthly reports on all the other platforms I post to.
To the person or people that subscribed to my channel or discovered my stuff because of my Mecha Break content, I’m sorry I’m unable to deliver the kind of entertainment you were seeking. But it’s my firm belief that an artist can’t perform if their heart isn’t into it, and providing a subpar performance to your audience is a form of robbery. They are giving you time and/or money because they trusted you to give them a good time, and being unable to meet that promise but demanding that time and money anyways is dishonest.
Whatever you may think of me, I hope to at least demonstrate honesty to you and to myself. But I wont stop making videos entirely, and if you’re at all curious as to what I’ve been working on instead and what I’ll be doing from here on out, read up my blog on my website, elonyx-media.net
~A very tired & sad Eli.
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