Game text replacement is one of the funniest things to me, and I'm so glad you've been able to spread that special kind of joy.
1 year ago | 43
I'm glad you're prioritizing your well-being! I love your Beast Intersection series and your own Tomodachi mods/messes. Like some others have said - I too kinda just moved into different sections of YouTube (I used to watch video game content and somehow I degraded into true crime 😭). But I'll always be a grateful subscriber!
1 year ago | 10
For what its worth, i never knew you worked with Vinesauce, i just liked your content. :)
1 year ago | 3
I found out about your channel because I wanted to see a Modded Starbound Let's Play. Your Animal Crossing series is why I bought a 3ds and New Leaf. Hell, it's partially why I got a Switch. Still use the FU series as sleeping aid now and then. The fact you worked for Vinny? I was "oh cool" but wasn't even a blip on the list of reasons I'm still subbed to you.
1 year ago | 2
i might be one of the few people who saw your channel without (originally) knowing you had ties to vinny. i really enjoy birdette's satchel creatures and i watched through most of the ddlc gpt2 series. your text replacement stuff is really cool!
1 year ago | 1
I've enjoyed your stuff on and off since the early-ish tomodachi life days, I learned about teckworks through you and I appreciate all the videos I've watched of yours since then. Thank you, and I'm sorry youtube is a shoddy platform to grow through. I think that In this life skill and effort is a factor, but luck and circumstance is a very large factor in success. And unfortunately youtubes systems aren't good. So I'm glad you're making the switch to just doing it for fun/when you're inspired because this fickle platform sucks and isn't worth your stress imo. Sorry for the rant
1 year ago | 2
I actually didn't know about Vinesauce at all before stumbling on your Animal Crossing videos which made me laugh into hysterics. Love your content and much love, and big hopes to a better year in 2024!
1 year ago | 1
Just wanted to say I've been a long time fan of your stuff and I'll always remain a subscriber irregardless of come what may. Also, good to know about the second voice belonging to your younger brother. (One of my favorite series was the Doki Doki Literature Club with GPT-2 text generation) and I knew I recognized the additional voice from somewhere (that or my ears may be deceiving me?). I thought you both had really great chemistry together and it's a real treat having him on board and you both having a good time with the current "daily dose of nonsense and chaos" so cheers to that and as long as you're enjoying yourself, that's a win in my book. (Even if you've remained an unrecognized gem on this platform but a gem all the same)
1 year ago (edited) | 1
While Vinesauce is how I learned of you, your Starbound series is what I remember most. As someone who myself plays WAY too much Starbound (~5k hours currently) it inspired me to host my own psuedo roleplays with friends that just eventually evolved into a whole little universe of roleplays. Been playing the game since the beta so the idea to get my friends in on it to tell our own stories for fun, it was a blast. Plus, I love building. And it was more realistic then just being like "Gosh, wish I could play Starbound with the likes of these guys" like who am I? Some nobody obsessed with a game most people disregard as a failed terraria clone. You may not feel like a big YouTube personality, but you felt like one to me back then, and I hope you find joy in whatever you do in the future <3
1 year ago | 1
For what it's worth from me, I didn't find you through Vinesauce, I only found that out retroactively. I found you because not many people were really doing playthroughs of Starbound. I maintain that it's my favourite Starbound playthrough on the whole platform. And besides, I like watching things people do for fun, rather than for the algorithm.
1 year ago | 1
Stayed around mainly for Beast Intersection and other text edit shenanigans, to be honest I always appreciated how you were willing to include riskier content and humor despite an increasingly prudish internet. If you treat YouTube more as a side hobby than anything else, I think that's fine! Whenever you happen to upload, there's a pretty good chance I'll take a look.
1 year ago | 1
I never even knew you were with vinesauce but iv always loved your furry videos~
1 year ago | 1
I never checked out your Starbound videos but I really enjoyed the Beast Intersection videos.
1 year ago | 1
I guess I live under a rock, I didn't know what vinesauce is nor who vinny was. I came in on the starbound stuff and I stayed because you and teck were a breath of fresh air from all the usual youtube stuff. Just two guys, playing a game and making their own fun while doing so. Maybe the humor in those videos is why youtube stopped recommending the videos as much, but I'm very glad I found them. Your other stuff is good too, though, which is why I stay subscribed. It was pretty easy to tell you were losing your enjoyment of making videos however, but I'm glad you're going to just do what you enjoy. That's a lot more fun to watch than you trying to gain subs or be bummed about not getting them. Hopefully there will be another starbound like game that you enjoy and takes off on views/subs, but you'll never know if you quit. I might not comment on anything but I do look forward to what you'll make. I've never been one to comment so sorry if this a bit disjointed or too long, but keep being you, Bird! 👍
1 year ago | 1
For a good while I didn't even know you had any association with Vinesauce, I found you through Beast Intersection and all the fun that series is (was?)
1 year ago | 1
I never knew you worked with vinesauce, i found your chanel a few years ago when looking for more starbound content
1 year ago | 1
In all honesty, I tend to forget you worked with Vinesauce; I don't watch much of Vinny's stuff. I actually forget when I subbed, probably around the time you were still debugging that ROM hack of SMB3. Whether that was before or after your work with Vinesauce, I no longer know.
1 year ago | 1
I feel bad for becoming a lurker in your channel over the years, mostly because it's caused me to engage less and less with your channel. I wish I had watched and commented on your videos more while you were still not affected by the decline in viewership.
1 year ago | 2
I don’t know if you remember, but being with you and the boys on the Starbound server was one of the most fun things I’ve done in a long time. I still remember killing the glitch king boss through the floor on that one mission.
1 year ago | 26
I'm gonna be the odd man out and say my favorite thing you ever did was that video or whatever about Centralia, I found that more edifying than anything you did with Vinesauce. Its a shame no one else felt the same way.
1 year ago | 0
Captain Southbird
As 2023 draws to a close, felt like I might as well do a little write-up. When I left Vinesauce in 2018, I felt like the channel was strong, and I could just break off and do my own thing and find my own success in YouTube land. I had a lot of optimism and ego, and I guess that was my first mistake.
Boy was I wrong. I'd say about 90% of my audience bled off once I stopped working for Vinesauce, which showed it was never really about me, they just associated with me because of the one-degree-off-Vinny. Now, I obviously don't hold anything against Vinny, quite the opposite, he was always good to me, it was just sad to know that I personally didn't really matter when I was no longer associated with him.
In the last 5 years, I've had a lot of trouble coming to terms with that. I've been angry, frustrated, depressed. Not JUST about that (I mean, have you seen the world lately?), but it was a factor. Even today, I'll randomly be "spotted" on Reddit or something, and they always call out, "'Hey, didn't you work for Vinesauce?" Clearly showing in the last 5 years, the general public at large hasn't cared at all about anything I've done, because nobody knows me apart from that, apparently. (Because on the flipside, they never "spot" me and call out anything BESIDES Vinesauce.)
In the last few months, I've finally come to terms with it. I'll never be a popular YouTube personality. I'm surprised at the few who have stuck with me, but you all are special to me. I don't know why you stick with me when everyone else left, but it means a LOT.
However, that also means I'm deprioritizing YouTube. That doesn't mean I'll never upload, for example see the "Mayonnaise RPG" thing. (Which I had a lot of fun with! And my younger brother even wanted in on it, the "second voice" there.) Knowing I'll never "succeed" on this platform, I'm going to just upload whatever amuses me whenever I can. I just also want to focus on other things in life since the things I do on YouTube tend to be heavy time investment for little reward. It's just a practicality.
Still, the mild net positive here is that I'm finally going to get back to just uploading "for fun" and not be worried about whether whatever I upload actually does anything for the insatiable YouTube machine. "Mayonnaise RPG" is a perfect example of me amusing myself. I actually love Mario RPG, it is a super nostalgic part of my childhood, and I'm old enough that I played it on the SNES back in the day when it was NEW. This sort of corruption comes from my soul. I love reverse engineering things and making them deliberately malfunction in an interesting way. It's just how I roll.
If you like it, it's here. If it's gotten old, well, unsubscribe and go your own way, I'm not gonna be hurt by it, we all like what we like, and vice-versa. I want to enter 2024 (and all the potentially scary things it brings us) with a better focus on just getting back to being "me" and not focused on how much none of this really "worked out" in a "metrics" sort of way. I know I'm out of touch and "old hat", but fuck it, I'd rather be me than just another pandering to the meme machines of the Internet.
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