Hey everyone -- Just thought I would update with the current total, there are a few pending transactions that will alter this number in the coming hours, but I am pretty blown away at the outpouring of support here, and once we hit this goal, I'm going to shut it down and just go back to our normal operation where we rely on passive donations and largely on patreon to keep the ship floating. We have a lot of operating expenses, and don't create revenue with this page (hello copyrights!) so it's kind of an atypical thing for youtube and in the video editing space to do something that costs plenty of money and time without a profit motive -- nevertheless, I still absolutely loathe being in a situation where we're actively asking for money, so once again thank you to everyone who has made this as painless as possible in what has basically been just a day or so -- I know the last mile will be the toughest in getting to the finish line, but I hope to have this concluded before the end of this week (or weekend).
Just for reference, here are the ways you can contribute if you have the ability: Venmo: @Christopher-Hazard-0
Paypal: Christopher.Hazard@utoledo.edu
Cashapp: $hazard4k
You can also email me directly at hazardc at gmail dot com fi yo
I will continue to update this on a daily basis, and as soon as the goal is met, I will announce it and take it down. In the chance that we do happen to hit an "overage" before I notice, any funds will go directly into updating software licensing, storage upgrades, or into hardware I may have mentioned in an earlier post (KVM switch is at the top of my list, which allows you to use the same keyboard/mouse/other peripherials between multiple machines, so at the press of a button you can use the same combination of equipment seamlessly switched between machines. This is something i already planned on buying)
I don't foresee us "going over" before i notice it, but I do want to put an end to the "active fundraising" type stuff as soon as we get there. This leaves me in the original spot I planned on being in (Spending $1500 of my own money to fix the situation we were currently in, and ending up with one fully fucntional and upgraded workstation)
Where we are at has absolutely taken a lot of stress off of my shoulders already, so I'd like to extend a massive thank you to everyone who has pitched in so far, everyone that plans on doing so before this wraps up, and everyone who has ever sent us a penny in the past to help with this. I never imagined things would get this "big" when I started doing this on a 10-year old desktop with a used $200 graphics card at home just after we got hit by covid in the summer of 2020, but wow here we are, and I can't overstate how grateful I am for the people who have supported us in the past to get to where we are today, who have month after month supported this channel to the point where we have not had to actively ask for a single thing since December of 2020. 4.5 years of voluntary passive suppport has kept us afloat until now, and we're very close to clsoing this chapter (and exponentially increasing our production output and quality).
We do have some things that will come in the future that will be more long-term in scope, but I have some more creative ideas on how to raise those funds without just putting a "Cold ask" out there for this..
Again, thank you. I am still a bit thrown back by the outpouring of initial support on this, and the fact that we are just 29.5% away from closing the book on this and being able to just focus on the music again.
Christopher Hazard
Hey everyone -- Just thought I would update with the current total, there are a few pending transactions that will alter this number in the coming hours, but I am pretty blown away at the outpouring of support here, and once we hit this goal, I'm going to shut it down and just go back to our normal operation where we rely on passive donations and largely on patreon to keep the ship floating. We have a lot of operating expenses, and don't create revenue with this page (hello copyrights!) so it's kind of an atypical thing for youtube and in the video editing space to do something that costs plenty of money and time without a profit motive -- nevertheless, I still absolutely loathe being in a situation where we're actively asking for money, so once again thank you to everyone who has made this as painless as possible in what has basically been just a day or so -- I know the last mile will be the toughest in getting to the finish line, but I hope to have this concluded before the end of this week (or weekend).
Just for reference, here are the ways you can contribute if you have the ability:
Venmo: @Christopher-Hazard-0
Paypal: Christopher.Hazard@utoledo.edu
Cashapp: $hazard4k
You can also email me directly at hazardc at gmail dot com fi yo
I will continue to update this on a daily basis, and as soon as the goal is met, I will announce it and take it down. In the chance that we do happen to hit an "overage" before I notice, any funds will go directly into updating software licensing, storage upgrades, or into hardware I may have mentioned in an earlier post (KVM switch is at the top of my list, which allows you to use the same keyboard/mouse/other peripherials between multiple machines, so at the press of a button you can use the same combination of equipment seamlessly switched between machines. This is something i already planned on buying)
I don't foresee us "going over" before i notice it, but I do want to put an end to the "active fundraising" type stuff as soon as we get there. This leaves me in the original spot I planned on being in (Spending $1500 of my own money to fix the situation we were currently in, and ending up with one fully fucntional and upgraded workstation)
Where we are at has absolutely taken a lot of stress off of my shoulders already, so I'd like to extend a massive thank you to everyone who has pitched in so far, everyone that plans on doing so before this wraps up, and everyone who has ever sent us a penny in the past to help with this. I never imagined things would get this "big" when I started doing this on a 10-year old desktop with a used $200 graphics card at home just after we got hit by covid in the summer of 2020, but wow here we are, and I can't overstate how grateful I am for the people who have supported us in the past to get to where we are today, who have month after month supported this channel to the point where we have not had to actively ask for a single thing since December of 2020. 4.5 years of voluntary passive suppport has kept us afloat until now, and we're very close to clsoing this chapter (and exponentially increasing our production output and quality).
We do have some things that will come in the future that will be more long-term in scope, but I have some more creative ideas on how to raise those funds without just putting a "Cold ask" out there for this..
Again, thank you. I am still a bit thrown back by the outpouring of initial support on this, and the fact that we are just 29.5% away from closing the book on this and being able to just focus on the music again.
Thank you <3
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