I have just come across you stu. I recently relapsed and are back in the fight again. I been fighting a long time and I can’t belive the connection I get with you your stories and your soothing voice. You are a sobriety gift thank you brother. Pray for our sobriety 🙏❤
3 months ago | 1
I love your content no matter what form i see it in…im sticking with you Stu! Best sobriety channel I’ve seen brother!
4 months ago | 3
Congratulations on the new job! Awaiting the coming videos for 2025, even if these are only a few. Your brutal honesty is highly appreciated! Guten Rutsch ins 2025 for all here on the channel! Stay strong!!
4 months ago | 6
Makes total sense Stu … watching your long form videos is an event .. I totally immerse myself in the depth of explanation… I find them really effective.. just a note to the soberites out there, even though I’ve been sober for 8 years now, watching stuff like Stus content is a reminder that ditching the grog was the best thing a person can ever do. Thank you Stu
1 month ago (edited) | 0
Totally understandable Stu and good luck with the new venture and I look forward to new Bat Country content in the New Year and above all, I'm glad you're safe, well and sober ! Thanks mate, have a good ( boring ) Christmas 🤣
4 months ago | 2
I'm amazed at the caring, supportive people on here, it's truly inspiring to keep going. Well done on your work ventures and I'll look forward to seeing whatever you post and whenever that is. A very happy and sober Christmas to all. Jenny in Wales 🎄
4 months ago | 1
I enjoyed the short videos, but you’re right that the longer videos suit you more. If that’s what you like to make then please keep going, they’re the ones I personally enjoy the best. Appreciate the quality content, keep it up.
4 months ago | 1
I like you being you. And whatever that amounts to, your true followers will appreciate whatever that looks like. I got your book. I realize I still hate reading but I tried lol. I also want to still see the pic of the shoe lace jail wound. But then on that note, I am only 5 months sober and the dark side of me when drinking, wanted to see that more than the sober me. I think in the last month and a half I’ve started to see the light in life again… ✌🏻 working on my biking for the ride. Going to do it in the USA but I’ll be with y’all in spirit
4 months ago (edited) | 1
Glad to hear you're doing well man. I was wondering what happened. I've gotten a lot of feedback on my tiny channel that people prefer longer videos and that also, apparently, people fall asleep to my voice. Which im not sure how i feel about yet lol lol. . Congrats on the new gig, whatever it is. My suggesti9n would be to string all those videos into one long video and be done with it. I have a bunch of short videos of me and my friends at my old job acting like idiots that I'm going to string together for a kind of day in the life of a mechanic video. We'll see how that goes. ODAAT!
4 months ago | 2
Good to hear from you Stu, and very glad to hear that the real world had plans for you, not the unreal world. Onwards and upwards to 2025 and looking forward to seeing what comes next out of Bat Country ODAAT 🙏🌱
4 months ago | 2
Well done on the new work! I enjoyed the short ones but must admit I really like the long videos. Happy Christmas 🎄 and a happy 2025 when we get there
4 months ago | 0
I'm happy for your new job and glad you are doing good. I personally watched everyone of the sobriety tips sometimes more than once. They helped me. I'm sorry to hear they weren't well received but I'm sure I can't be the only one they helped. Thank you!
4 months ago | 1
I'm one of those who didn't watch your December shorts. I feel like there is sooo much daily christmas calender stuff going on, that even more just felt like stress. Anyway, I've thouroghly enjoyed your long form content that illuminated me ex's behaviour while struggling with drinking. Congrats on your new job and please take care of yourself! Don't fall into the trap that your worth is equal to your views. Youtube is a dangerous and treacherous place for the mental health of content creators.
4 months ago | 0
Congratulations!! So happy to hear the great news. Looking forward to your content when things become more manageable. Have a GREAT Christmas.
4 months ago | 1
I’m trying very hard to quit permanently at the moment, in my head I’m fine, but the body is jacking up severely . One day at a time ☝️❤️
4 months ago | 2
I wonder if they would have worked better as shorts? They looked about 4-6 minutes each so you could have split them into two parts you see that often enough on shorts
4 months ago | 7
YouTube the Christmas Grinch spoiling our seasonal fun. Never mind, you're OK and that's the main thing. Look forward to normal service being resumed next year and well done with the new job! Let's keep on keeping on sober 😊
4 months ago | 1
Bat Country Alcoholism & Sobriety
Hello everyone!
Just a note about the Christmas videos.
So I had 20 filmed, and 16 edited, with the intention of filming and editing the final batch on the 15th of Decemeber. But things moved fast behind the scenes, and on that day I was offered a new job at very short notice. It was too good to refuse, it's work that I fought really had for and pursued aggressively. But it threw all my plans into chaos, because I started immediately, and the first two weeks, over Christmas, have been... intense.
So, I'll be saving the rest of the videos for next year. Rest assured, it's not just the youtube stuff that was affected, I had to change all my plans to jump on the new opportunity.
It's also worth pointing out that the daily video series actually, and unexpectedly, tanked my numbers. The views are really low compared to my normal stuff, and every video that I published lost me more followers than I gained. When I started taking Bat Country a bit more seriously, I promised myself stuff like that doesn't matter, but to be completely honest with you, it does start to matter over time. It's inevitable. And it kinda sucks to see all that effort come to not very much.
Youtube expects me to be a very raw, long-form content producer, and the algorithm squashes my shorter, better produced stuff. That long form stuff is what I personally watch the most of, and it's what I enjoy doing the most, and it's what I think has the most value. So I'll be sticking closer to that style for the new year.
While I'm incredibly grateful that there's a handful of you who found the daily videos useful, I have to weigh that up against the damage they were doing to my little channel. So I paused them, and I'll try it again next year in some form.
And for those of you worried about my sobriety, I appreciate your concern, and I'm fine. Don't worry about me. You can find me on my socials every day and see that I'm alive and kicking, I leave the links on all the videos and I'm pretty responsive.
One Day At A Time.
Good luck out there.
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