Hey everyone! I wanted to give you all a quick update on my future plans for streams and videos.
As you may have seen already, a few things have changed - I'm streaming a lot less, there's more frequent uploads on my 2nd channel, and the main channel consists of narrated, essay-style videos these days. I've been wanting to restructure how I run my channels for a while now, so here's what I came up with:
*THE MAIN CHANNEL* This channel will focus on narrated, topic-focused content from now on. Extensive game reviews, narrated gameplays and challenges, covering racing game related topics - that sort of thing. This is something I already used to do in back in 2022, and I want to focus more on these kinds of videos to improve my craft. This unfortunately means that there will be no more stream highlight videos on the main channel. It's just not something I'm passionate about making anymore - I think with the last few GT4 challenges I have perfected what I wanted to get out of these kinds of videos. There's nothing left to achieve or improve on for me anymore. Furthermore I want my videos to be just as enjoyable when you're just listening and not actively watching, and I think essay-style videos work better in that way. My goal is to upload at least one video per month, but some topics may need more work and attention.
*THE SECOND CHANNEL* This is my place to talk about topics I wouldn't make full-length videos on. Most of the time this will be anything that's currently relevant in the racing game space, but also more niche topics or even casual reviews on non-racing games I've played. It's a lot more opinionated and spontaneous than my main channel, and the goal is to have semi-frequent uploads - about 3 videos per week is what I want to aim for. I'm not gonna lie, this going to be a slop channel where each video won't take me more than a day to make. Since I don't have a Patreon or sponsors to rely on, I need the extra income to support myself. Between everything, this seemed like the "lesser evil" since you can simply ignore the channel if you're not interested.
*THE STREAMS* Since running three active channels will take a lot of time, I am going to cut down the streams to be weekend-exclusive. So I will only be live on either Saturday or Sunday, however to make up for it each stream will be packed with more games and ideas. Basically I want to cram 2-3 streams worth of content into a single stream, switching between games and whatever else I have planned. I may also stream for longer, around 6 hours instead of the usual 3-4 hours. Each portion of the stream will ideally be up on the VOD channel over the next week if you missed something.
That about covers it all. I know some of you may be disappointed with the absence of stream highlights, but I hope you can find something else to enjoy. And who knows, maybe I'll return to them some day. But overall I'm always looking to evolve my content and improve as a creator, that's always going to be my priority. Let me know what you think though! Is there anything I missed, do you have any questions? Post them in the comments below and I'll try to reply as soon as I can. Thanks for all your continued support :yellow_heart:
DustinEden
Hey everyone! I wanted to give you all a quick update on my future plans for streams and videos.
As you may have seen already, a few things have changed - I'm streaming a lot less, there's more frequent uploads on my 2nd channel, and the main channel consists of narrated, essay-style videos these days. I've been wanting to restructure how I run my channels for a while now, so here's what I came up with:
*THE MAIN CHANNEL*
This channel will focus on narrated, topic-focused content from now on. Extensive game reviews, narrated gameplays and challenges, covering racing game related topics - that sort of thing. This is something I already used to do in back in 2022, and I want to focus more on these kinds of videos to improve my craft. This unfortunately means that there will be no more stream highlight videos on the main channel. It's just not something I'm passionate about making anymore - I think with the last few GT4 challenges I have perfected what I wanted to get out of these kinds of videos. There's nothing left to achieve or improve on for me anymore. Furthermore I want my videos to be just as enjoyable when you're just listening and not actively watching, and I think essay-style videos work better in that way. My goal is to upload at least one video per month, but some topics may need more work and attention.
*THE SECOND CHANNEL*
This is my place to talk about topics I wouldn't make full-length videos on. Most of the time this will be anything that's currently relevant in the racing game space, but also more niche topics or even casual reviews on non-racing games I've played. It's a lot more opinionated and spontaneous than my main channel, and the goal is to have semi-frequent uploads - about 3 videos per week is what I want to aim for. I'm not gonna lie, this going to be a slop channel where each video won't take me more than a day to make. Since I don't have a Patreon or sponsors to rely on, I need the extra income to support myself. Between everything, this seemed like the "lesser evil" since you can simply ignore the channel if you're not interested.
*THE STREAMS*
Since running three active channels will take a lot of time, I am going to cut down the streams to be weekend-exclusive. So I will only be live on either Saturday or Sunday, however to make up for it each stream will be packed with more games and ideas. Basically I want to cram 2-3 streams worth of content into a single stream, switching between games and whatever else I have planned. I may also stream for longer, around 6 hours instead of the usual 3-4 hours. Each portion of the stream will ideally be up on the VOD channel over the next week if you missed something.
That about covers it all. I know some of you may be disappointed with the absence of stream highlights, but I hope you can find something else to enjoy. And who knows, maybe I'll return to them some day. But overall I'm always looking to evolve my content and improve as a creator, that's always going to be my priority. Let me know what you think though! Is there anything I missed, do you have any questions? Post them in the comments below and I'll try to reply as soon as I can. Thanks for all your continued support :yellow_heart:
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