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At the very end of last year I uploaded a members-only video to my YouTube channel titled "Changing My Perspective" that went over some thoughts I had regarding the future of my channel and things about myself I believed I needed to work on. 

A lot of what I said in that video still rings true. Some of what I touched on has been in-place for a while now. Some of it, I still need to work on. 

The first part of this year I had two main focuses. One was giving the "podcast" idea I had a real shot. The other was making the best video I could pos . . .

This post was originally made to my ko-fi page on the 2nd of November, 2023 which can be found here.

There was a moment in July where I felt like my channel was seriously prepping to explode. I was getting thousands more impressions by the sole grace of YouTube. The view count on my older videos began to climb — and they climbed rates that caused the analytics to curve upwards in a way that might suggest a potential for exponential growth. It felt like all the hard work and the . . .

This post was originally made to my ko-fi page on the 20th of September, 2022 which can be found here.

I do a lot of thinking. Too much thinking, I think. But sometimes thinking is all you can do. The past few months I've found myself in a state of perpetual submission to my own fatigue & exhaustion. I've put a great deal of *thought* into the channel, but thoughts only get you so far. They can also start to become a burden after long periods of inaction.

This post was originally made to my ko-fi page on the 23rd of March, 2022 which can be found here.

As I'm getting closer to the end of Season 2, I'm just so excited about Season 3 & beyond. I haven't been uploading much non-Retro Odyssey content, but I really want to. I just have these fears about uploading something that isn't to that standard of quality, but then I have to remind myself it really is just YouTube. I have to remind myself it's okay to make extra thin . . .

This post was originally made to my ko-fi page on the 26th of January, 2022 which can be found here. 

YouTube for a small channel is very swingy. Both in how your videos perform, and how you yourself interpret their performance. Some days I am absolutely stoked about everything I have been working on, and other days I view the performance of my videos through the lens of an outsider, like how I look at other more established channels. That can bum me out. If I'm searching fo . . .