*Hums Pokémon theme*
Augghhh!
Why'd you do that?
Getting you off your ass. Get up and be productive!
What?! Why? Let me potato on the couch, man!
Oy! You haven't uploaded a YouTube video in...months!
Yeah I know
But when I don't upload anything, for some reason I still gain subs
But when I do upload, I lose them! Huh!
Errrr no?! Haven't you been checking SocialBlade at all?
You're losing subscribers EVERYDAY, now.
What? Wait, let me check my socialblade. I haven't checked that in a while...
SocialBlade...
Annchirisu...
WHAT?!
Annchirisu! GO!
Get filming!!
Ahhhhhh! Ok! Ok!
Errr... hello fellow nyans!
Err so you may have been wondering where the hell I've been, what I've been up to...
..and why I haven't made YouTube content in such a long time.
and to be honest my life hasn't been that exciting for me to disappear for so long.
Ok, maybe JUST a little bit..
I'm just gonna shoot and tell you straight up that I've just been unmotivated with my YT channel
I got too focused on the numbers and in general I felt my content wasn't at it's greatest potential
I felt like I was just...spewing out random videos that I didn't really..
-I felt like I didn't really put my all into?
and I think the reason being was that I was trying to maintain my streams at the same time
and I didn't really put in as much effort into youtube as I was into my streams
I know this sounds a bit silly and I dunno, maybe lazy... cus like...
other YouTubers upload videos like, everyday
whereas I felt so much pressure for trying to put out videos every week
I guess when you're a one woman team, I think it starts to weigh you down
For the past two / three years, YouTube has changed so much that my content was barely reaching my subscribers
Even when I promote on my social media profiles, that wasn't reaching out to anyone (barely.)
Even subscribers tell me on other platforms,that they haven't seen my content in ages
..then they discover that I had still been uploading
but they just never got notified or anything, or my videos didn't appear on their feed
So yeah, everything just felt SO slow.
I know this is bad but comparing my content to other youtubers made me feel crap too.
Youtube used to be such a homely site where the creator’s videos makes the audience feel like you're in this circle of friends.
Like, quality didn’t matter too much, the things you say didn’t matter too much
You can do stupid things and you wouldn't get hated on as much..
but now I feel like production value needs to be tip top
with like the most expensive camera and lens, and every angle has to be perfect.
And you have to be really careful with what you say; everything has to be planned from top to bottom
I have to emphasise that you gotta be careful with what you say because people these days get highly offended
and you will get shxt on
You guys know that I stream. Or you SHOULD know that I stream
because in the description box I always promote my stream link..
and I have so many reaction gamepay compilation / lets plays from my streams
It's so surprising that so many people come on to my streams telling me that they didn't know that I streamed!
I've uploaded gameplay stuff since like, 2013 and I've had a whole bunch of people tell me they've..
..just discovered my streams even though they said they've been following me for years!
And these same people always ask me when is my next YT upload / when is my next video upload blablabla
Like, I'm pretty sure they do watch my content so how have they only just discovered my streams?
and that just proved my gaming content, or my random video content barely reached my subscribers
But yeah, oh! It just got really sunny
No! Sun, go awayyy~
Streaming became my focus because I enjoy reacting to game play and entertaining a live audience
because they get to see the real me!
THE REAL ME!
YOUTUBE VIDEOS ARE THE FAKE ME!!
Ok I’m exaggerating but this video is scripted; LOOK
Actually, you can't see that. Hold on, let me just adjust-
LOOK! That's the script~
Yeah, when it's written down and kind of memorised, it doesn't feel as real
But I just have to write my thoughts down before I speak to the camera
because I get all muddled up and jumble up my words, and stutter so much..
and the video would be 10 minutes longer than it should be because I'm just "ermming" and "ahhhing"
...and pausing trying to think of what to say next
*Random Ann sound*
So yeah, because streaming on Twitch took up so much of my time
I hardly had time to make videos; I hardly had time to edit...
Eventually like, I even stopped uploading gameplay content
because I would have to go through several hours of footage
and it just took up so much time
Twitch is a place where you really have to grind your hours of streaming to be able to grow
and that’s what I spent most of my time doing
I don't stream on Twitch anymore but I'll get back to that in a bit.
In addition, I have my Patreon on top of that, in which I set up the photoshoot, I self shoot, edit..
and when I make cosplays that’s even more time gone.
So yeah, being a one woman team does take its toll on me when I do everything myself pretty much!
This isn’t even counting other things I do like cooking, doing house chores and spending time with my other half.
Sorry, I'm just like randomly picking the skin under my foot
I have this bit of hardened skin from when I had a verucca when I was younger
and I always pick at it..
So. Yeah. Don't mind me.
As I mentioned a moment ago, I don't stream on Twitch anymore. I now stream on..
Facebook Gaming!
So why did I move from Twitch, which is the biggest video streaming site, to Facebook?
So the original reason why I moved was that I found my growth super slow on there
..despite me grinding so many hours of my time on there
During those 4 years on Twitch, my growth was really up and down.
Sometimes it was really fast. I would get like so many hosts in a week and then I wouldn't get any for like, a long time.
Heck, I didn't even know who the partner manager was
like I didn't get any help from the partner manager..
and I didn't even know that you had to REQUEST to be on the front page on Twitch
I only found that out earlier this year.
THREE years after being a Twitch partner.
I thought it was gonna be some sort of rotation list
..that you're automaically in. But yeah you have to frikkin' request. It's silly.
So I requested Twitch to be on front page back in January
and then I did again in February just in case my original request got lost or something..
But it wasn't until like, two weeks ago, in August, that they responded then saying I can be on front page!
TOO LATE.
I'm on FACEBOOK NOW, BXTCH
HA HAAAa~
So when I heard about the facebook opportunity, it could not be passed up.
Say no more, that's it. It could not be passed up.
However it was a super hard decision to make, to make the transfer to Facebook
because you know, I had been on Twitch for so long and I built a really loyal commu-nya-ty
but yeah, I took that risk, I jumped for it, went for it, because what's life without taking risks, right?
You know, despite those privacy events that happened and everyone hating on Facebook..
..it's still the most used platform. Ever. With 2.2 billion users!
and I'm pretty sure in that pool of 2.2 billion users, there are a lot of gamers.
My Facebook page has the most following out of all my social media profiles so..
It just made sense!
But yeah since streaming on Facebook gaming, I have more reasons to add about why I moved from Twitch to Facebook
The dev team are freakin’ awesome
It's such a privilege to have direct contact with the people at Facebook
And they really, really listen to our ideas and suggestions
I also have a partner manager who's always active and always keeping in contact..
My streams also got promotion from the Facebook Gaming page which has like 10 million followers
..which is equivalent to like, being featured on Twitch front page
And ALSO! They flew me out to Germany for Gamescom!
So yeah that's a little update about my streamer life!
and that's pretty much everything on how I about my Youtube and streams and yeah...
So some updates; in the past several monthts I've been to New York, Germany, Croatia, Amsterdam, Scotland
and I have some vlogs coming up from the first three countries mentioned
Ooh
I've had fillers under my eyes done
If you've been thinking that I look extra awake and glowy
..then those fillers are the reason why that I looked that way!
There'll be a video explaining about my tear troughs, the procedure, the doctor...everything.
So hope you guys look forward to that too!
What other updates can I give?
What's coming up in the next few months..
Twitchcon! I'm still going to Twitchcon in October
so in the first week I'll be in San Francisco and then Levi and I will travel down to San Jose where Twitchcon will be at.
So yeah whoever's going, see you guys next month!
But yeah, I told you my life was only a little bit exciting!
It's mainly been streaming and travelling, really.
So, whats gonna be the future of this channel?
Well, who knows.
Before I felt pressured to make one video a week
I feel really bad when I say that. because I know there are YouTubers who make videos everyday
maybe even upload twice a day..but they probably have editors which I need to find myself one who I'd really take a liking to..
After editing one of my travel vlogs, I actually missed how consistent I used to be with Youtube..
So yeah, there'll still be videos but it just won't be every week.
It will be whenever I feel like it!
I just wanna say thank you so much to those who stayed patient and those who stayed subscribed.
And I’m really sorry that I made you all wait for so long.
I dunno what else to add...
*mouths* What?
*mouths "like" / "subscribe"*
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