Suede Of The Union: A Message From Leo (Patreon)

Greetings everyone, Leo here. For those of you who are new and not in the know; I'm Suede's spouse, video editor, artist, and overall gopher (I jest!). Basically the one happy to help from the sidelines, but very much the other half of the Suede team. I use they/them pronouns. You'll be seeing me, as well as Suede, posting updates from here on. :>

First off, thank you all for your massive help and gathering round to support Suede during this really, REALLY crap year so far! For sharing the video, becoming patrons, and subscribing to the new channel.

As for the Shopro gambit, things are still unchanged as of Suede's last video. As far as we know the channel will be deleted once the case gets through Japanese court in a few months. We're playing cautious and will be using Suede's new channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaTuinpDb_pIhuF0QOPXyRQ. Don't forget to subscribe there for all future videos!

Going forward:

Suede and I have some great ideas for the future. Our hope is this will be a blessing in disguise. As much as we love Suede's Pokemon journey, it has been scary to try and venture out from that content, but it can be stressful to be stuck with all your eggs in one basket. We want to keep our core audience happy, always, however we can also use this chance to try new things and branch out into videos making use of Suede's great humour and observations. Please don't think we are not cautious though. We don't want to have the same thing happen that was Demo Reel at Channel Awesome.

Before all the Shopro stuff we had just signed a lease for a small office. For the first time we were excited to have an actual workplace, seperated from home, where we have all been working for the past 8 years. If you all thought lockdown while working and having kids home from school was hard, imagine that x 8 years... 0_0

Trust us, having your support to be able to work from home for so long was amazing. Over the past two years though, it's become increasingly difficult. We live in a small (technically tiny) house, and with a child who's energy could power an entire continent (we seriously have the world's answer for clean, renewable energy here if anyone knows how to harness it </parent joke>). The noise, lack of workspace, and busy family life have made Suede (and my) work incredibly difficult. So we made the risky move to lease an office. And as soon as we did the Shopro thing happened... fun!

But, again, this could be a good thing. As soon as we get the keys to said office (hopefully this week) we can turn it into a dedicated production space solely for making content for you all. This will include lots of experimental clips as we run ideas past you all. We want to make sure you are happy with the new stuff. We know nothing will ever replace Suede's Pokemon Journey, especially to us. It was such a great format, and we know losing that is hard. We are not rushing to replace the dead canary. We want you all to give plenty of feedback and thoughts of clips we'll upload.

This month expect, at least,  Suede continuing with Pokémon Legends: Arceus playthrough while we get the office sorted and all the equipment we'll need. If we get it sorted this week (fingers crossed), we want to start working on test clips. We will be changing patreon tier rewards as well to suit the new content, but this will be after we get the new formats settled on.

Please feel free to offer any ideas for content you'd love to see, no matter how out of the box it might be ("Suede, review jandals!"). I personally keep bugging him about reviewing more preschool shows. X>

(Note from Suede: Don't worry, We will mainly be attempting to reformat Journey and most test clips will be attempts at that, so don't think we're abandoning it at all. We just want to consider other options at the same time.)

Thank you all so much. Again, we would not have been able to get by without having such a great fanbase.