A crazy idea... and I need your permission! (Patreon)

Hey everyone! 

Everything is awesome atm, genuinely! So awesome that I want to change the structure of how I get paid for the mess that I make. 

I'm loving leaving mid roll ads out and I love not having to do sponsored segments where my vids can just be about whatever I want to yell at but I only ever wanted to have one paid service. I've been the struggling student and I know how lame it is to be paywalled out of stuff so I wanted DankPods, GarbageTime, Dankmus (👀) and the Twitch Garbage Streams all to be free with the After Show being the only paid guy. I might hate ads but I know folks don't mind them if it means it's free to watch, mid rolls stink tho... 

But then Twitch (Amazon) showed their true colours and left me out to dry, which was an awful experience so I moved the drum stream to Floatplane which is going amazing. I even had the devs tune into my streams and fix stuff WHILE STREAMING! You can't beat that service! Only issue is Floatplane doesn't have a free option and having so much of my content behind paywalls hasn't been sitting well with me, even if I price it all as low as I possibly can. 

Time flies and I can't believe that this is now my 3rd year doing this and after this long I have a big back catalogue of vids and a big pile of folks watching and I have to say, even just the single advert at the beginning of my YT vids brings in an income a scrubby musician like me has never seen before. 

So here's my insane idea...

I want to make the After Show's free for everyone. Put them into a folder on YouTube and set them to public. The After Shows will still keep on coming but it means everyone will get two videos a week. The little advert at the beginning does a lot with a channel this size and it would free up folks to catch the Drum Stream if they're missing out on it. The drum stream has been the work of over a year of prep and my whole life of practicing and I'd love more folks to be free to check it out! There's lots of yelling and Frank 👌

It means I will be depending on Google more but hey if they shaft me it means I can complain loudly and publicly! Twitch didn't do anything until you guys all stepped in your thousands to yell with me so with you guys behind me I'm sure everything will work out! 

Lots of folks have reached out to me asking to combine the After Show with Floatplane and I don't blame them as we all need to be subbed to 100+ subscription services now days to watch most content. But unfortunately it's too expensive with 4K video so the next best thing would be to just make them free! 

I will still keep the Patreon going absolutely, now that I've hired family and friends (Spoilers: I've officially hired Ol Mate James for 2 days a week to help make Garbage Time videos!!). Plus warehouse rent/insurance and wages is super expensive so I need as many income streams as I can but I only want folks who are free and able to donate to pitch in. Not because I've held folks ransom with blocked extra content!

Maybe instead of this being a DankPods exclusive Patreon it could be renamed "The Garbage Network" or something where it supports both DankPods AND GarbageTime/Stream. But I'd absolutely encourage folks to ditch Patreon and jump into Floatplane if you've wanted to sub to the drum stream but had to only pick one! 

But as a small token for anyone that stays here on Patreon (thank you if you do!!), every week I will upload a worthless image of Frank. Guaranteed to devalue any home it is displayed in, pictured above is an example. Truly worthless. 

This channel is built thanks to you guys and I can't do stuff like this without your permission, lemme know your thoughts and if this sits okay with you all! It wouldn't happen immediately as there's a lot to do behind the scenes to make it happen along with a video announcing it. 

Thank you all for changing my life, my families life and now my friends lives. I've been using the money to build a dream studio to make every kind of video under the sun from drums to cars to games and electronic nuggos and to drag in as many of my loved ones as possible. Hopefully it's completed this year! It's what I've been heavily working on for the last 12 months behind the scenes! 

Thanks once more and here's to making videos forever 🍻. 

Frank says nothing.