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State of the Patreon (Poll) + Crowdcast Reminder (Patreon)

Published:
2020-10-08 22:30:24
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2023-11
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State of the Patreon (Poll) + Crowdcast Reminder

  • I like the general frequency of videos. 180
  • I would prefer more frequent videos. 17
  • I would prefer less frequent videos. 3
  • I like the general distribution and balance of video topics. 119
  • I want more myth videos and fewer language videos. 48
  • I want more language videos and fewer myth videos. 22
  • I am fine with some non-Norse content (landscapes, poems, dinosaurs, guns). 157
  • I don't care about the non-Norse content (landscapes, poems, dinosaurs, guns). 18
  • I like the general tone and style of presentations on the channel. 180
  • I wish the general tone and style of presentations on the channel were different. 2
  • I'd prefer to have hardly any of Crawford's personal stories, opinions, and speculations in videos. 0
  • I'd prefer to have more of Crawford's personal stories, opinions, and speculations in videos. 143
  • 2020-10-08
  • —2020-10-16
  • 889 votes
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Content

Don't forget our Patreon-exclusive Crowdcast tomorrow with the University of Colorado's Avedan Raggio, who will take your questions on the intersection of Norse myth and popular culture (especially in Tolkien's work) and the arts of weaving and tapestries. These are topics where she is much more qualified to speak than I am, and I know they have sparked questions from some of you before, so I hope you'll enjoy this chance to hear about them from her. This one has nearly filled up, but there are still a few spaces as I write!

I'd also like to get your general input on some of the basic facts of my channel right now, so I'm inviting you to give me anonymous feedback on a few things in the poll below (I can't tell who votes for what). You can click as many of the poll responses below as are true for you (which means yes, you could give me contradictory answers), and what I'm looking for is just a general feel for what my supporters are feeling about basic things like the frequency of videos, the types of topics covered, and the tone/style of my presentations. 

I don't think I've seen a comment on the YouTube channel in more than two years at this point, and the feedback I get on Patreon tends to be very specific to one video or topic and hard to apply more broadly. What I'm really looking for is something more general; just a sense of whether Patreon broadly is content with the state of the channel or would prefer some broad-strokes changes.

Lastly, I know that as the coronavirus crisis and associated challenges have worn on, many people have been hard hit financially. It means a lot to me that so many of you have hung on and continued to support my videos through all this. While I can never be 100% responsive to all feedback and requests, I am dedicating more time lately to considering your requests (especially on the topics polls) and trying to give you more of the information you're looking for. There will always be lag time: all the way from the first notes to a video to getting it uploaded and scheduled, I'm a one-man show, and videos are sometimes months old when I get around to finishing editing them. Plus, there are other factors that affect the channel--right now, the biggest time challenge is the immense work required for The Great Courses class. But I hope to keep it relevant for you, and to keep my videos as sources of information and, if not good cheer, at least something like distraction amid whatever difficulties life throws your way.

All the best for now,

Dr. Jackson Crawford

Comments

Earl Tower

I personally enjoy the variety of the videos. The myth & culture videos are the first ones I watch, but I always get back to the language ones as one block of viewing. I honestly would like to see more of the varied video topics. I would never want them to overwhelm the Nordic study videos, but they make a nice change. From the dinosaur museum visits, to the firing range, and even the poetry readings were interesting.

Anonymous

I missed the poll, but maybe someone will see this. First off, I had a sighting of the channel out in the wild this week when you were referenced in the comment section on The American Conservative relating to a preliminary review of Alexandria by Paul Kingsnorth. Second and so on, for the video subjects I don’t mind the off topic videos. I wouldn’t mind more videos. I go back and forth on the on topic videos. I can’t imagine ever learning Old Norse, but I really like the language videos. On the other hand I enjoy the videos covering the actual sagas and such as well. Final unrequested comments. I hope you’ve done a little to dive in to how the YouTube algorithms work. I pick up on some of this watching other creators on YouTube. As I said above I wouldn’t want to see fewer videos, and my understanding is the algorithm hits you hard if you drop below one video a week. There are optimum minimum video lengths that get videos promoted. Just little things like that that could get the channel out to a wider audience without necessarily impacting what you are doing. If you start doing gun, dinosaur, and other videos more often my impression is the algorithm will be nicer to all your videos if you have an Old Norse channel, a dinosaur channel, and a gun channel and so on, but I may be wrong. Finally, and this is sort of a response to several of the questions, if you are presenting truthful information (and I have no reason to think you aren’t), then your channel depends on you, your personality, your presentation, and whatnot as a selling point of why someone should watch your videos instead of others. Your credentials do this to some extent, but you are the product of these videos as much as the content. Obviously, this is a fine line, and you don’t want to alienate people by being too much into the modern world but nothing wrong with showing a bit more of who you are. Indeed one video topic I thought about suggesting for the future was about what do you believe about the mythology but can’t prove along the lines of some comments you had made in the past about the number of major gods, the identity of Ullr, and that sort of thing.