Thank you to my patrons (Patreon)
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Hi EVERY ONE,
I just wanted to make a blog post to thank all of you guys that joined me in the launch of my Patreon account. I just sent my first pay to my paypal account and I'm in complete disbelief and I'm so shocked that 25 people on planet earth, believe in me and my content enough to support it. My first goal is to upgrade my computer so I can make videos faster, and 2nd goal is to invest in a better camera and then audio (to cancel out the car and truck noises that you saw in my bloopers video haha), so you guys are contributing to making my content better and honestly there aren't enough words that I can formulate the express the amount of gratitude I have. You are all seriously amazing.
I am guessing you have all read my 'about section' and 'goals' section of my page-- but basically I've been on YouTube for years and never ever thought about starting a patreon account. There are a few reasons why I never thought it a possibility.
1) I have severe imposter syndrome. I never thought that I'm worth it or that people would invest in my content and it would be super embarrassing to even ask for help. Asking for help is a very vulnerable thing to do and I've never been one to like to do that.
2) I've always had a full time job. I worked in the media industry, so I was producing video content 9-5 Mon-Fri and when I got home from work, producing more content for me was never appealing enough for me to take seriously. I didn't put enough effort in my videos back thenm compared to what I do now. I didn't care about channel growth. It was always the bare minimum (so again, didn't think that was content was worth it back then). Personally, I didn't/don't really watch reaction videos myself (which is bad because for research purposes, I should've been, but that goes back to not caring enough about my own content) so in saying that, I didn't now reactors/reviewers had patreon accounts.
3) I was posting 'copyright risky' content, so I thought if I'm always being demonitised/blocked on YouTube, there's no way I could ask for support on another platform... Upon returning to YouTube this year, I learnt that copyright has become slightly better for creators in 2020 and actually loads of reactors/reviewers have a patreon account.
I quit my full time job last year in August to go traveling in Europe for 3 months and when I came back from Europe, I had 5 casual jobs and I lost 4 of them due to covid19. Job hunting has been very bleak for me ever since March/April. There's either nothing available, or there's nothing out there that would keep me happy in the long run. So yeah, I had the idea of starting this up and so far I've felt very blessed and that's all thanks to you guys. If things go well enough, I might not even have to keep looking for a job and maybe I could keep making YouTube videos :) that would be such a dream!! :D
Most of you have come from Dark- so watch out for Season 2 deleted scenes :) I'm going to upload them episodically instead of as a packaged video like I did with Season 1, cos season 2 deleted scenes are much larger files.
Anyway, thanks for reading this and thanks again for your support :)
Mary