Thinging The Couch of Truth?...a patron poll (Patreon)
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Hallo loves!
As mentioned in the Althing yesterday (and thank you all for your supportive feedback & comments)....I'm back ATCHA today with a how-do-we-patreon patron poll.
I'll try to keep it super-simple....
SHORT STORY.....WE HAVE A NEW VIDEO SERIES fresh out on YouTube!
It's called THE COUCH OF TRUTH, it's a wonderfully emotional and candid set of interviews/stories from the community, and the first episode - "Suicide & Mental Health: Three Stories": is here. We put it out about a week ago and I *just* hit social media with it and the comments on the video alone will restore a little of your broken faith in humanity.
When it came out the other day, we "THING'ED" it; meaning, it was a PAID POST.
Now...this footage is from 2019, and we've edited it into FIVE episodes. They're all about 10 minutes long, and all really beautiful. It all cost money.
We'd like to put one out in the next few days, then one about every week.
The team struggled with HOW to thing this. It was too expensive a project to thing ONCE (it would have lost money), but not so expensive that it felt ethical to thing EVERY episode.
So....we have a choice.
We could thing each episode (as suggested by a few of you in the comments of the original post), or we could drop all four videos at once and thing them as a bundle. (Or, similarly, we could drop them weekly - without THINGING - but thing the last one as a paid endeavor).
I can see the sense in thinging these one by one. I can also see why it makes sense to stop going back to the well again and again.
Then again, we thinged every podcast episode (those wound up costing about $5-15k apiece).
And then again, I've thinged videos that cost about $100,000. (ooh! it's almost hit 500k views, go us).
And then again, I've thinged a poem that cost NOTHING at all to write and record on my phone. Nobody complained.
AND then again, I did fuck up royally and forget to post the Althing before the clock struck midnight on July 31st in San Francisco, thus turning $17,000 of team income into a rotting pumpkin.
I want you to also KNOW this about this avant-grade process: this patreon PER-THING business is pretty damn confusing. It's why i beg and plead for you to cap your pledges....and even so, I feel I must put this one to a vote.
As if on cue, the team has a call tomorrow morning about slowly (possibly) moving me to a per-month paradigm and leaving the per-thing paradigm behind...but I'm not so sure.
For now, this is the way we gotta do it.
Please weigh in and tell me what you think!!!
I'm also open for fun, weird, graceful alternate suggestions. Hit me. Sometimes ya'll have the best ideas. And I'm tired.
I never want you to blow smoke up my ass: you're my patrons. So be honest, think it through, and if you're feeling like it's overkill but the vote goes to thinging every epiosde, for the sake of the baby jeebus, CAP YOUR PLEDGE.
And in the hiding-under-the-blankey life department, I'm still pretty under the blanket today.
If you write in with any nerdy comments, please also tell me how you are and where you are. I want to know. Everything feels weird and crazy all over the globe.
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p.p.s. $10 patrons, keep your eyes peeled tomorrow for the date and time of next week's ask me anything poetry cry cry cry webcast
p.s. TOTALLY off topic but here are two adorable pictures of ash that rebecca took yesterday:
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