YouTube, networks and other unfun things (Patreon)

I wrote this, was ready to post it, then Chrome crashed. Fuck you too, Google and Google-owned platforms. 

The main thrust of it was to state that I won't be uploading to LeagueofSuperCritics on YouTube anymore, and to inform everyone that my new HQ on YouTube will be at youtube.com/chezapoctube, and to please subscribe! Yeah, it feels weird to be begging for subscriptions, but, well, I won't call it a "mistake" per se, I... well, actually yes, I will. Because I did not own LOSC - Maker does. I don't even have access to LOSC's dashboard or metrics. Yep - I don't even know how many views per month I get. I played the game as long as I could, but it's time to move on and be free. I may speak more on this later, but suffice to say, I have reached the end of my rope.

Both leagueofsupercritics and chezapoctube are under the Maker umbrella, but where chezapoctube is a "partner" (and then only after much begging, heckling, lawyer foot-dragging and duress) leagueofsupercritics is owned by Maker. As such it is held to the same copyright standard as all of the Disney-owned channels.  As such I had to go through a VERY time-consuming vetting process to get a video on LOSC, and by and large ops didn't really care to get to my videos in a timely fashion (that's why there was generally about a two month gap between a video going up here and going up on YouTube). It was my decision to go with it as long as I did, so it's not like I'm the victim of anything here. But it's just bad business to have thrown all my eggs in the LOSC basket for as long as I have, and I'll be removing those eggs over the course of the next year. So the long and short is, when my contract with Maker is up early next year, depending on circumstances (and number of subscribers), I can leave Maker and take everything (including chezapoctube) with me - including everything I've done that's on Super critics.

So this also means most of my old Nostalgia Chick stuff is in one place, too, and I'll be uploading it at chezapoctube in full formed, not the "abridged" garbage that's on LOSC for everything circa 2012. It'll be easier having stuff all in one place, plus I can hopefully upload content at a steadier pace.

tl;dr - please subscribe to my (personal) youtube channel at youtube.com/chezapoctube, and leagueofsupercritics is functionally dead. But until my stuff gets removed from that channel, I'll still get revenue from it.*

*I should add that, owing to reasons of the state of California garnishing my wages directly from Maker (without having informed me - apparently I owe them back taxes from 2010 - who knew? I certainly didn't, because I filed as a resident of Tennessee at the time. Might have been nice for them to tell me before they started garnishing my wages) that the revenue I get from YouTube is pretty fucking negligible. 

This week has been stressful in a lot of ways. I've attached that video of the bucket of sloths from Last Week Tonight. It is, indeed, almost violently delightful. Enjoy.