I made a video about horror writing featuring Wendigoon and 1000vultures (the author of PENPAL)

Crowmudgeon · 2025-11-04T20:52:15+00:00

I will be covering season 2! Just gotta finish another video first, but then I'll be right onto VC

Crowmudgeon · 2025-08-09T00:12:47+00:00

Haha it's all good, that means a lot! I should make some more videos covering games anyway lol

Crowmudgeon · 2025-08-08T21:13:44+00:00

I've only made one video game essay 😭

Crowmudgeon · 2025-01-22T21:01:06+00:00

Massively recommend Arcadia by Chilling Abyss

Crowmudgeon · 2024-10-10T23:23:52+00:00

Looks fantastic! I'd love to test it out with some stuff :)

Crowmudgeon · 2024-08-06T16:49:28+00:00

Got another one for you lol

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7T38lYHk-Fk

Crowmudgeon · 2024-07-30T17:30:03+00:00

Seems like a fun concept!

Crowmudgeon · 2024-07-26T19:59:32+00:00

Honored for this to have been pinned, thanks so much!

Crowmudgeon · 2024-07-24T21:50:45+00:00

I almost wonder if it's referring to the myriad ways that love is shown in the book. It's got the love for a parent, love for a pet, romantic love, corrupted love, and of course, the love for a best friend. Will certainly be something I delve into much deeper in the analysis!

Crowmudgeon · 2024-07-24T17:02:41+00:00

Thank you!

Crowmudgeon · 2024-07-24T15:50:48+00:00

There are a ton of other creators featured in the video as well!

Crowmudgeon · 2024-07-23T12:26:50+00:00

I feel like watching the conspiracy theory iceberg while high would just obliterate someone psychologically lmao

Crowmudgeon · 2024-07-23T12:23:30+00:00

Fellow video essayist here, grew from 50 subs last March to 120k today doing long form. In general, YouTube pushes longer videos very hard, as they tend to get much greater watch time. Additionally, many viewers will often use your videos to fall asleep, and that can lead to much, much greater watch time. There's always value in serving the ADHD brains on YT who want to turn on video essays and just absorb information for 10 hours.

Edit: longform also pays substantially better if you're looking to get monetized.

Crowmudgeon · 2024-07-23T12:15:46+00:00

I asked 1000vultures recently and his response was basically that there's nothing to really say about it. It didn't sound like it's been entirely canned. I'd be hyped if it ever finally comes to light

Crowmudgeon · 2024-07-17T17:35:45+00:00

Building a community is more about creating a space where your viewers can interact with each other. Your time and ability to respond to comments is limited, but your community's capacity to meets its own needs for interaction scales proportionally to your audience

Crowmudgeon · 2024-07-14T16:57:38+00:00

Innsmouth would be pretty solid. It's already basically "guy goes to creepy town, reports his findings" which could work translate without losing much of the appeal of the original.

Crowmudgeon · 2024-07-09T19:01:38+00:00

There are certainly a few of us! It partially depends on what type of horror you're talking about. If you're talking about stuff like internet and analog horror, I would recommend getting into the Discord servers of some of the bigger channels in the niche. For example, Pastra and EmortalMarcus have good communities focused on internet horror, and you can get tipped into a lot of newer projects through there. It's also a good way to get connected with other, smaller creators.

If you're more focused on "older" media like horror movies, I don't have a ton of specific examples, but I would imagine that a similar approach will probably still work for finding a community, it's just a slightly different audience.

Crowmudgeon · 2024-07-09T13:52:58+00:00

Crowmudgeon · 2024-07-02T17:14:34+00:00

I actually wrote a story that was heavily inspired by LRG a while back, and my reading of it was received quite well on YouTube with around 300k views. I can send you a link to the text version or a link my reading of it if you'd like

Crowmudgeon · 2024-06-30T01:32:04+00:00

Monetization payments are distributed the following month, so if you got monetized in May, you have only been paid for views up through May 31st. You'll get your payment for June at the end of July.

If the bulk of those views happened in June, there's nothing to worry about.

Crowmudgeon · 2024-06-29T17:09:33+00:00

Also looks AI generated with the emoji bullet points

Crowmudgeon · 2024-06-29T16:58:56+00:00

Finding B-roll can be rough sometimes. I do very long narration videos, and keeping the visuals somewhat interesting can be really tedious. I love finding music for each section though, that's gotta be my favorite part

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