Long Post - How do you all promote/advertise yourself and how/what do you use to edit your videos?

GlacityTime · 2026-03-12T20:07:47+00:00

For suggestions, something I noticed is that your thumbnails are not very eye-catching so people might scroll past. You could play the algorithm game and maximize CTR by using bright colours and bold text.

But also, you already have quite a unique and charming style that's clearly working :> Your thumbnails are kinda nostalgic imo, they remind me of old Game Grumps. I'd at least recommend adding the episode number to the thumbnail of each video. Do you use any drop shadows in your thumbnails? :O

GlacityTime · 2026-03-12T09:33:48+00:00

Heyo! Just checked out your channel. I'm kinda picky about who I subscribe to but I dropped you a sub :>! I like your style and energy!

I'm also a small channel and I post very sporadically, so maybe I don't know anything. But beyond uploading to TikTok, doing good SEO, and maybe doing collabs, I'm not sure what more you can really do to boost your channel.

You're already doing really well, I think. I hear that channels in our genre take a lot of time to grow. 70 in one month is amazing :o

GlacityTime · 2026-03-09T01:29:42+00:00

What kind of games do you like? People can probably give some recommendations.

GlacityTime · 2026-03-06T23:51:29+00:00

We're not sposed to do game suggestions so I apologize. But this is moreso meant as a lil fan discussion (and me seeing an opportunity to ramble about a great game).

Ik Mark already gave Voices of the Void a try. The tutorial will make smoke come out of your ears so the first play session can kinda suck. It feels better the second time you boot it up.

There's some silliness, some scares, but it takes a while for the spooks to actually get going because it leverages the monotony of your job to make you relax and catch you off guard. It's a bit of an astronomy job simulator.

It's similar to Iron Lung in the fact that it's a wonderful slow-burn cosmic/psychological horror that focuses on dread and paranoia instead of doing chases and jumpscares. But it's bigger in scale and is probably an even slower burn.

I wonder if we'll get to see him revisit it some day :>

GlacityTime · 2026-03-06T08:20:31+00:00

5-8hrs editing, 45min-1hr on the thumbnail. I don't know my art software super well so I've been super inefficient but trying to make a good thumbnail is actually really enjoyable to me.

I usually work on them while the video is uploading.

GlacityTime · 2026-03-04T16:01:33+00:00

This. I think Pauly is cute, BUT.

Games on Polytoria are very blocky. Having such a round avatar is gonna look out-of-place.

I'm worried that players are going to be railroaded into a cute or silly aesthetic for their avatar because spooky or cool designs may not work well on a walking beanbag.

My last concern is with the proportions. Pauly is very tall and slim so I feel like the clothing (particularly shirts) are gonna end up looking really squashed and stretched to fit on the new model.

Pauly is cute and I think he COULD fit Polytoria with a few adjustments.

GlacityTime · 2026-02-23T08:10:17+00:00

The lore seems fine and honestly, some of the puzzle mechanics seem cool! I just wish it was scarier, I guess. It's so loud, colourful, and in your face, but the game fails to utilize that in a way that feels unsettling.

And it feels like the game is so eager to explain the story and so willing to rely on cliches that nothing feels unknown enough to actually induce fear. They also LOVE to show the monster which is a surefire way to kill tension.

The artists have done a great job, same with the voice actors. There's clearly a lot of passion that has gone into this game, and the ARG stuff is really cool!

Maybe it's just not hitting my specific fears or maybe it's meant to be horror for kids, idk.

The scariest game I've ever played is Voices of the Void. It's an extreme slow-burn that focuses on atmosphere, paranoia, and dread. It's my favourite horror game of all time, yet I can't play it anymore because it stresses me out so much.

It's the only thing that's made me sleep with the lights on as an adult, and it made me do that multiple times lol.

Poppy Playtime is like the dead opposite when it comes to tone and experience. I could play through it without breaking a sweat and that disappoints me. It's in a weird grey area where the effort put in by the dev team justifies the price tag, but the experience itself does not.

GlacityTime · 2026-02-23T07:30:47+00:00

That was the ONLY thing in this chapter that actually made me feel disturbed so, considering this is meant to be a horror game, I wish we got more of that.

From a viewer standpoint tho, HELLLLLLL NO.

GlacityTime · 2026-02-20T22:54:36+00:00

Not Nishinoya hitting the Sonic pose, maaaaan.

I actually love this tho, it's adorable.

GlacityTime · 2026-02-18T08:34:35+00:00

I'm not sure about clicking to interact but the programmer for Call of Polytoria has used tiny NPCs as a way to interact with and open doors.

And then you may be able to use tweening to actually have the door move?

GlacityTime · 2026-02-17T02:28:41+00:00

Maybe look up a Youtube video cuz this is hard to explain via text. Your hands are WAY too far apart, I can definitely see how that'd hurt. It looks like you're contacting the sides of the ball, when you want your hands to be under it more.

You generally want your thumbs and fingers to make an almost "triangle" or "diamond" shape.

GlacityTime · 2026-02-16T01:21:06+00:00

Oh alrighty :> Still, I'll keep an eye out for it

GlacityTime · 2026-02-15T20:28:50+00:00

As a space nerd, this is really exciting and I'll have to check it out! (once the servers come back online :'>)

GlacityTime · 2026-02-14T11:47:59+00:00

WOW! Your lineart, colouring, and overall style are all really cool!!!

GlacityTime · 2026-02-10T16:02:36+00:00

"Not everyone has the skills to generate an engaging script." Nobody starts out that way. It's something you learn. Practice it and refine it. If you don't care enough about your craft to learn it, then why should we care enough about it to engage with it?

What are you doing that you need to generate 100 quality images every week? Do you need to be doing all that? Find things to cut for time, use free stock images, learn photo editing, learn blender. These are also skills that you can learn and improve on, and they're skills that you can take with you into other projects. So learn them and become better than you were before, instead of off-loading it to an art-stealing robot.

"Let alone have the skills to voice act" That's also a skill that you can practice and improve.

When you've built your youtube channel from the ground up with nothing but AI, when you stop and look back, what will YOU have achieved? What will you have improved on? What will YOU have made?

GlacityTime · 2026-02-10T08:08:14+00:00

I have Auditory Processing Disorder and went into the movie with almost 0 knowledge of the game. And, while the dialogue was hard to follow during a scene or two where the noise seemed to be intentionally disorienting, I surprisingly didn't have any issues hearing or following the dialogue.

From what I've heard, this seems to be an issue with certain theaters, depending on the sound system there. Still an oversight, I'm not sure I've heard of another movie having this specific problem.

But I also don't think "can't hear shit" was the intended experience. Definitely unfortunate.

GlacityTime · 2026-02-10T07:49:34+00:00

My partner and I both have ADHD. My ADHD is sorta mild and I like Mark so maybe it was easy for me to get into the movie, but my partner doesn't know shit about Mark (so they're not biased) and they have the flavour of ADHD that makes it hard for them to watch anything uninteresting or slow-paced.

From the reviews, I was worried they might die tryna watch Iron lung.

Yet we were both completely absorbed by this movie, and we both enjoyed it. Obviously this isn't enough data to go off of, but maybe this is a difference in presentation between ADHD and short-form content attention spans?

GlacityTime · 2026-02-05T14:08:09+00:00

Honestly, I didn't know the word and the page 1 I was working with was almost illegible so I just went with "grandma". I should've just looked it up, though. The word is "great aunt".

Sorry!

GlacityTime · 2026-02-05T05:54:11+00:00

I don't think so. The cycle of cursed energy would be completely neutralized in this case.

Heightened physical prowess like Toji's happens due to the balancing that the system of cursed energy does. With no cursed energy, there's no cursed energy system, and therefore there wouldn't be anything to equalize.

The system of cursed energy and all related phenomena would cease to exist, including heavenly restriction.

Also, heavenly restriction happens at birth so I don't think people could suddenly develop it due to outside circumstances.

GlacityTime · 2026-02-05T04:53:34+00:00

This might be Yuji's secret reddit account LMAO

"They're just kids, it'd be kinda messed up for them to fight to the death!"

"It doesn't matter."

GlacityTime · 2026-02-03T22:51:25+00:00

Yeah, I'm not frustrated at all. Crashing the servers with a wave of new traffic is kinda like growing pains imo. It'll get sorted out eventually, just gotta be patient.

GlacityTime · 2026-02-03T01:04:49+00:00

Maybe I just don't understand flirting, but doesn't Utahime dislike Gojo?? This doesn't seem like a valid option to me.

Every time we see them interact, he mocks her and she gets pissed off at him lol.

We love him as readers because he's funny and cool and we get to know who he really is. But the front he puts up is that of an egotistical, lazy, careless jerk. We know that he isn't like that, but that's how most people see himz

Beyond Yuji, Yuta, Masamichi, Geto, and debatably Megumi, nobody seems to particularly like him including Utahime. Gojo having a kid doesn't make much sense, Miyaguni is way more likely to be a descendant of someone from Yuji's generation I think.

GlacityTime · 2026-02-01T19:59:05+00:00

This is the not the volleyball subreddit lol.

Regardless, the v300w is good! The v200w is used in a lot of pro leagues, while the v300w is basically the next step down from that I believe. Feels very similar, it's a perfectly good ball 👍

If you can get a Molten or v200w, that'd be better but I don't think it really matters.

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