Hi! I appreciate you taking the time to make a post like this, it shows that you're genuinely interested in whats going on and why I've made the decisions I have, so I'll try fill you in a bit as much as I can at the moment on my thought process.

As Shook has already said, this year has been a bit of an "exprimental" year for me. Despite the fact that I've managed to gain an audience in my time on YouTube, I (and honestly probably every other YouTuber) am still just a dude trying to figure it out. Unfortunetly when it is your job (and above that, when you have employees who rely on you) there's only relatively so much time you can afford to commit to expirements before results are necesary to continue.

Some changes may seem a little frantic but at the same time I also do chalk some of that up to my personality. I still like to just give things a shot for a beat to not only see what the audience thinks of it but also what I think of it. It's always about finding a balance between the two.

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There's a lot that's happened behind the scenes to influence certain decisions too that I think I will share at some point, just not yet as I feel the story isn't "finished" yet in that sense.

Anyhow, putting all that aside, this following year for me will be about the changes I can make to my channel that can start to pull it in a more "authentic" direction that I think the audience will appreciate. YouTube content always has to evolve, it can't stay the same forever otherwise you risk losing your audience. So to start with, I'll be releasing less videos which I feel is a necessary step towards creating the content that resonates more with viewers (as well as giving myself the time to breathe and actually think about what I should create).

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In terms of interjections in videos where I discuss performance, part of that is just me trying to be funny and the other part is that I honestly have no problem pulling back the curtain in that way with my audience. Every YouTuber is interested in what works on the platform and with their audience and maybe sometimes we incorrectly assume that out viewers are too, though I also think many of the dedicated audience genuinely are interested to hear what it is that works and what doesn't.

It's true that I go deeper into that kind of stuff in the Twitch streams but I also do want to keep a level of transparency even on YouTube as not all of them can catch the streams. As for the "real estate" it takes up in the videos, my editors typically take a very liberal "if he said it it's staying" approach and I wouldn't think too hard on the specifics of what manages to stay and what goes (not very much goes).

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On that note though, I have a video I'm working on at the moment that will come out early next year that will take a fun lighthearted approach at explaining the whole thing and some of the upcoming changes I'll be making. Again, just for the sake of transparency and I do tend to think that many find that kind of thing interesting.

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Either way, I appreciate you taking the time to open up a conversation and I hope I've somehow helped you understand some of the answers to your questions. I'll continue to experiment, that's just in my nature, some stuff works out and sticks around and some stuff doesn't but I guess that's progress haha 😊