I used to subscribe to Scott Falco. I loved his animations. However, as he got more and more into streaming he was focusing so much on his ToonTuber plugin that he stopped animating. Then when he made animations again he was relying on the ToonTuber plugin. It just looked awful/lazy. Sure it works for a stream, but not an animation. The main reason I unsubscribed from his channel wasn’t because of the ToonTuber, that was just a negative that popped up from him focusing on streaming. No, the reason I unsubscribed is because all he focuses on is streaming. While he is a funny guy, and a good gamer, I don’t care for streams. I just want to see his animations. I’m sure I am not alone in this because since he’s started to focus more and more on streaming he’s complained about his channel losing subs and views. FlashGitz had to learn this the hard way too, Scott. We just want you to make the content we enjoy.
I’m not even joking about him complaining about losing subs and views. He’s made a few videos where he’s talked about burnout and being depressed because the channel is languishing. Yeah, it’s languishing because we don’t like these changes. I understand streaming brings in more money than YouTube ad revenue. However, you have to choose what you want to do. If you want your animations to take off then make animations. If you want your streaming to take off, this is how it seems to me, then focus on your streaming. Do what Psychicpebbles did and close all the money making sources from your animations and focus on what you want to do: streaming. You’re only going to keep making yourself depressed by pretending you still care about both.
This is a major issue I have with tons of content creators. They start to focus on streaming and let their shit just fall to the wayside. Then when everyone but their hardcore/pay pigs leave they get all upset/depressed over everyone being gone.You made these choices. Like, I am not focusing on major articles as much anymore. I am instead focusing on getting a steady stream of bite sized posts outhere.If you liked my articles before you should like my microblogging. Sure, it’s not as detailed, but it is within the same ballpark of content. It’s not like I’ve swapped to making a podcast, or streaming. I’m just posting about stuff that would sit on the back burner waiting for more content to pile up before I could write about it.
Maddox, of the best page in the universe, ran into this problem too. He started to focus on his okay-ish YouTube videos and then his amazing podcast: The Biggest Problem in the Universe. However, he let his website fall by the wayside. When Biggest Problem ended he tried to make a new podcast network, which was a dumpster fire. Maddox then tried to become a streamer where he found a niche after going insane and pretending to be a banana. I’m sure the income is much more stable than when he was making content for his website. However, a lot of fans felt burned by these moves and didn’t follow him to his newer ventures. This includes The Biggest Problem in the Universe.
JHS Show is an example of saying fuck it and going all in on streaming. I appreciate the JHS show for doing that. They want those donations. It makes way more money than YouTube ad revenue does. If someone donates $3 you’ve basically made the same as 10k views. This depends on their CPM. However, what sucks about the JHS Show’s new focus on streaming is they’re just trying to do their recorded content as live streams. This doesn’t work, Josh. Assuming you’re reading this. (By the way. Love your pedals.) I fell in love with the JHS show due to its tight editing and rehearsed songs. Doing it live is full of stammering that y’all would shoot around, unless it was a Wurdz iz Hard bit. Same with you fiddling with the pedal trying to get that right sound. Whereas before you had the right sound because you edited around that stuff.
I’m not saying JHS Show can’t do live content, it’s Josh’s channel after all. However, they had fantastic live content before. “Can You Hear It?” was amazing live content. “Just Try Stuff” would work as a live show as well. Q&A stuff works wonders. I also loved the discussion video about Warm Audio going too far being live. That video needed fan feedback. However, the video about Orange’s rerun pedals did not need to be live. Outside of the giveaway for the Lizard Queen episode, it didn’t need to be a livestream. The Wampler Triumph did not need to be a live stream. OH! The how to build a fuzzface one was a great live stream too. It could’ve been a regular video but I think it worked better as a live stream.
What I am saying here is don’t take content that worked pre recorded and ruin it by taking it live. There’s a reason OneyPlays is pre-recorded. JHS Show might be handling the switch to live streaming the best out of every other channel I view, but some of the choices are annoying. My main issue is with channels like Scott Falco’s. There’s way too many channels out there trying to focus on streaming and then getting upset over their channel losing subs because they refuse to make the content we subscribed for.