Checking In

Hey everyone, just doing a little update here while things are fresh in my mind. Hopefully soon I'll be trying to get a quick announcement out to the general youtube subscriber-base about plans for MHWorld content, perhaps a brief overview of why I won't be posting to the ffxiv subreddit myself, and that I probably won't be doing a video for Rabanastre since there's very little to work with and only 2-3 people from NEST were even able to run with us for first reactions.

For those that are unaware about the subreddit issue, one of the mods attempted to temp ban me for "self-promotion" because I didn't meet their 10:1 posting ratio. While it's not particularly difficult to just post mindless things to the subreddit, it's always in the back of my mind and the majority of what's up there is just screenshots and artwork. I don't have a problem with screenshots and artwork, but there's not much to say aside from "hey, good stuff!" which doesn't seem substantial to me, but maybe it would count? I could also scour the site for things that ask for insight, but it takes more effort than I honestly care to spend when I could be doing something else that I feel is more productive lol. So, just to be safe, I'll be leaving the posting of my videos to those of you who may have already fulfilled their arbitrary posting requirements, though I'm not asking you to. I've just stated beforehand that I wanted to control how much of my videos went to the subreddit to avoid this issue and prevent saturation of vids that may not even be meant for the subreddit community. Since this wasn't enough, I'll just allow you guys the freedom to post what you'd like to try and give them one less thing to use against me.

In more uplifting news, I've got the first batch of twitch emotes ready and under review on the site already including, drakDikdik, drakDance, drakCorey, and drakDeleted. I'll post the full set here when we get them assembled and approved.

Aside from that, I'm really trying to get myself to focus and get O4S part 2 done in a relatively reasonable amount of time. It's been a struggle but I'm doing what I can. In slightly relevant news to this, I will be trying to plan a charity stream for some sort of cancer relief sometime soon. I recently lost my uncle to cancer and I want to use my platform to try and help others going through that. I felt that doing this sooner would have seemed self-serving and selfishly motivated rather than in support of people and families who are generally struggling with it. That's just been my mindset about it, whether or not it's something everyone can understand or agree with. It's one of those situations where I felt incredibly helpless to do anything, but also didn't want to acknowledge as an issue that needed my intervention; I was just hoping it would go away. It's the first time my family has been hit with something like this and none of us have really known what to do about it, how to cope, react, support, etc. Instead of looking back and wondering "What if" (though it's hard not to), I want to take action now after we've had time over here to mourn and recover. So far, the support from those of you who have been privy to this info has been amazing and I love you all. I really appreciate it.

So, those are my plans, goals, and struggles for the next few weeks so I appreciate your patience while I get everything together and move forward. Until next time, take care everyone!