PLEASE TELL US WHAT TO DO

Blehhhhhh. Had enough of this stinking ‘vid now. My nose is at least slightly less runny today, and my throat feels slightly less like I’ve tried to swallow a mirror, but I feel foggier than yesterday weirdly. I’m writing this so I can try to kickstart my brain into action and get some actual work done. I have deadlines alas. No wallowing for the wicked.

Anyway.

Thanks for all the responses about us switching the newer videos over to a brand new channel.

We agree with those of you who suggested losing the Digi name altogether. The issue we have is… we’d want to move some of the existing videos over, but they still have the Digitiser branding in the videos to give them the chance they deserve.

Does that matter? What do y’all think?

We’ve been batting around ideas about what we could name it. Sanja suggested just the simple “Paul Rose” – but there’s already a guitarist with that name on YT. Plus, for me, if it was to feature any names I’d want Sanja’s in there too. That’s important, because I think the two of us together is kind of our USP. I like the thought of a one-word name – like Digitiser, Bubblegun – but it’s tough.

PLUS… frustratingly, and making matters a touch more confusing, we’ve kind of started putting on subscribers again.

It’s slower than before, but they’re creeping up in a somewhat faltering way. Basically, for the past year we’d put on hundreds every month… and that all stopped when we did our Poland/Russia border video. That was the one which an idiot reported us for, and it has been ever since then that the channel has struggled. In the big picture, it has only been a couple of months that our views and subs have been down, so maybe we’re worrying unduly – but it has obviously been reflected on Patreon too.

We made the decision yesterday to make that border video unlisted, along with the one I did last year about the riots/protests. It’s frustrating that I can’t express my opinions – or even mention politics - without there being some comeback, but it is what it is. Such is the post-debate, post-nuance, world in which we're living.

With all that in mind… is the idea of a new channel completely the wrong call? I mean, YouTube seems broken these days anyway, so perhaps it’s all for nothing.

I still think it’s a gesture of goodwill to put all the old videos back up as public, rather than keep them sequestered in a playlist. Clearly, that pissed off a lot of people. We could do that AND carry on as we have been, but we’re already mostly being pushed out to Cheapshow subscribers, so it’d likely only make matters worse in that regard.

Maaaaan. It’s tough knowing what to do.

Then there’s the issue of Drong’s Challenge. Sanja’s working through the assembly edit – and assures me that you’re all going to love it – so I want it to have the best chance of people seeing it. The main channel would be that, but it completely jars with the current videos…

Someone please make all decisions for us from now on. This is difficult.

Anyhoo, that didn't work as an exercise. My brain is no more awake than when I started.

Paul