A SMALL CHANGE

Happy Monday, all. Hope you had a lovely Platty Jubes (sorry) weekend.

As you've no doubt been aware, we're a bit behind with some things. In fact, all the things. It was inevitable that it’d all start slipping once we started prep for Digi Level 2, but before all that, Sanja obviously had Covid for a week or so, which had already put us on the back foot… and then we had to film Digi Level 2… and then we had to recover from Digi Level 2… and then last week I got absolutely floored with a horror show of a stomach bug, and Sanja had a cold (just a cold: not you-know-what).

Aside from that, I’m STILL trying to find work. Or, rather, waiting to hear about things that could become work. It’s stressful.

Nevertheless, I don’t think we’ve exactly ignored our Patrons in that time – every tier has had its own exclusive stuff, and I’ve done two live streams for the Biffo’s Brain tier to boot in recent weeks (I know I still owe a few of you your teletext pics – they’re on the way, please bear with me).

Being the first unbroken week we’ve had in ages, we’re hoping that it will right the ship somewhat, and we can start getting back to normal. BYAMPOD should be up later today, though we still need to record it. We’ve also got a Digi in the can that needs editing, but it may end up just being a Patreon exclusive, depending on how it turns out (basically… I felt ill throughout it after eating those crisp/chocolate monstrosities in the Piccalilli Willy vid, so my energy levels are through the floor). One way or another, you’ll see it.

A CHANGE

One small change going forwards is that we’re no longer going to have the lo-fi sofa chats on the main channel. We both enjoy doing them, and I know a lot of you enjoy watching them, and – certainly – the ones we’ve done recently were a necessity, given we didn’t have the time or energy for anything more involved.

For me they sit uneasily alongside the videos where we’ve put in more effort, and which are more comedy nonsense, and the fact is… and this is not a moan, just stating a fact… they do tend to act as a bit of a black hole on subs and views for some reason.

However… we don’t want to feel we can’t do them ever, so while we think everything on the main channel from now on should be “plussed” in some way (guests, characters, fancy editing, ‘specials’)… any lower-fi, more chatty, videos we do will now go on our second channel, where there’s less to lose. I’ve made the three recent sofa vids unlisted, so there’s more of an unbroken run of blue wall/days out videos for anyone stumbling upon it.

I’ve never really known what to do with that second channel… but this seems like the right call, and consequently it’s now called Digitiser Extra: https://www.youtube.com/c/DigitiserExtra

This might mean you may not get a video on the main channel one week… but instead one may appear on the second channel. Those who want the chatty vids should be able to find them easily enough. Those who inexplicably hate them will, hopefully, not be driven to unsubscribe furiously from the main channel. It’s a win-win!

Because I didn’t get around to saying it this month… thanks again for supporting. It continues to astound me that such a relatively small thing as Digi (and BYAMPOD) seems to have such loyalty and generosity among its audience. Ultimately it’s you lot – the core audience – that we do this for. Without your support we really wouldn’t bother to keep ploughing forwards. So thank you. Again!

Right. BYAMPOD… and a bonus BYAMPOD and a Writer’s Club Pod all to record and edit today. Digi tomorrow!