There was always a reason why I've been doing this since the start of my patreon.
I honestly never like the idea of asking people for money for nothing in a personal moral sense. like if someone gives me money, theres something I've to do in return for what I've been given.
hence it was always in the back in my mind when I start this patreon like 5years ago.
So to "counter" this, basically, I put it on my own personal agenda to just be transparent on how I spend the money you people have given/pledge/supported me on.
Why I'm talking on this now, is probably the current state of my channel.
I don't know what I've done, probably maybe cause I just want to do whatever I want, my channel just start to decline over time. perhaps I just start to refuse to keep doing MH content so the bulk of people who only subscribe my channel for MH content start to not bother or care of my work anymore. Every video I make, it always starts off with me losing subs, guaranteed.
As seen
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wvuj3j30xpdzbfm/subpurge.png?dl=0
While I generally don't really care, cause I see it as a sub-cleanse of people who just "sub-wrongly" to my channel, it does show a slow indicator that I'm pretty much doing what I want to do.
Why am I going on this cause, as expected, the 3month long personal project of the MHmovie reanimated, more or less flopped on the views, which I was pretty much expecting it to be due to the nature of people never liking the movie, so they won't give this a chance to watch. but, its because of you people who pledge, gave me the budget to just go do a stupid 20min long animation and giving my assist animator some bonus income for 3months working on this "simple" project. Without that budget to mess around, this animation more or less probably be a much shorter affair or probably be not intended to be worked on.
And thus, the whole "Pretty much doing what I want to do" all boils down to you people who truly supported me on my personal endeavors, so that I can really just spend the money to pay animators to work/assist on my projects and allow me to just do what I want to do without worrying on my channel's decline.
I can admit, I'm honestly hoping the amount I pay to my animator, soundman or voice actors are "decent", esp animators, currently my only assist animator on the projects he help me out. I usually never get much out of the income I get from patreon, usually the "cut" I get is rollover for next month's budget on standby if next month's amount isnt as high as expected. thats why, the current support has given me the opportunity to only recruit one assistant animator that I think I'm paying a proper payout to work on my projects.
which, I can say, while currently its still seem to be "all fine" I never expect you people to support me all the way to the end, you guys will eventually have to pull out, either tomorrow, next month/ a matter of time, till the day I see that my budget starts to become too little to sustain my current payouts to deserving artist who are involved with me, which means I've to start controlling and limiting on what I want to do or start to do stuff on my own
so, my channel is declining, Google is implementing a 30% tax on earnings, I'm only able to do what I want to do cause of You folks, who supported the production for so long. I give you my big thankyou for just sticking with me to the end and showing your support of the content I do. Lets just see if my channel declines further for the next half of 2021.
See you guys on my verdict in December 2021. thankyou if you make it all the way here reading this, I just had to get this out.