Patreon Update - August 20th 2023

Good evening, beautiful people,

Just dropping in with this week's Patreon update!

I hope you've all had a fabulous week. It's been a very eventful one for me, what with Paris and such. But it's also been the most I've struggled with missing Reiss, so I guess you take the good with the bad!

We are continuing to see such exciting growth both here on Patreon and across YouTube and the other socials, and we're fast approaching some very exciting milestones on them all.

I have some exciting news to share, and it will have some explaining to go along with it. The news is that I start a new job tomorrow for a company called WeWork, which headhunted me while I worked at lululemon. It's not a particularly exciting job, but it's a 9-5, and the money is really great.

But, you're probably thinking... what about the freelance work? Well, the past few months have taught me a lot of lessons. When I went full-time all I really knew for certain was that I didn't want to work retail anymore and that I wanted to create. In the past few months, I've really learnt a lot as a creator and the direction I want to be going in and the Thank You, Alice Oseman project solidified that I want to be doing two things:

1. making queer content here on Patreon/YouTube and using my platform to support the LGBT community and, more recently, act as a voice for the Ace/Aro community

2. Create longer form short film/documentary style projects to tell people's stories

What I don't want to be doing:

Creating content for other businesses/people

The reason for this is that the things I have listed above are what I'm most passionate about in the world and shooting content full time has started causing me to burn out creatively. I don't want that to happen. I don't ever want to burn out creatively again as this community is too important to me.

so, i've decided to step away from the other creative endeavours to focus all my energy into growing this YouTube Channel/Patreon and creating fabulous longer form content.

Alas, that's where the 9-5 comes in. Cinema camera gear ain't cheap so ya boy got some saving to do 🤣

Does this make sense? I hope it makes sense. I'm just out here trying to figure out wtf my direction in life is, and for the first time in a while, it feels pretty clear!

So that's my update for this week- its a pretty big one and I hope it makes sense. Feel free to shoot me any questions as I feel like I've rambles a bit here!

Keep an eye on those inboxes... another video coming your way tomorrow ❤️

Love, always ❤️