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TRYING THE "VIRAL" YORKSHIRE PUDDING WRAP

We didn't just eat chocolate in York. We also ate Yorkshire pudding. Here's a tiny something for you.

Biffo's Brain tiers: we're still on for tomorrow evening at 7pm. Will send a link tomorrow.

Enjoy your Saturday, gang.

Paul

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Hello me beauties. The new video is now up for the general hoi polloi. It's a splendid mix of old and new Digi. If you haven't watched it already, you'll see what we mean.

We've kept it to a tight, pacy, 22 minutes, and worked very hard on this one. A ton of discussion behind the scenes. We're really trying hard these days to balance what we do best with what's going to give us the best chance of reaching the larger audience we feel our stuff deserves.

Howeverrrrrrr... it would ...

EARLY ACCESS: SHOULD YOU STOP EATING CHOCOLATE?

Yes! It's the return of Corner Shop Corner. And Beanus. Kind of. Also featuring a dog, some of York's finest sites, and me getting shoulder-barged by a woman. Plus... a concise history of chocolate.

We're changing our upload day - for regular types - back to Thursday btw, as Sunday wasn't doing brilliantly for us. But you still get it early. Enjoy!

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: CAR CHAT! Alien: Romulus, York, America in the 80s, and review scores

Morning all. Happy Tuesday.

Loads of bits are at various stages of rendering and uploading. On the way this week are the brand new main vid, the Patreon car chat above, and a chunky Writer’s Club video. We’ve also got lots of little bits and pieces from our couple of days away that I’ll be able to share as outtakes or behind-the-scenes.

By design, the new main Digi video is shorter than most that we’ve done. We’re continuing to refine. While we love doing hour-long epics...

NEW SHORT: THE KING WHO DIED ON THE TOILET

Just gone up, in case you missed it.

OOH YORK!

We're back! From York. Only the third time I've been there, but we loved the place. Would've stayed another night if we could have.

We somehow managed to get a lot of down time, some lovely family time with the boys, AND film one video, one short, one Writer's Club video, and an epic car chat for the upper tiers (somehow encompassing Alien Romulus, Digitiser review scores, and America in the 1980s). Oh yeah - and the return of Corner Shop Corner, which turned out to be one of the most...

A TEENY BIT OF FILMING

We're in an Airbnb in Lincolnshire watching - no joke - the BEST episode of The A Team. It''s the one where they all go to prison and Murdoch gets obsessed with "trash bags". I quoted it endlessly as a kid. Mr T is currently having a fight while Hannibal shoots a belt-fed M-60 with one hand (smoking a cigar with the other, natch).

Proper telly.

Anyway. We filmed a little something en rou...

BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY BLOG: NICHE

Happy Bank Holiday Monday, to those who celebrate

I’m working today. Until lunchtime at least, then I’ll probably bunk off. Good weekend?

Sanja and I both managed to come down with some sort of gut rot, so we did bugger all over the weekend other than be sprawled on the sofa feeling sorry for ourselves. I’d love to say we watched something enjoyable and escapist, but we basically spent our time trawling through YouTube trying to analyse other videos. 

Yes: this is...

EARLY ACCESS: WHAT'S IT LIKE LIVING NEXT TO A NUCLEAR BOMB FACTORY?

For logistical reasons (no really) this wasn't quite the lightweight topic we'd intended after our previous vid, but... it does have Monty's Mum, Leaf, and a shitting cow in it.

Enjoy!

MORE PICS FROM TODAY

Have some more. See if you can work out what this video is about.

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From today's filming...

I'M A MASSIVE IDIOT

Block Party is happening on the 21st and 22nd September. We'll be there on the 21st.

QUICK UPDATE: PLUS LIVE SHOW NEWS!

Hola Patrons.

So, there should be a new video this week, along with a Patreon exclusive (or two).

We’re filming on Wednesday amid the quiet and leafy villages of Berkshire – for a video that you probably won’t be able to predict happening in such a pleasant area – and currently we’re scheduled to film next week as well. For another video that you probably won’t be able to pred...

ALIEN ANTICIPATION

Happy Friday, gang. And hello to our new Patrons! We've had quite a few new sign-ups this week, so we must be doing something right.

You should be getting a mini Corner Shop Corner soon. A Patreon exclusive! It’s not going to be quite like the others – we can’t film in front of the blue wall due to ceiling leak reasons – and it’ll be a bit more lo-fi than they used to be, but it’ll serve as a thank you for those with a nostalgia for the old Digi Minis. We’ll do more along...

OUTTAKES: EYAM STOCKS FOOTAGE

Here are some outtakes from our recent visit to the Plague village of Eyam. I'll be honest, I haven't watched this back since editing the main video, but Sanja assures me they make up "a nice little vlog".

MR BIFFO: NOW CONTROLLED BY AI

This is probably really boring, but it’s interesting to me (and Sanja).

So I finally took the plunge and have paid for VidIQ. If you don’t know, it’s the main YouTube SEO tool… and it has been absolutely fascinating to dig into it.

Firstly… it’s clear to me now why all the thumbnails and titles on YouTube follow the same rough format. It’s because of VidIQ. I mean, the video...

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

Right. Enough misery. We're going to be filming some Patreon-only stuff this week, and are planning a video to be an antidote to the weekend's grim monologue.

So... to start... during last week's BIffo's Brain/Writer's Club Zoom, Sanja and I were taken aback that nobody had heard of some of our favourite funny people and videos, so I'm going to share a bunch of them with you here.

I dare say a few of you will know of these - particularly the one above - but they might all go some ...

A DAY AT THE OUTRAGE COALFACE

Blimey.

Where to begin?

Well, the comments on the latest video are... exactly what we expected to be honest.

Probably slightly more positive on the whoie - given I thought we were going to upset everyone en masse, including you lot (amazingly, only one comment so far mentioning that Digi was better when Eli was in it more) - but maaaaan.

Turns out it was just the right we upset.

We've put on a lot of subscribers today, and the video has obviously skyrocketed o...

EARLY ACCESS: BRITAIN IS BROKEN

Welll... I'm nervous about this, because it's COMPLETE,Y different to any other video we've done (though we've sort of paved the way with some of our other vids over the past year), and it's the very first Digi video that's just me and nobody else. It's not typical of what we've done, or what we'll continue to do, but it mattered to me this week.

So here it is.

Suffice to say, it's quite a way from Beanus, but we're such a channel of weird juxtapositions that he'll probably be b...

HEADS UP!

There's a new Digi video incoming. Uploading now, so it might be up for you tonight. It's kind of time-sensitive and topical, so sorry we couldn't get it to you sooner.

it's very different. I'm a bit nervous about it.

It won't mean Beanus et al are gone foreve of course - it's just one video - but I really wanted to make this..

Stay tuned.

BLOG: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

I promise Patreon and Digi isn’t going to be political all the time from now on. We will get back to the usual nonsense soon. So, skip this if you don’t want to read more about the riots and protests, which I’m sure plenty of you don’t.

Anyway. 

We headed out last night to film some stuff for what will probably be the next video, just to see what was what. As widely reported,...

A DAY AT THE RACISM HOSPITAL

Following a lovely birthday (thanks for the nice messages), it was a nightmare day yesterday. Sorry, I swore I would try to remain positive in my blog posts and not unload on you - at least for a while - but the Universe had other plans!

I’ve been sleeping badly for months now – perhaps understandably – and yesterday morning I basically passed out in bed, I guess because my body desperately needing some more sleep. Unfortunately, I had my laptop open and a full cup of coffee in my...

MONDAY DOG (BLOG): IT BE MY BIRTHDAY

Happy Monday, everyone.

It’s my birthday today. That’s apropos nothing really. At my age, another year older is neither here nor there. Weird isn’t it? My birthday was so exciting as a kid. Now it’s just another day. At least I’m taking the day off work to make it feel a bit different to normal.

And Sanja defied my instructions to not get me any presents – surprising me with a...

EARLY ACCESS: THE VILLAGE THAT SACRIFICED ITSELF

New video! So, we went to the village of Eyam in Derbyshire. Some of you may know it as The Plague Village. Which it is. So of course, I decided to take a big dump on their main source of income.

When we were making it, we thought it'd be a more focused video than others we've done, but watching it back last night Sanja remarked: "This is a very weird video". You decide!

NEW DESK WHO DIS?

Hello, Patrons! Happy... Wednesday? How d'you like the new desk?

Fingers crossed, you should get the new video tomorrow. I think it's rather lovely. By design, it's shorter than some of the recent ones (because they can't all be whoppers), but the subject we'd chosen - the plague village of Eyam - took a left turn when I started researching it.

There are tons of videos about Eyam online...

FILMING PICS

Four exciting photos from today's filming.

Stocks image joke.

HAUNTED MUSEUM OUTTAKES

Here you go, loves; an hour and 15 mins of outtakes from the ghost hunt, including Gannon's full introduction and a breakdown of all the ghost hunting equipment we had with us. There are some really meaty outtakes here.

UPDATES ON LIFE AND DIGI AND THAT

Hello gang. Sorry for being a touch quiet this week. After spending much of last week editing, I’ve had my head down with the day job. Actually getting paid for my work has continued to be a slow, difficult, process this month, but that drought should come to an end this weekend.

Today I was also doing dump trips and charity shop runs, as we’ve been clearing my mum’s house in order to sell it.

We’ve been resisting doing so – partly because it’s a massive job, and partl...

SATURDAY BRAINRAMBLE: THUMBNAILS AND SUCH

YouTube is slowly beating the graphic designer out of me. Or, at least, beating him into a new shape. 

Whatever my specific brand of being creative is, I’ve always felt it doesn’t really work for YouTube. I have always struggled with thumbnails, with SEO, with just conveying the ideas in our vids. I feel utterly out of my depth with it. It’s maybe the one part of doing YouTube that ...

EARLY ACCESS: NIGHT AT THE HAUNTED MUSEUM

Morning! Here it is - don't be too scared now...