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Tapa Update #12 - Computer Says "No".

Today, a little tale of how a small thing can derail your whole operation.

Behind the Scenes
My Computer Broke Down

Let me give you a taste of the glamorous life of a Youtuber. So, I've been unhappy with how loud my computer's CPU cooler was running ever since I got it. The fan's so loud it gets picked up pretty strongly by my mic, which makes all kinds of shenanigans necessary to filter that extra noise out of my voiceover, and even when I do, it does...

Scripts - US Flag Burning

Open to see attached scripts below.

Flag Burning in the USA

Video Deitsch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i5rB4cL2YQ

Tapa Update #11 - Release Week

It's finally here! Release week has arrived! New video incoming on Saturday. (24 hours earlier for early access members, waddup!)

Behind the Scenes
Audio Panning

It's an exciting week, so let's discuss a dry-ass topic. Or maybe not all that dry, actually, but at least very ... niche. Some extra attentive peeps out there have already noticed a little trick I use for the audio mix in videos. If you did, that's 100 points for you. I'm talking about audio ...

Tapa Update #10 - All Quiet on the Western Front

Behind the Scenes
Nothing much to report

Yeah, so, sometimes there's not much news to report, and that's cool too.

Okay, there's a little news. I'm working on getting the next video all finished. Should be there in the next two weeks or so. Prepare for a ... how shall I say? ... quite heated topic. ^_^

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Video: Turkey is Over
2025-03-25 14:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Now that I've been doing regular updates for a while, what's your opinion so far?

If you've got any concrete wishes or ideas you'd like to see implemented, please leave a comment.

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Tapa Update #9 - They're among us ...

Here's something that's been bothering me for years. There's this problem on Youtube where high-output, low-substance channels are drowning out the ones that are actually ... well, good.

Behind the Scenes
Bad edutainment

Despite a seemingly endless variety of edutainment channels available on Youtube, there are not all that many good edutainment channels on Youtube. I say that as someone, who loves the genre and desperately wants more of ...

Tapa Update #8 - More videos ... hopefully.

Instead of another deep dive into the crazy world of edutainment video creation, I thought I'd give you some current channel news.

Behind the Scenes
Faster upload schedule?! - * gasp *

As we're speaking, I'm in the process of hiring someone to help me in researching future video scripts. Although all of that stuff is a huge headache to get going, I'm expecting that step to help me cut production time for videos by at least a week. Now, that's not a hug...

Tapa Update #7 - oh damn oh damn oh damn

Aaand we're back! The latest video's doing good numbers and has brought a lot of newlings into the fold. A special welcome to all of you. If you're wondering what a classic Tapa Update post entails, well, it goes a little something like this:

Behind the Scenes
I made a terrible mistake

So, you work on a video for, like, three months because you care a lot about quality. You want to make it the best goshdarn video on the subject that is possible to prod...

Scripts - India's Flag Ban

Open to see attached scripts below.

India's Flag Ban

Video Deitsch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAarw142eEQ

Tapa Update #6 - TIROUUUL!!!

This time, something a little different. This is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down ... well not quite, but here's an entertaining little anecdote about this one guy you might've already heard something about.

Behind the Scenes
The True Story Behind Tyrol Guy

With almost every single skit in my videos you can rest assured that the (often quite random) scenario depicted simply came to life by me sitting at my desk, thin...

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Tapa Update #5 - Bear Peen

That's right. That's the title. Let's get to it!

Behind the Scenes
Where's the Podcast?

Those of you familiar with my German channel might be aware that I've also been doing a podcast in German for a while now. It's been a few months since the latest episode of Tapacast has come out, though, so there've been a few attentive audience members asking what happened to it. As of now, the podcast is put on ice indefinitely. I might make something like it at ...

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Tapa Update #4 - I Never Said Flags Need to be Boring

Behind the Scenes
Why the Hell is This Taking so Long? - Writing

Last update I wrote a bit about the difficulty of getting good information for videos. When that's done, there's still a lot of work ahead, though. A list of facts in some random order doesn't do a lot for most people. After gathering the raw material, you gotta lay it out in a way that makes it easy to comprehend and fun to watch. That's the writing part.

To me, good writing is thinking....

Tapa Update #3 - The Tapakapa Branding Strategy

Alrighty. A small, little christmas break will soon be upon us (me), but first: It's update time!

Behind the Scenes
Why the Hell is This Taking so Long? - Research

I get the feeling it's often not very obvious to people what actually makes up by far the biggest chunk of what I'm doing. Any time someone asks why I don't make more videos, what's taking so long, and any time I consider trying a new thing, then scrapping it after a few minutes of ca...

Tapa Update #2 - I'm Bad at Audience Participation

Round two, baybee!

Biggest thing up first: I figured, I'll only do one update every two weeks - fortnightly, one could say - since they tend to run longer than I first expected them to and because I want to keep the notification annoyance to a minimum. If you want more, let me know, but I suspect one every two weeks should be just fine.

That is all. Let's get right to it.

Behind the Scenes
Always Trouble With Lower Austria

In the rec...

Tapa Update #1 - Let's Give This Thing a Try

According to my recent poll, about 9/10 of you are interested in regular updates. So let's try that.

Don't worry, I know we're all a little busy all the time, so I'm gonna keep things short and sweet and hopefully a bit entertaining as well.

From those of you who aren't all that interested in updates - Why're you reading this?! 😭 - I'd be curious to hear why that is. Would be great if you'd let me know in the comments.

So, yeah, this whole update thing ... for the moment,...

Should I do regular update posts?

I'm thinking about doing short update posts on here every 1-2 weeks. The idea would be to answer some of your questions, give you a bit more info about work going on behind the scenes, and maybe also share some general stuff I'm interested in at the moment.
How's that sound?

Scripts - Austria's State Flags

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Austria's State Flags

Video Deitsch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFiF47YQ1TY

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