Hello there guys and girls,
welcome to another monthly channel update of mine. Obviously it's gonna be the last
one for this year. This is why I would like to use the next couple of minutes to look
back at 2017 and to say my thanks to a bunch of people. First of all, I wanna thank all
my subscribers, no matter if you're new to the family or one of the veterans: Thank
you for your trust in this channel. I wanna make a shout out with the warmest thanks to
"GameIn_Deeper" for going as far as donating a dollar a month to support my creative work.
It really helps!
If you can't afford to donate, just share my stuff on Twitter or Reddit or whatever
trendy platforms you kids use today. Make a GIF of memorable scenes you enjoyed and
upload it. I just don't have the time to do all that promotional stuff. I wanna spend
all my dedication and energy on the actual videos.
Also I would like to thank a bunch of subscribers who supported me by simply commenting on my
videos. This goes out to people like Refined Turbo, Captain Madman, ShredderGGG, KeymonZz,
erjun – greetings to Turkey by the way – mattiejas, White Spectre, ZumieFiasco who also made this
amazing car mod for Good Driving Bad Driving episode 13, Bladent GTA, Can The King, The
Glass Citizen, OrBass, J & J gaming, Zose and The Nerfed Gamer. Your positive words
but also the constructive criticism helped me massively in keeping this channel going
and improving it over the course of the past year.
Speaking of improvement: I really need to thank my fellow creator AX System for inviting
me to the Scene Director discord a few months back. I've met so many amazing machinima
makers and modders over there. This community of hyper experienced GTA creators has helped
me on so many occasions I lost count. Without guys like Duggy, Zadrium, Paradoxar, Lolww,
jackob, Jupit, Roscoe Hussein, momobimo, Sir Wumpy Flump, Petrifying Pumpkins Nergal and
of course elsewhat, the creator of Scene Director many of my latest videos wouldn't have been
possible. I've linked all of their channels in the description but you will also find
most of them in my list of featured channels.
Another special thanks goes out to MuzTube who is also very active on that discord server.
He's a true underground hero since he creates exclusive custom mods and thumbnails for many
of the creators in our community. But please, don't bother him with pointless requests
now. That's my job already. He seems to know everything about GTA V and always has
the key info that lets you progress to the next level. Thanks for that!
Last but not least I wanna thank all the modders out there who create these cool player models,
convert cars or write fun scripts. Without you guys none of these videos would have been
possible. Keep up the good work! I think those were all the people I wanted to shout out
in this video. If I forgot anyone please let me know. Let's now have a look back at 2017,
shall we?
On January 1st I had around 3,650 subscribers. Now I'm at around 4,500. That's a gain
of roughly 850 subscribers and a growth of 19 percent. While this might not be much on
the bigger scale of things, it does mean a lot to me, because the content I create is
rather a niche thing. I think I'd grow a lot faster if I made these big stunt compilations
or fake giveaways like Sernandoe and all those other Immanuel Kants.
Since we're already crunching the numbers here: this year I uploaded a total of 66 public
videos. In comparison: From 2011 to 2016 I uploaded a total of 86 public videos. So this
means I produced almost as much content in one year as I did in the past five and a half
years before. If you take the patreon exclusives like outtakes, behind the scenes and unused
clips compilations into the equation, I have even produced a total of 118 videos this year,
which is a lot more than what I made in the years before. Oftentimes I was working on
five to ten videos in parallel splitting the tasks up into experimentation, scripting,
mod research, music research, recording, camera work, editing, visual effects, photoshopping,
rendering, uploading and writing video descriptions.
Now out of all these videos, which one might be my favorite? Actually, I'm happy with
almost all of my videos because otherwise I wouldn't have uploaded them. Some videos
I even re-rendered and uploaded three times because I had these minor changes that I wanted
to fix at all cost. Still, my very favorites are always gonna be the GTA machinima. A real
turning point for me was my 100th video because this was the time where I discovered the possibilities
of Menyoo and the Smooth Blend of the Rockstar Editor. Ever since I realized this potential
I got so many ideas for videos I can never ever produce all of them because I just lack
the time.
Out of all the GTA V machinima I made I really like "Trevor's Special Treatment" because
it's the ultimate fart joke. But also the montage where I made Trevor play "Seven
Nation Army" with GTA sound effects was a lot of fun to make. Last but not least I'd
like to mention "A Rich Man's Pleasure" because I can't believe I was actually able
to make this wild idea of a cannon for human skeet shooting come true within the game's
engine.
Then of course I am happy about my tutorials because they usually perform quite well, meaning
that they actually get a few more views than my machinima. But that's okay for me because
if I can help or inspire anyone out there, that's another mission accomplished.
The only videos I'd say I dislike are the Zombie Hitler thing because this was just
rushed and had no real concept to it. Another candidate is the Tired Tire video from last
year because I made this before there were any helpful mods available for the PC version
known to me and overall it was just boring and bland. At that time I was trying to find
my way back into making videos because I basically was on a one year hiatus with the channel
because nobody gave a fork about GTA IV anymore and GTA V wasn't out for PC then. From the
very old videos it would have to be the Copkiller Trailer which I'm pretty ashamed of. But
for reasons of hilarity I decided not to delete it.
On the battlefield side of things my favorite is definitely "Time" because it's a
cinematic video with a poem that I wrote from the bottom of my heart and in which I tried
to capture the emotions of the tragedy that World War I was. The BF1 montages are fun,
too, because they are a lot easier to edit and allow me to clear my mind from the machinima
from time to time. And I think barely anyone uploaded gameplay without HUD as consistently
as I did. Same thing here: I could very well upload two BF1 montages every damn week but
that would be too easy and there's enough channels for that out there. I like to go
the extra mile and make an effort to create truly original content, which unfortunately
doesn't seem to be worth much these days. Also, I don't stretch out all of my videos
to be ten minutes and 1 second long just so there will be another ad somewhere in the
middle.
Now, tell me, what are your favorite videos of 2017 from my channel? I'd really like
to know what you guys and girls prefer seeing and what you would love me to do more of.
If you are willing and able to support me on Patreon, I'm thankful for the smallest
of donations. It will be worth it, as I said there's a ton of bonus content on there.
With the last video of 2017 I will give you a taste of this bonus content because this
sunday there will be an outtake compilation with a couple of select clips for you to enjoy.
Now...what else? I hope you all had a successful year. I hope you overcame any obstacle life
put in your way. And I hope you will achieve your dreams. May you have a transition into
the new year that is as smooth as a baby's butt. Wait? Should I really include that in
the script? I don't think that's advertiser friendly.
Well, whatever. Thank you for watching and stay tuned for 2018, whanowa over!
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