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So over the past few months, we and a number of content creators have had some real problems with Youtube. Unfortunately they've done before and they'll likely do it again, making them unreliable as a way to generate viewers or revenue. The most recent change has put yet more pressure on animators, who now seem less able to rely on viral content - previously the last refuge of a dying medium on the platform. In this video I mentioned we'd gone from 800k subscribers to 300k, but I made a mistake. We were at 600k before the change and have suffered a 50% loss in viewership, which appears typical of those affected.

Some of you have heard about this, and I know that I've seen many sorrowful sentiments. Including, "Well I hope Youtube rights its course". My belief is that they won't, and we need to fight the paradigm by working outside their system and becoming more self-reliant. Promoting newsletters and subscriptions off of Youtube, using other platforms, and so forth! We also can't do the content WE want to do by trying to play along with this system, so we're going to start doing content that we think is good, and that we think we can manage within our budget, but that won't be the exhausting click-bait or homogeneous reviews of other people's content that survives innately.

When the chips are down, you don't keep gambling at the same table. You develop a new strategy. We have very little data in front of us demonstrating how to manage, but so help us, with great fans and your support, we're going to make it!