2018 year in review

2018 was a good year. Changing my major, of course, was a great decision. I met some really great people this year as well. I'm happier than ever to be honest.

Down to business. Stats for this year is around 3,763 views on the year. Much less than last year and far, far less than than the 15,000 I wanted. Of course, I can't say I'm really surprised. I didn't finish 9 years when I said I would, and I dropped the ball on updating the blog midyear. Honestly, I thought my viewer drop off would be much steeper than that, considering I didn't link to the blog hardly at all this year. The best month was January with 887 views, and the worst was July with 77 views, but the views held pretty consistently around 200 year round. For all of you that still around, I appreciate your support through my inconsistency and incompetence.

So the podcast is still up in the air. It kinda fell apart because Pika still doesn't have a good mic, however if you guys want to see something like that, I'm sure we could figure something out.

I still don't have good enough internet to stream games, however I have been streaming debates through Non-Sequitur, and I think I prefer that. I get to nerd out about topics and argue; two of my favorite things. Plus Non-Seq already has a built in audience, so it works out better if I want to grow as an internet personality than streaming KSP for like 4 people on twitch.

9 years 3 has been a nightmare. After I finished it, went to publish, and found I didn't save, my momentum has been shot. It was hard enough trying to relive some of this stuff once, doing it a second time now is just a slog. I need to put it out, I made a promise to you all, but I just find myself much more invested in making videos and writing things like Once We Were Gods rather than 9 years. I just want to be over with it at this point, ya know?

The channel has been doing great, though. The CutCo video was very well received, and I'm almost done working on another historical video. The hope is to get production up and running and start churning out interesting videos that are well edited. The reception has really given me inspiration to continue on, as it just seems like people not only are watching the videos but wanting more. Audience is a powerful thing to a creator, and its great to see participation from you guys!

So that's all for this year. We'll see how 2019 goes, I'm just glad to be along for the ride with everyone here.