Happy Christmas and a Rumble Update
Welcome to you all, both new and long-standing members. Thank you so much for your support and for the love you have shown The Black Ship by joining us here on Patreon. I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
The stories will continue over the holidays, so you can enjoy the latest episodes of The Black Ship and its side stories right here as usual.
I also wanted to give you a brief update following YouTube demonetising the channel and withholding November’s ad revenue. Unfortunately there is very little we can do about that, so rather than getting bogged down in it, we are moving forward and focusing on what comes next.
I have tentatively started a channel on Rumble. Many of you suggested it as an alternative to YouTube, so I am giving it a try. It appears to have less aggressive community guidelines, which hopefully allows us to return to a familiar setup of free viewing on Rumble supported by ad revenue, alongside early access here on Patreon. That said, after the last month, I am taking things one step at a time.
You can find our bumble channel here:
https://rumble.com/user/scifistories1977
I have uploaded four Black Ship stories so far, and at 9pm tonight UK time, last week’s TBS episode C53 Part 3 will be released. If you have a little free time, I would really appreciate you watching a video or two on Rumble. Likes and comments also help a great deal, though I believe you may need to create a Rumble account to do that (same as on YouTube).
Over the coming weeks I will be adding more Black Ship content to the Rumble channel, and we will see how it develops. Fingers crossed.
Merry Christmas,
scifistories1977
Comments (51)
I've love listening to all 3 story lines on your YouTube channel. I have been following over on Rumble also due to your YouTube shorts detailing your issues. The past couple weeks has been difficult finding the stories. I'm hoping they are still on the way as they are the best out there by far.
Will you go for a similar schedule on Rumble like on Youtube? Currently all 3 story lines are stalling there.
I have a question so are all the episodes of TBS that are already on YT going to stay there or will they end up disappearing?
And if it will be disappearing from YT could you please put all the older episodes here on Patreon? As not everyone will be able to access Rumble but still want to watch the older episodes
Though i have issues with rumble I do understand YT has been killing other peoples monetary to increase there own from what i have read.... sorry for such a great story line to get caught in there BS to perform better (*make money for them selves) Well unpaid will not let me watch it here on patreon I figured I could let you know what the fan base (me being part of it is thinking) showing my support for 1.99 a month gets me nothing here and 5 dollars it out of reach for now so it may be a while before i can catch up with the story if at all....
I noticed you have BS stories on Spotify. Might I suggest adding a library there as well, so those fans in countries prohibiting the Rumble platform still have an outlet to enjoy the Black ship stories.
There is nothing rong with youtube i cant use rumble so i cant watch black ship or the sid store's thanks for nothing💔🖕
You can use rumble with no ads == ProtonVPN et al + brave browser. 5 mins of work: problem solved.
Merry Christmas to all.😋
Merry Christmas! Rumble can be clunky at times but glad to see more people braking the YouTube chains.
Happy Christmas, I've enjoyed this story all year on YouTube, and looking forward to it continuing somewhere in 2026
Merry Christmas. So is the Barony Story complete? Thought maybe he'd have a send-off to the people of the Barony before his departure
YT really does go out of its way to be lame
Thank you for the great entertainment. Merry Christmas to you & yours.
Why not use Floatplane?
First I’ve heard of this I’ll give it. A look
Sorry to hear about all the garbage YT is putting you thru. Listened to them all and liked them over on Rumble. Hope it helps you guys out. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. You guys are all amazing.
Merry Christmas to all the writers and The Black Ship community.
If you would be so kind to post the schedule you will be posting chapters for each story to the RUMBLE site it would be greatly appreciated. I have joined there and will gladly enjoy listening to the entire series of stories to help with the ad revenue.
Its going to take some time to bring over everything to rumble. New stories will get a release schedule in the new year.
Just something I’ve seen lately. YouTube has been banning/demonetizing a lot of channels and disabling live stream ability. Has happened to several news commentary and prepping channels I follow.
Hey folks If you are busy . Grab the pc or phone Hit start and do what you need to do Just let it play . Or do what I do at times I'll hit book Two let it start and go to sleep . I'll find out if that works on Rumble
Signed up on rumble.. now. Can I just leave it playing a book from the start while I sleep?
I have several time hoping to generate funds .
What’s the Schedule for the Videos (and perks of Patreon)?
Question: I can't seem to participate in the chats. Is that a different level of access?
I dont think so. You should have access to the chat.. sometimes the patreon app needs an update on mobile devices.
All done signed up and rumble thank you very much
Ok. Signed up in Rumble.
Canceled my yt membership, signed up for this one. Looking forward to diving back into the story.
I’m guessing this is why you aren’t posting 4 times a day on your YouTube channel anymore :(! Really upset they FUKed you guys like that!! Hopefully you get it fixed :)!!!
Have listened to two videos on Rumble. Had some audio glitches and the comment section froze. Bandwidth issues.
Mine played fine but I’ve got 600 mega fiber internet probably makes a difference
I must have missed this news what is their reason for demonetization?
I believe they accused them a pirating the content. Even though he has licensing agreements with each author and also that some of the content was AI generated which I don’t know why that would matter
I will give rymble a try, beause I enjoy watching the Black ship episodes from the begining though to the latest
I have joined Rumble and will abandon YT. I enjoy listening to all the stories from the beginning and will start re-listening again now on Rumble
Added rumble forgot how many guys I was following over there an also happy that it plays in the back ground without buying premium like YouTube Only 96 of us over there I hope all the YouTube folks follow. I’ll still be on Patreon as well
Up to 775 on rumble now
I subscribed on Rumble this morning.
I'm there now too.
There you go keep them coming!
I did. My setup and followed sci-fi stories 1997 in rumble and added the app to my fire stick. Unfortunately Vizio TV doesn't seem to support it but I run both fire stick and the Vizio TV app. Are you guys going to drop the YouTube completely?
Probably not completely. Its story visibility and a feed in to the story for people who find it on YT. I think i'll keep book one on YT but (eventually) move everything else away from YT over time. I still think Rumble is going to go wrong at some point so right now its all up in the air.
Thank you everyone! I hope this turns out well for us.
I’m in. Following on Rumble. Will likely pay subscription for the next year. Looking forward to seeing you there.
I'm on it. 👍👍
I'm there, Hope this move works out for us all. YT sucks.
Down with YT! I have open a Rumble account and started following. Loyalty is its own reward! Victory shall suffice!
I really can’t hate YT enough.
Will do, heading over to rumble now. Sorry for all this hardship you’re all having to deal with, right before the holidays as well! Fingers crossed it’s on the up from here, and thanks for all the work you do. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year