MUSIC REQUESTS EXPLODED📈! Updates on Shows Moving Forward
Hey everyone,
Before I get into all of this about the next steps with the shows, I have some EXCITING NEWS!
Tomorrow, 6/13, is my 2 year anniversary 🎊 of being a content creator, and based on Patreon's public growth data, we're one of the top 5 fastest-growing music Patreons in the WORLD this month- out of EVERY MUSIC CHANNEL and ARTIST on the platform! I don't share the channels specific data publicly, but one of my team members who's super into numbers compared ours to the public record, and I thought you all would get a kick out of knowing. Let's go! 🔥🙌 Thank you SO MUCH for being here with me.
YOU ALL ARE MAKING MY VISION INTO REALITY
It's been my dream to create a genuinely positive safe place online for people to come together and celebrate their favorite artists & content, and IT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING! I'm so proud that it makes me a bit emotional thinking about it. 🥲 My moderators Else & Hans as well as the amazing community leaders all have had a HUGE hand in maintaining this energy. THANK YOU to all of you!🙏
This is exactly why I want to be transparent about some changes I'm making. Music is clearly the heart of this channel. Most of you came here to share with me your favorite music and artists, and your requests have made it crystal clear that you want more. So I'm refocusing my time toward the song studies and reactions you keep asking for, while keeping our shows as a special bonus where you all clearly show up for them.
🚨 I'm having a BLAST watching all of the shows, but I'm only one person with a given amount of time to do this each day. And since the content requests are growing rapidly, I'm carefully considering how to best spend every minute of my time I have to do this.
Next Steps for the Serial Shows I've Been Watching:
Arcane
🟢 Arcane stays. SO MANY of you have chosen to watch it with me. It's not going anywhere.
🤡 The Amazing Digital Circus
This was a HUGE hit for the community. I will watch the final episode when it drops.
😈 NEW EXPERIMENT — a Helluva Boss rewatch on Saturdays (starting tomorrow!)
We're going to revisit Seasons 1 and 2 as a lead-up to Season 3 which is slated to start sometime in the Fall. I know a lot of you are deeply into this one and chat about it constantly, bring your friends! If enough people continue to watch the episodes with me I am happy to keep it going. I'll let you know after our first couples weeks on how it's going.
💀 Death Note
Death Note will wrap at the end of its first arc in a few weeks. We'll see the iconic first chapter through to its conclusion together. We'll give it a proper send-off, and then close the book there. I have LOVED watching it with you, and I have to say it's tough to let it go, but based on the continual drop in viewership each week, it doesn't make sense to keep it going.
⚔️ Attack on Titan
One Episode a week from now on. We will continue watching Attack on Titan, even though the viewership has been going down a bit lately. Only doing one episode a week will make it possible for me to add another song reaction or two into the schedule each week. If the viewership stabilizes and doesn't go down anymore, we will keep watching it to the end! If viewership goes up, I'm down to go back to two episodes a week!
💥Also, I have an idea on how I may grow the viewership for AoT, I now have a video editor and I think it's a good idea to have him make a highlight video of one of the most popular episodes and I'll put it on YouTube to let people know about our continued journey with this show. That could grow the community watching it with us, anchoring it even more.
Kingdom: Legendary Wars
I've decided to pause on watching full episodes of the show. It's been very interesting watching it and learning about Korean TV culture around music shows, however, it's very time consuming and due to the style of editing it makes it challenging for me to get to know the artist as much as I'd like to.
💥EDIT FOR THE STAYS (Stray Kids fans) 👉There has been some interest from the community for me to watch particular parts of the show, like parts of the Mayfly episodes, or the Stray Kids parts of other episodes. I am MORE THAN HAPPY to do that! I would request that you would please put that on the content request post and vote it up to confirm the community interest, because it would jump the line for other things I was planning instead. 🙏 ALSO, lets chat about it in the Stray Kids DISCORD CHAT! If you all want to watch the Stray Kids Kindgom parts in front of the other top requested stuff, we can totally do that. I planned on adding the Item/Top Line Recording Scenes, but if you want the Kingdom before that, I'm totally down!
🚨THURSDAYS ARE NOW K-POP/KOREAN ARTIST THURSDAYS
I will do K-pop reactions on other days of the week as well, but you can always expect there will be a solid amount of K-pop on Thursdays moving forward. I feel strongly about doing a lot more Killing Voices and Lee Mujin Services. These two platforms in particular are incredible ways for me to get to know the artist you love better, which is a big part of what we are doing here. The more I know your favorite artists, the more I can celebrate them for the community and on YouTube publicly.
OK, there it is, I think I've covered all of it and you can see it all updated in the CONTENT SCHEDULE. I know this is a long read, if you made it to the end, I appreciate your engagement in the community! Give me your thoughts below. You all are such a big part of my life now and I had no idea two years ago when I started all of this that we would be here. 😭 SO MUCH MORE TO COME! 🔥🙌
See you in the chats!
Tim
Comments (28)
It's been a while since there's content for SB19. I understand demand is prioritized but I can't continue the membership any longer. Regardless, I wish your channel its continued success.
Congrats on your 2-year anniversary!
Proud of you, Tim! :) I cannot thank you enough for doing my request. :)
Congrats Tim! I'm so happy for you and your team. I know I am one of the more quiet folks, but nothing makes me happier than seeing people thrive! So here's to more great experiences to come!
It's been about a year since I found your channel and joined the patreon, I'm so glad to be a part of this community! ❤️🫶
Y'all better stay watching the helluva rewatch, I need it bad 😭😂❤️
So glad you’re here Alissa! 🙌💫
Congrats, Tim! I enjoyed rewatching Kingdom with you but I totally get why you're dropping it. They really drag out the episodes while the performances are short in comparison. If you want to learn more about groups/members and Korean culture it'd be fun for you to watch some variety concert from certain groups (if you're interested in watching something that focuses less on music at some point in the future). Most groups have their own variety shows.
Problem I see with group specific variety shows is that since there’s no music it’s likely that the only viewers would be preexisting fans of the groups. I’d lean more towards idol hosted talk shows where he can hear the artists themselves talk about their music. Suchwita is obviously my favorite as a BTS fan, but I’ve seen some good episodes from others such as IU’s Palette
That’s awesome that 6/13 is your anniversary. It’s something you share with BTS. I tend to not watch the shows unless it’s one I’m particularly interested in just because of the time commitment, but is engagement really going down that much? Maybe if you found shows where the music is a focus point since music breakdowns are the heart of your channel
Congratulations Tim! Glad to see your channel is doing well and hope you’re continuing on for more years to come. I hope you at least finish AoT to see how the story ends. I will catch up on it to add my views. But overall I agree that your strength is definitely in the music and it is what we are here for. I have wondered how sustainable all this was going to be for you especially as you discover more artists and have to juggle more communities. Remember it’s impossible to make everyone happy so the most important thing is to make sure you are happy.
Joined as a starkid fan, stayed for arcane and the wonderful musical breakdowns. Plus I truly respect how much content and care you put into providing for the community. You can't please everyone, I admittedly don't watch everything and I am more than okay with that. I will happily and patiently await for more starkid exploration and maybe a Hadestown the Musical Proshot Movie reaction once it goes live to streaming, until then I will happily enjoy tuning in weekly for arcane and surprise music content when it peaks my interest :)
Great to have you Freya! 🙌💫
I think that’s a great idea to post edits on YouTube so more people know about your AOT reactions. I’ve been loving them!
Congrats on 2 years!! I think that's a great idea posting an edited episode of AoT on Youtube, a lot of reactors will post an edited down version of their show watches there with the full unedited on Patreon and that seems to work really well. I know that I personally have subscribed to various people after getting hooked on the Youtube version of their show reactions. Hopefully viewership will rise, because the second half of season 3 and season 4 is some of the best television I have ever seen across any genre. Seasons 1-first half of 3 are good of course, but the rest is just MIND BLOWING. It might be hard for you to keep it to 1 a week, but I know you only have so much time haha
Congrats on the two years, Tim! And what a pleasure it has been to be a part of your journey. While I’m a little sad to see shows going in the back burner, I completely understand. One recommendation I do have to anime is considering watching things in dub, rather than sub. I know that there are a lot of advantages and pros for the sub, but one of the big reasons that I haven’t been able to keep up with Death Note and AoT is that I just don’t really have the time to sit down and watch them, and them being in sub makes this even harder since I have to actually be watching, rather than having it play in the car like I can with most of your other reactions. I wouldn’t suggest this for your current shows, since switching midway can be jarring, but rather, for any future shows, if you do anymore. Anyways, great to hear that you and the channel are doing well, and here’s to another great year of music!!
Congratulations Tim! One can only do so much and certainly not satisfy all. Your systems for choosing which content to lean into seems reasonable to me. I hope you continue to enjoy shaping this community!
I can tell how tricky it is to balance everyone's interests when everyone has different taste ad wants. I get the sense that there's not a huge overlap between some sections of the community so it must be a challenge to appease everyone in a balanced way. I think you're doing great so far Tim, I'm looking forward to seeing what you get up to! If you're wrapping up Death Note, would you be open to finishing the Death Note musical watchalong? I thought that was a fun one
On another note, the drops in viewership on serial shows are sad but kind of expected, it's hard to keep the momentum when new viewers aren't going to join in in the middle of a series. In that sense I can see growth on the long watchalongs being really tough. That's an issue I see on youtube as well, it's just a natural by-product of that kind of serial content
I did leave a comment on the last attack on titan episode, being worried that it would end. I came here because music and still am here to see music content but what kept me subbed to patreon was attack on titan and now all the other non music reacts. I just have been enjoying non music reactions alot. It makes kinda sense why the view numbers for those are lower since the selling point of your chanel is the music reaction/anylysis. So I do think it is a good idea to make youtube content to advertise the show reacts. Now as a constructive criticism your show reactions could use more of you talking. Sometimes you go "now this really reveals stuff about the plot" and then I am left to wonder what you think the plot is, what did it reveal to you? I personaly think one of the better aot episode reacts was when Eren and armored titan were wrestling
I second this Tim don't be afraid to talk about what you think is happening, the jujitsu talk in aot was extremely fun
Sadly for me, the channel is going towards the things I don't enjoy and getting rid of the ones I do. I thought you enjoyed Death Note, if you stop it cause of viewership when it's just a short show, then it was never about the show and always about the views. I expected at least to finish it. I will be dropping from the community, I didn't feel that decision was respectful to some paying members, same with Kingdom... Anyways, I am... Disappointed by this but I guess numbers are the thing and other things are something of the past. Thank you to all that cared for me during this time. Bye bye.
I am so sad to read this Lupe. 😢 I didn't realize you were only here for the shows and the music content was not your priority. It's not that it's just about the views btw, it's that it's about me serving the community to the best of my ability. The views are a signal of community interest. And when the viewership on something like a serial show continues to go down, it's a signal to me that the community is not as interested in it as it is in other things I'm doing. HOWEVER...if by chance your comment ignites a strong reaction from the community to keep it going, and the last few episodes, get solid engagement from the community, I am more than happy to keep it going!
Slightly devastating that you stop Kingdom right before the Straykids ep would have been😔 Do we get something diffrent skz instead or just in general something kpop?
If the STAYS would really like me to watch the Stray Kids episode, I'm more than happy to do that! Or swap in one of the big Stray Kids long form requests. I'll bring this over to the Discord thread.
Congrats on how well the channels doing Tim! So glad to be here ☺️
Thanks for being here with me Sandra! 🙏
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