Ian Danskin

hey team! PROGRESS REPORT next video is the public quantifica post that also functions as a Patreon relaunch. I'm listing it here as 20% because that's usually what is meant by "script locked, no audio or video editing has commenced." that may not be fully accurate in this case, as these videos tend

SUP NERDS PROGRESS REPORT John Wick: With the Animals is officially live! Ad revenue is going in escrow while YouTube determined whether or not I have to split it with MASTER BOOT RECORD for using their song in the intro, but the more aggressive claim from Lionsgate was released pretty quickly once

We are BACK, my children. PROGRESS REPORT As of yesterday, the final script revisions on John Wick: With the Animals are complete. Revisions were more intensive than usual, as I wrote this in chunks similar to a guide to flaming out with no real plan for what order things were gonna go in. But this

Hey team, Happy December. Another month, and merrily do we roll along. PROGRESS REPORT Five more chunks of A Guide to Flaming Out have been released: here, here, here, here, and here. Also have a more accurate gauge of its scope: unless I add something, it looks like a total of 15 chunks, 13 of whic

Hey team, A proper update, after some time. Hope you are well. PROGRESS REPORT I buried the lede on this: I have officially decided I am not quitting YouTube. The current project is A Guide to Flaming Out, the first chunk of which is posted here. I have interrogated my relationship to work and deter

hey team, here is this month's quantifica. keeping it brief again, still dealing with a lot. there will be a video this month, and it will... well, not exactly explain things but at least illuminate you a little. not sure when/if it will be public, it will start as an exclusive and we'll go from the

hey team, I've had a personal crisis this week so I'ma keep this brief. here's this month's quantifica. -I

Hey team! Time to get digested monthily again. PROGRESS REPORT Did stuff this month! The stuff sure was did. Regarding Debts: after spending a long-ass time troubleshooting with a tech-savvy friend, we finally regained access to my IRS account and have paid off 3 of the 4 overdue years of tax debt.

Hey team! Here's your monthly digest of what's going on in Danskinland. PROGRESS REPORT I continue to be on sabbatical, but I'ma write in my updates here. First, regarding debts: the IRS is making it exceptionally difficult to actually give them them money I owe, what with paperwork still not in the

Hey team. Lotta new faces here, so lemme get you up to speed: quantifica is my monthly update where I crunch numbers/data for my various ridiculous, patron-exclusive projects. You can check out the last year-and-change of updates with the quantifica tag. This year's projects were outlined in this vi

Hey team! Truly exhausting month where I packed up my life and moved out of Boston, the city I've made my home for the last 13 years. About 115% of my energy went into pulling this feat off, which left none-and-then-some left over for video work. So this is gonna be a lean update! Been in the new pl

Hey team! First on-time quantifica of the year. Huzzah! Champagne! Let's start with a little housekeeping: Since posting the 2025 video, I've gone back and expanded the January and February quantifica posts to reflect the full scope of relevant projects. This includes aggregated reviews for games an

Hey team! Video announcing this year's projects is still in production. Did not want to belate February's post any longer, so here it is. Apologies for more information with still no context! Let's call it "dramatic tension." Direct link to minimix here. [UPDATED AND EXPANDED 3/24/2025] PROGRESS REP

Hey team! Here's the much-belated quantifica for January. I'm working on a video announcing this year's quantifica projects, but I didn't wanna wait any longer on getting January off to you, so you're getting this context-free - though you can investigate further here, here, and here. [UPDATED AND E

hey team! happy new year. this is the final installment of this weird project I did for 2024. I'll give you the updates, some new data, some reflections, and some recommendations. END-OF-YEAR FINANCIALS we hit our target. a video that was planned for December is waylaid until next week by a winter c

Hey team. We are closing in on the end of the year. Here are the stats for November! FINANCIALS We just barely fell short of target this month, as the Patreon continues to diverge from target while AdSense shores up the difference. We are about 12.5% ahead of schedule for the year, so being 5% below

Hey team. Little late on this, for obvious reasons. It's a short one. FINANCIALS We here see the results of a new TARP in September plus the continued effect of How to Radicalize a Normie no longer being age-gated. 230% over target in ad revenue! Despite being way below target on Patreon - a widenin

Hey team! Here's your update for September VIEWS This month I released Why Don't You Respond to Criticism?, which has performed quite well! Didn't mana-track this one very closely, so I decided to look at the view stats and compare with previous videos. These are the numbers for first 48 hours of th

Hey team! FIRST SOME HOUSEKEEPING Patreon is making two changes in the coming months, so I'm letting you know how I'll be managing them. Change #1: they are switching to mandatory subscription billing rather than monthly billing. All this means for you is that you will get charged on the monthaversa

Hey team. Life has been very LIFE this month, but we carry on. The numbers are gonna paint one story, but the text will paint another, so read on if you want! DABBLES I have spent fully half of July out of state, and a good chunk of it out of the country, so the work has been varied and hard to trac

Hey team! This one is a mixed bag, but a mixed bag is an improvement on two months of bummers! MANA Here we have the full stats on my "quickie weekend video" that took over two months and is bombing in views! I'ma confess: I have regrets, but I like the video, and I'm glad I made it. Wish it had gon

Hey team. Last month I said "this one's a bit less fun." Wish I could say this month is different. MANA This does not track the entirety of List of Songs that Signify "Smart Music" as the video is not technically done yet. There are a few revisions to make - a bit of audio leveling, a version of Spi

Hey team. This one's a bit less fun. BURNOUT There was no release this month, and work was sporadic and scattershot. Got another cold, had a lot of travel, and dealt with burnout from the Cornetto video. Having a bit of the Doing Too Much, but don't have anything I can reasonably stop doing, so I'm

Hey team! April comes for us all. Let's look at the numbers. MANA This is the breakdown for the entirety of Everyone But Me Is Wrong About The Cornetto Trilogy, including the work done last month. I'ma be honest: I did not go about this one wisely. Editing and Illustration fall under the same wedge

Hey team! Happy March! Let's crunch-a da numbers. MANA There was no release this month, which is (understandably) less than I wanted. I'm working on a video on Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy, and, despite having written a first draft literal years ago, I got stuck in the writing. Finally pushed thr

Hey team! This is quantifica, my new, monthly number-crunch. There will be another component coming in a day or two. For now: let's look at the stats. MANAHOURS This month I released The Reverse Gish Gallop. Production-wise, the illustrations took the lion's share of the hours (as is common for Alt-