What happened to Drift0r? His stuff used to be good...

Late at night, tired, angry, fuck it.. lets answer some questions!

I reused that one video clip four times. I thought it was twice but apparently the lack of sleep has caught with me in a big way. That is my bad. I was desperately low on gameplay and running on a short time limit. Guess I goofed.

Typically I do a few videos for a game reveal but this time was different. I was one of a very few people who got an 8 hour BO3 briefing and playtest. Do you have any idea how much info was in that briefing? I took notes as fast as I could and still lost a lot of it. I realized immediately that this would encompass more videos than usual.

On top of this I talked to some of the other YouTubers on the way out. Everyone I talked to was planning a boatload of videos. I talked about releasing 1-2 per day, maybe a max of 4 on the first day and was laughed at. Not mockingly or hatefully, more like "nope, not a good idea". Then it hit me, this was an arms race. Literally a video arms race. Nash equilibrium in full effect. Prisoners dilemma but with videos. It was rush out a shitload of videos at once or be left in the dust. I was also told it would make more money; friendly advice. That is important when you have bills to pay and other issues which I'll get to in a bit.

I got home and made 22 videos as fast as I could. 8 for launch day, and 4 for the following days. I had about 36 hours to get this done in time. I get the gameplay that I can and rely on a friend for the rest. I tried my best to keep up the content quality, analysis quality, and gameplay quality. Some gameplays were not the right length for the video so I did some mix and matching. That one KSG clip was pretty good so I guess I used it too many times. Looks like I fucked it up. On a more critical note, many of the videos for the first few days were 8-12 minutes and in no way skimping on quality. They trailed off as a bit as I worked on. Oh well, I got the videos done and have a day or two off.

Just finished another 10 videos tonight (for the next few days) and more to work on tomorrow. But who cares? Everybody has work to do? Doesn't fucking matter how much or little as long as it gets done right. I think these are good but I slept 3 hours so how the fuck do I know? Will figure it out in the morning.

The advice I was given is correct. For my short videos views went up like 5x and subs went up like 3x. How? No idea. Clearly it is working somehow.

Got some health issues that I am working on too. Not great stuff and not something I want to talk about on reddit. Just suffice to say my health is poor. I don't get shit done most days. The days I can, I do to my max. Quality usually dips near the end of the day. Doesn't matter though, quality is what matters. Less than 1% of the audience will know or care about my personal life and that 1% is in the wrong for doing so. When you go to a move and it is a trainwreck you don't think "Well, I'll still support that person because they tried hard but were held back by whatever." Nope. You say "Shit sucked. Lets go home and forget about it."

In the last week my videos took decline in quality. "Nosedive", "shitpile", and other stuff that I see here or on Twitter is not accurate. I would guess about a 25% drop due to insane BO3 rush week and intel arms race with others. Could be worse. I still think they are better than most but I can't accurately judge that. As for videos being crap since BO2, I'm going to be honest, you have no idea what you are talking about. Compare BO2 In Depth videos to Ghosts (minus the last 5 or 6 short ones) or to AW In Depth. Quality is still VERY high on most topics and base weapon reviews. Some In Depths are short because the topic is simple. I can't and don't care to do 15 minute guides on weapon variants that in some cases are minimally different. People DEMAND to see more weapon variant In Depth episodes so I make them. It doesn't take that long to explain the differences and in that case concise should be enough. Overall quality seems high from and outside perspective though. Good guides, a few goofy videos, several personal / philosphical ones, painstaking SBMM research which apparently is all made up and I was paid to do because Illuminaty confirmed, and livestreams. No idea what kind of standards were set but it seems impossible to reach them right now.

fuck do I ever need to sleep

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