He’s worried about losing subs, Patreon $, ad revenues, etc. he’s in a fight spot I’m sure that’s why he’s taking this all on himself. I would agree that he’s pushing himself too hard with this one.
Finding people who take their work tasks seriously and do what they say they will do is HARD. Most folks out there just aren't wired that way. Sad, but that is the way it is.
BTW, I doubt anyone cares exactly when this content is published. YT isn't TV where we get new episodes weekly at a certain time. This isn't a TV show. This is something FAR greater. It's magnificent. We're grateful. Enjoy Christmas and New Year and we'll see your work whenever it is you publish.
That is not true. TH-cam cares, A LOT, about the regular steadyness of the release of your video. You cant be releasing 1 video every week for a year, and then decide to only release 2 videos per month. They are a lot of data on this and Tik has access to all the data within his TH-cam Studio access. As with any TH-camr. and when I say, YT cares, I mean, the people watching youtube AND the algo.
In fact, any kind of disappointment might be sort of toxic for overall success if you run a TH-cam channel. So I absolutely do understand the concern. 😢
Tik, you’re one of the best historians on TH-cam. Please don’t stress out and burnout due to a lazy artist ripping you off. It’s Christmas and you should rest with your family. Your longtime supporters will always have your back. +1 new patreon. And stop beating yourself up.
Our head of sales had mantra: 1. Take care of yourself 2. Take care of your family 3. Take care of your customer On the long run, your customers will be better served with happy and supported TIK. I would rather get video in 2 weeks than know you neglected yourself, your family and friends to give us a video now.
The impression I get is that he will feel happier knowing it is done under the circumstances, rather than bearing it through the holidays. Christmas comes every year, what Tik is doing must be done his way.
As a guy who had a heart attack (2 years ago at 50) and lost a valued friend and colleague recently: take care of your self first. You're no good to anyone if you go down.
I`m so sorry...So "they" are reason why I`ve waited Battle Storm so long...Full support for you TIK, and plz don`t be upset and try to relax ,,,You have all our support !!!👍
4:07 TIK please don't cancel seeing your friends and family for our sakes man. At the end of the day we are just your viewers. If your sick or ill none of us will be there for you. Our relationship is transactional. You provide content we desire and we watch and sponsor you. Please do not sacrifice your personal life for mere strangers.
If he is anything like me it will be more painful to see the family and friends knowing I could be sorting it out. Not saying it’s a good thing but I think I get why he’s doing it.
@showbuster Not really if your an OG fan you would know TIK has crashed before due to overworking and has gone through work based depression. Even if he was lying nobody on history tube looks at the economics of ww2. Everyone is obsessed with tanks which is fun but it's not ground breaking. I watch TIk for his austrian view on ww2.
The ad revenue during holidays is the highest of the year and after its at the lowest, his financial situation might require it, and the health of his chanel might depend on him uploading this video, not only due to the patreons but due to how youtube treats chanels, our relationship is transactional, its a job for him, he is trying to maintain his job, and although i think he should seek other ways to avoid burnout and ways to lessen his workload this video might be a necesary evil for him to keep doing what he does, his personal life will sadly probably suffer either way and i wish him the best
Devastating news, but please don't let this setback get you down. I'll continue to be a financial backer of your channel, as the facts are more important than the visuals. Best wishes for the season, despite the circumstances.
Please spend Christmas with your family TIK. You're angry, you want to deal with the problem, but you'll burn out and alienate loved ones if you dont spend this time with them. In fact, I'm heading to Patreon to sign up right now. Merry Christmas TIK.
Come on TIK. You haven't cancelled Christmas for the sake of your patreons. You've cancelled Christmas because you're a workaholic who can't accept defeat. This comment is both a compliment and a diagnosis. Merry Yule to you TIK. you'll be doing what you were meant to be doing. Sacrificing your soul to the work of your legacy. I salute you! and Merry Yule to everybody watching TIK and especially to his patreons.
TIK you are a hero doing this, but please don’t push beyond your limits on our part. I’m sorry to hear about this editor letting you down like this but beware of burning out, I’d rather you take care of your health (mental and physical) than try to rush things for us! Have watched Gazala and Tobruk multiple times already and have been satisfied with that.
Came here after watching a Drachinifel video. He uses animations sparsely but the information is excellent and very well presented, as is yours. I wouldn't concern too much about the graphics. As long as you have a general map on the screen so we can follow the movements, it's all good. Spend some time with people you love. Merry Christmas!
So the TLDR is the editor was too distracted by other activities to do the commission he was paid for, then demanded more despite both of you agreeing on the contract. And left you hanging over the next North Africa Battlestorm till mid-December. As for the animation, you may have to go back to your Operation Compass/Rommel's first offensive as the best frame of reference you have. Hopefully you haven't rusted in complacency. I think you can trim some of the workload such as having the speech bubble come to appear from transparency 0% to 100% rather than having the "plant growing" style of the bubble. You can also just replace the longer animation movement of division (of long distance) with arrows pointing to where they'll go before copypasting the same division to the end location and removing the origin point for the next frame. Again, the arrows can come through transparency 0 to 100. You don't need to do this for relatively shorter distances in terms of the screen (You have done so since Operation Market Garden), but it is a suggestion nonetheless I know if this may sound basic or heavy cuts (or whatever adjective that I can't think of), but you'll have to be creative to find what parts can be shortened, what parts can be replaced outright and what parts can be kept. Innovation of the right processes comes from the adversity of the challenge and I hope you can find them.
There's this YT channel called "schwerpunkt". It's a guy who everyday year after year produces talks on everything in Western history. Let me check, does he really do everything in Western history? Yes, he does indeed do everything in Western history. If you wanna know something about a Spanish bishop in Roman times, he's your go-to-guy!
@@bjorntorlarsson made a quick check to his channel, clicked on 10 of his videos to check the description and comments. He lists zero sources, which is always not a good sign for someone producing historical content. Of course I'm still going to try and watch his vids fully, and maybe he cites sources on the video itself. But still, listing sources in descriptions or comments is standard.
@tyvamakes5226 You know, you could also try adding Operation Biting and Operation Battleaxe to the mix. Both are much more 'modern' than the examples you gave and are much more consistent
@@bjorntorlarsson Since when has TIK made an Operation Toy video? I was referring to the editing quality of the Biting Battlestorm and Battleaxe battlestorm videos. So I'm not sure what you're trying to convey here.
You are a microcosm of all successful business people. You get the job done, even when others let you down. We will enjoy your upcoming video all the more since you explained what you had to do to produce it. btw. Your Battlestorm Stalingrad lives in my mind forever, because I can picture myself the way it was, fighting through industrial rubble and snowdrifts on barren lands, having the view of the Soviets engaged in maybe the greatest military triumph of all time, and the Germans being shocked by the defeat. Don't become distressed by this setback, because it is but a blip in the magnificent work you've done, and the decades more of work you will do educating new generations in the future and the greatest war in history, they would otherwise not experience.
"You're not here for the fancy animations, you're here for the content." Let the congregation say "amen". Most of us have always been drawn to this channel by the historical analysis. I can sympathize with TIK's situation; I once had a supplier blackmail me in exactly this fashion. There was little recourse for me except to bad-mouth the supplier with every business contact I had until his business crashed and burned a few years later. The words of Khan Noonian Singh are accurate: "Revenge is a dish best served cold. And it is very cold in Space."
It's also worth considering that, later, once you've got your channel on track, you can commission a new editor/animator once you've got your affairs back in order, to redo the animations for the video, and post it as an updated version!
@@shdwbnndbyyt That's always a bullsh!t negotiation ploy. Ask why? Materials? Ok, i will order and store here where I control them, etc. Get on your schedule? Here is a copy of my bank account showing full funding. Etc.
thank you for your honesty. Although I found your animation exciting to see the units move in sync with your commentary, it was/is your commentary and details what is important because you always provided insight I had not read or experienced. HANG IN THERE!
I'm sorry this happened to you. Hope things will be ok for you. Please do reach out if I can help you with any advice animation-wise. You know how to reach me. Happy and healthy 2025 - hope things will look up for you!
Take your time, don’t cancel Christmas, get it done ASAP after Christmas. I think less animations will probably be fine as long as the maps are decent. Take care TIK, and have a Merry Christmas!
Honestly TIK, you're one of the hardest working people on YT. Thank you for everything you do. Merry Christmas and make sure you spend some time with your family.
TIK, if you are burned out due to unknown factors, why not focus on another topic for now? It really might just be the fact that we have been covering WW2 for 8 years. Other than WW2, German ideology, et cetera. When you forayed into the history of philosophy, it was a joy to watch. If you care about wars, you could focus on anything in the 19th or 20th century, et cetera. Edit: Also, please take Christmas off. I think your burnout is from constantly covering evil, violent, horrible, malicious ideologies and battles since 2017. You can relax, take a break from producing videos as if you are on a factory assembly line, and enjoy newer topics that you are not necessarily an authority in. Why not make videos about positive topics? I know we come to you for your extensive insights into WW2, but any human would be depressed reading about the senseless loss of life and humanity for so long.
Pardon me, but I think you are taking the wrong lesson from this. One of the things i learned as building contractor (residental) is that you shouldn't rely on any single subcontractor for all your work. It's usually best to work with a few different folks on various projects. I alternate between 2 different plumbers despite the fact that one of them is vastly superior to the other. If anything happens to one of them or the relationship sours for whatever reason, my projects wont be substantially delayed. concentrating your operations will simply limit your growth potential.
While generally I agree with you, and I've tried to apply that same principle as much as I could myself and even had the same thought cross my mind while listening to this video - I gotta say I understand how TIK had reached that conclusion. Not trying to be posh, but there's a problem in the more "creative" and "aesthetic" fields where it's significantly harder to apply this principle because different people have different eye and touch. With some matters it's easier, with others it's harder. I come from, and left, such a field and it's a real problem for everyone involved.
TIK's battlestorms are a very specific type of content. I suspect the editor isn't going to know how to do it properly until TIK has "trained" them. And training multiple people might not be worth it.
Add me to the "I can wait" column. Don't work over Christmas, take a breath, step back, sleep.. take care of yourself. Tank stuff and non-tank stuff is all great. This year's content has been awesome as always.
TIK, it's Christmas mate. Family and friends always come first over work. Have time off and enjoy your family. We want you to have a good life and enjoy it all that family and friends brings. Please look after yourself
Moral of the story, if you want something done properly you have to do it yourself! Appreciate your work, you are good at what you do! Merry Christmas and best wishes for a successful and prosperous new year.
Dude! Don't cancel your time to spend with friends and family for Christmas. We can wait. Just go and have fun and after the New Year, you can complete the Battlestorm video
I'm shocked at all the comments telling TIK what is best for HIM, why don't you keep your opinion to yourself? TIK knows what is best for himself. Instead of putting pressure on him to go engage in his personal life (BTW we barely know anything about his personal life), like 90% of the comments on here, why don't you just accept his decision and support it?
@twig4590 because I want him to relax so he can restart the series with more energy l. He was constantly complaining about the long hours and lack of sleep he endured when doing the Stalingrad battlestorm series. Now you want him to finish the series at a time when he is supposed to be family and friends or just chill just to satisfy selfish and sadistic desires to watch a series on ppl killing each other?
TIK, your health and peace of mind is more valuable than a video timeline. May I suggest you visit with your family and friends during the Christmas season? That may be the thing to get you over the burnout or to help elevate it. Your health comes first because if you don’t have your health, you really have lower life quality.
I feel like this is what everyone is struggling with lately. Things are so tight, no time to relax. Hope you get through the burn out. When I get bored or burned out at work, I tell myself that discouragement is from the enemy. Don't listen to the Tokyo Rose in my head, and keep marching.
hey TIK. you're simply great. The battlestorm series is a gorgeous example of "digital historian" works and in this regard you truly made masterpieces. I would like to find time to rewatch it because they're exceptionally worth it. Don't stress, take it easy and rest. Many many thanks
The body of work that makes up this channel is worthy of every penny we (his viewers) can scrape together and more. TIK is still getting my (small) monthly Subscribestar money, and my gratitude! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas TIK You handle things exactly as you see fit. I have nothing but the utmost respect for you and am grateful to have access to content you create.
I love watching your content. Please take care of yourself, your mental and physical health, and touchbase with your friends and family. No video is worth skipping it. I'll watch whatever video you publish, whenever you publish it.
Your work is better then anything I’ve seen You are a master historian. Please don’t give up. You have my full support and respect. I wish there were more like you. I love your work .
Merry Christmas TIK. Having to juggle between health, family, and livelihood is hard enough without a knife stuck in your back by a fellow content creator. Please take care of yourself.
Remember to backup your work. We do not want you to lose it after finishing --- that would be terrible. Anyway, take Christmas off another day will not make a difference.
If animation means the actual a smooth motion of units moving you don’t need those. Battlestorm is interesting because we can say “that’s where the unit was, then it was there, then…” if it was just picture, picture, picture we’d still get all the interesting information. In five years someone’s gonna feed your videos into an AI and animations will be movies, but you’ll be the source material. We assumed this was your passion project so kudos on inspiring a(your) contractor to do the same Happy Christmas
Family and friends should come first as you never know when you might lose one of them. We've waited this long and can surely wait a bit longer. Take care, Merry Christmas and may the New Year be kinder to you. Cheers
Enjoy your Christmas! I personally don't care about the animations. I think most people will be fine with skipping them. It is the content that matters. I think the hours spent on animations can be spent better elsewhere (rest, family, friends, living), especially if it means happier, healthier TiK!
Don't beat yourself up mate. A business relationship has soured, sometimes that can't be helped. I'm sure this will be a learning experience and you'll take things from it in how you'll make arrangements with others to cover yourself and build resilience into your publishing schedule. Look after yourself. Enjoy your Christmas and come back afterwards with a fresh head.
TIK, i am one of your patreons. I ask of you to forgo the videos for now and focus on your holiday. At this point, there is no "rush", for me at least.
I was let down by my flesh and blood this holiday season in a really deep and painful way that will never go away. It is difficult for me to control and observe my rage and disgust over the betrayal, but I'm sure my sharp emotions will soften with time. "Most everything can be forgiven, and with what is left we'll have to live." I hope things pick up for both of us in the coming year.
As a fellow content creator, I feel your pain, just differently. We build our channels to make us a living a people and have zero respect for us and our work sometimes. Keep up the good fight and I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers.
There is a huge number of warhammer lore youtubers that just put out slideshow videos with audio over it, and it still works.... considering the situation I don't think missing animations would be a deal-breaker for most of the audience here who want to learn about history not lines move on maps.
I wont surger coat it. I think your animations are great! and they really hooked me on your videos. I know that sounds childish but it's true. I hope that in the future you dont slash them in half. My 2 cents is you should take your time bud, and include animations. Your research is grade A. PS: You & your team have a nice Christmas Tik. 🙂
TIK, I watch your channel to get the information and I always enjoy the content you present, tanks or not. Try and enjoy the holidays, and get the Battlestorms out when you can.
Take it easy mate, please. The world needs many more years of TIK. To be honest, I only listen to your videos, like with most things on YT. Merry Christmas
What a guy, you are such a respectable person, I would 100% lessen the amount of animation, you aren't the history Channel or the BBC, I know most of us would rather you get us the quality historical analysis you give then have more animations, I don't even watch the videos anyways, I play them in the background and glance at them to understand how things have changed visually. God bless you glorious bastard
I honestly Love just listening to Battlestorm videos, I do get lost in maps easily, but the tale of specific units and specific locations is why I keep listening. So no need for fancy animations, basic maps are just fine. It's your story telling that is the true value here!
I really love your channel. As someone who had a burnout years ago for an entire year I can tell you something that works. Meat, fish, eggs, dairy and salt. Crazy as it sounds my mental state is better now then it has ever been and much more motivation as well. It also cured my arthritis within 5 days as well as irretable bowel syndrome.
Good on ya for knuckling down and getting it done. I'm quite familiar with the frustrations involved in waiting on someone else who repeatedly refuses to hold up their side of the artistic couch while getting it up the stairs.
You have earned the right to not have to worry about this. The next few days is totally unimportant; these are works of art that will live for many years.
Good luck Tik and you should priorities yourself and take time with your family and friends. Good luck on the videos and don't forget we can always wait a bit more time foe your great videos. Merry Christmas and good luck in the immediate future.
Merry Xmas TIK! MEN DONT CANCEL XMAS! We can wait! That is no fare to you or your family! I wish you a Merry xmas and a 2025 with the New battlestorm content.
Give an AI animation generator a crack at some of the animations. Depending on the bot, the detail of your specification and how you word it, they can be pretty good and rendered in no time at all.
As one of your long time Patreon supporters, I would like to point out that one of the benefits of being your own boss is that you can make decisions that employees cannot. Managing employees can be a struggle, but don't let it bring you down. It just means you haven't found the right staff yet. I will continue to support your effort, regardless of the direction you go with animations or stills. I just want you to be healthy so you can continue to bring us valuable content.
You are a warrior!! Your battlestorm series are the best content on the internet! Your old graphics were good enough anyway. In the end we like the facts and the truth about battles. Keep up the good work!!!!
Tanks for the update Tik. Your content is worth the wait. I would say more, but alas, I farmed out extended comments to a bot who has failed to produce.
TIK, Family and friends come first. We can wait a week or two. We're all human. Merry Christmas!
Agreed
Definitely agree.
Agreed. Focus on your family and health. History can wait-- after all, it's history... Merry Christmas!
He’s worried about losing subs, Patreon $, ad revenues, etc. he’s in a fight spot I’m sure that’s why he’s taking this all on himself. I would agree that he’s pushing himself too hard with this one.
Finding people who take their work tasks seriously and do what they say they will do is HARD. Most folks out there just aren't wired that way. Sad, but that is the way it is.
TIK, don't wreck your health. get fresh air, see friends. Your work speaks for itself regardless of animations
Just take a few days off, completely, the video can wait for another week...
You're so right. And TIK is right - that we're here for the content, not for the animations.
Take your time Tik, we will survive,
Was the pun intended?
The man is feeling every second. I hope he doesn't read this thread.
Mad props to you Tik. But please do spend some time with your family and friends. You deserve it.
BTW, I doubt anyone cares exactly when this content is published. YT isn't TV where we get new episodes weekly at a certain time. This isn't a TV show. This is something FAR greater. It's magnificent. We're grateful. Enjoy Christmas and New Year and we'll see your work whenever it is you publish.
That is not true. TH-cam cares, A LOT, about the regular steadyness of the release of your video. You cant be releasing 1 video every week for a year, and then decide to only release 2 videos per month. They are a lot of data on this and Tik has access to all the data within his TH-cam Studio access. As with any TH-camr.
and when I say, YT cares, I mean, the people watching youtube AND the algo.
+1
Possibly the most profound "BTW" comments I have ever read.
In fact, any kind of disappointment might be sort of toxic for overall success if you run a TH-cam channel. So I absolutely do understand the concern. 😢
Tik, you’re one of the best historians on TH-cam. Please don’t stress out and burnout due to a lazy artist ripping you off. It’s Christmas and you should rest with your family.
Your longtime supporters will always have your back.
+1 new patreon.
And stop beating yourself up.
Our head of sales had mantra:
1. Take care of yourself
2. Take care of your family
3. Take care of your customer
On the long run, your customers will be better served with happy and supported TIK. I would rather get video in 2 weeks than know you neglected yourself, your family and friends to give us a video now.
The impression I get is that he will feel happier knowing it is done under the circumstances, rather than bearing it through the holidays. Christmas comes every year, what Tik is doing must be done his way.
5. Tell customer to f a c k off.
As a guy who had a heart attack (2 years ago at 50) and lost a valued friend and colleague recently: take care of your self first. You're no good to anyone if you go down.
Don't cancel your holidays. That would be my advice. Pick it up after christmas bro!
yes, it's already late. another day or two doesn't mean anything.
probably the biggest risk he has here is that a rushed production often leads to a bad outcome
It's too late I've told "Tiny Tim" that Christmas is cancelled
He's probably working on it as we speak lol
I`m so sorry...So "they" are reason why I`ve waited Battle Storm so long...Full support for you TIK, and plz don`t be upset and try to relax ,,,You have all our support !!!👍
Long time Patreon member here. Keep up the good work and I am not going anywhere. Do NOT burn out.
Your work is worth the wait. Take care of yourself too. Happy holidays.
4:07 TIK please don't cancel seeing your friends and family for our sakes man. At the end of the day we are just your viewers. If your sick or ill none of us will be there for you. Our relationship is transactional. You provide content we desire and we watch and sponsor you. Please do not sacrifice your personal life for mere strangers.
If he is anything like me it will be more painful to see the family and friends knowing I could be sorting it out. Not saying it’s a good thing but I think I get why he’s doing it.
He is not serious bro, he just sais that so we donate money lol isnt it obvious?
@showbuster Not really if your an OG fan you would know TIK has crashed before due to overworking and has gone through work based depression. Even if he was lying nobody on history tube looks at the economics of ww2. Everyone is obsessed with tanks which is fun but it's not ground breaking. I watch TIk for his austrian view on ww2.
The ad revenue during holidays is the highest of the year and after its at the lowest, his financial situation might require it, and the health of his chanel might depend on him uploading this video, not only due to the patreons but due to how youtube treats chanels, our relationship is transactional, its a job for him, he is trying to maintain his job, and although i think he should seek other ways to avoid burnout and ways to lessen his workload this video might be a necesary evil for him to keep doing what he does, his personal life will sadly probably suffer either way and i wish him the best
@@bassamalfayeed1384 hey me too I loved Austrians during WW2 ^_^
Tik you do a great job and we appreciate you. Pace yourself. We are thrilled with your content.
Devastating news, but please don't let this setback get you down. I'll continue to be a financial backer of your channel, as the facts are more important than the visuals. Best wishes for the season, despite the circumstances.
Please spend Christmas with your family TIK. You're angry, you want to deal with the problem, but you'll burn out and alienate loved ones if you dont spend this time with them. In fact, I'm heading to Patreon to sign up right now. Merry Christmas TIK.
Come on TIK. You haven't cancelled Christmas for the sake of your patreons. You've cancelled Christmas because you're a workaholic who can't accept defeat.
This comment is both a compliment and a diagnosis.
Merry Yule to you TIK. you'll be doing what you were meant to be doing. Sacrificing your soul to the work of your legacy. I salute you!
and Merry Yule to everybody watching TIK and especially to his patreons.
Based TIK
Yeah. I personally find Christmas boring. Great for kids and those with kids. For those of us who are single not so great.
TIK you are a hero doing this, but please don’t push beyond your limits on our part. I’m sorry to hear about this editor letting you down like this but beware of burning out, I’d rather you take care of your health (mental and physical) than try to rush things for us! Have watched Gazala and Tobruk multiple times already and have been satisfied with that.
No, TiK. Enjoy your Christmas. I'd rather wait than see you work yourself to a frazzle. Happy Christmas. Cheers from Tennessee
totally agree with you hillbilly,TIK SHOULD enjoy xmas after a year long work full of troubles,hence he deserves it
Came here after watching a Drachinifel video. He uses animations sparsely but the information is excellent and very well presented, as is yours. I wouldn't concern too much about the graphics. As long as you have a general map on the screen so we can follow the movements, it's all good.
Spend some time with people you love. Merry Christmas!
So the TLDR is the editor was too distracted by other activities to do the commission he was paid for, then demanded more despite both of you agreeing on the contract. And left you hanging over the next North Africa Battlestorm till mid-December.
As for the animation, you may have to go back to your Operation Compass/Rommel's first offensive as the best frame of reference you have. Hopefully you haven't rusted in complacency.
I think you can trim some of the workload such as having the speech bubble come to appear from transparency 0% to 100% rather than having the "plant growing" style of the bubble.
You can also just replace the longer animation movement of division (of long distance) with arrows pointing to where they'll go before copypasting the same division to the end location and removing the origin point for the next frame. Again, the arrows can come through transparency 0 to 100. You don't need to do this for relatively shorter distances in terms of the screen (You have done so since Operation Market Garden), but it is a suggestion nonetheless
I know if this may sound basic or heavy cuts (or whatever adjective that I can't think of), but you'll have to be creative to find what parts can be shortened, what parts can be replaced outright and what parts can be kept. Innovation of the right processes comes from the adversity of the challenge and I hope you can find them.
There's this YT channel called "schwerpunkt". It's a guy who everyday year after year produces talks on everything in Western history. Let me check, does he really do everything in Western history? Yes, he does indeed do everything in Western history. If you wanna know something about a Spanish bishop in Roman times, he's your go-to-guy!
@@bjorntorlarsson made a quick check to his channel, clicked on 10 of his videos to check the description and comments. He lists zero sources, which is always not a good sign for someone producing historical content. Of course I'm still going to try and watch his vids fully, and maybe he cites sources on the video itself. But still, listing sources in descriptions or comments is standard.
@tyvamakes5226 You know, you could also try adding Operation Biting and Operation Battleaxe to the mix. Both are much more 'modern' than the examples you gave and are much more consistent
@@catalonia7102 Add Operation "Toy" to that. It was not an airborn landing operation. Mark Felton stuff for Christmas.
@@bjorntorlarsson Since when has TIK made an Operation Toy video? I was referring to the editing quality of the Biting Battlestorm and Battleaxe battlestorm videos. So I'm not sure what you're trying to convey here.
You are a microcosm of all successful business people. You get the job done, even when others let you down. We will enjoy your upcoming video all the more since you explained what you had to do to produce it. btw. Your Battlestorm Stalingrad lives in my mind forever, because I can picture myself the way it was, fighting through industrial rubble and snowdrifts on barren lands, having the view of the Soviets engaged in maybe the greatest military triumph of all time, and the Germans being shocked by the defeat. Don't become distressed by this setback, because it is but a blip in the magnificent work you've done, and the decades more of work you will do educating new generations in the future and the greatest war in history, they would otherwise not experience.
Merry Xmas TIK, don't feel bad, you are a source of endless knowledge and new insights.
"You're not here for the fancy animations, you're here for the content."
Let the congregation say "amen". Most of us have always been drawn to this channel by the historical analysis.
I can sympathize with TIK's situation; I once had a supplier blackmail me in exactly this fashion. There was little recourse for me except to bad-mouth the supplier with every business contact I had until his business crashed and burned a few years later. The words of Khan Noonian Singh are accurate: "Revenge is a dish best served cold. And it is very cold in Space."
Priority is your family. I doubt anyone ever died thinking about if they only worked on Battlestrom instead of celebrating Christmas 🎄
It's also worth considering that, later, once you've got your channel on track, you can commission a new editor/animator once you've got your affairs back in order, to redo the animations for the video, and post it as an updated version!
#1 Rule of dealing with contractors. Never pay in advance, only for work completed. Everything is written down and signed.
Sadly most contractors will not even do anything without at least 50% of the money upfront.
@@shdwbnndbyyt That's always a bullsh!t negotiation ploy. Ask why? Materials? Ok, i will order and store here where I control them, etc. Get on your schedule? Here is a copy of my bank account showing full funding. Etc.
Even better: do it yourself! 😃
Get cheaper and new people
and a boot firmly up their .....@@shdwbnndbyyt
thank you for your honesty. Although I found your animation exciting to see the units move in sync with your commentary, it was/is your commentary and details what is important because you always provided insight I had not read or experienced. HANG IN THERE!
I'm sorry this happened to you. Hope things will be ok for you. Please do reach out if I can help you with any advice animation-wise. You know how to reach me.
Happy and healthy 2025 - hope things will look up for you!
if you haven't already, better to reach out directly since you imply having direct comms available
Take your time, don’t cancel Christmas, get it done ASAP after Christmas. I think less animations will probably be fine as long as the maps are decent. Take care TIK, and have a Merry Christmas!
Honestly TIK, you're one of the hardest working people on YT. Thank you for everything you do. Merry Christmas and make sure you spend some time with your family.
TIK, if you are burned out due to unknown factors, why not focus on another topic for now? It really might just be the fact that we have been covering WW2 for 8 years. Other than WW2, German ideology, et cetera. When you forayed into the history of philosophy, it was a joy to watch. If you care about wars, you could focus on anything in the 19th or 20th century, et cetera. Edit: Also, please take Christmas off. I think your burnout is from constantly covering evil, violent, horrible, malicious ideologies and battles since 2017. You can relax, take a break from producing videos as if you are on a factory assembly line, and enjoy newer topics that you are not necessarily an authority in. Why not make videos about positive topics? I know we come to you for your extensive insights into WW2, but any human would be depressed reading about the senseless loss of life and humanity for so long.
This 1000%.
would love to see Tik cover some 19 Century stuff.
Pardon me, but I think you are taking the wrong lesson from this. One of the things i learned as building contractor (residental) is that you shouldn't rely on any single subcontractor for all your work. It's usually best to work with a few different folks on various projects. I alternate between 2 different plumbers despite the fact that one of them is vastly superior to the other. If anything happens to one of them or the relationship sours for whatever reason, my projects wont be substantially delayed. concentrating your operations will simply limit your growth potential.
While generally I agree with you, and I've tried to apply that same principle as much as I could myself and even had the same thought cross my mind while listening to this video - I gotta say I understand how TIK had reached that conclusion.
Not trying to be posh, but there's a problem in the more "creative" and "aesthetic" fields where it's significantly harder to apply this principle because different people have different eye and touch. With some matters it's easier, with others it's harder. I come from, and left, such a field and it's a real problem for everyone involved.
TIK's battlestorms are a very specific type of content. I suspect the editor isn't going to know how to do it properly until TIK has "trained" them. And training multiple people might not be worth it.
Add me to the "I can wait" column. Don't work over Christmas, take a breath, step back, sleep.. take care of yourself. Tank stuff and non-tank stuff is all great. This year's content has been awesome as always.
TIK, it's Christmas mate. Family and friends always come first over work. Have time off and enjoy your family. We want you to have a good life and enjoy it all that family and friends brings. Please look after yourself
Hang in there, TIK. Work doesn't burn us out, people do.
Moral of the story, if you want something done properly you have to do it yourself!
Appreciate your work, you are good at what you do!
Merry Christmas and best wishes for a successful and prosperous new year.
Dude! Don't cancel your time to spend with friends and family for Christmas. We can wait. Just go and have fun and after the New Year, you can complete the Battlestorm video
its more complicated than that. he's losing patreons, and without them he probably doesnt have a career.
I'm shocked at all the comments telling TIK what is best for HIM, why don't you keep your opinion to yourself? TIK knows what is best for himself. Instead of putting pressure on him to go engage in his personal life (BTW we barely know anything about his personal life), like 90% of the comments on here, why don't you just accept his decision and support it?
@twig4590 because I want him to relax so he can restart the series with more energy l. He was constantly complaining about the long hours and lack of sleep he endured when doing the Stalingrad battlestorm series. Now you want him to finish the series at a time when he is supposed to be family and friends or just chill just to satisfy selfish and sadistic desires to watch a series on ppl killing each other?
TIK, your health and peace of mind is more valuable than a video timeline. May I suggest you visit with your family and friends during the Christmas season? That may be the thing to get you over the burnout or to help elevate it.
Your health comes first because if you don’t have your health, you really have lower life quality.
Yes, take a break and please spend time with family
I feel like this is what everyone is struggling with lately. Things are so tight, no time to relax. Hope you get through the burn out. When I get bored or burned out at work, I tell myself that discouragement is from the enemy. Don't listen to the Tokyo Rose in my head, and keep marching.
God Bless you sir, take time for family and friends at Christmas. You're a legend, I blame you for nothing
Merry Christmas TIK, thanks for all the informative and thought provoking posts.
Dont sacrifice friends and family brother you have done well and learned many lessons this year
hey TIK. you're simply great. The battlestorm series is a gorgeous example of "digital historian" works and in this regard you truly made masterpieces. I would like to find time to rewatch it because they're exceptionally worth it. Don't stress, take it easy and rest. Many many thanks
The body of work that makes up this channel is worthy of every penny we (his viewers) can scrape together and more. TIK is still getting my (small) monthly Subscribestar money, and my gratitude! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas TIK
You handle things exactly as you see fit. I have nothing but the utmost respect for you and am grateful to have access to content you create.
I love watching your content. Please take care of yourself, your mental and physical health, and touchbase with your friends and family. No video is worth skipping it. I'll watch whatever video you publish, whenever you publish it.
Tik we don't mind the wait. We know the result will as always be exceptional!
Don’t beat yourself up, we are here for your content and narration…chill and relax👍
Your work is better then anything I’ve seen You are a master historian. Please don’t give up. You have my full support and respect. I wish there were more like you. I love your work .
Merry Christmas TIK. Having to juggle between health, family, and livelihood is hard enough without a knife stuck in your back by a fellow content creator. Please take care of yourself.
TIK, your videos and work are amazing, you've done nothing to apologise for. Keep up the amazing work that you do. Thank you.
Remember to backup your work. We do not want you to lose it after finishing --- that would be terrible. Anyway, take Christmas off another day will not make a difference.
You have my full support Tik. Love you and your content. ❤
If animation means the actual a smooth motion of units moving you don’t need those.
Battlestorm is interesting because we can say “that’s where the unit was, then it was there, then…” if it was just picture, picture, picture we’d still get all the interesting information.
In five years someone’s gonna feed your videos into an AI and animations will be movies, but you’ll be the source material.
We assumed this was your passion project so kudos on inspiring a(your) contractor to do the same
Happy Christmas
Family and friends should come first as you never know when you might lose one of them.
We've waited this long and can surely wait a bit longer.
Take care, Merry Christmas and may the New Year be kinder to you.
Cheers
Your hard work has been appreciated and sad this has happened. Merry Christmas to you and yours 🙏🎄🇬🇧
Enjoy your Christmas! I personally don't care about the animations. I think most people will be fine with skipping them. It is the content that matters. I think the hours spent on animations can be spent better elsewhere (rest, family, friends, living), especially if it means happier, healthier TiK!
Don't beat yourself up mate. A business relationship has soured, sometimes that can't be helped. I'm sure this will be a learning experience and you'll take things from it in how you'll make arrangements with others to cover yourself and build resilience into your publishing schedule.
Look after yourself. Enjoy your Christmas and come back afterwards with a fresh head.
Don't worry about it mate, your military history stuff is always excellent.
TIK, i am one of your patreons. I ask of you to forgo the videos for now and focus on your holiday. At this point, there is no "rush", for me at least.
That’s rough man, sorry that happened. Praying for you. Glad you’re conscientious but take care yourself as well. Have a blessed new year!
I don't know what this is about, but now I have beef with someone I've never met
For real, what kind of a scumbag backpedals on an agreement. In most US courts that action is suable.
I was let down by my flesh and blood this holiday season in a really deep and painful way that will never go away. It is difficult for me to control and observe my rage and disgust over the betrayal, but I'm sure my sharp emotions will soften with time. "Most everything can be forgiven, and with what is left we'll have to live." I hope things pick up for both of us in the coming year.
As a fellow content creator, I feel your pain, just differently. We build our channels to make us a living a people and have zero respect for us and our work sometimes. Keep up the good fight and I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers.
There is a huge number of warhammer lore youtubers that just put out slideshow videos with audio over it, and it still works.... considering the situation I don't think missing animations would be a deal-breaker for most of the audience here who want to learn about history not lines move on maps.
I wont surger coat it. I think your animations are great! and they really hooked me on your videos. I know that sounds childish but it's true. I hope that in the future you dont slash them in half. My 2 cents is you should take your time bud, and include animations. Your research is grade A.
PS: You & your team have a nice Christmas Tik. 🙂
TIK, I watch your channel to get the information and I always enjoy the content you present, tanks or not. Try and enjoy the holidays, and get the Battlestorms out when you can.
Merry Christmas TIK ❤🎄
i thoroughly enjoyed the brief disclaimer about vagueness at the start, all the best to ya and to your close ones!
Thanks for the update. Your content is worth waiting for. Make sure you get some rest.
Take it easy mate, please. The world needs many more years of TIK. To be honest, I only listen to your videos, like with most things on YT. Merry Christmas
Please man, just enjoy the holidays! Merry Christmas!
What a guy, you are such a respectable person, I would 100% lessen the amount of animation, you aren't the history Channel or the BBC, I know most of us would rather you get us the quality historical analysis you give then have more animations, I don't even watch the videos anyways, I play them in the background and glance at them to understand how things have changed visually. God bless you glorious bastard
Thank you TIK! You rock sir.
I honestly Love just listening to Battlestorm videos, I do get lost in maps easily, but the tale of specific units and specific locations is why I keep listening. So no need for fancy animations, basic maps are just fine. It's your story telling that is the true value here!
Sorry to hear that. Family and Friends come 1st. take it time.
TIK and History Hustle are the best history channels available on TH-cam .
I like the fresh, independent thinking of both of them.
Support for TIK from Serbia!
This is a good channel.
Sometimes we all have to wait for things, such is life.
Best wishes
Hang in there TIK, and Merry Christmas! Maybe grab a bottle of Port to enjoy while editing to keep with the festivities. 🎅🏻
I am supporting you on subscribestar and don't expect or want you to work over the Christmas period.
We can wait. The animation is just so iconic man…
I really love your channel. As someone who had a burnout years ago for an entire year I can tell you something that works. Meat, fish, eggs, dairy and salt. Crazy as it sounds my mental state is better now then it has ever been and much more motivation as well. It also cured my arthritis within 5 days as well as irretable bowel syndrome.
Good on ya for knuckling down and getting it done. I'm quite familiar with the frustrations involved in waiting on someone else who repeatedly refuses to hold up their side of the artistic couch while getting it up the stairs.
You have earned the right to not have to worry about this. The next few days is totally unimportant; these are works of art that will live for many years.
Good luck Tik and you should priorities yourself and take time with your family and friends. Good luck on the videos and don't forget we can always wait a bit more time foe your great videos. Merry Christmas and good luck in the immediate future.
Tik, I respect the hustle adapting to circumstances and letting us know, take your break later as you have planned.
Merry Xmas TIK! MEN DONT CANCEL XMAS! We can wait! That is no fare to you or your family! I wish you a Merry xmas and a 2025 with the New battlestorm content.
Tik, don't overwork yourself, enjoy the holidays. Merry Christmas, cheers
TIK, please. A day off for Christmas is way more important than a video being delayed an extra day. Don’t do it for ours sake
No stress. You do great work. I am very impressed with the work you have done. Merry Christmas, I will be a fan forever.
Give an AI animation generator a crack at some of the animations. Depending on the bot, the detail of your specification and how you word it, they can be pretty good and rendered in no time at all.
As one of your long time Patreon supporters, I would like to point out that one of the benefits of being your own boss is that you can make decisions that employees cannot. Managing employees can be a struggle, but don't let it bring you down. It just means you haven't found the right staff yet. I will continue to support your effort, regardless of the direction you go with animations or stills. I just want you to be healthy so you can continue to bring us valuable content.
My prayers for a good outcome
You are a warrior!! Your battlestorm series are the best content on the internet! Your old graphics were good enough anyway. In the end we like the facts and the truth about battles. Keep up the good work!!!!
Be well TIK. I like hearing from you every now and then even if its not the battle storm. I actually like the other content more.
Tanks for the update Tik. Your content is worth the wait.
I would say more, but alas, I farmed out extended comments to a bot who has failed to produce.
TIK, please enjoy Christmas with your family and friends! That is Way more important than a video! We can wait!
My friend...we will happily wait. you are one of a kind. Anthony