ive been here since your mlp days but it wasnt JUST the ponies i stayed for, it was the witty jokes and humor which is why i continue to enjoy your content because its consist through everything you make, thank you for maintaining creative integrity through everything you do
“Nobody is more critical of a creation than the creator,” is something I hear often, but the creator is critical of their work through a certain lens- they’re critical of their work in how it fails to line up with their vision in their head, rather than what they are actually showing and will show in the future. Your words about an editor are completely true, hell, even Stephen King, no matter what you feel about him, is a successful (and in my opinion, good) writer and in his own book On Writing, he states that the editor is perhaps the most important aspect of the creative process in which a creator goes through. In any case, I love your videos and I hope that you keep doing well in what you want to do!
Greg you have to live long enough to comment on TH-cams practices when it eventually falls apart, your knowledge and wisdom is to precious to internet history
Man. I love these black screen videos. I love all the writing videos you do, but the black screens usually talk about stuff you might otherwise shy away from. Since I listen to the podcast on other platforms, ever since the parts of episodes became public the algorithm favors showing me your stuff less, so when I saw one of these pop up I got very excited.
Informative video. It’s nice to hear some of the behind the scenes stuff. It’s interesting that you recommend that projects should be cheap because I’ve given similar advice in other areas, though I’ve always framed it more, “hope that what you’re doing does well, but plan around it not.” You just don’t want your life to fall apart just because a single thing you were trying didn’t work out.
Yeah, I draw a comic strip for mostly that reason. A 3 panel strip takes like 20 minutes from start to finish, so it barely impacts your day, but doing it every day will over time accumulate into a pretty large body of work.
I used to watch your vlogs (the ones where you'd just stand in front of the camera wearing a tie) and how you talked about MLP and TH-cam always gave me the impression of a Faustian bargain. Like, yes, making pony videos gave you access to this little coral reef. You got an instant audience, exposure, a relative lack of competition. Becoming the world's greates pony youtuber is easier than becoming the world's greatest filmmaker generally, so that gave you an early head start you might not otherwise have gotten. But then of course, the coral reef is also a prison. Once you've gotten a name for yourself doing pony videos, it's very difficult to break out of that and expand further without sabotaging your own base in the process. And the issue wasn't just creative stifling. As the years went on, and the pony fandom shrunk back into the underground, that coral reef started falling apart, with you still trapped inside. To mix metaphors, it's like you're William Carter from Chuck E Cheese, and you've been glued into the Rainbow Dash suit, but they forgot to put airholes. You've done a remarkable job continuing to innovate, though, and a big part of that has been necessity as the mother of invention. Like how the character of Rae and that whole world evolving out of you doing a Fallout playthrough as a way to put out high volumes of content quickly. Still, Rae and Elvis are both basically masks that Rainbow Dash wears so that the Hasbro police can't find her. TLDR: I think you sold your soul to Rainbow Dash.
I was just about to say the same thing you said. That in hindsight, when a work is finished, it's always easy to criticise. Seeing a cleaned up, finished product doesn't show you all the struggle and all the mess that had to be created to get to that finished product. It also doesn't show you how much the piece has improved over time. Maybe the first draft was much, MUCH worse, and they already made great strides in improving it, without losing all their progress. Imagine being proud of how far you've come, how much you've improved, and then people treat it like you just went with your first draft. That's not to say you shouldn't criticise media or anything. It's just important to keep in mind that making a meaningful piece of media is always harder than you expect it to be. And you don't know what it was like behind the scenes. Of course you should always strive to be even better, but don't make people feel like their growth wasn't good enough.
People need to learn not to be too defensive. You don’t have to flawless to judge flawed work. Anyone can notice that something is bad without being an expert. As long as you provide constructive criticism in a way that’s not rude then it’s fine. saying something is flawed is not rude. And I would say you provided good faith criticism in your video.
Yeah. Another nice thing about doing the podcasts is that people can follow it from whatever reader they like, and gradually it's been building up a small following. Having systems that tell people when my stuff goes online, instead of just not notifying them unless the company wants it, is a lot more healthy and stable for me than trying to figure out what works in a social media algorithm.
Having been watching for a long time, and having seen pretty much every kind of video you've made, here's my two cents. I've always enjoyed, but I've never felt like I ought to share. The comedy style of "clever and conversational" has never had me busting a gut. I've always just been quietly appreciative. It's kinda like how I've heard the show Archer described as "the funniest show that doesn't make me laugh," but at least that show looks good and has enough happening per minute to always be interesting.
The most I've wanted to share one of your videos was the FF6 LP episode that taught me what a heuristic was (which I've never been able to find again). Thing is I wanted to share for the educational quality, whereas most of your vids lean on realistic conversational humor, with small dips into interesting subjects. Conversations just don't make for shareable, viral content, and interesting subjects (especially in authentic conversations) have to be given full room to find an internet audience. You're burning the shareability candle at both ends, basically.
I once was watching the Fallout New Vegas series, and my dad heard it and asked "What is this? It sounds hysterical." His first thought was that I was playing a game that had that voice and that commentary, but it should show that there's extremely appealing content that just needs to be presented in the best way possible. RDP was really big, and those elements haven't disappeared. TH-cam may have changed, but you can take that as a pain or as a challenge. I hope you can see the tides and leap onto their crests at full capacity, or at least position yourself to enjoy a high tide somewhere. A smart guy who can make as many funny words as you oughta be able to ride at least a second trend. Even if it's just format and not fandom, don't just be a middling piece of the end of a current fad. I'm sure you could hold your nose long enough to pull an audience from TH-cam Shorts to keep your real passions going. Just fucking try it man. Trying it is all you've got now on yt.
Watching a amazing digital video on an amazing digital app that I downloaded from my amazing digital app store that I have installed on my amazing digital phone in my amazing digital house in my amazing digital plot of land in my amazing digital city in this amazing digital state in this amazing digital country that is situated on this amazing digital world ❤
I always enjoyed gym of the romantic journey, maybe that means I have bad taste but I often enjoy things in concept more than in execution, and I liked it regardless of its flaws because I could tell the spirit was there. Thats my issue with some shows like digital circus, I dont feel that soul. Monkey wrench I did, despite them having similar issues.
If I had to give some criticism to the DnD podcast in the spirit of the video, I'd say that the increased story length has hurt the format a bit. I've been listening to all of the episode on release day since you started this whole thing. Earlier stories were shorter and more stuff happened in every episode. I do love the deeper and longer stories you have been doing lately, but they don't fit the 15min episodes every 2 weeks formula so well. For dungeon man there were a few episodes were the plot almost didn't move at all. That's always a bit of a let down, since the wait between episodes is so long. I'd almost wait till a whole season is complete and listen to it then, but my curiosity does keep me coming back every episode. I don't know what can be done about it. I don't know if it makes sense to structure the story a bit more around the format or if that would ruin things. Maybe increasing episode length, but releasing them every 3 weeks? Idk. Everybody's Nevil and the food zone are my favorite seasons. Both have really good premises and get pretty wacky. Dungeon men is a bit slow, but the mystery helped pull me through. Still, it's amazing that this kind of content is just free out here on the internet. I love that series.
What’s the best episode in your opinion? I’ve listened to Big Bingo Bone Heist maybe ten times and it’s my favorite but I’m curious to hear other opinions.
@@Grahamster04 Bingo Bango Bone Heist is great. Along with Everybody's Neville, those are probably the ones I'd pick if I was going to share the show with someone who'd never seen it before. The Peanut Murder is also pretty great. For long time fans of Greg's work though, I feel like Pinball City is special. If you go into that one knowing it's basically the "How It Should Have Ended" for Children of the Sandler, you appreciate it on a whole other level
@@laturnich9507 Ooh, I've listened through Children of the Sandler and really enjoyed it. For some reason the bit where Iggy is telling Charon he was the only one who stayed in character makes me tear up every time lol. Thanks!
Closest I could find is a channel called Mumble Etc. which seems to at least feature some of Koa’s songs, assuming that’s the same Koa. I only assume so cause some of the songs seem to be pony based, so if that’s not the same Koa, that is one might coincidence Edit: just now saw Greg link to her bandcamp, at least now we have a good idea where to possibly find them on TH-cam
I watched the circus now and btw. there's a 4th episode out, so I guess the funding problem got solved (or at least temporarily solved). For Pomni I guess they had a so much fun making her despair that developing her character took a backseat. For episode 1 this was fine in my opinion because she was overwhelmed with everything and I enjoyed it a lot. Episode 2 was plain boring to me and Gummigoo did huge conclusion-jumping that felt really forced. In episode 3 I was like "Sooo.... what happened to wanting to find the exit? Are they just going on adventures now? Oh well, at least there's some exposition on Kinger and Caine." Tbh. while I agree with "show, don't tell", I have no problem cutting authors some slack up to a point, because sometimes you just want to say "this is like that for reason XYZ" just to get it out of the way and focus on the thing you want to do, like in Spy x Family where the politics aren't as important as having the family interact with each other. Regarding Jax: If I had to characterize him I wouldn't have said he's a griefer because to me he came across as the mysterious guy with the hidden agenda. Maybe he's just playing along with Caine, maybe he has a way of manipulating Caine into making the adventures more sinister, maybe he needs X amount of people to abstract to power a machine to get himself out of the circus? Maybe he wants to overthrow the dumb circus leader and really bring out the world's full potential instead of wasting time on childish adventures? Who knows. Btw. if I had to place Pomni into a random situation I would have her act as a problem solver. I wouldn't just characterize her as withdrawn. She may be weak and helpless but still tries to help where she can. So if I placed her into a harem anime (with lots of girls) I guess she would want to get to know and make friends with everyone, while if the harem was full of charming dudes I guess she would be a lot like the guy from Monster Musume. And I just realized that that guy is a blank slate for the viewers to identify with too. 🙂 But ok, placing Pomni in Inside Out, inside Rayla's head.... well, she's not the proactive type, so she'd get overshadowed by Anxiety and Joy I guess (who btw. overshadow all the other emotions too, for the most part). I mean, Pomni lets other people handle problems if they take the initiative, but pulls her weight if she's needed, so she mostly would just go along with everybody. So overall I think I could place her in random situations and figure out how she'd react, but I couldn't do it with Gangle because that character is just the victim of jokes and nothing else.
Funnily enough, I always kind of ended up comparing your series Romantic Journey to Rooster Teeth's Camp Camp. The idea is more or less similar, but instead of being taught by a mercenary they had this really dubious Campmaster called Cameron Campbell that would appear in a few episodes to establish the corruption behind the funding for the camp and other things. They also had this other adult character which was more good natured and meek called David. The kids kind of did their own thing instead of trying to be taught different kinds of killing methods or combat too. I feel like the main appeal for me when it comes to the Romantic Journey series was the summer camp vibe that it kind had with the kids.
Genuine question: When you say things like “If someone tells you they’re not feeling it, maybe consider doing something else or giving up on it” you mean if a number of people aren’t, right? Like you should ask about/pitch it to a few people and if that’s a common reaction, then consider. Or do you advocate for considering that if even one person you show isn’t connecting with it? Everytime you brought it up you said it entirely in singular so it kinda came across like “if you hear a harsh enough wholistic criticism, give up immediately”
That one's a tough one, because some people are kind of like a dog with a bone when it comes to a story idea, and just won't take "no" for an answer. There's also a few famous stories about that one successful project everyone said "no" to, which makes people think that's going to be them. It takes a bit of an ego to say to yourself you're going to make something and everyone is going to want to see it, and also to keep going if at first you don't succeed. I think the best advice here is that if you get some harsh criticism is to just well and truly think about it.
It's interesting the creator Tamers12345 has gained popularity in the pony space and follows basically none of this advice about taking time, having a messy series with inconsistent lore and character building while relying heavily on his joke-structuring talents and a love of melodrama to keep people strung along for the story. Making something entirely based on his own desires and putting little effort into the part of writing/animating/pacing he doesn't care for. Entirely retrofitted from a random crossover episode with his long running series. And impressively he makes it at a pace that's vaguely sustainable in the youtube environment.
That's "cheap and fast". Skibidi Toilet has the same strategy and was also successful. I'm not sure what lesson can be drawn from that except that sometimes "cheap and fast" might not mean "unwatchable", but it does mean leaving out work on visuals, sound design, and maybe even planning. It's the same strategy they use for shovelware in the app store, and it's actually not weird that it does well sometimes when you consider the amount of stuff being made that way.
@@Dawnsomewhere I guess Skibidi toilet is a better comparison than shovelware, because I hear that guy similarly enjoys what he does, but there's a hyper focus on the parts of the creative process you enjoy and throwing everything else to the wayside, poking around at subtly different combinations until something clicks.
Yeah, I'm not necessarily saying "thou shalt not", but I do think there's kind of a weird survivorship bias where there's definitely TONS of cheap, fast, kind of off the wall content being released in the wild, and what you wind up seeing is the stuff people are willing to actually watch. I think you just ARE that, rather than planning to be it.
@@Dawnsomewhere I'm not saying you're wrong about content production, and there's quite a survivorship bias, but Tamers chose to be a survivor if there is any definition of a choice. Consistently and slowly improving his skills over the decades as he stayed committed to the style of content he enjoyed. Drifting closer and further from the public consciousness, but trucking along the entire time. Now he's being rewarded by a spike of popularity, money, and fan works from a new community that seems to be genuinely enjoying his work.
ive been here since your mlp days but it wasnt JUST the ponies i stayed for, it was the witty jokes and humor which is why i continue to enjoy your content because its consist through everything you make, thank you for maintaining creative integrity through everything you do
@@potato2248 same im 23 now been watching since first rainbow dash presents
YES! His humor is unlike anything else I’ve watched or heard. So quick and sharp!
“Nobody is more critical of a creation than the creator,” is something I hear often, but the creator is critical of their work through a certain lens- they’re critical of their work in how it fails to line up with their vision in their head, rather than what they are actually showing and will show in the future. Your words about an editor are completely true, hell, even Stephen King, no matter what you feel about him, is a successful (and in my opinion, good) writer and in his own book On Writing, he states that the editor is perhaps the most important aspect of the creative process in which a creator goes through.
In any case, I love your videos and I hope that you keep doing well in what you want to do!
Greg you have to live long enough to comment on TH-cams practices when it eventually falls apart, your knowledge and wisdom is to precious to internet history
This was such great advice to hear as an aspiring writer. :) Thank you.
Man. I love these black screen videos. I love all the writing videos you do, but the black screens usually talk about stuff you might otherwise shy away from. Since I listen to the podcast on other platforms, ever since the parts of episodes became public the algorithm favors showing me your stuff less, so when I saw one of these pop up I got very excited.
Informative video. It’s nice to hear some of the behind the scenes stuff.
It’s interesting that you recommend that projects should be cheap because I’ve given similar advice in other areas, though I’ve always framed it more, “hope that what you’re doing does well, but plan around it not.”
You just don’t want your life to fall apart just because a single thing you were trying didn’t work out.
Yeah, I draw a comic strip for mostly that reason. A 3 panel strip takes like 20 minutes from start to finish, so it barely impacts your day, but doing it every day will over time accumulate into a pretty large body of work.
I used to watch your vlogs (the ones where you'd just stand in front of the camera wearing a tie) and how you talked about MLP and TH-cam always gave me the impression of a Faustian bargain. Like, yes, making pony videos gave you access to this little coral reef. You got an instant audience, exposure, a relative lack of competition. Becoming the world's greates pony youtuber is easier than becoming the world's greatest filmmaker generally, so that gave you an early head start you might not otherwise have gotten.
But then of course, the coral reef is also a prison. Once you've gotten a name for yourself doing pony videos, it's very difficult to break out of that and expand further without sabotaging your own base in the process. And the issue wasn't just creative stifling. As the years went on, and the pony fandom shrunk back into the underground, that coral reef started falling apart, with you still trapped inside. To mix metaphors, it's like you're William Carter from Chuck E Cheese, and you've been glued into the Rainbow Dash suit, but they forgot to put airholes.
You've done a remarkable job continuing to innovate, though, and a big part of that has been necessity as the mother of invention. Like how the character of Rae and that whole world evolving out of you doing a Fallout playthrough as a way to put out high volumes of content quickly. Still, Rae and Elvis are both basically masks that Rainbow Dash wears so that the Hasbro police can't find her.
TLDR: I think you sold your soul to Rainbow Dash.
I do feel like that the reused-thumbnails makes it harder to consume the content than what I'd want.
@@TojoSubsidiary These days, it's best to just go on Spotify if you really wanna keep up with what Greg is doing.
These videos are actually pretty helpful, even though I don't technically "write."
Using Garfield as a guide for quality. Love it.
wow secret gym lore! always wanted to know.
Niko introduced me to GoldVision. That in and of itself made Gym of the Romantic Journey worth it, heh.
I was just about to say the same thing you said. That in hindsight, when a work is finished, it's always easy to criticise. Seeing a cleaned up, finished product doesn't show you all the struggle and all the mess that had to be created to get to that finished product. It also doesn't show you how much the piece has improved over time.
Maybe the first draft was much, MUCH worse, and they already made great strides in improving it, without losing all their progress. Imagine being proud of how far you've come, how much you've improved, and then people treat it like you just went with your first draft.
That's not to say you shouldn't criticise media or anything. It's just important to keep in mind that making a meaningful piece of media is always harder than you expect it to be. And you don't know what it was like behind the scenes.
Of course you should always strive to be even better, but don't make people feel like their growth wasn't good enough.
TWO. TWO?!?! TWOOOOOOO
People need to learn not to be too defensive. You don’t have to flawless to judge flawed work. Anyone can notice that something is bad without being an expert. As long as you provide constructive criticism in a way that’s not rude then it’s fine.
saying something is flawed is not rude. And I would say you provided good faith criticism in your video.
I'm one of your talk subscribers, tho I haven't gotten recommendations for forever, until a few days ago.
Yeah. Another nice thing about doing the podcasts is that people can follow it from whatever reader they like, and gradually it's been building up a small following. Having systems that tell people when my stuff goes online, instead of just not notifying them unless the company wants it, is a lot more healthy and stable for me than trying to figure out what works in a social media algorithm.
Y'ALL SHOULD HAVE COMMITTED TO THE FERAL CATGIRL WASTELAND, SO MUCH POTENTIAL
Having been watching for a long time, and having seen pretty much every kind of video you've made, here's my two cents.
I've always enjoyed, but I've never felt like I ought to share. The comedy style of "clever and conversational" has never had me busting a gut. I've always just been quietly appreciative. It's kinda like how I've heard the show Archer described as "the funniest show that doesn't make me laugh," but at least that show looks good and has enough happening per minute to always be interesting.
The most I've wanted to share one of your videos was the FF6 LP episode that taught me what a heuristic was (which I've never been able to find again). Thing is I wanted to share for the educational quality, whereas most of your vids lean on realistic conversational humor, with small dips into interesting subjects. Conversations just don't make for shareable, viral content, and interesting subjects (especially in authentic conversations) have to be given full room to find an internet audience. You're burning the shareability candle at both ends, basically.
I once was watching the Fallout New Vegas series, and my dad heard it and asked "What is this? It sounds hysterical."
His first thought was that I was playing a game that had that voice and that commentary, but it should show that there's extremely appealing content that just needs to be presented in the best way possible.
RDP was really big, and those elements haven't disappeared. TH-cam may have changed, but you can take that as a pain or as a challenge. I hope you can see the tides and leap onto their crests at full capacity, or at least position yourself to enjoy a high tide somewhere.
A smart guy who can make as many funny words as you oughta be able to ride at least a second trend. Even if it's just format and not fandom, don't just be a middling piece of the end of a current fad. I'm sure you could hold your nose long enough to pull an audience from TH-cam Shorts to keep your real passions going. Just fucking try it man. Trying it is all you've got now on yt.
Hey man i'm watching you since MAS days. But i didn't stayed for the ponies, your humour and creavitiy wasn't anything i ever seen before.
That last forest episode did feel weird.
Watching a amazing digital video on an amazing digital app that I downloaded from my amazing digital app store that I have installed on my amazing digital phone in my amazing digital house in my amazing digital plot of land in my amazing digital city in this amazing digital state in this amazing digital country that is situated on this amazing digital world ❤
Nowadays even the low-effort content creators complain about the algorithm. It's brutal out there.
YEAAAAH! Koaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Make more Mike & Lou!!!!!
I thought you were going to build an Amazing Digital Sandcastle at the beach
I mean I agreed with everything you said about digital circus
I always enjoyed gym of the romantic journey, maybe that means I have bad taste but I often enjoy things in concept more than in execution, and I liked it regardless of its flaws because I could tell the spirit was there. Thats my issue with some shows like digital circus, I dont feel that soul. Monkey wrench I did, despite them having similar issues.
And now this vid, similarly named and thumbnailed as the last vid, only has 2 k views after 2 days.
Very
very
interesting
What's the background music?
Check his music monday playlist
If I had to give some criticism to the DnD podcast in the spirit of the video, I'd say that the increased story length has hurt the format a bit. I've been listening to all of the episode on release day since you started this whole thing. Earlier stories were shorter and more stuff happened in every episode. I do love the deeper and longer stories you have been doing lately, but they don't fit the 15min episodes every 2 weeks formula so well. For dungeon man there were a few episodes were the plot almost didn't move at all. That's always a bit of a let down, since the wait between episodes is so long. I'd almost wait till a whole season is complete and listen to it then, but my curiosity does keep me coming back every episode.
I don't know what can be done about it. I don't know if it makes sense to structure the story a bit more around the format or if that would ruin things. Maybe increasing episode length, but releasing them every 3 weeks? Idk.
Everybody's Nevil and the food zone are my favorite seasons. Both have really good premises and get pretty wacky.
Dungeon men is a bit slow, but the mystery helped pull me through.
Still, it's amazing that this kind of content is just free out here on the internet. I love that series.
What’s the best episode in your opinion? I’ve listened to Big Bingo Bone Heist maybe ten times and it’s my favorite but I’m curious to hear other opinions.
@@Grahamster04 Like I wrote. Flavor Zone and Everybody's Nevil. (or however you spell that.)
@@Grahamster04 Bingo Bango Bone Heist is great. Along with Everybody's Neville, those are probably the ones I'd pick if I was going to share the show with someone who'd never seen it before. The Peanut Murder is also pretty great. For long time fans of Greg's work though, I feel like Pinball City is special. If you go into that one knowing it's basically the "How It Should Have Ended" for Children of the Sandler, you appreciate it on a whole other level
@@laturnich9507 Ooh, I've listened through Children of the Sandler and really enjoyed it. For some reason the bit where Iggy is telling Charon he was the only one who stayed in character makes me tear up every time lol. Thanks!
Can you link the music video by Koa? Id love to hear it
Yeah!
generalmumble.bandcamp.com/album/rainbow-disaster-pop-2
I think my favorite on the Album is "Get a Stallion".
Closest I could find is a channel called Mumble Etc. which seems to at least feature some of Koa’s songs, assuming that’s the same Koa. I only assume so cause some of the songs seem to be pony based, so if that’s not the same Koa, that is one might coincidence
Edit: just now saw Greg link to her bandcamp, at least now we have a good idea where to possibly find them on TH-cam
I watched the circus now and btw. there's a 4th episode out, so I guess the funding problem got solved (or at least temporarily solved).
For Pomni I guess they had a so much fun making her despair that developing her character took a backseat. For episode 1 this was fine in my opinion because she was overwhelmed with everything and I enjoyed it a lot. Episode 2 was plain boring to me and Gummigoo did huge conclusion-jumping that felt really forced. In episode 3 I was like "Sooo.... what happened to wanting to find the exit? Are they just going on adventures now? Oh well, at least there's some exposition on Kinger and Caine."
Tbh. while I agree with "show, don't tell", I have no problem cutting authors some slack up to a point, because sometimes you just want to say "this is like that for reason XYZ" just to get it out of the way and focus on the thing you want to do, like in Spy x Family where the politics aren't as important as having the family interact with each other.
Regarding Jax: If I had to characterize him I wouldn't have said he's a griefer because to me he came across as the mysterious guy with the hidden agenda. Maybe he's just playing along with Caine, maybe he has a way of manipulating Caine into making the adventures more sinister, maybe he needs X amount of people to abstract to power a machine to get himself out of the circus? Maybe he wants to overthrow the dumb circus leader and really bring out the world's full potential instead of wasting time on childish adventures? Who knows.
Btw. if I had to place Pomni into a random situation I would have her act as a problem solver. I wouldn't just characterize her as withdrawn. She may be weak and helpless but still tries to help where she can. So if I placed her into a harem anime (with lots of girls) I guess she would want to get to know and make friends with everyone, while if the harem was full of charming dudes I guess she would be a lot like the guy from Monster Musume. And I just realized that that guy is a blank slate for the viewers to identify with too. 🙂
But ok, placing Pomni in Inside Out, inside Rayla's head.... well, she's not the proactive type, so she'd get overshadowed by Anxiety and Joy I guess (who btw. overshadow all the other emotions too, for the most part). I mean, Pomni lets other people handle problems if they take the initiative, but pulls her weight if she's needed, so she mostly would just go along with everybody. So overall I think I could place her in random situations and figure out how she'd react, but I couldn't do it with Gangle because that character is just the victim of jokes and nothing else.
umm the video is only audio
Yes. You like?
Funnily enough, I always kind of ended up comparing your series Romantic Journey to Rooster Teeth's Camp Camp.
The idea is more or less similar, but instead of being taught by a mercenary they had this really dubious Campmaster called Cameron Campbell that would appear in a few episodes to establish the corruption behind the funding for the camp and other things.
They also had this other adult character which was more good natured and meek called David.
The kids kind of did their own thing instead of trying to be taught different kinds of killing methods or combat too.
I feel like the main appeal for me when it comes to the Romantic Journey series was the summer camp vibe that it kind had with the kids.
Genuine question: When you say things like “If someone tells you they’re not feeling it, maybe consider doing something else or giving up on it” you mean if a number of people aren’t, right? Like you should ask about/pitch it to a few people and if that’s a common reaction, then consider. Or do you advocate for considering that if even one person you show isn’t connecting with it?
Everytime you brought it up you said it entirely in singular so it kinda came across like “if you hear a harsh enough wholistic criticism, give up immediately”
That one's a tough one, because some people are kind of like a dog with a bone when it comes to a story idea, and just won't take "no" for an answer. There's also a few famous stories about that one successful project everyone said "no" to, which makes people think that's going to be them. It takes a bit of an ego to say to yourself you're going to make something and everyone is going to want to see it, and also to keep going if at first you don't succeed.
I think the best advice here is that if you get some harsh criticism is to just well and truly think about it.
It's interesting the creator Tamers12345 has gained popularity in the pony space and follows basically none of this advice about taking time, having a messy series with inconsistent lore and character building while relying heavily on his joke-structuring talents and a love of melodrama to keep people strung along for the story. Making something entirely based on his own desires and putting little effort into the part of writing/animating/pacing he doesn't care for. Entirely retrofitted from a random crossover episode with his long running series.
And impressively he makes it at a pace that's vaguely sustainable in the youtube environment.
That's "cheap and fast". Skibidi Toilet has the same strategy and was also successful. I'm not sure what lesson can be drawn from that except that sometimes "cheap and fast" might not mean "unwatchable", but it does mean leaving out work on visuals, sound design, and maybe even planning. It's the same strategy they use for shovelware in the app store, and it's actually not weird that it does well sometimes when you consider the amount of stuff being made that way.
@@Dawnsomewhere I guess Skibidi toilet is a better comparison than shovelware, because I hear that guy similarly enjoys what he does, but there's a hyper focus on the parts of the creative process you enjoy and throwing everything else to the wayside, poking around at subtly different combinations until something clicks.
Yeah, I'm not necessarily saying "thou shalt not", but I do think there's kind of a weird survivorship bias where there's definitely TONS of cheap, fast, kind of off the wall content being released in the wild, and what you wind up seeing is the stuff people are willing to actually watch. I think you just ARE that, rather than planning to be it.
@@Dawnsomewhere I'm not saying you're wrong about content production, and there's quite a survivorship bias, but Tamers chose to be a survivor if there is any definition of a choice. Consistently and slowly improving his skills over the decades as he stayed committed to the style of content he enjoyed. Drifting closer and further from the public consciousness, but trucking along the entire time. Now he's being rewarded by a spike of popularity, money, and fan works from a new community that seems to be genuinely enjoying his work.