dervampireprince

What To Do About The Outro? (Solved!)

Added 2024-12-15 11:31:20 +0000 UTC

EDIT: Wow you guys are fast at giving me feedback, thank you so much! Thank you to Primose Path for the idea of just saying the names of anyone who is a new member, so everyone's names get read aloud once. I'm going to take that idea and do it monthly, so anyone new for that month so that everyone who joins does get their name read aloud, but only for one month and then I'll record a new list of names every month. For example, January 2025's outro would have everyone who joined in December 2024s names read aloud (even if their subscription runs out mid-January, doing it monthly is just the most efficient way I can do this, I can't do a new one every week or video since I schedule uploads in advance). So we have a solution, thank you everyone for your comments, but you don't need to leave any new ones now I've chosen a solution. If anyone liked the idea of the extra tipping tier, my Ko-Fi exists and you can always drop an odd donation or set up a monthly donation over there, but I don't expect anyone to be doing that as you guys already support me so much already. Thank you!

So I'm sure everyone's noticed that my Youtube video outro of me reading every fledgling tier members name has gotten... ridiculously long. The last recording I of reading every name took 6 minutes and we've gained 50+ more Patreon members since then. I've wanted to talk about this for a while and kept putting it off but it has to be time.

The outro needs to be changed. I can't keep recording it, not that it's too difficult to read and type out every name, but it's not fair on a 10 minute audio to have an almost 10 minute outro. So I have thoughts and options and I need your guys input. And I'm sorry if anyone on the fledgling tier really liked having their name ready aloud, I don't mean to take a reward away from you but I presume most of you are here for the audios anyway not the outro.

Option 1: No one gets their name read aloud on the Youtube outro anymore.

Option 2: Make a new tier that's higher than the fledgling tier who's names will be read aloud. This tier's only extra reward will be the reading aloud. Essentially it will just be a tier for a bit of extra support or tipping. I've seen other creators have higher tiers that offer no extra reward and are just there to be essentially a tipping option. This new tier would be £15 (fledgling tier is £10, familiar £5, bloodbag £1).

Option 3: Make a new tier that's higher than the fledgling tier who's names will be read aloud, but also give it some extra reward. But I have no idea what an extra reward could be. I don't want to offer things I've seen other creators do like custom audios, nsfw art, calls or chats. I could offer a discount on my Etsy shop? I've really struggled to think what extra reward for this tier could be and I'd need your guys ideas. This new tier would be £15 (fledgling tier is £10, familiar £5, bloodbag £1).

Option 4: ...Any other option you can think of that I haven't listed here. I'm open to suggestions.

Do any of those sound like good ideas? Would you pick any of those options? Would anyone sign up for option 2 or any sort of tier thats 'no extra rewards, just for tipping/extra support' type tiers? I don't want to seem greedy by adding tiers like that though I've seen multiple creators have their regular reward tiers end at around £10-20 and then have 'just tipping' tiers for £20-£100. I don't know how many people actually like or use tiers like that though.

Whatever happens, everyone's names will still appear written on the outro screen, they just won't all be read aloud anymore.

Please leave a comment if you see this post, let me know if you like any of the options, or in the unlikely situation that you'd like a 20 minute Youtube outro that's longer than the actual audio of me reading names you can tell me that too. /lh