Hi, I'm DJ Peach Cobbler & we gotta talk

As this year draws to a close, I think it'd be wise to take stock. This has been, after all, my first full year of being a full-time YouTuber.

This year I announced and then unannounced the end of my gaming videos. I completed a video I'm sickeningly proud of called The Mad God of the Yucatan. I concluded (for now, at least) my series on Ancient Roman racism, and I am quite frankly not happy with the finished product. I got a review code to STALKER 2 and managed to somehow make a video about it in just a week without compromising too much on the writing and editing.

And I posted one Crackdown.

In an election year.

I'm an alcoholic. I abused a few other things too, but they all orbit around alcohol. My physical deterioration has become very evident this past year. My weight gain and general lack of effort put into my appearance is clear. I want to say that I am, overall, proud of much of my work this year despite the fact that it could have been magnitudes better. I could have been magnitudes better. A better friend, a better fiance, a better brother and son.

That being said you don't pay me to be any of those other things, so we'll get back to the videos.

I think that if YouTube has a goal, then that goal is to make videos that no one else on Earth can make. That is not to say that you necessarily must make the best video ever, but rather that your work should be something that only you can do.

I am not saying that The Mad God of the Yucatan was flawless, nor am I saying that if you didn't enjoy it, that you are in any way wrong. All the same, I don't think anyone else could make that video. I don't think anyone else can do the exact sort of things I do. To be fair though, I don't think that most want to make videos contrasting Roman satire with Grand Theft Auto IV. Their loss.

I am proud of much of the work I did this year, but the cracks are beginning to show. My physical appearance, work output, and general creativity has declined. I have tried to work on my alcoholism on my own for long enough, and decided to share my problem with friends and family for the first time. I have also checked into an out-patient rehab center.

Most YouTubers try to be your friend, but I have never wanted to be that to you. You don't need to know me, which is good because you don't and never will. I don't tell you a lot about me, and my general disinterest in telling you more about me is probably clear from my Subscriber Milestone Q&A videos lol.

All the same, I need to be honest and tell you why my work has declined and how I will remedy that.

Rest assured, this is not me announcing a break. This is me telling you that I am about to start posting way more. A common complaint of recovering alcoholics is that they just don't know how to fill all this newfound free-time they have. I do not have that problem. I'm going to spend all my new free-time doing what I love, which coincidentally is what you're paying for.

I am unbelievably lucky to do what I do. When I thank you for watching at the end of my videos, I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

Crackdown before the Presidential Inauguration, Geronimo video early next year. On or before the 20th of this month I'm gonna finally vomit up a truly heinous video about the culture war.

You have been warned,

DJ Peach Cobbler