Blind 💀

Blind 💀

@blindirl.bsky.social

Streaming on the internet for 12 years. Co-Founder of Halcyon Frequency. Victoria BC. "Liberal Woke Bastard" - YouTube Commenter Find me: https://www.blindirl.com https://www.twitch.tv/blindirl https://www.youtube.com/@blindirl

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Blind 💀
@blindirl.bsky.social

sometimes I wish I had millions of followers on a mainstream social platform just so I could bully fedex into actually hitting the four digit buzzer code on my buildings front door.

Blind 💀
@blindirl.bsky.social

I wrote less than 100k words about hitting 100k subs.

BlindiRL@index.www.blindirl.com.ap.brid.gy

I was never super happy with the quality and just hoped to hit the "good enough" line.

blindirl.comCelebrating a Hundred Thousand YouTube Subscribers.At the time of writing I am 99,945 subscribers on YouTube. It has been a long journey and I wanted to take a moment to look back at how I got here. I have had this channel since 2014. Initially it was just a place to post Vods from my streams on twitch. It was never something I took seriously because I always felt that I'd never have the time. I was working full time and attempting to stream as much as possible and I thought that would be the case forever. That would change in early May 2019, when the original trailer for bringing Dwarf Fortress to Steam was suddenly released, and viewed by everyone remotely **in** volved with the game. At this point I had been streaming DF for over a year and decided to make a video about the news. When I posted that video I had just under 500 Subscribers. As I covered news posts my channel would grow slowly and steadily as the years passed. By the time of the December 2022 launch of Dwarf Fortress on Steam, I had amassed a grand total of 13,784 subscribers.. Most of these were from my speed talking over views of the weekly posts detailing the development of Dwarf Fortress. By February that number had grown to 41,000. Before the release, I maintained a steady flow of news updates which were extremely short. I'd even describe them as low effort. I was never super happy with the quality and just hoped to hit the "good enough" line. The rest of the channel was directly exported Vods from my livestreams. Once dwarf fortress was out I shifted my focus to tutorials and eventually moved the Vods to a second channel by the following summer, due to dwindling interest in them. Eventually the views started slowing down. While tutorials still did well, I moved Vods to a second channel due to dwindling interest in them. In time, even tutorials weren't bringing much traffic, nor did the daily highlights format I introduced for a while. By 2024, the channel hit a low point. Lowest point fro the channel. It is most obvious in watch time. I needed to shift focus. Since 2022 I have streamed 3-4 days per week with the rest of my time spent on editing for YouTube, but the channel was rapidly becoming sustainable. I either needed to fix it and find a new direction or shift to streaming more hours. I decided I would do the thing I saw time and time again in my YouTube comments. I'm paraphrasing but here is the gist. > Why don't you take a whole fort and make it into a highlight. - Dozens of people on YouTube I always dismissed this idea because editing daily highlights already took up all of my time. It turns out I needed the state of the channel to get so low that It was going to stop sustaining me, in order for me to pull the trigger. I made a video that talked about my planned change in content style. I was going to make big hour plus videos detailing the events of specific forts. This video lost me dozens of subscribers but the response in the comments section was positive. If you are reading this you probably already know the result. I uploaded my now most viewed video of all time. "I played the worst map in df history.." Watch time hours when I uploaded the video that changed everything. The graphs I'm showing are covering watch time. These are hours watched. They show the increase significantly more than the same period of time in views. The same time in views. Before the shift in style I was still growing. I had seen some growth with the release of the adventure mode beta. But it was nothing compared to changing my entire concept of what my channel was. If anything, I think that video is what has cemented my ability to do this long term. I've been streaming and uploading to YouTube for thirteen years. Momentum is so important with YouTube that if you start to lose speed you have to figure out how to fix it. I would still have a long way to go if I stuck to what I was doing. I took a risk and people loved it and I have to say thank you to everyone who is still out there watching. I would not have been able to do this without you. Thank you for the support. Gregory. October 6th 8:11 am pacific.
Blind 💀
@blindirl.bsky.social

I helped make a cool thing for kitfox by.. wait.. Menace?

Kitfox Games 🦊@kitfoxgames.com

We let @blindirl.bsky.social try the Streets of Fortuna alpha and he immediately became a MENACE. 😼Watch the full video: youtu.be/9LAaH_gJHac

Blind 💀
@blindirl.bsky.social

My face is killable in this game. I would know. I just killed me.

Kitfox Games 🦊@kitfoxgames.com

Four heroes risk their body and mind as they descend into the underworlds. But will this be their last trip? Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is OUT NOW! A new tactical narrative storybook from @radiofreelunch.bsky.social 😈 Buy on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...

Blind 💀
@blindirl.bsky.social

I'm going to finish this video this weekend I'm going to finish this video this weekend *Ow my back* I'M GOING TO FINISH THIS VIDEO THIS WEEKEND DAMN IT

Blind 💀
@blindirl.bsky.social

Here is a clear way to show how much impact the change to views on youtube is making. These are the views for my last two livestreams on yt. Both had roughly the same ccv with the one yesterday being slightly higher. but the total view count is insane.

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jason grinblat
@jfg.land

having talked to Tarn about his plans for myth & magic, I can confidently say that ~~even in the context of the notoriously deranged scope of Dwarf Fortress~~, the details left me speechless

Kitfox Games 🦊@kitfoxgames.com

📣 Heads up Dwarf Fortress Fans! Myth & Magic begins this year! 🧙‍♀️ youtu.be/8P-FTy6hhp0

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Kitfox Games 🦊
@kitfoxgames.com

attn dwarves of #paxwest! Important information: - Zach Adams & Putnam will BOTH be autographing from 2 - 4pm on Friday Sept 4 - @fangamer.com will be selling Dwarf Fortress books and pins a perfect setup to get a Guidebook or Expedition Leader's Journal and get a personal message from DF devs!

Blind 💀
@blindirl.bsky.social

I haven't been this busy in months. I have three videos that I need to finish. There is a fourth I want to start. I additionally have off stream things to do now till October for kitfox. To top it off its summer and the busiest part of summer! One thing at a time..