Patron Mini-Update: Channel Revamp!

Hey folks! Still working on my next major project update for you all but hey, mini-update: Re-Brand! I'm changing some of my aesthetics across my YouTube, Twitch and social media pages, and while I think I'll just leave it at that for regular viewers I figured at least some of you might be interested in my decision-making process and how we got here. Consider this  A Patron Exclusive (that's right, those things can exist here too).

Memory Lane

I've had a lot of different ideas for what "look" I wanted for my YouTube channel. This makes sense, because I've also had a lot of different ideas for what I wanted the channel, or my work in general, or my life in general, to be. Back in the days when I made videos about cancel culture and Why Thing Bad, I guess for some reason I landed on the idea of like a circus carnival(?) aesthetic, and this wound up translating into.... well, some of the colours in my early videos were weird, sometimes I played clown music in the background, and I tried to make my channel look like neon signage (which I guess is kind of related?)

I definitely wound up preferring the 2020 revision (re-drawn, crucially, to feature the loss of my glorious Meatloaf mane), but alas. By March I was pretty much done with this whole "look" that was frankly more just an excuse for me to sketch quick illustrations in Clip Studio Paint and call it a Brand(TM). Also I was showing up in videos with my meat face so much more often, so I went with this

When you really look at it, the face I'm making looks kind of weird right? I've been thinking about that for over a year, and frankly I'm shocked nobody said anything (ok maybe you all just assumed it was deliberate). This is literally just a goofy face screencap from my first Beastars video (where I must say, I looked quite tidy) that I threw on some editing software and just messed all the way up with filters and colour balance. Weirdly, what came out the end just felt kind of, me? In a fascinating but ill-defined way. It was all over the place and very consciously out there, but idk I felt like that gave a confidence to it? Maybe I'm just overthinking it. Ok, I'm definitely overthinking it.

New Look

This is what I'm going with right now and I wouldn't say I have a great story behind this one, just as I didn't for the others. Perhaps the fate of these things must be left to some eventual future aesthetic manager type person. All I know is I feel like the whole pink and teal thing is too much of an online cliche and what the world really needs is red, teal and yellow! Also, you can actually see the details of a human face on there. Incredible. The banner, incidentally, is just a heavily filtered picture of the inexplicable floral-wallpapered storage room of our apartment - the wallpaper was there before we moved in (I'll leave the braniacs in the crowd to recall which video that room was featured in). The "Do Not Yank" marker note on the wall was also there when we moved in. We haven't yanked it.

Anyway this wasn't intended as anything super deep or thought-provoking, I already kind of feel like it's a waste of time to type this much for something so flimsy. Plus if I knew there was supposed to be a great meaning behind this post I'd feel a lot more pressure in how I was writing it. Wait, should there be a deeper meaning? Oh, shit, uh, well you know I guess this just goes to show you shouldn't eat chocolate at 4AM.