Hi, my name is Timo but I'm more known as
HalfwayDead, the guy who runs this YouTube
channel.
Over the past year and a half I've been uploading
very infrequently but I'm here to tell you
that that is changing, starting today.
My goal is to put out a new video every 2 weeks.
And here is how:
I'm a student at university and that is my
main occupation.
In my free time I play badminton, piano and
sometimes drums and I also try to make some
money with small side jobs.
Making these videos as a hobby is fun and
I would never stop but as a fellow Rocket
League player can you really blame me when
I sometimes just spend the rest of my free
time playing the game instead of researching
and making videos?
That's why I want to make YouTube my job next
to university.
This will give me more time to focus on the
videos and hopefully enough money to cover
all the costs I have.
For all my animations I'm using After Effects
and a lot of things wouldn't be possible with
any other software.
The way it integrates into the rest of the
Adobe suite also saves a lot of time so I'm
pretty much bound to it.
In the past I've been paying for this myself
but student pricing is only available for
1 year and it's getting really expensive.
I would also love to have the financial freedom
to buy extra testing equipment and most popular
controllers to test and compare them on a
technical level.
YouTube ad money for a channel my size, with
infrequent videos is sadly irrelevant.
I don't think I'm allowed to share numbers
but I made less in a year than I would need
in a month to make this project possible.
This is why I have created a Patreon.
If you don't know it already: Patreon is a
donation based platform where you pledge a
monthly donation to a content creator, usually
with some extra rewards back.
Don't worry I won't be locking any videos
away but I thought of some other things.
Patreon has Discord integration, so I've decided
to make a Discord where everyone can join
and ask questions, discuss and suggest videos.
It will also have announcements for all videos,
streams or important tweets.
But for the patrons there will be extra rooms
where I'll post sneak peaks of future episode
topics and content.
I'll also let my patrons vote on which videos
I should work on first if I don't have a particular
reason to decide it myself.
In fact, if you sign up now, I'm letting you
vote on the topic of the next video.
But that poll is only going to be open for
48 hours after this video is released so I
still have enough time to actually make the
video.
In addition, there are some other minor rewards.
You can see them on the page.
On there I have also set up 2 goals to reach.
The first one is literally just the price
of my Creative Cloud subscription.
I'm not expecting to reach this on the first
day but if I can't reach at least this goal
in a couple of months then I'll have to spend
more time doing other jobs in order to pay
for it and I won't be able to keep making
a video every 2 weeks.
If this happens though, I will announce it
ahead of time.
If I would get to the second goal or even
close to it, I wouldn't have to worry about
any other job next to university and it would
also put me in a spot where buying an extra
controller for some tests isn't an issue.
I know it is aiming incredibly high for a
channel my size but hey if 1 out of 10 of
my subs would pledge one dollar then we would
smash it.
Every dollar really adds up.
And if you can't afford to pledge at all then
you can still support me by sharing my videos
which will grow my channel.
I appreciate any form of help.
So go check out the patreon page, maybe consider
a small pledge and thank you all so much for
the support.
