Hey guys! Really important news: So we've been 
doing this Patreon thing for over a year now,
meaning that I've been able to make these 
reviews as my full-time job for over a year now.
And as many of you have already noticed, not only have 
I been able to release these videos much more frequently,
but the videos themselves 
have gotten better as well.
I don't know if you saw my upload frequency before I 
was able to do this full-time, but it was not that great.
And even if there's a month like last month, where I only 
released one video, it turned out to be, like, an hour long,
so you can see that even if you're not seeing videos being uploaded
right away, you can tell that I'm actually working on something.
You guys know that I'm putting all this 
effort into it and I hope that it shows.
So the main reason why I'm making this video is not 
only to say thank you, because thank you so much,
everybody that's not only been donating, but who 
has been sharing these videos around to their friends,
and helping me out in whatever way they can, 
liking, commenting, etcetera, etcetera.
I don't wanna be one of those channels where I have to feel like I have to 
remind you at the end of every single video, like you're some fucking idiot.
You guys are doing it yourselves anyway, 
'cause you actually like the content and that's great.
So the main reason I'm making this video is because there are
some changes that need to be made towards my Patreon pitch,
and the video that shows up on my Patreon feed, which, 
this is the new video right now and it's replacing the old one.
If you wanna see the old one, if you've 
never seen that before, click here. But uh...
All of the terms for Patreon only go to this video, because 
I'm changing a couple things, and by the end of this video,
I think you will agree with me, especially my Patrons will 
agree with me that these changes are absolutely necessary.
These are changes that I've been thinking of making for a 
very long time, but not only does it make a lot of sense now,
because it's been over a full year, but the reasons 
for making the changes are affecting me right now,
and if I don't do this right now, then things aren't going to 
plan out the way I want them to in terms of releasing videos.
I'm gonna run into a lot of problems, 
so let me first explain what this means:
So as many of you already know, I am pushing myself 
to my limits trying to get these videos out to you guys,
especially when working in a quota, 
that means that every single month,
I have to put out one of those huge, huge time consuming
videos. Not something like a Thoughts On video,
but one of the giant lists or one of the YMS 
videos per month. Now, what I've run into,
is it takes longer than a month to make a lot of these videos.
The 2008 list, that took my 45 days, not 30 days,
and that's exactly why I was trying to release 
things at the beginning of each month,
is so I had a bit of leave way period. I wanted to work on 
"The Walking Dead" season three directly after that,
but I just took fifteen days away from being able 
to make "The Walking Dead" season three.
"The Walking Dead" season three is sixteen episodes 
of a TV show that are about an hour long each.
There's no way I can do it within a month. 
I need longer than a month, so if I'm going to do it,
I need to start at the very beginning of a month. So now 
I'm here and I'm trying to make a different YMS video,
because I know I can't do "Walking Dead" 
season three within that amount of time frame,
and so I'm trying to think, like: "Okay, what's a movie that I 
can do in a shorter amount of time that won't take as long?"
So that's what I'm also currently working on, but now, 
with Vancouver Film Fest happening and that taking out, like,
two weeks of my time, because I can't edit while I'm at 
a movie and I have to make Quickies for those videos,
I have to be current, I have to be... I have to stay 
on top of things if I want to be a film critic, right?
Because of that, I'm going to have to keep postponing this
"Walking Dead" thing, because I know that it takes so much time,
that unless I start at the beginning of a month, 
unless I have my YMS quota completed for, like,
September 1st or October 1st or November 1st, 
I need to postpone it another month.
Because of this quota that I've set for myself, 
it's been taking precedence over everything else.
I was seriously considering splitting my 2008 review into 
two parts, just so I would have something to release
for the beginning of this month October and so I 
could start my "Walking Dead" season three review.
I thought about it and I thought: "You know what, 
nobody wants to see two fucking parts of a list."
Maybe it might work better for other types 
of videos, but it just wouldn't make sense, like:
"Oh great, here's my 2008 review. Here's all the movies that 
weren't as great at the bottom and then just wait another month."
That would be stupid. Of course I'm 
releasing things in-between, but these are...
I understand that the lists, the giant YMS reviews, those larger
videos, those are what you're subscribed for. Most of you, I think.
I want to be able to produce good content and I don't want it to 
be compromised because of some silly quota that I've set for myself.
So here's my solution to that problem: I will continue working 
on larger YMS reviews, I will continue making those giant lists,
and as soon as I'm done one, 
I'll start work on the next.
However, I'm not going to commit myself to making 
sure that I have part of one released every month.
I'm going to commit myself to making sure that 
I have some type of video to release per month,
like a Thoughts On video, 
or a different type of review.
Not a Quickie, you're not getting charged for that as a Patron,
not an update video, nothing like that. Something substantive.
If this were the case, then I would have just started 
working on my "Synecdoche, New York" analysis,
and that would have made the 
quota for this month and who knows?
Maybe I could have finished 
"The Walking Dead" before the month ended.
I don't think it's very likely, but I 
wouldn't have been stressed out about it.
I would have been able to just make a shorter 
video that didn't take that much time.
Just a few days out of my schedule, rather than 
a couple weeks to try and make up for something.
And I would be able to get paid, which means that I would 
be able to pay my rent and continue doing this full-time.
This doesn't exist without you guys on Patreon. 
I'm making a decent amount off ad money. Apparently...
I tried to show you guys in another video I made. 
I had a screencap, but then somebody said:
"That's against Youtube's terms of service" so... I guess 
I can't show you guys my ad money earnings, but...
For transparency of Patreon earnings, 
I'm making what you see on the page minus, like,
300 dollars that doesn't get processed from, 
I guess, just random different people.
So just to be absolutely clear: This does not 
in any way mean less content less frequently,
all this means is that I"m able to release my videos in a different
order and still actually make money and do this as my job.
So instead of me scrambling to find a full YMS review, like 
a twenty minute one of those that I can do in two weeks,
which is really difficult to do and which is what 
I've been trying to do around this Film Fest.
Instead of doing that, I could just make 
a Thoughts On video that takes three days,
and then continue working on a YMS video 
or whatever I decide to work on next.
You know, things coming out like 
"Edge of Tomorrow" or "Live, Die, Repeat".
I wanna make a video on that too, that's 
coming out on Blu-ray soon. I wanna be current,
but I can't organise things in the correct order 
if I'm scrambling to meet these giant deadlines.
I think this makes a lot more sense.
I am Adam from the future. I have seen this 
video and I just wanna make absolutely clear
that I'm not replacing the YMS reviews with, like, 
Thoughts On videos, I'm not just gonna be like:
"Oh, well, remember all that hard work I put in? Well, not doing 
it anymore, I'm just gonna do the easy shit from now on and that only."
When I'm talking about the quota's, 
I'm talking about the bare minimum.
All it means, is that if it takes longer than thirty days 
to make a project that I only have thirty days to make,
I can make a shorter video while I'm working on that 
project still that I can release before the month ends,
so it's not, like: "Great, haha, you don't get paid, 
even though you've been working your ass off as usual."
Just because I didn't have something that I 
could post until the beginning of the next month.
Alright, I gotta get dressed and 
catch a movie called "Winter Sleep".
It won the Palme d'Or so I'm gonna leave 
you back with the other Adam, goodbye!
Now, some of you are probably wondering:
"Adam, why don't you just set your Patreon campaign 
to charge people monthly instead of per video?"
The reason why I don't wanna do that is because I still 
want to provide a guarantee that I'm actually making videos.
I don't want to be charging people and not have a 
guarantee that I'm actually making something for it.
So even if now, even if somehow, for whatever reason, 
there's only one or two Thoughts On videos in a month,
instead of a larger YMS video, all that means is 
that you're getting a lot more content really soon.
You know, there was that big break of time where 
everybody's like: "Adam, where are those videos?"
and all of the sudden, I show up and I release something 
that's an hour long and everybody gets to say:
"Oh, so that's what he's been doing this whole time, he hasn't 
just been dicking around, he's been working his ass off!"
So because of the type of videos I make and because of the level of 
effort I put in researching, editing, recording, etcetera, etcetera,
I try very my best to make these videos 
as good as possible for you guys.
Because of that, I don't know how long a video 
is going to take until I'm already making it.
That is why I needed to re-evaluate, that is why I needed to make
these changes, because it not only makes the most sense for me,
but it makes the most sense for the channel and 
for the videos and for you guys and for everything.
Creative freedom should take precedence over everything else 
and I... You know, if money didn't have to come in to play,
if something like basic income were a thing, then 
that would be ideal, but that's not happening.
I need money to fund myself. I need money to 
be able to survive. That's the unfortunate reality,
and I love, love, love that not only Patreon exists, 
but that you guys are helping me do this.
This is crazy. We live in the future, guys. Think about this 
for a second. This wasn't even possible, like, ten years ago.
This is crazy and I can't thank you enough 
for it, so now that I've explained all that,
I'm going to go through the terms of each perk 
for Patreon. If there's anybody new to the page,
now that this is the video taking up the spot on my Patreon feed, 
I'm gonna explain to you guys what it means to be a Patron.
So what it means to be my Patron is that you are signing up to 
donate every time I post a video that isn't a Quickie or an update video.
So if I post something like a Thoughts On
video or a YMS review or a Top 10 list,
or one of those giant, like, "Amazing Spider-man 2" 
or "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" things
that could have been Quickies if they were, like, three 
minutes long but turned out to be much longer than that.
Something that I spent a lot of effort doing, 
then you would get charged for one of those.
You can set how much you get charged if you only want 
to charge yourself a dollar every time that happens.
Not only can you set your cap at a dollar per month, so that 
you're only donating a dollar a month if you really want to.
That's totally fine and I would 
love you for it, but if you do that,
you automatically get you name included at the end credits 
of the end part of a YMS review that I'm working on
or a Top 10 or one of those larger 
things that isn't just a Thoughts On video.
You'll see in the part three of my "Host" 
review, you'll see the end credits there.
All those people's names, you can put your name as 
whatever you want, I don't care if it's super offensive.
I don't care if you wanna promote your website. 
Think about how cheap that is, advertising a dollar a month.
Wow. Advertising. People will see it and be like: 
"Hey, that guy with that website that's on the credits,
he watches YMS videos and he donates to him, even though 
I'm broke. I should thank him by checking out his website."
Something that's specific towards this perk only, is that when 
I export the list from Patreon I'm selecting all current Patrons,
so you have to currently be a Patron while I'm making a video that has 
credits in it for your name to appear in the credits or your website.
The reason why this is, is because if I were to 
try and take every single charge from a month
or two months and try to figure out which names 
weren't duplicates out of the 400-some per month,
that would take so much time away from making the 
actual reviews that it just doesn't make any sense,
so if you want your name or website to appear, you have to 
currently be a Patron while I'm making a video that has credits.
So even if you decide to go for one of the bigger perks or donate
however much, your name will still show up in the credits.
Just because I do wanna say thank you, so if for 
whatever reason you don't want your name there,
just, like, change your name to 
something different, I don't know.
Use a fake name. It will let you put 
whatever you want, I'm pretty sure.
For the five dollar perk, you'll be getting scans of my messy and
slightly illegible notes that I take when making these reviews.
I don't write notes for every single review, 
but when you get these scans,
you'll also be getting all of the scans 
of every single previous month,
so you don't have to miss out if you just start donating 
now for the five dollar perk, you don't have to be like:
"Oh, all these scans that I missed out on!" No, you'll be 
getting everything. If, let's say, I don't have scans for a month,
because I'm kind of running out at this point, I've 
been scanning so many of them at such a fast rate.
If, let's say, I don't have notes for a 
particular review, I'll scan something different.
I'll draw you guys a picture or something. 
Something weird or funny or sentimental.
You'll get something and you'll be like: 
"Damn, Adam loves me." and I do.
The ten dollar perk gets you all of the previous perks plus an e-mail 
invite to a monthly Google Hangout that I host, and we talk about shit,
you can ask me questions and I can just get mad at the world.
Seems to happen all the time. Just complain about shit.
Anyway, for whatever reason there's only a 
maximum of ten people for the Google Hangout,
just because that's what Google Hangout allows.
So if you really want to get in, check the date, I update 
them on this very same page on the Patreon.com/YMS,
right where you see the ten dollar perk 
is where you'll see the date for the next one.
It happens once a month. Check your e-mails 
around that time. Just get ready for it.
We haven't really hit the ten 
person cap more than twice.
There's been, like, two times where a couple people couldn't get in, 
unfortunately. I don't like that people can't get in sometimes,
but if you do want to get into it, just make 
sure you're ready for it. Just look at the date.
If you can make it, just check your e-mail and then you should be 
able to get in no problem. It hasn't been an issue all that much.
If it starts becoming a bigger issue, I might look into other 
options, but that's the ten dollar perk and I love you guys too.
For the super special fifty dollar perk, you get all 
of the previous perks plus I will mail you something.
You will have something physical that you can 
hold in your hand and be like: "Smells like YMS."
So I usually send out old movie tickets from movies 
that I've gone to. I save all of them, you know.
I'll just sign them or write a note on them. Might write you a 
little note, just being like: "Thank you! You're a cool cat! Cool cat!"
Sometimes I'll just use, like, bus ticket packs. 
Anything that, you know, has been...
Something that I've used in my life. 
Just a piece of paper. No dirty tissues.
But, I mean, like, if you wanted me to send something random, 
like, one time I got asked to send a spoon and I just did it.
Within reason, because it costs 
more to mail things each time.
But if you have a request just for, like, me to to draw something 
for you, I'll mail you something and I really appreciate it.
Now, some of you are probably wondering: 
"Why should I donate to YMS's Patreon page?"
Well, just think about this: If every single one of you donated 
a dollar, or even two dollars, but let's just say a dollar.
Every single one of my subscribers a dollar Patreon pledge, 
I could make, like, a feature length film in a couple years.
I could have a feature length film released. That would be cool. 
I would like to work towards making a feature length film.
I would like to put my money where my 
mouth is, but I can't, unless I have money.
But I would like to prove people wrong and show 
that you can be somebody that bashes movies
and actually make a pretty decent movie. 
Even if I make something that's not that great.
Maybe you just wanna laugh at the fact that 
I fuck up, then donate money and I'll fuck up.
But I would like to do something. I would like to give it my all 
and I know that this isn't, like, a Kickstarter page right now.
This isn't mainly for that purpose, but what 
I'm telling you, honestly, and I hope that,
because of how honest I've been with you guys 
throughout this whole Patreon thing in this past year,
I hope that you'll believe me when I say this, 
is that the extra money that I have,
sure, I might spend a bit of it on, like, sex toys and movies, 
but I want to save up money, so that I can make a feature length film.
My ambitions do not stop at 
bashing movies on the Internet.
I want to continue being a creative person, I want to continue 
to grow, I want to continue building off of everything that I've done,
I want to learn from my mistakes, I want to keep going and 
it does not stop here and even if I don't get a lot of money,
even if I don't have enough to continue 
putting in the bank and save up over time,
I'll just start a Kickstarter campaign when I'm thirty 
or something and hopefully I can just make a movie then,
because I want to be able to do more. 
I wanna keep releasing music.
And because of the fact that I've spent 
so much time doing this film review stuff,
because I've been trying to show you how 
committed I am and how I keep my promises,
I haven't released a single song in the past year because 
of that. I've been trying to release a music video for a while,
and I'm spending a lot of time doing this instead, because I want to 
show you that I'm decidated and I want to have you guys trust me in this.
Anyway, that's pretty much all I wanted to say. It's been 
a great year, I could not have done this without you guys.
Thank you so much for your support, whether it be financial 
or otherwise. I literally could not have done it without you guys.
I would still be working customer service jobs and what not. 
I got a movie that I gotta catch real soon, so I gotta run,
but I love you guys so so so so much and I hope that you 
feel like you've made the right choice in your investment,
whether it be financial, whether it 
be sharing my videos or otherwise.
I hope that you guys feel happy 
about it too. Thank you.
[Subtitles by Abel Boeschoten]
