First, the big news of last week was that due to some massive promotion work by NCR News Network (THANK YOU AGAIN NCR!), we reached 500 subscribers and level one monetization.
We’ve been rolling out features as we have the ability to do so, starting with super chats, super stickers and super thanks. Then yesterday, when ironically, we were off the air due to a mix of flooding and football, we were able to launch channel memberships.
As we speak, we have two full-time level one members, so thank you to both for being early adopters and we haven’t even come up with anything big for members as of yet.
One perk we’ll be rolling out is that members get exclusive premieres 2 or 3 hours before everyone else for day-to-day standalone video news stories. I’m not sure what level it begins on (I’ll have to tinker with settings so it’s level 1), but the idea will be that members can watch the individual news stories and newscast as they are uploaded, while the public will have to wait a couple of hours.
And to make it clear, that is early member access for the first two to three hours ONLY and then all of the videos will automatically be made available to everyone.
MEMBERSHIP IS NOT A REQUIREMENT, but we have to offer perks if we offer memberships, and a two-to-three-hour early access window to content when you wouldn’t be otherwise seeing that content for the same two-to-three hours until a premiere isn’t too much hardship on non-members.
That’s the main perk for now, other than the two members only emojis that we’ve rolled out.
Also, please note, we’re at level one monetization. That means super chats, super stickers and super thanks. It also means that until we qualify to get paid (whenever YouTube decides we’ve made enough money to pay us), we won’t be getting paid until the 20th of whatever month we’re in and YouTube will be taking up to 30% of that money for their cut.
Until we reach the 1000 subscriber mark, we won’t be getting revenue from our videos (the few that earn $5 per 1000 views), so please don’t forget our PayPal, Cashapp and GoFundMe campaigns as we still need to eat and feed cats.
We’ll be doing the “wet food grift” again soon, so please, if you can help out, we’d be indebted to you if you do. We had ten strays hanging out last night between the front and back porches last night.
Lastly, on the subject of Jose “Chille” DeCastro. Now that he’s switched to a four-hour format, there is no humanly way to listen to him and get a newscast out every day without sacrificing sleeping or the hours it takes to put other stories together.
Our new policy is to spend no more than an hour on DeCastro at 2x speed and sample what he’s saying during these marathon sessions. Yes, we will miss things, yes, we won’t be able to provide the same coverage we’ve been doing in the past (when he presented manageable live streams), but that’s what we need to do for the sake of the paper.
The fact is, he’s not breaking news and he’s simply acting like a jerk to everyone while playing anti-police videos. He’s not moving forward with any of his promised campaigns and if he has four hours to spend hyping his products, he’s literally stuck in the same rut and promising things that will never happen.
Plus, four hours of Chille and nothing else, dear god. No, just no.
Also, the newspaper is now coming out in the afternoons. We are just out of time to get it out in the morning these days. There’s just too much work right now with endless Chille to start the day. New articles go up as we write them at reallycoolsite.org so you don’t need a notification, they’re there, all you have to do is check the site.
On that note, thank you for your continued support. We’re moving forward one step at a time and hopefully we’ll get things straightened out as soon as possible.
