Affiliate Happened???
Well, this week has taken an unexpected turn. Welcome back to another weekly blog post, and this one is definitely a bit unexpected. I had ideas of what to write about, and then suddenly twitch decided it was go time on affiliate out of nowhere, so… guess what this blogpost is going to be about!
Affiliate at last!
After a year of streaming, I appear to have been blessed with pity affiliate! On Tuesday I received a random, unprompted email from twitch, and then I was an affiliate. Considering how I’ve been fiendishly pursuing followers for the past year, I was not anywhere near the requirement to have affiliate, so I truly wasn’t expecting an invite to plop itself in my inbox. My best guess is that since I’ve been streaming for a year, I hit some internal metric… or something.
Either way, affiliate has been unlocked! I’ve been fiendishly pursuing this for a long time and now I can finally do what I’ve been wanting to do since I started streaming. Yep, we’re getting EMOTES! WOO!
Emotes have been on my mind since long, long before I started streaming. Way back in 2016, I had all sorts of ideas about what I would like to put on twitch emote wise, and now I can finally upload all the things I’ve wanted to. Apologies in advance! Since I’ve had so much time, I’ve already got a pretty good idea of what’s getting added, and I took the time to quickly bang out an emote on Tuesday to make sure that I at least had something available. Behold! The first iteration of ‘Suspicious!’
This is based on one of my favorite fennec images where it’s looking at the camera with a very, very suspicious expression. I don’t think I quite captured it the way I want, but this was just a quick rendition that I needed just to have something in case someone subs. I fully plan to implement a better version in the future, but first, I need to implement some others! For starters, I know we’re going to have an ‘AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA’ and ‘Imdeadinside’ emote, but the last two of the five I have unlocked will be a little tougher. Oh, and we have to figure out some tier 2 and 3 emotes, so that will be at least part of my weekend. Talk about weird and rotten timing given all the other stuff I have going on right now!
Battle Bingo
It’s worth at least talking about Battle Bingo since this was going to be one of my focuses for this week. The nightmare video finally was released, and did kind of what I was afraid it would do, and that’s not a whole lot. At the moment, it’s only a quarter of the way to my most viewed video, and it took almost FORTY HOURS OF EDITING. Not exactly a great return on investment, but I at least did learn a couple of things from it. Until the channel is a bit larger, there’s no point in investing in something that big. For the time being, we’ll be doing our usual video formats and pivoting hard into shorts to try and take advantage of that. Tiktok might also become a thing, but we’ll cross that bridge if we have to.
Upcoming Art
A lot of what I had planned got derailed (Yes, the comic got delayed AGAIN! The affiliate thing totally threw me off) but I’m still working on several projects. The comic should be done tomorrow… Unless some other madness happens. After that, emotes will be taking semi-priority alongside the mawile project, and then we’ll see what comes after that since so much has been tossed into the air. There are some other things that are being toyed with right now, specifically in terms of art sharing, hosting, and potentially selling! Not ready to talk about anything just yet, but I’m at least thinking about these things.
Upcoming Schedule
With affiliate and the Switch 2 happening at the SAME FREAKING TIME, my schedule has been massively thrown off. For the immediate future, we will be maintaining our stream schedule, but there will most likely be extra nights once I’ve received the Switch. Additionally, art streams are now on the table because I need to make time for them AND increase stream time, so doing art live might be a smart move. This is something I’m going to need a few weeks to think about, so standby for updates. Outside of that, youtube will be returning to a normal cadence, though the next few videos will probably be shorter to help make up for everything else ramping up.
The Sapphire Verdict
Just providing a brief word count update. My last check clocked it at 215,000 words, so we are getting very, very close to a MASSIVE milestone! I suspect we will be hitting sub 200,000 within the next week or two at the very least, and that is a very, VERY exciting thought!
Conclusion
There was a LOT that happened, and now I’m crunched for time in ways I haven’t been recently! I’m going to do my best to manage it all, and while I’m now officially stressed out of my mind, I’m at least optimistic and excited to see what comes about from everything that’s unfolding. That’s all I have for now (If that wasn’t enough, then I don’t know what is), so, until next time… CHEERS!
The Flying Fennec