Patreon Update: Jan 2021

Happy New Year!

I hope you all are doing well and had a good new year (and hopefully a safe one as well). This is going to be the monthly update as well as a loose update for plans for 2021.

For January, I have planned:
-10 MORE One-Hit Wonders In 90's Rock
-How Did I Miss This Q4 2020
-Potential Discography Tier List
-At least one album review
-At least one interview
-Rock Coliseum
-The Podcast That Rocked every Tues evening
-Fri/Sat Game night on Twitch
-Sun New Music Night on Twitch

I'm currently writing out the 10 More One-Hit Wonders list right now. If you have any suggestions for 90's rock/alternative one-hit wonders, please let me know in the comments of this post.

I will be making a SEPARATE post for the upcoming HDIMT. Anyone can make suggestions on albums to cover from Q4 of 2020, but leave them for the next post. After I get suggestions, I'll have the voting tier decide on the six albums to cover.

The next Rock Coliseum is loosely scheduled for the last week of January. Things can change as it's four separate schedules, but that's the plan. Hope to see you all there.

The Twitch channel is about to be an affiliate which is huge. This means I can have another way for Rocked to make income and take this closer to go full time with everything. If everything goes according to plan, my final requirement is to stream game night tonight with Gretchen and some friends from Florida and that'll be my last stream needed. We'll just be doing casual Jackbox stuff so join us if you want to hear terrible jokes about everything. 8PM EST.

New Music Night on Sundays was good this past Sunday. I'm still working out a few issues but I think I found a format where I play new songs that are released from different artists and then we have a short discussion while you vote on them if they are good or not. This will be a standard for every Sunday on Twitch going forward at 7PM EST. Hope to see you all tomorrow.

As for 2021, I have short and long term goals. Views this past August and Sept were the best I had ever seen for the channel. This past Nov and Dec reached a three year low. That is a glimpse at how wild the algorithm can be. I'm still trying to get some sub/view growth back after the last two months but it'll be an uphill battle.

In any case, I have ideas for short and long videos through the year along with Rock Coliseum streams, weekly Twitch stuff, and the podcast. 

Tentative ideas for videos in 2021:
-Album Reviews, Occasional Interviews (cutting down on these), Discography Tier Lists with guests, How Did I Miss This?!
-Top 10/List Videos:
*10 More One-Hit Wonders In 2000's Rock
*10 American Bands Bigger Outside Of America
*Top 10 Worst Love Songs In Rock (remake)
*10 Rockstars Who Would Make Great Heel Wrestlers
*10 Rock Songs Made For Video Game Soundtracks
*10 Crazy Band Interviews
-Regretting The Past (potentially)
-All-Time Favorite Albums Videos (potentially)

Regarding RTP videos, it'll all depend on if I can decide on an album worth covering. RTP views have steadily gone down over time and I don't want to spend a ton of time and effort on a bad album in order to make a video...that won't get more views than any other standard video. I'm not saying they won't come back, I'm just saying I don't have any plans on doing one any time soon.

Regarding ATF videos, take the theory of RTP videos and amplify that. I can spend hours writing and editing a video on an album I love, and that video is lucky to get as many views as any standard album review from a new artist. It feels hard to justify the time invested.

So those are loose plans for 2021 (so far). In any case, I wanted to explain a little more about views and YouTube because people ask a lot. YouTube changed its algorithm big this year in where if a video doesn't get a ton of views from the channel's own subscribers in the first 48 hours, then it won't push the video as hard on YouTube's homepage or recommendations. From YouTube's view: "Why would we push a video to new viewers if this video can't even entertain the channel's own subscribers?". 

This is why I'm dialing back on interviews after January (I promised I'd do one for an artist) and focusing on other areas where views actually grow. To the people who keep demanding more RTP videos, keep in mind that those requests are in the minority when compared to the views. Trapt was an outlier, but RTP views keep going down over time. ATF is severely worse. So if my channel subscriber base won't even click on an ATF video, why in the world would YouTube push that to new viewers?

The big goal is to push the channel to get more subs. The road to 100K is closer but still a ways away. If you have suggestions for Top 10/List videos, feel free to drop them below - along with recommendations of 90's one-hit wonders.

Sorry for the longer than normal post, but I wanted to be clear on things going on. Hopefully, you all have a great month and I'll see you in the comments and during live streams.