The Final Ep

Now comes the time when this project must end. The technical end date for the entire thing is mid-April, so that means, even more so, that the end of the video project must come now. 

For the final episode, I would like to encourage participation. So on this blog, and on the youtube channel, I will ask for suggestions on what you would like to see me do or rant about. ANYTHING. This does not mean i will do it, but the suggestion might prompt something else. 

So I ask for submissions via this weird tumblr dialogue box, also in the comments.

What would you like to see me do or rant about?

This Email …

Well, I’m hard at work for the next episode. Unlike the previous ones, this one actually requires me to go outside. »shudder« so I’m doing it when I can. Thank God for DST. But more on that in a minute. I want to share something. It doesn’t turn out to be anything important, so you can hang your suspense for something worthwhile. 

The day after I uploaded the fourth(third) episode to YouTube, I woke up to my alarm clock, which is just my phone strategically placed under my pillow. (This way I hear it but my roommate does not.) Also on my phone is my email, and I usually see right away in the morning that I have 4 or 5 new emails. Generally, these are from social networking sites or spam, but sometimes I will wake to good news, like I have a new follower on Pinterest or I just made 15 bucks on Fireshield earrings. This was a bit different.

As I sleepily read my email, I saw that I had a message from someone on youtube. Here it is:

It says:hey there 

you have some very interesting videos uploaded but small views. i think they are not really getting noticed. 
have you ever tried to buy subscribers or views to make your channel bigger. 
subgrow . com 
i used that site before with one of my channal and their subscriber packages made my views rise big over a few weeks. 
they are the best on the net 

Since I am new to uploading YouTube, I had never gotten spam before, and wasn’t entirely sure this WAS spam. Actually, it reminded me of a message I received from fanfiction.net not too long ago, asking if I was considering putting a piece I never finished up for “adoption.”

Now, I was sure this person was promoting their company, but I was excited that they had written to me, personally. I went through the day thinking on how to reply. I did not want to buy subscribers, as that would defeat the purpose of this project, and I hadn’t done much promotion, as I was »spoiler« saving it for the next episode. But I was curious on how this person (I assume it was a “she” for some reason) found me in the first place.

I didn’t get to a computer until the next day, where I sat at work and hastily opened my channel mail to reply. And that was where I saw that the mail had not only gone out to me, but to at least eight other channels. This was disheartening, though not entirely. I wrote back anyway with the same plan, careful to use the weird language that was bouncing around my brain.

Heh, very interesting indeed! I did not know there was such a thing as buying subscribers. How does that work? Is that just to build hype?

Tell me, I am curious, how did you happen to come across my channel? Maybe in that way, I can figure out a way to …hm, lure others.

And I sent it. It has been nearly a week, and I have not heard back. But it makes a good story to put in my book, so there!