Going Through A Change

Welcome to July's Monthly Patreon post/update. I think this has been a long time coming, but I've finally gone through a bit of a change with a number of things on my channel. 

Early this year I fell into a nice schedule when it comes to videos on my main channel. Stewards Room on Wednesdays, GTA Testing on Thursdays, FiveM on Fridays, GTA Creator Streams on Saturdays, and Gfred on Sundays. And I've actually kept to that religiously since I made the change. I'm pretty proud that I haven't missed an upload on that schedule yet. Alongside it I did a lot of stuff in the background to better manage my work/videos/streams as well.

I've been happy since I made that change and I've had more time to explore other things I want to do, as well as do some reorganising across my life. It all started with taking some time to myself after TwitchCon EU and choosing to fill that time by going back through my photos folder and organising it all into yearly collections instead of being in random folders as it was. It was a pain in the arse, but oddly therapeutic. That continued into completely sorting out the garage in our house (which we recently bought - homeowners hype!), turning it into a really nice functional and storage space.

My organisational desires weren't quite satiated though, and I set to work on my YouTube thumbnails, trying to improve their look, make them more clear, and remove any unnecessary stuff from them. I didn't just change thumbnails going forward though, I went back and updated a lot of thumbnails from older videos where the series are still active (the 5 main ones being mentioned above). I also did some re-organising of the GTA Live Racing series, splitting it up into Event Racing, Chill Racing, Serious Racing, and the new Car v Car racing.

I do get into these moods every so often, where I have a need to organise things and streamline parts of my life/work. But they've never lasted this long before. I thought it had died down until I just recently decided to take another look at my overall channel art. So you may see another change coming at some point in the future with video intro/outro screens, YT/Twitter banners, etc. I want to retain the same orange and purple colours, but maybe get something a little more mature and professional.

Either way, I'm excited. I like making changes like this. Even though it's not content in particular, giving some time to the finer details makes me happy, and in the end that hopefully helps me produce better content as a whole. Thanks for reading another monthly ramble, and for the support! :)

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