Saturday update January 18 2025

Happy Saturday everyone! Boy what a week this has been!

You may have heard that me and many other people started to be harassed by a group of trolls. It stressed me out a lot, not gonna lie, but as I realized how uncoordinated and childish they were I started to feel less threatened. Even more so when I learned how to turn off my @mentions which unfortunately blocks everyone who might want to send me a nice video or fanart. If you see them or they try harassing you, use the three white dots that are usually at the end of community posts, or direct comments and report it. I also suggest going directly to their channel and block/hide them from your channel and report their channels as well.

But all that nonsense aside…

I've been doing my best this week and my best has involved an extra amount of rest time. I'm still editing the videos I recorded about 2 weeks ago such as Longest Night and the demo for Pearl which I’ve just finished and scheduled for the channel. I've also recorded Act 1 of Hello Yinny’s game “He's just away” and I was already tearing up within minutes of playing it!

A major update came out for a game I really enjoyed called Awful Kidnapper! I can't begin to tell you how much I'm in love with Wade, but in the update you meet a second character who is on a whole different plane of crazy! 

I'm really happy with the tiny skit I put on in the beginning, since I kinda did jump out of bed to play it.My wig in the video also looks super cute!!!  I'd been trying curlers in my wig so it didn't look so bland and it makes my hair super cute and curly! Oh! I also got a shirt from AliExpress that looks exactly like the one I usually draw myself in (which is supposed to be similar to Frisk’s shirt from Undertale but more pink and purple).

In other things, I've been super bummed about the banning of TikTok here in America. I only started using it maybe 2 years ago and it's been a wealth of knowledge, and community. I wasn't monetized there but I learned so much. Mental health, gardening, cooking, politics, animals, new games, new music, new artists and even some old songs, games, shows, and thirst traps, I mean, uh male anatomy for drawing research! I will dearly miss TikTok in a way that makes me almost actually SOB. It's hard to explain how a “children's dancing app” has changed so many people's lives, but it has. Today, the day before it’s supposed to go offline I believe,  feels like watching a loved one slowly fade away and all you can do is stand beside them and try to make them laugh one more time. What I'll miss most is the sonder, seeing a new face from somewhere in this world talking about their life, then scrolling to the next and see a completely different person with the same feelings, and feeling a bit less isolated than I had before, seeing people share what they know, vent, put themselves out there even when they're scared, or just sharing positivity. I loved leaving a kind comment on a brave person's video that has few views and imagining that it gives them a bit more confidence. We as humans are very similar and also so very unique, and it's wonderful. There's a ton more I'd like to say but this update would be far too long. So I'll just say this. Keep moving forward. Now that we know what's possible there is a way to have it again. Just like hope, it may take a lot of time to find it but it is possible.

As always, thank you for the support, for being here today, and for reading this!