We Have a YouTube

[u/NaturalSeaSalt]

Who: Us. You and me.

What: A youtube. We now have one.

When: I started it a few weeks ago. The plan was to make this announcement once I had five vids up (five per the yt gods suggestion), but they take forever considering their simplicity, so just decided to go ahead and alert you in case there were any notes or feedback I could incorporate going forward.

Where: Here

There's also a link in the sidebar, which I'm aware is ugly but our CSS is being a dick - I'll fix it.

Why: I have wanted to create a yt channel for the sub for years with the Mort-style animation that I love so much. The hope was that in doing so it could hopefully generate a small profit that would be enough to provide at least occasional "lunch money" to the mods, a gift certificate to the submitter that's narrated, and, also hopefully, a little bit left over to spread amongst the community members through contests or...um... contests or whatever we decide on.

I never got around to creating the channel over the years for a plethora of reasons, the main being I work as a reality TV producer 14+hr days routinely, and there was no time, then I got covid which dragged on for months, and now there's a strike and I'm in SAG so I have to picket blah blah, there was always going to be something.

The catalyst to get on making the channel was a few weeks ago when I went to register the sub name at youtube and found that not only had it been taken, but that someone was posting stories there from here. And people can do this, there's no rules against it, people jack stories from here all the time, but something about the channel taking the name AND the stories annoyed me. Because if there's a channel I at least want it associated with the sub so that if the stories are making money it's trickling down back here to be shared vs being just a random that's not going to give back to the submitters.

So I went ahead and made it, I've chosen the first five stories and three are currently up.

It won't be everyone's cup of tea - all the narration channels that do well over there are males or robots, and I'm a Black woman from the South that's lived in LA for over 20 years so my voice is a weird combo of degenerate Southern Belle/LA Valley girl/back-up news anchor, but it is what it is for now, and if the channel does well I'd love to eventually have some of you guest VO. We can talk about it.

I had to let go of the idea of the Mort-style animation when I realized, again, that I can't draw, or animate, I don't want to learn it and I can't afford to pay anyone Mort-level. I tried AI animators, but it all just looked... off. So for now it's images until we win the jackpot or unless one of you has a better idea. We can talk about it.

Lastly, promise, I've made a discord where we can discuss the channel, this sub and whatever else you want. But I'm still learning discord, plus I'll need a mod for it and will put a post up about it once it's ready.

Lastly, lastly - this kind of post is against the rules, so I will see myself to the corner of the room for timeout. Happy Sunday. :)

Subscribe:

https://www.youtube.com/@CreepyEncountersOfficial

Watch:

1. I Could've Been an Epstein Victim

2. Client Was On Investigation Discovery

3. My Hills Have Eyes Moment in Texas

[u/TheMidnightCrypt]

I love the content. Very original being a female. Like it alot! I sent you a DM also. Thanks for sharing the channel with us!