Crafting challenge, week 22

This one gets filed under "that's the definition of irony."  (video here)  Story time.

I saidtyped this last week:

I might feel differently if the response was higher.  It's been overwhelmingly positive for sure, but they're not driving many views and it is a pain to have to go try to drum up support every week.  

I've been going through a roller coaster of emotions every week revolving around whatever the script is and how terrible it might be.  It's usually better once the video is posted but not always--last week was one of those.  I hate having to advertise stuff and it's a real feel-bad moment in my week.  One of the places I'd been posting is the Matt Colville subreddit as it's a place that has mostly reasonable folks and occasionally good discussion.  I didn't post this one specifically because the last one did so poorly there.

I also saidtyped this:

If something significant changes in that time I'll reconsider but for now that's the plan.

Turns out that someone else posted my video to the Matt Colville subreddit.  It was heavily upvoted and drove a ridiculous amount of traffic.  It's driven more than double the channel's total views and more than tripled the sub count.  It's a pretty significant change.  A week later it's still driving subs and views more than the previous 14 videos combined.

The truth remains that building videos takes too much time.  It's also true that I still hate advertising stuff--none of that has changed.  This month I'm doing SHIPtember despite my better judgement so I'll have even less time for other stuff.  I'm not entirely sure how to make sense of all of this but for now I'm content to ride the wave and see where it goes.