CHANGES COMING - DROPBOX ARCHIVES

Hi Everyone! We just wanted to give you a breakdown as we start to archive some of our previous KDramas!

Vimeo has been the primary video hosting site that we have used since we started our Patreon. We have paid them yearly to host reaction videos because there has been so many copyright issues with YouTube.

Well, after Vimeo’s recent policy changes, they have been warning us the past few months that we are exceeding our allowed monthly bandwidth.

QUICK Lesson: Bandwidth is measured as the amount of data it takes to transmit our videos from the server they are housed on to your device for viewing. Bandwidth usage is equivalent to a few factors such as number of views / watch time / resolution, etc.

This basically means, if our videos are watched too frequently, we exceed our bandwidth.

If we do this too many times, Vimeo will lock all of our videos and we will have to negotiate a very high price in order to retrieve them, and to continue to use Vimeo’s video hosting platform.

OUR SOLUTION GOING FORWARD

We of course WANT you all to watch our videos as much as you want and we want this issue to affect you as little as possible!

While we want to continue using Vimeo for our Current Dramas as well as BTS Content, we will be ARCHIVING our older dramas and transferring them to DROPBOX.

Each post for our completed Dramas will be revamped to have watch links in the description with a password that you will need to enter in order to watch the video.

It is very important that you do not share any links as there is a cost associated with every view (bandwidth usage).

You as a Patron are helping to fund our efforts to deliver content - A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU! We’re so happy to have you all with us and we’re wanting to take care of things now before it becomes a problem.

FINALLY

Things we have learned:

1. Bandwidth usage is something that every video hosting or file share site accounts and charges for to some degree....even the "free" ones...

YouTube is free to use for Creators, but the trade off is that they take the side of big companies over Creators in order to attract and keep advertisers. Which in turn is how they make money. It is what it is and business is business. However, the major issue is that even though your video could be protected under "Fair Use" - if the owner of the content you are using to react to wants your video blocked or taken down, YouTube will always take action against you no matter if you are using the content for the sole purpose of review and critique. It doesn't matter. YouTube will always take the side of big companies.

2. Paid Video Hosting Sites - customers are paying for 2 Things: Storage and Bandwidth usage. Initially with Vimeo, our plan was just accounting for storage use. However, after Vimeo’s recent policy changes, we’ve been going over our bandwidth just about every month! So either we stay within our bandwidth limit or we pay for overages or risk our account being locked.

3. DON'T PUT YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET - We are working on having multiple ways to distribute content to ensure that we do not use excessive amounts of bandwidth on one platform. Depending on our usage after this switch, we may add a 3rd option or switch from Vimeo completely.

THANKS EVERYBODY SO MUCH! AND HAPPY WATCHING!!!

Candace and Susan