A Written Update - Changes coming to the Patreon!

Hey y'all! Some may have seen my recent video I put out titled 'An Important Update' but for those of us who don't have the time to watch a video or are more visual learners (find reading better in this case), here is the gist of it:

- As of June, I'll be significantly altering the request structure over here on the Patreon.

- I'll be establishing a brand new tier called the 'Universe Tier' which will abolish (get rid of) the Sun tier and the Galaxy tier. 

- The new Universe Tier will hold a maximum of 30 requesters, and each request will be capped at 10 minutes. The price of this tier is $10 - the same as the current Sun tier.

- Requests can be either 2 videos with a maximum of 10 minutes combined total or one video under 10 minutes.

- Requests can only be made for one platform - Youtube or Patreon.

- Requests made for Youtube will be streamed together on weekends on Youtube (2 streams will be held to accommodate for different timezones. One for the Asia-Pacific's convenience, the other for Europe/The Americas). VOD's will be available on Youtube in case requesters miss the streams.

- Requests made for Patreon will be mashed together as an episode of 'The Binge' which is a series regularly featured over here on Patreon.

- Current requesters gain top priority in securing the Universe tier first, but if numbers fall below 30 then other spots will open up for others to also join if need be! 😊

My reasons:

Now, I feel like I've explained this a little bit already, but when I was sick I felt like all the lack of sleep and work I've been doing lately really caught up with me. Paired with the fact that there is rarely time as there is for me in the current schedule to rest, I thought that ultimately something had to give, and the first thing was requests.

Now I personally love requests. For me, they're an incredible way to get to know other groups and learn about new music but it has been quite some time since I started my channel already now, so I've decided I don't need them for this purpose alone anymore.

As I've said a bit too, there is a loooooooooot of stuff which catches my eye both when I'm doing requests and when I'm not, and there is so many things I wish I could react to if I had the time. Gradually this 'time' to react to stuff on 'my list' has slipped away and decreased dramatically just because of the time that I have been spending on Patreon-centred requests. This is no one's fault and don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed every second of these! It's just become a lot less sustainable over time ❤️

So where to now? 

Well, the new Universe tier will go up at the start of this month, and I'll do as many of the remaining requests on my backlog as I can! Those that I can't, I'll DM you directly ❤️ For the rest of us, this means more reactions (surprisingly), more rest (with the former being a result of this), and more fun. I plan on engaging with you guys way more through polls to decide what goes up here when and to hand a bit more of the fun over to you. Streams may not be everyone's cup of tea, but lately they've become a favourite of mine and so I'm really looking forward to request streams on Youtube 😊 

To save my workload and not overburden myself, some smaller things on here that we regularly watch will be put on rotation, but I'll talk about that separately in a new schedule change post later tonight.

Until then y'all, any questions, thoughts, worries? Leave them in the comments below! Thank you all so much for always being so incredibly loving, supportive and fun to be around guys. I know stuff changes a fair bit over here, but at least we keep it interesting! I've found my groove with this now, and I am so much more confident about who I am here and what I am doing - no one can bring me down. But now I feel like I've just released another limiter - one allowing me to be myself even more by resting, taking things a little easier and in turn being a happier version of myself too.

Love you all!

~ Lachie ❤️