This evening while pursuing my usual modus operandus (research, brainstorm, plan, repeat) regarding Patreon & properly rewarding/supporting patrons, I had a mind-clearing epiphany.  A lot of my kindest and strongest supporters have insisted that if I accept their direct monetary support, the biggest & most important reward they'll receive in return is that I'll be able continue on doing what I've been doing up to now, making the best content I can.  I now realize this is incorrect.  I'll be able to do so much more, so much better.Read more »Original linkOriginal author: theJANG

For years I've gotten a consistent stream of requests for a Patreon page, PayPal "tip jar," or other means of directly, tangibly supporting my work, and I've always pushed the idea away.  All that time, family & friends have tried to reason with me and explain why I should work past this holdup.  A lot of what they've argued makes perfect sense, but at the end of the day, there's always been a single point I've returned to: I didn't need the extra support, thus I couldn't bring myself to accept it.  Even through numerous YouTube maladies, I've always resolved to do whatever I can to keep my involvement in this hobby and contributions to this community self-sufficient through normal, reasonable ad placements.Days into 2020, everything changed. The latest batch of YouTube changes utterly decimated residual ad income from nearly a decade of past work.  I finally accept that I need...

"Twenty-four little hours..."Deep breath.Right.  So, the video above explains it all.  Final data from YouTube's January changes arrived and the picture is extremely bleak for me, more than twice as bad as a supposedly accurate real-world test suggested it would be.  I really should be panicking right now, but somehow I'm not.I need to make bigger changes than I have in the over 10 years I've been doing this whole LEGO thing (almost 7 of them full-time).  I'm up to the challenge, though!  In the coming days & weeks you're going to see me asking a lot of questions of fans across multiple media & communication platforms, including some with which I've never before engaged.  I have a lot of ideas swirling around and will need your direct input to help shape the best of them into a new reality.My primary YouTube video style in particular needs a significant adjustment to overcome the...

Fox has revealed the celebrity guests that will be appearing on themed-episodes of the upcoming LEGO Masters TV show. The lead judge will be LEGO designer Jamie Berard and joining him will be LEGO celebrity fans Terry Crews, Mayim Bialik, Nicole Byer, Phil Lord, and Chris Miller. CELEBRITY LEGO® FANS JOIN HOST WILL ARNETT ON NEW UNSCRIPTED COMPETITION SERIES “LEGO MASTERS” PREMIERING WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, ON FOX Special Appearance by BB-8, C-3PO and R2-D2 in a “Star Wars”-Themed Episode New competition series LEGO® MASTERS has announced celebrity guests, including Mayim Bialik, Terry Crews, Nicole Byer and “The LEGO Movie” writers and directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. These special guests will join host Will Arnett throughout the show’s premiere season, debuting Wednesday, Feb. 5 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), immediately following the Season Three time period premiere of THE MASKED SINGER (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), on FOX. Actress and producer Mayim Bialik (“The Big...

If you missed out on the sale for the LEGO Ideas NASA Saturn V (21309) a few weeks ago, Amazon and Walmart currently has it for 14% off. It not much as it is only about $17 off the retail price but any deal is a good deal. Considering that LEGO has announced that it has been retired, this is probably your final chance to get it if you still need it. The post LEGO Ideas NASA Saturn V (21309) Amazon & Walmart Sale – January 2020 appeared first on The Brick Fan. Original linkOriginal author: Allen "Tormentalous" Tran