by Bricks RSS | Jan 26, 2020 | Jangbricks
Above is the exact photo, pulled from its original upload location, that opened the very first post on my earliest LEGO-related blog, Zeyek’s BIONICLE: Untold. The in-character narratives of Zeyekti-Iiloptinous Mazzourel and a simultaneously-launched...
by Bricks RSS | Jan 25, 2020 | Jangbricks
It’s been two weeks since I was forced to yank the e-brake and put a full stop on the JANGBRiCKS channel on YouTube (and almost everything else, for that matter). By the time I posted my video explaining how YouTube had killed nearly all value in nearly all of...
by Bricks RSS | Jan 15, 2020 | Jangbricks
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...
by Bricks RSS | Jan 13, 2020 | Jangbricks
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...
by Bricks RSS | Jan 11, 2020 | Jangbricks
“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...
by Bricks RSS | Jan 6, 2020 | Jangbricks
It’s a little late, but YouTube today completed the second round of implementation of their changes to comply with the COPPA lawsuit settlement (that I’ve talked about quite a bit in the past) as well as some questionable add-ons they’ve bundled...