[00:01] [Laughter] welcome everyone and zacchaeus from the future this is a video for you coming from zako's from the past it should be around about one year from now
[00:16] that this video has been recorded and uploaded and just scheduled for one year in the future and it's just kind of like you know a catch-up how's it been it's been one year how how
[00:29] progressing and i have a few topics here that i want to discuss and just you know um i guess a kind of a reminder from where
[00:41] you started from so you don't forget your roots your roots okay so first of all is your avatar rigged right now you're still a png
[00:54] when i say you i mean me i'm still i'm still a png okay have you rigged yourself yet have you gone through that process because i know the original plan was that you go ahead and
[01:09] that you go ahead and uh learn live 2d you learn how to rig yourself and then you you know put that on the and then you get to learn a new skill but
[01:21] i do realize from doing a little bit of work in that that it takes a long long time to get something that's decent looking um and maybe it's not the quality you want or maybe you have the funds in
[01:35] a year's time to get a good quality uh rig done have you done that have you gone to the personal route i don't know let's talk about it the next one is obviously your avatar model being updated or not model but
[01:51] art the outfit and everything the face is going to be mostly the same you're hair i keep saying you but it's me um and obviously the d20 and the golden eyes and the
[02:05] pauldron that's that's gonna be like the main symbol of your channel i'm pretty sure i've made a logo around this time that's essentially that and so have you
[02:18] switched to your new design have you gotten a new design your new design that we that we uh made during one of the streams or actually three of the streams we did three streams of that
[02:31] so how do you look do you look good do you look smashing and then next one i want to cover what's what's the story with your background music are you still using stream beats by harris heller
[02:45] harris if you if you're watching this for some because we don't have any music right now we don't have our own music and we anything my goal since the start or one of my
[02:59] aspirations since the start was to get my own background music made and i know a friend who can do it for me but i don't know if i'm ready to take that step yet or if it's worth it for me to spend
[03:11] money on something uh like that which is more polished than than like anything it's not really adding content to my content kind of but not really uh you know maybe it's not worth it
[03:25] getting see i need a rig better overlays and stuff like that okay and so what's what's the story with that zechos okay
[03:39] zechos okay next one monetization now the current goal of the channel to get monetized and what that means in this current time is 1 000 subs
[03:55] 4 000 watch hours right now we are sitting up on screen right here um but i'll read it out anyway which is 11 watch hours 14 subscribers okay it used to be at
[04:10] more than 40 around 50 watch hours but that's because i had the streams public and not unlisted like i haven't currently and i put them on unlisted because you know i reckon nobody's really gonna
[04:24] my vods especially that of a small very small minuscule youtuber v tuber quality content or in more of a short form format which
[04:36] is the highlights the guides and everything like that instead of having it all cluttered by two three four hour streams that get any traction anyway because no one's gonna watch a
[04:48] four hour stream right i mean maybe maybe someone will but to the pull of a stream is the interaction you have with the people in it um obviously podcasts are different but anyway that's i'm rambling too much
[05:02] are you yet or you have 4 000 watch hours which is a lot but you know um if you put into perspective it kind of
[05:15] kind of makes sense if one of your videos goes viral and you know lots of people watch it and your view hours are going to skyrocket like that um but yeah anyway uh how how's the
[05:27] progress and also have you uploaded more than 50 videos yet because the initial plan was that we upload one video a week uh and if there's about like 52 weeks in
[05:40] a year right right so it's gonna be about 50 videos in a year if we keep going down this um this path like maybe we'll upload shorts by the way not including shorts or stream vods
[05:54] actual edited videos okay have you done 50 of those and more importantly have you like kept up the consistency are you a bit like in shambles are you a bit all over
[06:08] the place what's going on are you doing okay in that regard next one is actually related to that which was uh right now i'm currently really packed
[06:20] rig i'm learning how to stream i'm learning how to make youtube videos all the while working at a full-time job which don't get me wrong i love my job but i'm just stacking all of these
[06:33] just not a lot of time along with some personal stuff that i have to deal with and it's just hard to find time and that's why i wanted to get a video editor to do this for me but obviously
[06:48] and i channel my size currently it's not really really like you know a thing that i should do like i don't have the resources to do it it's probably not going to be worth
[07:00] doing it right now like spending hundreds of euros or dollars um on something that might only get back a minuscule fraction of that amount if i
[07:13] if at all i'm not even monetized so maybe it's not worth it i can still edit lot from doing it so i'm gonna i'm gonna stick to this for now but in i do wanna get an editor hired so i can focus on
[07:27] more stuff like better streams more streams streams and and all of that kind of goodness so speaking of other people have you done collaborations with anyone like right
[07:41] now i'm just solo you know kind of just doing my own thing i have thought of collaborations but like i'm still a bit nervous okay i don't know i don't know if i can um
[07:54] don't know i don't know if i can um um handle it right now um collaborations is not only you know am i like such a big introvert right now but also
[08:09] i want to interact with chat and it's hard to interact with chat if i'm interacting with another person or just a collaborator sorted maybe it'll come when i actually do it
[08:24] i'm not really sure what to do i guess maybe i'll have to do it and experience it to actually know but we'll cross that bridge when we get but have you started collaborations i know a few friends
[08:39] right now who who are streamers and might be up for collab you know not going to name names right now but you should know you shouldn't at home to talking about um okay
[08:55] to collaborations which is in communities have you joined a v tuber community or even just you know a small youtuber
[09:07] v tubers because that's kind of what we are we are a youtuber um and i do kind of i'm very interested in joining that community and it's something that i want to get
[09:21] but i haven't really got into it i don't know how to get into it what facebook groups or discord groups or something um to hop into i'll figure that out as i go but right now currently i'm just
[09:34] solo i don't even know anyone in in the community or other content creators so this will be an interesting thing to experience once i experience it so if you are in a community
[09:48] how is it i hope it's doing well i hope you're doing okay and i hope you've met a lot of awesome people um because in the previous that i was in before before this whole youtuber thing
[10:01] i've met some lifelong friends one of which became my best friend for appreciate them to this day um so to this day um so next up we have the topic of stream
[10:16] videos or stream topics mostly are you still meaning genjin impact i impact is still going to be as big of a big as a big big as a big as big a game as it is today
[10:30] but are you still streaming genjin like 80 maybe 90 of the time or have you moved on to streaming other games like our second resident evil stream or our first technically if
[10:42] an hour's time excited for that one um but have you moved on to making other streams or or streaming other games
[10:56] you still streaming games are you just more chatting going on what's the story how does it differ from where you are currently right now or where i am currently right now um
[11:11] or where i am currently right now um which is mostly gentian impact guides uh reviews i guess i say review but i've only really reviewed one thing which is the 1.5 patch um which i'm really excited for and i've
[11:25] been pretty excited for just because of eula you doing something else next one is streaming
[11:37] in the same vein of streaming as well but this time it's duration three hours three times a week like right now uh i'm streaming thursday saturday and sunday nine p.m
[11:52] 10 p.m 9 p.m respectively and usually it's about two maybe three hours sometimes four but very rarely usually two and a half to three hours is kind of the main shebang or have you
[12:05] no streaming a bit less or streaming a bit more or maybe if you have an editor you can stream a bit more who knows and if if you are streaming um more what do you stream are you
[12:21] uh you know have you streamed any big events like one of the things that i was planning to do is a debut stream like a proper one i know i've already started my channel
[12:34] and done multiple streams and everything but right now we're kind of in like the pre-debut where i'm still trying to figure out how this youtube thing or streaming thing works and the three tubing thing works
[12:47] and obviously i'm still a png so i want to do a debut stream um where i showcase you know who i am uh my likes dislikes uh my new model which
[12:59] will hopefully be rigged by that time and like my my lord um and you know the things i'm gonna do and all of that kind of things that you'd youtuber stream but hopefully add my own twist to it and
[13:15] twist to it and um yeah i guess that's that for that next one is i guess more of a thank you um i don't know if these guys are still in the chat or still still watching the streams consistently
[13:29] but if they are and heck even if they're not i just want to i just want to uh give a big big big massive thank you massive thank you to chuma slash baby boo boo baba
[13:42] or uh cherry cakes whatever you go by these days um but big big thank you to chuma he's been there since day one my very first stream which was on twitch by the way i streamed there for like
[13:56] three streams and then left for youtube but he was there on day one in my first halfway through the stream it was playing games and impact and we were the cathedral i don't know how i remember this so well but i guess it
[14:11] makes sense because it's you know it's important but chima was there since that day and has stuck around um till you know till
[14:23] he's only missed one stream and that was last stream and that was probably and i sure hope he's doing okay like not overworking himself or anything overworking himself or anything but big big thank you to him for
[14:36] without having a viewer you know streaming to zero viewers is is hard it's it's difficult um and it's you know it's it's not really where you want to be
[14:50] because whenever i see zero viewers it's hard to keep talking off of and it's you know it's it's just it self-worth like what you feel inside there's like
[15:06] just even having that one person there in chat to communicate and interact with is such such a nice thing to have and so again i'm really thankful for chima for being that person because without shuma i don't know if i
[15:21] would have gotten the courage to you know keep going as consistently as i planned to um so yeah thank you so much jimmy you like every time you come in this stream and i'm like whoa this is like
[15:33] the tenth stream in a row hasn't missed a single beat is drought of darkness which is drought of darkness which is my first viewer that came in during my
[15:48] 1.5 review and he stuck around and uh he was my first ever donation now and you know chima's say like hey i wanted to donate to you first
[16:02] but technically so the story was i was streaming on this was still when i was on twitch uh chuma wanted to donate to me but he um so technically he would have been the first one but he ended up donating right
[16:16] after drought of darkness jab darkness donating three dollars at of the 1.5 review stream which i really appreciated and it was streaming and at the end um i just heard this like
[16:32] uh my notification go off and i it was such a surprise because i didn't have streamlabs all my donation messages in it because i wasn't
[16:46] and i just kind of like went hey it's you know it's it's whatever i'm streaming for fun so i heard like the the nice from so i heard like the the nice from uh from the uh joseph joestar
[17:00] on a second so i had to like bring up and then i just see like a three dollar donation and i can't tell you how donation and i can't tell you how amazing that feels the first time around
[17:13] like it's that first donation especially it it came so unexpectedly it really showed me that there was there was a feature to this if i kept on going was a feature to this if i kept on going and because you know someone liked my
[17:28] content enough or like even liked me enough to even if it is three dollars ask for any uh any money at all and they just gave it
[17:40] because they enjoyed what i did and that really validated my um my whole thinking because it made me realize that realize that someone liked like me
[17:55] you know someone liked me guys i'm getting emotional here as i've i've always kind of um [Music] of struggled with you know um self-worth and self-esteem and all of
[18:12] that so i'm really happy that someone donated to me and not only one person but schumer also donated to me right afterwards because he got his phone fixed and so i got five dollars that day
[18:25] and an extra one dollar from chuma again at a later point so at this at the time of recording i have about uh six dollars to my name via donations only
[18:37] you so much and then the last person i want to thank is alfion alfion alfian offian you alfion alfian offian you are my second most loyal um
[18:52] are my second most loyal um viewer fan friend in viewer fan friend in this channel at the moment because missed one stream i can't remember but you've
[19:06] you've stuck around like chuma and ian schuma seems to get and i'm really thankful that i'm getting you know loyal people even if it's only for for someone who's only started streaming like four weeks ago
[19:21] time but it's really not in the content creation space especially if you're a streamer you know because especially sorry because there's like zero discoverability over there that's why i
[19:34] moved on to youtube and then decided to make youtube videos along with it make youtube videos along with it i did my research guys i did my research and hopefully i will continue to do so one year down the line
[19:46] um but yeah very very thank you for those three people because they have really helped me um kind of strive for for more and also if by the time this comes out and i'm still
[20:00] and i'm still doing my streaming and doing my thing i told you alfie on in one of the streams actually the stream just before um he was like you better not quit four months down the line and i'm like
[20:13] do it man don't worry about it because i you know i have this whole set i have this whole thing set and so and when you're down the line and i'm still doing it this video is a ha i showed you
[20:28] but no it's it's more so a thank you as well so there you go um that's that's what i wanted to say for those three individuals next one and which is the final one really it's just
[20:41] an overall how do you feel how are you use echoes it sounds like a therapy session but for real how how does it feel one down the line how does it feel one year later
[20:53] and i know my content uh sorry my channel in in some of these um screenshots that i'm posting up now showing my old channel or i guess recording says that i started in november because
[21:07] i did start in november but i didn't you know upload much i uploaded one video in november and one video in like january or something and i didn't really start until my first um
[21:20] first uh video which was the wind bloom festival and my first stream on youtube was was the uh um we're meeting who uh archon quest uh thing in ingenshion uh which i guess
[21:35] right now and since then it's only been like uh 28 and since then it's only been like uh 28 days ish age maybe around a month since then we have already gained more than 1 500
[21:49] uh views i think and and 14 subscribers which i think is a decent amount but i might be wrong maybe that's absolutely trash and i don't know but um yeah how do you feel is are things different
[22:04] than how they used to be so how much different are they uh who are the new people in chat who are the the entertaining now i guess in other words who are
[22:17] your target audience if you know that or who are the people that you want to who are the people that you want to entertain the most um and just how are you in general are you doing okay in life you know
[22:32] but yeah i guess that's that's all i really wanted to ask that's all i really want to talk about it's a long video 20 minutes and if and and maybe a stream it'll be even
[22:44] longer but uh yeah that's uh uh that's all i wanted to do that's all i wanted to talk about just a quick one-year catch-up all right maybe hopefully it wasn't too cringy or
[22:58] i wonder if i still speak in the same tone and the same kind of uh tone and the same kind of uh uh i don't know depth or maybe i've changed to something else i don't know
[23:13] who knows a lot can happen in a year indeed it can but anyway i hope you all have a wonderful wonderful night evening afternoon morning wherever
[23:25] you may be from and i don't know if you still have that same outro echoes i can't talk anymore my goodness my name is zekkos and i'll catch you in the next one ciao