Things to come

Hi, everyone. Many of you may have noticed from my social media and YouTube posts that I am working on a much larger project and that this project is the beginning of (hopefully) a new era of Renegade Cut. I originally said that I would not be making a video in February to better focus on this project and because I did not wish to make a "placeholder" video. However, for the reasons I will explain below, I have changed my mind. This is pasted from a post on my YouTube channel:

I have given this a lot of thought over the past week, and for two separate reasons, I will be making a normal-sized Renegade Cut video between now and the release of the aforementioned much larger project due later.   

First, I've heard you. Even though I am not in any immediate financial danger should I not produce a video in February, the algorithm may, for lack of a more technical term, "forget" about me by the time I release my larger project. I want this large project to be seen, and if the algorithm is done with me due to not uploading anything in well over a month, all that effort will have been for nothing. Not to mention what it might do to the long-term health of the channel. In my attempt to maintain the "integrity" of my work, I may have missed the forest for the trees.  

Second, I had an idea last night about something I wanted to say, and it would be best if it took the form of a 10 - 20 minute video essay. I didn't want to make "low-effort" content, a placeholder, because that feels antithetical to what I want to accomplish with this channel. Nevertheless, the idea for the regular-sized video is actually not bad, and the specific content I have planned for it may even be helpful as a kind of transitional video between the current era of the channel and the new era I hope to begin. It won't be a vlog or low-effort content. It will be a proper video, albeit more ethereal and (sigh) poetic(?) than usual.   

Tentative release schedule for these two videos:  

Regular-sized, weird video -- before the end of this month

Large project -- March  

Thank you all, both for your patience and your advice.

P.S. - My Patreon is "per video" instead of per month, which means the only way this affects my patrons is that you will be paying me *less* in February and possibly March. So, this will not negatively affect your wallet, only mine.