2021 November Update!

Hello everyone! Welcome to my first update regarding the new channel!

First off, thank you all for supporting me AND supporting me through these development phases.

I appreciate it greatly and I wouldn't be able to do this without your support (seriously).

Thanks for putting your faith in me everyone, you’re all amazing people <33

Now, down to business. I’ve made a number of important milestones and I’d like to share them all with you.

I’ll list them in bullet format like Patch Notes. Because I’m a nerd, and also dyslexic, and its just a good way of displaying information lmao.

In depth explanations will be included after the Patch Notes section, just scroll down if you'd like more detailed info. Thanks everyone!!

Update Topics: User and Channel Name Changes, Conceptual Refinements & Development Phase Completion

Username & Channel Name Changes

• I have made the decision to retire the usernames “ataggerung” “tagg” & “thatguytagg”
• I will go by the usernames “Summer” and “summerDogg” from here on out
• The New YouTube Channel Name Will Be: summerDogg - https://www.youtube.com/c/summerdogg
• My new twitter handle will be: @summer_dogg

Conceptual Refinements

• Massive progress and refinement of the “Core Idea” behind the channel
• Several Video Series Names Will Be Changed.
• The “In The Details” will now be called The “Appreciate” series
  • Example: “In The Details: TF2” will now go by “Appreciate : TF2”
  • “In The Details” is a stiff and frankly boring sounding name for the series. Sounds like I’m a college professor and I’m delivering a lecture.
  • “Appreciate” is the name of the series and will not be changed to “Apprecating”
  • The goal is not to be grammatically correct, the goal is to have a consistent name these videos for “”brand recognition”” purposes. (In the most non-corporate way possible, I just want these to be easy to recognize and find lol)
• “Level By Level” will now be called “Pre-Recorded”
  • Example: “Level By Level: Subnautica” will now go by “Pre-Recorded: Subnautica”
  • This change leans (heavily) into the casual yet focused Pre-Recorded Stream feeling I want these videos to have
  • Text Formating? “Pre-Recorded: gameName” - “PreRecorded: gameName” - “Prerecorded: gameName” - “prerecorded: GameName” Feedback would be helpful with this
• “What It Needs” will now be called “Thought Experiment”
  • Example: “What It Needs: StarFox” turns into “Thought Experiment: Rebooting Star Fox”
  • “What It Needs” comes off as presumptuous and cocky, which is not my intention with this series
  • “Thought Experiment” is more neutral in tone and open to interpretation, which is my intention with this series
  • Open to other suggestions for the title of this series
• New Video Series: “summerTime”
  • A flexible video series that focuses on discussion of any topic I want
  • Example: “summerTime: Microsoft’s Gaming Turnaround” (temp name)
    • Video will talk about GamePass, Backwards Compatibility, FPS Boost, etc efforts being made by Microsoft and the possibilities those things pose
  • Example 2: “summerTime: Apple And Arm” (temp name)
    • Video will talk about Apples recent advancements with the ARM CPU architecture and what possible opportunities this tech could open up in the future. (vr & mobile devices)
• Under Development: New Name for Highlight Videos
  • Still want to make highlight videos but I want them to have a Series Name like the other videos
  • I’m thinking I could release them monthly, as clips and moments pile up. In order to keep things tidy in my folders and on the channel
  • Possible Name: "summerHighlighs: 2021 December"
  • Need help figuring out the naming conventions of this series, want them to be easy to find and organized but have not boring as hell names?

Development Phase Completion

• Pre-Production & Development Phase has been completed
• Moving to Production Phase
• Still On track for launch! :D!
• Yummy!

In Depth Notes

Username & Channel Name Changes

I outgrew the “Tagg” username years ago and have been wanting to retire it. I was apprehensive at first because “BRAND RECOGNITION” but it would be stupid of me to put that above my own well-being. My goal is to feel comfortable with this channel. “Tagg” to me, represents my adolescent phases. I literally made the name in middle school and I’m one year away from being 30 lmao. Aside from just being a much nicer sounding name, Summer to me represents a good time (back when summer was like 15 degrees less hot) and I wanna have a good time from here on out with life and this channel. Also I’m trans LMAOOOO LETS GOOO

My username will be “summerDogg” as I still intent to use a “MASCOT” to be my online buffer and represent myself online. Currently unsure what they will look at but this is lower on my priority list at the moment. Anyways, I like the imagery the name invokes and it has flexibility with its use, summerTime, summerTalks, summerShares etc

Conceptual Refinements & Development Phase Completion

I could say a lot in this segment so I’ll try and keep it to the point. I can comfortably say that I have completed the Development phase of the channel and I am now entering the Production phase!

The Development phase is the hardest and most important phase in all of this. Starting on Production before having a clear idea of what you are making results in a massive amount of wasted time, effort and energy. Not knowing what your goal is means you end up re-writing scripts, re-recording footage, re-editing footage and much more. Having a good development stage makes everything afterwards much much easier.

The Development Phase for this channel began just shy of a year ago, I worked and refined the idea until it was in a presentable state and re-launched my Patreon along with the announcement of the new channel. I've been working on finishing up the final defining loose ends in terms of the channels tone, goal and overall feel. I've now gotten to a point where I can confidently say I now have a clear understanding of the channels identity and am now ready to fully enter the Production phases. 

To keep you all in the loop, the first stage of the Production Phase will be to finalize my rough drafts for my scripts in progress. Since my Development Stage has gone well, I already have a "Skeleton" in mind for the formatting of the scripts so I'll be able to move much faster as a result. I am confident when I say that things are on track to meet the December Channel Launch Deadline!

I have much more I want to say but I’ll end it here and save my thoughts for the next update!

Thanks everyone! Hope you’re doing well and stay well.

summerDogg~