@HeyItsRUFF So sorry to hear that you were having issues, I'm glad that they were resolved! hope you get your rest and mental break Papi Ruff ๐๐๐
p.s I appreciate you stopping by ๐
@sauceddie Have to have some type of dynamic, it can't all be the same stuff over and over again. Sure I love horror but do I want it all the time... maybe, but that's not the point. You are doing great at keeping our interests peaked, you can't please everybody. Bien echo hermanito!!
The meeting with @zygomedia went amazing. Officially adding them to the team for full time editing, graphics, branding and visuals.
Time to wake up the offline content again.
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So here is what is going on with me. Full transparency.
So I started on KICK 3 months ago and put in the massive grind, no days off for the first 2 months and just did a full send. This was coming off a 8 month stint on TWITCH that was amazing on the community side, but toxic for my mental health in general due to financial adjustments, and just an overall TERRIBLE platform NOT designed with Creators in mind. It was awful honestly.
I take my Content creation career VERY serious from all aspects. Community building and giving back, the aesthetics and live production value and creating a one of a kind studio in the entire world. I want the experience to feel unique and exciting like its your first time watching my stream or the 1000th time. I am incredibly hard on myself and have always lived with a mediocrity will not be tolerated mentality with all things I do passionately. It is all or nothing for me. This is certainly a blessing and a curse.
The KICK experience has truly been life changing for me. Being partnered with STAKE has been a blast and has been a small step in decreasing crowd funding to survive monthly. The GFUEL and AIM Controllers partnerships also feel like hard work paid off, creator and community side. GG's. But my mental health still struggles. Can I be doing more? Am I good enough? Well I don't see this community member much anymore . . . Do they hate slots? Why did this person leave discord, etc etc. The obsession to always please everyone, all the time is daunting and exhausting and more importantly . . . unhealthy. I always created and curated my content around community with that TRUE value in mind first. ALWAYS FIRST. But with that closer connection comes a higher "responsibility" that I take seriously. In doing so, I often forget that I can not pour from an empty cup, as hard as I may try. I often forget to take care of ME and only realize it when it is too late. When my mental health is in crisis mode.
This time off in June, be it a bit scattered, has been a chance for me to reflect on the past almost 3 years that I have been a Full Time Content Creator. It has been a fucking INSANE journey with ups and downs. But it will always remain an absolute blessing to be able to do this for a living. We have made so many incredible memories together that I will cherish forever. This time off is a chance for me to refocus my energy, revamp the studio even more, come back better than ever and take this to the NEXT level. I burnt out HARD in the past 4 months. Burn out is a REAL thing. I wake up, sit at my desk and work on stream, business, branding, networking for 7 hours before I go LIVE. Then Stream for 5-7 hours, eat dinner at 1am, stay up for a few hours and rinse and repeat. I have been at 14 hour or more days for almost 3 years now. I would never change ANY of it, but it caught up. HARD.
I have a meeting with Zygo Media to start offline content again soon. I am also working on adding more Sponsorship/Partnerships and just being more intelligent with my time and resources. It is imperative for me to create content, relationships and income OUTSIDE of being LIVE. While I am LIVE, it is vital to continue to get healthier, provide better and more energetic and fun content and grow the community.
If you made it this far, thank you for listening. I needed to share, vent and articulate my absence and scattered streams in June. ill be back soon. Truly better than ever. Thank you to my community for understanding <3.
More Lights, 8 Cameras. More Sliders, Standing Streams. All the over kill incoming . . .
STAY TUNED.
Stream upgrades incoming!!! Grabbed a second Sony a7iii and 20mm G Lens. I have a ton of new changes coming in the next week or so.
Thank you always for the community that makes any of these upgrades even possible. Y'all are the absolute goats. #blessed#community
I am back tonight on KICK at 730pm eastern!!! Comment below Like and Retweet this tweet for a chance to win $100 just for being amazing <3. Winner will be chosen tonight on stream.
See you there <3.
@HeyItsRUFF Incredible photo!!
Love that you are finally taking some YOU time, your mental health comes first, when you come back I better see an explosion of energy like you have always done!
Love you and get some well deserved rest!
Remember.
Even at your worst. You are fucking incredible.
I miss yโall. Iโll be back soon. Until then, hold down the fort and enjoy this photo I took years ago.