SAIM old AIM

Hi All!

You may have noticed that we changed the name of the channel on YouTube and Twitter, and may be wondering why that happened.

It was a happy accident. Tomato and I had been talking about changing the AIM logo for two or more years. That logo was made in 2013 and since then we've gone through visual changes on the channel multiple times. A week or two ago, Tomato sent me an email showing the proposed logo. He had asked me before that how I wanted the characters to be arranged, and I said that they should be arranged SAIM (Stephanie, Akirasora, Ihasnotomato, Mabeanie). I didn't expect him to add that in text to the logo, but I suppose it makes sense. We mainly changed the imagery because Tomato is changing his avatar, and added Stephanie now that she's become a more important part of the group.

Calling the channel SAIM was hilarious when we first did it, but it has had consequences. When we upload the episodes to YouTube (Stephanie edits but does not upload the videos), we have to add buttons to a video screen at the end. This involves looking for the relevant playlist, and so the slight change is writing "saim industries majora's mask" in the search instead of "aim industries majora's mask". I wonder if there have been bigger consequences from this, like people being unable to find the channel due to the name change. We have changed it a few times over the years, like when we made IM the channel name in 2016 and changed it back to AIM when Akirasora returned to being in videos.

Anyway, I thought that I should update you all on that side of things.

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200 Subscribers!!!

Hi All!

I finished Uni on June 8th, took a brief holiday with my family, and had a week off from working on anything creative. I check YouTube almost every day and noticed the sub count continue to grow while Liam and Frank ran the channel as A.I. Industries.

Liam admitted to me on the 15th of June, before we recorded one of my Friday Night Fun videos, that the fact that the channel has been dormant for the past month is entirely his fault. Who can blame him. The guy has 14k subs! His work is very good and the AIM channel has been growing, so there haven't been any negative effects of neglecting the channel for a bit.

Nevertheless, we have a Majora's Mask recording session scheduled for Monday the 25th. If we don't discuss plans for AIM tomorrow (working on comics), then we will probably do so at the recording session. My thoughts currently are to do something to celebrate 200 subs, officially reintegrate Frank into the channel and rebrand ourselves as AIM again (hopefully with a new logo). I also want to revive Quasar, maybe A.M. as well. I want the three of us to have some discussions about how we're going to go about this new era that almost certainly awaits us.

We've been through a rough patch for the past four years, largely because of Frank's availability. It's broad to say that. Views have been up and down on occasion. In mid-2016 we declared ourselves officially IM and renamed everything. The first downturn in views, subscriber growth, and watch time was in 2016, followed by an incredible 2017 in which we skyrocketed from 47 to 113 subscribers. The trend continues in 2018 when we have now reached 200, a bigger growth than in 2017! Almost every year before 2017, we created a new show because one of us was unavailable. In 2013 we created IM, in 2014 AM, 2015 with AI, and 2016 with GM Industries. During a tough year for myself one of the things that I stuck to was uploading videos for AIM in 2017. However, this year is the first in my entire YouTube career (since 2010) that I stopped even making videos. I don't like centering the channel around myself, but this was obviously a key factor in the year so far.

I look forward to our Monday recording session. It will be a breath of fresh air after some head-down-bum-up time in the earlier part of this year. The road ahead is still foggy, but I have confidence for the time being. I always love to try new things so you'll never know what sort of stuff we might cook up in the time ahead.

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A.I. for the first half of 2018

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So I'm making sacrifices for my final semester at Uni before I graduate and become a qualified historian/political theorist or something. I don't know what the politics one is called. There are lots of names. I guess it depends on what I decide to do with it. My sacrifices include the following: No Supercars, no video editing, no recording sessions. I'm just thinking of the things that cost my significant amounts of my time and most likely have impacted on my work quality at Uni.

Until the 10th of March, we have Majora's Mask stuff. Ihasnotomato and I recorded a bunch of PC things and also finished Yooka-Laylee last Monday. We decided that he and Akirasora could record some A.I. Industries stuff while I'm dedicating my time elsewhere.

This will be a fun change for the channel and hopefully lasts longer than the last time they did A.I., which was about two weeks long. I need them to do about four months. I hope that it all works out.

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So Much Housekeeping

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So our channel exploded again.

Above is the growth from the last week. Below is the growth from March, last year.

I attribute the growth in the last week to Ihasnotomato. He released the new MvM TF2 video on our channel, and it got over 200 views. This, according to YouTube analytics, is due to the video that he released on his own channel which directed his viewers to our video. So our channel exploded from 117 subscribers to 159 in less than a week. In fact, It took a few hours for the majority of the growth to take place.

In terms of our 2018 plans, we're taking a big break after uploading 250-something videos in 2017, and just relaxing after such a long year. We'll return with more Yooka-Laylee and Majora's Mask, and are currently considering the creation of a new show, in which we will teach each other how to be good at the games that we suck at. The working title is Git Gud.

We will probably return as late as Australia Day, on the 26th of January.

Meanwhile, thanks for reading!

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