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.

Bye All!

A.I. for the first half of 2018

Hi All!

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.

Bye All!

So Much Housekeeping

Hey All!

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!

Bye All!

Having A Great Time

Hi All,

We're at 109 subscribers right now. Maybe it will drop down a bit, but views are up as well. I've started working harder at Uni as well, so that's good for my mental health. Also, Ihasnotomato has been having an orgasm every day. He gets super excited when he looks at the changes that Team Fortress 2 will experience when the new update drops. So, if you're into watching videos of people being excited, and if you haven't already, then please check his Jungle Inferno Update videos.

This morning, I recorded the audio for the Top 10 Videos and Video Of The Month for both August and September, so hopefully they will come out soon. I just have to manage my assignments and hobbies well enough.

Also, Yooka-Laylee is absolutely hilarious right now. The last two episodes, maybe even three, have been non-stop silliness. Our videos aren't always like that, because we're real people with our own emotions and lives, so add the latest Yooka-Laylee episodes to your watch list as well.
That's everything.

Bye All!

Slamming It

Hi All,

It's been a pretty sweet time here at AIM.

We're closing in on getting the band back together. We're producing more episodes every week (full schedule) with three episodes of Yooka-Laylee and three of Maj Mak. And we're making cool stuff for our 6 years/100 subs celebrations.

Also Liam has released his webcomic called Kass the Psychopath, and it's pretty interesting and tingles your emotions a little bit. I don't want to exaggerate how good it is, so I'll under-do it.

Bye All!

Maj Mak and Darwin

Hi All,

If you haven't noticed, we have no more Yooka-Laylee to upload onto the channel. However, we do have a whole lot of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask to upload. We recorded for 6 hours straight.

The reason why we haven't recorded more Yooka-Laylee is because Liam is away in Darwin to do an art retreat and focus on his webcomic called Kass.

This means we're humming along at two Maj Mak (our nickname for the game) episodes per week, but I think I should make Saturday another day for it. This is so that we get a new episode every other day, with a gap for the Sunday rest.

That's about it. I don't have much more to tell you.

Liam also did a video showing how he made the thumbnail art for the series, so here it is:

Bye All!

Extending the 6 Year Anniversary

Hi All,

I know I can't literally lengthen the 6 Year Anniversary of AIM, but I can lengthen the celebrations.
I'm saying this like I'm in charge of everything. I'm not, but it was my idea to celebrate 6 Years of AIM.

Last night Liam and I recorded audio of us discussing our favourite moments, recalling things that we've done and the people involved.

We were going to have Frank in it, but he wasn't available for some reason. Normally he isn't available, but I have been in contact with him lately. He said he would be available on certain days, but it all comes down to everybody being ready at the same time. I may have to think about this more. This whole thing could have been planned better.

Bye All!

Humble Beginnings

Hi All,

Tomorrow is AIM Industries' 6 year anniversary. Thinking about the history of the channel and group, I think it's time that we post some screenshots of the channel as it has grown. So here they are!

 

24th August 2013, 7 Subscribers 

 

 26th February 2014, 11 Subscribers

23rd January 2015, 24 Subscribers

 

1st June 2015, 30 Subscribers

 

2nd January 2017, 41 Subscribers

 19th January 2017, 44 Subscribers

 

18th February 2017, 47 Subscribers

 

14th August 2017, 94 Subscribers

Where We Are Now

Hi All,

It's been a while since the last post and things have changed a little, so here's an update.

Liam was uploading the Sonic Adventure 2 series while my internet was bad. It's good enough to upload videos with, so I'm uploading the final batch of episodes. Liam uploaded episodes 29-36, which I edited and titled. Episode 37 and onward are all edited and uploaded by me. I also made all of the thumbnails for the Sonic videos, so really he just uploaded and described his batch of Sonic videos.

Okay, that's everything!

Bye All!

PS: We should really remove the TF2 logo from the schedule as we don't have any recorded.

Internet problems

Hi All,

For the last few weeks, I (Mabeanie) have been without a stable internet connection.

This is why one of those weeks was without videos. Ihasnotomato didn't want to upload any videos if there was only going to be Yooka-Laylee.

At a sweet YouTuber party, we organised to have him come by my house and pick up the edited episodes of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. So, since last week, it has been Ihasnotomato uploading all of the videos.

Right now I'm using wi-fi, but I have a lot of homework to do. Anyway, it is unfair on him to be uploading everything while I'm kicking back and writing essays. I don't know what his situation is right now, but I would certainly like to have a balanced workload for IM Industries.

Also, our subscribers dropped from 93 to 90 in the last few weeks, and in the last few days has picked up again. I think it's because we weren't uploading much, but who knows. Maybe it's because we stopped uploading TF2 stuff.

That's everything.

Bye All!