As a trans guy who kinda started exploring my gender because of sewing, your channel is by far my favorite sewing/art channel on here, the energy is perfect. I watch Nicole Rudolph and bernadette banner and all them too (esp nicole bc tailoring! masc/mens clothes!) but I really love your approach to sewing and videomaking Also you HAVE made me consider getting into larp haha
I am a lady over 50 and I like it when you are you. My boys used to l.a.r.p so I like hearing about it. I prefer people who do different things because I am a person who does various craft stuff, including fabric and yarn hoarding. You be you, I prefer it that way. I am still in the process of watching your past videos. I wish I could help more, but hitting the "like" button and commenting every so often is all I can do right now.
Old lady here, non-LARPer. I watch you because you're interesting and often surprise me. You often give valuable info as an aside when your main idea is about something else. One reason the skirt video was a big hit was that it was low-key, doable and you didn't nitpick over stitching details. Do what you want. You can't please everybody. I recently watched some videos of very chatty, smiley, giggly people that I just suffered through because eventually they got around to showing their projects. I don't expect perfection on RUclips.
Is 50 old? Probably, right? Dammit. I’m LARP-adjacent. But yeah I came in with that crowd for the skirt video but stayed because you’re hilarious and relatable and interesting to watch.
Another old lady here! I’m also very cranky and mean but not in the comments. I don’t understand why someone would spend time watching and complaining about the content. There’s a million things I would love to do I don’t have time to do stuff I don’t like!
I don’t remember how I arrived- but this channel hit so many buttons for this over 65, costumer, crappy sewer, book maker, painter, closet medievalist, LARP LURKER, neuro- spicy, social justice, cat lady. I learned so much from this video. From Colorado Springs, USA, I wish you all well. Thank you for the excellent content Ash.
I don't sew, I don't larp. RUclips recommended you and I've watched ever since because I like listening to you, simple as that. You seem a decent person who has interesting things to say. More power to you. P.S. awesome job of moderating the comment section to make it a safe space P.P.S. also a miserable old lady
came for the 'the costume community has a transphobia problem' video, stayed for the gremlin vibe and the rest of your content. I also deeply enjoy Bernadette Banner, Nicole Rudolph and the others, your content just fills this particular need for queer chaotic vibes, somewhere adjacent to these channels
The main thing that keeps me watching a channel is the personality and the general vibes of the person in front of the camera. The sewing might have been what first drew me in, but I stay because my neurodivergent queer ass feels at home here. Sure I might pay less attention during the LARP videos because I prefer staying inside at a table for my roleplaying, but I'm still a big fan of your whole aesthetic.
My heart is so grateful for this video. ❤ My current teaching career has overwhelmed my feeble attempts at generating content, but I keep hoping. However, your honest assessment of being a costume youtuber is definitely encouraging in a weird way. It sort of gives permission for giving it a try without being perfect. (NOT being perfect is my super power) 🎉
I'm so with you on the subscription box, I find that my rec page is mostly videos I've already watched?? which is kind of completely pointless?? Also yes, Nerdforge sewing energy, I see your vision (.........I THINK I see your vision, idk, I don't live in your head)
Yeah! I look at the subscription tab because I subscribed to people for a reason. I look at the home page for related and mostly don't watch those videos.
I cannot imagine not using the subscription tab. That's why you subscribe! That's what it's for! The algorithm wants me to watch garbage instead RUclips feels like such a monkeys paw scenario for creators. Like yeah, I'd like to make little videos of me making stuff to show people, that sounds fun! But pretty much every part of being a youtuber sounds like torture. Glad to have people like you who are willing to do all that so I can watch other people make cool stuff though
@@gettheetothestitchery I'm so glad you both have so many ideas! I loved your collaboration! Would totally watch you two chatting about things in general.
I watch youtube the same way! I follow channels because I vibe with someone, so I really do just watch chronologically. Watching from the homepage is wild to me, youtube doesn’t understand the specific mix of vibes I want in a video.
I love a long video from an interesting person with interesting things to say. Some channels I watch the video on 1.25x or 1.5x but I really like your natural pace of delivery and editing. Also when you talk about important issues and make cool costumes 😆
I super appreciate this video, especially because I started throwing videos up on my channel a few months ago. I'm happy that I have a day job and I'm not fretting about monetization. I found your channel because said day job is teaching theater costuming and makeup at a community college and I posted your transphobia in costuming video for my students. I think your channel is awesome, you are fun to watch, and I, yes, also really loved the skirt video.
People don't watch from their subscription pages?? what??? Why?! I almost never look at the home page of youtube, and when I do it's 99% things I've either already seen or have saved to my watch later. This was interesting to watch! It's neat to hear about other people's audience demographics. Mine's about 30% male, and fairly evenly divided amongst every adult age group. I do get a lot of old lady commenters, but most of them have been nice so far. I try to make my videos as helpful as I can for people who want to sew the thing, and to keep the pacing decent enough that they're not bored. I usually come to youtube to find stuff to listen to while working on other stuff, and it's nice to see commenters saying they do that with my videos. I don't think you talk too fast, I like the talking with no big gaps! I feel quite the opposite about compromising on quality. I'd rather take a longer time to make a video that I'm happy with, especially since I can't go back and change it when it's done. My most popular videos were posted after a month or several of not uploading, so I'm very skeptical about how much the algorithm really cares about upload schedules. I think the more important thing is how many people watch it all the way to the end. I'm a lot slower to make stuff, but I have gotten to 16k subs with just 13 videos, which I think is pretty good. One of my favourite videos on youtube stuff is "Influencer Courses Are Garbage" by Super Eyepatch Wolf, which is very long and interesting, and he interviewed a bunch of people from many different channels of different sizes. I think my best piece of youtube advice is to take note of things that annoy or bore you in other people's videos, and avoid doing them.
I think the skirt that always fits was your first video for me. I think I subscribed from that. I don't LARP or do costuming but I do sew and crochet and some other random crafts. But I find it fascinating to watch people do it. (Funny, I watch those people you mentioned, too). Thanks for the insights into a RUclips content provider's online life.
Hmm, I won't be starting my own channel any time ever then... I like channels that go deep into the escapism and aesthetic part of their creativity. It's lovely to dive into those videos for cosy feels, but I really appreciate your style that's far more grounded and doesn't hide from deeper issues about "making stuff" - like the expense, the environmental effects, meeting personal and emotional needs, and the social aspects of interacting and being part of creative communities. You've got a really interesting thing going on here. Thanks for everything so far 😊
I had a channel for about 5 years, most of which, I made 3 videos per week that were super labor-intensive, including building and sewing my own puppets, making props, using green screens, and cooking recipes(!!!!) and never really got any traction, until I took a "hiatus" that lasted since 2019. It can be super exhausting and requires so much work. I only ever sewed for puppets, and got recommended a lot of sewing channels whenever I'd sew on a livestream or something, and you came after that second wave of recommendations. I love BB and Nicole Rudolph, Sewstine, The Stitchery, Rachael Maksy, etc., and a lot of y'all have such different vibes. Lots of my friends are LARPers, so I'm familiar of what you do when you talk about that, but I don't love hanging around outside, LOL. I really appreciate this long-form video about your experience on this platform. Maybe I'll pick up my channel again someday.
Really interesting video. I'm sort of, maybe, possibly, considering starting a flosstube (cross stitch based) channel. But as a ND, middle aged woman from Burnley, Lancashire, I don't know. My voice, my style, my outlook... not exactly mainstream friendly, even among other flosstubers. As for your channel, I love it. I agree, it's the person rather than the content that keeps me engaged with a video/channel, and you do that. It's great to see queer, ND, nerdy representation. It takes a lot of bravery to put yourself in such a public arena, for such little reward
Old lady mother of a trans daughter here. Love your stuff because i enjoy YOU. I watch people that i find real and who do not take themselves or what they do ridiculously seriously but still manage to show me something interesting. I honestly dont remember how i found your channel.
As a non-binary person learning to sew who online rps, your videos have truly been a breath of fresh air for me. It aligns so much more with what I want out of sewing channels and I think you have a really engaging personality. With so much of sewing being so heavily gendered, I get a bit exhausted by other channels that are all hyper femme all the time. (Happy for those people to live in a way that makes them happy, but it's not who I am or what I'm trying to learn.) Your videos are an instant click for me anytime (but I am also a diehard subscription tab in reverse chronological order person).
Having a month's worth of content rough planned and not working out the way it was intended is kinda my brand right now. Glad to see we're on the same page 😂
I found you through the stitchery. I’m an older lady. In my mid to late 50 s. I love your channel. I think your voice is amazing. This was a great episode and very good information. Thank you. Keep being you. I’m here for it!
trans guy who sews here! i love your stuff, i think there's not enough trans masc people let alone masc people on sewing / historical sewing youtube, i can probably count all of them on my hands lol. every new person i collect like pokemon cards /j i've been wanting to see more trans masc centered sewing and/or Polish trad and been considering starting a youtube for it and this is the information i needed so cheers!
I, like so many came for the petticoat and I made one! I wore it a lot last winter and I have plans to make another. I’m definitely in your older demographic and I stayed and subscribed because I learn a lot from you and this channel. I’m always so pleased when I get a notification that you have a new video up. I especially love your videos about sewing LARP / historical costumes and mending and funky old crafty machines. Not so crazy about the book review video but that’s me not you, I’ve been a librarian for 20 years plus a bit so it was kinda zen for me. Thank you for all you do and being such a great human.
Gotta say my old “lady” (actually non binary) self didn’t know you were trans and is very happy to have found your channel 🙂 Now I’m off to correct my gender in my account cos I think I forgot to do it here…
I mean... I don't know why I didn't just assume creators could see what I also watch. But now.. just. Ok... I have varied interests.. and. Ok?! 😂 I got absolutely hooked recently with the video with book recommendations. And I'm here for whatever you want to put out in the world! ❤
I for one am so glad you like RUclips. You are so right in that we watch the content of the people we like, and I like you and your content very much. I'm 57 and I had never heard of Larping till I watched your channel. I don't mind what you post I will watch it because it's you. I saw how long your video was and I wasn't going to watch it and then thought I probably wouldn't watch it till the end. But I'm so glad I did so informative and interesting. Hope you will continue to make stuff in your own unique way. ❤
51ish Mexican menopausal women here 😂. I love your sewing/tutorial videos, but i stay for all your content. You're very transparent and i like that very much 😊. Greetings from Texas 🇺🇸 🤠
Another old biddy sewist here 😁 I don't LARP, it wasn't around in my day, would love to try it though. I watch you because I find you really interesting. You are obviously well educated and are extremely articulate. I'm not drawn to some of your content, but, as you quite rightly said, I watch because I enjoy the presentation. On a personal note, I truly empathise with you with regard to the attitudes of some people because you are trans. I have been the recipient of any amount of poisonous vitriol because I have defended my trans grandson. Some people are just bigoted, blinked idiots and are not worth engaging with. They are never going to accept or understand, and that is their problem, not yours. I wish you well and hope you persevere with your channel x
Ash, thank you! You’ve answered a question I’ve had for years - no, I should NOT have a channel. I’m far too sensitive. Hope to see you in Glasgow, though.
I found you via the skirt video, I stay and watch others of your videos because I find you interesting and because I enjoy being educated about new things, in this case LARP and I enjoy your sewing. Thank you.
Happy birthday to me, because your first upload was on my birthday. Thanks so much for being honest about your journey and sharing your sewing successes and failures. They have helped me so much even though our body types could not be much more different you still helped me understand that chaos sewing is a process of just learning what works and trusting that I will eventually figure that out!
When you started talking about all the things that people complain about you...all I could think was...that is all I watch you for! Unfortunately people suck. This was super interesting and informative... reinforced that I will NEVER be a RUclipsr lol.
I actually came across the other way, from LARPing, (I do watch a lot of other sewing/crafting content as well though) ive had some failed attempts at creating youtube videos and channels, and inevitably ADHDed out, usually at the editing stage. I think your point about needing a very high number of ideas is really insightful, as my LARP channel basically sputtered out fully during Lockdown when I didnt have event reviews/vlogs and had exhausted the 5 - 10 intro what is LARP, how to design a costume, character etc guides I could think of that might fill out the gap.
Thank you for making a realistic video of what quite frankly significant success could look like. I have started my own channel for weaving, I’m thoroughly in the my video suck. You’re only going to get better by posting more stage, but I’m learning more each time. I am epically struggling with the whole video, editing aspect, but it’s really hard to find instructional material on how to edit crafting videos. Almost all of the videos that I have posted are a subprocess of the weaving or a loom reveal video, which is one to five minutes long and the five minutes is quite an outlier. It is challenging to strive for the quantity of watch hours given how many views you need to have on a five minute video to make even one hour and that’s assuming they watch the whole video, which they don’t. Thank you for sharing this inspirational but at the same time sobering look at reality of this choice. It’s much appreciated.
I sew, cosplay, and play tabletop RPGs. Some of your videos make me think I should try a LARP, and others that make me feel, "NEVER," so I would enjoy a pro LARP video.😊
My guess on your evermore park spike is that people found Jenny Nicholson from the new Star Wars hotel video, and then watched her other more recent stuff, and were recommended your video from her Evermore video… I was already subscribed to you, but that’s how I ended up watching that video since I’m here more for costuming and sewing than for LARPing.
This was very interesting. I had heard doing You Tube was a lot of work but I never realized how much and you don't make as much money as people think. I'm glad you enjoy this, I'm never going to try.
Hey Ash, thanks for this video. I’m so much better off using my time and energy to just focus on my own projects, cameras and microphones not included. It’s really been helpful to follow along with you. i’m glad you have the patience to do all this work. My primary sewing goal is to make some of my own clothing just ordinary bits and pieces to mix and match for day to day wear. I think the part of your work that helps me is the finishing details that help a garment be as adaptable and wearable and as comfortable as is practicable. Something that wouldn’t be comfortable as a costume wouldn’t work as a daily garment either but I’m not sure how much over there is with those subsets. Pockets are essential ! Thanks again and have a beautiful day.
I think this is really convincing me as a disabled person that making a youtube channel is not a good choice for me. Part of me wants to sometimes make content on some of the things Ive gone deep on. I don't think the shift tutorials on historical sewing youtube are very good and I could do better. But I also want to use my spoons and energy for me. And doing all the filming and scripting and thinking to make that tutorial maybe just isn't worth it. Thanks for the great video Ash
Millennial lady here who doesn't LARP, but is fascinated by it :P I like your channel for the sewing/creating + funny jokes and British humor + historical costumes/dress up + fantasy costumes/dress up. You are a perfect addition to the row of historical costume RUclipsrs and the ones that add humor. I also watch Micarah Tewers, I can't even describe her niche, it's like "sewing" + dress up + humor? But you are your own brand of this creative niche that is just a very good addition to the bunch, and it's nice and fun to watch :D It's amazing how many (middle aged?) people don't understand that they can; Pause a video, speed up or slow it down, can stop watching whenever, have autonomy of what they want to watch, stop the autoplay etc.... :P Then they get angry at YT and blame the creator or something. YT should add a 15 sec. video to every video as an opening for every person of 50+ years of the basic functions in the video or something to prevent this hahaha :P
44:22 I am also a neurodivergent person in their mid-30s. My spouse watches a lot of videos with me and came in halfway through this one. They are incredibly encouraging but said they would stop me from posting videos to RUclips because the comments would destroy me. I’ve done a lot of work ignoring the stupid sh*t other people say about me, but sometimes someone will say something that hits my inner weird teen just right and it wrecks me. Kudos to you for being able to ignore the assholes. I like your quirkiness. It’s nice to see someone who also has stuff just around. And your organization is inspirational to me who has none. I do not remember how I found this channel. It might have been one of those few times when I used my recommendation tab which is odd for me, but was a good choice.
Hello, I am in the older demographic and I love your videos. I find them interesting and very helpful. I love the variety of your content. Thank you for all your hard work.x
I'm pretty sure I found you from your transphobia in costuming video, and I was so very glad to find a fellow trans person in historical costuming (especially someone willing to frankly critique the space. bless). I followed because your tastes align very closely with mine, your videos are always well considered and well made, and because someday I want to get into LARP (🤞) and I've found your videos on the subject to be the most practical out of all those I've found. So I'm not sure what suits the preferences of most of your audience, but what you're doing is certainly working for me!
That was absolutely fascinating, Ash. I’m not going to be venturing into content production in what’s left of this lifetime 😂 ……but this insight into the process was so illuminating. Thank you for your transparency and humour.
Thank you for another insightful video! I love when you talk shop about things because you're wonderfully frank and detailed in all the places I need you to be. Very grateful for these insights as a burgeoning hobbyist youtuber 🙏🏼
i would 100% hang out with you if i were able to know you in person! i love your videos, your personality, your energy & enthusiasm, your projects...basically everything you do is great in my opinion. also, i'm part of that smaller over 40 crowd that watches your channel. i love the eclectic nature of your channel...i feel it keeps it fresh. plus, your cat is totally adorable!
I do not want to become a RUclipsr but watched because I enjoy you and your videos. I found it really interesting and entertaining, and you had me chuckling throughout at the end of a day of feeling less than stellar, so thanks for that. If you decide to do campfire cooking or other crafts (or anything else, really) I'll be here for it.
Hi, another old lady here, I would love to do reenactment events, wear the costumes and teach people to spin, or crochet, or knit. Spinning , hand sewing, dressmaking and other hand crafts are my loves, so I watch a wide variety of channels with hugely different styles. I have just recommended you and your channel to my 20 year old granddaughter, she will love everything about you. I’m definitely NOT your standard granny, I have tats too, and am always interested in the story behind the tattoos too.
I’m probably around the same age as you, and with a lot of the same hobbies (though I’m very new to LARP and got into it partly as an outlet for sewing!) I particularly enjoy that you are also British and use cms and talk proper! Love a glimpse round the back
i am one of the amazing people that enjoy YOU . i am not a stickler for quality. I have watched enough of your content to gauge your broad interests and i know im going to enjoy anything you put out. Even if its a topic i dont care about, I'm sure that you could present it in a way that i like - because i like your content style. And i heavily agree that more people need to get into LARP as its one of the funnest things ive (semi) recently gotten into!
I'm a 60+ female, I guess described as one of the conservative ones. I don't remember where or how in your process l found you but I'm glad I did. I appreciate your intelligent, thought out content, your dry wit, and your willingness to be real. Yes, some content isn't my ideal but you seem to make everything informative and entertaining. I'm so sad that people think they have the right to judge you at such a personal level. Someone once told me those kind of comments say more about the speaker of them than the subject of them - mean-spirited, judgmental, envious, and very afraid. And, yes, why would people not be on Subscription tab? Makes no sense to me either! 😊
Thank you for sharing the process and all, I'm not sure I'll ever publish a video but this level of detail is really helping with my executive dysfunction
Fantastic video, there are so many points and aspects I could comment on but I've not got the time as I too need to go and edit something. Instead I will say (again) that I love your curtains and would like to turn them into bags. I would also hang out with you and wear my nicest frock, it's got monsters on it. Have a lovely week.
The skirt video was how I found you. I still go back to it when sewing sometimes. I did not subscribe immediately, I like to get a feel for a channel first. I am not into LARP, but love creativity and you are clever and creative and have fun with what you do.
I have never stopped a video to make a comment lol but here goes: I am one of the people who came to your content from the petticoat skirt vid and I do watch Bernadette Banner and Nicole Rudolph but what I’ve been looking for in sewing content has truly always been you, darling, you. The other folks are precise and historical but the chaos and reality of the way you construct garments makes much more sense for my aesthetics, politics, budget, etc. I’m not a LARPer even a little. I’m just a queer gremlin mom (both senses of the phrase to be clear) who likes to know more about the breadth of a thing than most hobbyists do. So I cast a net wide and occasionally I find a channel that contains what I didn’t even know I was looking for. ❤️
I watch Bernadette and similar channels sometimes, but your style of videos is much closer to me. I am not into sewing much, but I like watching people craft and like your humor. Also I think your talking videos like transphobia in costuming and evermore are really well done and interesting for a wider audience.
I'd like to pop in and say that you are indeed tonally different and visibly queer-er than all the sewing channels you listed around 23:00... I watch those channels, too... and yours is my preference (because of both tone and queerness.)
Also: OMFG, I think I just found my new autistic superpower! I ALSO have a lifetime of dealing with people saying shitty things about me! (This sounds sarcastic, but it's not, I promise.) Maybe I could be a youtuber? Ugh, I'm sorry you deal with that. It is not fun.
Ash, I owe your videos credit getting me on the road to making my *very first* fem clothing experiments. Im 6'2" and 200 pounds... Really tough getting clothes that fit regardless of what department i explore. But also your work gives me permission to follow along and make things and make mistakes. Do it wrong, have a good time. I DID find your skirt vid first, but i do try to regularly watch your other stuff. In fact, i didn't even realize that i wasn't subscribed till now.
I think I first came from Benadette Banner's channel, looking for more crafty-youtuby-things. And the fact that you're not the same is exactly what I enjoyed. I have ADHD, I need the diversity. I loved your voice, I can understand why some people might dislike it, but overall you have a distinct and quite unique voice and my brain loves that (when people try their best to have the most normalized voice and accent, like on our national TV here (France), where they kinda, sort of, just train to all speak "the same way" it just confuses my brain because I can't tell them apart). Also I've done many roleplaying so the larp part is fascinating, and I occasionaly sew so the sewing part is fascinating. And I'm queer and neurodivergent, so everything just managed to fit perfectly for me to enjoy your content. About that, I wont say a word for anything I don't know about, like the technical differences between softwares, but everything you said, as far as I know, I relate, I understand and I agree. About the community management, about what you do and why you do it. About how much time it takes to produce a video especially if you're employed on the side. Anyway. A long comment full of words and I didn't say much at all. Just please continue to exist as you want to, and I'll be happy about it. ♥
I am one of those people who watch Bernadette &tc. But I am HERE because your videos have given me the confidence to sew a garment myself in over 15 years. I even sort of made the pattern myself based on a extant dress! Also because of the visibly queer bit. I also love the entertainment-sewing vids to acompany me when I'm handsewing.
Holy that’s a lot of work! I’m really glad you’re sticking around even when it’s very much work! Your videos are fun. While I am a cranky old woman I try not to be mean in the comments. I enjoy your content and your take on things. It really blows me away that someone would comment on your accent…. Some people have to get lives!! But then I was once asked what my first language was!?! I have weird phrases and phrasing so they assumed then argued! I’m also dyslexic so sometimes things come out backwards or two words get massed together. I’m weird and know it Really you do your thing and I’ll watch. Oh and I appreciate all your hard work!
Great video and very helpful for someone thinking about starting a youtube channel, what to watch out for, the importance of planning out way more than just the six initial six video ideas that might turn into something. This video inspired me and I might perhaps upload some ideas at one point. Unannounced. Until I'm ready.
I saw your skirt video first, followed because your sewing content seemed interesting and I like making things, and yeah I watch all your videos because you (or the parts of you that make it onto youtube) are lovely and I enjoy listening to you and seeing what you're up to.
Baffled that other people use the home tab, actually getting slightly more curious about LARP, well you have nice curtains, watching (almost?) all your videos - feeling called out, easily tempted into other crafts, cooking over a campfire!, thank you for moderating the comments!, that's why thumbnails are changing? Anyways, thanks for the insights and over one hour entertainment while I was knitting.
I may not be a LARPer/LARPress, but you are my inspiration for dressing up/cosplaying for my DnD sessions🤷♀️ maybe not the same, but close enough😂 PS; I also came through the sewing community vortex, and I am here for your particular angle. Hope to see lots of your ideas becoming reality! Keep going!👍😊
I don't remember when I first started watching your content, but it may have been around the speedrun time, and have been subscribed ever since. (I don't know how your Gothic Cathedral gown is not a runaway success, I love that one so much!.) I tend to watch everything the channels I subscribe to put out--even when I know I won't care about it--because that means income for them, and that money allows/incentivizes them to keep making content. (In other words: artists need to eat, and since I can't support them all with money, the very least I can do is provide my attention) Trend-jacking: all the "pirate shirt" that aren't quite; all the "secret pant skirt", and so on and so forth. And yet, it's fun for me when more than one person I follow grab that thing and run with it, because each of them will give it their own unique spin--which is why I follow them to begin with. For me, with notable exceptions (this video, for example), the sweet spot is somewhere in the 25 to 40 minutes length, and often wish that some longer videos were split at the natural point (there's usually at least one of those) into two or more installments. I feel this would increase the "watched to the end" ratio and also, more content/more frequency for the price/effort/time/cost of making one--but of course, I don't have a channel, and therefore don't know if that's how this thing actually works. The only advice I've seen everyone say is pertinent is the "upload videos regularly, at least once week if possible"; everything else is, "this is what has worked for me (before/so far)"
I've been watching your videos since the video you posted for CoSy 2020 (ie the good CoSy before the problems) it was something about creating your own fantasy aesthetic. I really connected with your approach to projects then and still find it grounding now. I'm just grateful you are still making videos as so may youtubers have stopped. I have my own channel centered around making that I started three years ago (not this one lol). I stopped posting for the last 10 months because I was wrapping up grad school and that was its own shit show. It's no joke that YouTubing is a lot of work. I've been considering starting back up again now that I have a somewhat stable job. This was just the video I needed to kickstart that plan. I have a lot of backlog of editing for projects I finished but never edited. Now I just have to figure out if I ditch the previous footage for now and start fresh, or work through it chronologically.
I think I hit the old lady sewing demographic, I'm 54. I watch the other creators you mention and I watch you because I like you and the way you do things. I like hearing about LARP as my youngest has started larping recently.
Ash, your videos are so very interesting. Even on topics that will never feature in my world. Larping - I'd neven heard of it before you. Youve broadened my world. ND grandmother here. I love watching creative people do their thing. I'm not creative, but give me a pattern to follow and I'm sorted. Ive managed to make several skirts now, and even made a set of pockets to wear over those that dont have any ( the earliest skirts). Now they all get pockets. 😂 I've watched my way through all of your videos, and thank you for the fun, interest and education you have provided. I think you would be a fun person to have a cuppa with, but never going to happen, I'm half a world away. 😅 Cheers
Sorry, I forgot to make the connection between the skirt videos and everything else. I came for the sewing, and stayed because I was entertained, even on topics that I had never thought of. Keep up you great and fun work. I look forward to seeing every video.
That's very interesting about the viewing preferences because I'm actually the opposite, I don't have recommendations on and mainly view from my subs or related videos if I searched for something specific.
I enjoyed this video...I found you recently - I enjoy your style and tone....and the quirky historical basis to your stuff - though as a (I hope not miserable) old lady - I had to Google some of the terms you use - I've always known about larp but didn't know that was its name. Interestingly I love Bernadette Banner vids but found you through watching Charlie Nebe. I really admire what you do I couldn't ever put myself out there like you do. Be happy😊
Oh and at least your cat has a name that you don’t feel bad calling. My dad name a cat after booze! Standing the back calling for her was crazy!! I was calling for bourbon!
The 18th century petticoat was my first sewing project so I’m sad that you cop so much flak for it! I found that I suck at following instructional videos unless they’re very specific like French seam pockets which I also need to look up the same video for every time, so sewing content is more for my inspiration and general reference. I don’t think I can be converted to larping but I love the content!! I think I’ve watched the evermore video at least 3 times in the last month while sewing 😅 Your storytelling just brings me joy
Love your channel. This info was an eye opener. I have greater respect for RUclipsrs now. Question do people over 55 LARP? How physically fit does one need to be?
Yes absolutely they do! And it depends entirely on what kind of larp you want to get into - you need a bit of speed and endurance if you want to get into combat, or play many (but not all) horror games, but if you don’t there’s still lots of options for mostly standing around talking to people
I present as the image of Middle England. I speak (mostly) RP, I'm middle aged, I'm as white as can be, I am plump and bespectacled and have grey hair. It's terrifying how many people assume I'm their ally. The words and thoughts and opinions which leave their mouths because they have decided based on just my appearance that I will agree horrifies me. The slurs that get shared to me make me angry. I'm so sad that you are getting them thrown at yo.
Another miserable 69 year old lady here. I don't larp but have friends that do. I would love to make larp costumes but that isn't why I watch your channel religiously! I watch for two reasons; I just plain enjoy watching, you are real and interesting, and I watch because it helps me learn more about the thoughts of someone with a different lifestyle than mine. I have learned so much from you! I have been sewing for more than 50 years, I doubt you can teach me anything there but really appreciate your honesty and openness about yourself and your experiences. Just wanted you to know that there is at least one person watching every single on of your videos just because if you lived next door we would be great friends.
Waitwaitwait... And this is said not as a grumpy, judgey person, but as a very visual person that was legitimately confused...that's why the thumbnails keep changing on me?
Miserable old lady here. I think you're terrific.
YES to people not watching from the subscriptions tab is just INSANITY!
As a trans guy who kinda started exploring my gender because of sewing, your channel is by far my favorite sewing/art channel on here, the energy is perfect. I watch Nicole Rudolph and bernadette banner and all them too (esp nicole bc tailoring! masc/mens clothes!) but I really love your approach to sewing and videomaking
Also you HAVE made me consider getting into larp haha
I am a lady over 50 and I like it when you are you. My boys used to l.a.r.p so I like hearing about it. I prefer people who do different things because I am a person who does various craft stuff, including fabric and yarn hoarding. You be you, I prefer it that way. I am still in the process of watching your past videos. I wish I could help more, but hitting the "like" button and commenting every so often is all I can do right now.
Exactly how I feel . ❤
I love that craft supplies hoarding is basically a craft in its own right ❤😂
Old lady here, non-LARPer. I watch you because you're interesting and often surprise me. You often give valuable info as an aside when your main idea is about something else. One reason the skirt video was a big hit was that it was low-key, doable and you didn't nitpick over stitching details. Do what you want. You can't please everybody. I recently watched some videos of very chatty, smiley, giggly people that I just suffered through because eventually they got around to showing their projects. I don't expect perfection on RUclips.
Another old lady non Larper here. I hear you and I agree. We must be a tiny little demographic. Cheers.
Is 50 old? Probably, right? Dammit. I’m LARP-adjacent. But yeah I came in with that crowd for the skirt video but stayed because you’re hilarious and relatable and interesting to watch.
Another old lady here! I’m also very cranky and mean but not in the comments. I don’t understand why someone would spend time watching and complaining about the content. There’s a million things I would love to do I don’t have time to do stuff I don’t like!
I don’t remember how I arrived- but this channel hit so many buttons for this over 65, costumer, crappy sewer, book maker, painter, closet medievalist, LARP LURKER, neuro- spicy, social justice, cat lady. I learned so much from this video. From Colorado Springs, USA, I wish you all well. Thank you for the excellent content Ash.
I don't sew, I don't larp. RUclips recommended you and I've watched ever since because I like listening to you, simple as that. You seem a decent person who has interesting things to say. More power to you.
P.S. awesome job of moderating the comment section to make it a safe space
P.P.S. also a miserable old lady
came for the 'the costume community has a transphobia problem' video, stayed for the gremlin vibe and the rest of your content. I also deeply enjoy Bernadette Banner, Nicole Rudolph and the others, your content just fills this particular need for queer chaotic vibes, somewhere adjacent to these channels
I like your channel because you're a bit feisty, and incredibly authentic. Thanks for the video.
The main thing that keeps me watching a channel is the personality and the general vibes of the person in front of the camera. The sewing might have been what first drew me in, but I stay because my neurodivergent queer ass feels at home here. Sure I might pay less attention during the LARP videos because I prefer staying inside at a table for my roleplaying, but I'm still a big fan of your whole aesthetic.
My heart is so grateful for this video. ❤ My current teaching career has overwhelmed my feeble attempts at generating content, but I keep hoping. However, your honest assessment of being a costume youtuber is definitely encouraging in a weird way. It sort of gives permission for giving it a try without being perfect. (NOT being perfect is my super power) 🎉
I'm so with you on the subscription box, I find that my rec page is mostly videos I've already watched?? which is kind of completely pointless??
Also yes, Nerdforge sewing energy, I see your vision (.........I THINK I see your vision, idk, I don't live in your head)
Yeah! I look at the subscription tab because I subscribed to people for a reason. I look at the home page for related and mostly don't watch those videos.
I cannot imagine not using the subscription tab. That's why you subscribe! That's what it's for! The algorithm wants me to watch garbage instead
RUclips feels like such a monkeys paw scenario for creators. Like yeah, I'd like to make little videos of me making stuff to show people, that sounds fun! But pretty much every part of being a youtuber sounds like torture. Glad to have people like you who are willing to do all that so I can watch other people make cool stuff though
Oh my goodness the 100 ideas…. SO TRUE!
When posting regularly they disappear so fast!
@@gettheetothestitchery I'm so glad you both have so many ideas! I loved your collaboration! Would totally watch you two chatting about things in general.
I watch youtube the same way! I follow channels because I vibe with someone, so I really do just watch chronologically. Watching from the homepage is wild to me, youtube doesn’t understand the specific mix of vibes I want in a video.
I love a long video from an interesting person with interesting things to say. Some channels I watch the video on 1.25x or 1.5x but I really like your natural pace of delivery and editing. Also when you talk about important issues and make cool costumes 😆
I super appreciate this video, especially because I started throwing videos up on my channel a few months ago. I'm happy that I have a day job and I'm not fretting about monetization. I found your channel because said day job is teaching theater costuming and makeup at a community college and I posted your transphobia in costuming video for my students. I think your channel is awesome, you are fun to watch, and I, yes, also really loved the skirt video.
People don't watch from their subscription pages?? what??? Why?! I almost never look at the home page of youtube, and when I do it's 99% things I've either already seen or have saved to my watch later.
This was interesting to watch! It's neat to hear about other people's audience demographics. Mine's about 30% male, and fairly evenly divided amongst every adult age group. I do get a lot of old lady commenters, but most of them have been nice so far.
I try to make my videos as helpful as I can for people who want to sew the thing, and to keep the pacing decent enough that they're not bored.
I usually come to youtube to find stuff to listen to while working on other stuff, and it's nice to see commenters saying they do that with my videos. I don't think you talk too fast, I like the talking with no big gaps!
I feel quite the opposite about compromising on quality. I'd rather take a longer time to make a video that I'm happy with, especially since I can't go back and change it when it's done. My most popular videos were posted after a month or several of not uploading, so I'm very skeptical about how much the algorithm really cares about upload schedules. I think the more important thing is how many people watch it all the way to the end.
I'm a lot slower to make stuff, but I have gotten to 16k subs with just 13 videos, which I think is pretty good.
One of my favourite videos on youtube stuff is "Influencer Courses Are Garbage" by Super Eyepatch Wolf, which is very long and interesting, and he interviewed a bunch of people from many different channels of different sizes.
I think my best piece of youtube advice is to take note of things that annoy or bore you in other people's videos, and avoid doing them.
Non-miserable old lady here. Discovered your channel during the 30 days costume run and stayed because I love your content and accent!!!
I think the skirt that always fits was your first video for me. I think I subscribed from that. I don't LARP or do costuming but I do sew and crochet and some other random crafts. But I find it fascinating to watch people do it. (Funny, I watch those people you mentioned, too). Thanks for the insights into a RUclips content provider's online life.
LOL me, too. But I like watching Ash, and learning about LARPing every now and then. So I stuck around.
Hmm, I won't be starting my own channel any time ever then...
I like channels that go deep into the escapism and aesthetic part of their creativity. It's lovely to dive into those videos for cosy feels, but I really appreciate your style that's far more grounded and doesn't hide from deeper issues about "making stuff" - like the expense, the environmental effects, meeting personal and emotional needs, and the social aspects of interacting and being part of creative communities. You've got a really interesting thing going on here. Thanks for everything so far 😊
I had a channel for about 5 years, most of which, I made 3 videos per week that were super labor-intensive, including building and sewing my own puppets, making props, using green screens, and cooking recipes(!!!!) and never really got any traction, until I took a "hiatus" that lasted since 2019. It can be super exhausting and requires so much work.
I only ever sewed for puppets, and got recommended a lot of sewing channels whenever I'd sew on a livestream or something, and you came after that second wave of recommendations. I love BB and Nicole Rudolph, Sewstine, The Stitchery, Rachael Maksy, etc., and a lot of y'all have such different vibes. Lots of my friends are LARPers, so I'm familiar of what you do when you talk about that, but I don't love hanging around outside, LOL. I really appreciate this long-form video about your experience on this platform. Maybe I'll pick up my channel again someday.
Really interesting video. I'm sort of, maybe, possibly, considering starting a flosstube (cross stitch based) channel. But as a ND, middle aged woman from Burnley, Lancashire, I don't know. My voice, my style, my outlook... not exactly mainstream friendly, even among other flosstubers.
As for your channel, I love it. I agree, it's the person rather than the content that keeps me engaged with a video/channel, and you do that. It's great to see queer, ND, nerdy representation. It takes a lot of bravery to put yourself in such a public arena, for such little reward
Old lady mother of a trans daughter here. Love your stuff because i enjoy YOU. I watch people that i find real and who do not take themselves or what they do ridiculously seriously but still manage to show me something interesting. I honestly dont remember how i found your channel.
Oldish lady here but not mean. I came for the sewing but stayed for you.
As a non-binary person learning to sew who online rps, your videos have truly been a breath of fresh air for me. It aligns so much more with what I want out of sewing channels and I think you have a really engaging personality. With so much of sewing being so heavily gendered, I get a bit exhausted by other channels that are all hyper femme all the time. (Happy for those people to live in a way that makes them happy, but it's not who I am or what I'm trying to learn.) Your videos are an instant click for me anytime (but I am also a diehard subscription tab in reverse chronological order person).
Having a month's worth of content rough planned and not working out the way it was intended is kinda my brand right now. Glad to see we're on the same page 😂
I found you through the stitchery. I’m an older lady. In my mid to late 50 s. I love your channel. I think your voice is amazing. This was a great episode and very good information. Thank you. Keep being you. I’m here for it!
trans guy who sews here! i love your stuff, i think there's not enough trans masc people let alone masc people on sewing / historical sewing youtube, i can probably count all of them on my hands lol. every new person i collect like pokemon cards /j
i've been wanting to see more trans masc centered sewing and/or Polish trad and been considering starting a youtube for it and this is the information i needed so cheers!
Give us the cooking over a campfire video, Ash :P
This was really interesting, love seeing how the sausage gets made etc.
I, like so many came for the petticoat and I made one! I wore it a lot last winter and I have plans to make another. I’m definitely in your older demographic and I stayed and subscribed because I learn a lot from you and this channel. I’m always so pleased when I get a notification that you have a new video up. I especially love your videos about sewing LARP / historical costumes and mending and funky old crafty machines. Not so crazy about the book review video but that’s me not you, I’ve been a librarian for 20 years plus a bit so it was kinda zen for me. Thank you for all you do and being such a great human.
Gotta say my old “lady” (actually non binary) self didn’t know you were trans and is very happy to have found your channel 🙂
Now I’m off to correct my gender in my account cos I think I forgot to do it here…
I mean... I don't know why I didn't just assume creators could see what I also watch. But now.. just. Ok... I have varied interests.. and. Ok?! 😂
I got absolutely hooked recently with the video with book recommendations. And I'm here for whatever you want to put out in the world! ❤
I for one am so glad you like RUclips. You are so right in that we watch the content of the people we like, and I like you and your content very much. I'm 57 and I had never heard of Larping till I watched your channel. I don't mind what you post I will watch it because it's you.
I saw how long your video was and I wasn't going to watch it and then thought I probably wouldn't watch it till the end. But I'm so glad I did so informative and interesting.
Hope you will continue to make stuff in your own unique way. ❤
51ish Mexican menopausal women here 😂. I love your sewing/tutorial videos, but i stay for all your content. You're very transparent and i like that very much 😊. Greetings from Texas 🇺🇸 🤠
Another old biddy sewist here 😁 I don't LARP, it wasn't around in my day, would love to try it though. I watch you because I find you really interesting. You are obviously well educated and are extremely articulate. I'm not drawn to some of your content, but, as you quite rightly said, I watch because I enjoy the presentation. On a personal note, I truly empathise with you with regard to the attitudes of some people because you are trans. I have been the recipient of any amount of poisonous vitriol because I have defended my trans grandson. Some people are just bigoted, blinked idiots and are not worth engaging with. They are never going to accept or understand, and that is their problem, not yours. I wish you well and hope you persevere with your channel x
Ash, thank you! You’ve answered a question I’ve had for years - no, I should NOT have a channel. I’m far too sensitive. Hope to see you in Glasgow, though.
I found you via the skirt video, I stay and watch others of your videos because I find you interesting and because I enjoy being educated about new things, in this case LARP and I enjoy your sewing. Thank you.
Oh and I am a 50 year old white female and I would love to hang out with you.
Happy birthday to me, because your first upload was on my birthday. Thanks so much for being honest about your journey and sharing your sewing successes and failures. They have helped me so much even though our body types could not be much more different you still helped me understand that chaos sewing is a process of just learning what works and trusting that I will eventually figure that out!
When you started talking about all the things that people complain about you...all I could think was...that is all I watch you for! Unfortunately people suck. This was super interesting and informative... reinforced that I will NEVER be a RUclipsr lol.
I actually came across the other way, from LARPing, (I do watch a lot of other sewing/crafting content as well though) ive had some failed attempts at creating youtube videos and channels, and inevitably ADHDed out, usually at the editing stage. I think your point about needing a very high number of ideas is really insightful, as my LARP channel basically sputtered out fully during Lockdown when I didnt have event reviews/vlogs and had exhausted the 5 - 10 intro what is LARP, how to design a costume, character etc guides I could think of that might fill out the gap.
So much joy in every step, and the fairy dancing in the montage is just 👩🍳😘
I love listening to RUclipsrs talk about RUclips! And I do like your vibes, that is, in fact, why I am here
Thank you for making a realistic video of what quite frankly significant success could look like. I have started my own channel for weaving, I’m thoroughly in the my video suck. You’re only going to get better by posting more stage, but I’m learning more each time. I am epically struggling with the whole video, editing aspect, but it’s really hard to find instructional material on how to edit crafting videos. Almost all of the videos that I have posted are a subprocess of the weaving or a loom reveal video, which is one to five minutes long and the five minutes is quite an outlier. It is challenging to strive for the quantity of watch hours given how many views you need to have on a five minute video to make even one hour and that’s assuming they watch the whole video, which they don’t. Thank you for sharing this inspirational but at the same time sobering look at reality of this choice. It’s much appreciated.
I sew, cosplay, and play tabletop RPGs. Some of your videos make me think I should try a LARP, and others that make me feel, "NEVER," so I would enjoy a pro LARP video.😊
My guess on your evermore park spike is that people found Jenny Nicholson from the new Star Wars hotel video, and then watched her other more recent stuff, and were recommended your video from her Evermore video… I was already subscribed to you, but that’s how I ended up watching that video since I’m here more for costuming and sewing than for LARPing.
This was very interesting. I had heard doing You Tube was a lot of work but I never realized how much and you don't make as much money as people think. I'm glad you enjoy this, I'm never going to try.
Hey Ash, thanks for this video. I’m so much better off using my time and energy to just focus on my own projects, cameras and microphones not included. It’s really been helpful to follow along with you. i’m glad you have the patience to do all this work. My primary sewing goal is to make some of my own clothing just ordinary bits and pieces to mix and match for day to day wear. I think the part of your work that helps me is the finishing details that help a garment be as adaptable and wearable and as comfortable as is practicable. Something that wouldn’t be comfortable as a costume wouldn’t work as a daily garment either but I’m not sure how much over there is with those subsets.
Pockets are essential ! Thanks again and have a beautiful day.
I love your videos. Thanks for managing your comments, for all its nice to have a nice space
I think this is really convincing me as a disabled person that making a youtube channel is not a good choice for me. Part of me wants to sometimes make content on some of the things Ive gone deep on. I don't think the shift tutorials on historical sewing youtube are very good and I could do better. But I also want to use my spoons and energy for me. And doing all the filming and scripting and thinking to make that tutorial maybe just isn't worth it. Thanks for the great video Ash
Millennial lady here who doesn't LARP, but is fascinated by it :P I like your channel for the sewing/creating + funny jokes and British humor + historical costumes/dress up + fantasy costumes/dress up. You are a perfect addition to the row of historical costume RUclipsrs and the ones that add humor. I also watch Micarah Tewers, I can't even describe her niche, it's like "sewing" + dress up + humor? But you are your own brand of this creative niche that is just a very good addition to the bunch, and it's nice and fun to watch :D
It's amazing how many (middle aged?) people don't understand that they can; Pause a video, speed up or slow it down, can stop watching whenever, have autonomy of what they want to watch, stop the autoplay etc.... :P Then they get angry at YT and blame the creator or something. YT should add a 15 sec. video to every video as an opening for every person of 50+ years of the basic functions in the video or something to prevent this hahaha :P
44:22 I am also a neurodivergent person in their mid-30s. My spouse watches a lot of videos with me and came in halfway through this one. They are incredibly encouraging but said they would stop me from posting videos to RUclips because the comments would destroy me. I’ve done a lot of work ignoring the stupid sh*t other people say about me, but sometimes someone will say something that hits my inner weird teen just right and it wrecks me. Kudos to you for being able to ignore the assholes.
I like your quirkiness. It’s nice to see someone who also has stuff just around. And your organization is inspirational to me who has none. I do not remember how I found this channel. It might have been one of those few times when I used my recommendation tab which is odd for me, but was a good choice.
Hello, I am in the older demographic and I love your videos. I find them interesting and very helpful. I love the variety of your content. Thank you for all your hard work.x
I'm pretty sure I found you from your transphobia in costuming video, and I was so very glad to find a fellow trans person in historical costuming (especially someone willing to frankly critique the space. bless). I followed because your tastes align very closely with mine, your videos are always well considered and well made, and because someday I want to get into LARP (🤞) and I've found your videos on the subject to be the most practical out of all those I've found. So I'm not sure what suits the preferences of most of your audience, but what you're doing is certainly working for me!
That was absolutely fascinating, Ash.
I’m not going to be venturing into content production in what’s left of this lifetime 😂 ……but this insight into the process was so illuminating.
Thank you for your transparency and humour.
Thank you for another insightful video! I love when you talk shop about things because you're wonderfully frank and detailed in all the places I need you to be. Very grateful for these insights as a burgeoning hobbyist youtuber 🙏🏼
i would 100% hang out with you if i were able to know you in person! i love your videos, your personality, your energy & enthusiasm, your projects...basically everything you do is great in my opinion. also, i'm part of that smaller over 40 crowd that watches your channel. i love the eclectic nature of your channel...i feel it keeps it fresh. plus, your cat is totally adorable!
I do not want to become a RUclipsr but watched because I enjoy you and your videos. I found it really interesting and entertaining, and you had me chuckling throughout at the end of a day of feeling less than stellar, so thanks for that. If you decide to do campfire cooking or other crafts (or anything else, really) I'll be here for it.
Hi, another old lady here, I would love to do reenactment events, wear the costumes and teach people to spin, or crochet, or knit. Spinning , hand sewing, dressmaking and other hand crafts are my loves, so I watch a wide variety of channels with hugely different styles. I have just recommended you and your channel to my 20 year old granddaughter, she will love everything about you. I’m definitely NOT your standard granny, I have tats too, and am always interested in the story behind the tattoos too.
I’m probably around the same age as you, and with a lot of the same hobbies (though I’m very new to LARP and got into it partly as an outlet for sewing!)
I particularly enjoy that you are also British and use cms and talk proper!
Love a glimpse round the back
2022 was a ride in the costuming community for sure.
I think I found you as a recommended video after another Larp creator video and I stayed cause you're great and your costumes are great!
Really excellent video, thank you for really talking about the realities of creating on youtube!
i am one of the amazing people that enjoy YOU . i am not a stickler for quality. I have watched enough of your content to gauge your broad interests and i know im going to enjoy anything you put out. Even if its a topic i dont care about, I'm sure that you could present it in a way that i like - because i like your content style.
And i heavily agree that more people need to get into LARP as its one of the funnest things ive (semi) recently gotten into!
I'm a 60+ female, I guess described as one of the conservative ones. I don't remember where or how in your process l found you but I'm glad I did. I appreciate your intelligent, thought out content, your dry wit, and your willingness to be real. Yes, some content isn't my ideal but you seem to make everything informative and entertaining. I'm so sad that people think they have the right to judge you at such a personal level. Someone once told me those kind of comments say more about the speaker of them than the subject of them - mean-spirited, judgmental, envious, and very afraid.
And, yes, why would people not be on Subscription tab? Makes no sense to me either! 😊
Thank you for sharing this information, very educational, 62 year old woman here, keep up the good work.
Thank you for sharing the process and all, I'm not sure I'll ever publish a video but this level of detail is really helping with my executive dysfunction
Fantastic video, there are so many points and aspects I could comment on but I've not got the time as I too need to go and edit something. Instead I will say (again) that I love your curtains and would like to turn them into bags. I would also hang out with you and wear my nicest frock, it's got monsters on it. Have a lovely week.
The skirt video was how I found you. I still go back to it when sewing sometimes. I did not subscribe immediately, I like to get a feel for a channel first. I am not into LARP, but love creativity and you are clever and creative and have fun with what you do.
I have never stopped a video to make a comment lol but here goes:
I am one of the people who came to your content from the petticoat skirt vid and I do watch Bernadette Banner and Nicole Rudolph but what I’ve been looking for in sewing content has truly always been you, darling, you. The other folks are precise and historical but the chaos and reality of the way you construct garments makes much more sense for my aesthetics, politics, budget, etc.
I’m not a LARPer even a little. I’m just a queer gremlin mom (both senses of the phrase to be clear) who likes to know more about the breadth of a thing than most hobbyists do. So I cast a net wide and occasionally I find a channel that contains what I didn’t even know I was looking for. ❤️
I watch Bernadette and similar channels sometimes, but your style of videos is much closer to me. I am not into sewing much, but I like watching people craft and like your humor. Also I think your talking videos like transphobia in costuming and evermore are really well done and interesting for a wider audience.
I'd like to pop in and say that you are indeed tonally different and visibly queer-er than all the sewing channels you listed around 23:00... I watch those channels, too... and yours is my preference (because of both tone and queerness.)
Also: OMFG, I think I just found my new autistic superpower! I ALSO have a lifetime of dealing with people saying shitty things about me! (This sounds sarcastic, but it's not, I promise.) Maybe I could be a youtuber?
Ugh, I'm sorry you deal with that. It is not fun.
Thanking the feed for sending me this video.
Ash, I owe your videos credit getting me on the road to making my *very first* fem clothing experiments. Im 6'2" and 200 pounds... Really tough getting clothes that fit regardless of what department i explore. But also your work gives me permission to follow along and make things and make mistakes. Do it wrong, have a good time.
I DID find your skirt vid first, but i do try to regularly watch your other stuff. In fact, i didn't even realize that i wasn't subscribed till now.
I think I first came from Benadette Banner's channel, looking for more crafty-youtuby-things. And the fact that you're not the same is exactly what I enjoyed. I have ADHD, I need the diversity. I loved your voice, I can understand why some people might dislike it, but overall you have a distinct and quite unique voice and my brain loves that (when people try their best to have the most normalized voice and accent, like on our national TV here (France), where they kinda, sort of, just train to all speak "the same way" it just confuses my brain because I can't tell them apart). Also I've done many roleplaying so the larp part is fascinating, and I occasionaly sew so the sewing part is fascinating. And I'm queer and neurodivergent, so everything just managed to fit perfectly for me to enjoy your content.
About that, I wont say a word for anything I don't know about, like the technical differences between softwares, but everything you said, as far as I know, I relate, I understand and I agree. About the community management, about what you do and why you do it. About how much time it takes to produce a video especially if you're employed on the side.
Anyway. A long comment full of words and I didn't say much at all. Just please continue to exist as you want to, and I'll be happy about it. ♥
For what it's worth, I think you do pretty good at being the Anti-Chef for sewing. Never saw it until you mentioned it, but yeah. Same vibe.
I enjoy your videos even though there’s no larp in Arkansas USA and the fact that you are trans is 1 of the reasons I watch
Excellent video!! I’m another “O.L.” (59) who enjoys your channel!! Keep up the good work, keep on being you! 🎉
I'm watching this late because I was too busy making my cosplay for WorldCon, hope you had a great time!
I am one of those people who watch Bernadette &tc. But I am HERE because your videos have given me the confidence to sew a garment myself in over 15 years. I even sort of made the pattern myself based on a extant dress! Also because of the visibly queer bit. I also love the entertainment-sewing vids to acompany me when I'm handsewing.
Holy that’s a lot of work! I’m really glad you’re sticking around even when it’s very much work! Your videos are fun.
While I am a cranky old woman I try not to be mean in the comments. I enjoy your content and your take on things. It really blows me away that someone would comment on your accent…. Some people have to get lives!! But then I was once asked what my first language was!?! I have weird phrases and phrasing so they assumed then argued! I’m also dyslexic so sometimes things come out backwards or two words get massed together. I’m weird and know it
Really you do your thing and I’ll watch. Oh and I appreciate all your hard work!
Great video and very helpful for someone thinking about starting a youtube channel, what to watch out for, the importance of planning out way more than just the six initial six video ideas that might turn into something. This video inspired me and I might perhaps upload some ideas at one point. Unannounced. Until I'm ready.
I saw your skirt video first, followed because your sewing content seemed interesting and I like making things, and yeah I watch all your videos because you (or the parts of you that make it onto youtube) are lovely and I enjoy listening to you and seeing what you're up to.
It’s such a darling look! 💗
Baffled that other people use the home tab, actually getting slightly more curious about LARP, well you have nice curtains, watching (almost?) all your videos - feeling called out, easily tempted into other crafts, cooking over a campfire!, thank you for moderating the comments!, that's why thumbnails are changing?
Anyways, thanks for the insights and over one hour entertainment while I was knitting.
I may not be a LARPer/LARPress, but you are my inspiration for dressing up/cosplaying for my DnD sessions🤷♀️ maybe not the same, but close enough😂
PS; I also came through the sewing community vortex, and I am here for your particular angle. Hope to see lots of your ideas becoming reality! Keep going!👍😊
I don't remember when I first started watching your content, but it may have been around the speedrun time, and have been subscribed ever since. (I don't know how your Gothic Cathedral gown is not a runaway success, I love that one so much!.)
I tend to watch everything the channels I subscribe to put out--even when I know I won't care about it--because that means income for them, and that money allows/incentivizes them to keep making content. (In other words: artists need to eat, and since I can't support them all with money, the very least I can do is provide my attention)
Trend-jacking: all the "pirate shirt" that aren't quite; all the "secret pant skirt", and so on and so forth. And yet, it's fun for me when more than one person I follow grab that thing and run with it, because each of them will give it their own unique spin--which is why I follow them to begin with.
For me, with notable exceptions (this video, for example), the sweet spot is somewhere in the 25 to 40 minutes length, and often wish that some longer videos were split at the natural point (there's usually at least one of those) into two or more installments. I feel this would increase the "watched to the end" ratio and also, more content/more frequency for the price/effort/time/cost of making one--but of course, I don't have a channel, and therefore don't know if that's how this thing actually works. The only advice I've seen everyone say is pertinent is the "upload videos regularly, at least once week if possible"; everything else is, "this is what has worked for me (before/so far)"
I love seeing the sausage made! Have a great time at Worldcon!
Gaming the algorithm comment, mostly.
But seriously, love the info, and your experience dump. Thx.
This is a very useful video for me as an aspiring visual artist.
I've been watching your videos since the video you posted for CoSy 2020 (ie the good CoSy before the problems) it was something about creating your own fantasy aesthetic. I really connected with your approach to projects then and still find it grounding now. I'm just grateful you are still making videos as so may youtubers have stopped.
I have my own channel centered around making that I started three years ago (not this one lol). I stopped posting for the last 10 months because I was wrapping up grad school and that was its own shit show. It's no joke that YouTubing is a lot of work. I've been considering starting back up again now that I have a somewhat stable job. This was just the video I needed to kickstart that plan. I have a lot of backlog of editing for projects I finished but never edited. Now I just have to figure out if I ditch the previous footage for now and start fresh, or work through it chronologically.
I think I hit the old lady sewing demographic, I'm 54. I watch the other creators you mention and I watch you because I like you and the way you do things. I like hearing about LARP as my youngest has started larping recently.
Ash, your videos are so very interesting. Even on topics that will never feature in my world. Larping - I'd neven heard of it before you. Youve broadened my world.
ND grandmother here. I love watching creative people do their thing. I'm not creative, but give me a pattern to follow and I'm sorted. Ive managed to make several skirts now, and even made a set of pockets to wear over those that dont have any ( the earliest skirts). Now they all get pockets. 😂
I've watched my way through all of your videos, and thank you for the fun, interest and education you have provided.
I think you would be a fun person to have a cuppa with, but never going to happen, I'm half a world away. 😅 Cheers
Sorry, I forgot to make the connection between the skirt videos and everything else. I came for the sewing, and stayed because I was entertained, even on topics that I had never thought of.
Keep up you great and fun work. I look forward to seeing every video.
That's very interesting about the viewing preferences because I'm actually the opposite, I don't have recommendations on and mainly view from my subs or related videos if I searched for something specific.
I enjoyed this video...I found you recently - I enjoy your style and tone....and the quirky historical basis to your stuff - though as a (I hope not miserable) old lady - I had to Google some of the terms you use - I've always known about larp but didn't know that was its name. Interestingly I love Bernadette Banner vids but found you through watching Charlie Nebe. I really admire what you do I couldn't ever put myself out there like you do. Be happy😊
Oh and at least your cat has a name that you don’t feel bad calling. My dad name a cat after booze! Standing the back calling for her was crazy!! I was calling for bourbon!
The 18th century petticoat was my first sewing project so I’m sad that you cop so much flak for it! I found that I suck at following instructional videos unless they’re very specific like French seam pockets which I also need to look up the same video for every time, so sewing content is more for my inspiration and general reference.
I don’t think I can be converted to larping but I love the content!! I think I’ve watched the evermore video at least 3 times in the last month while sewing 😅 Your storytelling just brings me joy
Love your channel. This info was an eye opener. I have greater respect for RUclipsrs now. Question do people over 55 LARP? How physically fit does one need to be?
Yes absolutely they do! And it depends entirely on what kind of larp you want to get into - you need a bit of speed and endurance if you want to get into combat, or play many (but not all) horror games, but if you don’t there’s still lots of options for mostly standing around talking to people
I present as the image of Middle England. I speak (mostly) RP, I'm middle aged, I'm as white as can be, I am plump and bespectacled and have grey hair. It's terrifying how many people assume I'm their ally. The words and thoughts and opinions which leave their mouths because they have decided based on just my appearance that I will agree horrifies me.
The slurs that get shared to me make me angry. I'm so sad that you are getting them thrown at yo.
Another miserable 69 year old lady here. I don't larp but have friends that do. I would love to make larp costumes but that isn't why I watch your channel religiously! I watch for two reasons; I just plain enjoy watching, you are real and interesting, and I watch because it helps me learn more about the thoughts of someone with a different lifestyle than mine. I have learned so much from you! I have been sewing for more than 50 years, I doubt you can teach me anything there but really appreciate your honesty and openness about yourself and your experiences. Just wanted you to know that there is at least one person watching every single on of your videos just because if you lived next door we would be great friends.
Waitwaitwait... And this is said not as a grumpy, judgey person, but as a very visual person that was legitimately confused...that's why the thumbnails keep changing on me?