Ian Danskin is creating
video essays about games and web culture
14th most pretentious person on YouTube (and climbing)
109
$375.65
Milestone Goals
No Ads, Ever
No matter how much traffic Innuendo Studios hits, ads will stay turned off.
Monthly Schedule
I will guarantee one 10-15 minute video (or occasionally two videos that add up to 10+ minutes) every month. (Videos will occasionally be longer than 15 minutes.)
We'll Decide Together!
I'll come up with a few additional projects, like perhaps a podcast or a separate vloggier channel, and poll the patrons on which they'd like most.
About
East Coast media artist, video essayist, and professional undergrad.
Location
Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, USA
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It's me, Ian Danskin! I'm a freelancer, writer, "media artist," part-time student, and video essayist. You might know me best from YouTube videos such as This Is Phil Fish: A Case Study in Internet Fame, Things of Beauty: Super Smash Bros. as Spectator Sport, and Why Are You So Angry?, a six part series about angry gamers and harassment. These were all posted on my channel, Innuendo Studios.
After wrapping a successful Kickstarter in 2014, I got to treat Innuendo Studios as a job, clearing some freelance off my plate and releasing videos at a semi-regular clip. But Kickstarter money doesn't last forever, so Patreon is our shot at keeping the channel going indefinitely.
If you're here, I'm assuming you know the basics of how Patreon works. (Just in case: think of Patreon as a subscription to my work. You pledge to throw a few dollars at me each time I release a video. If enough people make that pledge, I can afford to keep making them on the regular.) What I will tell you is that making these videos is the best job I've ever had. No matter what, I'm going to keep releasing videos as long as I feel I have things to say and there are people interested in hearing them. Just how often that is will be up to you!
Let's talk goals:
Right Now: Hobby
There are a couple videos slated for October already, the last of those funded by the Kickstarter. It is quite possible that then I will get a workaday job that I can juggle with my two classes per semester and Innuendo Studios will be the thing I do wherever I can find the time. (Might even have to turn advertising on, which I am loathe to do.) And if that's how it goes, I will accept it graciously! I spent a year doing what I loved for a living, I have zero regrets. But maybe we could manage something more:
At $625 Per Video: Part-time Job
At this point putting out a video would, even after Patreon takes its cut, clear my rent, which means I could justify turning down other work. I'd still have to juggle other freelance work to keep myself fed and clothed, so I wouldn't be able to promise a regular schedule, but I wouldn't need to take a steady job. I could also keep the ads turned off forever. Some gigs would come along that would eat up weeks, maybe even the occasional month, so videos would come out only as often as I could manage them. But that would be as often as humanly possible. That is, unless:
At $1250 Per Video: Career
This would cover rent, food, bills, basic cost of living, and maybe, now and again, a few hundred bucks in the savings account. I'd clear most freelance work from my schedule - just the stuff I can fit around Innuendo Studios. Bare minimum, 10-15 minutes of content would come out every month. This would also pay for additional things like written pieces (did you know I do some writing?). For the time being, this would be my job, and I'd get to keep working the best job in the universe!
What You Get In Return
$1 patrons will get the videos a day early. $5 patrons will get access to annotated versions of the videos (several of which already exist). And $10 patrons will get access to the Behind the Scenes blog where I talk shop about how the videos get made, what's in production, and as much data and observation about crowdfunding as I can manage - hopefully this will be useful to anyone thinking of running a crowdfunding campaign themselves.
You would also get my deepest, sincerest thanks. Like, seriously, if you help keep this channel alive, you're on my list of rad people.
Let's see if we can make the magic happen!
After wrapping a successful Kickstarter in 2014, I got to treat Innuendo Studios as a job, clearing some freelance off my plate and releasing videos at a semi-regular clip. But Kickstarter money doesn't last forever, so Patreon is our shot at keeping the channel going indefinitely.
If you're here, I'm assuming you know the basics of how Patreon works. (Just in case: think of Patreon as a subscription to my work. You pledge to throw a few dollars at me each time I release a video. If enough people make that pledge, I can afford to keep making them on the regular.) What I will tell you is that making these videos is the best job I've ever had. No matter what, I'm going to keep releasing videos as long as I feel I have things to say and there are people interested in hearing them. Just how often that is will be up to you!
Let's talk goals:
Right Now: Hobby
There are a couple videos slated for October already, the last of those funded by the Kickstarter. It is quite possible that then I will get a workaday job that I can juggle with my two classes per semester and Innuendo Studios will be the thing I do wherever I can find the time. (Might even have to turn advertising on, which I am loathe to do.) And if that's how it goes, I will accept it graciously! I spent a year doing what I loved for a living, I have zero regrets. But maybe we could manage something more:
At $625 Per Video: Part-time Job
At this point putting out a video would, even after Patreon takes its cut, clear my rent, which means I could justify turning down other work. I'd still have to juggle other freelance work to keep myself fed and clothed, so I wouldn't be able to promise a regular schedule, but I wouldn't need to take a steady job. I could also keep the ads turned off forever. Some gigs would come along that would eat up weeks, maybe even the occasional month, so videos would come out only as often as I could manage them. But that would be as often as humanly possible. That is, unless:
At $1250 Per Video: Career
This would cover rent, food, bills, basic cost of living, and maybe, now and again, a few hundred bucks in the savings account. I'd clear most freelance work from my schedule - just the stuff I can fit around Innuendo Studios. Bare minimum, 10-15 minutes of content would come out every month. This would also pay for additional things like written pieces (did you know I do some writing?). For the time being, this would be my job, and I'd get to keep working the best job in the universe!
What You Get In Return
$1 patrons will get the videos a day early. $5 patrons will get access to annotated versions of the videos (several of which already exist). And $10 patrons will get access to the Behind the Scenes blog where I talk shop about how the videos get made, what's in production, and as much data and observation about crowdfunding as I can manage - hopefully this will be useful to anyone thinking of running a crowdfunding campaign themselves.
You would also get my deepest, sincerest thanks. Like, seriously, if you help keep this channel alive, you're on my list of rad people.
Let's see if we can make the magic happen!