also lots of good notes and shoutouts but the one that rly got me was shen, who is the guy that specifically got me into gdq! and his donation about the mach bike moment :3c sounds like I oughta rewatch emerald evolution chaos…!

and watch the interstitials. magnets block dude pokemon guess who the newlyweds game that chris & shen did... many gems. also a common denominator in there. lol

and then pokemon in general is a game that's well-known, so there's great room for casual banter. i say this as someone who rewatches the emerald evolution chaos run like crazy. it's just... it's Fun. i know it's going to be so fun. I will be making every effort to tune in live!!

like i saw it at gdqX already and like. the pick-my-main bets, going through every gym with a different pokemon... it is the type of thing that really incentivizes donations and makes even the ones that aren't read out loud feel like they count! perfect for the finale push of donations

jumped out of my chair to cheer like crazy, if this goes anything like the gdqx run it’ll be legendary

the Type of person who is likely to comment. so it is naturally more inflammatory or polarized or critical or joking bc that is a comment that is less boring and mundane than just "nice, i liked it!" but. "good video!" is probably the kind of thing someone would like to hear. so I try to say it more

and for smaller channels I think it does really matter. like okay the guys with millions or hundreds of thousands of views probably won't read your comments but the ones with 200 really do. and even for the big channels I think in general comments are influenced by like,

*raucous cheering* congrats on getting it out!! this was the first one where I'd been able to watch all of the vods beforehand, and the video was extra-fun because of it!!

excited for the video! this was the rare event where I was able to catch all of the vods, I’m excited to see how everything’s stitched together!