An honest channel update….

Thank you to everyone who's supported me in any way! 🙏

Hey Finn, your channel(s) is one of the few I watch regularly, and I love the mix of sharing personal stuff and nuanced music related content. In one of your old vids you said it would be great to hear about who we (comment writers) are: I am a 41yr old guy from Germany with an obsession for tool in my youth (I know that’s a red flag for you, but that’s ok). I work in academia as economist. I guess the latter is why I can relate so much to your “music is a business” point of view, and this brings me to your question in this vid: If your channels are the main source of your income, then I guess you should mainly create content that your audience enjoys. Still, you also correctly point out that your audience appreciates you being very honest and passionate about the stuff you do, so I see the dilemma – your SOAD vid might not be the most genuine thing if you do not really like them. Maybe the solution is really as simple as that you also, once in a while, do some vids about the things you really care – maybe 1 out of 5 or 10, whatever -, even if you know you won’t get a lot of revenue out of this. Let the other vids finance that. Because even though you are a marketing guy, you cannot deny that a substantial part of you is also the creative type that cares about making things not entirely for money or success. It could be that these “passion vids” speak to a smaller group of your subscribers and your other vids pleases the (possibly larger) other half. Kind of: you have a diverse audience so create diverse content. Finally, if you only go for content that maximizes clicks even though you personally don’t like it I guess it will get tedious (for you) quite fast and possibly make you quit eventually. So, again, combine / mix it with stuff you love. Hope that makes sense somehow, I guess you figured out so much by yourself, but I wanted to support that and your hybrid approach to making content. Keep up the great work and do not let the shit comments bring you down. There are enough channels out there with people telling us non-stop how smart, swag or whatever they are and we cannot afford to lose channels like yours that make a difference.
PS: I loved your babymetal coverage and their collab with BMTH, even though both have a serious shortage of the Fibonacci sequence in their songs
PPS: would be great to hear your thoughts on post metal one day (Amenra, Neurosis, Isis, CoL)

How about "stay abrasive". Your channel is called punk right?

YUNG LEAN

@7:23 my first year as a police officer, this was me 2-3 nights a week. Much love man. Enjoy your videos.

Can I ask why you stopped the other channel? It may not be a number crushing channel but you do have fans. Me and my girlfriend being one of them. You haven't replied to the other channel so I'm hoping you at least reply to this.

Edit: I guess it’s already plain as day. Stop caring what strangers on the internet think. It comes off weak. I figured you would not answer and for someone that’s watched you literally everyday for years it makes me feel in different towards you. You’re sh**ting on your fans as well. As much as it pains me I’m unsubscribing

Converge. The answer to your problems is stamped right behind you! The only way to survive on YT long term is to find a way to align a little bit of what you want with a "lot of bit" of what your audience wants… How would you do that? Only you can cook that up… You got this, though!

They may be wiki videos but i like hearing the video you make better then reading a Wikipedia. You make the nice videos with pictures and such

If youre still into doing the history thing, and staying with the music idea. Venues? Not history, The behind the scene gods in the life of a roadie? Artists with odd hobbies?

Enjoy your work

First off you're super great. Your content kicks ass and your little one is adorable (new dad gang).

Secondly it might be unrealistic as time is so finite especially with a little one at home… but can you maybe add an extra video a month? Like a passion video? Or add extra content that you love on top of what is effective for viewership etc?

Regardless sending super good vibes Finn you're amazing and pay homage to art that has touched so many of us. I'd also say your older stuff had a lot of personal connection that gave you insights people can't find on Wikipedia. That was so cool for me. But I recognized there is a finite amount of experiences for you to draw of from your life. But keep it up dude I love all of it.

More new music and young musicians, pls. I found so many names that were new to me, all thanks to your work. Personally, I really appreciate it

As a creator, dealing with negative comments is very draining. Its easy for someone who doesn't put themselves out there to say " ignore them" but some people do very personal attacks. I totally get it. I worked for Lamb of God the first 7 years they were signed. I saw them go from working day jobs to making music as a full time career. Its a bit different moving a hobby into a career.

I always love love watching all the content that you make 🙂 I'll try to be thinking of ideas 🙂

Honestly I loved the Trap Metal interview because I was the one who consistently requested that in almost very video you made before that video lol. It was honestly too ahead of its time because look what happened during the 2020's. Trap Metal/Emo rap was at its peak with suicide boys, XXX was the hottest news, and juice world was on every Facebook and twitter post. Again I was super happy that you had both someone who was in the Metal and Rap scene at the time. I never really fully agreed with you on some of the videos, but most of the videos you had the knowledge and the connections to get the facts and that is what I really appreciated. As a failed YouTube artist, my advice is to keep doing what you love. I was chasing numbers at one point and flopped while doing it. If I could go back, I would of rather flop but actually love doing the content I do. Since your wife is Vietnamese, maybe do a video about how Asians do be going hard like Americans. I know there are tons of Asians out there but love metal; not just Japanese. Maybe 5 songs that go so hard when they featured someone outside of the US; ex baby metal and BMTH. Honorable mention: when BMTH had the legendary beatboxer Rhazel in their song. Damm that was amazing!!! Maybe diescet that song and why it was such a legendary moment. Idk you always know how to put it in a video better than my comments.

talk about what you want i know it will get views but as a fan i like watching it