YouTube is My Best Friend!

Tomorrow, the With Eyes East YouTube channel will roar back to vibrant life with its first upload in, I think, years? WEE-heads already know this history, but this site was founded as a component of the channel, until my interest in making videos buckled under the weight of the logistics. I remember having to reupload that Departed video half a dozen times over the course of a few days, to the point where my roommate asked why our Internet sucked lately. Copyright. The problem was copyright. The solution? I’ll cut down on the use of copyrighted video by filming myself! Already camera shy, this was a difficult proposition. I didn’t know what to do with my hands, how to memorize lines, how to keep the camera batteries charged. Plus, it was the pandemic, and my hair looked bad[der than usual]. I gave that a college go before quitting partway through a video on Shin Godzilla, which ended up being text-only. And everybody cried. … More YouTube is My Best Friend!