📺 Sabrina made a video about TV in the streaming age and unravels the very specific reason why shows just don’t hit the same way they used to. You can watch it here.
🧩 Tom Scott let us back on Lateral. We are truly only getting more chaotic as time goes on. You can check out the full episode here.
📈 Sabrina shared some wisdom on how to grow on Patreon (without selling out) with Patreon’s audience itself! Check it out here.
✨ Get your bonus content! We’ve got fun new wallpapers plus an extended interview with TV scholar Amanda D. Lotz behind this month’s password: WATCH
🎧 Mixtape by Sabrina
In a recent unlocked Patreon podcast, you may have heard Sabrina’s struggle developing a playlist about work and realizing the word can refer to labour and/or looking good. The result was to make 2 different playlists. This month, we’re sharing the A-side.
📢 Audience Participation
We’re making a video about Tabletop Roleplaying Games (TTRPGs) and, if that’s your thing, we want to hear from you!
Whether you’re a longtime d20 aficionado, or relatively new to the hobby, we’d love to hear about your experiences.
We’re also trying something new and collecting video responses to one question in this survey that may be included in the upcoming episode. Thank you, and may all your roles be critical.
🔓 Patreon Unlocked
In this Patreon-exclusive podcast, we take you behind the scenes of our recent video on Airlines. Plus, Sabrina shares more information on her creative process. Lately, it’s included fewer crashouts than ever!
If you want to support our work and get access to even more bonus content and aftershows, consider subscribing to our Patreon :)
P.S. The answer to last month’s riddle was: airplane! We also accepted: aeroplane and air plane.
✂️ Cut for Time
As part of our video on TV streaming, Sabrina interviewed Amanda D. Lotz, a professor at Queensland University of Technology in Australia, and highly-influential television scholar.
This conversation was absolutely full of information that we didn’t have room for in the video. For example, did you know that in the early days of television, cable companies were actually the underdogs?
In the United States, early cable companies existed just to serve people in hard-to-reach areas that couldn’t get conventional broadcast signals (like rural areas in the mountains). There were policies that prevented them from targeting big population hubs and city centres, thanks to aggressive lobbying by the broadcast giants.
The rules didn’t change until the 1980s, and the market exploded (from 22% of all American homes up to 60%).
But possibly the most interesting part of the interview came at the end of our conversation. It was about the role content creators (like us!) are playing in the changing TV landscape. It was out of the scope of the video but we really recommend you give it a listen!
🔦 Creator Spotlight by Taha
I found From First Principles on Instagram first, but have become a fan of their podcast on YouTube as well. They offer some great, and highly-entertaining insight into the world of science.
Also, they did a tier list on all the scientists from Oppenheimer. Spoiler: Oppenheimer doesn’t rank highly.
Thank you for subscribing and following our chaotic little journey - see ya next month!
from ur neighbourhood nerds,
Sabrina, Melissa, and Taha <3
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