ThickManatee

Hey everyone 👋 It's been a bit since my last video (again 😓) but I finally have a new one out now! Please check it out if you haven't! I have more ideas that I'm preparing, but unfortunately videos will probably continue to be inconsistent. I've been having some trouble mentally lately and I'm in need of a job (if you'd like me to do editing work for you, feel free to contact me) so I gotta focus on that stuff more. I want to continue working on these videos in my free time, but I'm not so sure how often I'll do that. If you're sticking around thank you very much, and I hope you like the new video, I'm proud of it 😊

6 months ago | [YT] | 0

ThickManatee

Howdy 🤠


I wanted to make a lil update and I didn't feel like writing a whole long post like usual, so I made a lil video instead which is over on my second channel. Please go check it out if you're interested 😊

10 months ago | [YT] | 2

ThickManatee

Hello again 😁

I’ve had two videos recorded for a few weeks now, but have been slacking on the editing for a variety of reasons. I was editing a longer second channel video from time to time, I started a new class, and some general procrastination 😅 But luckily, I finally finished a video and it will be going up today! Just gotta finish up the short for a lil advertisement and then I’ll upload it. After that I’ll be uploading that second video I talked about but I haven’t started editing that at all and it’s more of a broad topic similar to my “superhero music” video. Meaning I’ll probably have to pull from a lot of different videos and stuff instead of just one movie or tv show. I’m excited to work on that though, it’s a bit of a niche topic, but I hope it’ll catch the main community’s eyes at least. And it has a few personal stories from my life that I had fun writing and talking about. AND, I also got a new wireless mic recently that will hopefully help with some recording. The quality isn’t anything crazy, but it’s not a major downgrade and it should hopefully make recording a bit easier on me. I’ll test that out soon, hopefully on the next bigger video idea I have or perhaps on another updated channel trailer cuz I was kinda thinking about making a new one already with some green screen work. But yeah anyway, new video coming today, another one hopefully coming soon (preferably by the end of the month) and more work will continue after that if everything goes well. Thanks for reading if you did, and thanks for watching ☺️

11 months ago | [YT] | 3

ThickManatee

Hello folks 🙋‍♂️

I hope you enjoyed the last video I made. I wanted to do like way more with that idea in my head, but I'm still pretty happy with how that turned out. Maybe I'll revisit that topic sometime in the future and can make a really fantastic video. I've been working on a main video for a couple of months and I finally finished it today. The video itself isn't too crazy, but I tried something completely new for myself, so I had to get a lot of things situated and figured out. I'll talk about that a bit more in the new video, which I hope to upload very soon. There's a few side things I need to finish before I'm ready to upload it, so hopefully it'll be up within the next couple days, maybe even today if I work really fast. Also, I just watched a movie for my next video so now I just need to write that script, record audio and everything and then edit it. That won't be quick, but I'm at least past the idea stage, right? 😅 And I have an idea for 2 videos that I got back in April. I've worked on some of it and plan to pick that back up after this next video that I just started working on. Now that I have my new stuff set up (which again, you'll see in the next video), I'm excited to continue working on stuff. I'm pretty motivated at the moment, so hopefully I can get all these videos made a lot sooner than in the past. Anyway, yeah, thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy the next video as well as the beginnings of my new lil setup. See you soon 👋

1 year ago | [YT] | 2

ThickManatee

Ok, so, looks like Studio Ghibli may have made a major change to my plans for me. My Spirited Away video just got taken down. Not blocked in certain regions like some of my other videos; that thing just got removed entirely and I got a copyright strike. I could probably work around this for future videos, but the idea of having to be super careful with 20+ videos is not enticing. So I'll think about this a little more and look into some stuff, but atm it's looking like I'm just not gonna make anymore videos about Studio Ghibli movies. Maybe I can try that Disney movie live-action idea now, I was already considering doing that for the Lilo & Stitch remake coming up soon. So uhh yeah, this is annoying, but understandable. I'll mull this over some more like I mentioned, but I'm likely just not gonna make videos about these movies. I still wanna watch them so I'll uhh talk about them on Letterboxd I guess 😅

1 year ago | [YT] | 4

ThickManatee

Update: check the following post if you haven't.

Alright, my bad 😅 I forgot I should not make specific deadlines, because I got sidetracked again... oopsie. Anyway, here's the new video! I hope you enjoy it, and I should have the next one up in about 2 weeks. No specific date this time 😜

1 year ago (edited) | [YT] | 0

ThickManatee

Hey again 👋 So I said in my last post that I was gonna try to release that Ghibli video today, but I'm still not done with it. I worked on it a bit last weekend but then got side tracked by some other videos. I actually thought up a whole fun idea for a new video, wrote a script, recorded the V.O., and started editing some of it 😎 I got a little too focused on that though, and then got focused on another video idea and did another shorter video thing for a relative. I was also finishing up a class for school, so yeah I got a little sidetracked. The video shouldn't take too long to finish though, because it's only around 15 minutes or so. So I'm gonna do my best to upload it potentially tomorrow or probably Friday. After that's uploaded, I'll give it a couple of weeks or maybe less since I already have a lot of that other video finished as I mentioned. After that, I have some of the same ideas and some newer ideas, so I have a steady stream of ideas, just gotta get working on them 😅 So yeah, just wanted to make a quick update since I said I would try to have it done at a specific time. Nothing really went wrong, just got a little sidetracked. See you soon with some new videos 😄

1 year ago | [YT] | 3

ThickManatee

Hello there 😎

The new video is up and I hope it's enjoyable! Spider-Man is my favorite superhero and the franchise is one of my favorites ever, so I always love seeing new things with him that excite me as much as the classics. I'm gonna edit that Ghibli video now and plan to release it on March 12th. Maybe a little sooner, maybe a little later if things go wrong 😬 I'm also gonna try to begin working on a script and stuff for another video I have in mind and then I'll hopefully continue watching more Ghibli movies since again I wanna make that a series, but I don't wanna only do Ghibli videos, I still want some variety. I also may start on the live-action Disney series idea, but I'm not quite sure how enthused I am about that now. I don't have too many other concrete ideas at the moment, but I do want to make a video about the Minecraft movie when that's out. Also, I'm debating if I wanna make a video for May the 4th this year; idk if I wanna make another Glup Shitto type video or an actual serious video that I had in mind last year. I'll work that all out, and hopefully will have some videos going up more consistently now 👍

1 year ago | [YT] | 0

ThickManatee

Hello! Been a minute since I've released a video, I know. I've been trying to figure out this new style of video I've been thinking about, and that led to some more good ole procrastination. However, I think I've finally settled on something I like and I made my first script about a Ghibli movie. I was getting ready to edit that a while ago, but then I got a rush of inspiration from a new show and so I actually decided to make a video about that as well. I just finished the script yesterday and recorded the audio today, so I plan to edit that over the weekend and hopefully it will be up sometime in the next week. And like I just said I only have to edit that Ghibli video so I'll do that after this upcoming video. I'll probably give the next video about 2 weeks to get views and stuff and then I can upload the Ghibli video so for once there won't be a whole lot of time in between videos 😅 So yeah, it's been a while but I have 2 videos coming up and I'm gonna try to continue working on more in the meantime. I hope everyone likes my next video because like I said it's about something that I have a strong passion for 😀

1 year ago | [YT] | 2

ThickManatee

Good evening, folks 🎅

I'm rendering the Terrifier 3 video right now and it will be up tomorrow. Once I start working on my next video it'll probably be the first in a new series that I'd like to make. Since that new live-action Lion King movie recently came out, I had the idea of discussing those remakes myself. I haven't seen many of those but I've seen plenty of people saying how pointless they are and a lot of other criticisms, so I'd like to see how I personally feel about them. I have of course seen a lot of those classic animated Disney movies, but I haven't really seen them since I was like 5 or younger, so I really don't remember most of them. I was a Pixar kid, I watched Nemo, Toy Story, and Monsters Inc a lot more 😎 But yeah, since I don't remember a lot of the classics, I can rewatch those with a more critical eye and compare them to the remakes. I already assume the classics are better, but maybe some aren't? That's what I'll be finding out. I looked up how many of those remakes there are and there are actually quite a lot so that can be a new series that I can make a video on from time to time. I also have had the idea since I started making these videos to talk about the Studio Ghibli films because I haven't seen a single one 🙂 "I've never seen a single Studio Ghibli movie" should be good clickbait, right? 😅 I originally wanted to do two giant videos about every movie, but I think now I might make that into a series as well and talk about one at a time. That way I can get more practice like I want and can make those videos more frequently. I also have a couple of smaller ideas that I'd like to do in between but I'm not so sure about those so you'll hear about them if they happen. I've got plenty of other plans but I've got to mull those over more because a lot of them feel like they'd be overwhelming. I'm also finally finishing college next year so I'll probably be pretty busy with that and other life stuff so yeah, my plans for those two series are the primary ideas in my head for now. I hope you enjoy the new video, and thanks for reading, and watching. Have a Happy New Year! 😊

UPDATE: I may have jinxed it 😬 This video is getting blocked like crazy. A few of my other videos in the past have gotten blocked in certain places, but it was like three countries or something. This video is getting blocked in dozens, including the U.S. If I can't get the video to be shown in my own country than that's kiiinnnddd of a problem. Anyway hopefully, I can fix this (currently on version 6 of the video). If I can't fix it soonish then it may unfortunately have to be uploaded AFTER Christmas. If that happens, just pretend it came out on time 😅

UPDATE 2: It's unblocked! Please go check it out!! 🎅🎄🤡🔪♥

1 year ago (edited) | [YT] | 1