RonBonDujon

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH, EVERYONE! I meant to send this out yesterday, but a few things popped up.

Even still, I have a full line-up of videos planned for this PRIDE. Just like last year, every MTO Episode this month will be dedicated to characters in the LGBTQ+ community. Alongside that, the Artist Alley of Blackarachnia and the Queer Reading of Tigatron will be coming out this month!

Speaking of Tigatron, he’s the new Artist Alley character! Everyone will have until July 1st to send in any piece of Tigatron fan art they’d like. As always, the only rules is that you cannot submit work that isn’t your own and there will be no generative AI allowed.

I’m very excited to see what you guys cook up! Tigatron is one of my favorite characters from any series, and it only made sense to have him represent PRIDE alongside Blackarachnia.

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2 days ago | [YT] | 345

RonBonDujon

Hey, everyone! First of all, new upload today! I went over every toy Air Raid has ever gotten.

However, that’s not the reason I’m making this post. I’m sure you guys have noticed a rise in rant videos from me recently, most notably the one I made about the G1 movie. There’s also been more cynicism leaking into my news videos. Several people reached out to me about their concerns over how I was acting.

Even though I stand by my videos, I do regret how some of them came about or how I acted in them, especially the news videos. I want everyone to know that this isn’t going to become regular on the channel, but all of you deserve to know how it even happened in the first place.

About a month ago, I found out that a friend I went to school with had passed away. I’ve lost many friends these last few years. My grieving comes at the same time that I’m still readjusting after my move. I was used to being able to see many friends multiple times a week, now I spend most of my time alone while I try to get used to my new home.

My depression was getting out of hand. Since the channel has always been an escape for me, I started burying myself in work. More videos a week, more production, start up pre-production for a second channel, plan some collabs, do some podcasts; I thought if I kept my mind occupied, I wouldn’t have to deal with my depression.

It only got worse with the news about my friend. Because the channel was one of the last wholly good things I still had in my day-to-day, bitterness began to seep in. While it was happening, I was always able to tell myself that it was okay. I was just being honest about my opinion, right?

The turning point happened this week. On Monday, my landlord sent an exterminator to my home without notifying me. I came home from work to find them spraying pesticide in my kitchen. I keep my cats’ food in the kitchen; even worse, Beau was eating while they were spraying. If you don’t know, insecticide can poison cats, especially if it contaminates their water.

I quickly shooed Beau away before scrubbing the food and water bowls. I asked the exterminator several times if they sprayed anywhere near the food, but was blown off.

I kept an eye on the cats for the rest of the night, and was terrified when Beau began acting strange. I took him to the vet, and thankfully, he was just a bit constipated.

Even still, for a hour there I was worried my cat was poisoned. Beau and Sienna are two of the most present figures in my life. Even if I have friends I can see often, my cats are the only ones I can see all the time. For this entire week, anytime they acted somewhat off, my anxiety came back. I wasn’t able to walk off any of the stress, either, because we’ve constant storms this week. I haven’t been able to sleep this week because of how worried I was for them.

I dozed off early this morning. When I woke up around 7am, Beau was motionless at the foot of my bed. His eyes were half open, his mouth was hanging open, and he looked pale in the light. I shot out of bed and shouted his name, which is of course when Beau sat up like nothing was wrong.

It was just a second, but it felt like hours. I thought my cat was dead, that I had failed to keep him healthy. I spent the rest of today sitting in the living room with them.

A couple of hours ago, Beau hopped in my lap. He’s never gotten into my lap, he always sits on the arm of my chair. With him in my lap, I broke down in tears. I haven’t cried in years, but all the sadness and anxiety came out at once. Beau and Sienna hung out with me while I worked my shit out.

Now that I’ve calmed down a bit, I’ve started to gain some perspective on things. I don’t like getting angry on the channel; because I was angry and sad and panicked in my personal life, I let that bleed into the channel. That was my failure. I was selfish to do that.

I’m writing all of this to say that I don’t want to make any more rant-style videos, and I want to try to be more optimistic in the news videos. It’s not fair to all of you that the videos suffer just because I’m feeling down. There were so many healthier ways I could have tackled these feelings before, but I suppose that the silver lining is that it happened here before my attitude got out of control.

This isn’t the first time I’ve let anger hijack the channel. I fear it won’t be the last. But I will promise to make a more active effort to keep the channel what it needs to be: a safe escape for people who love Transformers.

I would have made a video, but I really don’t want to be on camera right now. I hope this post finds everyone well, and that all of you will be willing to give me a chance to do better.

6 days ago | [YT] | 233

RonBonDujon

Tomorrow, I’m ranking every on-screen Starscream from worst to best!

Live goes live at 2pm est!

1 week ago | [YT] | 200

RonBonDujon

I’m wanting to end a few ongoing shows here on the channel and would like to hear what you guys think.

Before we get into that, MANY Toys of Wildrider is coming out tomorrow at 4pm est! The last member of the Stunticons finally gets the spotlight!

As for the future of the channel, I want to put Rambles and the News videos on hiatus. Neither are particularly high effort, and it feels like every channel does News videos.

Starting in July, I want to roll out two new shows. One would be called “Back to the Beast Wars”, and it will be reviews of every Year 1 BW toy. Everyone knew about that, but it will replace the Rambles.

Alongside that, I want to make a series called “Fighter Files”. Fighter Files will be character retrospectives for Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat characters. I love these characters, and I’m sad that videos on YouTube only ever seem to focus on their designs or gameplay. Fighter Files won’t go into moves or frame data, but instead be the life stories of these characters. The first two episodes I would like to make are Sagat and Mileena.

So, what does that look like? Starting in July and lasting until the end of the year, this would be a standard week:

MONDAY, 4pm- Fighter Files
WEDNESDAY, 4pm- Back to the Beast Wars
FRIDAY, 4pm- MANY Toys of
SUNDAY, 2pm- Features

Features will be rotating subjects. Artist Alleys, Companion MTOs, Transformer Character Essays, Cybertronian Rankings, things like that.

Fighter Files is something I really want to try. I don’t want the channel to be nothing but Transformers forever. I can already feel myself getting a bit burnt out on only taking about one thing, and my Clue Master video essay did very well. I feel like replacing the News videos with something that gives the channel more variety will only be a good thing. I hope you guys can enjoy them, too, but Fighter Files will be something more for me and keeping me excited to make videos.

That’s what I’d like to do. I want to hear from all of you, though! Is this the type of thing you guys would be interested in seeing? Are the News videos something you’d be upset to see go away? That’s why I’m posting this, I want to know what you think.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 209

RonBonDujon

Hey, everyone!

I know a lot of people agreed with things I had to say in my rant about the move and how Hasbro treats its employees. Friend of the show, Rocky, has made a similar video about the issue within the TF Fan Community.

Give it a watt if you’re interested!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi11i...

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 109

RonBonDujon

Hey, guys! I’m selling a ton of Transformers on eBay and wanted to share the link!



www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?sid=ronbondujon&_pgn=1&isR…





(Also, Surprise Stream at 7pm est. See you in 2 hours!)

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 64

RonBonDujon

New video out now!

Ever wanted to learn more about Laserbeak and his toys? I just made a video about his entire toy history, as well as his major appearances in cartoons and movies. It’s over on my channel right now!

(By the way, I’m doing another stream tonight at 7pm est. I got more Jada weirdos.)

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 84

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GOING LIVE NOW!

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 30

RonBonDujon

Going live in 15 minutes!

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 25