Hello,
It's Memoria! This newsletter is for both free followers & patrons.
Thank you so much for supporting me as always!
Don't worry, this won't be a downer post, but... I do like downer girl aesthetics!
Parvati from Aether Gazer (this is not a preview of my next ASMR, okay?)
━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━ FREE AUDIOS ━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━
Youtube used to house my free audios, and I've recently been uploading them both on Patreon & RPLAY.
For consistency purposes, RPLAY will be home to the new uploads from now on.
For the past audios on Youtube (deleted or not), I'm currently working on getting them onto RPLAY. It's slowed down recently, as I'm figuring some things out but I'll resume uploading them.
Now, there's two other platforms I'm going to be uploading my content to as well...
━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━ SPOTIFY & APPLE PODCASTS ━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━
Here's your official confirmation from this indie creator that my ASMRs will become publicly available on Spotify & Apple Podcasts!
If you're already a Patron on memoriaasmr.com, it's already an existing perk!
I know Patreon has a Spotify feature too, but I haven't explored that yet. My site provider makes it incredibly easy to have an RSS feed for patrons, but I still need to look into how Patreon's work. You can still download audios on Patreon without issue of course!
━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━ EXTRA PATRON PERK ━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━
OK, since free Spotify will be existing in the future with 320KBPS listening quality (except for re-uploads, re-uploads will still be in Youtube quality), I'll be sharing FLAC versions of new releases for Patrons. This will be part of when I start posting on Spotify, so please look forward to it!
Some people have been cancelling their pledge which I completely understand. I hope that by me giving you more exclusive content like FLAC, I can help make it worth your while!
By the way, an upcoming episode 3 of LIVING WITH MAID series is an oil massage which would be a Patron exclusive! It's coming out this month so keep your ears peeled!
━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━ YOUTUBE ━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━
Now, where does that leave us with Youtube? Ever since I've been temporarily banned from Youtube, I've been talking with other creators in the space about this topic. And one thing's clear - Youtube has become increasingly hostile, more than ever, towards ASMR creators. Youtube used to only give us age restriction warnings, which was a pain to appeal, but it was possible to appeal to a human re-reviewer and our ability to upload was not affected other than being subject to AI's whims for monetization of the video & to be cleared for public viewing.
But today, they have been more aggressive and issuing strikes left and right. If you don't know, a Youtube strike is incredibly debilitating to creators. 3 strikes, and you're out. You can take a crash course from Youtube to remove one, but that's it... You can only remove one. If you take all three, it deletes the entire channel, affects your ability to upload on Youtube even on your other accounts, and in some worse cases... possible deletion of your google account (including GMAIL!!).
But what does this mean for you as as an ASMR fan on Youtube? You will definitely see less creators doing ASMR on the platform, at least from the "anime" aesthetic side. I haven't personally seen or heard "fleshtubers" be subject to this sweeping ASMR censorship, so you'll see that type of content on Youtube still.
Originally, I planned to return to Youtube in mid-September, but it feels hopeless to return on Youtube unless I shift my content away from ASMR Roleplay, to something else. One thing I'm considering is book reading on Youtube, but of course said books need to be in the public domain. If that still gets a strike... Well...
Anyway! I'm hoping that once my content hits Spotify & Apple, it would be a great alternative to Youtube and possibly even open up our space to more people who's into my ASMR.
━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━ CONTENT DIRECTION ━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━
I will be focusing more on being more "Memoria". What that means is, more Maid Memoria content for you! I recently reached out to Throtem and we're in talks about getting some stretches for my face so I'd be more expressive :P
It's not a surprise by now but I've been wanting to return to streaming for a long, long time now. The Inushima illustration is actually rigged, and I've also been looking at 3D/VRChat since 2+ years ago.
Yup, this is only in the "idea" stage, but I'd like to be 3D one day! I know it involves expensive hardware equipment, software & 3D model but it'll help me make more immersive content in the future (and be more flexible with thumbnails).
When I stream, I'll be on Twitch & RPLAY! I'm considering a limited presence on Youtube through multi-streaming but... it's very risky.