Rollie Williams
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Climate Town Year In Review
🕑 Added 2022-01-01 03:51:09 +0000 UTCDear everyone,
I hope you are enjoying your end-of-year festivities, and for those of you that have covid (statistically, 85% of us), I hope you are sequestered safely and absolutely taking the virus to the cleaners. Since this is the inaugural year of the Climate Town Patreon page, I wanted to say a deep and heartfelt thank you for your early adoption and your support. Here are some quick numbers about the year 2021 for Climate Town (and in some cases personal stats that kinda impact the ol’ channel brand):
- In 2021 we added 165,807 channel subscribers
- 464,099.4 hours of Climate Town videos were watched in 2021. Even the boring ones. I just asked google what that was in years, and it’s like 53 years. SO I GUESS IT WASN’T THAT BAD OF AN INVESTMENT TO BUY 53 COMPUTERS AND HAVE THEM LOOP MY VIDEOS FOR ALL OF 2021, WAS IT?!?
- An astonishing 1,983-ish of you beautiful poets became Patreon subscribers. If I die tonight (suspect foul play!) I think I would die happy knowing that 1,983-ish of you are down-with-da-town.
- But seriously, please have some bumbling-yet-effective detective investigate my death Columbo-style.
- Also, if you’ve never watched Columbo, HOLY HELL please watch an episode or two. It’s amazing. It stars Peter Falk (the old man from The Princess Bride) and it’s just top notch.
- I made a total of 8 videos which have actual clicky names but I refer to them in my own head as “exxon history, super bowl, texas blackouts, cars, FedEx, it wasn’t me feat. exxon, fast fashion, and gas stoves.” I think we can more or less do DOUBLE that in 2022 now that all you patrons have hooked me ALL the way up (see number 3). Also, I graduated from school - speaking of which …
- Columbia University mailed me my Climate Science and Policy degree for the paltry sum of $60,000-ish dollars in student loans. In my defense, I thought Joe Biden might have canceled some of that, but time makes fools of us all. Onwards and upwards.
- Climate Town got to the front page of reddit a few times, and even when moderators deleted the post for being “too political,” it felt good to be up there. If you are part of the Reddit-YouTube-Patreon pipeline, please take this as a personal thank you.
- Because of the Patreon support (see number 3), we’ve been able to hire an extra 3 people at Climate Town, and we’re about to hire a social media manager. The videos are still gonna feel pretty low-rent, but there will just be more of them.
So once again, thank you for your help and for watching. I have some goals for 2022 that I’d like to write here as a way of keeping myself on track. Have you ever found that if you tell enough people your goals, you feel obligated to do them so you don’t look like a complete tool? Well, this is that. 2022 GOALS:
- 16 videos in 2022. It’s a lot but I think we can hit it.
- Get into some political shit. I took a class in Climate Change Law and it emphasized where the levers of political power were and I think we can make some videos that aim at collective political action.
- I dunno, maybe 500,000 subscribers by 2023? It’s a stretch goal.
- That’s it. I’m already nervous about the first 3.
- Okay, number 4 doesn’t count. It really inflates the number of goals.
- Seriously? Now 4 and 5 are bullshit.
Here’s to 2022. Hopefully it’s the year we stop digging down and start to dig up.
Love,
Rollie Williams
Comments
New here. You're doing great Rollie
Christopher Eadie
"Eat shit and die Robbie you suck" - Exxon execs or something maybe
Wooowooop! I'm so happy for all of your success. You deserve it all and more!
George Donart
And Rollie, how about doing a video on -- flying. I live in Alaska & it seems tons of people 'have to' get out of town during January. Thanks
George Donart
Go for the Goals!
Alan Harris
brake as in slow down suddenly, or break as in separate in pieces?
Ardid
Just 2 things: 1- Never forget the process is more important than the goal. Nail the process, goals grow on their own. 2- That a young man like you knows Columbo tells me the process here is top notch.
Holy moly, a social media manager spreading this kind of content with witty comments, the internet is going to brake!
Cap'n Galactic
Just one more thing...you're right about Columbo.
Severin Martinez
At first I was disappointed that the hyperlink to “dig up” wasn’t a reference to the cartoon Star Wars rip off Star Chasers (“Don’t dig up, up is hell!” the brainwashed slave says to another slave who dares to think differently and imagines there is a better world outside the mine the are digging in)…but I was very pleased that the link was instead an early Simpsons clip!
You are my hero, very excited for the political videos!!!
Eric Stott
Good Job Rollie I am a Reddit to YouTube to Patreon guy, had I not been looking at Reddit I would have never found your videos I think those videos that you do are pretty awesome Because of your videos, I have started writing my congressman instead of putting posts on my social media because congressman, the people who can actually make changes are not reading my social media feeds
