About my upcoming website on Wordpress, it would have the same look and feel of the mrjacon000.com website for the home page, blogs, and the about me. What's quite unfortunate with trying to migrate all of my previous blog posts on this website to the new one, it seems that I need to have a "business plan" that costs roughly $33/month where you can import you past blogs via RSS feed. Because of this, I'll have to start all over and continue to make blog posts like these for certain situations like any updates in detail, milestones, and more. Currently, I'm in the works of building the home page that's viewable on all browsing platforms like: desktop, tablet, and on mobile. You can access the link to the website by clicking here, but you will see a coming soon banner because the website isn't live at the moment. I'll have an update of when you'll see the website sometime soon.
Currently It's been about a few months since creating the new channel, TRIZE after my previous channel getting banned. It was two days after registering my domain on Weebly when YouTube sent me that email about my channel's termination. While it still baffles me to this date, things are still looking good on the channel. I've been seeing some steady growth for the past couple months in terms of views and subscribers. Since this website still contains my old name, MrJacon000, I've thought about moving to a new website where it relates to my current channel name and a platform that's more flexible than on Weebly. I'm currently in the works of creating a brand new website on a popular website creation/hosting platform called, Wordpress. Their website builder is more manageable than Weebly's as you can do more on Wordpress in terms of creating a good-looking website for visitors that want to take a deeper dive on what my channel is all about. If you were to view this exact website on Weebly on a mobile phone, it doesn't look all that great as there's some formatting issues that I seem to be stuck on fixing them. Regardless what I do without doing a massive overhaul on the website.
About my upcoming website on Wordpress, it would have the same look and feel of the mrjacon000.com website for the home page, blogs, and the about me. What's quite unfortunate with trying to migrate all of my previous blog posts on this website to the new one, it seems that I need to have a "business plan" that costs roughly $33/month where you can import you past blogs via RSS feed. Because of this, I'll have to start all over and continue to make blog posts like these for certain situations like any updates in detail, milestones, and more. Currently, I'm in the works of building the home page that's viewable on all browsing platforms like: desktop, tablet, and on mobile. You can access the link to the website by clicking here, but you will see a coming soon banner because the website isn't live at the moment. I'll have an update of when you'll see the website sometime soon. Well guys from February 23rd, 2011 - April 26th, 2021. Youtube out of nowhere just terminated my channel due to "spam". I'm thinking they've seen my old videos and though some of those were deemed spam, but I don't know. It's a very shocking, and heart breaking message to see, but I'm gonna apply for an appeal to get it back. If I somehow get it back which usually it doesn't happen, I'll just delete any old video that doesn't correspond to what I normally publish. If that fails, guess I'm gonna start allllll over from the beginning. Having 10 years of this account and just sucked away outta thin air took me by surprise. If I were to start over, I'll probably take out the zeros in my name, or rename myself. Anyways, I'll try my best and fight this case to get my channel and and find out why they did it.
It's been several years in the making, and I've made my decision to register this domain for the first time. What does it mean? It means that I no longer have the ".weebly.com" subdomain under my website link. This shows that my site is more unique rather than carrying a subdomain for free. I did this because my Google Adsense account was rejected due to a lack of material on this website a couple of years ago. I've recently resubmitted my application to approve ads on this website to earn some ad revenue for the long run. Speaking of Adsense, my YouTube channel finally reached the 4K watch time threshold a couple of days ago. As of right now, my Adsense through my YouTube channel has to be activated by Google for them to review my channel to run ads on my videos. Prior to all these requirements that were implemented back in early 2018, I ran ads on all my videos and was a partner with Socialblade for a couple of years. With the channel review around the corner, I'm heavily considering deleting/privating my videos that don't belong to me. Such as the studio/TV logos, the infamous Tourette's Guy lottery video, and clips taken from my TV consisting of portions of a show aired on television. Deleting these videos will put a dent in my view count on my channel, but they're not mine to begin with, or they don't describe what my channel is all about. When the review is completed, and it comes back as being rejected for reused content, I will delete those videos that don't belong to me whatsoever and will have to accept it. Hopefully, they will accept the application to be able to run ads again without deleting any of those videos.
On March 23th, 2021, I've finally managed to reach 1,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel. It's been about 10 years and 1 month to reach this ambitious, yet achievable goal. As you probably know, I started my YouTube channel on February 23rd, 2011, when YouTube was quite simple back in the day. With the rise of Minecraft gaming videos, Pewdiepie, Markiplier, Smosh, Prime nigahiga, etc. The reason why I created this account back in the day was to subscribe and follow the Happy Wheels game trend with YouTubers such as Uberhaxornova, Jacksepticeye, and many more. I didn't watch a whole lot of Pewdiepie's videos because I thought that his character and style of videos were somewhat annoying. That didn't age well at all! With the creation of my channel, I kept the name as is to this date, including the zeros at the end. What the name really stands for is a ("name blend?") of a nickname back in elementary and middle school which was "Jacob The Con Artist." Me being somewhat of a wannabe hardcore kid outside of the class. The zeros didn't mean anything as I wanted to make myself look more "official" and to stand out more than everyone else on the platform. Recently, I found out to make the number have a meaning for the channel. It now stands for, "Starting with 0 views, 0 subscribers, and 0 fame." I'm mulling that I should drop the zeros in the future to make myself more professional and a tad more recognizable. Like MrBeast, his channel name back in the day was "MrBeast6000" until he dropped the numbers later on in his YouTube career. To summarize how I got the name, the "Mr" stand for me identifying myself as a man, the "Jac" for the first syllable in my name, "Con" for the word con artist in Jacob The Con Artist, and the "000's" for the channel filler name that now has a purpose.
For the future of my channel, I plan on continuing to deliver high-quality and entertaining content for all of you to enjoy. These numbers mean a lot to me, at first I thought I would achieve this sub-goal within the next half-decade of not being very active and not enthusiastic on YouTube. Since I made changes and had more time and dedication to this channel, I finally made it! And it's all thanks to you! From being a random video poster, a non-commentary gaming channel, a poorly edited PS4 video gaming channel, and now, a simulation gaming channel. Who mainly uploads Automation/BeamNG.drive videos. I'm also considering on deleting some of the copied and completely useless videos on my channel in light of nearing the monetization goal of reaching 4,000 watch time hours which I'll reach that within the next two or three months from now. And again, for those who have been with me during these tough times in the COVID-19 pandemic, or even around the time when I first started this channel, I couldn't thank you enough! Over the past year, I was quite inactive on my channel. I uploaded videos inconsistently on a bi-weekly or monthly basis. I also lacked some enthusiasm, editing skills, and character in my videos. Since COVID-19 first became widespread throughout the world, it gave me an excuse to focus a bit more on YouTube as schools were switched to remote learning, and many businesses shut down due to the pandemic. In the Spring, I started to double down on my videos by setting up an upload schedule. Instead of posting videos a couple of times a month, I started to post at least two videos a week. This is because my university had spring classes closed and switched to remote learning to reduce the spread of COVID. Including all their facilities such as their sports arenas, libraries, student union, rec center, and many more. While it was a strange, strenuous year dealing with a pandemic, it did give me some hope in my channel as I've never been very active for the past couple of years.
Compared to 2019's channel statistics, views and watch time became quite stagnant until the end of the year. I posted 12 videos at the time and one of them is still gaining views to this date. The video, Traffic Tool Mod & Script AI Manager | BeamNG.drive started slowly and began to take off within a couple of days. Even though it is a poorly edited video as it has a lot of silent parts, poor audio quality, and lack of enthusiasm. It currently has over 19,000 views and is the 8ᵗʰ viewed video on my channel. If the video was higher in quality, it probably would have had more views as YouTube would recommend it more as their algorithm would state that people are "watching it." Not just viewing it for 30 seconds and then leaving to watch another video. In terms of views, watch time, and subscribers gained, I've earned:
For 2020's statistics, I've published 90 videos which is 7.5 times more than in 2019. Views are down from last year which I'm not too worried about. So, I gained a total of:
It's been a rough year for all, from dealing with a pandemic with over 300,000 lives lost, to a hectic presidential election. I have many positive outcomes for the future of my channel and it's all thanks to you! While I have been gaining views and subs like nothing before, there still much more room to grow. Despite college classes starting up again for the Spring in a few weeks, It shouldn't slow me down. Hopefully it won't... Thanks again, I really appreciate the growing support for this channel! Starting in 2021, I'm going to be testing out for my future videos to not show the 10-second video intro. This is an experiment to improve general watch time and slightly reduce video length. According to online forums and many of the YouTubers that I'm subscribed to, they either have no video intro, a short greeting, or they use a pre-intro teaser and a short video intro. I know you want to get to the point in any video, a gaming video, vlog, tutorial, etc. I'm planning on doing this for about 5-10 videos depending on the outcome. If that doesn't work, I'll consider doing a 10-second max pre-intro teaser for certain games with the video intro right after the teaser. If either of them doesn't have positive outcomes, then I'll resume showing the video intro.
It finally came! I've bought a used Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 Founder's Edition graphics card a few days ago on eBay. This will replace my previous GPU, the EVGA Nvidia GTX 970 SC. The reason why I bought a regular 1070 and not an aftermarket car is that I didn't want a very powerful GPU and experience bottlenecking with this Xeon W3690 CPU. As of right now, the GPU is working great is it's a well-deserved upgrade to boost my FPS at over 60 FPS. On BeamNG.drive, I get an average of roughly 70 FPS on the West Coast, USA map with a typical Beamng vehicle. On PC Building Simulator, it remains at a stable 75 FPS on both the Esports DLC workshop and the career workshop. Drug Dealer Simulator shows FPS values between 10-50. It's just like in episode #3 after the 1.0.6 update where I got so many lag spikes as the game was loading in assets in front of me. I don't know if it's a CPU or RAM issue because of these issues. And lastly, in Automation, I get an average of 55 FPS with ultra graphics settings. Overall, this is a great card compared to my last one. The GTX 1070 is a 150W card compared to the 970 is a 145W card. Not only that, I'm still using the stock 525W PSU in this Dell T3500. All I had to do to get this to work was that I had to buy a 6-8 pin PCIe adapter with this new GPU. It works without any problems whatsoever. This new GPU will become my main one until I plan to build a custom computer. That will happen in the future after college. In tomorrow's video, I'll come back to Automation to resume my car builds and test them in Beamng. So look out for that real soon!
I've had a lot of changes done to my channel. One of them is my brand new Discord server. This server is for keeping contact with me about upcoming videos, exclusive access to my finished Automation car builds, video suggestions, and more! (to come) Another update is a new video outro. I kept the song, but instead of the old JMPS mail truck driving at high speeds, I used my Inspira Impressive WRECK STEVE, A.k.a. the Subaru WRX STI clone. In the outro video, rather than having a camera orbit around the vehicle while driving, I got action shots of multiple close calls in traffic while getting the perspective of the AI driver's POV. Which leads to an unfortunate ending for the car... The last update of my channel is a brand new trailer. It's still the same format; highlights of my recent videos, the text coming at you, etc. It also mentions my new Discord server rather than my Twitch account that I haven't used in over a year. For those who are interested in joining my Discord, here's the link right here!
When I started my YouTube channel back in early 2011, it wasn't in great shape. Which includes my profile picture that consists of a flaming skull that I've made in Dell Webcam Central on my parent's laptop which was a Dell Inspiron N5010. I've used that profile pic on all my associated accounts and on YouTube for about a few years (Feb 23, 2011 - 2013.) That flaming skull photo is still used on a couple accounts such as Addicting Games, an online flash & HTML game website. I haven't used that account in ages since I don't know the password to that account. Also, on the 24th of February, I published my channel art at the same time with the second profile picture. It didn't have the social media links in the first one as the picture only contains the abstract drawing. On December 25th, 2016, I've updated the same channel art to add my social media links. Like my Facebook, Twitter, and Twitch accounts. Along with my YouTube channel name. About my previous profile picture, I've created the logo from a website called FlamingText using the "Chrome" design and added my channel name over a black background. Since I had a Samsung Chromebook at the time of making the logo, I took a photo of the profile pic since I didn't know how to resize the picture properly. The picture came out fairly dark, but still recognizable in my YouTube videos and channel. When August came around, I've thought up ideas to update my profile picture and channel art. I'd mentioned it before in one of my previous blog posts which was the channel trailer reveal. I stated that I had future plans to update and create them myself. Rather than finding an image online and putting text over it. Like my last channel art picture. With the power of Adobe Photoshop, which I use to create video thumbnails, I got to work on creating those pictures. The first one which is the channel art. My new channel art consists of many pictures in a collage that represents the games I commonly play. In the middle are my channel name, motto, social media links, and channel brief. Which is surrounded by a thin black rectangle for those viewing on desktop and mobile. Those on TV can see the entire collage of pictures that are copy and pasted to save time and storage. Also, there is a dim green to red gradient that goes across the middle of the channel art picture, but it doesn't go all the way across the picture because I thought it would be somewhat distracting and difficult to see the picture collage. The second rectangle of where my channel name is at consists of a white to black gradient with a black to white gradient stroke around that rectangle. I've added the gradient on that rectangle rather than a single color is to give more center of attention to the channel art when someone sees my channel for the first time. Same thing with the gradient rectangle stroke. For my profile picture, it may not look the best out on the internet, especially for someone who has under 1k subs at the time of posting this blog post. It consists of a dark, but dim blue to black gradient as the background color. Also, in the background, the three zeros represent the last three characters in my channel name. The three zeros were completely senseless when I made the account in 2011 when I was a kid back then. Now, I've thought in mind what they actually mean. You may think it's a Star Wars droid character, novel, or Australia's emergency number. It actually means these three phrases of my start on YouTube; From zero vids, zero subs, and zero fame. That correlates to my motto, "From 0 content until now." More about the profile pic, I added portions of my channel name to the picture. The "MrJacon" at the top of the picture is the first part of my name which is bent slightly upwards. In the middle is the word 'triple' which properly names the three zeros at the end rather than saying, "Zero zero zero." Lastly is the word 'zero' which is bent downwards slightly. It shows new viewers how to pronounce my name properly without grinding their gears in their head. Even though I say it in each video intro. As I said, it may not be the world's best and most appealing pictures of all time. At least it's an improvement from the last ones. The reason for the update was to make my image and my channel look more professional. With an appealing profile picture and channel art, it will show new YouTube viewers what to expect on my channel if they were to subscribe to me. These pictures will be used on August 9th, 2020, until whenever I update them in the future.
I forgot to post this about a week ago, my secondary hard drive that stores a majority of my games, and YouTube project files suddenly became inaccessible. When I booted up my computer and check the file explorer, it asks me to format the drive like if it's brand new or something. When I used a data recovery program by EaseUS, it shows over 3.5 TB of files to recover (1.6 TB that I need recovered.) I bought a one month license for them, and I'm waiting for a 2TB hard drive to serve as a backup drive since I don't have one. After the OS got corrupted a couple months ago and now this, I should really invest in something to store my recent data without going through the hardships of recovering and grieving over lost, important data. Since I'm not going to use that hard drive often, I'm going to buy a used one on eBay, but the auction ends in about 3 days from now. Hopefully, I win the auction and get the hard drive because I have plans on resuming PCBS and American Truck Simulator but I can't because the hard drive is messed up. I posted an image on my social media the day it happened thinking the hard drive was dead, but it seems like it isn't. If it is, then there would be any chance to recover any data. I hope that data doesn't go anywhere for the next week till I get it working again! If it gets lost... then RIP.
EDIT 8/5/20: I have recovered a portion of my data using the recovery program, but some of those files couldn't be recovered. Possibly being corrupt when the hard drive screwed up that day. I've just formatted the entire hard drive and backed up necessary data to an external HDD by Seagate. Hopefully, I don't go through another problem like this in the future, especially for a 4TB hard drive of where I store all my games and YouTube project files on. |
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