-Hey guys, Lizfaerie here.
-And Joey
-I'm going to be real with you guys for a
moment.
Lately, a lot of my videos have been getting
demonetized, and I'm not sure why that is.
I have a couple of theories but I'm not sure exactly what the cause of it
is, but basically I've been seeing a large cut to the earnings on Youtube, through the ads that play on my videos.
You guys might not be familiar with the way Youtube's
monetization system works.
If you didn't know, I already kind of make hardly
anything from Youtube.
I'll show you guys some graphs to show you a couple of examples of how much I make
per month. But in a good month, I make about 60 or 70
dollars. That
is 70 dollars A MONTH.
Not a day.
Not a week.
A month.
-And then on top of that, with the way Youtube's
payout system works, Liz doesn't see any of
that money until she hits a threshold of at
least 100 dollars, so she would only get paid, like,
every 2 months.
-Yeah, at the most every 2 months.
And that's if I'm really lucky, because that's, as I said, in a good month.
Usually I make maybe 50 dollars a month, like typically, if it's an average month.
But lately, because of the demonetization thing, and also probably somewhat because of the time of year that it is,
I've been making more like 30 or 40 dollars a month.
which means I'm not getting paid for 3 or 4 months. Which is a really really long time to not be getting paid.
I put a lot of work into this channel, and I write and design and draft and test all of the patterns myself.
I film all of the patterns myself. I edit  everything all myself.
And I'm just not getting paid for that work.
-Liz puts a lot of work into this,
-She puts at least 10 hours a day into this
job.
And she's only making about a dollar or two
a day.
And that kind of thing can make it really easy to
think that no one is valuing the work she's putting in.
And its literally the majority of the day that she's working on these projects.
-Yeah, and I know that it isn't true that no one is valuing what I'm doing, because, I mean, I have
7000 plus subscribers, you guys! We have so many people watching this channel!
-Yeah I know, thank you guys so much.
-Yeah, thank you so much. I never
expected to have so many of you guys here. But I
get so many great comments from people, telling me
about how much what I'm doing has helped them.
But I kind of need help now, you guys.
I need to be able to make a living if I'm
going to continue doing this.
And the only way that I can really keep doing this is if I'm getting paid for my work.
I'm sorry.
-No, its ok.
-Let me just (pulls out a tissue, wipes eyes).
I'm sorry.
I was not going to go there but there we go. I said I was going to be real with you guys. I'm sorry.
So one way that you can help is by donating to Patreon.
-Patreon is a website that lets you donate
to creators, to help them to basically make new content.
-And your donation helps to keep all of my content free
for everyone, but in exchange you get exclusive perks.
This channel is my only source of income.
If you like my work, and you feel like I should
be paid for my work, then please please please donate on Patreon.
And, as I said before, you guys. There are 7000 of you. If all of you donated just 1 dollar,
I would be able to do so many things with this channel, and just generally with life.
I would be able to afford to help with rent, to help buy food, to help with so many things just in our life.
And also I would be able to do more with the channel, like buy new editing software.
I don't know if you guys really know,
I'm using some really old editing software. It's basically freeware. it's not very good editing software.
And I feel like I'm constantly fighting with the program that I'm using to do these tutorials.
And if I had something that worked better, I would be able to put out content a lot faster and easier,
and then it wouldn't take, like, an hour to encode a video.
-If you want to help out, you can find more
information at Patreon.com/faerierings.
There'll be a link in the description below.
And another thing that I would really like to be able to do is to reopen my Etsy store
so that I can start to list things for sale again.
Because I haven't had that open in a while.
-Another thing is, we're trying to save up to move 
into a bigger place. We currently live
in a, kind of a tiny one bedroom apartment up on the 2nd floor.
It only allows us to be able to do so many things in this little studio space we've kind of built for ourselves.
-And not only that but we kind of live right next to the highway.
So that kind of makes it really really difficult to record sometimes.
It takes me a lot longer to record audio in this location than it would if we
moved to somewhere that was
a little further from the highway. We're literally right next to it. It's right outside our door. So that would help us to be able to...
And also I apologize to you all of you guys for
any audio issues, that's why, so...
-And it would mean so much to me if I was
able to contribute something
for the rent.
As I said before, I only get paid
by Youtube if I reach a threshold of 100 dollars,
so I basically can't make a monthly payment, because I'm not making any money per month.
And I have been saving a little bit. But I do only get paid literally a dollar or 2
a day. So it's hard to save. And it's hard to be able to afford these things.
Right now, I can only afford to get new materials for
new tutorials, and that's about it.
And it just isn't enough.
-Again, if you guys want to help, please check out Patreon.com/faerierings, if you want to help out the channel.
-If you would just like to make a one time
payment to help out the channel, you can paypal
me. I'll put a link in the description below, where you can do that, and that would help a lot too.
But if you sign up for Patreon, like I said before, you'll get
some exclusive perks.
So you'll be able to watch my videos
early, or you'll be able to see your name in scroll through the credits at the end of the video,
You'll also get some discounts, and some occasional free patterns.
-Again you can find more information about
rewards at the patreon page.
The link is in the description below.
-For a limited time to save up for
the move, I'm going to have a coupon in the Ravelry store that you guys can use
It's going to be for 10% off your purchase of $5 or more.
So if anyone wants to help out that way, you can buy a pattern.
So you can use the coupon code “MOVEMARCH”, all in caps
This coupon will be running until the end
of March, so March 31, 2018.
And there'll be a Patreon exclusive coupon
for 25% off for Patrons during March, so Patrons
will get extra savings during sales.
-So if you'd like to help out with a monthly
donation, for as low as 1 dollar a month,
visit Patreon.com/faerierings.
-Currently, Youtube is my only source of income,
and it really is not enough for me to survive.
If you like my work, and if you feel I should
be paid for the hours that I put into working on this channel, please
please please donate on Patreon.
Thank you all so much for your views, and for your
kind comments, and thank you so much for your support,
and for subscribing to the channel. And I think that's all we have to say for now, so
thank you guys for watching.
-Thanks, guys, we really appreciate it.
-Bye!
