Announcing YouTube Monetization and Membership Tiers

New Year's Eve 2024, final day at Cape Blanco State Park before moving north to a different park. Speaker is in his RV/camper preparing for relocation.

Energetic Signature

methodical

Field State

infrastructure building

Orientation

toward protected vulnerability

01JGEZVDEG2NPJC5GSJ76S23BH

December 31, 2024

4:45

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Author

rswfire

Status

ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

Temperature

0.00

[0:00]good morning fellow humans so it is New

[0:02]Year's Eve how cool is that I don't know

[0:04]what I'm doing today I might go to Cape

[0:06]arago I'm I'm definitely thinking about

[0:08]it I do got to get some stuff done in

[0:10]here because um it's my last day here at

[0:13]cap Blanco and then I had an hour and a

[0:15]half north to start my new my new um new

[0:20]chapter I guess where I'm just going to

[0:21]be at a different Park but I wanted to

[0:23]talk about something so as you know I

[0:26]got monetized and what I'm going to do

[0:29]there's two levels to

[0:30]um there's a me membership service so uh

[0:34]I made two levels of that there's the

[0:35]first level is like $3 a month and it's

[0:38]just got some basic stuff and then a

[0:39]live stream every month which I'll do um

[0:42]I've always thought about doing live

[0:44]streams and I just didn't want to do it

[0:46]with like a bunch of random people so

[0:49]this felt better when I saw that was a

[0:50]possibility so um once a month I'm going

[0:53]to do a live stream with you guys if

[0:54]you're interested cannot tell you when

[0:56]it will be I'll give you notice when you

[0:58]know it seems like okay okay this month

[1:00]let's do it at this time you know I

[1:02]might do it from a cape Edge or on the

[1:04]beach or in my camper it might be at

[1:07]dawn or dust cuz you know I'm a nomad

[1:09]internet is always a challenge and you

[1:12]know you just going of have to be

[1:13]flexible there but once a month we hang

[1:16]out for a while guys can ask me any

[1:18]questions you want get to see me in real

[1:20]time all of that and the second level is

[1:22]$10 a month the only difference with

[1:24]that one is a lot of my more vulnerable

[1:26]content is going into that into that

[1:29]bucket so if you want to to watch that

[1:30]that's where it's going to

[1:31]be um when you start out they don't like

[1:35]show you the join button um underneath

[1:37]my videos you need eight people to be

[1:39]subscribed before they'll do that so

[1:41]what I thought I would do is make a perk

[1:43]where for the first PE eight people who

[1:46]sign up even if you just do it for a

[1:48]month I'm not going to you know I'm not

[1:50]going

[1:51]to there's no gotcha here anything like

[1:54]that if you sign up for a month you help

[1:55]me get to that level um I'm I'll make

[1:58]you a friendship bracelet some of you

[2:00]know that that's a thing that I um

[2:02]always want to do and never really get

[2:04]around to let me just show

[2:06]you um I've got let's just go into my

[2:10]closet here pull these out let's see if

[2:12]I can do this with one

[2:13]hand

[2:17]okay got all these threads here cuz I

[2:20]actually I've Loved this since I was a

[2:22]teenager so pretty all those pretty

[2:25]colors you pick up to five colors cuz

[2:27]every color you have makes it harder to

[2:29]make a bracelet so while you pick five

[2:31]colors I'll make you a bracelet I can

[2:34]only do basic designs I got these books

[2:36]I'll show you they're clearly for

[2:38]children but you know I'm a big Manchild

[2:41]I guess I can't do like complicated

[2:44]stuff I don't even know if I could do

[2:45]one with letters and stuff I mean I

[2:46]guess I could try but generally I just

[2:49]make here we go I tend to make these

[2:52]designs right here so let's or this

[2:55]one's my favorite yeah same kind those

[2:57]ones are my favorite I can't can't

[3:00]promise you how long it will take me to

[3:01]get it to you because I start making a

[3:04]bracelet and then I don't finish it cuz

[3:06]it's like boring as hell to just sit

[3:07]there doing nothing like I that's what

[3:09]it feels like to me like this is a chaos

[3:11]person right I just um I try but it's

[3:16]you know it's a little hard but you know

[3:18]for this I'm I'll put the effort in I'm

[3:20]just saying it might take me a little

[3:22]while and in addition to that I will

[3:24]also send you a postcard some kind of

[3:26]organ postcard something about the coast

[3:29]um you know there's lots of little um

[3:32]gift shops around I've sent postcards to

[3:34]other people already since I got here

[3:36]like sent one to my dentist actually and

[3:38]my hygienist there because they did such

[3:40]an awesome job right so um I wanted to

[3:43]thank them I wanted them to know just

[3:45]how much they changed my life all of

[3:46]that and

[3:49]so yeah I'm still working out

[3:53]like um still navigating how how exactly

[3:57]I want to do this like a lot of my

[3:58]content will still be available about to

[4:00]everybody but

[4:02]I I've spent almost 10 months on here

[4:05]it's 10 months

[4:06]now I've had to navigate a lot on this

[4:09]platform and I have a pretty good

[4:11]feeling

[4:13]of when my content kind of straddles

[4:17]abuse for people to you know and I'm

[4:19]just I'm over that I'm not doing that

[4:20]anymore and if I put it behind a pay

[4:23]wall I think that it might also make it

[4:24]so that I can be even more vulnerable

[4:26]because I just um it's I've started to

[4:29]to get to the point where it's like you

[4:31]don't want to share as much cuz you know

[4:33]how people react but if you're

[4:35]subscribed you're a member of my channel

[4:38]you know that makes you a little bit

[4:40]safer to interact with right so that's

[4:43]where we're heading

Summary

rswfire announces his YouTube channel has been monetized and explains his new membership structure. He describes two membership tiers: $3/month with basic content and monthly live streams, and $10/month which includes more vulnerable content behind a paywall. He explains that YouTube requires 8 subscribers before showing the join button, so he offers a special perk for the first 8 members - handmade friendship bracelets and Oregon postcards. He shows his collection of embroidery threads and friendship bracelet pattern books, acknowledging he can only make basic designs. rswfire discusses his motivation for putting vulnerable content behind a paywall, citing concerns about platform abuse and wanting to create a safer space for sharing. He mentions being at Cape Blanco on his last day before moving north to a different park, and reflects on navigating the platform for 10 months.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission establishes protective infrastructure around vulnerability through monetization boundaries, creating controlled access to deeper content while maintaining surface-level availability. The field is constructing selective permeability - using economic filters to create safer relational containers for authentic expression.

Dominant Language

vulnerable contentsafer to interact withstraddles abusemembershipflexiblechaos personfriendship bracelet

Symbolic Elements

thresholdedgecontainergift

Ontological States

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sovereign
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transitional
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protective
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selective

Subsystems

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relational
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infrastructural
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ethical
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cognitive

Transmission Details

Source Type

youtube

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