I’m sorry to hear about your illness, but I think I speak on the behalf of all of us when we say we’re glad you made a brilliant recovery and congrats on your milestone 👍👍
A feature on the Romney fleet! Splendid! Such a shame people dismiss the "toy railways" just because it's not the Talyllyn, keenly awaiting it's release!
My finite Patreon money tend to spread wide and thin. I will be one of those small-time $2 / month contributors. (Expecting no perks at all, other than the joy of supporting the cause.)
I just received my copy of steam locos in profile vol 3 last week. And I just want to say that I really enjoyed it and plan to get more when I can afford them.
Sorry you aren't doing to well Chris, but congratulations on getting 21k subs nonetheless. Hopefully you are feeling much better, can't wait to see the IMLEC and Steam Locos In Profile DVDs, just take your time with them and make sure you put yourself before them Keep going strong mate 💪
Have you considered ever trying to put SLIPs on Nebula? It seems like the sort of thing that would fit in there, and would provide a convenient way for people to watch it on demand whilst still supporting you.
Thanks for the update, Chris! Unfortunately I’m not in a position to become a Patreon supporter at the moment, so I’ll let those who can make suggestions. However, I would just like to add how much I’ve been enjoying PYE recently. It’s a nice splash of colour in the pool of black-and-white photos often used when covering lost loco classes. Keep up the good work, however frequent or infrequent that may be!
Well done on 21,000 subs, you’ve definitely earned them. I hope you’ll still be able to produce more Paint Your Engines and Guage the Issues for many years to come.
Hi Chris, I just wanted to say I've always loved you're content, you've been a huge inspiration to me and so many other people. Your videos have always helped get me through the roughest of times and I'm speak for everyone when I say that you're a credit to railway enthusiasm the world over. I hope you're doing well despite all your hardships and just know that we hope you to, never stop being awesome. P.S: I believe I spotted you outside Hythe on the RHDR once. 😅
ALSO the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch thing... I can't help wondering who you met last week at the railway on The Blue Train special... hmmm I wonder who that was
It is a real shame that UA-cam ad revenue is only sustaining for the biggest of creators. I just signed up for your Patron, and I can't really think of anything that would be a good bonus, because any bonus would take away from the rest of your work, and you are clearly overworked as is. The only other Patreon I am a part of is Tumblar House, which is a Book Store that does a weekly podcast called Off the Menu. If you are a member of said Patreon you get free shipping, but I am not sure if the logistics of free shipping on books apply to DVDs. Also, since Off the Menu is a show that is question-based Paterons' questions get preference over non Paterons. If you ever started doing regular Q&As, maybe that could be a bonus.
Hey Chris i watch your content and really enjoy your work it helps me out sorry that you going through a rough time. Congrats on reaching 21,000 subscribers.
Hey Chris Late, i know, but whatever. I would just like to say that you have for a long time been my favorite UA-camr (and you still are), and you were among the things that inspired me to start this weird thing of content creation. Sorry to hear about your illness, but it's good to see that you recovered from that, and is still pushing forward with your content. I admire such dedication to your craft. Congratulations on your milestone, and one of your videoes reaching 1 million views (I know it was a short, but it's still something). Can't wait to see what you bring out moving forward (Also, wouldn't it be cool if your content was on Nebula?)
Thankyou for continuing to tune in. I can't imagine what it is that makes me anyone's favourite UA-camr, but I'll keep on as best as I can despite hardships. I just wish YT's ad revenue paid better and protected more, that way I wouldn't need to resort to physical media and paywalls in order to make back the costs of production. Yes, it would be nice. But sadly, Nebula calls the creator just like any other platform.
Had read bout that in your diary & OMG Chris, you've been hurting 😮 bless you & am proud to have supported past crowdfunders to Germany & the USA (as well as enjoying a charity auction trip on the Welshpool line woth you) plus whatever future crowdfunders there are in the pipeline. I'm so looking forward to seeing the next SLIPs volume after you revealed the extras material & will happily join the queue for that 😉 Thank you & once again, bless you Chris ❤
Very sorry to hear of your illness, i'm super thankful you're still with us and have made a recovery :) Congratulations on 20...21K subscribers, I saw you passed 20,000 a couple of days ago but I hadn't picked up on 21,000 until you mentioned it yourself haha. Being burned out is such a pain in the rear, please take your time and hopefully, you'll find the motivation again soon! It's great to see content from you, even if it's a casual update video, 2023 has been super tough for me, so it's always a pleasure to see you pop up on my youtube feed regardless of the content. Congrats once again Chris & might I suggest a live painting show in the future? :P
I really hope that you’re recovering well, Chris! And I totally understand that you have to make this year’s IMLEC video a pay-to-watch thing. You gotta do what you gotta do, in order to make money. How about you resurrect your Railreads book review series, If you don’t have to put in as much effort into that?
Thanks for being so understanding. It's not what I would like to have done, but unfortunately I'm not a charity. If people would really like to see more of them, then it can be done. But it wasn't exactly very popular to begin with.
I think that having outtakes in the Patreon would be fantastic. We'd all get a good laugh. You can put some unused videos or takes on there. We all get a good laugh from it, and we pay you for it. Edit: My God, I hope you're feeling okay after the spine tumour thing. That must've been awful. Lastly Good luck with the heritage boiler services trade stand
I’m so sorry to hear about your illness Chris. If you weren’t in your current financial position then I’d have recommended taking as much time off. I personally wouldn’t mind paying for a DVD no matter what is on it. Your work is amazing! I will always try to support your content no matter what 👍
Hey Chris. Glad to hear your okay. Here's an idea. (If not a maybe a problematic one.) Why not for your patreon make one episode of your older SLIPS content per month on the patreon. Just an idea for you mate.
Hey Chris, I'm glad to hear you're doing okay. I'm sorry to hear about your sickness and burnout, but I'm glad to hear you've been getting better. Don't worry about having to make your content non free anymore, you've already given us so much amazing stuff for free over the years, you deserve to get something out of it.
Hi Chris, I thoroughly enjoy your content and sorry to hear about your worries, and I am going to purchase the America trip, looking forward to watching it. Take care.
Hi Chris, so sorry to hear that you've been ill,(the word"tumor"is really scary), but congratulations on achieving your milestone,it is difficult when you're self-employed, especially these days, you've just got to do whatever you need to do to get by, people like yourself and Lawrie Rose, amongst others are superb ambassadors for the Railway Heritage movement, keep up the good work, but try not to overdo it (easier said than done), take care, all the best from Scotland, Stephen.
Hope you feel better and get back on your feet soon. Romney hythe and dimchurch is one of Dads favorites so a dvd would be his christmas present sorted
Nobody can stay at the top indefnitely, as there is always someone else climbing the slippery pole! With regard to patreons, if I were to give £1 to every channel I'm subscribed to, I'd be paying out about twice my income, which obviously is not a good idea! What used to be a niche market has now expanded to such an extent that it becomes prohibitively expensive to keep buying the DVD's that are on offer - and from what I've read, disks are on the way out anyway, as it seems the majority of viewers prefer to download from the web, thus avoiding all the bulk and weight of bits of circular plastic, in the same way that magazines are falling out of favour. Keep popping in to the Monday Club when you can. Regards.
chris i love you so much. i still remember the days as a kid i'd endlessly binge and re watch your steam locos in profile before they became shortened. my favourite was the bullied pacific one. nowadays like 13 years later i've moven on from my steam locomotive fascinaton but still i get your videos in my feed and dillengtly check on your channel every so often.
Hello Chris for a patron idea maybe people would be interested I knowing what railway related events you would be going to in the future. Only tell them on the day or day before an event otherwise you could be surrounded by fans and not finish filming😅 Continue being awesome yourself!
First: I am so glad you're with us and made the recovery!! Second: as a potential patron, I think you should include a blooper tier. The outtakes and blooper videos from the various Volumes are absolutely hilarious and I think it'll be awesome to see that content. Other than that, just general early access and maybe some special behind the scenes videos as is standard with many other content creators. Chris, don't ever stop being awesome
Chris, well done. I want to congratulate you on 21000. Also, well done for carrying on, burnout can be a real pain in the ass, it really shows your dedication and I hope your woes get better, keep going, a lot of us really enjoy your content and we all hope you keep going as best you can.
In Uni right now, the minute I get a real job I'm joining your Patreon. Been watching you for almost a decade and I definitely feel that I owe you after all these years of free content consumption
Hello Chris feel really bad for what has happened to you I just want to say hope you get better and were here to support you I do have a video idea but I can't become a pration but do you think you can cover why the north west don't get as many railway tours as say like the south of England
I’m very sorry to hear about your illness. That is not easy for anyone, and while I’ve never gone through surgery, many of my close friends have, and it was not easy for them at all. We are here to support you Chris, and if you can’t meet deadlines for videos, none of us mind. The most important thing is that your healthy, and at the end of the day so long as you are, we will eventually get the videos, and really, the longer it takes, the more excited we will be for them to come out!
huh.. Lawrie from LMM will be at Foxfield on the friday and saturday and then you will be there on the Sunday.. If I see you on Sunday, I try to say "Hi" if I don't forget or suddenly become shy as I do when I see people IRL that I know from UA-cam..
If you put more effort into youtube, you'd find it generates more income. I've unsubscribed because this is extrmeley poor. DVD is out of date and old, and you say that the cost of living crisis is affecting you, and then ask for more money of people who are also affected by it. Its hypocritical and unfair.
Sorry but are you for real? No, Chris does not need to put more effort it, he does more than enough, the UA-cam ad revenue is absolutely pitiful and he's not the only creator to point out how abysmal it is. If DVDs are so abysmal and out of date how come people keep buying them? Simple supply and demand. If the demand is there, so will the supply. Chris simply has his dvds, digital downloads and the pateron for ways to keep himself a float, he needs to make a living somehow. He's not a free for all charity. If people simply want to watch the UA-cam channel. Then that's fine. But Chris still needs an income, and as he and several others have stated the ad revenue alone just isn't enough
People only buy DVDs most likley because his viewership is mostly elderly. His career will die as he disregards future and people who simply can't afford to give their money to someone else. He is so ignorant!
I hate to point out the huge hole in your logic...but Chris's fanbase is majority 25-31. If you consider THAT elderly then you've got a big shock coming
Why, my assumptions were wrong! Thank you for informing me. But my point remains that I love chris' content but I'm not insentivised to buy it because it all appears old and out of date. I think he should invest in new ways of doing things that are future proof, and that could gain him more attraction from new fans. I think he's doing himself a disservice to continue trying to squeeze money out of people who are already struggling due to cost of living. (Were all, including me, affected) A new, modern system to get his content, a new website etc could all increase attraction, with samples on UA-cam to attract it. So I conceded slightly but my point remains.
@@olliestrains841 Having known Chris personally, I don't think I've seen anyone work quite as hard as he has. Despite his illness and other problems out of the control of everyone Chris has kept on plugging away. Saying he's doing a disservice to himself is utterly wrong, the amount of effort that is required through physical research, filming and getting stories from crews it all takes a HUGE amount of time and energy. Having helped myself I can get a strong understanding towards the physical and mental strain of doing this and providing content to you and all of his 21,000 subscribers says a lot, to the point of he's worked to exhaustion. The USA trip was a giant venture which yes cause of certain things out of his control he couldn't meet. So please consider the time and bloody effort that's put into these videos, SLIP's, GTi's and so on.
Dear Chirrs, I thought it was Burnout and the US trip was so big that was probern. Parton Early Access (24 to 48 hrs before) going up on main.outtakes- diesel. that 2023 Model stuff on DVD take it as 2021 gave me tase and want to see any dose Rod again
I’m sorry to hear about your illness, but I think I speak on the behalf of all of us when we say we’re glad you made a brilliant recovery and congrats on your milestone 👍👍
A feature on the Romney fleet! Splendid! Such a shame people dismiss the "toy railways" just because it's not the Talyllyn, keenly awaiting it's release!
Seconded! I for one will be after the DVD come Christmas/New Year.
Congrats on hitting 21K, looking forward to the projects in future! Hopefully I'll see you at an event some time soon
Note To Self: collaboration still needs to happen... of the non-smashing kind!
One of the best railway channels on UA-cam x
My finite Patreon money tend to spread wide and thin.
I will be one of those small-time $2 / month contributors.
(Expecting no perks at all, other than the joy of supporting the cause.)
I just received my copy of steam locos in profile vol 3 last week. And I just want to say that I really enjoyed it and plan to get more when I can afford them.
Sorry you aren't doing to well Chris, but congratulations on getting 21k subs nonetheless. Hopefully you are feeling much better, can't wait to see the IMLEC and Steam Locos In Profile DVDs, just take your time with them and make sure you put yourself before them
Keep going strong mate 💪
Have you considered ever trying to put SLIPs on Nebula? It seems like the sort of thing that would fit in there, and would provide a convenient way for people to watch it on demand whilst still supporting you.
I think Nebula needs to approve the people who post.
Yeah. With Nebula and Curiosity Stream, it's a case of "Don't call us, we'll call you".
Thanks for the update, Chris! Unfortunately I’m not in a position to become a Patreon supporter at the moment, so I’ll let those who can make suggestions. However, I would just like to add how much I’ve been enjoying PYE recently. It’s a nice splash of colour in the pool of black-and-white photos often used when covering lost loco classes. Keep up the good work, however frequent or infrequent that may be!
Awesome, I really love your videos. Praying for you to get better.
Well done on 21,000 subs, you’ve definitely earned them. I hope you’ll still be able to produce more Paint Your Engines and Guage the Issues for many years to come.
Honestly Chris.....your content is always excellent and highly entertaining. Go for any funding you can. Take care.
Hi Chris, I just wanted to say I've always loved you're content, you've been a huge inspiration to me and so many other people. Your videos have always helped get me through the roughest of times and I'm speak for everyone when I say that you're a credit to railway enthusiasm the world over.
I hope you're doing well despite all your hardships and just know that we hope you to, never stop being awesome.
P.S: I believe I spotted you outside Hythe on the RHDR once. 😅
ALSO the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch thing... I can't help wondering who you met last week at the railway on The Blue Train special... hmmm I wonder who that was
It is a real shame that UA-cam ad revenue is only sustaining for the biggest of creators.
I just signed up for your Patron, and I can't really think of anything that would be a good bonus, because any bonus would take away from the rest of your work, and you are clearly overworked as is. The only other Patreon I am a part of is Tumblar House, which is a Book Store that does a weekly podcast called Off the Menu. If you are a member of said Patreon you get free shipping, but I am not sure if the logistics of free shipping on books apply to DVDs. Also, since Off the Menu is a show that is question-based Paterons' questions get preference over non Paterons. If you ever started doing regular Q&As, maybe that could be a bonus.
Love your work Chris!
Congrats for reaching 21k.
Hey Chris i watch your content and really enjoy your work it helps me out sorry that you going through a rough time. Congrats on reaching 21,000 subscribers.
Hey Chris
Late, i know, but whatever. I would just like to say that you have for a long time been my favorite UA-camr (and you still are), and you were among the things that inspired me to start this weird thing of content creation. Sorry to hear about your illness, but it's good to see that you recovered from that, and is still pushing forward with your content. I admire such dedication to your craft.
Congratulations on your milestone, and one of your videoes reaching 1 million views (I know it was a short, but it's still something). Can't wait to see what you bring out moving forward
(Also, wouldn't it be cool if your content was on Nebula?)
Thankyou for continuing to tune in. I can't imagine what it is that makes me anyone's favourite UA-camr, but I'll keep on as best as I can despite hardships.
I just wish YT's ad revenue paid better and protected more, that way I wouldn't need to resort to physical media and paywalls in order to make back the costs of production.
Yes, it would be nice. But sadly, Nebula calls the creator just like any other platform.
Had read bout that in your diary & OMG Chris, you've been hurting 😮 bless you & am proud to have supported past crowdfunders to Germany & the USA (as well as enjoying a charity auction trip on the Welshpool line woth you) plus whatever future crowdfunders there are in the pipeline.
I'm so looking forward to seeing the next SLIPs volume after you revealed the extras material & will happily join the queue for that 😉
Thank you & once again, bless you Chris ❤
Very sorry to hear of your illness, i'm super thankful you're still with us and have made a recovery :) Congratulations on 20...21K subscribers, I saw you passed 20,000 a couple of days ago but I hadn't picked up on 21,000 until you mentioned it yourself haha.
Being burned out is such a pain in the rear, please take your time and hopefully, you'll find the motivation again soon!
It's great to see content from you, even if it's a casual update video, 2023 has been super tough for me, so it's always a pleasure to see you pop up on my youtube feed regardless of the content.
Congrats once again Chris & might I suggest a live painting show in the future? :P
A live painting show, eh? Sounds like watching paint dry...
Just joking! I'll think about it, IF that's what people would really like
I really hope that you’re recovering well, Chris! And I totally understand that you have to make this year’s IMLEC video a pay-to-watch thing. You gotta do what you gotta do, in order to make money.
How about you resurrect your Railreads book review series, If you don’t have to put in as much effort into that?
Thanks for being so understanding. It's not what I would like to have done, but unfortunately I'm not a charity.
If people would really like to see more of them, then it can be done. But it wasn't exactly very popular to begin with.
I think that having outtakes in the Patreon would be fantastic. We'd all get a good laugh. You can put some unused videos or takes on there. We all get a good laugh from it, and we pay you for it.
Edit: My God, I hope you're feeling okay after the spine tumour thing. That must've been awful.
Lastly
Good luck with the heritage boiler services trade stand
I’m so sorry to hear about your illness Chris. If you weren’t in your current financial position then I’d have recommended taking as much time off. I personally wouldn’t mind paying for a DVD no matter what is on it. Your work is amazing! I will always try to support your content no matter what 👍
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Hey Chris. Glad to hear your okay. Here's an idea. (If not a maybe a problematic one.) Why not for your patreon make one episode of your older SLIPS content per month on the patreon. Just an idea for you mate.
We can see. Thanks for your suggestion
Hey Chris, I'm glad to hear you're doing okay. I'm sorry to hear about your sickness and burnout, but I'm glad to hear you've been getting better. Don't worry about having to make your content non free anymore, you've already given us so much amazing stuff for free over the years, you deserve to get something out of it.
Hi Chris, I thoroughly enjoy your content and sorry to hear about your worries, and I am going to purchase the America trip, looking forward to watching it. Take care.
Hi Chris, so sorry to hear that you've been ill,(the word"tumor"is really scary), but congratulations on achieving your milestone,it is difficult when you're self-employed, especially these days, you've just got to do whatever you need to do to get by, people like yourself and Lawrie Rose, amongst others are superb ambassadors for the Railway Heritage movement, keep up the good work, but try not to overdo it (easier said than done), take care, all the best from Scotland, Stephen.
Hope you feel better and get back on your feet soon. Romney hythe and dimchurch is one of Dads favorites so a dvd would be his christmas present sorted
Nobody can stay at the top indefnitely, as there is always someone else climbing the slippery pole! With regard to patreons, if I were to give £1 to every channel I'm subscribed to, I'd be paying out about twice my income, which obviously is not a good idea! What used to be a niche market has now expanded to such an extent that it becomes prohibitively expensive to keep buying the DVD's that are on offer - and from what I've read, disks are on the way out anyway, as it seems the majority of viewers prefer to download from the web, thus avoiding all the bulk and weight of bits of circular plastic, in the same way that magazines are falling out of favour. Keep popping in to the Monday Club when you can. Regards.
chris i love you so much. i still remember the days as a kid i'd endlessly binge and re watch your steam locos in profile before they became shortened. my favourite was the bullied pacific one. nowadays like 13 years later i've moven on from my steam locomotive fascinaton but still i get your videos in my feed and dillengtly check on your channel every so often.
Hello Chris for a patron idea maybe people would be interested I knowing what railway related events you would be going to in the future. Only tell them on the day or day before an event otherwise you could be surrounded by fans and not finish filming😅
Continue being awesome yourself!
Maybe, though I don't always have time to stop for a chat. But, we'll see
Brilliant video Chris
You do amazing work, Chris!
First: I am so glad you're with us and made the recovery!!
Second: as a potential patron, I think you should include a blooper tier. The outtakes and blooper videos from the various Volumes are absolutely hilarious and I think it'll be awesome to see that content. Other than that, just general early access and maybe some special behind the scenes videos as is standard with many other content creators. Chris, don't ever stop being awesome
Chris, well done. I want to congratulate you on 21000. Also, well done for carrying on, burnout can be a real pain in the ass, it really shows your dedication and I hope your woes get better, keep going, a lot of us really enjoy your content and we all hope you keep going as best you can.
In Uni right now, the minute I get a real job I'm joining your Patreon. Been watching you for almost a decade and I definitely feel that I owe you after all these years of free content consumption
Hello Chris feel really bad for what has happened to you I just want to say hope you get better and were here to support you I do have a video idea but I can't become a pration but do you think you can cover why the north west don't get as many railway tours as say like the south of England
I’m very sorry to hear about your illness. That is not easy for anyone, and while I’ve never gone through surgery, many of my close friends have, and it was not easy for them at all. We are here to support you Chris, and if you can’t meet deadlines for videos, none of us mind. The most important thing is that your healthy, and at the end of the day so long as you are, we will eventually get the videos, and really, the longer it takes, the more excited we will be for them to come out!
your welcome to back to whitwell or top field light railway when you want to chris
huh.. Lawrie from LMM will be at Foxfield on the friday and saturday and then you will be there on the Sunday.. If I see you on Sunday, I try to say "Hi" if I don't forget or suddenly become shy as I do when I see people IRL that I know from UA-cam..
No need to be shy. If you'd like to say hi, then you're welcome to
If you put more effort into youtube, you'd find it generates more income. I've unsubscribed because this is extrmeley poor. DVD is out of date and old, and you say that the cost of living crisis is affecting you, and then ask for more money of people who are also affected by it. Its hypocritical and unfair.
Sorry but are you for real?
No, Chris does not need to put more effort it, he does more than enough, the UA-cam ad revenue is absolutely pitiful and he's not the only creator to point out how abysmal it is.
If DVDs are so abysmal and out of date how come people keep buying them? Simple supply and demand. If the demand is there, so will the supply.
Chris simply has his dvds, digital downloads and the pateron for ways to keep himself a float, he needs to make a living somehow. He's not a free for all charity. If people simply want to watch the UA-cam channel. Then that's fine. But Chris still needs an income, and as he and several others have stated the ad revenue alone just isn't enough
People only buy DVDs most likley because his viewership is mostly elderly. His career will die as he disregards future and people who simply can't afford to give their money to someone else. He is so ignorant!
I hate to point out the huge hole in your logic...but Chris's fanbase is majority 25-31. If you consider THAT elderly then you've got a big shock coming
Why, my assumptions were wrong! Thank you for informing me. But my point remains that I love chris' content but I'm not insentivised to buy it because it all appears old and out of date. I think he should invest in new ways of doing things that are future proof, and that could gain him more attraction from new fans. I think he's doing himself a disservice to continue trying to squeeze money out of people who are already struggling due to cost of living. (Were all, including me, affected) A new, modern system to get his content, a new website etc could all increase attraction, with samples on UA-cam to attract it. So I conceded slightly but my point remains.
@@olliestrains841 Having known Chris personally, I don't think I've seen anyone work quite as hard as he has. Despite his illness and other problems out of the control of everyone Chris has kept on plugging away. Saying he's doing a disservice to himself is utterly wrong, the amount of effort that is required through physical research, filming and getting stories from crews it all takes a HUGE amount of time and energy. Having helped myself I can get a strong understanding towards the physical and mental strain of doing this and providing content to you and all of his 21,000 subscribers says a lot, to the point of he's worked to exhaustion. The USA trip was a giant venture which yes cause of certain things out of his control he couldn't meet. So please consider the time and bloody effort that's put into these videos, SLIP's, GTi's and so on.
Dear Chirrs, I thought it was Burnout and the US trip was so big that was probern. Parton Early Access (24 to 48 hrs before) going up on main.outtakes- diesel. that 2023 Model stuff on DVD take it as 2021 gave me tase and want to see any dose Rod again