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well what's up everyone I want to talk to you all in this video about how we're going to handle giveaways in the future on this channel now the giveaway that we did with Steve and Brian the triple PC giveaway it was a great giveaway by the way the winners were announced on Twitter but they are right here so you're looking at the three winners and they should have all been contacted by now but this giveaway really made me realize that a lot of people are taking advantage of it that's not really surprise like I understand that if you you know aren't familiar with who we are what we do but you see hey oh that's a PC giveaway I'm gonna go ahead and suck at that channel I'm not knocking on the people who are doing that that's I mean that's the point of the giveaway we're supposed to not only reward those who have been here for a while but also encouraged new people to join I mean the whole goal of a youtuber is to grow his or her channel so it's gotten to the point now where I'm starting to realize that this is being taken advantage of by quite a number of people and I can just tell that by the number of people who are subscribing to the channel or following on Twitter and then subsequently unsub or unfollowing immediately after they realize that they didn't win and that's not the kinds of people I won in this channel I want people who want to be involved who want to learn something or see me screw up and learn from my own mistakes that's the point of this channel that's why we take a scientific approach to almost everything that we do because everything is a learning process so here's what we're going to do to remedy this issue to keep the pool from being diluted by those who were only leeching for the sake of the giveaway and I really thought about how I'm going to explain this on camera so let's see how well I do here we're not going to use glean anymore okay that's the first thing I've actually terminated the pro account that we had on there we're not gonna be using that anymore for any giveaway that we do specifically on this channel there might be a few exceptions with some companies you might work with in the future who may stipulate the gleam be used for a giveaway but for any personal giveaway that I run on this channel gleam will not be used any more now some of you were just like yeah you know more gleam anyway because it's plagued with issues I get that but the way giveaways will be handled in our channel from now on which is the the core the meat of this video we will not be announcing when a giveaway begins in fact it won't even be like a time period for which you can enter a giveaway there won't even be giveaway entries all there will be or just giveaway announcements for those who are already subscribed already following on Twitter and sir Graham Facebook so we'll do giveaways based on different social media outlets so Facebook winner might be one of the giveaways another winner might be from Instagram another from Twitter and then of course from YouTube as well which is our biggest media outlet at this point so one of these days I might just come onto the channel and say hey by the way we selected a winner for a giveaway that we didn't mention and it's I don't know a graphics card and the winner was Bob Schmo from Facebook then we'll know Bob schmoes details to some extent because we'll have access to some of his data at least from social media what he releases and we'll find a way to contact him or him us and there you go there's the winner but we're not actually going to say hey we're announcing this giveaway starting now all of you new people who are just gonna leech off with a giveaway should subscribe and follow just so that you can unsubscribe and unfollow if you don't win that is super unfair to those who really do care about the content and who have been here for a long time those are the people I want to award no I do want to encourage new people to join and maybe this will be a way for that to happen of course my goal here like I said I want this channel to grow into something bigger than it already is but I don't want people coming here for the sole purpose of trying to win a giveaway that's not what I want this channel to be about so I hope you all can respect that or at least understand where I'm coming from with this I don't want people who were only here for giveaways to be the winners of giveaways straight up I don't want to reward them I want to reward people who want to be here who want to contribute to the channel and to the things that we're about to do with our website and with our other social media outlets so let this be the encouragement follow on Instagram Twitter Facebook there's the social media plug for you know but you have to stay followed because if I do a random giveaway announcement and you're not followed on one of those outlets that's on you and I'm not going to reward you for just being temporarily subscribed to a media outlet so that's all I really wanted to say in this video kind of just an announcement video but if you have suggestions or tweaks for how we're going to handle these giveaways in the future leave a comment in the comment section below if you're here especially early then you'll have a chance to talk with me personally we can kind of hash out how we're gonna handle this I think just in the broad sense this is how I want to do it from now on I think it'll be more fair for those who genuinely care we can kind of wash out the leeches who are just here for a moment or two be sure to LIKE subscribe involved any way you can if you want to donate a patreon that's a big help for us all that money gets recycled back into the channel you also get a way to personally interact with me on discord and live Q&A s and stuff they're just four patreon donors and you can do so by clicking the patreon link down below even a dollar helps it really does and it all adds up so thank you for that be sure to give this video a thumbs up for no reason 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