October, I love you! Sad to see you go. To be honest, November is my least favourite month: the weather is usually crap, there aren’t any cozy Christmas lights yet and it’s suddenly dark all of the time…
But back to October - I had a great month! I filmed another solo adventure video which brought me back to London, I made loads of pumpkin-pie-spice lattes (delicious) and work has been good!
I’ve been creating videos for what, seven years?? 👵🏻 Sometimes half the battle is deciding on video topics - I’ve already posted nearly 500 videos on my channel 💀💀💀 Wow, that’s a lot. I didn’t realise it was so many until just checking right now!
A huge part of creating content is actually deciding on a video idea (ideally something I haven’t done before, am able to do and seems appealing to me and hopefully the community as well). For whatever reason I had so many video ideas come out all at once. Tentatively, I have video topics pencilled in until January! A portion of those ideas ultimately won’t work out for whatever reason, but it’s been a longgg time since I’ve had so many ideas planned out. And that’s really exciting!
Now we just have to do them.
In-between all that, I’ve been brainstorming Christmas present ideas (yes, I’ve already started) and sketched out some ideas for when my Mum comes to visit this December! 🎄❄️ I am a planning machine!!!! I’m aiming that with all this momentum, I’ll take the week off when my Mum is here and maybe a bit extra off around Christmas, too.
A+N Updates
On Youtube this month, I reacted to Jimmy Carr’s most offensive jokes and some silly British ghost sightings! I had a wonderful time at London’s Natural History Museum and I taste-tested arguably the worst crisps I’ve had in a long time.
This month on Twitch we watched a terribly-awful-but-equally-funny movie, played a hilarious new multiplayer game and gossiped, as usual! Also, for the first time ever I dual-streamed to Youtube and Twitch at the same time.
A lot of people ask why I choose to stream on Twitch and not Youtube, considering my base audience is on Youtube. Simply: Twitch is better for livestreaming. It’s what they do - and it’s ALL that they do.
Youtube is trying really hard to compete with other platforms like TikTok (Youtube Reels) and Twitch (Youtube livestream) but they’re not as good as the original platform.
Instead, I’m hoping to dual livestream once a month for the next few months and hopefully let Youtube viewers know they can always find me on Twitch if they want to be part of the livestream community. Either way, the dual stream was chaotic and fun and I’ll be back again in November!
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This month for my exclusive content I reacted to Britain’s biggest jewel heist (Hatton Garden) AND the biggest train heist (The Great Train Robbery) 💎🚂 I also baked my first-ever pumpkin crisp and shared a behind-the-scenes vlog of what I’ve been getting up to outside of Youtube.
What I’ve been watching + reading
I love movies and this month we watched some interesting ones! Strange Darling was a personal favourite - bold, intriguing and incredible acting. Speak No Evil was pretty good and an anxiety-filled pick for Spooky Month! Apparently the original Dutch film is a lot better but I’ve never seen it so I didn’t have a direct comparison to make while watching this one.
As part of our informal monthly Book Club on our Discord (available to certain tiers on Patreon/YT Members), this month we read the spooky horror/thriller Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak 👻 It was ~fine~ not nearly as spooky as I was hoping but still interesting enough that I finished it really quickly. But it’s definitely one of those books that you forget about in a few weeks…
Bits that made me laugh
Thank you so much for being here!!! I’ve been reflecting on A+N a lot lately (I think because my UK anniversary is coming up) and I literally cannot believe I’m lucky enough to still be making content after 7 years on Youtube. So THANK YOU for making it possible. I hope your October was fun and you have a great November!
Alanna x