Hello, YouTube.  Are we going to get all fancy?

I get a disproportionate amount of e-mail about our YouTube channel.  It’s the thing least warranting of commentary, the work I currently feel least confident about.  Sometimes you just have to keep doing a thing, though knowing that it will come together eventually.   

Optometrists called it “shockingly simplistic”, site fans say I’m “borderline belligerent” (heh), and oh boy, if you dare say anything about various nutcase Bates practices.  Comment bashing, watch out.

But I’ve got plans for you, Tubes of all the things.

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Plans to go all Disney.

At any given time, there are a dozen projects related to @endmyopia, running in the “research and development” side of things.  It’s always a matter of juggling my time, finding the right resources, getting feedback, tweaking, and sometimes things getting neglected for a while.

One of those projects is, how do we get small-brain-Jake to tell myopia stories well, in a visual format?

 
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Marginally more sense, just maybe.

I’ve been working with an animator, trying to answer that question.  Hopefully soon I’ll be able to share some of our collaboration (whenever my Internet connection improves enough for a big upload).  It’s, as most everything here, very much work-in-progress.  Still, I always get excited bringing you new things, getting your feedback, figuring out ways to make this whole project better and more accessible.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get notified of new uploads.  Leave comments.  Let me know what you think!  ;)

Housekeeping:  Got some interesting comments about the last post.  Everything from “behavioral optometrist, how’s that fluff useful anyway” from optometrists, to “why is Steve throwing shade at you, Jake?!”. 

Long story short, a reader with poor judgment and a thing for starting drama when she doesn’t get her way, got Steve all riled up.  Does any of that help to increase myopia awareness?  Or is it just trying to get attention, at the expense of the time and needs of everyone else.  Honestly, like small children.

Anyway.  Everybody is cool.  And all the haters are actually doing, is giving us more ammunition for amusing content.  

Cheers,

-Jake