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Sonichu Taffy's Annotated Sonichu - Simonchu and Bananafunkle finished!

Salt Water Taffy

Salt Water Taffy

Only bad witches are ugly.
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Hey everyone, just wanted to give you all a quick heads up that while the Q&A video is still coming along, since I'm still a handful of questions short (I'd like about four or so more) it's going on the back burner in favor of those other big projects for a while.

As a sneak peak of what's coming down the pipeline on SWT, I've decided to give everything a cool candy codename:
  • PROJECT RAGE CANDY BAR (ideally before the end of the summer): A massive project bigger than the Sonichu video, but more positive. As you can probably guess from the codename, it's Pokemon related.
  • PROJECT MOONPIE (probably what'll come out next; it's pretty far along): An analysis of the way the storytelling did and didn't change over the course of a long running live-action TV show. Though I'm really proud of a lot of the jokes, I'm kind of scared of working on this one because it's a pretty hot take about a beloved series and I don't want to get immediately pegged as a contrarian or a killjoy.
  • PROJECT PIXIESTICKS (after Project Moonpie, probably the fall): An attempt to wrangle the conflicting definitions of some fantasy subgenres. Though it began as an offshoot of Project Moonpie, I expect this to be the least controversial out of every project here. It's going to be pretty simple and straightforward.
  • PROJECT SUGAR COOKIE (end of the year?): A lighthearted discussion of a fairly volatile trope. I think I do a fairly good job of showing my research and presenting my points fairly, but I am still somewhat anxious about this one.
  • PROJECT TWIZZLER (2021?): Another offshoot of Moonpie, this one's going to be a pretty straightforward writing advice video.
  • PROJECTS TRUFFLE (November 2020) AND GOLD LEAF (April 2021): Two massive quick-and dirty explanations of large groups of live-action movies. I acknowledge that these projects are probably the most stereotypical YouTube clickbait-ish videos, but I also imagine that these videos will probably do better than everything else and maybe help me recover from Moonpie and Sugar Cookie if they're really poorly received, plus I imagine they'll be fun. I don't want to say much else about them because the both of them are very early in the planning phase, aside from that virus stuff has already pushed my deadlines back once for each project (as they were to coincide with real events) and it's possible that they could get pushed again.

I hate to keep advertising myself, I feel bad for doing it, but honestly y'all are the only people I trust talking about this stuff. I'm sorry and I really hope you continue to support me on my post-Sonichu career.

As a consolation for the Sonichu Q&A getting delayed, here's some footage of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic I found while looking for explanations as to why Chris is so mad about the ending. Let me stress that this is TRUE and HONEST footage from the finale of MLP and totally not something edited by me.
https://youtu.be/4UuKJLBxwzU

Oh and I changed TAS's color scheme again.
 
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Salt Water Taffy said:
As a consolation for the Sonichu Q&A getting delayed, here's some footage of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic I found while looking for explanations as to why Chris is so mad about the ending. Let me stress that this is TRUE and HONEST footage from the finale of MLP and totally not something edited by me.
https://youtu.be/4UuKJLBxwzU
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My interest waned in spectating lolcows before this all started and stopped browsing the forums for 3 years, so it seems I have some content to catch up on. However, when you mentioned Chris and the ending to MLP I instantly thought about how Game of Thrones ended and the fan's reactions, then I clicked the link...
 
Salt Water Taffy

Salt Water Taffy

Only bad witches are ugly.
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CwChalk said:
My interest waned in spectating lolcows before this all started and stopped browsing the forums for 3 years, so it seems I have some content to catch up on. However, when you mentioned Chris and the ending to MLP I instantly thought about how Game of Thrones ended and the fan's reactions, then I clicked the link...
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No that's not Game of Thrones that's My Little Pony it says so at the bottom.
I noticed Twilight Sparkle had a dragon and realized I had a once in a lifetime chance to murder all the ponies and I couldn't not take it.
 
Salt Water Taffy

Salt Water Taffy

Only bad witches are ugly.
kiwifarms.net
Hey guys.

I'm back at full time school now (virtual, but a full course load). I feel like I can't concentrate on any one project right now (and that's why basically every single project has been in limbo). I desperately wish I had some sort of beta reader to bounce ideas off of, but I just don't know who I can trust right now. I wish I could bounce ideas off my new "friends" from college, but A) I'm worried they won't accept and understand my desire to use a false name and a false identity because they all use their real names on their work all across the internet, why shouldn't I, and then they'd blab about it, B) I'm worried they'll see that none of the projects I'm working on are social justice related and scorn me for that, and that all of the beta reader's notes would be something along the lines of "you need to reprimand this movie because it's homophobic" or something of that sort. I have been told on several occasions that as a woman, I have a duty to womankind to essentially be Anita Sarkesian - to lionize the handful of things deemed "feminist" and to cast all else into hellfire for even the slightest sins. My response is generally "There's enough people already doing that sort of thing, and I plain and simply don't enjoy doing that and would rather be doing anything else," and their response to that is usually "that makes you a bad person and a discredit to womankind." Some of the media I'm working on in these projects are things that have gotten raked over the coals for various SJW injustices, but even if I think some of the complaints are somewhat fair I don't see need to repeat them for the billionth time, and we don't need to throw babies out with bathwater by damning the entire work, but I don't know how well that attitude is going to play to an audience where the second thing they tell you after their name is their pronouns, and most pressingly C) I'm worried they'll see all my Sonichu content, see that I'm belittling a poor lesbian autistic transwoman and tar and feather me, potentially costing me social standing and maybe even opportunities like internships in the real world. Essentially, to them, I have been running with the dark underbelly of the internet for the past four years. I myself may not be the worst monster, but I have been associating myself with the most despicable people alive today and sitting idly by while they commit atrocities. All in all, asking for help from my peers seems like high-risk, low-to-medium-reward.

Then my second option is asking for help here. If my classmates are maybe sheep, maybe wolves-in-sheep's-clothing, admittedly you guys are just wolves, plain and simple. Kiwi Farms is not a place for sentimentality and asking for help with a YouTube video there is absurd and mockable. I wouldn't have to worry about not jumping through every SJW hoop, which is a massive load off my shoulders, but I have learned not to be too open with you. KF is not an artist's site, it doesn't have any , and I should look elsewhere for advice, but I'm well aware that essentially any other site is bound to fall into the same pitfalls as real life (particularly point B). I feel like an idiot for asking for help here. This isn't what KF is for and I know it. At best you'll be ignored and at worst you'll be ripped to shreds. At least here I can hide behind Salt Water Taffy. "Salt Water Taffy" can get pulled apart and spat on six ways from Sunday and I'll still have a roof over my head and food on my plate, which is not true if things go south IRL. But I don't want to make you guys mad.

TL DR, I'm between a rock and a hard place right now and I'm completely alone. I wish I could be more productive but I can't think clearly right now. And in my moment of need, I am turning to the wolves. This was a long, sappy ask for a beta reader. I'm sorry for asking.
 
Salt Water Taffy

Salt Water Taffy

Only bad witches are ugly.
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Hey Team Taffy, I just wanted to tease that I'm going to have a new video up on Halloween and the next section of TAS is coming along nicely, and in the mean time I put together a TAS wordcloud.
Sonichu Word Cloud Oct 2020.png

(I did not put "end | life" in the C in Chris I think the wordcloud software is having suicidal thoughts from having to read Sonichu)
 
Salt Water Taffy

Salt Water Taffy

Only bad witches are ugly.
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Skysora said:
Have you ever considered making a PDF file of the annotated episodes?
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It's tempting but my current TAS google doc is 720 single spaced pages (that's not even counting the page pictures, which I add on Tumblr, and the Sonichu 0-3 I didn't write, which I'm preserving in a separate doc for posterity in case Tumblr explodes or something.) When you break it down into hundreds of tiny pieces it doesn't seem that long but one massive pdf file with pictures and Sonichu 0-3 it'd be a goliath well over 1000 pages. Yeah the thought of it scares me too.
 
Salt Water Taffy

Salt Water Taffy

Only bad witches are ugly.
kiwifarms.net
So this was the belated Halloween project (geddit? Costumes?) Sorry it's so cheesy and lame. I believe I've mentioned I'm back at full time school and between that taking up a lot of my time and the fact that I really feel like everyone there is waiting for me to screw up and say something mildly un-PC so they can cancel me, I just haven't had a lot of energy to work on my various Christorical projects or basically anything that could be even mildly controversial for any reason. Even though I think TAS and its video are extremely fair to Chris, especially by the standards of Chris-Chan discussion, but I use male pronouns exclusively on TAS and for a decent chunk of the video and I call him a retard, like, once or twice, and if they ever found out about it I can't believe that they wouldn't try to get me at least kicked out of the program. I can't speak any opinions in there and unfortunately even anonymity is something of a cold comfort. So, driven to distraction, I've taken to recoloring pictures. There's a part of me that doesn't feel any better than Chris Chan right now. But at least they can't cancel me for this, right? I hope you enjoy regardless; sorry my voice is so rough but I had to do 50 minutes worth of recording in 2 days.

 
Salt Water Taffy

Salt Water Taffy

Only bad witches are ugly.
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Salt Water Taffy's Annotated Sonichu (tumblr.com)
Ghost in the Machine: The Ballad of Nadine Rosechu — Chapter 25 - Strange Magic (tumblr.com)


It's a pathetic three pages (albeit long ones), and one new GitM chapter, but I'm more so here to talk about SWT in a potentially Kiwi Farms-less future. I sincerely thought of my two platforms, the embattled Tumblr would be the first to go (which wouldn't be a problem because I've got the whole thing backed up, including the stuff from the original Annotated Sonichu; it wouldn't be too much of a problem to put all that stuff on another blog), but if KF's number really is up for good this time, I'll need to find myself a new soapbox. YouTube doesn't let you do community posts until you hit 1K subscribers, which I can't count on happening any time soon so I shouldn't put my eggs in that basket. I suppose I'll go to the CWCki Discord if it all comes tumbling down soon, which is certainly a fine place to hang out in but Discord in general is not a great place to make yourself known as a member of a community, and I really like the idea of having a little place of my own, which is difficult to achieve on a Discord server that's not your own. If the barren wasteland of CWCki Club blossoms back to life like it did when KF shut down in 2017, I might set up shop there. My immediate plans will be to hunker down in the CWCki Discord, so I hope to see you there after Armageddon.

If this is my final KF post, on this thread or overall, I just want to say again how thankful I am to have had this opportunity and just how grateful I am to have had all of you along for the ride. Taffy's Annotated Sonichu has been a labor of love (or, rather, lulz). I haven't made a cent off of TAS or the YouTube video, and everything's been posted under fake names so I can't even get IRL clout for it or put any of this into any sort of portfolio for my work. I did all of this because I wanted to, and because I thought other people would like it. And I'm glad that people have enjoyed it, continue to enjoy it, and will continue to enjoy it for years to come. You may have gathered that the last three years have not been kind to me - I have a chronic autoimmune disease that in spring 2018 flared up to the point where I had to drop out of my old college, I took a semester off to spend getting intensive but ultimately fruitless treatments, then upon giving up and accepting my condition would follow me for the rest of my life I spent three lighter semesters at community college before returning to a full course schedule at a four year university this fall. I came to realize that everyone outside of my immediate family wasn't going to be there for me in my hour of need and I've basically been a hermit for the past three years. But, in spite of all that, I can look back on this time and say "hey, I wrote a 700+ page thesis paper on Christopher Christian Christine Ricardo Weston Chandler's Sonichu. No one can say they've done that (I assume, also don't try this at home kids). TAS is currently sitting at 226,492 words. That's longer than Deathly Hallows. I've made a mark on Christory (in the healthiest way possible). Though there's a part of me that thinks I shouldn't be, I'm so proud of TAS. TAS will serve as a key resource for Christorical scholars for years and years to come and the video will hopefully someday be the jumping point for hundreds of people's Sonichu journeys. No matter what the future holds, whether I spend years continuing on as Salt Water Taffy, here or elsewhere, or I abandon the moniker for a new horizon, I will not view these past three years as a waste, nor will I think that of the remaining time I spend wrapping it up. And I thank you all for being along for the ride. I hope that TAS has helped untangle the mess that is Sonichu. The fact that I have triple-digit Tumblr followers (not just people who have read and liked TAS, these are people with Tumblrs that are willingly associating with me) still blows my mind. I am grateful for every single one of you, and I hope that you'll follow me to the next stop. If it's all over, it's been a great run. Thank you for everything. But I don't intend to take this lying down. No matter what happens, I'll see you around. To quote Dimension 1214 Michael Jackson, "Gotta stay young, because it's all ride or die."






(If this thing doesn't get repealed and KF doesn't go down this is going to look super cheesy and lame as balls and if this is still up in a year's time I give all of you full right to call me names and beat me up and take my lunch money)
 
Salt Water Taffy

Salt Water Taffy

Only bad witches are ugly.
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Salt Water Taffy

Salt Water Taffy

Only bad witches are ugly.
kiwifarms.net
So, I was thinking of starting another TAS side hustle: The Annotated Audiobook. I like TAS and all, but I feel like it can reach a much bigger audience if I made an audiobook version of it. My idea was more of a podcast than a video like Vivian's audiobooks, and I'd ultimately like to upload to Spotify instead of YouTube. I am setting out an open casting call for anyone looking to voice act - I can't voice all the characters myself, I'm not nearly good enough a VA to do that. I'm also going back and forth on whether or not to include more detailed descriptions of the action of the page - would that make it more clear or more cluttered?

https://youtu.be/nrvLFRY4cZ4 - With annotations
https://youtu.be/P18vMhFLDIo - Without annotations
 
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