what's up ladies and gentlemen of
YouTube boogie2988 coming atcha Lavos
again through the power of the Internet
today I want to answer a very simple
question what happened to my character
Francis now it's recently occurred to me
after talking to some people in meetings
to be a lot of the new subscribers here
on the channel don't even know what
Francis is or what that character is but
have you ever seen any of these viral
videos before now one point on YouTube
that was my claim to fame
I did these Francis sketches as we
called them I was a character with a
fake list and a fake voice doing fake
rage sketches for a very long period of
time fake rage on YouTube scripted rage
was very very popular and certainly if
you go to my youtube channel and you
sort my videos by the most viewed and
the most popular they're all gonna be
Francis videos and that's let a lot of
people really wondering why I don't do
the character anymore and so I want to
explain that now the first and most
obvious answer is the ad pocalypse
happened basically all my Francis videos
got demonetised I mean look at this
every phrase this video I've ever made
all of the famous ones all the big ones
they're all pretty much to monetize in
there aren't demonetized yet they will
be eventually and of course i've
appealed all of this to try to get them
to romana ties them YouTube just is not
interested they don't want this type of
content on YouTube anymore and so that's
a very scary thing to do to create
content YouTube clearly doesn't want
here but I've often said that I will
continue to do YouTube for free even if
even if there was no pay for it and
that's true I don't want to jeopardize
the channel though I don't want to get a
strike on the channel I don't want to
lose my monetization I don't want to
become unadvertised or friendly
I don't want YouTube to hate this
channel so that's one of the major
reasons but that's not the only reason
because I've often said I would do
YouTube for free if it came down to it
and that's true so a lot of people
wonder why I won't make Francis videos
for fermium but there's a second big
reason that really took the wind out of
the Francis sketches specifically if you
ever watch one of those sketch videos
you know that I had a sister character
who is a voiceless care
with dialogue behind the camera who
filmed everything let me set everything
up a hot me clean everything and that
character was played by my now ex-wife
why I haven't lived with for over a year
so that means I've lost my co actor my
co-author my director one of my script
writers and my crew they're all gone my
ex-wife was helping with every single of
those videos and now I don't have that
person in my life to help anymore
so now I have to hire a camera person I
have to hire actors I have to spend
money not just on the props that we use
not just all the stuff that we break but
on the actual crew as well so you're
looking at three four or five hundred
dollars to produce one of these videos
and they're not going to get monetized
so it's a losing proposition I'm
spending money to lose money for no
other good reason and it at that point
it just stops being a good idea but I
think the third and most important
reason is my heart isn't in it the way
that it used to be and that's partially
because the divorce its first because it
just stopped being fun to break stuff
especially when you're doing it at a
loss and that's why I've tried so many
different ways to reinvent the character
and find ways to fit him here on YouTube
because I still love the character I
still love doing it and I know you guys
still are watching it
well sometimes to be honest whenever I
post a new Francis sketch or new Francis
video or a Francis rage about video
games or something like that the views
are not what they used to be that's
definitely true but it's also the
subscribers are my subscriber numbers
will drop like a rock because there's so
many people who've never been introduced
to Francis before they don't know what
the character is they don't know why I'm
doing it they see this in their
subscription to me they're like I'm out
I haven't heard why I thought this guy
was a nice guy now he's a crazy person
they don't even have the concept or the
idea that Francis is just a character
and in this crazy wildly politically
charged world that we are in a lot of
people have actually tried to use that
against me they tried to say well look
that's who he really is he's actually
really like Francis he's actually a
crazy person he's not actually a nice
guy look at him when he smashes those
xbox looks he was abusing his wife by
throwing Pokemon dolls at her they don't
get that it was sketches they don't get
it that it was an act they don't get
that it was a parody of gaming culture
they don't understand that and sometimes
it's really confusing and scary and
sometimes I think that's purposeful
obtuseness sometimes I think that's
willful ignorance but sometimes people
surprise you by how little they
understand the world so before making
this video I've done a lot of soul
searching and I've tried to figure out
do I want to play a crazy person on
YouTube anymore and if so how do I want
to do it now you've seen that I've done
a few Frances rages about video games
and stuff going out of the gaming
industry I've done a few Frances
podcasts the split-personality podcast
which I thought was a brilliant way to
reincorporate the character but it just
didn't get the views that I wanted if
you didn't watch that by the way I will
link in the description box below
hopefully you will enjoy it if you're an
old fan of Frances but the point of this
video is to ask you the very simple
question do you miss Frances or do you
just prefer the real me would you watch
that stuff if I created the second
channel for it if I found a place to put
it
if I decided to create a patreon and
asked you guys to help me fund those
videos and pay for the actors and pay
for stuff like that would that be
something you would be interested in
doing maybe you would upload that
content exclusively to patreon I don't
know there's a lot of different ways we
could do this I just want to know if the
interest is there so along with this
video I'm also going to post a link to a
community tab poll if you check my
channel in the community tab you will
see it there maybe you saw the poll in
the subscription feed along with this
video I'll link to in the comment
section I'll link to it in the
description section I want to know what
your thoughts are on this because I'm
really really curious as to whether or
not you think Frances should even be
part of this channel anymore if it
should be on a different channel and
know that I'm going to be reading all
the comments I'm gonna be listening to
what you have to say when we might do a
follow-up video about it as well but the
harsh reality the question is what
happened to Frances YouTube kind of
killed it the day of scripted rages and
scripted narrative stuff here on YouTube
is almost completely gone and if you
want to say an f-bomb or an S word or a
B word in your video be prepared
coca-cola is not gonna help you support
that lifestyle no more the only
family-friendly maybe we need to be
bring family-friendly Frances back that
was a lot of fun maybe that's what we'll
do
frankish alright guys I do hope you vote
in that poll I hope you leave a comment
while you're here by the way don't
forget to like this video leave a
comment hit that notification bell if
you haven't if you found this video by
searching for what happened to Francis I
hope that you give me a fair chance
enjoy the other content that I'm
creating here on the channel I think
it's pretty good and I hope that you
guys will as well guys as always thanks
for watching I love you very much and
I'll speak with you again soon