thank you for your condolences I guess 😂

This comment is unhinged and I love it

Working for the wrong company

Bro ain't serious about the in game motion 😔

thank you for your early af comment! 🙏

@@sheffaustinyeah good luck man I’ll support you till the end

dedicated hive runner sounds lit! I do eventually want to try a hive only challenge run for bants. Saw Exxo do it and he stopped because he felt like it was a boring run, but I actually want to see how far it can be taken hahah

after this run I realized it’s in my best interest to learn that dine fire exit jump to save the money on the extension ladder 😅 at least with offense we can bypass it via pipe jump (via parkour might be too slow). I thought sandworms would be the biggest issue, but after trying again this morning I for sure think the giants on Vow are the craziest bottleneck for this format. I had all three giants covering both bridges and the fire exit, it was nuts 🙃

thank you for the support! I’ll remember to eat ham as a gamer in your honor

this is something I’m working on next, actually! I missed doing the modded moon showcases, but I wasn’t in love with the way I was tackling them. Then I thought about pushing ourselves to our limits on the modded moons instead of just doing a single day or deadline, which is more in line with the type of content I like doing anyway, so you’ll be seeing some of that soon here :) That said, I’m also not sure if it’ll be interesting to watch us send the same modded moon over and over but I’m down to clown and find out the hard way 😬

peter griffin house only run 🔥

@@undertalemodtoolgoated moon

yeah this one was one of the more intense runs for me personally, but it was good for me and I don’t think any of my future solo runs will be as stressful as this one even if they’re more difficult lol After some post-HCIM reflection I realized that I DO still enjoy solo running, but my next ones are probably gonna have more room for chill than the ironman format! I’ll save the more intense formats for when I duo with someone lol. Plus, solo helps me keep the content going even when my duos aren’t around so don’t worry I won’t be going anywhere :)

thank you for the support! 🙏 The numbers from youtube even from where I’m at have been insane and I see myself growing here more than I do at my dayjob. So the decision is just one that makes sense to me, and I have no problem dedicating myself to making it work 🫡

thank you! I’m glad people vibe with the chill approach to gaming, I wouldn’t be here if I had to be over the top with my reactions and whatnot (just not that kind of person lol). Intense challenges with calm approaches are what I like best!

thank you for the support! also W chainsaw man pfp

thank you for the support and the kind words! just a guy trying to make the dream work, and bring as many people in my circle up with me 🙏

I appreciate the insight! I’ve been leaning more into that because of similar feedback I’ve been getting. Which is cool with me because I have my own set of videos that I have for the same purpose, so it’s cool to be on the other side!

thank you for your sub :) I hope to keep you entertained with my future uploads!! 🙏

thank you so much! I’m glad you’re learning something while you watch. I learn a lot from the community here too and like to show everyone what I’ve learned with every upload. I believe I’ll go far too, and I intend to stick around for a long while :)

thank you! I intend to make the most of it 🙏

to hear that someone has been watching my videos for a week is insane to me already, I appreciate your support and the time you took to leave this comment 🙏 I have some fun ideas in the works, especially some revolving around the new Nuzlocke concept I dropped today, and I’m hoping the community picks up what I’m about to put down! 🙏

thank you for the kind words and support! it’s surreal to me that people enjoy watching my friends and I play games, and I intend to show my gratitude by keeping things interesting and making sure I don’t get ahead of myself on this journey. I think my latest Nuzlocke approach will allow my friends and me to take things in a direction that fits us well, so I hope it works out like I think it will! 😬

thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it 😁

thank you very much! I feel super blessed to be in this position, and I fully intend to demonstrate my gratitude for the opportunity with my future uploads 🙏 Starting with the new Nuzlocke concept that I introduced today 👀

thank you! I’m happy people are receiving the videos well :)

thank you very much! 🙏 constantly working on ways to keep the uploads fresh (about to film again right now, actually!)

my intention with these challenges is to showcase them in a way where people will go try them for themselves! I’m starting to see some ironman videos go up and that’s making me happy Hopefully the community receives my new Lethal Company Nuzlocke idea well too! 👀

I appreciate your support! :) I’ve gone fulltime since the time of uploading this video and am currently making more than I was at my day job, so naturally I’m stoked to be here 🙏

@@sheffaustin Godspeed dude!

luckily I like posting Lethal Company! 🙏 I’ve given some thought about what to post “when Lethal Company dies” but I’ll worry more about that when/if we actually get there. Maybe by then everyone will want to watch my uploads regardless of what it is, but I DO intend to keep the uploads in the challenge-style gaming format since that’s what I’m into 😬

I’m starting to see some people on youtube attempting them too, and it’s making me super happy! I still have some iron man formats up my sleeve too and I’m looking forward to rolling them out. Thank you for sharing your kind comment with me :)

thank you! I’m glad you’re learning a lot from the videos 🙏 I learn a lot of new things everyday from experience, watching around and what everyone here tells me in the comments, and it’s fun incorporating something new every time I play. I hope my videos continue to stay informative and entertaining for you in the long run :)

thank you for your support! Easiest decision I’ve made all year, and it’s not even the riskiest one I’ve made in my life. It just makes sense to triple down here and I have both a vision and a gameplan to make it work. Just a matter of execution over time now 🙏

thank you! most stressful run of my lethal company career so far 😅

thank you, I appreciate that! I hope to keep them coming too 🙏

thank you! 🙏

thank you for the support! Not just for me, but for my friends too :) That means a lot 🙏

@@sheffaustin it’s funny because I’m pretty sure I found your channel from Shirt because he was randomly recommended to me. But you both are really great and have inspired me to try the hardcore challenge myself!

Thank you! I also enjoy making these longer videos, so I’m glad people like them as much as I do 🙏 As someone who commutes for an hour and a half on my work days, I’m also an enjoyer of longer videos to serve as my background noise. So it’s cool for me to have inserted myself into playlists that serve that purpose!

thank you! I’m happy to be in the position I’m in today and I hope to show it through my uploads 🙏

Thank you for the support! I’m glad you liked the intro, I put the most effort into those when I make these videos 🫡

thank you! 🙏 at some point soon I might slow down on the uploads and take more time to curate higher quality uploads, but that’s something I’m going to figure out and plan for when I get gome from work tonight!

Im sure the community would love it, keep it up buddy ❤

With a duo I feel like we can absolutely smash the Vow only challenge! Giants become way more manageable when someone’s in the ship constantly flashing them lol But I’m super glad everyone’s loving the duo+ content over the solo stuff! As much as I’d love to do this full time, I’d find 10000x more fulfillment in what I’m doing if it leads to my friends being able to pursue their passions too :) and I just happen to be collabing with some friends who are about it! 🙏

thank you for showing up here too! they might be too intense for me tbh but I’ll do whatever I need to do to provide proof of concept for my ideas hahah (at least when it comes to video games!)

thank you! more solo content coming too. I’m learning to embrace it lol

thank you for being here on every video, it means a lot fr :)

I’ve always loved making gaming videos and have made over 300 of them across multiple channels and platforms for fun and for personal memories, but I never realized how viable of a career it could be doing that until I started gaining support here through the Lethal Company uploads! So now that I know what’s possible and am even feeling the results myself, I’m gonna be unstoppable 👀 I’m finally presented with an opportunity to apply my gamer brain to a means that’s fun AND can make me a living, so needless to say I’m going all-in on it and not letting it go to waste 😂🫡 feels like I’m grinding oldschool runescape but I’m getting exp and gp gains irl, lmao

@@sheffaustin I think it's obvious that everyone of your followers will follow you for that :D I think it's so cool, I saw that since lethal company came out, a lot of small channels are recommended to me :) and seeing you gain followers and having the courage of going all in is very inspiring, thank you 😁😉

@@sheffaustin btw I just realized we've got the same steam profile pic :) raft fan ?

thank you! 🙏 been full-time for almost a month now and it’s a LOT better than I could have anticipated

I appreciate you! 🙏 I’ve gone full-time since I’ve uploaded this and it’s working out well so far 🫡

@@sheffaustin that's good to hear and i still pray that you will be blessed enough to do this full time Amen

Living the dream, except actually instead of not factually 😂 Thank you for being here, you iconic apple 🙏🍎

thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it 🫡

thank you! I plan to 🫡

I’m starting a new Nuzlocke concept today too, and I like it quite a bit better than the Ironman one 👀

good to see ya again! 😁

that’s a good point! the approach I’ve adopted since this video is to hiverun early so I don’t have to worry about giants later, but the mid-run mental reset hive run is viable too! as dedicated employees in this lethal field of ours. it’s IMPERSTIVE that we take our breaks when we need them, and wherever we can find them 😅

@sheffaustingames I love this approach! My partner and I discovered Lethal Company in December of last year and your videos inspired us to start doing some of our own challenges as well as hit a 3.6k quota lately! Keep it up man, your channel is a gem and seeing that you've uploaded always puts a smile on my face.

thank you! at this point I’m down to do an eclipsed vow only run if only just for like exposure therapy or something 😅 can’t get proficient on something without putting in some reps!

almost a month later and I can say it was a great decision 🙏 Halo theme goes hard so I’m glad I picked it for this intro here, it likely carried my delivery 😂

thank you! 🙏 I like your pfp

Thank you! 🙏 and cool, good to know lol. I was kinda done with hiverunning since after a while it gets a little repetitive, but I JUST saw that it’s possible to collect up to four beehives in a solo run so now I want to practice doing that if I ever get the chance. Prior to seeing Psycho’s clip I thought it was only two!

sometimes when a challenge you want to do doesn’t exist, you just gotta make it yourself and hope it sticks! 😂

I’m glad you’re enjoying them, and I plan to! :)

I appreciate your support! 😁🙏

that’s why I’m still working one day out of the week! Definitely past the honeymoon phase for Lethal Company viewership and the approach has to be far more calculated from this point onward. That said, I’m super super grateful that my baseline viewership is sufficient enough for me to maintain a schedule like this, and I plan to pour everything I have into making this work! I realized that I have no problem dedicating myself to my work so long as the effort makes sense to me, and youtube is making a whole lot of sense to me right now. So even if it doesn’t pan out like I think it will, I’m happy to even be in a position where this lifestyle is possible in the first place! 🙏

The best and worst decisions I’ve made in life come with a risk, and this one’s leaning towards best! The returns I’ve gotten from youtube so far are non-zero too, and that’s what really helped me guide my decision. It’s a LOT of work to make sure things stay on course and grow but I’ve never been in a line of work that didn’t require my all. This is just the first one where the returns are a direct reflection of the effort I put in, and that’s why I’m able to work even harder at this than at any other thing I’ve done before 🙏

thank you! I actually did put up an eclipse only vow run recently and it went better than I anticipated 😬

Thank you! 🙏 I’m considering reducing my upload rate so I can up the quality on each upload, and work on youtube shorts in-between uploads to make up for it. Not that there NEEDS to be compensation for a less frequent upload rate, I’m just a workhorse when I find something I like and I’m liking this youtube thing a LOT more than anything I’ve liked before 😂 But I also don’t want to put out videos I don’t think are worth the watch nor the click. Luckily for me, that just motivates me to get better at creating content, and the whole youtube thing feels like a game to me. and it’s a game that increases my IRL stats and bank account, so I don’t think I can burnout from a game that directly betters my life 😂 I appreciate ya for supporting so early on, always nice to see a new comment from you and I’ll for sure remember that moving forward :)

@@sheffaustin yeah of course! ❤️ I've seen a couple KZfaqrs (gamers and vloggers) get burned out over the years, and also heard the same for artist friends - it can get tough when what you used to do for fun turns into something you must do for work! So hope it doesn't happen to you, or that if it does, you just know there are options and that it's okay to slow it down if you gotta. I'm glad you're having fun and are motivated!

thank you! I’m glad you do 😁

thank you for your support! every sub counts and I hope the videos I put out moving forward are worth your sub :)

@29:00 hahaha really not the best duo to run into 💀

I watched a LOT of Thalonius’ videos when I was first learning the game because her and Wurps were like the two advanced employees around during the early Lethal Company days! I should watch her Vow only run to see what I can glean from that, but the tips you’ve distilled for me here will be helpful too! I considered buying a stun grenade for that reason, but opted not to because of the cost. But now I think the cost is worth it if it means I can take a riskier trip on Vow and come back with a better return than I did herr 😅 As for Don’t Starve, I played it a bit with my friends and we enjoyed it, but we got derailed because it was around the time the Mistlands update for Valheim came out and we ended up no-lifing a fresh Valheim start instead lol. I’ll consider revisiting the game though! 👀

I took a look at the games coming out this year and have some in mind 👀 also some that are out already that I’d like to add to the rotation at some point. Believe me, rounding out my portfolio has been at the forefront of my mind ever since I started gaining traction through Lethal Company. Not because I feel like it’ll die any time soon, but because it’s unwise to operate under the assumption that it won’t. I was confident with taking on less hours at my day job because I’m confident in my gameplan for when Lethal Company is no longer performing well from a content angle. THAT SAID, I DO intend to garner as big of a following as I can from it to help me with my eventual transition 😂 as far as burnout goes, I have a LOT of experience with burnout and what I’ve learned is that burnout isn’t a result of overwork, but rather a result of the work no longer contributing to the vision I have for myself. That’s why I’m able to work so hard on youtube and Lethal Company every day. The channel is as malleable as I intend for it to be and the results are palpable, and there’s nothing more I want to do right now than pour everything I have into this endeavor. Have never been as aligned with a goal and purpose set for myself as I am right now 🔥

thank you! I only made the leap because I’m already earning enough through the channel to support myself while doing so :) Just need to keep things going!

I appreciate the concern but even if it doesn’t work out I’ll be alright!

I appreciate you for taking the time to leave your comment here :) as someone who didn’t comment a bunch on youtube prior to making Lethal Company videos I know how much easier it is to NOT comment on things even when you like and support the things, so it means a lot to me that you did so here 🙏

@@sheffaustin glad you understand, keep it up my man :)

thank you, I appreciate the sentiment a lot! 🙏 Your support is the reason why I can even take this leap in the first place More to come, and I’m excited to dive deeper now that I’m more free to :)

yeah I thought about buying one for this run, but opted not to. When I revisit this challenge again I’m for sure investing in at least one, because getting scrap on Vow is not as optional as I thought Only really need one for solo though. For Duo+ we’ll just get a radar booster instead

Thank you! I’m of the opposite mind, I don’t know how I have so many, I had less then 1k not too long ago so this has been insane to me so far 😅 in a good way though!!

they do! so I’ve been told anyway, lol. I hope you have a good day! Also HxH is based

@@sheffaustin heheh hxh is the best. And you too

I hope so too! Leaving comments DOES help a lot, so I appreciate your call to action here 🙏 I also just love responding to everyone here :) it’s cool knowing people watched enough of me and my videos to want to leave a comment, and it’s fun engaging with everyone!

learning the dine fire exit jump as we speak 😂

thank you for the feedback! I’m actually talking with some thumbnail artists as we speak because I agree with you hahah. And thumbnails are HUGE for youtube! It’s even more of a priority to me now that I’m considering youtube shorts before the end of the month too. Gonna need a lotttttt of thumbnails moving forward

I hope so too! thank you for your support on all my videos thus far 🙏

lol thank you! 🫡

Thank you! Just to name drop a few resources, I’m watching and studying videos and lessons from Think Media, VidIQ, Film Booth, and whatever else is recommended to me from those channels I’ve also been a long time listener of Mr. Beast, Gary Vaynerchuk, Vinh Giang, and Dan Koe, and am working my way through Dan Koe’s Digital Writing course as we speak. I would check any combination of those people out since they’re the ones who helped me frame my brain around content and for youtube specifically! but if I were to distill the information into two action items, it’s to create content in a niche that you are so passionate about that you just can’t stop talking about or acting within it, and then learn how to be intentional with and frame that stream of consciousness of yours. That way you never run out of content ideas, and are spending most of your time learning how to actually get people to engage with what you’re putting out. I also recommend starting sooner rather than later, the reps you get at the start will be invaluable to you later! I hope that helps, and I intend to start putting out more youtube growth-type content sometime this year once I have more social proof with this channel if you’re still looking for answers by then. Until then, good luck with your own content journey too! It’s a lot of work but it’s rewarding and fulfilling work too :)

I plan to! it’s a lot of fun and the work is super fulfilling. Wouldn’t be doing it if I didn’t believe in the vision and the gameplan! 🫡

we actually do that for our new Nuzlocke challenge, with an item restriction twist :) gonna be doing more of those than ironmans since I think that format is more fun

@@sheffaustin hell yeah, I look forward to seeing what ya post!