It'll be ok everyone, I promise. The 100s of subscribers I lost and the negative feedback in the comments I think might be a little overblown. I know the changes seem extreme, but I just need to shake things up a bit, the channel's future depends on it. I'm still going to stream, I'm still doing EM talks (in what I would consider an objectively better and more engaging format), and I'm still going to make videos that teach you things, just not in the old way. Clarity and brevity is still a priority. Remember how everyone learned about multithreading in the punishing scammer video? Even though I wasn't trying to teach anyone anything? Videos can be both fun and informational.

I'll be honest, I did like the talking style videos as well. I understand why you are switching up, but I'm a bit sad about it. Those "lecture style" code editor videos were some if my favorites. They were super relaxing and they were unique in how deep they dove. You don't see that very plain style videos often. I'll miss the old enginerman videos, they taught me and introduced me to a lot. I still sometimes have them as background audio while I work. I'm excited to see where the channel grows and changes now!

3 things about this channel that I really appreciate: 1) Every video had a very specific topic and stayed well within that scope. 2) Clear, concise, and detailed presentation. 3) The casual sharing of expert techniques and information. I look forward to the new format and I hope that the videos keep the same quality that you were known for! Also, if you really want to cast a wider net, don't be scared of KZfaq shorts, I think you have a wealth of information that could be shared and understood in bite-sized chunks, I think you could make some killer content in that format.

Brian, none of it was boring. You’re one of two YT channels that I have notify me when a new video is posted. Directly from you, I got quickly up to speed on a number of “newer”technologies (Docker, JS, Node, Rust) and I use these every day. At the end of the day, you have to create stuff that is fulfilling to you, but your existing content has been amazing, don’t knock it. See you on Discord.

Don't change your style. It's really unique. Like some said, you just get to point 👍

I do not find anything boring.

I didn't consider your videos as boring. I think the simplicity is a marker of seriousness. I saw a lot of youtubers with very catchy video titles, thumbnails, intonation, etc. And the content was empty. You, on the contrary, express yourself quite simply, with a fine tone, very audible, very calm, that is what I like and it allows me to focus on the content rather than the form.

I support your idea, and I'm curious to see what you're preparing. But I definitely agree with most people that your content has never been boring, I learned a lot thanks to you and I often came back to old videos whenever I would forget something. I'm very grateful to you and your channel, and I wish you all the best for what's next !

I normally don't comment on YT videos, but I want to chime in with some of the others here and let you know that the previous format wasn't boring to me at all. I think for some programmers out there, myself included, the follow-along lecture style helped me retain the material a bit better than the talking head tuts out there did. You'll most likely get more views with the proposed changes, however, and I think exposure is a worthy cause. More people should be sponging on your awesome coding skills. Keep up the great work!

I'm with what seems to be almost everyone else, I've always enjoyed the format you've given us and don't really understand where you got the impression we were bored. I'm not going anywhere, willing to give the new format a shot, but this wasn't really what I wanted to wake up to. I like change for the better, but increasingly we seem to be having sudden and massive change forced on us simply for the sake of change and it rarely seems to turn out better than what we had, far too often it's much worse. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Change is always welcome, but just know there was nothing boring about the older videos, we enjoyed them just the way they were!

I'm personally excited to see where this goes, my favourite videos so far have been the scammer videos and automating android games. I think a lot of people do not realise that EM will still be teaching when he does the interesting videos and he will still explain what he is doing.

Oh God! Who made you do this??? You have been amazing, this could be not such a good idea but we'll do it if YOU think this is the new you.

Damn, I enjoy your "boring" videos, idk, I just felt like I was watching someone who is serious about tech and also good at it. But yeah, I'm excited for your future "cooler" videos, overall I really like your approach to things.

I think the changes will be really welcomed. The videos you mentioned were indeed my favourites too. I particularly liked the ones involving automating the Android games, even though I'm iOS. It was a novel idea bringing to bear a range of tools / approaches seldom seen together; for me at least!

I understand this change might be better for the channel, but the "talk-style" videos were the primary reason I, and I suspect many others, subscribed. You are one of the few programming channels out there that don't pad the content with distractions. I hope the content in the future will still focus on practical information instead of quick, entertaining but ultimately useless information (*cough* Fireship *cough*). Alternatively, you could upload the "boring" videos on a second channel? Either way, I'm excited to see the changes!

Hi! This switch can work, just one thing to consider. You are an "outlier" in terms of programming creators, you havent tried to reach as many people as possible, but you brought the value. I would be happy if it stayed that way. Your content is unique in the way it was. Just don't become like another programming youtuber with clickbait titles and 0 value. (Not saying that your content couldn't be less "boring"). Good luck! ❤️

Can’t wait to see the change. As for boring, I don’t think so. Am a traditional windows user but this channel made me love Linux. Thank you 🙏🏾

I liked learning from your videos over the years. I do understand that you’re looking to drive some more engagement, and presumably have some more fun with your content creation. Looking forward to the future of your channel.

You are still my hero...very informative videos and hope you continue your video series. I've learned quite a bit about programming with your videos and enjoy watching what you do as if it is easy-peasy. I'll keep watching as your content is extraordinary despite those that may barf at what you present. Keep up your good work, my man! Love your engineering methods!

I never thought you had a boring video! The changes sound fine, although I may miss that baseball cap :) Best wishes, love the channel already so I'm sure you'll do great!

I like old style but changing topics was needed. I love to see projects/topics/discussion that are close to real world (close to production) situation. This platform lacks these type of youtubers.

For what it’s worth, we love the vids as they are! Still excited for what the future holds, though. Do your thing man and I’ll be happy to continue learning from you!

Aww man, don't change. I've always liked your video style. No frills, no tricks or gimmicks and always high quality content.

A very welcomed change mate! I can't wait. This is probably the first video I've watched of yours in atleast a year now. I really enjoyed the Craig's list scammer one and those older videos you made. The CL scammer video actually taught me about post requests. Looking forward to seeing what you do mate, cheers!

Honestly, the only thing I agreed with in your future direction is that you're still not going to pursue sponsors. Everything else feels like a step in the wrong direction. I'm not interested in more entertaining videos with better outfits and less tutorials. I'm here for the pure command line and coding information. You don't even have to be on cam. This makes me sad.

Follow your heart Engineer Man! Love it. Never stop trying new things and never give up too soon when you want to test out a change.

Thanks for the content to date. You’re a natural at conveying and simplifying complex real world programming projects that make me go, “This is amazing!”. An inspiration to many your scammer video is a classic. Thank you.

Let me join all those who commend you on your teaching abilities! I was never bored. For me as a technically interested amateur (not working in IT), your videos have been very helpful, clear and showing precicely what you were trying to get across. The format with the code editor taking up the main part of the screen and your blend-in video down in the corner matched perfectly your modest presentation of putting content first and taking yourself back. The practical usecases of your coding skills were fun to watch and helped me learn this and that on the way. I will miss this format. Let's see how I adopt the new format you chose.

I'm happy you're wanting to do more But the vids of you explaining while you type out the code, with comments or examples is sooo solid. I watch your vids alot. I love the 'old' format tbh.

Brian, I wish you the best. But I found your videos already great: concise, no BS, straight to the point, that's not boring.

Man honestly good for you! You are going to blow up, I promise, your content was always amazing, just not very mainstream, I think these changes are great and I wish you the best for the future, I'll be watching as always :P

As a student, all of your contents are very helpful and it's not boring. Ive learned a lot from this channel and hoping to learn more from you. These changes might be different for me, but whatever it is, it would be still helpful.

Dear EM, I’ve always found your videos very helpful and informative, and I’m excited along with you for the new path you’re taking… I’m not going away -ha! All the best, Cheers 💖!

I really like your previous style (I never found them boring) but IT is all about change so I’m excited to see where this goes. Keep up the good work!

Best of luck with the new format. Looking forward to see the new content!

I really appreciated what you did and how you did it mainly because of your enormous experience in SE and filtering out noise. That said, though this channel is for us the viewers it also needs to be for you. I get that. For something that’s just a hobby, it needs to give satisfaction. It will be ok.

I've been watching your content for a while now and I think the knowledge you have passed along with your old videos was way more important than the video quality. But I believe that improving your video quality, you will improve your audience reach a lot more.

One thing I really like about any coding video is to the point and good explanation. It might just be people find you because you get to the point so we subscribe but then KZfaq doesn't put you in our feed so we forget to check. I'm subbed to so much random stuff I forget lol

I didn’t find the content boring, I mean you just cut through bs and teach.

I've always found your videos educational. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

I subscribed for your python tutorials. I really hope you'll make them again in the future. They're really good. And I liked the low-key style of your videos as well, for example (and one of my favorites) 'Showing a Craigslist scammer...' Good luck to you!

Interested to see how the result is, some of the teaching videos have been really nice, but the idea of looking from a bigger picture sounds useful too.

I’m excited to see it. I’ll be here regardless of your direction. I’ve learned a lot from you and don’t plan to skip out because you want to grow and improve. Keep it up.

I really got into your channel for the way you look at others code admire and figure how it works (even if i didn't know the actual code)

Your videos were meant for people who wanted to learn about a topic and you have a solid in depth knowledge of said topic... I understand you want to reach a broader audience and make videos more fun.... but the "boring" content you gave has been so inspirational o would love to see it go to a blog since the ppl who want it will be able to get it. Thanks, look forward to future vids :)

Hey man, always a good idea to freshen it up, if nothing else just to keep yourself engaged. Couple thoughts: 1) I have watched many of your self entitled "boring" video's, they might not have been stimulating, but I learned what I came there to learn, so don't throw the baby out with the bathwater please :P. 2) Put all your monotone shirts in your gymbag and fill your closet with shirts with an interesting design, in such a way that you can't miss. Takes about 2 hours of selecting things to order and you're done. 2+) Alternatively, you can charter someone to design some shirts for you, and outsource the logistics of selling the shirts you wear in your videos to a different company. You might not make a lot of money that way, but you'd have some interesting and custom shirts to wear at low cost and minimal hassle and your viewers have a new way to engage with your content.

EM, Thank you very much for this amazing content. I've always enjoyed the straight to the point, only tell relevant and important info style of this amazing channel. Everything is organised and very helpful. I don't lost while you explaining. I can locate info about something in some video easily. This is very important for future reference. I recommend(ed) your channel to others. Also change is change; I'll say printing to the screen and other changes are great ideas. (and for the last thing: I do recommend you to invest in CTRL+L , rather than typing clear. silly recommendation it is, could be refused). By the way if it isn't for your voice I wouldn't recognized you. As always Thank you very much and have wonderful day.

I think being agile and trying new ideas to improve your numbers is a good plan. Worse case you go back to what you did before. I look forward to the new and improved Engineer Man! I will however miss the baseball cap😂

Sounds cool going forward making content more interesting hopefully serves your intent more! Also maybe do more than one camera for perspective changes and maybe crop in or out of the frame for relaxing the eye when we see more of you now.

First time actually seeing you! You're awesome, keep up the magnificent work!

Because I only watched the vids on topics that had value to me, I was never bored. But I think you're upping the quality all 'round, and it sounds like you're making it more fun and meaningful for yourself, which will translate into fun and meaningful for usl

One thing that sat through my mind as I watched this video - you could use different color t-shirts for each technical video. Watcher may not remember the topic it was about, but "I remember he wore a yellow t-shirt for this...". Kind of like db indexing where the watcher could narrow down on which video could it be. Of course, if the thumbnail would display you in a t-shirt.

I really liked the old style too - even though you say your vids were 'boring' (which I get) they taught me so so much in so little time. Right now, it's even gotten up to the point where I come across a new concept and the first thing I do is go to KZfaq and type "engineerman to see whether you made an awesome video to explain to me. I understand your concerns though - perhaps you can mix the old and the new style?

You are literally my favourite channel, never thought any of your videos were boring at all! I always recommended your channel to my friends that wanted to start learning, please don't sell out to the algo :(

In my opinion your idea sounds great. Concrete coding or projects in compact format is what videos are a perfect format for. If you want to know more about some details, then you can go and take a look at the docs.

I will be looking forward for your future videos as in the past, keep it up!

Kinda sad. I like your vids going into detail as those little details are to me what sets this channel apart from everyone else. Its not boring its to the point and effective. Yours are some of the only video I actually take things away from. I fear with this change, that will go away.

"If it's not broken, don't fix it" is the first thing that comes to mind. Here for the boring details. Your content is great, and always helpful. If you loosing subscribers, it's their loss. Thank you for all of your hard work. I wouldn't change a thing.

You know engineer man is serious when he takes the hat off. Sad to see that he’s focused on views rather being a wonderfully informative and deep well of information.

Man I think focusing on outcomes over how you arrived at them is a big mistake. Your audience consists of engineers. We don't just want to play with the toys, we want to disassemble them and figure out how they work

Man, your videos were always good tbh, not boring at all. As for what you wear, wear what's comfortable, hat, hoodie, colors, etc. Can't wait for the content! Best of luck!

I have been happy with the channel the way it has been, is, and will be in the future. It is your channel and, let's face it, you should run it your way.

I really value your vids thanks for your time and effort to help me personally

I like to listen to a variety of voices on KZfaq on the topics you cover. I listen to some hardcore game dev nerds from the handmade community, some grizzled DevOps vets like Viktor Farsic from DevOps Toolkit, some edutainment like Firesail, and I try to get lots of info from academics, too. As long as you stay true to yourself, I don't think you should worry about other stylistic changes to your videos.

I've never thought your videos were boring. I like details. Be as thorough as you think the content needs to be. People that want to jump to the end to see the final result can certainly skip ahead or play the video a 2x.

You sir are a champ, and taught me alot thanks again for your time and effort

I love your channel man. thanks for the great content.

I see some comments saying that "your videos were not boring, we are sad that you switch to another version" etc. I think the main point is, he is the reason we are watching his videos. No matter what the content becomes, he'll still be there, so I don't really understand why some of commentators are upset about this shift. It's clear that he wants to drive his channel to this point of view. Fully supported, excited for the upcoming contents, best wishes :)

Kinda enjoyed the laid back vibe of your vids, but do whatever you enjoy! As long as you’re providing good info I’ll watch

You should keep longform stuff but do it on another channel. It's very valuable to newbies and there aren't many youtube channels that do the newbie stuff well at all.

We'll see...btw Your videos are not boring. They are very interesting and You have a well defined style.

Im extided to see this video i really tought it was somthing negative comming . Im happy to see that evreything is good , and event on a way to a better future for the chanel and the comunity

I don’t think you need to change a thing - presentation-wise. Not at all boring - unique and engaging style with well-thought through content. You said it yourself- viewers are already super-engaged, and if the channel is not about money, why chase views? Nice to see you without the hat and do what makes YOU happy in the end.

I can only trust that your data is sound. Though, as you pointed out, your followers appreciate the style we met, I don't know what your goal is, but I hope you get it, after giving us what we wanted for so long. Thank you

The ones where you went after the scammers was nice. I'd love more things like that, too. :)

I looked the style you had, that said, I'm sure whatever changes you make you will make as informative as before.

An idea could be to talk to other engineers. There is a large gap from employed developer ..... to principal engineer. In my opinion, your channel was one that filled the gap in some ways. The size of your face and location on the screen was never a problem imo. The definition of "interesting" seems to be very over-encompassing. Either way, good luck.

I like these changes. Your content is very good.

Showing how the sausage is made is always more interesting. If I'm watching a cooking show, I don't want to see the ingredients neatly laid out, only see the bird already coming out of the oven. I want to see the chef gets his hands dirty, screw up, talk about tricks of the trade while mustering the courage to suppress expletives.

Looking forward to future 'casts!

I thought this was April fools until i realized it's August (I almost typed July there. Where has the time gone?) I am surprised to hear these changes from you, EM. However, I also know that whatever content comes from you will be good content so I am sticking around either way.

Use the cap. Do what YOU like, do not addapt your self to the followers. Cheers and I like the channel.

Hi Engineer Man, not so sure how to feel about this. Your previous style was very unique - I wouldn't say boring. In fact, I subscribed to you to get the more detailed dives that tend to be omitted by other coding youtubers. But at the end of the day, I am happy for you to get excited about the future, and encourage you to do what's best for you man! By any chance was this change brought on by some changes in your life? Anyway - keep it up, you're a great tutor and entertainer!

This’ll be interesting. I like to see people make determined change.

Hi seems like there's a bit of backlash, I like this change and I'm excited to see where you take it! I love the snake/app automation videos and I'll probably end up clicking more with you making that style of content. Though I like the tuts and seeing the editor, I get burned out watching that style of content very quickly. It feels more like work, and less like leisure, which is why I'm on this site/app to begin with.

I know it will be good, and will be here to support you and the community. I dig it!

I kept staring at the top of your head. Seeing you without a hat is going to take some getting used to. /s

New format looks cool but I'll miss the little facecam in the corner. Either way I like all your videos bro you're doing good stuff on this channel

Love your videos Good luck to you

No boring videos man all awesome.

I owe you so much. Knowledgewise. I would watch paint dry if it helped you xD I wish you luck in the reconig of your channel! And I will obviously stay on for all of it! :D

I have found your videos to be interesting and informative. Not boring at all.

Very excited for what is coming!

Love your content so much man

I always considered your channel "S-Tier" as the kids say. I'd say keep up the good work.

No No No please, we want the Old brain back. None of it was boring, I just love your style of teaching. It was so precise and informative. We want such kinda of videos back!!!

Exciting news! Looking forward to the new content

I personally didn’t mind the extensive, detailed, walkthroughs that you did. But, I also don’t mind your entertaining videos either. As long as you’re more motivated and enthusiastic to make what you feel is the most digestible and entertaining, then I am sure the true fans will stick around. I am in favor of the change, thanks for the content.

Will continue to love your content.