My Work on YouTube

My YouTube Channel Megapig9001 features videos about my favorite video game series: Touhou Project. I've gained over 16,000 subscribers over the past four years and over 4 million views. From a video that's a cited source on Wikipedia to the start of some trending hashtags, there a lot of things I've done on my channel that I am very proud of. Here are just a few of them.

Bad Apple: Explained

Bad Apple Explained is an overview on the viral Bad Apple Shadow Art music video. I had all of these facts about Bad Apple in my mind, but nobody to share them with. This video required me to do a lot of research, organize facts into a compelling narrative, do some lyrical analysis (which somehow ended up on Bad Apple's Wikipedia page), and even some minor translation for lyrics from Japanese to English. With over 1 million views, this is my most popular video and one that demonstrates how I write for non-fiction. 

Autism and Touhou

Autism and Touhou is a video that dives into my experience of being an autistic fan and how the series appeals to me because of my autism. This video was very hard to right, as many people have different thoughts on autism. I tried to make sure that I presented my view mainly as an opinion rather than a set fact, and think I did a good job. I am very proud of this video because it made a lot of other autistic Touhou fans happy, and because there are not that many videos talking about autism and video games on the internet. it was the intersection of two topics I'm very passionate about.

Touhou Creator Hashtags

For the past two years, I've started "creator initiatives" to celebrate the 20th anniversaries of Touhou games. "#EosDay" and "#PCBirthday" were initiatives I started where I asked Touhou Content Creators across various sites to make content based around specific Touhou games on one day. On both these days, the initiatives were big enough to trend on Twitter (for Touhou users) and to spawn auto-generated YouTube pages that are linked to the hashtags (these pages are only generated if there are enough videos). 

Short-Form Content

When YouTube Shorts came to the platform, I was an early adopter of the format. Short-Form video allows me to cover topics that wouldn't fill their own long-form videos, and I enjoy the freedom. Across all of my work on YouTube Shorts, I have gained over 600,000 views. The shorts I've uploaded to my channel can be found here.