LPS videos that never made it

It's sad to leave LPStube again.

I made a video announcing my leave on my LPS channel (I wish I could end this channel gracefully), but as a summary; Youtube is rolling out yet another terrible rule change, which would entail using people's watch history to determine whether or not they're a kid or not, getting flagged causing you to loose features. And the way to get unflagged is to fork over an ID, facial recording, or credit card info. I imagine this will negatively affect me (or at the very least my LPS channel), as toy communities were already negatively affected by the COPPA rule changes in 2020, and I used that account to keep up with the LPS and the wider toy community. In an age where cybersecurity isn't taken seriously, I'm uninterested in forking over more personally identifying information because I liked Littlest Pet Shot slightly more than the average 24 year old.

I'm... devastated. I wanted to leave LPStube on my own terms, and on a happy note. I actually had a happier video planned as my farewell, and several other videos I was thinking about making before I left too. But once again, LPStube and video making had been ruined for me by Youtube's shitty, fascistic decisions. Even if it was never meant to be a main thing for me, it's heartbreaking knowing that this hobby had been taken away from me more than once due to unfair changes beyond my control (I imagine a large part of my commitment to my site & wanting to have more stuff in my control stems from how the toy community has been negatively affected by Youtube).

I don't want to leave these things to rot amongst the rest of my scrapped projects. So at the very least, I'll make some of my old ideas known.

Skits

Hellish arcade experience
Merging my interest in LPS, with my interest in Arcade rhythm games.

A pet goes to an arcade and finds all the cabs are occupied by some of the worst things that can happen. Food on cabs, baby powder and boots on dance games, loud influencers recording players, botched LCD replacements, broken cabs, and excessively long ques. It would've featured LPS-scale arcade cabinets, which I still might make because the idea is cool.

Food on Cabs
Either a prequel or sequel to Hellish arcade experience. A pet goes to play IIDX, and across the span of multiple days finds food left on cabs. It starts with a few snacks, then even larger amounts of snacks like excessive bamboo (a very common prop in G7), and even a whole cake ("It's not even working!"). The skit would end with the pet getting a private cab... and absentmindedly putting food on it.

2020's hot business strategy
Spiritual sequel to a video I made called "Advertiser Friendly", which was a satire of Youtube's earliest bad rule changes. The CEO of a company announces a bunch of changes that makes it worse and then lays off half the workforce & the illustrator before they hired them for their crypto-AI-NFT venture that they don't care if it actually fits their business, just that it sounds like it makes money.

We've updated your establishment!
Based off the bar rescue episode with the Pirate Bar, which I still can't believe they unironically rebranded it to "Corporate Bar & Inn"

A medieval-themed pub has run into slow business days and an investment company takes interest in trying to 'fix' it, only for it to be gentrified and made 50x worse. The story ends with reopening the medieval theme with just better advertising (The better advertising being a bunch of pride flags. I mean, it'd work on me probably).

LPSMVs

These are all IIDX songs. The brainrot is strong. But I think I would've canned these anyways, since a few big rhythm game OST channels got taken down this year & it's left me wary of using Bemani songs in videos.

JIVE INTO THE NIGHT
An LPSMV of JIVE INTO THE NIGHT by Green Olives, specifically the remix found in IIDX 4th style. It would've been about a woman spotting a new cat in town with a cool ride at the gas station. She starts to come to terms with how uneventful her life is being stuck at the same job as she sees the cat at the arcade she parks next to. After the cat's wallet falls out of her pocket on the way to her ride, the woman grabs and chases her through the town until they meet up at the gas station again when the cat is at the register. The cat thanks her for saving her skin, and as the woman gives her back her wallet, they meet eye-to-eye implying they found eachother cute.

lower world
An MV of lower world by DJ SETUP, and would've been a recreation of the BGA by Eiri Mikoshiba. Though this version would've used Eiri (ROOTS26 chararacter) as the biker & would've been a showcase of a custom of him, Nix and Siren (if I made them).

Though I feel like this project would be better served as a 'solo re-animate' type thing. Perhaps a blender project.

Arkadia
This one would've been the most difficult, but it's the saddest to let go of because the idea is kinda cool, and could only work in video form.

An MV of Arkadia by Hommarju ft. Mayumi Morinaga, based on the the story behind this song (remywiki page). It would've started off with a scene from the end of the main Drama CD arc, where Tsugaru was cut down. The year is 2036, Tastuma (formerly Daruma) is still researching a way to wake up Tsugaru from her slumber.

It's hard to describe how this would've looked like, so you're just gonna have to take my word for it that it was pretty cool

Rambles

Or, everything else

The Grownup LPStuber tag
Originally by LyssLPStv. This had been sitting in my drafts for a while now, but it never came to fruition. I think it's because I wasn't sure what to do for B-roll

Seeing how many hours of IIDX I can get for the cost LPS go for on ebay
This one was scrapped because I felt it was... kind of mean spirited? And I got sick of making videos complaining about the state of the LPS community. And with prices for LPS and arcades fluctuating I imagine it would've been outdated by the time I finished it

Non-LPS toylines I think are neat
This would've been a 'puff piece' from all the negative thoughts I had on LPS, and talked about several toy lines I've been interested in from afar.

Draw that LPS Challenge sequel
The original challenge was made by Littlest Nature, who has since deleted their original videos. But it would've been a revisit with the skills I have now.

One of the ideas I had was to do a full illustration scene and talk more in depth about my artistic process while giving some art advice.

The other idea, and what I wanted to make my final video, was to make a low-poly model in Blender. It would've been a good send off, featuring something I've wanted to learn for years and inviting people to follow me & see where I go with Blender. Though I guess my steam for art creation has died down.

Honorable mention: a non-LPS channel
I wanted to start a non-LPS channel later this year, mainly as a 'digital junk drawer' for videos I didn't know where else to put. But I don't think I want to pursue it, and I'll keep my projects text & image based for now.

And a heavy heart...

Like I said earlier, this is devastating and demoralizing to have LPStube once again ruined for me. And especially with how severe internet censorship has been in the past few weeks alone, I'm finding myself worried about not only my own privacy, but the future of my website and my ability to stay in touch with friends. I've started data-hoarding a lot more & putting more focus into my offline archives, even more than my own site.

I plan on keeping jadeeverstone.com up as long as I can, but I am nervous about the future of what I'll be able to post if this shit severely affects small websites. One of my planned projects is a violent monster-hunting thriller, but I've backed down from wanting to do it since I don't know where I'll be able to post it in the next year or so.

But the one I'm most scared of is loosing connections with friends. I've been dealing with a lot of isolation post-college. A lot of people I know irl got busy, I live further away from the strong art community I had in college. I've lost connections by simply leaving Twitter and Instagram for Bluesky & my own website. And I feel my social anxiety growing worse to the point the only thing keeping me from collapsing is having to leave the house for my hobbies (I'm dead serious; IIDX and LPS hunting might be saving my life right now).

Realistically, I don't think I would've been able to make all of those ideas I listed. Even when I rejoined LPStube my steam for video making was pretty low. I'm thinking about salvaging a few of these for a text / image based project. Namely:

• The Grown-up LPStuber tag, since that script was already written
• Draw that LPS challenge sequel, since I think talking about my process would still be valuable in some way

But... I'm honestly so fucking tired man. I just want to feel like things are going to be ok for once instead of being terrified in my own home. They say "this too shall pass", but genuinely, what the fuck? And when the fuck will it actually pass? I just want to sleep easy for once.