They sold themselves as curated collections, but were basically the online nerd merch equivalent of those $3.00 grab bags you buy at the thrift store that have two skeins of yarn, a single earring, and a stained Angry Birds plush toy.
Are you okay?
FTFY.
Burnout after almost two decades of silly Youtube videos seems most plausible (same thing James Rolfe's seemingly going through). Then again, people like LK and TFS seem to be forever mentally stuck at 15, so we can only guess what toll (if any) it would take on their sanity to fake-dub animu for so long.
Gotta do something to keep the lights on. And as content creation has shown us, leaving your moneymaker hasn't been very lucrative.
He shouldn't complain then. Besides, it's not like he can't do what wants on the side while YGO Abridged helps fund it.
I mean, I'd say that'll only happen if they get a HUGE dip in their Patreon numbers.
I imagine it being a year or 2 they'll start talking about ideas they had or would have done it'll spiral from there and whatever writers block they had will go away that or desperation for relevance and average view counts higher than 40k
It probably wouldn't be worth bringing back if they did. The quality of them would almost certainly dip due their reluctant continuation. Assuming they don't do anything to change the production of the episodes.
My presumption is any continuation will result from a natural dissolution of writers block I believe their dramatic declaration of cancellation was almost certainly hasty and frankly they'd be better served by an "indefinite hiatus" honestly
I will say one thing if they do bring back DBZA, they are sure as fuck aren't gonna be "edgy" with their humor. They'll be walking on eggshells hard and making sure they aren't offending anyone...well..I mean not offending the woke/twitter types.
I mean their numbers have already been crashing. Their highest was around 2,850 subs on Patreon. That number has been slowly decrasing ever since before it started to crash last year. They get small bumps but not enough to prevent the churn. Right now they are sitting at around 1,513 but its gone as low as 1,494. It's not sustainable in the long run. Obviously this doesn't include their youtube revenue and other things so we can't fully know their financial situation. Graphtreon puts their Patreon income around $1K - $12K and Social Blade puts their youtube monthly income around 1.2K - $18.8K. But youtube monetization is weird and a maze of bullshit.
It will be just like the end of the Cell saga: Everybody's gay (including and specifically children), references to currently popular shit like they did with Steven Universe and that gay musical, some TDS and rewriting parts completely and then talking about how the original script was shit.
The buu saga is honestly a bit of a mess especially in the super buu before vegito showed up bit but I always found it a bit overhated honestly toriyama did try to have more fun with esoteric powers and abilities again like in old dragon ball
