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Hi! It's Annika here, and I am a DIY youtuber.
On my youtube channel, I teach people how

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to sew and how make clothes for themselves.

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Most of the time.

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"Hmm. What have I made? [laughs]"

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"I mean, it's fine if I don't lift my arms

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at all, but if I do - yeah."

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Anyway – I’m making this video because
I am launching a Patreon campaign!

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Patreon is an amazing platform where you can
support your favourite content creators. Your

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donation can be as little as a dollar, or
as much as you’d like, and it really helps

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content creators like me have some sort of
stable income for the content that they’re

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producing!

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Now while I think that it's really important
to support any content creator if you really

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like their stuff, I want to be totally honest
about what your support would mean to me on

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a personal level.

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So I struggle with a pretty severe chronic
illness called Takayasu's Arteritis (which

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you can read more about on this instagram
post that I made about it here).

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Living with a disability, as I do, is not
only tough on a daily basis, but it also makes

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the future really uncertain. Finding stable
fulltime work is pretty much a nightmare for

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anybody who lives with an illness that affects
them a lot in their day to day lives – for

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example, without going into too much details,
I live with quite a lot of exhaustion and

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pain and fatigue, and a lot of uncertainty
about my health, constant doctors appointments...

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which would honestly make me a total nightmare
employee in the eyes of any employer – which

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is also going to make it really, really, really
hard for me to find any kinds of stable, 9-5

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sort of job.

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But with youtube, I have the freedom to work
really hard when I'm feeling my best, and

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to let my body rest when I'm not! By doing
this youtube thing, I can make my own hours,

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be my own boss and set my own schedule. Which
would be just an amazing, indescribable thing

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for me, and would give me some kind of certainty
about the future.

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Of course, I don't want you to just see me
as a charity case. I want you to donate because

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you see some kind of value in what I do. Just
know that your donation will also be helping

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me out in this HUGE WAY.

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Now there is this perception of youtubers
that we’re all super rich because you know,

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a couple of thousand or hundreds of thousands
of people do watch the videos that we create.

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But that’s REALLY not true.
I’m going to share this article from Fusion,

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and also a recent video from Youtuber Wengie,
for a more realistic view of what we do actually

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make each time click someone clicks on our
videos. And anyway – I want to stress – my

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goal in having a youtube channel is NOT to
make money! That has never been the main goal

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of my youtube channel. My main aim is to build
up this lovely community of people who love

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to sew and craft, and to make people smile,
and to teach people how to sew their own clothes,

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and chatting and interacting with all you
guys gives me so much satisfaction in itself!

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But, I also have to pay the rent, and afford
this new studio space that I have so that

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I can create all these videos for you guys,
and the materials that I need to make DIYs,

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and the equipment that I need to film these!

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Another reason that I am doing this is that
I don't want to have to work with brands or

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companies that aren’t ethical or that I'm
not 100% passionate about, or join an agency

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or youtube network, or spam you guys with
ads just to get by. So your support will help

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to keep my content 100% independent and what
I want it to be!

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Aside from a deep sense of satisfaction, to
say thank you to the people who support me

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on Patreon I will be releasing exclusive vlogs,
sneak-peeks of tutorials that I'm working

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on, google hangouts, Patreon-only giveaways
of things that I've made, early access to

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my videos so that you can see them before
anyone else does – and more!

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But, I do want to stress that all of my the
current content and all of my future videos

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that you know and love – Make Thrift Buy,
Get Thready with me, The Style Pile, etc – will

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remain totally free and accessible to everybody.
If you can't be a supporter at this time,

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and I totally understand that not everybody
can, then that is fine.

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So if you want to support me on Patreon, click
on over to Patreon.com/annikavictoria, and

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you can donate whatever amount you like per
DIY video that I make. Donate whatever makes

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sense to you. And you can also set a monthly
limit, that you can donate on a more monthly-basis,

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if that suits you better. But seriously, even
$1 per month if that’s all you can donate

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would be amazing.

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Anyway, thank you so much for watching, and
thank you so much for all of the types of

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support that you guys have given me over the
years. I really, really appreciate it. You're

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all wonderful, and I hope you're all having
a really beautiful day. Bye!