Asking For Your Help | Patreon Campaign Launch

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

to sew and how make clothes for themselves.

Most of the time.

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

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

at all, but if I do - yeah."

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

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

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

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

producing!

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

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

a personal level.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

sort of job.

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

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

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

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

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

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

me out in this HUGE WAY.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

and the equipment that I need to film these!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

would be amazing.

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

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

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