A rare thing lately. A video.

Last week I got an email from YouTube saying that if I didn’t start interacting with the platform I’d be firmly kicked out of the YouTube Partner Program (YPP), like James Corden getting kicked out of restaurants in New York.

If you’re unfamiliar YPP, it’s basically how creators earn money from YouTube ads …for a channel like mine it’s worth a couple of grand a year. If I weren’t in the YPP, though, they’d still show ads but keep 100% of the ad revenue.

It’s been 8 months actually, since I last uploaded to YouTube, but a lot has been going on. The day I uploaded that video was the same day I got offered a full time Webflow developer/graphic design/general creative job.

It’s been full on, hence the quietness here on Substack and over on YouTube, but I managed to find the time to make a quick vid that’ll hopefully keep the algorithmic overlords happy and keep me in the YPP.

So here’s my first vid in 8 months.

You can use this trick in the likes of Squarespace too.

Just chuck a code block in your page and place this in the block:

<p class=”vertical-text”>
YOUR TEXT HERE
</p>

Then add this to your CSS Editor

.vertical-text {
writing-mode: tb-rl;
transform: rotate(-180deg);
}

Until the next one ✌️