Hello, everybody. Antoni here. I know I have been very sporadic with my YouTube content creation, especially where my reviews are concerned, because I have so much to deal with in terms of university, my life as an artist, a writer, and an all-around online content creator. Nevertheless, I am so elated to tell you all that I have just hit 1701 subscribers, and I am very grateful to each and every one of you who has been with me for the past ten years of my overall time on YouTube. Achieving this milestone has provided me with a lot of empowerment, gratitude, and motivation to never give up on what I am passionate for. Whether it is singing, voice acting, acting, and, most of all, reviewing operas, musicals, ballet, concerts, albums, cartoons, anime, and movies, I am doing all this as a labor of love for all of you who have been tuning in to my channel. I also have to thank you all for your feedback because they definitely helped me to become a lot stronger as a reviewer and look at the installments I have been wanting to review with a closer eye. Therefore, I have you to thank for helping me keep the flame burning. I would love to thank my icon artists, Katelyn Jewel and Ross Gerson, for their tireless work in making my channel come to fruition, and I really wish you all the best that life and your careers have to offer. I would also love to extend my gratitude to my family, friends, fellow actors, fellow voice actors, fellow singers, fellow musicians, fellow writers, fellow journalists, fellow columnists fellow artists, fans of all my content, and all of my teachers and colleagues from grade school to high school to vocational training to A-Levels to university for believing in me, for pushing me to better myself as a person, and for never giving up on me even if the road is filled with uncertainty. You all deserve my blessings and my shared joy. Ten years on YouTube with over 1133 videos and achieving 1701 subscribers supporting me and my content has really brought me elation that I would love to share with all of you. If you want to support my content, please like my videos, share my videos, leave comments on my videos, and, most of all, hit that subscribe button and that notification bell to be notified of whatever new content I have to offer. Every time you subscribe to my channel, you are helping me grow as a content creator and I will be eternally grateful for your help. You will not regret it. Have a lovely day. Thanks again for your boundless support and encouragement. https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=operaanimelover369
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Hello, everybody. Antoni here to spread the word of my older brother from another mother’s YouTube channel UMIGAME where he does some skits and, of course, his Let’s Eat videos of dessert-type snack foods, which are absolutely entertaining and have this lovable, down-to-earth vibe I enjoy so much about his content. I shall say this once, and I will say this again. Umi is one of the greatest friends I have ever had during my Diploma Program year at IAFT back in mid-2011. That’s right, folks, we go way back. When I started back in May 31, 2011, we were just mere acquaintances. However, our first full-fledged collaboration as actors occurred in a friend’s Thesis film in Manila, which I enjoyed so much not only for the new friends I made there, but also the growing friendship occurring between me and Umi. From there, we ended up collaborating in a fair amount of films, I was in his Thesis film, he was a cast member in my MOS, and it was an overall amazing time I had with this down-to-earth gentleman. Even after nine years, our friendship never wavered. To conclude, I hope you can support Umi by subscribing to his channel, staying updated with the content he has to offer, and enjoy his videos because he is an absolutely awesome chap. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to be entertained and bear witness to the tasty snack foods he has in store for you. Take care and stay safe, everybody. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-7Vm1IaRmLPkAoSgw5lBrQ/featured
Hey, everybody. Antoni here with my first milestone for 2020, as I have reached 1,340 subscribers on YouTube. I want to thank all of my 1,340 subscribers for keeping up with me and for sticking by me through thick and thin. I also want to thank my family, my friends, all of my colleagues from my previous schools, acting schools, Kolleg Schöneberg, and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, my fellow artists, my fellow singers, my fellow actors, my fellow voice actors, my fellow bloggers, my fellow filmmakers, my fellow musicians, my fellow online reviewers, and my fellow online content creators for being greatest sources of inspiration, passion, grit, determination, drive, and courage. You have all made me be the passionate online reviewer I have always been, and I am very grateful and humbled. Please support me by subscribing to my channel so that you can view all the content I have to offer ranging from reviews of operas, ballets, concerts, musicals, cartoons, anime, and movies to the material I have as a music fan, an actor, a voice actor, and a singer. Thank you all once again, and let us all make 2020 a most memorable year. https://m.youtube.com/user/operaanimelover369
Hey, everybody! Antoni, here! I know I have been AWOL on YouTube, due to the fact that I had a lot of major academic priorities to take care of. I had one presentation to accomplish in History regarding the Baroque period, one in English regarding the Philippines, and one which I will do alongside my colleague in Chemistry regarding the usage of superabsorbent polymers. I apologize for my disappearance, but don’t worry, as soon as everything calms down I will continue to make more content most likely on Easter break. Now in terms of my channel, I have some bad news and good news. The bad news is I have been stripped of monetization for now, as I did not reach the new 4000-hour, 1000-subscriber threshold. This is a major shame as I have been releasing content on YouTube for a span of six to seven years, yet in spite of my best efforts, it was not enough to achieve something like this. At least, I can rely on Steemit in terms of getting my content paid, so all is not lost. The good news is, I have reached 604 subscribers. I am so thankful to the people who have followed me so far on my journey as a reviewer, actor, singer, and voice actor and for that, you are all awesome. I thank you so much for the support you have given me and I bless each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart. Even when times get rough, I will not surrender and I will keep on going even after I reach 1000 plus subscribers. So, keep supporting, keep spreading the love, and thanks for making my time on YouTube very fruitful. I could not have accomplished this without your help. Like I said, I am not going to disappear and I will keep going on. It’s just that priorities need to be set straight, things happen in real life, and I cannot deny nor ignore it. On top of that, I intend to review Rossini’s Semiramide live from the Met starring Angela Meade, Elizabeth DeShong, Javier Camarena, and Ildar Abdrazakov either on Tuesday or this coming Saturday, so look out for that. Until then, I hope you have a wonderful evening, please subscribe to my channel, spread the word about it to everyone, and see you all on the flipside. Take care. Subscribe to my channel, where I review opera, anime, cartoons, concerts, albums, musicals, and ballet
I know I am still rather perturbed in light of what developments have been happening on YouTube. In spite of that, I want to use this opportunity to invite you all to subscribe to my channel and take a gander at the content I have to offer. I know I have been using this plug for countless of times but it has to be done because this is a reminder that just because my channel only has 529 subscribers does not mean I am going to wallow in self-pity. I do not just do these vlog-style reviews of operas, concerts, musicals, ballet, anime, cartoons, and movies for kicks-and-giggles. I put in a lot of effort, research, heart, encouragement, and of course, I take my career as an online reviewer very seriously. It has been my mission to not only voice out my opinions via this platform and do so in a way that does not make me come off as mean-spirited nor pushy nor pretentious but to also create genuine, healthy, and long-lasting relationships with my fellow actors, voice actors, singers and musicians of several genres, animators, creators, filmmakers, artists, and reviewers. Through my reviews and through loads and loads of inspiration from many of some fabulous reviewers, who I am glad to call my friends, I felt like I fulfilled making some well-meaning relationships, be it on Manic Expression, Team Night Saturn, Channel Awesome, Steemit, and many other platforms. I don’t want to bore you too much with a history lesson but I essentially started off as an aspiring actor wanting to be noticed for my craft, as it is the 21st century and some casting directors will end up searching for a video of someone doing a monologue in spite of the fact that the camera quality may not be amazing. It was not until the night before my 21st birthday did I decide to release my first vlog-style review of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia at the Deutsche Oper Berlin starring Edita Gruberova and Pavol Breslik. From this point forward, this was my experimental phase, as I made more vlog-style reviews. I did not want to confine myself to reviewing music, so I made my first anime vlog regarding Space Dandy when I had a stopover in Washington Dulles. I even branched myself out into doing movie reviews, as that was what a lot of my reviewer friends were doing. Whilst making these reviews, I was initially hesitant on becoming a YouTube partner because I did not want to whore myself out and I was rather hesitant. However, that all came to a head in June 2014 when I finally said, yes I will be a YouTube partner. I did not receive my first YouTube payment of 71 Euros until June 2016, as it took me two years to achieve that, which was far from easy as I was still branching out and of course my schedule in my old acting school did not really make it possible for me to watch certain operas and concerts, as several days were intended for rehearsal. The next payment I ended up getting took me 1 year and it was 74 Euros. These days I am really lucky to use Steemit for my overall revenue to increase, as I have a pretty strong following on that particular site and I do enjoy posting my stuff there as I do get something great in return, whether it be payments or people who are genuinely supportive of my content. Speaking of followings, whilst I may not have the most significant amount of followers ever, I was glad to know some of my favorite opera singers and some fellow opera fans recognized my work. Anna Prohaska, whose concert I saw in Salzburg in the summer of 2014, automatically recognized me as the guy with the vlogs. She even remarked that my work was informative and people can learn a lot. One of my opera singer and opera fan friends recognized me through a review I did of, I believe, The Magic Flute in the Deutsche Oper Berlin. I even made a lot of great friends with a lot of the opera singers of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and I cherish each of them for being such down-to-earth and amazing people. This all got to the point where the Deutsche Oper Berlin even subscribed to my YouTube channel, which was one of the best moments I had so far, as I did make a lot of my reviews based on the Deutsche Oper Berlin’s productions. I even met the likes of Evelin Novak, Katharina Kammerloher, Pavol Breslik, Diana Damrau, Thomas Hampson, Waltraud Meier, Cheryl Studer, Adrianne Pieczonka and Evelyn Herlitzius. I even achieved my biggest dream of seeing Elena Mosuc perform the role of Violetta Valery from La Traviata, of course, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and she herself loved my review of her performance in one of her signature roles. During my time in Pesaro last summer, some of my friends who performed in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims were so thankful that I not only came to see that production but also make a review of it. Some of them even remarked my review as interesting and thoughtful, so much so that the conductor, Michele Spotti himself, gave me his business card once he recognized me. Through all of these happenings, they were all blessings because I knew deep down that this was what I wanted and I achieved it because I kept soldiering on and I was not going to go up in smoke any time soon. Mind you, I have become so familiar with a lot of operatic topics from the popular works to the rarer works to the many singers of the past and present to even the Fach system, which categorizes vocal types and each of them has their own traits. I was all but thirteen years old when I became familiar with the Fach system, fifteen…