Good news folks! I've got my old account back!

I've already went to inform and apologized to the people the hacker tried to mislead, changed the password, and even added 2factor onto it for good measure.

https://x.com/ArtbyCarlyH

Hey terabytes. I actually have very unfortunate news. Someone came and hacked into my Twitter account yesterday and changed the log in info on it, preventing me from gaining access.

I’ve already contacted Twitter’s staff to have them investigate the issue. If any of you just so happen to be following me on there and get an unexpected DM, don’t respond to it and block it immediately.

While I wait for something to happen, you guys can instead follow me on the back up I made. It’s gonna take a long while to get back 8-9 years worth of followers on this new one, but sadly it’s all I can really do. I’ll be reposting most of my old stuff onto this new one to build traction at least before going back to my usual reposting on there. 

Please be careful everyone. 💙🤍

Hey terabytes! It’s been quite a while since I last gave a more formal update about any of the stuff I’m doing, as I had some more personal stuff going on behind the scenes.

In fact as of this year, I’m considering on potentially moving out of California soon with my boyfriend. Reason for why is mainly due to the fact that living in the place we grew up in has become increasingly expensive, and we want to find a place to not only get away from the toxic environment and people that have invaded it, but to also potentially live for our independent lives together. As of this month, we’re looking to find some housing in Wisconsin, as it will help up us keep in close touch with the online creators we work with (mainly those from Sweet Release). While I can’t be certain on when the move will happen, we’ve already been planning accordingly and saving as much money as we can for when it does.

The next thing I wanna talk about is that I’m actually planning to add more extra features to my personal blog. While it may already seem easy to navigate through the pages on the site alone, I feel like it can be greatly expanded upon. The first plan of action is to change it from being a blog that was solely just about art and have more dedicated sections around some of the other stuff I create. Such as the game reviews I’ve done, voice reels, and as a surprise… fan translated song lyrics! 

As far as the latter goes, I’ve dabbled in translating my favorite vocaloid songs for a while and have only exclusively posted them on my DeviantArt account, but now I wanna be able to provide a much better place to where people can have easier access to them for if they ever wanna do song covers with them. It won’t always be vocaloid songs though as there are plenty of other foreign songs that I’d like to do my own translations on. It’s a rather niche experiment that I think will not only help me in contributing for the music world side of content creation, but to help those who aren’t as adept to learn new languages in order to sing their favorite songs with no issues.

I’ll post all the ones I’ve currently translated as like any other blog post (maybe once a week), and then afterword they will all be compiled to their own dedicated page. Same will go towards the game reviews and voice acting reels, as they too will have their own pages to where people can easily find them. Once I prepare the needed design assets, the links to them will then be featured on the front page for all to see whenever. These are small steps to not only journal everything I’ve posted online besides my artwork, but to also really expand my portfolio as a creator.

Speaking of which, the next topic I wanna talk about is the future of my Youtube channel. Lately it has seen a rather significant surgence of growth and attention for the past year and a half. Plenty of my latest uploads have garnering a whole lot more views than normal and I have a great feeling that they will continue to expand if I keep posting more content on there. So far it’s been mostly voice acting and dub related videos (and maybe an occasional short or two), but I do have plans for other videos such as my long awaited second art commentary, highlight compilations, and of course migrating my future game reviews into more cohesive video essay formats. 

However, this also brings up a potential issue. Due to Youtube being Youtube, there’s a good chance that they’ll end up making some stupid choices towards the channel when it eventually pops off. That being the act of censorship, copyright issues, and monetization. While most people do end up conforming with the Youtube Partner Program by the time they reach 1,000 subs, the vague rules they provided can also halt the drive for creative expression. (e.g. not swearing at the start of the video, no showcasing nudity unless its “artistic or educational”, no talking about certain buzzwords, etc. etc.) Even if I were to do my best to follow Youtube’s rules, I don’t greatly trust the site to its fullest due to their corporatized bot driven society and standards.

So in order to prepare for the worse, I’ve decided that the best course of action will be to upload some of my recent and older videos to Rumble. A lot of the creative friends I know tend to use this site as a backup in case their Youtube channels go under and as far as things go, it’s a lot more chill when it comes to what you upload on there (as along as it’s not extreme stuff like NSFW and such). I hope that the some of you will end up supporting me there as much as all my other socials, as I want to make sure my content reaches to as many as people as possible.

Lastly I wanna talk about the future merchandising of my artwork. A while back I’ve considered on potentially switching my services from RedBubble over to Etsy, but do to my financial situation, I haven’t garnered all the necessary equipment and time to learn how to make the merch I wanna create by hand. Plus I don’t wanna end up starting a business on a new site that requires me to mail stuff before the moving situation I mentioned earlier happens. In the meantime, I will continue to keep using RedBubble until I eventually find the means to expand my wares. As much as I hate how restrictive and almost hypocritical RedBubble can be when it comes to showcasing fan art merch (especially those that are Nintendo based), it’s the only easy outing I got when it comes to providing a means for those wanting to support my art other than commissions.

That’s pretty much all the important things I wanted to cover. In terms of other works, Regain Control is still being worked on while at a snails pace, but I wanna be able to make sure it gets done by the end of the year if possible. I’ll continue to upload more content as I go along, but I have high hopes for where these new changes will lead for me. Who knows? Maybe I’ll even take up live-streaming again when I’m open and feel like it. Only time will tell though.

Thank you all once again for the continual support of my online journey. Hopefully you are looking forward to all the other stuff I have planned later. Until then terabytes.

No comic updates this time. Lately since this week I’ve been getting rather busy with art commissions from various people, both IRL and online. Which I’m rather grateful for ’cause my client from my babysitting job has been out of state for a while, so I haven’t been able to find any extra work.

Granted this side hustle doesn’t pay much, but the quantity of people coming to see me is rather nice and means I’m actually doing something right. Let’s hoping I can get more to make this a full time gig if possible!

Few updates I wanna share is that I’m currently planning to move my merch over to Etsy instead of RedBubble. Reasons why is because I’ve recently got new printer and I wanna take a bigger step into pushing for better quality and more print options for my store.

As much as I enjoyed RedBubble’s easy manufacturing, they also take a majority of my revenue. They’ve also been rather mean when it comes to which fan art pieces I’m allowed to post on there in terms of copyright. Mainly the Pokémon related pieces I’ve been doing, but they also took down the ones involving my Jojo fan OCs too.

When I do make the Etsy store, I’ll definitely provide an update post for when it’s ready. So stay tuned for when it happens.

Other than that, I’ll keep doing what I'm working with now and spread the word out for more commissions to roll in. I’m also planning the theme for the next adoptable set, which will likely be released in a couple of weeks, depending on how the work flow is. Until then, keep some tabs on what to expect when I have them ready. Here are some comfy ship pieces for all your patience. Have a wonderful weekend terabytes! 💙

We’ve reached the half way point in production for the first issue of Regain Control, so might as well drop the ball for some Q&A!

I’ll be answering as many questions as I can without giving away too much on what to expect from the story itself.

Of course if any of you want to see any of the progress that’s been done so far, you can do so by following my other socials and supporting me on Patreon!

With the end of 2023 coming closer as we speak, I wanted to kind of discuss on the directions on where I wanna take my content from then on.

As things are right now, I'll still be working on webcomics since that's the medium I'm mostly focused on right now. I've been meaning to also write up stuff for the original stories I hinted or teased at for the past years like Tales of Fear and Project S.A.V.I.O.R, which I've already dabbled in writing skeleton scripts and rewrites for. It all depends on how well received Regain Control does when the first issue gets finished and what the audience thinks. I tend to branch out into different genres from time to time and wanted to push myself into other things rather than just being known as: "The Girl that made a comic around Strangled Red."

There is a chance that I may do more voice acting related content again. I've already had ideas into doing my own comic dubs and fan reels for other characters I wanna voice at some point, really the hardest point is finding the right times to record my own audio. In the mean time, I've been meaning to find other indie VAs who'll be willing to voice some my OCs for future reels and projects (especially the male owns), so I may hold up a casting call post for auditions somewhere in the future.

I also plan to do more reviews on the other mediums I like too. The Fire Emblem Awakening written review should be released sometime either by this month or the next (just gotta make an art piece for it first). The next review will likely be a retrospective of Shin Megami Tensei's Devil Survivor duology, or a rewrite on Pokémon Sun and Moon, after I cover the Fire Emblem Fates trilogy.

Livestreams are still gonna be on an indefinite hold, due to the folks working from home most of the time and because of the insufferable PowerPoint quality. Until I eventually get enough money for an upgraded custom PC, I don't see myself returning any time soon. I will however still be around the sphere and may show up in some of my friends streams at one point or another.

In terms of money, art commissions are back up for grabs, actually planning to do more adoptables again at some point, helping out the channel by donating is still appreciated, and new merchandise has been added to my RedBubble. I would also like to add that I have a Throne account as well, so if any of you all would like to help in providing me supplies and equipment for my content, games for me to potentially cover, or any fun gifts you wanna share and buy for me, you're free to do so on there.

So that's the run down of what I have so far. I'll definitely say this year has been a lot better than the last in terms of where I am now. I'll still be working hard to provide you the best of what I can offer, regardless of my work hours and the limits that I have.

Until next time terabytes. :3

I feel like I should address some updates regarding to Blue-J Plays on my YouTube. As some of you who aren’t as aware, Justinfinity (now known as Jinfinitas) has been rather absent in my feeds lately. There are reasons for why that is, but I won’t make a long paragraph about it.

To put it in more simple terms… Justin and I aren’t collabing anymore. For the past year and a half, we’ve grown out of our friendship with one another and wish to go our separate ways, this was more evident with the rebranding we’ve been doing for both of our channels. Some of the commissions I’ve made for him will still be up on my socials for portfolio reasons, but in terms of the gift art I’ve made, those have been archived.

Blue-J Plays is likely not gonna see a comeback anytime soon. All I can do is wish him the best of luck in where he wants to take his channel from then on.

Thank you for understanding. 💙🤍

I know it’s roughly been 3 months since I last posted anything, but a lot of stuff happened and I wanted to make sure I had something done before I give out any of the big news.

As of recently, we’ve decided to temporarily close commissions for a little while. Reasons why is mainly because of PayPal. How so? About a week ago, they’ve decided to update their terms of service to where if you use them on connected platforms like Patreon and Ko-Fi, they will use bots to scan those sitesto prove you’re not doing any malicious means. Which is why I changed the title for the tier $3 subscription.

Thankfully they didn’t came after me since I barely make any big profits with PayPal, but it’s been affecting a lot of NSFW and big artists as of lately. So as a precaution, I’ve decided I'm going to update the commission T.o.S. by expanding the payment options to services like Stripe and Cash App as alternatives. Once we’ve taken care of other behind the scenes stuff, the commission sheets will be updated with these new services in mind. (As well as future options like the prices for character stills and comics.)

Another big change that happened lately is Clip Studio’s new subscription service they’ve started. If you’re wondering my thoughts about it… I’m not gonna bother with it and stick with the old version I have. Chances are if they will eventually stop the updates for the old version and the program will no longer works on my MacBook (which roughly seems to get updates at least almost monthly), I’ll look into using Krita as an alternative for when that case comes. (Lord knows I’m not going back to Affinity Designer!)

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Livestreams are also gonna be closed for a while now, mainly because I’ve finally gotten back to work on my part time babysitting job and its been paying my time greatly. It also gave me a lot of time to reflect on how miserable I was, just sitting at home and barely making a weekly profit and a crappy powerpoint performance with barely any recognition at all.

Blue will still be around the livestream area from time to time collabing with other creators, but in terms of streaming on our end, everything will be on hold ’till we eventually find free days or upgrade to an actually gaming PC overall.

Other content in terms of videos are still gonna be a thing every once in a while. As of now, we’ve been recording footage for a Dragalia Lost video that’ll be made in the future. We’ve also already started our script for the Fire Emblem Awaking review, and we still plan to do more voice reels, speedpaints, and gaming highlights as well. (Especially the latter one, we’ve got so a handful of titles that’ll make for great compilations.) We’ve also managed our money to buy FL Studio as of recently, so you may expect a slight improvement for future voice reels and other audio related stuff. ;3

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So yeah, these past few months have been really helping me get on the right track. I will say this year had been nothing but rough on my mental health due to personal issues; but now that I’m getting paid well and buying more things again, there’s now a brighter outlook coming towards the end. Let’s hope for more silver linings to come my way. I love every one of you and want to be at my best, not just by creating, but attitude overall.

This afternoon's livestream, we'll be doing something completely different and go full mobile mode; as we take a chance to play Nintendo's "soon to be removed" gotcha game Dragalia Lost.

https://www.twitch.tv/carlychannel

I’ve finally be getting my act together into producing more video content, and happy to announce that my first art commentary is available for viewing on Youtube. There are some minor errors that are semi present during the editing process, but I’m at least happy with the results and that it’s out now.

What it takes to be an Internet Artist | Art Commentary

More video related content is being planned in the background, which includes more gaming highlights and voice reels I’ve been meaning to put together. The rest of the things I have planned fore will be judged by those in my Discord server. I’ll also be taking suggestions from my audience’s comments.

As for commissions, I’m once again making more stills for Justinfinity. Even going back to remaking some older ones here and there. I also have a little something extra he plans for me to make, but that’s gonna be a bit of a secret for now.

Other things I plan to cover will come eventually, just so I won’t keep sounding like a broken record at this point. If you do wanna follow up on more updates, I’ve been doing gaming livestreams every Thursday at around noon.

This month in particular is gonna have a lot of fighting game related streams, many to celebrate the upcoming release of the Capcom Fighting Collection in June. This afternoon I did a stream for Darkstalkers 3 (which you can now watch the archived version on both my Youtube and Twitch), next Thursday will be my first time playing Cyberbots, the 24th being Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, and the 31st being Pocket Fighter. Hope to talk with you guys there if you ever show up. ;3