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Ride the Lightning Queen is the most popular song on YouTube by far, with 261 views between the regular Way of the Waifu channel and YouTube’s Way of the Waifu – Topic channel.  Oddly enough, the next most popular song is another Stuka track, Rush To, from the b-side album, with a staggering 130 views.  This song completes the metal section of the mini-album, and makes the second part of a duology with Moonlight Disgusts You.  The first song is the downfall of Seaman X, and the second is the beginning of the redemption arc.  Perfect 10 is the end of it.  Judging by the thumbnail for Perfect 10, Seaman X must have found her crystal and been made whole again.  And that’s probably as much of that story as I’ll get to tell.

About the title, I’m sure everyone realizes it refers to the best Sailor Scout, and not the song by the RIAA’s favorite thrash metal band, which fell out of favor with me when their drummer decided to battle Napster.   If you’re young, you’ll have no idea what I’m talking about, but there was a moment in time when popular musicians were saying “sue our fans, we want every penny of our money.”  And the fans were sued, because they got caught sharing music files with each other on Napster.  That’s not great for any musician to do, but the essence of a metal band’s act is basically “You’re miserable, here’s company.”  For musicians who got rich making music for people in bad mental places, to turn around and sue those same fans for more money (or be the poster boys for the organization doing it), seems like an extra vile form of betrayal.  It’s a minor footnote in history now, but it stuck with me.

Way of the Waifu – Ride the Lightning Queen
        Since few visited the YouTube channel, I’ll post the tracks I made here.  The first mini-album has seven songs by each girl that counts, which means one for every girl who isn’t Dreilide, three for Dreilide, and none for Yaoi Hokkaido.  The original songs written for Stuka and Yaoi Hokkaido got booted to the b-side album, because I only need to hear about those subjects so often.  Stuka got a better song, and Yaoi Hokkaido got nothing. Seaman X and Nolan the Wolverine got this song, an attempt to mix the Sailor Moon theme “Moonlight Densetsu” with Tool’s “Disgustipated.”  Because both songs have rabbits.  No one else thinks that is as clever as I did. The music on this one is the most generic on the album, but the vocals for Nolan and Seaman X are strong.  
Way of the Waifu – Moonlight Disgusts You
Just a quick update.  May’s traffic was about three times higher than April’s, which is encouraging, although who can say why it is?  More bots?  Traffic from ComicScout?  Are these blog posts helping?  I don’t know how they could be making the difference.  Things picked up at the same time I started posting, but that could also be ComicScout coming online. I’ve seen a big increase in bandwidth usage, which I’d attribute to people listening to the music, and watching the videos.  I’m sure that helps the overall project on some level. So far one person has downloaded the OM-MINUS album from Gumroad (which is free).  If that is you, congratulations, you have the dubious honor of being the only human being, other than myself, to have heard it.  Well, other than a guy who overheard me playing it at work, but he didn’t pay attention to it, so we won’t count him.  I hope you liked it! I had a few more downloads of XTIN, which begs the question of whether Way of the Waifu was a big mistake or not.  XTIN is really depressing to make though.  I’d rather explore a nice harem than the pits of hell. I’m working on making a new video for Way of the Waifu, but it’s just going to be a bunch of unused clips from the earlier videos, spliced together in a way that might make some kind of sense.  I don’t have many credits left on OpenArt.AI, and I want to use them to make an OM-MINUS video.  I’m not going to be able to blow big money on A.I. credits again until I’m out of college next year.  My current job is shaky, but it’s the best solution for working around college classes. I’d like to get into video making, but that costs even more than A.I. credits.  Maybe next year.  I hate to put it off, and I could use the equipment for class, but I’m not at a good point for taking video making on yet.  When I roll, I want to roll with as few distractions as possible.  But, it’s on my mind.  
State of the Comic #18
  Link to video. Just wanted to point out this guy is 58 (or was at the time).  I’ve been on a trip since I figured out the secret to weight loss isn’t “diet and exercise,” it’s just “diet.”  Exercise will only make you eat more, but the body is hyper efficient and, as a result, you can’t hardly ever work out enough to burn off a calorie.  Doyle is surely doing steroids, but a man doesn’t have to be that big and ripped to look good; and it can be held well into what would be considered “old age” by the previous generation’s standards.   I’m coming to believe most of that look wasn’t actually an affect of age, it was having an extra 20-30 years to wreck themselves, and doing it.
Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein
For a bigger video, you’ll have to watch on YouTube – video link
   
Way of the Waifu – Bar Fight MV
Dreilide Guitar Intro 10
R Kelly in P Major – Rap Mix
Link to video – MW:MEU (뮤) ‘Gummy Clock’ Official MV 3D art is mostly obsolete now, isn’t it?  This simply doesn’t compare to Skyebrow’s videos.  I’m sure it’s done with motion capture and professional dancers, by a studio with a decent level of funding – but the 3D tech isn’t as good as A.I.  The movements are still stiff, the hair is a solid chunk that doesn’t move right.  I’ve been doing 3D since the mid-90’s.  You could say I’m a little invested in it, but it’s time to move on.  2D and A.I. are a better way to make video.  Once A.I. can work with a series of keyframe illustrations, it will be over for 3D; and live action too.  The performances I got for Bar Fight are as good as any real actor can do.
Music Blogging – MW:MEU – Gummy Clock
  Video link – No Fox Given – Skyebrows O.K., this one I can get behind, in terms of the music and video quality.  Even with A.I. this must have taken forever to do, and cost plenty.  I used up 8000 credits on OpenArt.ai just to make my pirate girl post.  Nine videos generated and not a single one was usable.  I’ve been working on editing a bunch of unused clips into a new video, and most of them have distortions in them.  It’s impressive that Skyebrows got the character designs to hold so well, got them to turn around without weird distortions being generated, and got them to dance around.  It’s been over half a years since I made the  Bar Fight  video.  I’d like to think A.I. has gotten better since then, but the pirate girl animations I made say it hasn’t. Anyway, it’s good to see people aren’t rejecting No Fox Given because it was made with A.I., and aren’t rejecting Skyebrows for using A.I.
Music Blogging – Skyebrows – No Fox Given
Link to video – SNAKE EYES || HAKOS BAELZ 6.7 million views for the cartoon rat demon. Has anyone heard of this? How did it start? Who is the person behind Hakos Baelz? The song isn’t grabbing me, but the production values are high.
Music Blogging – Hakos Baelz