So I know it's been at least a year since the hiatus video went up, and I did WANT to go back to doing vib-ribbon videos. As time went by, the requests kept piling up, and I thought, "Hey, I can still do it. Just put enough time into it, and once all of that is done, I have all the time in the world to keep doing new ones while I finally get back to uploading the other requests!" And I know I've said that progress was being made a few times, which...well, considering this, that did NOT help the situation. Months go by. People are probably worried, and rightfully so. I haven't made much progress at that given time. So I decided, it has to stop, and by that, I mean the series. Yes, one year of hiatus to try to set aside other stuff to work on this, and this is what happens; trust me when I say that I've felt like a piece of shit for having put this off for so long while trying to keep people's hopes up, and I wish I could do something to make up for this, but I honestly can't think of a way. Few reasons for this decision:

1) I just can't find the motivation to do this anymore. Vib-ribbon is probably a one-of-a-kind for this sort of rhythm game; auto-generating beatmaps for endless content, being able to freestyle between obstacles, all with an adorable protagonist? Sign me up! (Closest game to fitting those criteria is Melody's Escape, but it doesn't feel as good to not freestyle between obstacles) The video series was also a good idea; take people's suggestions for music on a queue system, add in a dash of my own picks, we all get to hear our favorite songs being played by a vector rabbit in 2.5D vector world. And yet, that doesn't do it for me anymore. With the combination of having to do the basically-straightforward gameplay for quite a long while, the requests piling up so much that it just feels overwhelming, having procrastinated to other interests, and of course, college (even then the first three were relevant enough during vacation), my will for vib-ribbon just...died, really.

1.5) I suppose you could call this a second reason, but it contributes to the first reason so much that this just feels like an extension, instead. Over the months while I tried to hang on to that last bit of motivation, college was a thing first of all. But during vacation, the procrastination didn't stop; having some inspiration to want to learn more from that semester, that was when I started buying books for myself, just delve into what I was curious about when online websites didn't do it for me (probability, basic physics, music theory, reverse-engineering, and so on); this is obviously on top of having all of these other games I've been wanting to play, but mostly it's been sitting back and relaxing (while having vib-ribbon on the back of my mind). Right now that learning gear is turned off, although with college starting in like two days, that'll probably get it running again.

2) YouTube has seemed to gradually get worse with how copyrights are handled. This one is obviously out of my hands, but as I've watched on YouTube, I just kept hearing and seeing more about the copyright system getting messier, and it hit me: Just how many vib-ribbon videos do I have that can be taken down easily? Even if the answer was not many, it doesn't help how when the video series get more attention (especially if it JUST went back up from the hiatus), the future requests could just get struck down when there are enough of those people that like to flag (or even just having the website itself flag it), and worse, probably take down the channel and all the requests with it. I'd rather be in favor to sticking with the safe bet and preserving the videos here, rather than having it all be burned down.

Side-Note: Videos do take up enough space on my computer, so I don't really keep them around for long after uploading.

tl;dr Lack of will, interests in other things (which pretty much contributes to the first part with procrastination), and the state of YouTube being a fuckery, while being dumb enough to give a *full* update on how I'm handling vib-ribbon only after at least a year. Most likely to never come back to the game, and if I do, most likely to be just a side thing.

Will I upload other videos on this channel? I honestly can't say; for one thing, I don't even know what to upload at the moment, but the other, I have some suspicion people are probably not going to be very happy when I decide to move to other things to upload (i.e. "tainting the channel"), so would I just take that, or go to another channel to upload whatever I feel? Most likely the former to be honest, but who knows.

Thank you all who supported vib-ribbon (watched, commented, liked), and again, I don't know how else to put this or compensate besides being sorry and wishing I'd state all of this MUCH sooner to keep people's hype and worry to a minimum.

Another Side-Note: I've done the vib-ribbon video series free of charge. It's been a while so I don't know how the ad revenue option works, but if it got enabled by default, I would just disable that; vib-ribbon was purely for fun, really.

[Also, to that one guy that I made a promise to that I'd come back to this at some point, lets just say I shouldn't be trusted to make promises anymore]