I want to make a lot of content

I like the comedy duo Diane, and the other day I was listening to one of their radio episodes.

There was talk along the lines of: comedians shouldn't only work as TV talent — they should do theater gigs and solo live shows.
Diane has gotten hugely popular these past few years, and they still care about solo lives — as a fan, that makes me really happy.

Tsuda from Diane said something to the effect of "If you don't do solo lives, you don't move forward," and I thought that was such a lovely way to put it.

However bad the character fit or cost-performance might look, doing the stage a comedian is originally supposed to do — the solo live — becomes a kind of duty you have to face if you're going to keep being a comedian.

Solo lives also carry a sense of obligation as something comedians should do — but they're also a place that isn't set up for you by others, where you can do things the way you want. I feel how important that is too.

And given that I keep this blog going, I like making content — and I feel I want to make a lot of it, continuously, not only blogs.

Blogs, illustrations, videos, novels, even a single banner — even if it doesn't make money, making content is fun, and there's a nice sense of moving forward.

When I'm busy I stop making things, and sometimes I snap back to myself: it doesn't make money, almost nobody sees it, why am I doing this? — but precisely because it isn't work, I can do it however I like.

That's what Diane's radio reminded me of. On TVer, the cumulative views for Wednesday's Downtown "Detective Tsuda" series hit 200 million.
I don't watch it — even as show framing, seeing Tsuda put under stress is hard for me (I get why that's funny enough) — but in this short-video era, sustaining content like that alone is impressive. Hats off!