December 2024 Monthly Digest

We made it to the end of yet another year, and I can’t believe it’s Christmastime again already.

Key Developments

Even after the game was completed, my hard drive failed after four and a half years of regular use. Some content for Touhou Kichouden ~ Mythos of Phantasmagoria 2 was not saved to GitHub, meaning some parts had to be rewritten. Nothing major was impacted. I had to build a new workstation in order to keep going. During that time, I had no access to a Windows PC and had to use my MacBook to get things done.

Statistics

This website’s subscribers increased by 99 for a total of 1,372 today.

Twitter

November was even worse, and the 2024 U.S. presidential election was partly to blame. The site experienced an even bigger exodus after Elon Mollusk was appointed as a member of the next Trump administration. For the first time in a long time, we actually lost followers as fast as we could obtain them. Nothing had changed except the follower count falling to 6,504 as of November 25, 2024.

BlueSky

Despite the Twitter turmoil, Drillimation’s followers on BlueSky experienced a growth explosion. Throughout November, the number of followers increased by 501 for a total of 826 followers.

Instagram

Drillimation has decided to make changes to their marketing strategy on Instagram. As a result, views didn’t reach what was present over the past month.

• Content was viewed nearly 7,000 times, with roughly two in seven of those views being organic.
• Followers only increased by eight for a total of 3,584 followers.

YouTube

Drillimation received a boom in views following the release of this PC-98 remix from Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story. It released the day before Mario & Luigi: Brothership released, one week before that hard drive failure.

• Content was viewed nearly 8,600 times.
• Subscribers increased by 31 for a total of 725 subscribers.

Future Goals

Not much happens in December, other than preparing a bunch of images to close out 2024.