Hello everyone! Today I wanted to share my an extensive list of all of my channels throughout the years as I always believed that documentation is important and that it would be a nice bit of lore of myself to share that isn’t too private. There are even some channels in here that I haven’t told anyone about. Also, any channels that I deleted are gone, but the videos are not. I tried my best to get as many videos as possible into the archive channel before deleting channels. The only videos I could not recover were my very old Minecraft videos.
IzzyIs (Fortnite Era)
My very first YouTube video that was publicly available was my Fortnite era. Since it was pretty much all that I would play at the time, I thought making a YouTube channel was a no-brainer. I wasn’t really that good at the game to be posting crazy clips like that, so I decided to make Fortnite Creative videos instead. I believe the “How to Reach the Secret in the New Hub (2020)” was my most popular video at that time, getting around a couple hundred views. I had never been so happy in my life at that time when I saw that number hit my screen for the first time. I thought I was practically famous. I did stop making Fortnite content after I took a break from the game. However, around a year later I got my PC, and I started making content again.
IzzyIs (Minecraft Era)
I started making Minecraft content around 2021. Most of the long-form content I made are now mostly deleted so I don’t have much to show for it. From memory alone, the videos that I was making were Bedwars and Skywars commentary videos on Hypixel, kind of like how Technoblade and Gamerboy80 makes their videos. I also made the occasional comedy Minecraft videos from time to time. Luckily during this time YouTube was rolling out shorts and I made a completely separate channel for shorts specifically.
IzzyIsnt
Couldn’t find the profile picture I used for this one. However, I do remember it just being the one above but with the colors inverted.
Before it became the archive channel it was first my shorts channel for the main channel. I had posted a lot of shorts and this is where I really got better at editing in my opinion. This is also where you can see I was indeed posting Minecraft content at this time. But this wasn’t the only Minecraft content I was making.
Bedwars Co.
Bedwars Co. was a Minecraft Keyboard ASMR channel that I made as I didn’t want people knowing that I made that kind of stuff in my main channel. I would record these videos late at night as everyone in my family would be asleep and I would be able to safely make these. I had some fun making these videos because I like the idea of keeping a secretive identity, which will be a recurring theme with these channels. I stopped making these as they were taking away time from the main channel. Besides, it wasn’t like I had that big of an audience, I only had around 4 subscribers from the last time I saw the subscriber count before its deletion.
Izzy’s Clips
Izzy’s clips was a channel that just held some clips from my main channel and twitch channel. It didn’t last very long as I don’t have any of the clips of it. Unfortunately that also means I have no recollection of when the channel started exactly, but what I do know is that it was around this era.
Mr. Loop
Mr. Loop was channel dedicated to looping short-form content. I only posted one video, with the other video that I made coming to a halt when I realized I actually did NOT want to do this. It is pretty funny to look back on it as I was still running IzzyIsnt and I could have just made that a series THERE instead of trying to catch a whole new audience with something that was just a short-form gimmick that short-form YouTubers loved doing.
IzzyIs Music
Couldn’t find the original profile picture inside of my files. Maybe it is somewhere in the internet, but is certainly not with me locally.
IzzyIs Music, as the name implies, was my music channel. No Minecraft music, though now that I think about it that would have been a cool idea. It was digital music that I made in LMMS. I only made one track and never posted to that channel again as I decided that coding and my main channel were more important with my time. I do wish I continued making music instead of continuing with music as I think I could’ve made some decent music if I actually put in more work (and money). Also, you will see later I did refactor a channel to name very similar to this one, but that IzzyIs Music channel is indeed gone.
VAL IzzyIs (Valorant Era) + archived
This is the last of the major gaming eras. This channel had the most success out of all the channels I made throughout my history. Unlike my previous channels, I was actually starting to gain traction in my videos AND short-form content. It was the first time that I had reached over 1,000 subscribers, and I even got monetized at one point (although I never got enough views from then to actually start getting any). What is even funnier is that for the first time ever, I got a REAL company in my business email to do a sponsorship for one of my videos and I DECLINED their offer because I was afraid that the video would flop. How I remember it I would’ve felt terrible if the company didn’t get the results they wanted. In hindsight, I am yelling at my past-self as I genuinely if I would’ve taken that deal my channel would have easily snowballed into a mini-career for me even if I wasn’t making the most money in the world.
Unlike my other channels, I stuck with this channel for over 2 years. I did take some breaks every now and again but nothing major… until I burnt out from Valorant. It was unfortunate that I did this too. Like I said before I believe that I could have actually done something with this channel. It wasn’t helping that Valorant didn’t really have creator tools like other games did, so I just stopped playing. Though I stuck with this channel for over 2 years didn’t mean I only made content for this channel.
Poppy Dolly
Poppy Dolly was a voiceless Valorant channel that I made for fun. I remember it gaining traction slowly via the shorts. Like my previous ventures I liked the idea of having a secret identity and even considered this one to be a alternative personality to mine. This actually went so far that I even made him a inside-character that only me and my close friends know about. Like how most of these channels go, I abandoned it because it was taking time away from the main channel.
IzzyIsExtra
IzzyIsExtra was extra content for viewers that enjoyed my Valorant content but was looking for more variety content. I didn’t upload much on this channel. I felt like YouTube actually shadow-banned my anything I made on here (keep in mind I only posted one short and one long-form). I deleted everything before I had the chance to archive it, but honestly? It was for the better.
Random Question
Random Question was a short-form edutainment channel that had a similar flow to Zack D Films, except using a whiteboard for drawings instead of 3D art. This was the channel I talked about in the community post that I linked above. This was also gaining some traction every day. Reaching a couple hundred subscribers and getting tens of thousands of views on some of the shorts. I actually like growing this channel a bit and I got my enjoyment out of it. I don’t exactly remember why I stopped uploading videos. I believe that I just wanted to focus on school at this point and just didn’t felt like I couldn’t compete in edutainment field.
I was also going to make a website based on Random Question where that the user could click on a button and one of my videos would pop-up; this would have been sort of like Google’s “I am feeling lucky” type deal.
StarDroplett
After taking a couple months off of Random Question, I decided to make StarDroplett. StarDroplett was going to be a indie-review channel. You can think of it as like IGN but for indies. There was originally going to be 5 videos posted to the channel, but only one fully made it out of the production. Although I stopped before I even began with this channel I never quite dropped the idea of reviewing games.
IzzyIsArchive
IzzyIsArchive is one of the few channels that are still up. Because I had so many channels up to this point and most of them were still up (taking up valuable digital space in my account manager) I decided to conduct Project Archive (which led to the creation of this channel). I archived all videos that I could find. All with their original dates, channels, thumbnails, and descriptions. I even put some unlisted videos on there publicly to share. It didn’t take too long thanks to the ease of downloading videos via YouTube studio. I made sure to put them all in a playlist, which you can see if you click on any of the headings’ links. I even posted a handful of videos that I just want to show to the world but not necessarily for views, like a documentary for my grandmother that I made as a film project.
Miscellaneous Channels
There were a few more channels that I made.
Skywars FFA!
This was nothing more than an advertisement channel for one of my UEFN maps that I made around the time I started developing them. I didn’t put much effort into them. I am surprised on how well they did. Doing around as good as they did when I uploaded them to the archive channel.
QGR
QuickGameReview, or QGR for short, was a gaming review site that I created when I wanted to get into the reviewing games business. This was actually going to be a full fledged business and it seemed like I was going through with this. I had gotten an amazon affiliate account, made social media accounts, got twitter blue for the account, made sure to post all the newest games during the game of the year announcements were dropping and everything.
Obviously I didn’t go through with this. Now almost all the social media accounts that I made are ones I can’t access or are deleted (which would be the case for QGR’s YouTube channel but not TikTok).
The Now and the Complete timeline
Now we are in here. Congratulations on getting it this far. It has been a long journey. There are the last 2 channels I want to talk about.
The first is what I mentioned earlier when I said that I refactored a channel. Because there was a brief period of time that I wanted to do music again, I decided to convert VAL IzzyIs into my music channel called IzzyIsMusic. In hindsight I slightly regret doing it because now if I wanna upload anything it would get in the way of my music and the other way around.
The second is my newest channel, New IzzyIs. I am hesitant on making videos on it because that means I am rebuilding an audience over ten times now, I am tired of doing that. So even though it is made, I haven’t actually done anything with it yet. It is nice to know it exist as it links to both the original and archive channel (making these 3 channels the last ones standing).
Timeline
- 2020
- Fortnite Channel
- 2021
- Minecraft Channel
- Minecraft Shorts Channel (IzzyIsnt)
- Minecraft ASMR Channel (Bedwars Co.)
- Clips Channel (gathered from the Minecraft channel and twitch)
- Minecraft Loop Channel (Mr. Loop)
- Music Channel (IzzyIs Music)
- 2022
- Valorant Channel (VAL IzzyIs)
- Voiceless Valorant Channel (Poppy Dolly)
- Extras Channel (IzzyIsExtra)
- 2024
- Edutainment Channel (Random Question)
- Indie game reviewing Channel (StarDroplett)
- Advertisement Channel (Skywars FFA!)
- QGR
- 2025
- IzzyIsMusic
- New IzzyIs
Conclusion
Thank you for reading. I have since moved on from making content on YouTube with making content on my own time and that I find more enjoyable than making videos. I hope after releasing this blog post that I won’t be making another channel again (I truly hope).