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History of joyce-stick

Hi! Welcome to this "joyce-stick" website. I am the notorious "joyce-stick". More specifically, I am Audrey, the primary fronter of the "joystick system", which is the shitty brain inside our terribly confused boy corpse.

"joyce-stick" is the name of a little-known YouTube channel and internet personality who is known to upload particularly in-depth analyses about anime and other media. The first proprietor of the channel was a mentally ill trans woman known by the name of Joyce. After absconding from the financial control of an abusive family, Joyce began uploading videos to the joyce-stick channel as herself in January of 2019. Her first video, originally titled "FLCL & Ignoring the Apocalypse" (later retitled "FLCL & Climate Anxiety"), released to rave reviews from YouTube commenters. Following this, Joyce uploaded several other videos, and deleted a not-insignificant number of them that she considered kind of bad.

Joyce peaked in 2019 and 2020, with the relatively successful releases of "The Many Rebellions of Madoka Magica" (later retitled "Madoka: How Rebellion Sets the Stage for Revolution") and "Rent-a-Girlfriend is Garbage, and Here's Why". In Joyce's long and storied career, she accrued over three thousand YouTube subscribers, one thousand Twitter followers (many of whom would later unfollow), many Patrons, and an unknown but significant number of Twitter blocks, one of which included another very popular left-wing queer media analysis YouTuber with at least one hundred times more subscribers than herself.

Despite these modest numbers, Joyce's videos are dearly loved by at least a dozen people, all of whom continually insist that she is the best YouTube video essayist in the world (or something close to it) and that she deserves better. Their wishes have yet to fully manifest, but their help has helped Joyce not die, at least.

In 2021, Joyce pissed off an unspecified number of people, destroying at least a dozen interpersonal relationships and decimating a polycule of which she was one, which included seven others. After losing herself to a confused mixture of regret, anger, and disdain for everything she'd ever done before, she got drunk on our body's 23rd birthday and then awakened a new personality. This personality, Audrey (myself), was much less sex-interested and much more actively aloof to some people, and has much deeper-seated and pervasive anger issues. Audrey is currently still attempting to produce video essays, but has been slow to do so. After Audrey's advent to command of this corpse, several new alternate personalities emerged, which included Luci (a British MILF who is much ruder to more people), Molly (a sex-crazed lunatic who claims to be Yuu Koito from an alternate timeline), and various others. Despite this, Audrey remains in charge of our body a majority of the time, and writes most of this shit. Video essays continue to be released, as do other writings on Twitter (for now) and Tumblr. And of course, neocities (Hello).

As a result of our reckless commitment to YouTube and various other frivolous pursuits, we are frequently hurting for money. If you have some, you can give us some via Patreon or Ko-fi. It would help a lot, very meaningfully. Please consider doing that if you care about our persistent existence.

Purpose of neocities site

You're probably well aware of this, but most of our work gets put on YouTube and other platforms. That's where the audience, and therefore, the money, is, so that's where we're going.

However, a lot of these platforms, quite frankly, suck at everything except that. They are horribly and undemocratically managed and moderated, terrible for archival, and they also run ads, which might bring some money (if we're ever lucky enough to get the views to make that matter) but otherwise just suck. Further, not everything we can think of to post suits those platforms very well. Sometimes we want to post really long-form or more personal writings which don't really play to the audiences of those platforms. Sometimes we want to write specific guides on things we've found out that can't be easily placed in Twitter threads. And above all, we just kind of like the idea of having our own space where some weirder experimental shit can go and be presented in a nice ish way without really needing to be finished. Google Docs is also a bad way of doing this, it turns out.

So that's why. That's what we're doing. And what we're going to keep doing until we are forced to stop.

I've been Audrey. Thanks for reading. And, um, yeah. Bye.

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