Is Jack the person running the account? If that’s the case I have a question for YOU, how are you doing today? How’d you get in this situation? Blink twice if you need help
Hello!
It is me, Jack🍋!
I'm doing well, thanks for asking <3 TL;DR - Applied for a video editing Associate Producer gig, got that, survived the handful of cutbacks over the last 10 years (what?!), and wanted to make sure the fans were heard, so here I am!
The Long Version:
Waaaaaay back in 2016 I was looking for a part time gig to help pay down some debt. I was doing Data Science work for Microsoft, which largely entailed doing some programming and then waiting a long while for that to run, and I would hang out in Twitch chat during that time. All over Twitch, but whenever Penny Arcade was streaming, I was there and I'd been doing community moderation and chat moderation for years as a hobby before then, so I lucked into a moderator slot on the PA channel! Then, once their streaming stuff was getting big, they wanted to hire some more Assistant Producers to help with in-studio work and video/audio editing and the lead Producer, Josh, asked the Twitch mods first if they'd be interested in this part time paid gig, which was exactly what I was looking for! So, after a few years of that, then the ponderosa hit, but we were still trying to keep up with streaming stuff, we did PAX Online, a couple of like zoom call style streams, I changed main gigs from Microsoft to the local Transit Agency, and we had a few folks leave PA's internal teams because of various motivations, then as we started getting things back together, doing streaming stuff in studio again little by little and trying to get in on that TikTok game, I started making some of the vertical videos for that and YouTube shorts. Then Chump got elected again (somehow) and the tariffs hit us pretty hard, another side story: a good chunk of PA's behind the scenes folk were running our warehouse/fulfillment/shipping business where we sold warehouse space and services to small indie games, not so small games like Destiny by Bungie, and other small businesses like our friends over at Loading Ready Run. With the tariffs in place and a good number of our contracts being with non-US folks, that part of the business tanked, we had to sell the office building/warehouse we owned, and move to a new office and separate warehouse that houses just our PAX stuff and PA stuff. With that move, we had to cut some more staff, and our business folk wanted me to take on some more things that were more catered to my day job skill set and hobbies, so here I am with a fancy new title, Community Engagement and Marketing Analyst where I try to engage the community like yourselves, help with some of the marketing stuff, which honestly is what most social media has devolved into, and generally trying to help PA get their feet back under them because I've been a fan since 2004, been going to PAX West as an attendee or [E]nforcer helping run the show since 2008, and just really want Penny Arcade to succeed! So, I'm hoping that you all can also be a part of that and help us help the boys know what to do and where to go next!
