EXCLUSIVE: an undeleted twice-deleted scene from ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS TOKIMEKI MEMORIAL (Patreon)

Hello! If you are reading this within twelve hours of my posting it (Eastern Time), it's Friday! Why not watch a little video on Friday? Well, here's a little video for you to watch. (You can watch it embedded in this post, here, or you can access it with this direct link, from which you should be able to also download it for easier viewing in your chosen media player.)

This video represents an "Undeleted Scene" from "Action Button Reviews Tokimeki Memorial". I'll be perfectly honest with you: I knew I was going to cut this segment before I even finished writing it. Then I wrote it, and then I cut it--deleted it right clean out of the script *minutes* before sitting down in front of the prompter. 

Then I edited my whole video, and decided to un-cut it. I recorded it, knowing all the while I was going to just cut it again. And then I did cut it again--knowing that I was going to present it as a Patreon Exclusive.

Look: Patreon is stressful. And I'm not just talking about how the site is user-hostile for simple functions such as "following an email link to my message inbox"--I'm talking about the experience of being a Patreon Person elsewhere upon the internet. I receive a lot of messages on all my platforms, many of them encouraging, most of them puzzling. The encouraging messages are all alike, and the puzzling messages are puzzling in their own ways.

By far the grappliest of puzzles presented daily to me regards "Patreon-Exclusive Content." Many of you encourage me to feel no pressure to produce exclusive content. Many of you, however, send me messages threatening to cancel your pledge unless I give you something, anything, as long as The Freeloading Plebs can't get at it. Many people elsewhere in my social media beg me to never produce exclusive content, because doing so is gatekeeping. And recently: Somebody (probably it was me, loose-lipped during a stream) squealed about the Doom video Vimeo, and I got yelled at--many times!--for gatekeeping it.

The most fun part of this puzzle is: I agree with everybody!

To different degrees, in different ways, from different angles: I can see at least a little bit of literally everybody's point, here.

Heavy lies the crown of "Successful Patreon"!

I devised the only possible wise solution to this puzzle was to present you this particular twice-deleted deleted scene, which before its twice-deletion had been pre-deleted before it could have ever been recorded. I calculated that the only tasteful way to appease all sides of the Exclusive Content Debate was to restore this fragment of the original script and record it prior to exporting the YouTube cut of the video--then mercilessly trim it at the last minute, inserting a wide-open overt advertisement for this Patreon in its place. I made sure that the advertisement for the Patreon leaned heavily on a strong indication that the restored undeleted scene in its original form served only to maximally pad the intermission in a manner that inspired the viewer to take a full-day-long break. I advertised this scene to YouTube viewers as perfectly unnecessary, in an attempt to defuse any arguments from those who'd call me a gatekeeper. I told myself that when two weeks had elapsed, I'd release the segment on Vimeo to Patreon backers, and that is what I am doing today. So please, enjoy a twice-deleted (thrice, technically) scene of purposely frivolous subject matter, written in (I daresay) nice prose, presented in a not-unbizarre manner.

(You will notice it also begins with a tease of ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS TOKIMEKI MEMORIAL: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT. That was the other, larger motive behind this exercise.)

Will there be more videos of this nature on this Patreon at any point in the future? I mean, probably (?) not about Tokimeki Memorial, though maybe about something else! Who knows! We'll find out soon.

In closing: I can't help noticing there are more of you than there were before. That's good! Be sure to check out our Discord! It's free! If you're here, you get a special title. You could also buy a shirt, if you want, and you could definitely also get excited about Action Button Dot Net, which will launch quite loudly any day now.

Well, I gotta keep working on this Cyberpunk 2077 video! I'd stream the game, though I'm afraid I'd spoil my review's "angle." I want to stream pretty much every Season Two game as I play them for review--without spoiling anything too much, let me just say that Season Two is going to involve a lot of streaming, so help me god.

Well, here's the third concluding paragraph: I am actually going now!