 Dear Fellow Scholars, this is 2 Minute Papers with Karoijona Ifehir. This video is not about a paper, but about the video series itself. I don't do this often, but for the sake of transparency, I wanted to make sure to tell you about this. We have recently hit 175,000 subscribers on the channel. I find this number almost unfathomable, and please know that this became a possibility only because of you, so I would like to let you know how grateful I am for your support here on YouTube and Patreon. As most of you know, I still work as a full-time researcher at the Technical University of Vienna, and I get the question, why not go full-time on 2 Minute Papers from you Fellow Scholars increasingly often? The answer is that over time, I would love to, but our current financial situation does not allow it. Let me explain that. First, I tried to run the channel solely on YouTube ads which led to a rude awakening. Most people, myself included, are very surprised when they hear that the rates had become so low that around the first 1 million viewer mark, the series earned less than a dollar a day. Then we introduced Patreon, and with your support, we are now able to buy proper equipment to make better videos for you. I can, without hesitation, say that you are the reason this channel can exist. Everything is better this way. Now we have two independent revenue sources, Patreon being the most important, however, whenever YouTube or Patreon monetization issues arise, you see many other channels disappearing into the ether. I am terrified of this, and I want to do everything I possibly can to make sure that this does not happen to us, and we can keep running the series for a long, long time. However, if anything happens to any of these revenue streams, simply put, we are toast. Even though it would be a dream come true, because of this, it would be irresponsible to go full time on the papers. To remedy this, we have been thinking about introducing a third revenue stream with sponsorships for a small amount of videos each month. The majority, 75% of the videos would remain Patreon supported, and the remaining 25% would be sponsored, just enough to enable me and my wife to do this full time in the future. There would be no other changes to the videos, Patreon supporters get all of them in early access, and as before, I choose the papers too. With this, if something happens to any of the revenue streams, we would be able to keep the series afloat without any delays. I would also have more time to every now and then fly out and inform key political decision makers on the state of AI so they can make better decisions for us. Being else would remain the same, the videos would arrive more often in time, and the dream could perhaps come true. I think transparency is of utmost importance and wanted to make sure to inform you before any change happens. I hope you are okay with this, and if you are a company and you are interested in sponsoring the series, let's talk. As always, thanks for watching and for your generous support, and I'll see you next time.