TWOW 24A

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## Ten Words of Wisdom 24A

“
Later seasons of TWOW I definitely do not want to last half a decade, I will tell you that. Maybe a tenth of a decade or even less is more ideal, because then people don’t literally move onto the next stage of life in the middle of one season? That would be nice, yeah.
”

–Cary

**Ten Words of Wisdom 24A** is the the first half of the twenty-fourth round of Ten Words of Wisdom season 1, and the forty-ninth episode of the season.

## Overview

Cary begins by briefly reexplaining the game to his new audience and acknowledging the three-year gap between this episode and the previous. He then showcases several fan creations: several TWOW 24A intro videos and a Cary M.U.G.E.N fighter.

Cary then announces the remaining contestants’ book changes and confessionals, adding on mentions of the hiatus after reading them.

While Cary shows the voting screens and scrolls through /r/twowfanart, he explains why the episode was delayed for so long. He recalls the creation of the carykh channel, originally intended to be subordinate to jacknjellify, which provided enough exposure and financial support alone. As such, he was not very concerned with the viewer statistics of carykh, so he continued posting for the enjoyment and community interaction.

Some time after beginning TWOW, Cary began to notice the high performance of his machine learning and evolution simulator videos. He decided to play into this niche, aiming to become “*the* machine learning channel with stick figure animations”. As his audience gradually shifted toward his new content, the relatively poor performance of TWOW videos became more stark, and Cary slowed down production of TWOW in response. The demand from his audience for artificial intelligence videos also encouraged him to stay with the computer science topics.

By the time TWOW had begun slowing down, Cary decided he was not satisfied with his social interactions at college, so he began attending additional extracurriculars atop his already dense class schedule, leaving no time for TWOW.

When the college year was over, sponsors began contacting Cary, and the potential loss of earnings due to the low performance of TWOW videos made them even more unfavorable. Creating a new channel for TWOW would have simply added to the workload of several already running channels. However, Cary acknowledges that the earnings from Battle for Dream Island were already sufficient to support himself.

Cary states that his hopes include a resurgence in the TWOW community with new members and new active subcommunities. Looking onto the future, Cary talks about potentially splitting up the video creation load among other people and holding more in-person meetups.

## Hints

The following information has been kept for archival use.

* **January 12, 2018.** Cary uploads a video to Humany, explaining that his next carykh upload will likely involve AI rather than TWOW to mark his return after the five-month hiatus.
* **April 4, 2018.** Cary posts on Twitter, “There's no way it won't finish up this summer, since I'll be free again”. This was unsuccessful, however.
* **June 24, 2018.** During the 2018 Crossover Meetup, Cary spoke to Meester Tweester on the livestream about wanting to continue TWOW again that summer, saying that he didn't want to wait until everyone died.
* **September 16, 2018.** Cary elaborates on two of his past and current ideas for upcoming videos on the carykh channel. He explains that, hopefully, after finishing one of the two projects alongside a TWOW episode(said episode not released), he may return to a regular upload schedule.
* **December 19, 2018.** Cary replies to a comment by BinaryOrbitals on the Loopover leaderboard spreadsheet, “Next TWOW vid? Probably between christmas and new year's. I'm gonna have another AI video out before Christmas though :D”.
* **January 1, 2019.** Cary again responds to BinaryOrbitals that he aims to have the episode out in January(didn't happen).
* **March 25, 2019.** Cary expresses during his BFDIA 5b playthrough that he plans to finish the season due to how close he is to the end.
* **April 18, 2019.** After the success of his most recent Abacaba video, Cary decides to resume progress on TWOW 24A.
* **May 8, 2019.** In the description of his Racing Extreme speedrun, Cary attributes the lack of TWOW activity to his business sponsors, worried that a low-performing video (a TWOW episode) may harm his income. He mentions that he has recently revisited several old TWOW videos and wishes to reinvigorate the community despite the reduction.
* **March 31, 2020.** In the latest video from his main channel, during its premiere, around the timestamp of 1:11, Cary went in the live chat and announced that the next TWOW will be coming in April 2020. (Yet there is still no TWOW episode once again.)
* **July 21, 2020.** TWOW 24A Released.