The Secret Reports • About the channel

[@jimmywhetzel]

lower the music

[@Recovery305]

Subbed. Feels like I'll be witnessing the rise of a great KH channel.

[@JXZX1]

Saw your Ava video; I was impressed with its intuitive exhibition of the sources and high-quality editing. Hope this channel grows!

[@fadeingfire748]

So far, I've seen the two theory videos you've uploaded, and I was genuinely disappointed there wasn't more because I was really enjoying your videos. Your videos are honestly the best I've seen in awhile. They're very clean, organized, and well thought out unlike other KZbinrs who immediately jump to conclusions with their theories.

[@flowerguy4764]

I think this is a great initiative! Really looking forward to what you're gonna do

[@imperiorodriguezdiaz7592]

I'm looking forward to your videos.A small thing to be careful with from now on it's that the background music doesn't surpass the volume of your voice.It's a very minor thing and it's only in this video and not in the other but I hope my advice helps

[@TheSecretReports]

Thank you! Good to know. Yeah I told myself these first two videos I'll do my best but forgive myself if they're not perfect, but everything people say constructively will definitely be taken into consideration for future videos. Thanks again ♥

[@aj-yx6qb]

This is so exciting...! I've been following your tumblr for a while, so I'm very excited to see this! I really love the sound effects of the video, too!

[@davidpardave4360]

Thank you. Your personal rules are all definitely problems I have with other KZbinrs. I really look forward to future channels

[@Numba003]

Channel is already looking awesome! Keep up the good work!

[@NoahRogers19980618]

A NEW KH CHANNEL POGGERS!!!

[@disneywitchywoman1512]

Wow 🤩 you’re a Kingdom Hearts fan

[@ethansullivan3840]

From seeing a few of your other videos, you're already one of my favorite channels! Your videos are very concise, very orderly, well-supported, and your channel doesn't feel like a brand or clickbaity! Keep up the great work!

[@ankurbhaskar4634]

Saw your Luxu Power of Waking video yesterday and loved your entire editing & formal way of speaking! Your channel guidelines are really showing, watching that video I was following it on point with everything you said! Whereas in other videos I watch my mind will wander, and I’ll have to rewind it multiple times to try to understand what said person is explaining. I subscribed after seeing that, but I’ma self-promote this channel on my own on some KH FB groups & Twitter! Your channel is like a baby in the making so far, and everyone should witness it! May your heart be your guiding key! 😀😁💙🔑

[@isaaccherian8032]

It’s hard to believe this is a first try for a channel, it looks so professional. I can’t wait to see it grow!

[@hansraute3587]

This is the number one chanel for theories in kingdom hearts i respect all of your rules and just want to say you are amazing keep going and may your heart be your guiding key

[@samanthajohnson757]

I really needed this thank you :)

[@jacobroller6539]

Just binged all of your current videos and came back to this one at the end and all I could think was WOW, you did exactly what you said you were going to and have done it masterfully. What you're doing is exactly what the KH community needs from youtube videos. Super well thought out and explained- overall just fantastic video quality and really entertaining. Visuals help A TON and they just look super good. Really impressed and stoked for more videos in the future!

[@The_13th_Voyager]

I've been watching a lot of your videos and I am honestly impressed at what you've achieved thus far. Good work Mel.

[@Vevet626]

I SUPPORT EDUCATIONALLY PRESENTED KINGDOM HEARTS THEORIZING !!!!!

[@jhonatanrodriguezdelgado6865]

Just wanted to congratulate you for the beautiful thumbnails you make for your videos and the time you take to get us to enjoy KH lore with your amazing channel

[@LSMasta]

I'm loving how you have your channel is set up. Simple, clean, and makes it easy for newcomers to understand. Definately makes me want to improve how I do my own kingdom hearts videos!

[@notsaxor]

Your commentary is very good.

[@PICADALOL]

Defenetly looking forward for theory videos from you!

[@Voulton_S.]

I am excited, I really looking forward to an academic approach to KH and how certain power and keyblades are important. I cannot wait to watch all your vids! I hope your channel grows.

[@muhammadmahad2864]

Hope your channel grows up into something big someday!

[@aegisxiii2384]

I just discovered your channel. It's so professionals, I really like it. I am hopping to see more about the power of waking now, especially since remind is out.

[@arthurbcd]

OMG, this is so nice, i've always looked for channels such like yours! Loving it, just subscribed! Cheers!

[@giioreviews2372]

You really should keep going, your vids are the best!!!

[@Kni6h7ka1ASMR]

Your gonna be an amazing Chanel

[@khnewddd]

I really appreciate the transcriptions because I'm not native, thanks and keep the good content 😄

[@Litegami]

I found this a day ago. So far your first 2 videos have been very well made! You got a sub from me

[@sorasayinc5324]

Honestly great first video you are one of the good youtubers

[@miraculoustherainwing8397]

Your content is great so far! I’m exited to see what you come up with in the future. Also, I notice a lot of your rules involve keeping your videos *simple and clean*

[@Omagadam1]

Man, my only disappointment is that I found your channel too quickly. Only 2 videos to watch. I was hoping to listen throughout my work day. Keep it up!

[@kylesmith5798]

I like your style! They are informative and get me hyped for more videos. Look forward to seeing them :)

[@leandromafe]

This is a great channel. I'm glad I came across it

[@Avalinara]

Ok totally gonna binge everything on the channel today probably lol I’m about it

[@honored7999]

I need more of your videos they are awsome and help me to get my sleep but not in the Bad way.... Its just that i hope that you'll grow

[@x-traaffected1880]

I love your theories they make so much sense. I can't tell you hard it is to try and get people to actually see what's going on and maybe keep a bulleted list on what going on so you can tell what's going on versus whats happened and what may nolonger be relavent

[@Darmoon.]

This is something we really do need

[@giioreviews2372]

Your channel is gonna be big.

[@peshecito1335]

I welcome you to youtube friend; I watched all your theories and I can say all the amount of work in the edition and crafting of your videos is amazing: thank you so much for sharing! ^^ I am loving your specific rules, and I am already in for what surely looks like a wonderful ride.

[@LittleProtege]

I just found your channel a few days ago and watched the two you had already. And I really like your style. I can’t wait to see what else you got planned!

[@moosupernova]

Late to the party, but this is the type of lore presentation I crave. Instant sub, and thanks for your hard work!

[@joshd1071]

congrats on the 1000 subs

[@theghost6975]

Your videos are great so far!Very good editing ,easy to understand and follow . You got me really excited for this channel !Keep up the good work !

[@Ymir_r]

I just wanted to say that I just watched the videos you have up and they are amazing. Also you just earned a new subscriber ;). Keep up the good work!

[@IcebergMikeTPals]

Your channel is amazing. I can't wait for the next video. Thanks for approaching KH theorycrafting in the way you do. I do think you should reconsider how you promote your channel. They may be cliché but, a good call to action will remind people what you're trying to do here but, it's your channel so, do what you you think is best and keep up the great work.

[@chronar0s156]

Hey, you're chanel look great ! I will look to your video, it seem's to be really interresting and I like to hear theories about KH =3

[@kokoro7996]

I know that I’m nearly a year late, but good luck with your channel!

[@tombecher9112]

Sounds great

[@friendlyandroid]

Just subscribed. I'm super excited to see more.

[@peachnkey]

OH :O!!! Now im excited, ur khnyctophiliac on tumblr! ive been following you for forever :D and always liked your content so i cant wait to see more ^O^!!!

[@peachnkey]

oh, and i commented without finishing the video cause im Big Dumb... as for any advice i have with running your youtube channel, most of it you probably already know! even with simplistic and calm video titles (which is honestly so refreshing i love it) make sure to tag as much as you can in the videos tags as your uploading it and in your description. It doesn't have to be obvious, but in the description just be sure to say something like "Hoped you liked my kingdom hearts theory on who darkness is and why i think ava is a likely candidate" or something so you get "kingdom hearts theory" and "darkness" and "ava" in there more than once. also, the best things to put into the videos tags directly is those auto-searches youtube gives. I hope im explaining this well enough, but what i mean is when you go to search for a youtube vid in that top search bar, type like "kingdom hearts" unfinished and itll give you a bunch of relevant searched results. popping those into the tags is what lets youtube know to share your video around to more people since that's what they're searching. im sure you know most of this already since you have a couple different social media accounts, but its already great that you have subtitles! since that'll make youtube share your video even MORE :D! if you have any friends (or if you yourself) speak multiple languages having multi-language subtitles is an even bigger plus! finally, i think you're already going to do GREAT :D! you've got a clear and distinctive editing style that i definitely love, it's one of those things that you can only get on YOUR channel, and is one of those things that at least to me proves that you've got such a passion for making this kinda stuff that makes me like auto-subscribe lol! I hope those tips help, sorry if its a little confusing or if you know that kinda stuff already, let me know if you need anything else ^O^!!

[@visolate]

looking forward to the next videos! keep it up 💪🏿

[@Sorgoku]

The last video I watched on this amazing channel after all other videos, but if you did not talk about clicking the bell icon I definitely would have forgotten xD

[@Yargohariel]

Damn gotta love INTJs and their analitycal minds

[@BaconZack]

Wow, just... wow. I can't tell you how much you hit a nerve with me here (in a positive way). What you said in this video and how you want to create KZbin content and what kind of KZbin content? I can relate to that SO MUCH. When I started out on KZbin I basically had the same mind-set. Most content out there really is just annoying to me because more often than not you find a video with a good I idea but the editing is shit or the pacig is garbage or the video aprubtly ends because the KZbinr is trying to make videos for the algorithm and not for the hell of making a GOOD video. I always wanted to make different kind of KZbin content, I always wanted to make videos that I would enjoy watching as a consumer and not content creator, I always wanted to show people that you don't have to follow those "KZbin-Rules" to be sucessfull on the platform. That was 6 years ago. And it almost got me burned out completely. Discovering this channel today and hearing what you said reminded me so much of myself from a few years ago. And I don't know, I just wanted to reach out to you and tell you that you are doing great. Really, I wouldn't write that if I didn't mean it. After watching all your videos on this little channel and seeing how fucking AWESOME your editing is all I have for you is cheering and applause. Even I could learn a thing or two from you and that is not something I confess easily (I'm a bit of a stubborn child when it comes to this). I know how hard it was for me. It was insanely frustrating and it still is, seeing how you're putting tremendous work into one video which turns out to be a 40 minute long beast of a video just for it being ignored by people because the algorithm doesnt like it. What makes it even worse is when you get people to actually watch your content and they tell you afterwards how good it was and that they want to see more. It's so hard and frustrating because YOU NOW KNOW that your content IS GOOD but everything else the platform and its mechanics are working against you. And then when you upload a video where again you put 20-40 hours of work into not sleeping much even though you have a normal 40 hours job and you have work to attend to the next day, you still pull through because you want to deliver that content to the small amount of people who actually watch it. You want to proof it to them that your way works and even more you need to prove this to yourself. Because if you just stop doing what you started doing when you first uploaded a video with a statement like this in this video right here? It will be all for nothing. All your hard work for nothing. You will be proven wrong and you will loose your face. And because you don't want this you keep on pumping out those massive videos barely hanging on to a normale life because when you're not working you're sitting at you computer resarching and editing videos. And the you have "big KZbinrs", people like HMK who just keep on babbling pure bullshit in every badly edited video and they get all the attention. This really darkened my heart. I kept on with this for around 5 years and then I had enough of it. I thought "I'm trying so hard but no one acknowledges it, some of those subscribers are just plain rude and demand more videos in such a short amount of time no human being would be able to produce. And they don't even have the decency to share your content with other people so you can grow. They wouldn't even loose a single thought about just how much work it is to make such videos. I never monetized any video and I never earned a dime with KZbin and all I'm getting for this is stress and pain. So fuck them. Fuck them all. This will be my last video and if that shit doesn't blow up I quit." And do you know what saved me? Kingdom Hearts. I started my channel with all bunch of "nerd stuff" which I found interesting personally. I haven't had thought this through and just uploaded videos with topics I found interesting. I mainly did movie reviews some let's play videos and some theory stuff on Star Wars. But when I first created my channel I always wanted to explain the complex and confusing story of Kingdom Hearts to people. We both know that Nomura is douche to hide numerous integral plot-points in spin-off games most casual fans won't even consider playing. And when you look up explanation videos for Kingdom Hearts on KZbin they are either wrong because they don't read the interviews with Nomura or they don't explain shit and are super short. So I thought I will make a complete Kingdom Hearts timeline video from each game before Kingdom Hearts 3 comes out and I will explain it in a way that everybody can understand the story easily and will be able to play KH3 withouht having played any other Kingdom Hearts game before. This was extremly difficult and hard to do. I spent almost 100 hours on creating a video which turned out to be 2 hours and 38 minutes long, explaining everything you need to know about Kingdom Hearts. This was it. This was make or break for me. And then something incredible happened. The video totally blew up. I feel like every german Kingdom Hearts fan watched my video. It sits at 250k views now and my subscriber count quadrupled. Suddenly people were aware of me and my work and they were willing to support me. To this day I get messages of random people thanking me for my hard work and it warms my heart every time. I thought "Allright, now that I got your attention how about you check out some of my other stuff?" but people didn't. And as soon as I went back producing the "normal" content on my channel where I don't tell me to like and subscribe and all that yadda yadda yadda, it went back to how it was before. It took me another year to come to terms with my work and KZbin but I know realized that even if you don't like the "rules" KZbin puts on you, you still have to follow those rules to a certain amount. It just how this "game" works. You can't play your own game with your own rules and expect to win. (Except when you're Sora, than you can use the Power of Waking for whatever bullshit Nomura thinks of and you win even if you die xD) This just does not work. I had to learn this the hard way and the reason why I am writing you this damn long comment is: I don't want you to have to learn it the hard way either. I never wanted to be "the german Kingdom Hearts guy" because I'm a big nerd and Kingdom Hearts is not the only thing that interests me but suddenly I am that "german Kingdom Hearts KZbinr gu" and I have to accept that, if I want to be sucessfull on KZbin, I need to give people more Kingdom Hearts content. Since the first video I made more Kingdom Hearts content, became a streamer on Twitch and opened a merchandise shop. All just because people demanded it. I also make money now with my content even though I never planed to do when I first started out but this is just a natural progession I guess. And you know what? It feels damn good. Getting "rewarded" for what you do, wether it is in form of kind words from fans or with a small donation while streaming, it really keeps my creative juices flowing. All I want to say is maybe consider to bend your own rules a little bit? There is no harm to play the KZbin Game by it's rules. You don't have to break every rule you've put on yourself but you should break some of them. If you don't it will be really hard for you to find a footing with what you do. I was lucky that there was no real "Kingdom Hearts focused channel" in the german territory and this was problably why my video suddenly boomed. There was no competition. But even though your content is A MILLION TIMES better than that content of most other Kingdom Hearts channels I doubt that this will be enough. I really, REALLY liked your content and I just want you to be succesfull. I don't want you to go through the same creative crisis that I had to go through. I don't want you to not have luck and maybe abandon this channel because you're getting sick of it. All I can do is write this long comment to show you how much I appreciate what you have done so far. I might use some of the assets you provide on Tumblr in the future and if I do you can be damn sure that I will give you a shoutout. I don't know if it will help you since my subscribers are all german but hey we can try right? Thank you for your hard work, please keep on doing what you do best and may your heart be your guiding key. Dorian alias "BaconZack"

[@Zonai7184]

Curious if you have any interesting thoughts on Strelitzia or Yozora, or if you were planning on doing a video on either of them anytime soon. Love your work!

[@TheSecretReports]

Taylor Newton Unfortunately Yozora won’t be in a video for a while, I’ve had all but the “Brain has an Imposter” video planned since starting the channel, and there’s still a queue before anything touching on Yozora. As for Strelitzia, I’ve avoided speaking about her murder just because I think any video I make about her could be outdated by the immediate next story update. I’d rather just wait for her complete situation to be revealed, in all honesty haha!

[@Zonai7184]

@@TheSecretReports Fair enough. Either way, keep it up! Can't wait to see what you come out with next.

[@CHEESEPUFF_7]

Who dared dislike this video?!

[@OblivionsAbyss]

Subbed

[@laith9989]

I love the style of this channel. Would you consider making a video covering the sleeping realm theory (if the contributors are okay with it ofc)? I’ve read it myself, but I can understand why some friends don’t want to go over 350+ pages 😅

[@TheSecretReports]

Thanks! I figured this question would show up sooner or later haha! While I find the overall idea that KH3 is actually a repetition of events in a dream world suuper fascinating, at the moment I'm not convinced enough to consider covering it in this channel. I'm not saying it's definitively false, I could still totally be convinced by future evidence, but at the moment what the PDF provides isn't enough for me to consider putting it on the channel (Which I realize sounds silly since it's so long OTL)

[@laith9989]

The Secret Reports yeah i get what you mean. I don’t really believe in it either xD although i must say it is very interesting, and made me realize a lot more detail that they put in the game

[@SOLDIER1st_Class]

So glad I found this I'm actually starting up my KZbin channel as well trying to do movie reviews I even got somebody to make this Kick-Ass artwork for me :-) what are your thoughts on the end of Kingdom Hearts 3 in terms of Sora? Do you think it was a good ending or did you hate it?

[@TheSecretReports]

Hi! I personally did not mind it at all. Was I confused and panicking? Yes haha! But I'm surprised it didn't make me cry from sadness, and I wasn’t disappointed either. After the credits started to role I immediately thought "Well okay, I know the second saga will still revolve around him, so I guess this is just the start of the next adventure!" and I didn't think much more of it in terms of initial reaction. And sure enough, 5 minutes later the Secret Ending started playing.

[@OGSpaceMarine]

Totally thought that I was going to hear a ansem like narrator lol woops

[@fanart13]

I apologize if you don't want to hear this, and it being unsolicited. If you ever want to do a video on the topic of Keyblades, I'll be willing to collaborate with you. I know I don't have much of a presence and you don't need to credit me, but I'm offering. No worries, if you say "no".

[@elidz5355]

I'm so glad I found you through twitter connections. I'm excited to see a fellow theorist on here. Especially one that is going more along that facts/evidence route rather than opinions and hopes. I know you are going to make some great stuff just from this video. Maybe one day we can work together. I'm just starting out too. Check out my videos to see what I'm about. I really think you'll like what I have to say in Deep Dive Ep 0.

[@xStanyyx]

Wife material.... The style, the bg music, the voice