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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 15/09/2026

opening up commissions once again! Now with sketch pages :3 jacacomms.carrd.co

an illustration advertising that Jacadamia is now accepting commissions again! it reads:

Jacadamia Commissions
-sketch pages
-full body characters
-doodletubers!
jacacomms.carrd.co

on the side, Macamo stands with their arm outstretched, holding up a pencil and closing one eye, with their tongue out. They're dressed in a backwards cap and a striped short sleeve button up shirt

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 02/09/2026

judging my book by its cover

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 31/08/2026

okay let's try this one last time =v=

an image of a new title and thumbnail for Jacadamia's newest video, now titled "I Animated Another Book I Made as a Kid (Fred the Angry Spoon)"

the art is of Macamo holding a pencil and looking over to their 8 year old self holding out a paper book with fred drawn on it. There's rainbows flying out from behind it, and an arrow pointing to kid Mo that says "8 years old". Very eye-catching stuff

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 30/08/2026

okay youtube, thank you youtube

a screenshot of my recent video's performance on YouTube vs the performance of a YT Shorts clip from the same video. The video is ranked 10th and underperforming while the short is ranked number 1 and overperforming like crazy. Theres a doodle of Macamo going like "wuh...?"

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 25/08/2026

I made some cute designs for my newest video, check them out and/or share the video around! it helps support me a lot ^_^

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 17/08/2026

these turned out so good im EXCITED

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 06/08/2026

gonna be working on some Fred merch on Twitch for a bit!

a doodled drawing of Fred the Angry Spoon with a big vacant-eyed smile

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 27/07/2026

HATS (and more) are BACK! at www.jacadamia.com !

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 20/07/2026

the spoon returns soon...

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 01/07/2026

just realized i forgot to color macamo's sleeve lol

macamo and sage together facing the viewer. Macamo excitedly jumps in the air holding up a trans flag, while Sage sports a nonbinary flag sticker and makes a peace sign.

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 04/06/2026

i did it ^_^ thank you for the art!!

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 01/06/2026

life imitates art or whatever 🌱

jaca IRL with a green balayage and haircut

jaca IRL with a green balayage (at a slightly different angle)

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 25/05/2026

at last, Sage sona ref 🌱

a Reference sheet of Sage, my sona! She's a deer dog, uses they/she pronouns. They have yellow and cream colored fur, brown hair with green highlights, and small green antlers. She is cute and awesome and cool

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 20/05/2026

today's the FINAL DAY to pre-order a 'to Create is to Connect' Cap at www.jacadamia.com -- orders will close at Midnight EDT! 💚

the white cartoon doggy from "to create is to connect" flies on their paintbrush at a dynamic angle. The doggy is looking at the viewer and holding up the TCTC cap in their back hand.
Text reads: Final Day! to create is to connect hat pre-orders close at Midnight! EDT. Jacadamia.com

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 19/05/2026

TCTC Cap pre-orders END tomorrow! 5/20 at 11:59pm ET place your order at www.jacadamia.com

a Promotion image featuring a cute collie plushie (from littlesofts.com) holding a 'to create is to connect' cap under its paw. Next to it and the cap is a small plush Macamo. The text reads "to create is to connect pre-orders end tomorrow, 5/20 at 11:59pm Eastern Time" plus "jacadamia.com"

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 17/05/2026

only 3 DAYS LEFT to get your head under your very own to 'Create is to Connect' Cap! Place your pre-order now at www.jacadamia.com

mii Jaca and mii Fred posing while each wearing a TCTC Cap

mii Fred talking to mii Yoshi in front of a lit bonfire

mii Kris receiving a TCTC Cap. The screen reads "They love it!"

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 14/05/2026

lil' response to the responses to my response:

hi folks! lil update/response to uhhh all the responses to my recent response video!!

First off, WOW thank you all so much for the kind messages and to all the people who decided to check out the original "to Create is to Connect" animation. Also thank you to everyone who decided to order a hat, the support is hugely appreciated 💚

Secondly, I wanted to address some misconceptions I've been seeing regarding the video and also the idea of the overall reception to the TCTC animation.

The comments I showcased in my response video were NOT the norm, and I'm NOT blaming them for the animation flopping. I'm seeing a lot of people saying "wow I can't believe SO MANY people would say that about you selling merch" or things along the lines of "I can't believe they would do this to ur video!!"

In reality, there were very few people commenting things alluding to me being a sellout, really just a handful. Most of the comments I got were very supportive and from people who really enjoyed the animation!

I went on Bluesky a bit after the video had started flopping, looking to see if it maybe had anything to do with the algorithm being weird lately. Then, I got a handful more replies from people, saying they and others had felt icky from the way I presented the merch tie-in. Because of that I reflected on it, and I felt like it was something I wanted to address/change.

I think the TCTC animation flopped mostly due to YouTube's algorithm and them just not sending out notifs to people. I've gotten lots of comments from y'all saying you never even knew I had posted the animation, and had never been notified! The response video surpassed the original's viewcount in less than 2 days so, go figure, lol.

Maybe it's just a feature of YouTube's to suppress videos that link away from their site, or even shortform content that's not uploaded as a YT Short, I don't really know!

But I don't think it's the fault of the people who were upset about the lack of transparency for the TCTC animation, and I don't want anyone being harsh or rude to them. I'm not trying to create some kinda boogeyman witch hunt thing and some of the comments I got in that vein left a sour taste in my mouth.

Most of y'all haven't been like that though and I'm very glad to see it. I really really appreciate all the support and compliments I've received. Sometimes YouTube sucks, but I'm grateful to have our nice little goober zone 🌱

If you're new to the channel, Welcome!! And if you're a longtime watcher, thanks for sticking around 💚

See you soon!

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 14/05/2026

this might be another shot in the dark of my long-running confusion with the EU GPSR stuff, but do any other indie merch sellers have any solutions to this? I get so many mixed messages on shipping to EU that i’m not really sure if these regulations are even a big deal?

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 02/05/2026

okay, reflecting on all of this and what I ultimately wanted out of the video, I decided to add [ Animated Promo ] to the end of the title.

written text:

I viewed this animation as a normal work on my channel, with a promo at the end for my hat I designed, but maybe it comes across as an unwelcome surprise to be watching a neat animation with a nice message, to then be hit with "oh that was an ad?" at the end of it.

I spent well over a month animating everything, and even longer designing the hat, finding a local manufacturer and planning everything. In my eyes both the hat and animation are works of mine that I'm proud of! It just so happens that the hat you can buy and own physically, and by doing that you're directly helping me like... survive and pay rent, more than adsense can.

I didn't initially want to label the animation as an ad because I believe it stands alone without that context, and that by focusing on the hat in the title, I would be selling the video short. I'm not a stranger to seeing an obvious merch video and then choosing not to watch it because I'm not interested, and I'm assuming it's just gonna be the creator talking about what they're selling for most of the runtime.

But ultimately I realized that trying to hide the promotional nature of the "to Create is to Connect" animation in hopes that it would escape the limits of being "just an ad," could be seen as deceptive, and that's not what i wanted at all!

I always try to be up front and honest with y'all, and the nature of YouTube can sometimes make me lose sight of that in hopes of reaching the widest possible audience. Hopefully this change can help the people who DO watch it feel like they know more of the context beforehand so they can better appreciate the animation as a whole.

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 01/05/2026

it's not even half the video though, it's 10-15 seconds at the end

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jaca🌱 @jacadamia.com · 01/05/2026

i don't usually like to discuss or ruminate over YouTube analytics but it's been really strange and disheartening seeing how my latest animation pretty much flatlined not even a week out.