what's the future of this channel?

Who speaks in this episode?

• Georgia Marie (Host)

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Georgia Marie, Georgia Marie's channel, Georgia Reads, D. B. Cooper
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Georgia Marie's channel
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Melissa Platt, Georgia Reads, 2025, forensics
4. 15:00 – 20:00: forensics

Notable quotes from "what's the future of this channel?"

• Break. Thank you. I feel like it was welld deserved. I still do YouTube full-time. I just don't do this YouTube full-time anymore. Or just generally I do internet full-time. My…

  about Georgia Marie's channel · at 0:48

• Expectations and limits to that have changed since you started creating videos on these stories? So, I began creating true crime content about seven or eight years ago. I think…

  about Georgia Marie · at 1:54

• Story of Melissa Platt. I worked really closely with Melissa's story, Melissa's story with Melissa's sister in telling her story. she was an alleged domestic abuse victim. The…

  about Melissa Platt · at 10:32

• Actually talk about some history stuff on my other channel if you're interested. I do a lot of long form essay style content over there. It's kind of like history, queer…

  about queer theory · at 12:44

• Going forward into 2026, I do want my focus to be more on historical unsolved cases or cases that have a very interesting forensic side to them. I'm really fascinated by…

  about forensics · at 16:11

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Georgia Marie — Person · Host · 2 mentions · first at 0:00
  Georgia Marie discusses her journey with true crime content, her mental health, and future plans.
• Melissa Platt — Person · Referenced case · 1 mention · first at 10:32
  Subject of a significant true crime case discussed by Georgia.

Books & papers

• Radium Girls — Book · Referenced work · 1 mention · first at 12:23
  First history video topic Georgia covered.
  Like the same kind of stuff I used to do. I remember the first history video I did was the Radium Girls. That went down so well. I love talking about that story and I'd love to tell more stories like that, but I've told so many over the.

Concepts & topics

• forensics — Concept · Future content focus · 3 mentions · first at 14:14
  Georgia expresses interest in exploring forensic aspects in her content.
• queer theory — Concept · Content theme · 2 mentions · first at 1:08
  A focus area for Georgia's other channel, Georgia Reads.
• D. B. Cooper — Concept · Referenced case · 1 mention · first at 2:23
  One of the first unsolved mysteries Georgia covered.
  Them. And at first it wasn't necessarily true crime. It was just like unsolved mysteries. I think the first one I ever did was DB Cooper, a guy who like jumped out of a plane…

Places & events

• 2025 — Event · Past year reflection · 1 mention · first at 10:07
  Year Georgia reflects on as challenging.
  A lot of big decisions next year. but we'll see. We'll see. I'm excited to see what the year ahead's got. 2025 for me, I'm not going to lie, has been absolutely So much has…

Media & podcasts

• Georgia Marie's channel — Media · Primary channel · 2 mentions · first at 0:50
  Main platform for Georgia's true crime and history content.
• Georgia Reads — Media · Georgia's other channel · 2 mentions · first at 1:02
  Focuses on books, especially queer literature.
  YouTube full-time anymore. Or just generally I do internet full-time. My job is internet content creation. I have another YouTube channel. It's called Georgia Reads. Like this…
• Instagram — Media · Platform · 1 mention · first at 1:18
  Part of Georgia's content strategy for short form content.
  I've really been trying to hone my short form content skills. I've been doing a lot of Tik Tok as well. I'll leave all my links for all of my other social media down below. So…
• Tik Tok — Media · Platform · 1 mention · first at 1:21
  Part of Georgia's content strategy for short form content.
  I've really been trying to hone my short form content skills. I've been doing a lot of Tik Tok as well. I'll leave all my links for all of my other social media down below. So…

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 About a year ago, I sat down in my office and I made a post on YouTube saying that I was taking a short break from true crime. Um, I think I intended it for just be a month and in the end I took 3 months off of true crime on YouTube and now I have only uploaded 12 videos this year. So, let's talk about it. Let's talk about what I'm doing with this channel going forward. What's the plan? I don't often make personal videos on this channel where I show like my personality, but I figured we'd round off this year by just talking about the past year and the year ahead. I asked you guys to give me some questions. You did come through. Most of the questions are the same kind of thing, but we're just going to go through them and answer as much as possible. You all kind of want to know exactly the same stuff. The first question, we'll just we'll start from the top. Um, I'm curious what type of employment you have now because I

0:45 used to do YouTube full-time and then I took my well-deserved mental health break. Thank you. I feel like it was welld deserved. Um, I still do YouTube full-time. I just don't do this this YouTube full-time anymore. Or just generally I do internet full-time. My job is internet content creation. I have another YouTube channel. It's called Georgia Reads. Like this one's Georgia Marie and that was Georgia Reads. I talk about books. I thought that was funny. I talk mostly about queer books, queer theory, queer lifestyle, just general gay stuff, you know. Also not gay stuff too, but mostly gay stuff. That's kind of my niche over there. I've been focusing a lot on Instagram this year.

1:21 I've really been trying to hone my short form content skills. I've been doing a lot of Tik Tok as well. I'll leave all my links for all of my other social media down below. So, if you want to go follow me and support me on any of those platforms, please do feel free because my job is still internet, but it's just it's harder now that I don't have this channel. Much harder. This question is very interesting. It says, "Hey Georgia, you're the one true crime channel I always used to vouch for in terms of integrity and respect. Thank you. That means a lot. Um, what was the main reason you began creating true crime content? And do you feel as though the expectations and limits to that have changed since you started creating videos on these stories? So, I began creating true crime content about seven or eight years ago. I think I was about 23 years old. I can't really remember why I first started doing it. I can't

2:08 remember if I was watching true crime elsewhere. I I have no idea why I first started doing it, but I uploaded my first true crime video and it got a lot of views and I was like, "Oh, people like this. I'm going to keep making them." And at first it wasn't necessarily true crime. It was just like unsolved mysteries. I think the first one I ever did was DB Cooper, a guy who like jumped out of a plane and took load of money and nobody's ever found out who he was. Crazy case and I'll link it down below. That's like a real throwback. Um, so I first started doing just like mysteries and that kind of naturally turns into true crime. I mean, when I first started doing it, I'm not going to lie to you, I had no idea about the weight of what I was talking about, but is something I learned about very, very quickly. And I think I very quickly saw the importance in talking about unsolved cases. This is something I felt very,

2:54 very passionate about since the very early days of doing what I do here on YouTube in that these cases, so many of these people don't have voices. is they don't have platforms. And I was somebody who who could give these stories a platform. And this is something that I have felt very strongly about from very early on in my true crime journey all the way through up till now. I think there are so many unsolved cases out there that can be solved if the right person hears about them. And I truly believe that in my soul. And it is so hard. There is so much crime and terror and horror in the world that the media just can't report it all properly. There definitely is a place on the internet for people to be sharing these stories.

3:39 I mean, over the years, I've spoken to so many family members, so many survivors. A lot of them have said the same thing. They've gone to the police, they've asked for help, and the police have said, "If there's no media attention on this, we can't help you. If you've not got funding, we can't help you." And so they turn to the internet to creators like me to help them get that awareness to help. And I do feel like whilst true crime is definitely a morally gray area, I 100% understand all of the criticism that comes along with talking about this kind of stuff. I also think people often focus too much on the negative and not necessarily on the positive as well. in that so many cases for like a big chunk of my career right in the middle there almost every single week I was talking about a case because a family member would come to me and said we need you to talk about our loved ones cases sometimes they'd want me to

4:31 say the family come forward sometimes they wouldn't want me to say I think that's definitely a really important place on the internet for these stories to be told but the sensationalism nowadays is one of the main reasons why I stopped a year ago I feel like all of true crime has tred with the same brush and it makes it really really difficult to feel good about what you're doing because I also do think a lot of the criticism of the true crime space is entirely right is people doing it just for money and I will say I do think if you are wanting to become a content creator if you're wanting to make YouTube videos because you want money true crime not the place to do it I can tell you that true crime there's not that much money in it unless you're one of like the top 1% of true crime creators And I've always been very much small fry in comparison to some of the big ones. But I think a lot of

5:21 people do become blinded by maybe not necessarily the money aspect of it, but the views and the attention. And unsolved cases don't get anywhere near as many views as solved cases do. Solved cases bring in the views tfold. People like to know the answer to a question. People like to know the ending. And for me, I have never enjoyed the feeling of just rehashing somebody's trauma for view purposes. It has never sat well with me. I'm a very highly anxious person. So, I think I'm just very aware of things going wrong and getting backlash. And I just I just don't like the idea of rehashing trauma for no reason. That's not to say I've never covered solve cases. I definitely have covered solve cases. Um, I have sort of a criteria for when I cover a solve case as to what I want to get from it. Like, did this case result in a law being changed or in public perception being changed or did something new come out of

6:24 it like forensically or like something like that. I always like to tell a solved case with a moral I suppose. I don't know what that was. What am I doing with my hands? I forgotten the question. What was the question? Oh, yeah. Do you feel like the expectations and limits that kind of content has changed since I started creating videos on these stories? Yes. Long story short, yes, it's changed people. Whereas, I think years ago, the unsolved cases were where all the views were, what people were really interested in hearing about.

6:50 And I think it sort of went from a community of people watching these videos because they wanted to help because it was very small and a very niche community to becoming this huge thing almost overnight with like Netflix documentaries and the best shows on TV being like murder documentary things like that. I think now people want the satisfaction of knowing the answer. They want to hear the gore and the blood and the guts and the horror and they also want the answer at the end. Yeah. Uh, I feel like the expectation now isn't to help. It's for entertainment. And that is one of the reasons why I feel icky about it. Now, I do want to say in saying these things, I'm talking purely about my own thoughts and feelings and my own relationship with true crime.

7:32 This is not shade on anyone else. Everyone has their own opinions. Everyone has their own lives. Like, true crime is this gray area. There are so many moral and ethical questions when it comes to true crime that I can't sit here and say that my thoughts are the right ones. All I can say is that these are my thoughts. This isn't shade, okay? And I'm not saying I'm better than anyone else either. Whenever I've said this in the past, I get loads of people being like, "Why do you think you're so much better than I I don't think I'm better than everyone else. This is just this is my channel. These are my thoughts. These are my feelings. You're asking me questions." Okay. Right. New question. What are the cases that have stuck with you the most and how are you doing? and what can we wish for you for 2026? That's very sweet. Thank you. I'll start with the same question. I'm doing okay. I feel like I'm in a much better

8:16 place mentally now. I'm no longer dedicating my life to true crime. Obviously, I'm still uploading on this channel. I'm still going to continue to upload sporadically when my brain can deal with it. Um, I feel like that's the best way going forward, but I don't see true crime as my main job anymore. Like, when people ask me what my job is, I no longer say like true crime YouTuber. I just say content creator. I just make content on the internet and sometimes people enjoy it. Um, and although financially I have taken a hit, obviously I did say true crime, there isn't loads of money in it. There isn't.

8:49 But I went from like uploading videos on this channel which had a lot of views and a lot of followers four times a month to like 12 last year. So you can imagine there was a financial hit in that for me. So financially doing worse, mentally doing better. So you can sort of weigh that up. And what can we wish for me in 2026? I want to continue doing this channel. I do want to continue uploading sporadically when my brain feels like it's able to. Um, I just want to be happy, which is such a copout answer, but I just want to find a balance in my life where I am happy with my career, happy with what I'm putting out there into the world. I feel like I'm kind of at a crossroads as to whether I can continue doing internet full-time. I am maybe not earning as much money as I would hope to be at this point in my life. How much of this do I want to share on the internet? Maybe not much more. So, I'm kind of like, do I

9:45 look into full-time employment? But me and my wife want to look at adopting in the next couple of years. And so, being self-employed when we adopt would be really, really handy. So, I'm kind of at a crossroads in 2026. I feel got to make a lot of big decisions next year. Um, but we'll see. We'll see. I'm excited to see what the year ahead's got. 2025 for me, I'm not going to lie, has been absolutely So much has happened in 2025, which I'm not going to talk about on the internet cuz I don't think anyone really cares, but it has not been a good year for me. Um, it's been a pretty terrible year, I would say. So, hoping 2026 is going to be better mentally, physically, everything better. And what are the cases that have stuck with me the most? There is one case that has stuck with me for years and years and years now and that is the story of Melissa Platt. Um I worked really closely with Melissa's story,

10:38 Melissa's story with Melissa's sister in telling her story. Um she was an alleged domestic abuse victim. The official story is that she had a bad fall and her family had to choose to take her of life support. She wasn't going to live and she sadly died. Um, the family are convinced that she didn't fall and that her death actually came about as a result of her very abusive boyfriend. Um, they know that Melissa suffered with domestic abuse, suffered from domestic abuse. Um, and her boyfriend was never looked at by the authorities. There was a lot of shady stuff going on behind the scenes. And I worked really, really closely with Melissa's sister in telling the story. And we had catchups for many, many years. I haven't heard from a bit actually. I might send her an email. And things did happen. and there were steps forward in the case thanks to the coverage that I did on my channel and that's always always stuck with me and

11:28 how thankful Melissa's sister was and like we like spent a lot of time talking and it was just really really lovely to get to know her and to be so close to one of these stories and it's just always stuck with me and so now when I doubt what I'm doing on my channel and if sharing these unsolved stories like am I actually doing any good I always think about Melissa so that's definitely stuck with me the most I actually had lots of people asking about my history series whether I'm going to continue with that. I actually don't think I've done any history stuff this year, have I? Let's have a look. Oh, I have. I've done a little bit. I did the hat panic.

12:01 That one was really fun. I did the dark history of birth control. Also really fun. I did I suppose not really history. Maybe like medical history and the girl who's five rabies. Really enjoyed that. But yeah, I suppose it's not the same as my classic history stuff that I used to do. Honestly, I feel like I've kind of run out of history things to talk about. like the same kind of stuff I used to do. I remember the first history video I did was the Radium Girls. That went down so well. I love talking about that story and I'd love to tell more stories like that, but I've told so many over the years on this channel that I I've just my list is gone depleted. I don't have any more. So, please tell me in the comments what kind of history stuff you want me to cover because I would love to get back to doing my history stuff. I do actually talk about some history stuff on my other channel if you're

12:47 interested. I do a lot of long form essay style content over there. It's kind of like history, queer history, queer theory all mixed together. But if you do like that kind of content from me, you can check it out over there. But yeah, I would love to talk about more history stuff, I really need to get back into it. But also, it just doesn't get as many views. Like the true crime stuff gets so many more views than the history stuff. And like whilst I love doing history things when you put in two weeks worth of research and then make an hourong video for a video that gets like 2,000 views. I don't want to say it's a waste of time. It's not a waste of time.

13:18 But when this is my full-time job, it kind of is. Like do you know what I mean? But give me history topics to cover cuz I I really want to get back into doing more history. Really really really do. I just I don't have the list anymore. I don't Oh, this person also specifically asked about doing more stuff in gay history. go to my other channel. You won't you won't regret it. I've also had so many people asking about covering Jane and John Doe cases. We all know that I feel so strongly about do cases for reasons that I can't even really put my finger on. I just the thought of leaving this world with no identity, with no one knowing who you are, with your life being stripped down to nothing that like affects me on like a visceral level. So, I feel so strongly about covering the cases of doe's and getting their identities back to them.

14:05 And somebody said about why don't I do more videos where I talk about like three or four dough cases, like smaller dough cases on one video. I would love to, but we're in a time now with forensics and genetic genealology where these cases are getting solved left, right, and center. People are being identified every single day. And I am running out of dough cases to talk about to be perfectly honest. Every time I look at a dough case I have my list I've had for like years and years and years, when I now go to research those dough cases, they're solved. They're identified. And once they're identified, there's no need for me to cover them anymore. So again, if there are dough cases that do have somewhat interesting stories, I mean, I I know that a dough doesn't have to have like an interesting story, an interesting backstory for me to talk about it, but a video where I sit there and go, "This person was found

14:55 on the side of this road on this date and they've never been identified and that's the whole story." Like, that doesn't make for a good video. That doesn't make for people wanting to actually try and help or identify them. There's got to be some somewhat of a story, a backstory, something interesting about the case for me to talk about. Yeah, I'm just running out of them. I do still have some. I'm not going to like there are some, but not that many. It's great. It's good. It's not a bad thing. That's why I'm covering less of them cuz they are actually my probably favorite cases to cover. They are probably also the easiest cases to research as well, but they're getting solved. Oh, this person also said they've noticed that dough videos don't receive that many views. And yeah, can confirm dough videos do not receive that many views. I mean, I suppose people want answers. People want the endings to

15:42 their stories. That's why people love solved cases so much. And dough cases aren't solved in any way, shape, or form. Like, you know nothing about their life. I can't tell you about their life. And they also can't tell you about their death. And so, people just don't really care. They just don't. Oh, someone's commented saying, "A history of forensics series would be really cool and a good way to bridge the true crime and history sides of your channel." That's genius. I like that. I'm going to write that down. We'll see.

16:11 Going forward into 2026, I do want my focus to be more on historical unsolved cases or cases that have a very interesting forensic side to them. I'm really fascinated by forensics at the moment. I'm kind of very much hyperfocused on that. Um, so going forward that is kind of the kind of stuff I want to talk about. I really really enjoyed making my history of birth control video. Um, so I might try and do more stuff around like feminism and women's health and women in history. Um, I don't have a fully rounded thought on that yet, but I want to do something in that sort of field. I don't know. I definitely do have future intentions for this channel.

16:54 They're definitely things I want to do in the future. I don't want to let this channel die. I really, really don't. But I just don't think it's going to be as straightforward as like unsolved cases anymore. Not that I want to talk about solved cases. I don't. But I don't know. I just feel like I need to mix things up a little bit. I need to come up with a new game plan cuz whatever I'm doing right now isn't working for views to be like perfectly honest or for my brain necessarily. Um, but I still feel like there's a lot I can still do in this space. Not all the time. My current goal is to upload once a month, maybe twice a month if I can, but the problem is these videos take so much research. So even uploading just once a month still takes two weeks out of my month. I honestly have no idea. Like now I've had like a year's break from it. I have no idea how I was uploading once a week. Like no

17:39 wonder I had an absolute burnout. Of course I did. I was uploading full like 30 to 60 minute long videos once a week every single week. These videos take so much research and especially because I don't like to halfass them and I don't have a team behind me. It is literally just me. Like no wonder I burnt out. It's no surprise. Like doing it once a month now feels like a lot. That's crazy. Honestly, I'm so open to hearing ideas about what you guys want to see from this channel going forward. What fun content ideas you have, what kinds of areas of history you'd like to hear me talk about. I am all ears. I know I want to continue doing this kind of stuff. It really does feed my brain. I am a very research person. Like I love to research things. I love to learn about things and turning that research into like long form essays which I then read out and make into videos. Like I really enjoy that. But the true crime

18:35 just got really really heavy and I still think there's a space for it for me space in it for me. I just I just don't know where I fit in anymore. or there are so many other channels doing it so much bigger than me, so much better than me with better editing and B-roll and extra footage. Every time I try to include like news footage in a video of mine, it gets copyrighted immediately. I get comments all the time saying like it's just you talking to a camera like you should include extra footage. I don't know how the other true crime channels do it. I don't cuz every time I include anything, it gets done for copyright every single time. And even like B-roll, do you know how expensive it is to like buy stock footage? It's crazy expensive. Like all these big channels that have all this like stock footage over their videos and people like, "Why aren't you doing that?" I don't earn enough. Have you seen my

19:28 views? Have you seen my views? I don't I like I feel like I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. And I feel like the only way to grow on YouTube is by growing on YouTube. If you grow, you can invest money into it and then it sort of becomes a cycle. But right now, I don't have the money to invest into it. Like, you see, this is me being very brutally honest. I just don't know. I don't know. I feel like I'm drowning. Help me. Give me ideas, please. So, anyway, that is a true crime slash an update on where I'm at with this channel. Long story short, I will be continuing to post on this channel next year. I just don't know how often it will be, and I don't really know what the content will be yet. It'll be true crime or true crime adjacent. I would love to get back into doing history videos. If you have any ideas for historical moments you want me to talk about then please I am all ears.

20:17 Thank you so much for supporting my channel always. If you're here right now when so many people have dropped off then that is amazing and I appreciate you and your support so so much. Please do go and follow me on all of my other platforms. I am also about to film another Q&A for my book channel as well which is going to be a lot more personal than this one. So if you want to hear a personal Q&A that will literally be going live at the exact same time this one is. So I'll link it down below. you can jump over there and hear more about me and my life if you care. Who knows?

20:45 Thank you so much for watching. Thank you for being patient and sticking with me throughout all of the turbulence of this year. I'm really hoping 2026 will be better for me and my little brain and my little life to be honest. Um yeah, I'll see you in the new year with whatever video that might be. I actually might have another video going up for the end of the year. Maybe. Maybe. We'll see. We'll see. I'll keep you in suspense.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "what's the future of this channel?"?

Georgia Marie (Host).

What is discussed in "what's the future of this channel?"?

In order: 0:00 Georgia Marie, Georgia Marie's channel, Georgia Reads, D. B. Cooper; 5:00 Georgia Marie's channel; 10:00 Melissa Platt, Georgia Reads, 2025, forensics; 15:00 forensics.

What is mentioned in this Georgia Marie episode?

11 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Georgia Marie, Georgia Marie's channel, Melissa Platt, Georgia Reads, forensics, queer theory. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "what's the future of this channel?"?

The episode runs 21 min; the transcript is about 4,501 words in 29 timestamped sections.

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