Abode of SunMoon — YouTube Homepage Redesign v2 · APPROVED ART
Audit + Nano Banana Pro channel art + section architecture + copy package + Studio execution pack · built 2026-07-24 · channel UCPEkgNS6buiweOaHrnpG5CQ · 334 subs · 13,408 lifetime views
1 · What the homepage is doing right now
| Element | Current state | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Home tab sections | Zero. The Home tab contains exactly one thing: the trailer player. No playlist shelves, no recent uploads, no archive — nothing below the fold. | Broken |
| Trailer | 1yztYb3tYb4 — "The Abode Of SunMoon", 1:24, 12 views, March 2026. Pre-Professor-Bridge era. | Wrong asset |
| Handle | @abodeofsunmoon3027 — auto-generated, with the random digits still attached. | Credibility leak |
| Banner + avatar | Blue/orange nebula, white serif on a black blob. New-age / cosmic register. | Off-canon |
| Description | Opens in the retired hype voice — "🔥 Subscribe if you're into:" followed by a keyword list. | Voice drift |
| Playlists | 5 exist and are decently built — but none appear on Home, and 3 of 5 have no description. | Hidden |
| 2018 lecture archive | 8 old livestreams, 12,900 of the channel's 13,408 lifetime views, buried in the Live tab. | 96% of your equity, invisible |
| Podcasts tab | Present and completely empty — a playlist is flagged as a podcast somewhere. | Dead tab |
| Links | None. | Open question |
The number that decides the design
| Traffic source (last 90d) | Views | Avg view duration | Avg % viewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playlist | 4 | 45:28 | 58.8% |
| Notification | 4 | 7:50 | 69.3% |
| Channel page | 17 | 2:50 | 30.9% |
| Subscriber feed | 111 | 3:48 | 26.8% |
| YouTube search | 34 | 3:17 | 11.5% |
| Suggested video | 2 | 0:10 | 1.2% |
Playlist traffic watches five times longer than any other surface on this channel and roughly twice the percentage. It is also the surface that currently gets four views a quarter, because no playlist is reachable from Home. Every design decision below follows from that one row.
The archive nobody can find
| 2018 lecture (Live tab) | Lifetime views | Avg view duration 2026 |
|---|---|---|
Intro to Occultism (for beginners) — zv32c1Zsv0c | 4,000 | 8:35 |
The Occult Meaning Of The Rainbow — 4_-G9bzgI_Q | 3,100 | 11:17 |
What is Gnosis? The Demiurge explained — Z-q70GOfByQ | 2,000 | 0:51 |
Intro to Magick and the Subconscious mind — 2gu-gjiRqUI | 1,200 | 19:28 |
Intro to occult symbols (for beginners) — C2c_uqcO61w | 757 | 1:00 |
The dark truth about the Cremation of Care ritual — IFTeFM9uywo | 729 | 1:18 |
What is Gnosis? Pt2 — U-kmqlkZC-w | 613 | 1:23 |
Atlantis and Lemuria Demystified — FFpYPJ6eHSk | 489 | 0:31 |
IFTeFM9uywo alone pulled 215 views in 2026 — more than every new Bridge Cut documentary combined except Baphomet. These lectures are the channel's search engine. They are not on the homepage.
2 · Channel art v2 — Nano Banana Pro, approved
Banner A — The Monument RECOMMENDED
⤓ full-size 2048×1152 PNG — 2.3 MB, inside YouTube's 6 MB cap. Bridge hard left, the lit art-deco monument hard right, a wide charcoal void through the middle for the lockup.
Safe proof. Red = the 1546×423 strip every device shows; blue = the desktop crop. Bridge's whole head, the full lockup and the monument's crown all clear the red box.
The mobile crop standalone — what most viewers actually see.
Banner B — The Archive
⤓ full-size PNG — Bridge at the home-base archive: red evidence thread, cork board, brass lamp, the room falling away into black. The canonical signature device rather than the monument.
Archive, mobile crop.
Plate C — The Burn plate only
Rendered and kept, not composed. The ember line eating through sealed records is on-mythos but reads as the channel destroying the record — the opposite of what the Burn means here, and the vault wall leaves no room for the lockup. Filed for episode use.
⚠ One canon conflict you should decide
The tower ruling says the original art-deco tower (shot-monolith.png) is canonical and should be re-cut as a layered cutout, not regenerated. Banner A regenerates it. It lands very close to the original in silhouette and grade, but it is a new tower. Three ways to go: ship Banner A as-is and amend the ruling; keep Banner A's terrace plate and composite the canonical tower cutout over it; or ship Banner B, which never touches the tower.
Avatar — Professor Bridge
Shipping. Cropped from the monument plate — three-quarter turn, cold teal rim against warm key, clean dark ground. Canonical expression: observing, lips closed.
Alternate. From the archive plate, closer to camera. Warmer, but the cork board behind him competes at small sizes.
The proof that decides it — 48px, the size YouTube uses in comment threads. Left: archive crop, muddied by background. Centre: monument crop, still clearly a face. Right: a mis-boxed thumbnail crop, discarded.
Superseded v1 free composites, kept for reference: banner · host avatar · sigil. Current live pair: banner · avatar.
3 · The designed homepage
videos
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Mock-up of the Home tab after the changes. Section order is deliberate: current best work first, cadence second, live arc third, then the archive that actually carries the traffic.
Why this order
- Playlists before loose videos. Playlist traffic on this channel watches 45 minutes at 59%. Loose-video surfaces watch three minutes at 27%. Six of the eight shelves are playlists on purpose.
- "Start Here — The Mechanism" leads because it is the only shelf that is 100% Bridge Cut. A first-time visitor should meet the current channel, not the 2018 one.
- The Archive shelf is the growth lever. 12,900 views of search equity currently reachable only by clicking a tab most visitors never touch. Surfaced as a curated beginner→advanced playlist with the new documentaries appended, it turns a dead archive into an autoplay runway.
- Nothing is deleted or unlisted — the evergreen rule holds. Old lectures stay live and get funnelled.
- Eight shelves, not twelve. Past eight, the tail never gets scrolled and each shelf dilutes the one above it.
4 · Copy package
Handle @AbodeOfSunMoon is available — checked 2026-07-24
Free to change, instant, and it removes the "3027" that reads as an abandoned account. The old handle keeps redirecting, so nothing breaks.
Channel name
Lowercase "of" — matches the world bible and the banner lockup. Currently "Abode Of SunMoon".
Channel description
The first two lines are the only ones visible before "…more" — they carry the mythos, which is the strongest thing the channel owns. Cadence locked to weekly.
Channel keywords
Kept every term that is actually ranking, dropped the filler ("decode reality", "esoteric YouTube", "awakening"), added the entity terms the new documentaries are built on.
New playlist · The Archive
Positions 9–11 are the funnel. A viewer who arrives on the 2018 Cremation of Care lecture from search now autoplays straight into the Bridge Cut remake of the same subject.
Missing playlist descriptions
Channel trailer BUILT — v1
Built entirely from existing footage + the MiniMax VO + Gilded Dossier cards — zero new paid renders. Give the audio a listen; bed level is a one-line re-mux if you want it up or down.
~60 seconds, ~150 words at VO speed 1.0. Bridge never speaks on camera — Bruva Bridge narrates over. Buildable entirely from existing Bridge Cut plates plus 3–4 new Seedance shots.
To make it the channel trailer: upload channel-trailer-v1.mp4 to the channel (manual, Google OAuth wall), then in Layout set the non-subscriber trailer to it. Interim until you upload it: point the trailer at aBfwSywrZjU (Baphomet).
5 · Execution order
| # | Action | Where | Effort |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Build The Archive · Occultism for Beginners playlist, 11 items in the order above | Studio → Playlists | 10 min |
| 2 | Add the eight Home sections in the order designed above | Studio → Customisation → Layout | 10 min |
| 3 | Swap the non-subscriber trailer to aBfwSywrZjU; set the returning-subscriber spotlight to the latest documentary | Layout | 2 min |
| 4 | Upload banner + avatar | Customisation → Branding | 3 min |
| 5 | Change handle to @AbodeOfSunMoon | Basic info | 1 min |
| 6 | Replace the channel description; replace keywords | Basic info / Advanced | 3 min |
| 7 | Add the three missing playlist descriptions | Playlists | 4 min |
| 8 | Un-flag whichever playlist is set as a podcast, killing the empty Podcasts tab | Playlist settings | 2 min |
| 9 | Rename channel to Abode of SunMoon | Basic info | 1 min |
| 10 | Produce the 60s trailer from the script above | Moonreel · Bridge Cut | 1 session |
Items 1–9 can be executed by the browser agent — paste the instructions directly into the session, never as a hosted URL.
Left open on purpose
- Channel links. There is no public SunMoon property to link to yet — the QC domain is internal and pointing at a client-brand domain would break the boundary rule. Left empty rather than invented.
- Legacy descriptions on
oyq_mTob9yQ,IFTeFM9uywoandOVxqjKMcOrYare still in the retired Brother Bridge voice. They rank. Flagged, not touched. - The tower-ruling conflict on Banner A, above.
- Trailer — v1 built (above). Open: your ear on the audio balance, and the upload to make it live.
6 · Studio execution pack READY TO RUN
Part A — the two uploads only you can do (~3 min)
- Banner: download banner-v2-monument.png → Studio → Customisation → Branding → Banner image → Upload → Done. Do not let the cropper resize it; it is already exactly 2048×1152.
- Profile picture: download avatar-v2.png → same screen → Picture → Upload → Done.
- Then PUBLISH.
Part B — paste into Claude for Chrome
Nine tasks, in order, each one reporting back before the next: create the Archive playlist (11 videos, exact order), fill the three missing playlist descriptions, kill the empty Podcasts tab, change the handle, fix the channel name, replace the description, replace the keywords, set trailer + spotlight, then build the eight homepage sections. Copy it from CHANNEL-STUDIO-PACK.md — paste the text directly into the agent, never a link to it, or the injection guard refuses.
◆ Open the Studio Execution Pack — one-click copy for the browser agent
Guardrails baked into the pack: nothing is ever deleted, unlisted or made private; the legacy Brother Bridge descriptions on oyq_mTob9yQ, IFTeFM9uywo and OVxqjKMcOrY are explicitly left alone; and the agent is told to stop and describe what it sees rather than guess if a control has moved.
Abode of SunMoon — homepage redesign v2 · built 2026-07-24 · art scripts /root/sunmoon/scripts/banner-nbp.py, banner-compose.py, avatar-build.py · ← back to QC index