Progress Report #2, and a Question · 6:24am Mar 17th, 2021
Question first: Does anybody know what happened to Swift Blade Productions? I could've sworn when I trailed off that they were a rising audio reading channel. Now I can't even find them on YouTube. 
Progress Report
Read over second story for consideration. 0:36
Read over third story for consideration. 0:34
Preemptively Test/Trouble shoot audio production. 0:19
Underslept, lacked yesterday's vigor, though enthusiasm has not yet waned -- good sign.
Slow day, had a doctor's appointment and a pending order pickup looming overhead today.
Didn't get the call to pickup, so may have to deal with it Thursday.
During troubleshooting I discovered I only seem to have one good microphone for recording currently. However, I should be good to record from my room instead of the cold cellar.
Was going to request permission for both these but proved too timid. Should make this next step so I can start recording for something. Getting antsy.
I see a bunch of people crediting him for voicework in their videos, but it seems that his youtube channel was deleted. Apparently his fimfiction account too. Here are some dead links of stuff that was his:
* https://twitter.com/SwiftTheFool
* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdxHUX42CcxcPl38ZhdUovw
* https://www.fimfiction.net/story/414816/1/fragile-reality/i-see-everything
Curiously, while I see him credited as the author of "Fragile Reality" I don't see any story by that name on fimfetch. Kind of looks like he deliberately deleted himself. I find all sorts of breadcrumbs mentioning him all over the internet. And he had mlpforums account, but hasn't logged in since 2019. He appears to have also gone by "The Pessimistic Fool" and a couple other variations of his name. According to this, he's Canadian:
https://statsmash.com/calculator/UCdxHUX42CcxcPl38ZhdUovw/swift-the-pessimistic-fool-stats
That page lists 8 "related" youtube channels, and for example when I check Agent0Fluffy, I find Swift credited as a voice actor in this video:
https://youtu.be/EXKIpzAr2tM?t=106
"Swift Blade Productions (aka Swift the Pessimistic Fool) as Doctor Whooves"
Agent0Fluffy's last video was uploaded 22 hours ago, so he's clearly still active. Maybe if you contact him through youtube he might have an email address to give you? If not, again, there are a bunch of people crediting him in their projects. Maybe one of them has some way to get a hold of him? Here are a few other links where he's given credit for various things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_i8MsMBNcY&ab_channel=KennyTAG
"Fragile Reality by Swift Blade Productions"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOAnJ58Ch4o&ab_channel=Agent0Fluffy
" I thank Swift Blade Productions (aka The Pessimistic Fool) and Pika Mew15 for participating in this reading!"
"Swift Blade Productions as Narrator"
Channel stats for his youtube page that no longer exists, but confirms that he once did exist:
* https://www.influenex.com/youtube/search/clopfic
* https://www.influenex.com/youtube/channel/UCdxHUX42CcxcPl38ZhdUovw
Oh, here we go:
https://www.deviantart.com/eskerata/posts?page=2
"Swift Blade Productions did a great job with this second set of Bone Pone Funnies readings."
https://www.fimfiction.net/user/137807/Eskerata
Last online 2 hours ago. That's an author who wrote a story Swift voice acted for, and who credited his work on the related deviantart page. Probably an easier contact to make than Agent0Fluffy or any of the other youtubers.
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Goodness gracious! Thanks for the deep investigation. I don't know how you found it in yourself to go to all that trouble, so I appreciate this. 
Especially considering that I presumably had a year's span to look for myself and still didn't go to the lengths you have. I just haven't been as active or interested of late. Too many distractions, I guess.
I wasn't necessarily looking to reach Swift Blade; your suggestions would help if I was, though. I was more wondering what might've possessed him to drop his channel. I think it might be a bit nosy of me to ask him directly.