An Official Unofficial FAQ: Who is This Sticker Troll?

 Who is the Sticker Troll?

I am the Sticker Troll.  I do graphic design for the fun of it.  I design stickers for people, but there's a catch.  *wink wink*  Some are Official Sticker Troll Stickers, while others are just ones that I have designed for the hell of it, because something inspired me.  

How much do you charge for sticker design?

I don't charge anything.  REALLY.  It is all based on what you feel the sticker is worth; it is completely "Tip-based" because not everybody can afford a sticker design.  I do this for the fun of it.  I am selective in who gets my stickers, because I have to be inspired by something to design one, and I don't like being pressured into getting it done quickly.  

• You'll get it when you get it.
• You have no say in the design. 
• No, I will not do changes, unless it's something stupid like a spelling error.  
• You won't know what your sticker will look like until you get it.
• You can suggest whatever you want, I'm not going to listen to you because this is art, and you just gotta trust the process.
• You will have no say in what it looks like.  
• It's a "blind sticker" concept, intended to be funny.

But if you do like it, I use Venmo, Paypal, and CashApp for Tips.  I have a full-time job, this is not a full-time job.  Not everybody chooses to "Tip" the artist, but if you do, thank you in advance; it's not necessary, it gives me a reason to practice digital art, and it turns out to be a win/win situation for everyone involved, well.. almost everybody.

I am still confused, why are you The Sticker Troll?

My stickers are solely based on funny moments made into funny sticker memories that happens in a channel's livestream or in a video that I have watched.  It could be someone that has said something funny or had done something incredibly stupid -- a situation that happened on the livestream, or in a video that was hilarious and has inspired me to "Stickerize you" - they are intended to be funny "Roast Stickers".  The sticker above is the latest "You Been Trolled Sticker". 

To tell the story in under 100 words:

YoutubePolice29/Beltloop29 was on an early morning livestream when he received a call through Facebook Messenger, it was a voice call, someone claiming to be from Publisher's Clearinghouse, notifying Gary that he won 2.7 million dollars.  The person asked how quickly could he get to his bank.  That's when all hell broke loose on the livestream.  It was entertaining, funny, and in the end, Gary told the man to send it to the police department to Lieutenant Beltloop, but then recanted and said that he would like to send the money to his buddy, Eddie.  The guy on the other end hung up on him.  But, we laughed for hours over that, and still joking about it today.

Do you print these stickers?

Oh God no, that's up to you to print them out when you receive a digital copy via email.   But if you would like to have them printed, Devildogs-Keeper (Jami) is a small business located in Texas, who would love to print them for you.  Otherwise, you can send it to a different printer.  It would be your sticker to do with it as you please, you can even turn it into your logo, put it on your own merch, print it and flush it down the toilet, wipe your butt after a steaming hot dump, whatever.

Well, that's stupid that I have no say in the sticker, why can't you just design me a sticker of my choosing?

Because it's not fun that way.  It becomes a job.  And I've had to design a sticker for someone who basically volunteered me (didn't ask, just said, by the way while you're at it, create me one too), to create their sticker because I was in the middle of designing a sticker for someone else.  I spent days on that sticker only to be told after each edit, "I hate this color, I hate that color, I want the flowers to look this way, I don't like the placement of that, I don't like the placement of that either, nope don't like that placement, can you put it back the way it was 5,000 edits ago?"  -- and after a literal week of working on that one sticker, I wanted to punch a hole in my tablet, never do this again for anyone, and basically will NEVER design another sticker for THAT person ever again.  I HATE that sticker and refuse to put it up anywhere.  I would just as soon never see that sticker ever again.  

I cringe every time that individual tells people in livestreams that I do FREE stickers.  I don't do free stickers, so if you think I do free stickers after reading this, let me get the crayons and hand puppets out for you, maybe Eddie will loan me his half-eaten purple crayon for illustrative purposes.  I do this on my own time, on my own terms.

What if I hate it?

Sometimes the art may seem a bit risque.  All it takes is a creative cropping and suddenly, riding a turkey like a cowboy can look like the person depicted in the drawing is doing something inappropriate to a turkey (Sorry, Buddy, not sorry).  

I let that one go for a couple of months before actually explaining it and let the person that received it think that it was him doing inappropriate things with a turkey.  It was funny, I was laughing, two months later, he was laughing.  We were all laughing.  He's finally come to terms with the fact that this sticker exists.

So, you never know when the Sticker Troll could be lurking, waiting for that delicious moment to forever memorialize a moment in time where it was funny.  These are parody roast stickers.  Even the Queen of Roasts has a sticker dedicated to her for her comment about, "I never know that butter can make noodles taste better, why didn't anyone ever tell me this sooner."  I made a comment in the livestream, "Butter is Lube for Spaghetti."  and I thought she was going to die laughing, breaking character for a moment.  And, a funny memory was born.

Trust the Artist?  Are you crazy?

I may be a little bit crazy.  I can guarantee you though, my mental faculties are intact.  Just to give you an idea.  I have over $12,000.00 worth of tattoos on my body.  I gave my artist a general idea what I wanted and gave her total creative freedom.  Am I satisfied?  Yes, because she's the artist, and I had to have trust in her abilities to not put something that I would hate on my body for the rest of my life.  Art is subjective.  Comedy is also subjective.  Live in the moment and trust the process.  The one for Taco-Simon was one of the cute ones not intended to be a troll sticker.  I just felt like Taco the Chihuahua needed a sticker of his own.  It's so cool though that Simon has been designing his own little floppy-eared Chi on his merch coffee mugs, which I proudly own two:  Christmas and Valentine's Day.

Do you have a favorite?

Yes, I do.  And there is a bit of a back-story behind this one.  This one is a dear friend from Florida, Mason Hiffner.  The story behind his sticker is that I was taking a sabbatical between jobs and was feeling really crappy with a sinus infection and couldn't sleep.  I was up late at night playing with it and something said that I needed to draw something.  I drew a Viking Seahorse for no reason at all and just left it in my folder.  It sat there for exactly 30 days when I got a notification that Mason just uploaded a video.  He fishes late at night, and I happened to be awake and unable to sleep.  I opened the video and sure enough, he caught a seahorse.  LITERALLY CAUGHT A SEAHORSE.  I laughed because I had forgotten about the seahorse that I drew.  The next day, I told him about it and to prove to him it was exactly 30 days, I took a screen cap that showed the file creation date.  He freaked out.  And we decided that this seahorse was intended for him, and it was witchcraft, that I drew this seahorse for him to catch into the universe.  I later created a song to go with the graphic and some of his fishing videos.  I ended up finishing this one and created an entire underwater scene to go with it.  What is not pictured in this is the mermaid as this one is the original.  The mermaid was actually my trademark, as it is my right arm tattoo, which I forgot to tell him about until just now so I guess I'll be on the phone with him in the morning.  The trailer video that I created for him is here.

There is a running joke, "Be careful what you say if the Sticker Troll is lurking, she might make a sticker out of it."  This is true.  LOL  It is all in good fun.  Really.  Anyone that fails to see the humor in it has no sense of humor, and they may be dying a little inside.  These are only some of the stickers I have created.  There's a bunch more.

Souper Sunday LIVEStream

Loaded Baked Potato Soup

5 lb Russet Potatoes, Washed and Baked until tender, cut in half and then into cubes.

1 Sweet Onion, diced
3 Ribs Celery, diced
1 Small Carrot, diced
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 lb Bacon of choice, diced and sauteed.  When bacon is rendered, remove from fat and set aside.

In a Soup pot, sauté onion, celery and carrot with bacon fat until onion, celery and carrot are softened.  Add 2 sticks butter until melted and bubbly.  Add the garlic cloves and give that a stirry stir until fragrant.  Add 1 cup flour to the fat and stirry stir until combined, allow your roux to relax.  Deglaze pan with Sherry, and add 75% of the bacon back to the pot.  

Slowly add 1 gallon whole milk. Whisky whisk roux mixture with the milk and allow to get happy over medium heat.  When thickened, add potato cubes.  Add minced chives. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Garnish with shredded cheese, bacon, and sliced green onion.

 

Save the Date! March 22nd 12:00pm. PDST

Cook Along With Sivi Episode 3

March 22nd 12pm PACIFIC/2pm CENTRAL/3pm EASTERN

Join us for Episode 3, Sugar-free Key Lime Pie with Jerry, Eddie and Jean.  

Below, you will find a list of ingredients and equipment that is needed for making this pie. We encourage you to cook along with our simulcast, which will be broadcasted live on Cooking with the Munchie Mafia Official, Butler Family Farm, Devildog and Meritage Shades of Light. Jerry and Susan are collecting the tips and tricks, and recipe to put into the Collective Cookbook. The recipe we will be using is from my Personal Cookbook, a compilation of recipes that I have developed over the decades. Scroll past the lists to get to the Fluff and Stuff.

EQUIPMENT NEEDED:

Pie Pan Wire Whisk 2 Bowls Rolling Pin, Mallet or Food Processor Oven Rubber Spatula Gloves are optional, Eddie Microplane Juicer INGREDIENTS NEEDED: Allulose, or other sugar free substitute of your preference. SEE NOTE BELOW 4 egg yolks 2 cans of sugar free sweetened condensed milk (some stores may not carry it, be aware you might need to order it - due to weather, give yourself ample time to get it in time). SEE NOTE BELOW 1 Stick Butter Sugar Free Cookies (Shortbread) 20 Fresh Key Limes, you'll need a lot. OR bottle of key lime juice 1 regular lime for garnish sugar free whipped topping, (I prefer Mexican Sour Cream) sour cream, or heavy whipping cream (your choice). if using heavy whipping cream, you'll need a mixer OR a whisk and another bowl LINKS TO PRODUCTS ON AMAZON: 

It doesn't mean you have to order these from Amazon, at least you can see an example of what's needed: Allulose: https://amzn.to/3P0chXj Fresh Key limes: https://amzn.to/47bgihU Key Lime Juice: https://amzn.to/46FXLKw Sugar Free Sweetened Condensed Milk: https://amzn.to/4cu21jV (you'll need the two pack) Handheld Juicer: https://amzn.to/4rfCfDQ Microplane: https://amzn.to/4spci5w Pie pan: https://amzn.to/4useATB

NOTE:

No two diabetics are alike.  With that being said, diabetics may see blood sugar spikes with certain sugar substitutes.  Use what you know works for you.  In the case of Sugar Free Sweetened Condensed Milk, Splenda is used.  Here are two recipes that you can make in advance:

3 Cups heavy cream

1 stick butter

1 cup sweetener of choice 

1/2 tsp vanilla extract (check your label as some extracts may contain sugar) - Optional.

Add first 3 ingredients to a sauce pan and over medium heat, stirring, bring to a high simmer.  Reduce temperature to LOW and allow to simmer for 40 minutes, checking consistency, it should be very thick, if not, allow to continue simmering.  Add extract (optional) and allow to cool.  Store in a jar in refrigeration for up to 7 days.

For dairy free: 

Use canned full fat coconut milk, 2 cans (check label, some have added sugar)

1 stick vegan butter

1 cup sweetener of choice 

1/2 tsp vanilla extract (check your label as some extracts may contain sugar) - Optional.

Follow instructions above, except, store in a jar in refrigeration for up to 5 days.  If you are lactose intolerant but can have butter, use butter.  An additional alternative would be to substitute with Coffee Mate Plain Coffee Creamer or Sugar Free Vanilla Coffee Creamer.

Fluff and Stuff

If you are like me and HATE recipe sites and blogs, you'll understand why I have Fluff and Stuff.  I want to simply get to the recipe and information quickly and don't need to read  the Bloggers whole life story and their inspiration behind the recipe halfway through the subject material.  It drives me nuts when they break up the recipe with lengthy explanations, a ton of ads, and stupid nonsense to drag out word count, with information that may or may not be pertinent to the recipe.  So, I put my fluff and stuff at the bottom.  Some will read it, some will not, and it's okay either way.  If you've gone this far, thanks.

Timmy and Eddie are diabetic, while Jerry has recently found out that he is pre-diabetic and wants to do all that he can to keep from having to go through what Timmy and Eddie are experiencing.  These three men have led me down a rabbit hole and one of my potential projects was to do a Cook Along panel stream that can translate well to simulcasts as collaborative live content for other channels, and "best viewed on television" content.  They have inspired me to bring life to this project, as well as bringing forward my protected and secret recipes that I've held onto for quite some time in my personal recipe binder.  My recipes have been tested in commercial kitchens, and perhaps I will produce some bonus content in the future showcasing behind the scenes in specialty recipe development.

~chefsivi

How does "Show Up Shout Out" Work?

Example of the Cell Phones for Shout-out

The Outro on Cooking with the Munchie Mafia Official is a fun space  on the end of our livestreams.  This is where we showcase a Channel Creator randomly each week.  The Mods and Timmy collect the names of every channel creator that had visited our livestream for an undisclosed length of time (we don't tell anyone what that length of time is because some people stop in, say hi, and dip out just to get in the Outro). 

We run a race or spin a wheel with the channel names that are collected, and the winner is selected for the following week.  A screen cap of their channel is tranformed into a little cell phone and they are added to the OUTRO, a verse or two is added to the OUTRO about their channel - some are meant to be funny, while there are rare instances where something funny can't be made.  When the creator has visited frequently (also not disclosed because of the "drivebys"), and if they are active in the channel chat, they will be added to the group photo.  Group photos are updated monthly, as it takes time to create these avatars.  Avatars are periodically removed if the person does not appear for 3 months, at least once for a meaningful amount of time, exceptions are given if it's known that the person has not been online for various reasons.  These can't be child accounts, simply because of safety.

Example of the Current Avatar Group Pic

The avatar screen is also located on Official Unofficial Off Topic Squirrel, as well as the cell phones, but not the Outro song.

For faceless channels, we do our best in designing an avatar that suits the channel.
Additionally, those other channels that may not make appearances, but they reciprocate with shout outs on their channel remain in our Outro.

I hope that helps!
Other splash screens may also be seen in Intros and Outros, these are stand out channels that are huge supporters.  These may change periodically, usually monthly.
~Sivi

Welcome to my newly refurbished BLOG - an Introduction.

Hello and thank you for visiting my newly refurbished BLOG.  I promise this time that I will do better at keeping this updated.

I am the YouTube Content Creator for Cooking with the Munchie Mafia Official (@chefsivi) and The Unofficial Official Offtopic Squirrel (@offtopicsquirrel).  I cruise the YouTube streets and attend to as many livestreams as I can in my spare time.  

This is my events calendar for upcoming shows, so please check back frequently to see what exciting new episodes that I have scheduled.  Anything scheduled in advance is subject to change due to the volatility of my work schedule.  

I am excited to introduce a new Series:  Cook Along with Chef Sivi with Co-hosts:  Butler Family Farm 2005 and Devildog.  This new series is heading into Episode 3, Sugar-Free Key Lime Pie.  We are focusing on specifics for now as we begin to build the content for an actual cookbook; featuring Commercially-tested and proven recipes for Diabetics, Pre-Diabetics and others that are seeking to cut back on sugar in their daily diet.  There aren't many diabetic-friendly foods in the prepared foods market, so we are working on bringing you into our kitchens to watch a trained Culinarian teaching a how-to video in a fun and fresh perspective.  As Chef Auguste Gusteau said in the movie Ratatouille, "Anyone can cook".

Please check out the Cook Along with Chef Sivi Episodes, as well as the Mystery Wheel of Misfortune and Mystery Cookbook.

Also visit Devildog and Butler Family Farm

Joining us for Episode 3 will be Meritage Shades of Light for her first Cook Along.  Make sure that you LIKE and  SUBSCRIBE and turn ON notifications to welcome Meritage to the cooking panel.

What is on the drawing board for upcoming episodes (all items listed here are Sugar-free):

• Molten Lava Cake
• Carrot Cake
• Cherry Pie
• Dutch Apple Pie
• Graham Crackers
• Marshmallows
• S'mores
• BBQ Sauce
• Dacquoise
• Cinnamon Rolls.  

Not in order, based on seasonality).

Thanks for stopping by!

~Sivi