After a full semester of silence, Gadfly, a SLUH Media club that releases satirical videos, has released two new videos since the New Year. They plan to continue this trend of monthly videos throughout the rest of the year and into the future.

Although Gadfly was initially created to produce monthly videos throughout the school year, the past few years have lacked in quantity; there were only two episodes during the 2021-22 school year. 

“Our old room used to be a really small classroom in the J-wing last year,” said Gadfly president Nate Broyles. “But now, we have way more space just for ourselves to play with and work out video editing stuff. We get our own computers to sit at and we don't have to use computer lab computers to edit things anymore, so it's nice that we can just work with more togetherness as our own club.”

Factors such as a tiny office and small number of participating numbers did not help Gadfly’s production, as students could not share ideas and make videos as often as they would like.

“We were located next to Mr. Hannick's office, and there was really only room for two people in there, and that was just to do editing and it was a pretty smelly, unventilated place,” said Gadfly moderator David Callon. 

However, the new Claude Heithaus, S.J. Media Center has given the the club the office it has been desperate for..

“Now that we have the new Media Center, I would just say it is immediately bearing great fruit for the community,” said Callon. “It has drawn people to be curious, people who actually didn't know where the Prep News came from or how it was made, now they see these guys. So immediately, the furniture and the openness of the space invited a lot of the Gadfly guys to come together not just for meetings, but a lot of times, informally, where a lot of the creative process happens.”

“Ever since we got the new office, we’ve just had a greater accessibility to the whole school,” said Gadfly member Quinn Apprill-Sokol. “We just have more opportunities to perform sketches and edit videos compared to last year in the old office.”

Now with this new space, Gadfly plans to make major changes to their club going from one or two videos a year to a new YouTube video every month, along with a couple of YouTube Shorts sprinkled throughout each quarter, said Broyles.

Furthermore, Gadfly has now been even more open to having new members join their club, whether it is to pitch some new, creative and funny ideas or shoot new scenes with them.

“Ever since we opened the new space, there have been new faces coming in to check us out,” said Broyles. “Last year, we didn't have that many members. and most of them were seniors anyways, so now we're just getting all the new members and helping to have a fresh, new start to Gadfly.”

“Gadfly really wants everybody reading this article to know that if you're reading this article, you too could be a lifelong member of the coolest thing in St. Louis,” said Callon.