emotional vent in tags 🙈

Imma do this final vent and then I’ll shut up about it.

This was a dumb move, from every possible perspective.

In the og goodbye video, they really made it sound like they were doing the streaming service because they wanted to go bigger, make cooler videos, really see what they could do and let their creative vision take the lead.

Growing as an artist is what you do when you Already Have The Money To Do So. You don’t tell your audience “give me money and then I will use to it to make cooler bigger things”. That’s not a streaming service, that’s a kickstarter.

They didn’t have the numbers to pull a streaming service off either. “We think we’re ready for television quality content” no you don’t. Sorry, no you do not. Television quality content means 30-50 crew per project, means at least 4-5 production being worked on at the same time, and at least 4-5 productions being broadcast at the same time. Watcher has maybe 2 series they upload simultaneously and they have 25 employees TOTAL. Not even CLOSE to tv levels of content, who the fuck do you think you are???

Did they really think all 3 million of their subscribers were going to follow them on this? Including kids, whose spending is dependent on their parents? Including the casuals, who only subscribed for the occasional video? Including people for whom $6 dollars on another streaming service just isn’t an option? Why DIDN’T they poll this, was this being a surprise really that important??

AND why would you completely cut off another revenue? Even if YouTube is restrictive, it’s still another source of income. Cutting that off completely is… bold.

Especially since in the apology, they let it slip that no, actually, it’s because Watcher is on the brink of having to close up shop because they’re not making enough money with just the patreon, the merch sales, the ad reads, etc.

So… one of those is a lie. Or at least part of the truth.

But let’s assume they are in financial trouble, then this was still the dumbest they could’ve done.

Welcome to the entertainment industry where we follow 1 giant fucking rule: Kill Your Darlings.

Fellas, pals, amigos, bros, dudes. If your projects spend more than what they make, it’s time to downsize. Not upscale. Cut the shit that’s spending the most money, start concentrating on how you can conserve without having to fire your crew. Put the projects where you have to fly out and buy new stuff all the time on the back burner, you can get back to them once you actually have the money for them. Work with what you already have. You have a MASSIVE studio space, fuckin use it. You HAVE sets, you HAVE props, you HAVE talent and you have ideas. Start workshopping all the crazy and shit ideas you thought weren’t gonna work and start thinking how you could make them work with the lowest possible budget you can have. Your audience is there, they’ll watch whatever you throw at them. Now is the time to go crazy and see what sticks. You HAVE viewership. Collab. CONSTANTLY. Get it the fuck out there that you exist. A lot of people had no idea a patreon existed, mention it ALL THE TIME. To the point that it becomes annoying. Do it!

If your studio is becoming too expensive, get rid of it. Sorry, kill your darlings. Move some shit around in Steven Lim’s tesla garage, put up some green screens, this is where you work now until you can afford a studio in LA again, you dipshits. Editors can work from home, sound designers can work from home, writers and researchers can work from home, meetings can happen in someone’s kitchen or living room.

And finally: be transparent. Be honest to your audience and communicate. “We’re sorry to put Ghost Files on hiatus, however we can no longer justify the cost of traveling to locations.” The majority of your audience will understand and show patience. The part of your audience that matters will wait and enjoy your other wacky shit in the meantime. Hell, they might spontaneously start their own kickstarter because those who can, will want to support you financially, if you’re just hONEST WITH THEM.

As a business, you constantly have to choose between your financial stability and that of your employees, your vision and the future of your company and what you Want to do with it, and your integrity, the trust between you and your audience. (Especially that last one, businesses can’t pretend they don’t have a relationship with their audience, that’s not how business works, guys.)

When you’re in financial straits, one of those has to go. Watcher chose the latter, they should’ve picked the middle. Their grand television quality ideas can fucking wait, if money is a problem.

Look, I’m an artist too. I had a vision too. But it was either my creative vision or being able to afford food and rent. Creativity can wait, creativity will always be there once I can support it. Living comes ALWAYS first. Asking my audience to fund my huge artistic dreams though, with only the promise of something cool, NEVER even crossed my fucking mind. That’s what donations are for, that’s what the patreon is for.

They apologised. And good. But this was a dumb decision from the goddamn start. There were like 500 steps in between and they skipped all of it. And for what? For money? For grand ideas? For greed or for hubris? How many of their original subscribers are actually gonna come back? How much money did they lose with this stunt? If they really are in financial trouble, this MASSIVE risk -which is what it has always been- might just be their downfall. And it’d be 100% their own fucking fault.

full offense but fandoms are unbearable because y’all are unlikable. y’all are so weird and i will die on that hill.

this is like the third time i’ve been in a fandom where a white male SIDE character is heavily favored by the fandom and they start jumping through hoops, and grabbing reasons out their asses, to prove why the main poc character is a terrible person. they will also ignore any wrongdoing of the side white male character.

it’s so fucking weird and exhausting.

So do yall think the FSM was that ridiculously powerful compared to oni and dragons individually bc the dragon part was actually a source dragon or did i miss something?

rambling in the tags ignore me

im buyin nipple piercing jewels anyone wanna send me 5-10 bucks so i can afford getting both gothic dangly pairs i like instead of picking just one

not just liking and/or reblogging but a secret third thing

(sharing op's post link to ppl outside tumblr)

hi i love your gifs i would love to know what you think about the delay in announcing the 4min cast. sometimes i think pond is trying to convince b to come back to the project with bible which with how crazy he is it could be a possibility. and the other curiosity. What do you love most about Bible? What captivates you the most about him? sorry for mentioning the name

I don't think there's a chance in the world Build will be back in that project and I don't think P'Pond is trying to make it so either.

I do hate that we're not getting any info and I really wish I knew if they delay announcements on purpose/it being a tactic or if they try and wait for things to calm down more or if maybe they even simply still don't know who Bible's partner will be yet. There's not even rumors to go off on it really is all very unknown. I hope there will be some info soon tho. I'm quite open on who it would be too, there's many exciting possibilities!

Honestly Bible is just a very very talented guy, the fact that he has exactly one acting credit and acted his ass off like this???, he blows my mind. Idk if you've watched his standard pop interview but it was so nice and chill he just seems like such a sweet and smart guy, maybe even a little boring which, it's hard to explain, kinda makes him very likable to me. He's got a lot of realistic ambition and kindness and he thinks about things deeply. I don't think I need to be mentioning how beautiful he is cause that seems obvious haha. And yeah after everything he's been through this year he still keeps thanking his fans for sticking with him every chance he gets and keeps reminding them to be kind to each other. He's a good boy is all I'm saying. And he deserves to be recognised for his talent and dedication!

ok LISTEN I have SO MUCH respect for animators who work on huge movies but Come On guys with the millions involved you can’t tell me you didn’t look up ONCE how a rider holds their reins??????

anyways i saw a video of non dutch people pronouncing dutch names and im proud to announce that two of my characters and one of my coworker's names are there

i finished the comics and I am coping through memes how are you

So…I’m gonna hiatus for a bit. The first week or so of school is always a miserable time to be around me, and it’s hit me early because my school sucks and does what they want at the cost of our sanity, so imma step away so I don’t scream on here all the time.

Poke me if ya want to, I’ll poke my head in from time to time, but I’m going to try to do what I can to tread water and keep my mental health from drowning too early in the semester, bc I’m still trying to find a raft from where I got pushed overboard last time. Boat metaphors? Why not.

Anyway, love you guys. See ya around <3

the sheer amount of anxiety tomorrow’s medical appointment has been giving me all day is astounding

Watching L'Aigle à deux têtes as my Valentine's film and ohmygod Edwige and Jean are so fucking good

i saw this really cool drawing and it was like you know the buzz cuts with patterns in them,,, yeah that but hello kitty, and now i need a cc creator to make the hello kitty buzz cut for the sims