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Seeing the Lockwood and Co. and Dead Boy Detectives discourse as someone who loves both shows is absolutely wild.
While yeah, both shows are ghost based and have a trio of two boys and a girl, I really think that’s where the similarities of the two shows end.
Lockwood and Co is a show centered on ghost hunting, and has two very clearly separate arcs (which is, of course, the first two books of the series).
Dead Boy Detectives is formatted more as a “monster/case of the week” show, with each episode having its own case (though they are often connected and certain cases come back to help them later). Two of our main characters are ghosts themselves, and they’re not ghost hunting unless you’re talking about when they literally go looking for (what they thought was) a missing ghost.
I think it’s totally fair to be upset with Netflix about Lockwood and Co’s cancellation (I know I still am), but I don’t think it’s fair to say they’re the same show or that Lockwood and Co definitely got cancelled for Dead Boy Detectives. They’re both great shows and deserve to stand on their own merits.
#dead boy detectives#charles rowland#edwin payne#the sandman#lockwood and co#anthony lockwood#lucy carlyle
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i remember begrudgingly getting into ncis: hawaii bc the youtube algorithm would not stop recommending me kate and lucy videos no matter how much i ignored them. i didnt know then that i'd find a pairing and a show that would mean so much to me.
this cancellation is not the first and it won't be the last, but it has left me particularly and extremely heartbroken.
kacy means a lot to me. it's the first ship that's made me feel something in a long time, maybe since high school. ill never forget the genuine excitement, the heartache, the happiness, they made me feel, especially in season 1. ill never forget this show and the ʻOhana i never knew id get so invested in.
i look back in my drafts and i still see posts i never finished about s2 and stuff i had yet to post about s3. i still had so much to say about the show. and they still had so much to give us. its a damn shame that they weren't even given a goodbye season.
was it shitty, corny copaganda at the end of the day? yes. was the writing sometimes rushed and nonsensical? absolutely. did they waste a whole season developing a character that had nothing to do with the core cast? you bet. but the cast and crew didn't deserve such a cruel, untimely cancellation without a chance to say goodbye (especially for shows that include a nasty dude who assaults his costars). the human aspect of it all is painful on its own. the show wasn't perfect at all, but it had heart, it had a good cast and crew, and i know i will miss it terribly.
most of all, i'll miss all the good times i had posting about the show and talking about it with everyone here. it's led me to meet some special people that i'm eternally grateful for and reignited a creative passion in me i haven't felt in a while. I'll always remember kacy and hold them dear in my heart. but I won't be giving up on them any time soon. even after the show ends, ill still be here, going insane over them and all the possibilities we won't get to see. kacy gave me such hope and happiness for the future, and i hope everyone keeps that spark alive.
#ncis hawaii#excuse me for getting emotional about a shitty cop procedural but damn#it was my fucking shitty cop procedural LMAO#i told myself id let myself be parasocial for as long as the grief lasted but strangely i dont think thats helping#not to be a weeaboo esque type but truly thank you to Hawaiʻi#a beautiful special place that deserves so much better
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i don't trust sapphics when they tell me somethings good anymore
#portrait was so praised and i had to look everywhere to watch it#it literally bored me to sleep at 30 minutes#that movie is 2 hours long and for WHAT#then fk#that show sucked ASS i hated it i couldn't finish the fourth episode because it was so cringe#and not in a funny or campy way like its fans say#no its just unwatchably awful#the actresses had no chemistry#calliope looked like she'd rather die than kiss jules#the plot was all over the place#the characters were inconsistent and annoying#the EFFECTS god good the fucking effects what the fuck was that#WHEN JULES FATHER ATE HER GRANDMOTHER#THEY DIDN'T EVEN TRY#no bc that scene couldn't even be saved with better cgi its just so weird#and the soundtrack was so ugly#the audio was badly edited#people compare it to twilight and i do not like twilight but those movies were NOT this bad#i know how it feels when your fav show gets cancelled i was a ianowt fan#but that show absolutely deserved to be cancelled#now another wlw show got cancelled and idk if its good but it honestly doesn't look like it is
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just for the record: yes, i absolutely was in my feelings today about how on the second thursday in march two years ago we watched ed and stede fall in love in 1.04-1.06, and today we learned that we won't get to see them again
but it's fine and i'm fine!!!!!!! (mostly, kinda.)
#i'm a little not fine#it sucks to not have something really special to look forward to#and this show absolutely did not in any way deserve to get canceled#but i remain grateful that canon is so satisfying to me from start to finish#but also i'm sad we won't get to see our pirate friends again!!!!!!#dollsome's deep thoughts#our flag means death
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Well going through the tag I'm a bit sad that I didn't like the show as much as everyone else here AND STILL I also need a second season lol
#it's a really good adaptation but the tone was too off to me :(#I think the problem is that I couldn't disassociate the show from the books so I was always comparing them#and yet this show absolutely deserves getting renewed. I even have a lot of hope that season two will fix the things I didn't like from s1#it's sad that we can't watch and enjoy a netflix show normally because we're terrified of cancelation before it even drops tho#lockwood & co
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not gonna get over the bastard son & the devil himself cancellation any time soon i fear
#probably never actually#they made a high budget well acted well written beautifully paced and shot adaption of a book series#i absolutely devoured as a kid#and fleshed out the character relationships in ways i adored and just. this show had in the gd NINETIES on rotten tomatoes. for both critics#and audience scores. it's GOOD. twisty and sweary and snarky and gory and utterly charming all at once#and it got like 47 million views and was in the top ten for like at least 2 weeks!! iirc!#and it gets cancelled after a month and change#i know that's how netflix works i know that's how the industry works but it's just SO frustrating. that if a show isn't fucking. bridgerton#or you or stranger things or the crown. if it isn't breaking world records left or right and getting fallon interview slots#and magazine covers#then it's basically guaranteed to get taken out back and shot#fucking shadowhunters got more seasons than that and ik that's because massive branding and look. i watched taht show#and i like the mortal instruments. but it was hot garbage do not lie. im just so. this show was so fucking GOOD#it deserved more#SIGH okay okay im gonna chill#the bastard son & the devil himself#tag talk#iona.txt
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I will say, though, that Mother Superion beating up a dude with her cane while speaking perfect Spanish is... como se dice... relevant to my, uh, interests.
#thoughts no one cares about#other than that though man I can't believe the fuss people are making with the absolute CLUSTERFUCK that is season 2 like damn#first mary is killed off randomly offscreen and then lilith is utterly WASTED on adriel *barf*#if they kill off mother superion too this show deserved to be cancelled honestly
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Since the cast is back at filming the new season of our beloved shitshow, I hope y’all are ready for the 3 minutes daily of Stefania in every episode of the season 6 because that poor woman won’t still have a storyline other than Maya’s wife and baby obsessed…
#i absolutely don’t care about the show#i don’t care about the new season#someone can die#Stefania & Danielle deserve so much better than this shitshow#can someone cancel this show asap please ?!#station 19#stefania spampinato#danielle savre#carina deluca#maya bishop#marina
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*bangs head against the wall* I wanna watch the rottmnt movie so badly but I don't have Netflix
#i adore show#i was so pissed when nick cancelled it#the colors and animation were absolutely gorgeous#especially the fight scenes#i can only imagine the movie took it to the next level#hoping the movie can get the show another season because it deserves much more than it got#cods.text
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I like how my professor to my psych research methods class has explained so little about this paper we're supposed to write off this experiment we're supposed to conduct at some point in the class that I'm finding more out by reading the example paper he wrote for us than by actually going to his goddamn class.
#so we have to chose the type of experiment we do (correlational#experimental etc and no i dont know what the fuck those mean)#instead of just doing a certain kind he's prechosen us to do. now i have to do extra work and read up on these fucking types of experiments#and wtf they are#you know hkw much energy i have rn? none.#i dont even have energy to call my insurance and ask if they will cover both my IOP consultation and my visit with my therapist on the same#week. and i absolutely need to do that#when btw i showed up to a lab earlier this week that was cancelled that his worthless ass couldn't bother editing in the damn syllabus.#''oh i said it at the end of class'' consider not everyone is paying attention to you and consider it's not always because they're a shit#student. i would list my many disabilities and how they resist treatment but i dont believe i need to do that to deserve respect#SAY IT IN THE SYLLABUS. SEND AN EMAIL. SEND A CLASS ANNOUNCEMENT ON BLACKBOARD. FAGGOT
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Nobody is making anyone go into scriptwriting. No one is born in a Netflix company town where their dad takes them into the script mines at age 12. Fuck writers who want to get paid more than once for the same job. They should only get residuals AFTER all the people who do REAL WORK, like construction, grips, costume, makeup & animators etc. Most of them are much better at their jobs than writers especially for streaming services, and they are what screenwriters can lean on & novelists can't.
People need to realize that the unions for white collar people like WGA or SIEU or NEA (public sector unions are why cops who kill the people they were supposed to serve & protect remain employed get pensions) is not the AFL-CIO or any other historical union fighting for the lives of the people who built the country's industry and made it run, any more than the NRA are the Minutemen of 1775 New England.
First, go fuck yourself, you fucking scab. No, seriously - you don't come to my blog and spout off about what workers deserve unions and decent pay and what ones don't, like it's your fucking decision. The intellectual labor that writers perform is just as real as any other work done on a film set - "all who labor by hand or brain" is the inherent logic of industrial unionism for a reason.
Second, writers aren't asking to get paid more than once: residuals are deferred pay, you absolute moron. In Hollywood, whether it's writers or actors or voice talent or whatever, you get a small fraction up front - it's usually an ok check, depending on the union's day rates and so forth, but you can't make a living off stitching these together - and then most of your pay comes from monthly royalty checks that provide you with the income you need to live off when you're between jobs.
The problem is that, historically in Hollywood, residuals have been structured with a very long "tail" - the payments start out relatively low and then get more generous over time as the show has more seasons and (presumably) goes into syndication. This doesn't work with streaming's new business model, where increasingly shows are getting 2-3 seasons max and streaming services have become increasingly quick to not just cancel shows but yank them off their servers in order to avoid paying residuals.
So what WGA writers are fighting for is a system that ensures writers (but also actors and other creative workers, because the unions pattern bargain) get a fair share of the show's revenue, even if the show is only given 2-3 seasons.
Third, the U.S labor movement would not exist today if it wasn't for white collar workers and public sector workers. About half of the U.S labor movement - 7 million workers - is public sector, and those workers are overwhelmingly women of color, mostly working as either teachers or postal workers. Likewise, about half the U.S labor movement is made up of white collar workers, and we're graduate students and adjuncts and lab researchers, teachers and social workers, administrators and IT departments.
I'm both public sector and white collar, and I'm a member of an NEA union. I'm an adjunct professor who earns $6,000 a course and it's my job to get working adults with jobs and families who've never gone to college or who've been out of higher ed for a decade to graduate with a bachelor's or a master's. If you don't think that's real work, you're free to research and write all the lectures and powerpoints, deliver those in an entertaining and educational fashion, answer a flood of questions from students who need help navigating academia, and then grade all the midterms and finals and research papers.
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Could you write a nsfw Vox x fem!reader where Vox comes home from work, feeling really stressed and asks for the reader’s consent if he could relive that stress on her? Like he’s being really rough on her and maybe praising her too? 👉👈 Nothing too extreme though, and I find consent sexy.
HELL YEAHHH I CAN!! This is exactly what I was waiting for!!! A reason to write Vox smut. What can I say? I'm but a simple creature.
Vox would for sure do that relieving stress via sex thing. Especially since he's always pressed about something and because I like to think he's at least a bit of a manchild.
Anyway, thanks for the request!!
"Take a Breather or Two...?"
Vox x fem!Reader NSFW
MINORS DNI!!!
Warnings: NSFW, Stress relief sex, praise kink, rough sex
You sat silently on the bed that you and Vox shared. With your headphones on, listen to whatever it was that the shuffle button deemed fit for that moment. The feeling of the silky, dark grey sheets against your skin felt heavenly. Vox was going to be home any moment now, and you’d be there to greet him as always. It was simply the way things had been for a while now. He’d work, and you’d spend some much-deserved time with him at home.
You heard the door open and immediately sat up on the bed. However, the slamming of the front door was what made you raise a brow.
“I can’t fucking believe it!” Vox yelled from the living room. He finally entered your shared bedroom, untying his bowtie and sitting at the edge of the bed. He stared at the wall for a second then, covering his eyes with his hands, he kicked the air in frustration. “Ugh, you have no idea what a day I’ve had…” He sighed.
“What happened? Tell me…” You spoke, placing your hands on his shoulders, gently massaging them. He let out a small relieved breath as you did this. After that, he continued.
“First of all, Alastor fucking tried me again today! Not to mention that I had to cancel three of the ten shows that generated the most revenue because the lead actress was taken out in the last extermination and we didn’t know because she went on vacation and said she’d be back in a month. And on top of that Valentino has been throwing the most stupid tantrums. Ughhh!” He vented, “I need to take out some steam.” He gave you a bit of an unrecognizable look. He seemed to be generating an idea. However, there was no way for you to know without asking.
“That sounds like a good solution, Voxxie. You got something in mind? I can see the gears turning in your head~” You teased.
After pondering his idea for a brief moment, Vox continued proceeding to speak his mind. “I want you.” He spoke bluntly. “Yes, fucking your brains out would make me feel so much better.” He added, his breath shuddering slightly. He scooted closer toward you and caressed your face gently. “Can I do that baby~? I’ll only do it if you let me…” he pouted. Almost begging, but based on his tone, it was apparent he was willing to drop the subject if you did not want to do it.
You nodded softly. But that wasn’t enough confirmation for him. “No no, use your words.” He replied in a commanding tone.
“Yes, I’d like that. It sounds like fun.~” You spoke, this time telling him outright that you wanted this.
Vox nodded, “Ok, I’ll try not to be too rough. Just… fuck you’re so fucking sexy…~” He sighed, letting out a desperate little exhale.
Vox reached for your hips, instantly pulling off your pants along with your panties. He wasn’t one for teasing when he needed it. Without wasting a second, he split your legs open, gently tracing the inside of your upper thighs. He licked his lips desperately, determined to make you feel good before he fucked his anger out on you. He leaned his head towards your private area, giving your clit a gentle lick.
You shuddered in pleasure, letting out a small whimper. This drove him absolutely mad. So much so, that he could feel the need to continue this coming from within his core. So he licked along your labia, circling your clit hungrily until you were just as wet as he wanted you. The sounds of your juices gushing as he licked you up, oh it was making him want to do all sorts of things to you. And thus, after hearing how wet you were now, he stopped.
He sat up, looking at you with a certain hunger in his eyes. There was a primal need for more taking over him, not quite clouding his mind but filling him with a haze. “You’re being such a good girl for me.~” Vox cooed, unbuttoning his pants, and pulling them down to his knees. He scrambled to his waist area and took his cock in his hand. Needily aligning himself to your entrance. The sight of his cock on your labia made him shiver impatiently. He rubbed his tip on your clit, gasping out a small shudder
After getting a gasp out of you, he smirked, inserting himself into your entrance. “So tight for me~” He chuckled, very slowly moving in and out of you. You moaned relentlessly, wrapping your legs around him as he mercilessly bucked his hips into you. The sensation made you moan out his name. Reaching out to hold him, you wrapped your arms around his neck. He leaned down to kiss you, pushing his tongue into your mouth. He indulged in its taste, savoring your mouth with absolute ecstasy. The second he parted the kiss, he bucked his hips faster.
Vox’s screen began to lag, the image of his eyes freezing up as he looked directly at you. “Fuck~ You’re so fucking pretty like this~ So good for me~” Vox groaned, his voice distorted and sort of glitched out. It was way too obvious he was enjoying himself.
“Ahh~! V-vox, I’m… I’m close…~” You whined, bouncing back as he pumped himself into you.
“You wanna cum baby~? You want me to make you cum~?” Vox cooed, groaning, desperately chasing his own orgasm. You nodded desperately, whining, feeling a warmth pool up in your insides. He was making you feel so good that you couldn’t turn thoughts into words anymore.
Vox let out a laugh, an amalgamation of amusement and absolute arousal. The flat-screen television he had as a head began sparking as his strokes became more uneven and deep. “Fuck, you’re doing so good for me~ So fucking good…~ You’re gonna make me cum so deep inside you…~” He slurred, seemingly so high on the pleasure that he didn’t seem to give a shit about the malfunctioning lights in the room. He took in the sound of your moans and pants, letting the vibrations course through his being. He had to feel you cum around his cock. He needed to feel it. So he reached his hand down towards your clit, rubbing it with his thumb. You squirmed under his touch, an orgasm approaching faster than before, and you bucked your hips into him. And as you began to get tighter and tighter, the lights began to flash faster. “Yes~… Yes…~ So fucking pretty all stuffed up with my cock…~ Look at that beautiful fucking face…~” he groaned in absolute adoration.
And suddenly, with a hard thrust and a loud grunt, Vox found the climax he so sought, darkness engulfing the once-lit room, his monitor showing the “ERROR” screen. Yet, he didn’t dare stop the way he was touching you. Oh no, he needed to feel you reach your climax as well. He rubbed faster and faster, enduring the overstimulation of keeping you around him, your walls pulsating. He began to whine a bit himself, in all honesty. Until, finally, you arched your back in, your hips spasming as you eventually reached that orgasm he just needed you to have. The sensation of your walls around him, driving him absolutely mad. So much so, that the room’s power returned, but only for the split second in which your walls squeezed him in the midst of your climax. He’d never felt this good before and he swore he wanted more of this.
He pulled out of you, wincing at the sensation and then collapsing next to you. He tried to catch his breath, looking at you doing the exact same thing. Once he felt his breathing was stable, he got up and looked around for a towel. Once he found one, he returned to your side and cleaned you up. “There you go…” He chuckled, “You know, I don’t think that in all the time I’ve been in hell or in the years I was alive I've had sex this good.~” He smirked, pulling you closer, holding you by the hips. Looking at you with that same look of adoration he gave you before.
“You’re not stressed anymore, huh?” You chuckled, gliding your index finger under the bottom part of his monitor; returning his playful little smirk.
“They can go fuck themselves. My steam’s been blown.” He responded, kissing your lips one more time. Needless to say, this might be his go-to when he gets this badly pissed off.
#hazbin vox#hazbin hotel#vox x reader smut#vox x reader#vox hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel x reader#hazbin hotel smut#hazbin hotel oneshots#vox hazbin
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perfect little moment (LN4 x Reader)
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“Yea, duh, this luggage is my baby.” You said, still hugging tightly onto it.
“Am I not your baby too?” Lando says, exasperated.
“No.” You sass him back.
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pairing: lando norris x reader
w/c: 701
a/n: the poll isn’t over but Lando deserves one more to his name. Short little fic. Have fun!!!!!!!! also this is absolutely not proofread.
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You open the door to your room and run directly into the bed, jumping up and landing on the bed with a little bounce. You lay there motionless, soaking in all the comfort of the fluffy bed.
“You gonna stay there and become one with the bed,” Lando scoffs, leaning in the doorframe, “Or you gonna come and help me carry your shit in.”
You lift your head from the bed and turn around to face Lando, “It’s a luggage, you just gotta push it in.”
Lando does so and the luggage comes rolling in, it comes to a slow halt and falls to its side. A loud bang follows.
“HEY!” You shout, hopping off the bed and running to your luggage, giving it a hug.
Lando stares at you in utter disbelief, “You are kidding me.”
You hug your luggage like it’s a baby and shoot Lando a glare.
“You love that luggage more than you love me!” Lando rolls his eyes and closes the door behind him as he walks in.
“Yea, duh, this luggage is my baby.” You say, still hugging tightly onto it.
“Am I not your baby too?” Lando says, exasperated.
“No.” You sass him back.
“Fine.” Lando says, “I’ll cancel the fancy dinner!”
“HEY! NO!” You protest, lunging yourself at him.
He dodges you and starts hastily pressing things on his phone screen.
“HEY! I yield. I yield. You’re my baby.” You say, raising your hands up, surrendering.
Lando flashes you a cheeky smile and keeps his phone.
You roll your eyes and crawl over to him, planting a kiss on his cheek. His entire face flushes red and he hurries to cover it, hiding it away from you.
You let out a mischievous sounding chuckle before going closer and kissing him again.
He hides his face even more which makes you want to kiss his face even more.
“You don’t have to hide it!!” You whine, “I’ve seen it enough times!”
Lando shakes his head, refusing to show you his face, keeping it buried deep into his hands. He slowly turns away from you, his back now facing you as he
A soft chuckle escapes as you wrap your arms from behind Lando which causes a little squirm from him as his muscles tense up. After a few seconds, Lando processes it and his body relaxes as it falls into yours.
He makes himself comfortable within your arms and melts in there under the warmth of your hands.
Your hands gently stroke through his curls and it makes him chuckle, finally revealing his face and looking up at you. It’s bright pink, like a barbie level of pink. Hot HOT pink.
“You look good.” You comment, throwing him a wink.
“Shut up.” He mumbles before sitting up and pushing his face to be closer to yours.
You’re inches apart. The only logical thing to do right now would be to kiss him.
So you do.
You kiss him on the lips and he kisses you back. It lasts a few seconds, a few bloody good seconds.
You two part and he’s almost out of breath which makes him catch his breath as much as he can. He stares into your eyes.
His eyes look gorgeous. His eyelashes are beautiful too. You don’t think you’ll ever shut up about how good his eyes look, especially when they’re gazing into yours, especially when he looks lost in his own thoughts.
“I’m saying we cancel the dinner tonight.” You suggest as Lando lays his head in your lap.
Lando lets out a lazy sounding mmkay before snuggling tighter into your lap.
“Stay in tonight, order takeout, watch a movie.” You continue.
Lando gives you a nod back as he takes his phone and hands it to you to order.
“You’re such a baby.” You chuckle.
“Your baby.”
“Mhm…my baby.”
Everything about Lando should be imperfect, he’s rash, impulsive, wild, chaotic, messy, immature, the list could go on forever. Nothing in the world ever made you think this relationship would be perfect, nothing is perfect. Everything on this Earth is imperfect but it's the perfect little moments like these that make you cherish whatever you have with Lando.
#f1#formula 1#formula one#f1 fandom#f1 fanfic#f1 fic#f1 imagine#f1 x male reader#f1 x reader#f1 x female reader#f1 x you#f1 x y/n#y/n#f1 x gn reader#romance#f1 fluff#mclaren#not beta read#not proofread#lando norris#ln4#ln4 x reader#ln4 fic#ln4 imagine#established rp#established relationship#kisses#kiss#hugs#blushing
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Seeing Lockwood & Co get canceled just reinforces how important the writers’ strike is, I think. The WGA’s demands are confronting the corporate shift spearheaded by Netflix which tosses aside at a moment’s notice the stories that people love, even if a show is watched and discussed and profitable. The point of a strike is that there is no reason this business has to be done in the way that the executives have chosen. All people involved in the creative process deserve a fair wage. Viewers deserve to see the stories they love—and support with literal money—continued.
By Netflix’s own metrics, there was no reason to cancel Lockwood & Co. The entire media landscape does not need to be made exclusively of blockbusters. The people working in the entertainment industry do not need to be scraping by to make ends meet while being turned from valued employees into discardable gig workers. None of this has to be the way it is—people are making choices. And the WGA is absolutely right to say no.
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I’ve read a few of the umpteen thousand upset comments about the paid Watcher service, and I’ve read comments angry about the upset comments. There’s one thing I want to point out, and it’s that this isn’t, or shouldn’t be, “You’re saying people don’t deserve to earn money for their work.”
The Watcher guys do deserve to earn money. I already give them money. I give them $5 a month on Patreon, not because I think they do or don’t give me $5 worth of media, but because I want to support them. I canceled Netflix for pissing me off with its price hike/ad tier, but I give Watcher Entertainment money.
They’re saying now that the Patreon will be solely about the podcasts, and they understand if people leave. I’m perfectly happy to switch the support I can afford to the streaming service. With the early adopter 30% discount, I’d actually save money. In fact, I tried to subscribe, but the site didn’t work.
Watcher wanting to profit from their shows isn’t the problem. It’s that they’re now discovering that their fanbase is young and broke in a terrible economy, judging by tens of thousands of comments on multiple platforms. I can throw them $5/month, so I do. But the Patreon only has (checks notes) 5874 paying followers, and there’s a reason for that. $60/year upfront would not be “accessible.” Patreon is literally patronage from the people who can afford it.
If the guys had said up front, “ONLY new shows and episodes will be exclusive to the service,” I think we’d be having a different conversation right now. But at first they did say, “We’re pulling all our content from YouTube,” to the point where Variety had to issue an update. Like, that’s in print and I’m pretty sure it was on video. Now they’ve backtracked to ONLY new etc.—but most people haven’t heard, and they feel crushed. And the trust is probably gone regardless.
So now four years of back catalogue will stay public. And now, you’re paying $6.99 a month for one episode, maybe two, of something a week, and now, not an exclusive back catalogue. I would pay for Watcher shows before I’d pay for anyone else, but I just don’t think the company is big enough yet for a SVOD at that price. They’re not Dropout size. They needed to build more programming and get a higher follower count first, or at the very least, charge less.
The international price/exchange rate situation is a nightmare and I don’t know what it is they’re not doing to make it… not… be like that.
I don’t know what they should have done instead of a full streaming service, but surely there were alternatives? I’ve seen comments from people suggesting they GET a Patreon. Lean on that more! Do the shows exclusive for a month and then let them roll onto YouTube! I don’t know! Anything but One More Fucking Streaming Service, which enraged me, and I was willing to move my support to it!
And I shouldn’t say this, but I will. In the “Goodbye YouTube” video the guys posted, they say that setting up the streaming service has allowed Steven to do a remake of Worth It where he and his cohosts travel the world and eat expensive food. This is the first new show they announce. Not “We have always been committed to diversity and we’re now able to bring on new creator(s) to expand our programming.” No, a redo of an old show that by definition has got to be expensive. Commenters are saying they can’t pay for the streaming service because they can’t make ends meet in this economy. The optics are terrible. I genuinely question what the thought process even was here.
I love the guys and I still watch their shows. I want to see Watcher succeed. I started watching Buzzfeed Unsolved in 2018 while recovering from surgery—as with a lot of people, their shows got me through a tough time. I’m as attached as anyone. If I can continue to afford monthly support—this is not a certainty—I’ll give it to them. I’m not a ~hater who doesn’t want Watcher to make money. But I am absolutely BAFFLED by every single decision here. I want them to figure out how to turn this around and go in a better direction, because right now, this ain’t it.
#long post#I hope nobody hates me for this but like#this is someone supporting you#this is the best I can do#and that should tell you something#watcher
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In light of the news about Amazon retroactively canceling the already insultingly short 4 episode ALOTO season 2, it's important to remember they are doing this 1. Cause they never wanted to make it in the first place. And 2. Because they want to sway public opinion against the strikes in their favor. DO NOT GIVE IN!
People deserve fair compensation, better working conditions, and more for their work. They can cancel all my favorite shows, I don't care. Labor rights are human rights. Solidarity!
It's OK to be mad/sad/disappointed. Just remember WHY and WHO that anger should be directed toward. The studio because they refuse to pay people fair wages!!! (Which they CAN ABSOLUTELY afford!)
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