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ronkeyroo · 2 years

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I’ve received partial results, its not cancer, but it looks bad. It looks really bad. I dont know whats going to be the right way to heal from this, i feel lost, i feel numb

#i dont know what to do right now #it couldve been worse like i feared it will be. that in itself is reassuring #but wether i heal or perish from this illness is all in my hands and i just #right now i dont know if i have what it takes #this is too heavy of a weight to carry. to heavy of a responsobility to bare when everyday is already a struggle #but at the end of it all its my life on the line #and as much as i want to dissappear i dont think i want to let this illness win #im going to let myself fade off until i can face this #i want to thank everyone who reached out to me be it by asks and replies as well as dms #for encouraging and caring for me #im so so sorry #its going to take me awhile to get back to everyone #but ill try #while i can i will try #thank you #im so sorry #imso so sorry #caring for me hurts #i feel as though im nothing but a curse #i wish i never had to ddeal with any of this #i wish the people i love and who love me back never had to feel the burden of caring for someone like me #ill keep trying to do what i can to help myself

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grimrester · 21 days

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i am really so sorry to continue harping on about the watcher entertainment streaming service. but this kind of stuff (internet content as a business & marketing it as such) is truly my obsession, and i think i will implode if i don't talk about some of the takes i'm seeing.

i'd like to emphasize again i don't have strong feelings about watcher either way. i like ghost files, i watch mystery files sometimes, i watched worth it back in the buzzfeed days. i don't watch any of their shows religiously.

anyway, here's the main things i keep seeing crop up and my thoughts on each:

"watcher has 25 employees they have to pay, and employing people in this economy is good, so we should be banding together to pay them."

employing people is good if you currently have the capacity to pay them. i checked watcher's linkedin page, and many of their employees were hired within the last year or two. if they hired people they cannot pay with the business model they had before, something is seriously wrong with their internal bookkeeping/decision making. it means they either didn't know they couldn't pay these people long term, or they did know and were content with risking newly hired employees' livelihoods on a huge content pivot in the next year.

of note is that none of their employees' titles have anything to do with managing the finances of the company. they are the size of a small business but have no one aside from the figureheads of the company in charge of their finances.

this is the kind of company decision making that leads to downsizing and layoffs, which can be devastating. but you know what's worse than laying off a portion of your staff? laying off everyone because your business is going under.

"not everyone can afford the subscription, but those who can should pay it to support the watcher team."

no. $6/month for a couple hours of content (depending on what shows you actively watch and the natural fluctuation of their release schedule) is a fundamentally bad value. i can pay that much for a few movies on amazon. i can pay that much for dropout, if i want to support a smaller business instead.

and to be totally frank, even if people do sign up, i don't think they'd get enough to compete with the amount they get through patreon/sponsorships. and the fact that they didn't know how many of their subscribers would realistically sign up is a bad sign.

a pretty good conversion rate of free to paid subscribers of a service or content is 3% (usually accomplished through a free trial). given the very poor reception of the announcement, let's say about 1% of their 3 mil youtube subs pay for their service. that's 30k people paying for their new platform. that's $180k a month in their pocket.

(they currently only have 12k subs on patreon so we are being generous here.)

a sponsorship deal (based on my googling, i have less direct experience with this) is anywhere from $10-50 per 1000 views. they've gotten about 1 mil views on their last few videos. 3 mil subs is nothing to shake a stick at, but let's say they're on the lower end of the payscale at $25 per 1000 views. that's $25k a video, $100k a month if they release 1 video a week. their lowest patreon tier is 5 bucks, so even if all their subs are at that tier, that's another $60k, so $160k total. it's entirely likely they're bringing in much more than that when you factor in merch, adsence, etc.

did anyone on their team crunch numbers on how many people would need to sub to make the switch worth it? did anyone do market research on how many people they could convert to paid users? because if not, if they really didn't have a game plan for this, the subscription service was always doomed to fail.

"this was their only option to continue making the content they want to make, with the production value they want."

i watched their announcement video. a key point in that video is that they have done sponsored videos and that's what used to pay for their content, but they did not like the amount of creative control the sponsor had over the content.

look, i get that's no fun. we'd all love creatives to be able to make whatever they want. but when you are a small business with a team of employees relying on you, you have to think about making money, sometimes at the cost of creative liberties.

and they had so many other options to make money for the projects they want to make without jumping to a subscription platform.

they could have started actually promoting their patreon, and maybe done some restructuring of the tiers. why not a highly produced, special series just for patreon members? or a special high-budget episode of each series, while the main series is lower budget?

bite the bullet and continue taking sponsorship deals on some less-produced shows, while axing sponsorships from the ones the crew feels more passionate about.

schedule larger, blowout-production shows only when they can be afforded. this is what Notorious Amongus Guy streamer jerma does. he saves up for big productions like his baseball or dollhouse streams, so he can really get creative with them.

they had other options and they've tried very little, especially when you compare them to other content house business at similar scales. try guys and good mythical morning both put out significant content with significant staff, and have had to diversify their income streams with auxiliary products, shows with widely varied levels of production, etc. but it seems to be working for them. watcher has merch and that's about it, and seems to only want to increase the production quality of ALL their shows.

really, all this just boils down to a terrible business decision. it's hard to say if the watcher team is working with a consultant or anyone outside of their team, but they certainly don't have anyone internally who is experienced with running a business like this. to me, it seems very much like they got in a room together and did some extremely optimistic income ballparking with no research behind it.

and that might have been fine for three dudes running a channel alone, but if they're a business, they have to start making decisions like one.

#i encourage discussion on this in my notes btw!#you can even be mean to me if you disagree. i dont actually care #watcher

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oh-hush-its-perfect · 3 months

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"this artist was thrust into the limelight at an age at which they could not have yet developed into a fully realized person, let alone political creature, and therefore their decision-making skills have been forever crippled and mental maturity forever stunted" and "this artist is still old enough to know better and have basic empathy and simple reasoning" are ideas that can and should coexist.

#anti ariana grande #anti taylor swift #ts #ts11 #anti selena gomez #anti noah schnapp #anti kylie jenner #anyway. im boycotting TS until she releases a statement calling for a ceasefire #maybe ill argh me matey my way through the new album or maybe i just wont listen to it #and i encourage anyone who claims to care about the environment and/or palestine to do the same

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anniespositivity · 1 year

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Hey you - I see those lost eyes, that tired soul and that empty heart of yours. I know that it is hard for you to find meaning in anything right now. I just wanted to let you know that I also still see the spark in your eyes, the beautiful colours in your soul and a heart filled with joy. You might not feel or see it and that is okay. What you are going through is temporary, my love. The pain is temporary. And it is absolutely okay to lose your spark, lose your colours and lose your joy from time to time. Just know that just because you cannot feel it, does not mean all of it has disappeared. It will always be there, waiting to blossom again.

#hi it's been a while #did you miss me?#positive #mental health #positivity #healing #encouragement #mindset #self love #self care #growth #support #soothing #gentle

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healing-is-cool · 1 year

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One day, you are gonna take a breath of fresh air, and you're going to feel so alive and so high on life, everything will make sense then, and you'll be glad you kept going💌

#my grandma told me this in a dream #it stuck with me #mental health #self love #recovery #encouragement #self care #positivity #happiness #positive thoughts #healing #positive mental attitude

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calware · 3 months

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thinking about doing a month-long event for the homestuck tumblr community to encourage people to make + post fanworks as well as reblog other people's fanworks.... where people can opt-in by being randomly assigned one of two teams (probably red and blue) so that each team has roughly the same amount of members. teams get points for making fanworks and having their posts reblogged, which encourages people to make posts and also reblog the posts made by their team members. and the top 3 people in each team to get the most points get some kind of reward... hmmmm

#if you have thoughts please let me know!!!#just trying to think of ways to encourage sharing fanworks and getting feedback through friendly competition #sort of like artfight but not the same attacking/revenge format. just the same basic idea in mind of encouraging this kind of creativity #for the reblogging to get points i don't think duplicate reblogs would count. to limit spam #but you can reblog multiple times... it just won't get you more points #i don't want it to be too complicated though #i also don't want it to end up limiting reblogs since the other team wouldn't want to reblog...................#this is like very very loose brainstorming here #i'm leaning toward this concept because it encourages people to engage with posts they might normally skip over #like if you don't really care about PM. but if someone posts their PM fanart you might reblog it anyways because they're on your team!#homestuck

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midnightmah07 · 8 days

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Daisy pre twst!

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selfcare-journey · 1 year

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My supervisor told me today that I'm very good at communicating when something is going on, but that I don't ask for things that could make my working life better or things to run smoother.

And that hit me like a freight train, like, so much of my life I've been told (directly or indirectly) not to ask for things, and that's just not as functional in a healthy environment.

Like, I should be able to ask my superiors for things that help me instead of simply making due with what I have because it's what I've been given. Self-sufficiency or being low-maintenance isn't necessarily optimal or the goal.

#vent #asking for things is so hard for me #she speaks #personal #mental health #self care #self love #recovery #encouragement #social anxiety #trauma recovery #1k

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lunarharp · 29 days

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shirahama-sensei reminded me she has a thing for the teacher from pokemon s/v so i randomly went off on an au where qifrey is the professor. etc

#witch hat tag #orufrey #the first image is qifrey dressed as that guy. i'm glad she has an inexplicable attachment to some dorky pokemon man like i do #someone was like 'wouldn't it make more sense for deanreldea to be the champion' .... well no. not in my world .#it maps onto magic skill. champions aren't like the Rulers of the land they're just the most skilled at this thing #oru as a burnt out champion who's gently encouraging a kid like coco to reach him one day means a lot to me. i like pokemon narratives #agott went shiny hunting for the same thing coco had but cooler - just to impress her. she really is a pokemon rival type girl #pushing myself to the limit to prove my worth to you - to get to the summit first so i'm waiting for you..#and then realising it wasn't just to be strong - i realised i started wanting to see your smile. i wanted you to have fun.#i think coco would defeat agott at the end of victory road and then defeat oru & i'll probably draw one last thing abt that at least..#the image is very cinematic..the dialogue and music in my mind..I WANT TO FACE ORU!!!!!!!!!!#the super cool insanely powerful awesome champion is the spouse of my professor and he gave me advice at the beginning...no way....#btw the elite four would be the sages which is perfect (and maybe easthies as the first guy?) evil Team Brimhats #coustas as their renegade gladion-type figure. the gym leaders would be like sun/moon and s/v combined #travelling around facing the best students from different classes - so jujy and eunie etc.#i've barely thought about 'teams' or anything bc i care amore about the narrative side of things always lol #but idk. tetia with a swirlix - eunie would be ghost type boy - riche with small things but also a ceruledge or a steelix something massiv #and brushbug would have a final form which is really long like an eastern dragon- fluffy and with wings like a fairy. It's beautiful to me #well anyway *tries to move on to the rest of life now the brief obsession has passed*#obviously oru would be fire-type tho and qifrey would be water-type and they set off together and traded their starters etc.....it goes on

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louroth · 7 months

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thought it's about time I poked my head out of the mire, and confirm that this period of silence just seems to be a part of my process. I can't wait to show you what I am working on. It has taken on a life of its own. It's beautiful and untamed like a wild horse. So much has and is changing. I love it to pieces. !!

#I hope you are taking care of yourselves too!!! I can't wait for tumblr brainrot to take hold again >:3 #a rough est: I wouldn't expect The Drop until the 2nd anniversary in march- it seems fitting for a mighty metamorphosis such as this :>#but truly anything could happen- I just want to give myself enough time. learning something new is always slow at the start! and the middle #and at the end. But then!#thank you for all the asks and encouragement<3 you sustain me through tough times. *blows a kiss into the sky* for u #OUROBOROS #ouroboros if #ouroboros-if #interactive fiction #twine game #twine wip #progress update #if you /are/ thirsty for more ouro stuffs come visit our home on discord<3 or take a peep on patreon mayhaps!

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emeraldwarriors · 5 months

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begging jeremy adams please make them friends this time around and let hal!!! apologize!!!!!!!

#hal jordan #carol ferris #halcarol #green lantern #绿灯小丑 #woah i havent really looked into this sideblog for months lmfao my bad #but i caught up with the issues recently and wtf why is barry encouraging hal to be a homewrecker WHEN HAL REALIZES HE SHOULD LET CAROL GO.#[pushes barry down a flight of stairs]#listen im halcarol no.1 fan always has been but if hal and carol stayed close friends in this run i would see god #THEY WORK WELL TOGETHER GIVE ME THE FERRIS AIR TEAM BACK + tom #anyway those flowers mean smth but im too lazy to type it out just analyze yourself if you care a lot about halcarol . cheers #this art looks bad bc i havent drawn in a bit after getting sick but i needed to post it to post my point <- very sane thought process

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codecicle · 9 months

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ignore how crunchy this is i tried SO hard to get it to look decent im sorry </3

anyway my little goodbye and thank you to @kisser-of-jrwi-characters for running such an amazing tournament!! this was a horrible experience and i would never go through it again thank you so much fr dude :D

#i make yet anothet post just for me 👍#jrwi #I BLAME MY FRIENDS ON HERE FOR ENCOURAGING ME #THEY LIKED THE JOKE IDEA POST NOW THIS EXISTS #i promise i tried really hard to both get the video to have quality and make it synced/timed right with the music I COULDNT HAVE BOTH #CAPCUT SUCKS </3 #if i didnt credit any artists properly PLEASE tell me i tried to make their handles as clear and big as possible #outside of my shitty little ms paint doodles i made those and dont care if those little guys get credited LMAO #also all of this is lighthearted!! this was amazing :]

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honey-writes · 1 year

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Believe it or not, your writing doesn’t always have to be good. Especially if you’re doing it for fun. One thing I’ve learned that’s become precious to me is: You’re allowed to free yourself from the chains of “everything I write has to be good.” No it doesn’t! You can write things just because! You can write down your random thoughts in the middle of the day that don’t make any sense; you can start that poem with no plan and see where your instinct takes you; you can write that story or that fic just because you need to get it out of your system. Who cares! Besides, you can always go back and revise it later! All art begins somewhere. You don’t always have to worry about being “good.” Just make it. Just let it exist. Just be.

#a LOT of the stuff I write isn't necessarily 'good' but like who cares #even my worst works are precious to me #not a prompt #writing #writing process #writing encouragement #writing inspiration #writing positivity #creative writing

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c0smiccl0wn · 1 year

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i love the fact that after the fnaf trailer dropped, everyone just agreed that bonnie and freddy were high as hell

#it’s so funny #i want to see that move so bad #the fnaf movie is what’s encouraging me to go get my driver’s license #i do not want to ask my parents to give me a ride to the fnaf movie #i’m a grown ass adult #and i want to laugh at the frightened children whose parents thought the movie was a cracked up care bears #cosmic’s word vom #fnaf #fnaf movie

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mokeonn · 2 months

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Before I go to sleep I leave you all with this piece of advice: sometimes you don't actually have to answer big political questions, sometimes you can just say "I am not smart enough to know that, I just know the small things I do to help." Like you can often times completely avoid making a fool of yourself if you just say you don't know.

#simon says #to explain here and not in a reblog:#sometimes when you try to explain big picture solutions you're gonna sound dumb #you might not have done enough research #you might not have a rebuttal to a counter argument #you might not be articulate enough to explain why you think this #sometimes you gotta take a step back and give the simple solution. the one man solution #you do what you can to fight against the problem #you talk to people to help spread awareness and how to fight the bad problem #and you vote and invite others to vote for bigger steps towards solving the problem #like you can talk about theory and how you believe we need to do a huge drastic thing to solve and issue #but people will disagree and argue til you're blue in the face #they'll poke and prod until you mess up or lose your temper and use it against you #and you'll feel dumb and they'll learn nothing #sometimes the best thing to do is step away from the big picture and just say 'idk what the solution is I just know the things I can do“#sometimes you gotta admit you're not a scientist/expert and you can't answer that #i used this while talking with my Dad tonight #he brought up our climate crisis and space travel as a possible solution #and I said I think that's just addressing the symptom and not the cause and we need to care for our Earth now #and he asked me what solutions I think would fix it #and knowing my incredibly smart Dad who is articulate and ready to throw rebuttles at a moments notice to play devils advocate #and my past experience in struggling in this topic with him before #i just told him I didn't know. all i knew is the little things I can and do do to help #and that hopefully by spreading the word and habits and encouraging others to vote for those bigger solutions I could help make a change #but all I really could do is the little things I have control over #and the topic became much less stressful about the little things we have control over #like planting native plants and recycling and adopting habits that are healthier to our planet #which was 100% more preferable to if I tried to give a big solution. because I would reveal i didn't have all the knowledge needed to argue #and my articulation would make me sound like a stupid kid who only thinks they know what's best #so yeah I basically suggest that if you dont wanna feel like shit after debating someone just step away from the big picture for a moment

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uncanny-tranny · 8 months

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Your influence in this world doesn't need to be all-encompassing and World Changing. It can be small ripples. It can be gentle and easily missed.

Let yourself do small things. So often, people have this idea that to do "good things," it must be a grand gesture that changes every little thing. Honestly, that can be so intimidating and scary. We weren't meant to carry the world by ourselves. We each contribute, often in small ways, often in ways that aren't seen by everybody. But the people you affect might just take that kindness you gave them and let it light them home. Let yourself be that in whatever way you want. You don't need to carry the world alone.

#positivity #encouragment #encouraging words #ngl i gave a customer a lot of food for free because i could tell they were down on their luck and they deserve to eat #and i hope i contributed to them realizing this world will cherish them and they aren't forgotten #because it's scary not knowing if you can eat or drink or if you will be safe enough to sleep and while i don't know their story...#...does it matter if i do? i will do whatever i can to make sure the people around me are well-fed and taken care of #i think small things like this are honestly what make this life worth living #i don't think i would want to be here if it were not for moments like these #it's never not worth it to do what you can/are comfortable doing #and i hope it can come back around to reward you tenfold <3 #i used to labour under the idea that Changing the World is the only way you can 'be good'#and that made me scared to do small things like this. and i partially regret that. but i don't blame myself or anybody else who feel...#...the way i did. doing 'good things' can be scary and intimidating and it's okay to be uncertain or fearful. it's okay; i promise <3 #i just wanted to remind somebody that you don't have to change the world in one fell swoop. it's okay to Just Be #i love you (platonically) if you have read this far. i hope you do something kind for yourself #you - too - deserve good things. you deserve kindness and satisfaction and wonder

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