Woo-hoo Favorite Art of the year!!

911 on abc you are single handedly responsible for all of us being unable to act normal since last thursday

People are real quick to do a complete 180 and forgive Watcher after making the most basic backtracking statement they could’ve made

Like I know the standard for YouTube apologies is fucking 6 feet in the ground but like, it’s the most basic PR statement they could’ve given

Am I glad they apologized? Yes. Do I think they regret it? Yes. Do I think it was for the reasons we hope (aka caring about the fans)? No. Do I think they were sincere about their reasoning? No.

I think it comes back to why they were willing to make this decision in the first place: money

And to the parasocial people who are fighting for their lives to defend them, just remember that they were ready to drop you and whoever wasn’t willing to dish out $6 so they could travel around the world, continue living in one of the most expensive cities in the the country, and drive their Teslas around

guys are we seeing this… the romance of it all

reposting some old-ish jackass art

STAR TREK: PICARD - S2E9 Hide and Seek

sorry to all of you white middle aged man lovers out there but shane madej subtly shifting the blame with the whole 'steven, talk about money' feels like a pathetic way to salvage the hip leftist uncle persona he's got going on and you all are waiting for him to return to your embrace like some prodigal son who was forced and didn't go on his own accord

peaceful is when u punch jews, yell slurs, set things on fire and wave around signs with mein kampf quotes on it

the fact that they all sat down and still cared enough to apologise to you all after they received a whole weekend of vitriolic nonsense and out-and-out racism for the crime of wanting to continue as a business... is genuinely mind boggling to me.

what if we were lineys and i pulled you close to whisper in your ear

oilers @ wild || 24.10.23

Me watching Watcher become the rich Shane would want us to steal from

the thing about watcher is I think buzzfeed unsolved fucked them over. both in terms of numbers but also in terms of output. if you go to buzzfeed unsolved network and sort by popular, you have to scroll past 84 videos before you get below 10mil views. and a lot of those are 5-7 years old, so those are numbers they would've been looking at when deciding to break off from buzzfeed (the first watcher video was posted 4 years ago). they thought they could get big numbers without constantly churning out videos, because that's what they'd gotten with buzzfeed unsolved. and I'm sure they adjusted their projected numbers to account for people not following over to the new channel, but I doubt they predicted their top videos would be in the 8mil views range (which is still a lot, but not what they had pulled in the past).

so they aren't getting old buzzfeed unsolved numbers, but that's okay! look at the try guys - they aren't putting up millions of views every video and they're able to have a company with a decent amount of employees. and this is where the output issue comes in. between their main channel and their various podcasts, try guys is putting out 5 videos a week, with 2 being main channel videos. watcher is putting out 3 with 1 being a main channel video. plenty of people who have been making videos for a while have talked about the youtube grind and the algorithm - there's a reason daily vlogs and content houses got so big. and watcher didn't want to do that grind. from the beginning they've said they want to do seasons of shows. which is feasible! again, this is something try guys does with without a recipe. but the difference is try guys has quick and cheap videos they can put out in between and concurrently with those big shows that help support them. eat the menu is their best example of this because it gets big numbers. watcher doesn't really have filler videos.

to further the try guys comparison, buzzfeed unsolved limited the type of content fans were looking for in a way try guys was never limited because trying new things is a really fucking broad category. try guys was always more about the people than the specific thing they were trying. obviously a lot of fans of watcher like ryan and shane (and to a lesser extent steven, based on how many people are blaming him specifically for this). but I'm sure there were also people only watching because they liked true crime and/or ghost hunting content, which makes it harder to branch out and retain ghost files numbers on their other shows.

overall, they thought they could be buzzfeed with just unsolved, and that's not how youtube works and now it's fucking them over that they got too ambitious too fast

over 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck

the entertainment industry is actively contracting

and the streaming bubble is bursting like the dot com bubble in the 90s

what in the absolute hell made these guys think that NOW was the time to hide their content behind a paywall

jesus tap dancing christ

my brother said that one pic of werewolf nick looked like the live slug reaction so I had to make this

All this talk about Ryan Gosling in the Barbie movie but what y’all don’t know is that in a couple years he’s going to be in a movie portraying a middle school teacher who, through a wild set of circumstances, becomes best friends with an alien steam engine spider in space. It’s even cooler than that. He ASKED for the part. He’s a producer. He’s always been like this.