#i'm too invested in this but i have a morbid fascination w trainwrecks you know?? god i love a good dumpster fire

[yeyinde]

i’m so sorry i have literally no other social media what’s going on with shane?? feel free to ignore if you don’t feel like answering LMAO i know it’s not ur job to be Reporter for the Amish (me) i’m just sooo curious

no worries, i got you!!!

it's nothing that Shane did alone, per se. but basically, Watcher hyped up this big announcement that they had (w a countdown even, which—hindsight?? oof) and it ended up being that they were leaving YouTube (a la Dropout, but without the money, the decades-long support from fans, the cultural status, the portfolio diversity, and a mega-rich owner to bail them out if things went bad) and starting their OWN streaming service/platform. it's like, $82CAD a year, and maybe $8.27CAD a month (or $60USD/year or $5.99/month). that's what they're asking their fans to pay. and in a global cost of living crisis where rent has easily surpassed income by a margin that fills me with existential dread just thinking about lmao

but post-backlash, they updated their pinned post on YouTube and said that they would release the first episode of each series on YouTube (AND keep their backlog of work up, for free—how generous), but the rest of the episodes, and any new shows moving forward, will be on their streaming service exclusively.

the gist of the move is for better "production quality" which is ridiculous. it's almost as if they have no idea what made them special in the first place. and, IMO, its just (wheeze). that's it. that's all they needed. i'd watch Ryan and Shane sit in a basement and bicker back and forth about cryptids or DB Cooper any day over this.

and i fully get supporting your favourite creators, but this move was just. not it :/ not when they don't have a fraction of the backlog to justify such an insanely high subscription price when people can barely afford to live.

#it's just. a mess #but the youtube drama docs on this clusterfuck should be fun #goddddddddddd #i'm too invested in this but i have a morbid fascination w trainwrecks you know?? god i love a good dumpster fire #watcher #aptn should hire me