idridian

[idridian]

DR: *calmly explaining the canadian music industry*

(three minutes of footage of Some Band performing a song)

DR: *continues to explain the canadian music industry*

#douglas rain #rock-a-bye (1973) #well that was fun. anyway

[idridian]

Send me a “ 🔥 “ for an unpopular opinion.

Bonus points if you include a topic. ( IE. shipping, roleplaying, ect. )

#ask meme

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randomly found another work featuring DR let's gooooooooo

#douglas rain #babe wake up new scrap of mr rain's filmography just dropped!!!!

[idridian]

also one real post about this and like, plenty of ink has been spilt on how disconnected watcher entertainment seems to be from its fans but i think the missing piece here is how disconnected watcher is from the rest of youtube. when the catastrophe hit i went to all my terminally online friends, the same way i did after the hbomberguy james somerton video, or after the ned fulmer fiasco, or the creepshowart scandal etc, or every time jenny nicholson dropped a new evermore video, including the ones behind the $2 patreon paywall we all gladly pay for, and for the first time...

no one knew who i was talking about.

these are not insulated people. these are people i can trust to have at least name recognition of almost any youtuber i mention. they know downtherabbithole and strangeaeons and cjthex and kappakaiju and miniminuteman773 and kazrowe and somemorenews etc etc etc

so when i put in the group chat, with no context, 'he wasnt even on cribs' or 'we have no cats kathleen' or 'only humble pagan commune schemes' or whatever, i usually do so with great trust that at least half the group will know what im on about.

this time, crickets.

i backpedaled a little and pulled up the 'ive connected them' meme and the fuzzy blue professor, and i got nothing at all. the only recognition i got was when someone belatedly realized that he had seen the goatman video when it dropped (although he had no idea that they had their own company now), and another person remembered that they had offered to collab with danny gonzalez, a youtuber with twice the subscribers

because she had checked back to see if danny went ghost hunting again, and lost interest because he hadnt.

i also brought it up in my dedicated buzzfeed unsolved group chat but ummmmm i am the only one in that group still watching ever since the shift to watcher oops

the only splash they had made in my again, TERMINALLY ONLINE friend group that watches hours and hours of youtube a day was a buzzfeed video seven years ago, and when they had failed to collab with someone more famous than them. i found myself in the unusual position of having to explain the situation to a bunch of dirty internet gremlins, all of whom heard the whole story and said 'why would they do that'

not 'why would they do that to their fans' but 'why would they do that as youtubers'

even aside from the moneygrubbing, we watcher stans were confused about why they tried to offer us a service we didn't need or want, and i think it obscured the confusion on why they thought it was a good idea at all, when so many other models were available to them. why werent they using their patreon like other youtubers? why weren't they collaborating with other youtubers? why weren't they putting out regular, lower quality content like other youtubers? if they wanted higher quality content, why weren't they partnering with nebula, like lindsay ellis, or netflix, like bo burnham. why didn't they run their ideas past someone like the green brothers, who have jumpstarted scishow and many other similar projects successfully, and are famously good to work with/consult with? why would they try to pull a roosterteeth? don't they know what happened?

and i think the answer is no. i think they just don't know those things. and they didnt bother to check, because they think all those things are beneath them. because they think corporate content is the only worthwhile kind there is.

why else would they think they have to have an office building, keep dozens of people on staff, buy expensive cameras, and build a streaming platform? why do they only collaborate with actors and singers who have corporate entertainment approval? why are they reinventing the wheel on buzzfeed when thousands of youtubers build perfectly stable careers with a mic and a camera, and sometimes hire an editor?

i guess my takeaway from this is that, at least they didnt break my heart as a fan entirely because they fundamentally misunderstood me. they did it, at least in part, because they do not understand how youtube works, or what part they play in it.

they dont understand how people use youtube. it is not a cinematic event worthy of the big tv, it is line goes up playing in the background for the 400th time as i wash my face and put my laundry away.

that is why they spent months and months planning this without ever noticing it was a bad idea, while millions of youtube viewers knew instantly. thats why they didn't start with a more moderate solution, why they never used their patreon properly, why they cared so much about the production value, why they thought a youtube audience, any audience at all, would jump at the chance to leave youtube.

bc youtube as a creator sucks, and we all know that, but youtube as a viewer is extremely comfortable. all i ask of youtube is to be mildly interesting in the background while i do other stuff. it is filler. some of the filler is extremely good, yes, but there is no room or reason in my life to give more of my money and attention to my filler, let alone to get a bigger screen for it.

and honestly, this is why i and others stayed on with the ghoul boys even though their quality dropped. because it's filler. im not even looking at the screen you apparently spent 100k on. im flipping my eggs. im washing my hair. im waiting for the bus with my headphones in and my phone in my pocket. thank you for being my background music. in return i will sit through your ads and push your view counter up by one. i may even hit the like button by accident bc my phone is in my pocket.

this is not to say i dont enjoy my filler. i would absolutely die without it. but it is not and never will be exchanged for the instances when i make popcorn in The Big Bowl and turn on a Real Movie on the Big Screen (my old laptop that is 15 whole inches) with my phone turned over so nothing can distract me.

my filler can't be my movie, and vice versa. nor should it be. but watcher doesnt understand that, apparently. they think youtube is cruelly preventing them from being netflix, and they think we want netflix, and they don't understand that, even with that half-assed apology that they didn't explain their dream correctly and they are jsut so destitute they had to take extreme measures after they went to europe 6 too many times...

there is a fundamental misunderstanding about how people use youtube , both as creators and as consumers. they didn't just misunderstand their fanbase. they continue to misunderstand the entire ecosystem. idk guys. maybe you should have learned something from those youtubers that you apparently think you are too good for.

and as for me, welp. i've booted people from my filler line-up for less. and there are soooooooooooooo many other fish in the sea, and they are not asking me to pay them 27 corporation salaries from my own pocket. they are asking for me to bump their view counter up by one.

goodbye boys. i really hope you find a way to fulfill yourselves artistically or whatever. but you have burned this particular bridge, like. forever. and i don't think i'm the only one who feels that way.

and not because i dont support people getting a living wage, you guilt-tripping vultures, or because i dont believe in following dreams and wishing on stars and whatnot.

but because i prefer to consume content from people who know what they're doing, and i simply no longer trust that includes you.

#watcher entertainment #this though. this is exactly it

[idridian]

"art thou lost, little creature?" (aka the aforementioned link to the fic. mind the tags, please and thank you! it has all the archive warnings on it for good reason)

that being said: thank you SO much for these, i absolutely adore them <3

finally i can stop sitting on this egg. i just... the last few... several... many months have been. H E H. long and meandering. but always full of some sorta growth. and that is good.

a commission, the last great one@! commission project, rather, that gave me the opportunity to do things; for my most esteemed patron, @idridian, whom had blessed me with much reading food. to give me a feeling of rawness, evisceration, otherworldliness even (because believe me i'm mostly dead inside irl lolol, so i needed me all of the above, that inspiration ensued).

mmmm. the thing what i fondly call watarimon, a.k.a. old wammy... and a wee 'godling.' from their fic "Never Were, Never Will Be". links will be provided.

a combination of concept, fanart, mood piece. i came, i read, i learned. i will grow. thank you. now i sleep

#sixrealmsbeneaththesea #spoiled monster #death note #me (a person who has never played bloodborne): hey what if watari/L but the aesthetic is entirely bloodborne #and by that i mean one of them is a horrible creecher and the other's a weird human doll or something #would that be anything

[idridian]

@comicaurora I was really inspired by your description of the eclipse, I haven't quite figured out how I want to draw a hole in the firmament of the sky but I am absolutely going to do it.

Also thank you so much for creating such a wonderful video about the eclipse! It was very cool

#overly sarcastic productions #regarding art #holy shit that third panel????

[idridian]

i have maybe the worst type of cuteness aggression about fiction characters that im attracted to

#callout post

[idridian]

"to all those who BULLIED Shane and Ryan and Steven into compromising, are you happy now?!????!?!!? 😡😡😡😡" yes thanks for asking.

#watcher entertainment #i have been blocking so many people these past few days #like i'm not even active in the community but we live in a shoot or get shot world yknow

[idridian]

A story in 3 parts

#watcher entertainment #please tell me the third article is also from the same writer again #update: i checked and YES IT IS

[idridian]

Watchergate: 4/19-4/22

#watcher entertainment

[idridian]

they will be releasing videos a month early on their site but otherwise it will be put on youtube for free (link)

#watcher entertainment

[idridian]

I survived the watcher tv incident of April 2024

#watcher entertainment #i haven't been this invested in something since that stupid submersible disappeared last year

[idridian]

The watcher Entertainment update

Key Takeaways from update uploaded 12:20PM (central time) 4/22/2024:

Videos will go up a month early on WatcherTV and then be uploaded to youtube for free

All past series are remaining on youtube

They launched it because they want more freedom in not having to make content for advertisers

Lots of apologies

All current patreon subscribers get a free subscription code, and if they already paid for watcherTV, they can contact watcher for a refund

Additional notes: The video was concise and to the point, genuine no music no editing.

#watcher entertainment

[idridian]

Summary of the Watcher apology video:

So they’ve started by saying we’re sorry we are gonna make changes

They acknowledge they didn’t announce it well and didn’t properly express appreciation for their audience

They have apologized for the cost and stating that the cost was smth everyone could afford

They’re making it so you can watch shows on the streaming platform a month early and ad free before they come out on YouTube for free

For those that have already subscribed they will issue a full refund if you want it

All episodes and series will remain on YouTube and new ones will premier on YouTube a month after they premier on the streaming service

They said they did it because they didn’t want to have to conform to YouTube ad requirements, didn’t want to fire anyone, and didn’t want to end the company which would’ve happened if they stayed on YouTube only

They said they overlooked how this would impact the fans

They are giving all patreon members a free subscription to the platform and will give a refund to those who already paid

#watcher entertainment

[idridian]

Hot fandom discourse take but framing dark content as only being acceptable if its a vehicle for exploring personal trauma is just giving ground to the puritan segments of fandom.

Simply liking dark content for its own sake is perfectly fine.

#fandom #it ain't nobody's fuckin business

[idridian]

About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

#fanfiction #ao3 #all my stuff is locked anyway #but yeah. there are many benefits to having an ao3 account

[idridian]

yeah, that scans.

#watcher entertainment