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They are endgaming this shit

#bnha #mha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #I could say a lot of things about this chapter but I am overwhelmed #it feels like we are finally near the end

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Educación pública, gratuita y de calidad para todos los Argentinos y los habitantes del mundo.

Credito: PepitaSandwich

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Mutuals (y gente en general que si va tmb) a la marcha, POR FAVOR cuídense y llévese un trapo o algo para taparse la boca y la cara en caso de que tiren gases de cualquier tipo.

Un periodista también recomendó antiparras de pileta.

Edit: Antiparras NO son lo más recomendado. Pueden hacer mal a los ojos.

Y un par de cositas que leí que puede que sirvan, más vale prevenir que curar.

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Por @pilardibujito en twitter

Dibujé este escudo que tiene la humilde intención de nuclear el espíritu de la universidad argentina.

Nuestra universidad es gratuita, pública, laica y federal. De todos y para todos.

Pueden descargarla gratis acá abajo!

Nos vemos el martes en la calle para defenderla. 🤍

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I'm surprisingly super cool with the update response Watcher made. I think what was really being lost in the conversation is that they wanted to create content that was free from advertiser influence. If you watch a lot of YouTube essayists or TikToks, you know that people talk in round about ways to get points across (unalive myself, SA, r*pe) because they can get demonitized for not doing so.

The way they handled it with initially putting everything behind a pay wall to oh no not everything just new content but Patrons will still have to pay full price for a subscription to WatcherTV and also saying the price was one everyone could afford was out of touch and rightfully upset a lot of people. But I understand them wanting to create content that wasn't beholden to advertisers.

I think they took a lot of responsibility and self-reflection and I'm pretty happy with their response. These changes to the model should be much more sustainable and make more people willing to sign up. I am cautiously optimistic.

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Now that this whole Watcher debacle has had some resolution, can we discuss the blatant racism that runs RAMPANT in this fanbase? The way so many of you were throwing solely Steven Lim under the bus is DEPLORABLE. And it was clear to see you guys were also quicker to blame Ryan than ever let even a hint of the blame fall on Shane's shoulders. Shane isn't your poor little white boy who can do no wrong. He's a fully grown man. In the video, it's Shane who specifically says that the THREE of them had made the decision to switch to streaming, and I bet it's because they saw your horrible comments about Steven "seizing total control of the company" and "poor Shane he looks like he didn't want a single part of this." Yall can act like you think it's because Steven's the CEO that caused you to lash out this way even though you yourself know that they don't operate in the traditional dynamics of the company. They all founded the company. You can pretend it's because of that, when we KNOW why you guys threw Steven (as well as Ryan) under the bus while you glorified Shane. I'm disgusted.

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I survived the watcher tv incident of April 2024

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

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You can still criticize Watcher and all three of the guys without being absolute freaks about Steven Lim. Btw

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It’s like the try guys not having an HR department until they needed one. You can’t be the boss and be friends with everyone, eventually it will catch up to you and you will find yourself receiving a hit to your reputation and not knowing if you’ll recover

and alright, here's my last (let's hope) and boldest take yet. lots of people have been talking about the level of staff (around 25-ish people) at watcher, and whether downsizing that number could have been a potential avenue of reducing costs before just jumping to a subscription model. at first i was like yeah, i'm not sure that there needs to be 18 people involved in making a lets play. i was in the fucking trenches in the unus annus days and i'm still amazed how markiplier and ethan nestor managed to put out pretty well edited videos every day for a whole year with only a handful of editors and a couple people filming. what unus annus was trying to do and what watcher is trying to do are obviously pretty different, but the point is that you really don't need a whole crew of people to make lots of different types of content and do it well.

i still think there probably doesn't need to be a whole production crew involved with the creation of some of the simpler types of content watcher puts out. however, i don't think the size of the staff is the real problem. in fact, i think the staff of watcher probably should have been larger.

let me explain. if i begrudgingly go to one of my most detested websites (linkedin. *bleeegh*) and look up watcher, i can see that pretty much every person on staff is in a creative role of some sort by their own admission. at first glance, its like, oh, that makes sense. they're making creative products, it's natural that they should all be in creative roles. however, once you think about it for a little longer from a business perspective, that fact is really concerning.

after all, by watcher's own definition, this is a production studio. this is a company. So in this sea of creative roles, who's doing corporate planning? Who's managing finance? Who's doing payroll? Or brand outreach? Or human-freaking-resources??? you can hire outside groups for all this. i'm aware. but those services cost a lot of money to contract too. i'm just finding it concerning that there is pretty much no one on full time staff that is there to at least do some of this stuff. if watcher wants to be a big-boy company, that's fine, but that means you have to pay some people to be part of your company to do the not-fun business stuff like accounting. or resource management.

if they want to be a real company, they should actually have a lot more people on staff to deal with all the non-creative parts of running a company. even if they contract out most of it, you want at least a few people that are your people and don't actually work for someone else. that's how you don't get screwed over or end up in a contract you can't get out of.

which leads me to my last train of thought. like, as i go through the staff of watcher and look at what they do, it really seems like one of the ONLY people who's job it was to look at the business side of things WAS steven lim in his role as CEO. and thinking about that, i'm like god, can you imagine?? here's a guy who just wants to create cool stuff too but as one of the few people who has to think about the realities of Brand and the Business, HE has to be the one to burst the bubble. He as CEO has to say no to people and make decisions to make sure the company survives. In a group of creative people who just want to make things they're interested in, no expense spared, he was probably the guy who had to stay at least a little tethered to reality.

I'm not about to say that steven lim isn't to blame here. everyone involved in making the decisions that have led up to this point is part of this. but shit, it absolutely sucks to have to be the person at the end of the brainstorm session when everyone is coming up with their best ideas and to have to say "guys, i don't think any of these things are possible unless we make some big decisions."

is that what happened at watcher HQ? i don't know. at this point, with radio silence from everyone, speculation is all we've got. but if you follow the thread of a bunch of creatives striking out on their own to make their own business after being burned by their former employer, despite not knowing really how to run a business, and then only hiring fellow creative people and not other people who actually run business things... well, all of this starts to make slightly more sense in WHY none of watcher's actions make sense. everybody wants to stick it to the man and be their own boss with their own business, until it actually comes to the hard parts of doing that. at that point people start to realize, "oh, maybe some of the things that existed at my old job were there for a reason, actually."

all this is why lots of creatives striking out and starting their own businesses don't work in the end. they're thinking about in terms of creative products still, when they really need to be focusing more on the "business" part of the "creative business." it's sad. it sucks. it destroys a lot of good ideas and good people, because one person in every company like that has to be the one who thinks practically. could this have been avoided if watcher had been hiring people all along to manage this business and not just adding people to add to the creative output? maybe. even then it might not have been enough to curb other predictable impulses that led us down this path.

i feel bad for watcher, and i feel bad for the fandom. but i can't help but wonder if this was always the kind of situation we were going to end up in, and we just missed some of the warning signs because ALL of us were thinking, "well, that could never happen to us. we're different. not the Ghoul Boys."

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ive been seeing some people deride others as childish or whatever for being like "ghost/mystery files wasnt as good as buzzfeed unsolved" calling it "sour grapes", but i watched a video talkin abt the watcher thing just now (by stateofmoregon) where she points out that, when youve been receiving something for free, and u suddenly have to pay for it, it forces you to think about whether or not you actually like that thing—if it's worth paying for, if you only liked it before because it was free. which i think is a good point. it's not that people are suddenly denying they ever liked ghost/mystery files, its that many of us are being forced to reexamine whether or not ghost/mystery files is something we actually enjoy or if we were just taking it because it was free, and many of us are deciding that no, we never really did enjoy it on the same level as buzzfeed unsolved

i know that i personally havent even watched a ghost/mystery files episode in some time bc every time a new one popped up in my feed i just felt apathetic about it, none of the excitement i used to feel about new bfu eps. and i realized a while ago that ive only really been forcing myself to watch new ones out of the hope that maybe this time itll have the same charm as bfu did. so i really dont think its fair to say its "sour grapes". a lot of people are just being forced to reckon with feelings that theyve had for a while but just never bothered to acknowledge because hey, its free.

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Am I happy Watcher rolled back their plan and apologized? Yes. Have I still lost any desire to watch their videos? Yes. Do I think people are being too harsh towards Steven, singling him out and such? Yes. Do I think Steven and Andrew bringing back worth it in the middle of a global cost of living crisis is extremely out of touch? Yes.

All of these things can coexist. Feelings towards the situation can be complex. It happens.

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so are watcher fans going to apologize for the unreal amounts of racism they projected toward steven or are we going to pretend that was totally normal behavior?

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Watchergate: 4/19-4/22

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It’s great that they apologized, it takes guts, they did a good job of addressing everyone’s complaints and finding an alternative path. But I can’t help but think how their reputation took a gigantic hit, it will all depend on the content they upload from now on.

I’m not very invested on new videos (I recently subscribe to dropout, all the talk about how great they are got me curious) but maybe I’ll watch puppet history as background noise if a new season comes out.

#watcher #watcher entertainment #watcher tv #please stop being racist towards Steven #I’m gonna go watch dimension 20

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ex buzzfeed employees love sitting in threes on couches for their apology videos it's good enrichment for them