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I think we should bring back that thing everyone did in 2014 where you badly photoshop two characters from entirely different media together to look like they’re in love. This is my proposal for doc ock x glados please consider

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comm for @boltmarrow!

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I'm still seeing a lot of angry takes in the tags about how excessive Watcher's current costs are and how all fans really want, apparently, is "just shane and ryan sitting in a basement" back again. While I do think Watcher is probably spending over budget and that's a real issue, a lot of the takes I'm seeing show a fundamental misunderstanding of how video production works and where costs actually lie. So a few quick things that I just keep seeing that are bothering me:

It was never just Shane and Ryan in a basement. BFU did a great job selling that conceit and making sure you never saw anyone beyond them and maybe TJ, but they absolutely had other crew members with them on ghost hunts and they didn't do all the work on BFU themselves. This Q&A from Season 2 lists 36 people on staff for Buzzfeed Unsolved. It's fair to make arguments that Watcher may or may not need 25 people, but those arguments should not be coming from a place of "before it was just Shane and Ryan and nobody else."

If you don't know how many people are needed to make a professional video from a TV/film standpoint, you will not have a reasonable grasp of why Watcher wants to keep 25 people on staff. Sure, some YouTubers get by with a ring light and a contracted editor. The Watcher team have stated repeatedly that they do not want to work as just YouTubers and see themselves more as a production studio—so why do people keep referencing the YouTube model to understand their business? This is like asking the local shake shop why it doesn't function like the kids' lemonade stand down the block. The item category is similar but they're not trying for the same products or process.

The "gold dusted food" is not the big budget sink you think it is. On most TV shows I've worked on it's normal to partner with businesses that are shown onscreen and work out a deal where the price of the product (in this case the gold food) is reduced or eliminated in exchange for the free publicity. Watcher very likely made a deal with every restaurant it worked with to make the Korea trip affordable for the company. The real budget spends are on things you're probably not seeing but that still matter: camera and lighting equipment is expensive, insurance for that equipment is expensive, business overhead and paying your staff are expensive. So again—it's fine to critique Watcher for the streaming plan and the perceived budgetary issues, but go into this knowing the costs might not be coming from the things you see onscreen.

My source is that I work in TV and film and actually have a clue on how the industry functions. Again, 36 people worked on Unsolved (and those were the people mention in Season 2—who knows how big the team blew up past that in later seasons). Entertainment work is real work, and demands decent equipment, competent staff, and the same types of business and budget problems you'd find in any other business (overhead, staffing, etc.). Feel free to critique Watcher's business model, but first try to understand where that model is coming from and what goals it's attempting to serve.

#PREV TAGS: #rant! sorry! couldn't see another take from someone who clearly thinks video work is just fun and games because “it's entertainment right” #just magically happens and is made entirely by the onscreen talent. nutso #funny how people expect normal business costs and problems for any other career but if it's involved with production they think everything #anyway i think watcher is probably trying its best; maybe got too overexcited; but cares about quality of life for its employees and #wants no one working to the bone. which is admirable! the streaming service was a bad idea but they're not the literal devil like some thin #they're 3 self described idiots doing this for the first time. they backpedaled. i don't see this as the death of the company & i'm gonna #keep supporting them :) #END PREV TAGS #exactly this #i dont necessarily think the streaming service is a bad idea considering the success of things like dropout #its something the public is aversive to for fair reasons but its not something that hasnt worked #especially for the way watcher wants to run its business and treat its employees #which is very similar to dropout #the concerns about watcher being over budget is def fair and id hope maybe theyll get advisement on that if they havent already #overall tysm for your perspective

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I keep seeing posts adding up potential costs for Ghost Files episodes and how it could cost that much per episode and I haven’t seen a single one of you factor how long it takes to comb through HOURS of raw footage and raw audio. Multiple people, including Ryan himself sit there for days combing through hours of footage, cross checking the whereabouts of the crew and the groundskeepers to find anything potentially significant. Have you ever combed through footage where nothing is happening? It is fucking excruciating.

That takes time. It requires manpower. And guess what? Both of those things cost money. And they do it in such a way that they are doing everything in their absolute power to NOT misrepresent anything they find, which is something I can’t even say for shows on major networks like The Discovery Channel.

And then they have to cut all of this footage together in a way is meaningful and entertaining so that you can have your precious little guys, and your precious little bits, and your precious little ghoulies to make your little shitposts. That show eats money for reason. Be so fucking realistic for once, I am on my hands and knees BEGGING.

It is so obvious most of you do not value these people as highly skilled individuals taking the time to craft something culturally significant and genuinely entertaining.

And if they are spending more money on travel costs, hotel stays, meals, even entertainment while they’re away? I wish I hated to tell you this but that’s their prerogative. I personally would not want to come back to a cheap hotel room at 5 in the goddamn morning after filming for 8 hours in a pest infested building and then fly home in coach. I highly commend them for making sure their staff are as comfortable as possible while filming this because again, that’s something I cannot say that for a lot of major networks who are looking to squeeze as much profit out of their shows as possible.

Be ashamed of yourselves, honestly.

#^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ #watcher

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recorded sighting of bigfoot mogus spotted in the wild

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#AAGAJSGSJSHSJDGDNTHRNGJEHFHJR?@?@?@?@?@?_ #yeah i think i would become the joker too if tjis happened to me

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I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

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THE FACT LEUCAS PICKED CREAM IS NOW EXTREMELY FUNNY WITH THIS CONTEXT

we're split between orange and cream cat jadies and lentilmen there's only one way to settle this

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plagues history and global epidemiology as an autistic special interest was already a heavy topic but not a day goes by I dont briefly recall drunkenly telling people at the bar in autumn 2019 “yeah the next pandemic will probably be a coronavirus and we’re due for one”

if they remember that i have to wonder if they think they met the devil at the club that night

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HOLY SHIT. ITS ALL JUST ORANGE CAT ?????

we're split between orange and cream cat jadies and lentilmen there's only one way to settle this

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we're split between orange and cream cat jadies and lentilmen there's only one way to settle this

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reblog for sample size !!

#black cat :]

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I have never seen any art of Carlos with this tattoo and that is a tragedy

#wtnv

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What if there was ANOTHER update aquatic!!!

I had some ideas in a dream and wanted to share them #minecraft

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shout out to the actress playing eurydice in hadestown last night who said that if someone donated one million dollars to broadway cares, orpheus wouldn't turn around in the next show

#HAHAHAHAHAHA

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It’s important to remember that Pluto isn’t being kicked out of the cool guys club by mean astronomers and is, instead, transgender