long thoughts abt watcher
its so weird to me that people are being like ‘you aren’t entitled to free content’ about the watcher situation bc that’s not the actual problem here. artists deserve to be fairly paid, but the watcher situation reveals a truly bizarre level of business incompetence and a lack of market research.
they actively cultivated a relatively young audience, actively claimed to be ‘eat the rich’ style liberals, then turned over and told that audience that they need to pay $6/month. which again, fine! dropout did it and survived, but dropout had so much more backing it up, went about the transition slowly, and on top of that, their audience was older and therefore had more spending money available.
watcher has none of that. it would be one thing if they had started marketing to an older audience months ago, or changed the style of their content to match the heavy production costs. but as it stands, they built their career off of relatively simple videos with a lower budget, gained a specific type of audience from those videos, then expected that audience to pivot with them when watcher realized they wanted to make a different type of (more expensive, more produced) content.
it can’t work that way. the audience is not acting entitled right now for feeling a shock, bc the audience became loyal to watcher due to a desire for a certain kind of content (specifically the dynamic between shane and ryan).
and if watcher wants to make different content and be paid for it on a more regular basis, that is also okay! but they severely miscalculated their existing audience, and definitely misunderstood how much their current audience wants to watch the style of videos they want to make.
also, imo, ryan and shane have admitted that they dislike the admin side of running a business. i think they truly thrived as regular content creators and not as business managers, and so they struggled to figure out how to run their company and ultimately handed over the reins to steven to wash their hands of it all and go back to making the content they want. and thats also fine, some people are not built for business and work better as individual contributors.
but ryan and shane and steven also seem to have a view that their simple content is almost… beneath them? they talk a lot abt challenging themselves to put out well produced content that their cultivated audience clearly doesn’t really care about. its a mismatch between watcher’s desires for the future and the audience they built in the past that ultimately led to this mess.
they had two options: easier option to make the type of low-budget content their audience has been proven to enjoy, or put in the work to build up an expanded audience so that they could fund the content they wanted to make, put in the work to do a longer, more well thought out transition, put in the work to make connections and figure out how to manage their revenue streams.
and instead they decided to take a shortcut and brute force their existing audience to fund their dreams, and in the process shooting themselves in the foot by alienating their audience. i just can’t comprehend how they reached this conclusion at all.
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aita for getting a boyfriend and not immediately telling my best friend?
I (18 ftm) started dating this guy (18 m) about a month ago. my best friend (17 nb) and i became friends when we were 11. when i was 14 i moved away to a different state, and we still stayed in contact. my best friend is aroace and has expressed that they want to live with me when we finish college, and has also said that i am the platonic love of their life. up until meeting my boyfriend i never said i felt the same way, but i didn't outright say i didn't if that makes sense? i just kinda let them say that stuff and would say thanks and then change the subject. also because we live in different states we've kinda drifted apart and because sometimes they're pretty mean about my interests i dont share a lot with them anymore, but we're still pretty close. anywayyy the reason i didn't tell them abt my bf is basically any new friend or honestly not even friend just like someone i talk about a lot they will message for some reason? like maybe they just wanna make friends, but it always come across as a little bit weird. im cool with it bc tf am i supposed to do, but it is a little bit annoying. anyway for those reasons when i got a bf i didn't tell them immediately. i didn't want to have to deal with them messaging him after like a week of us dating and i kinda just wanted to spend time with him without them getting involved, because they've done that with a lot of my friendships in the past. i also didn't tell them immediately bc as previously mentioned they said im the platonic love of their life and i just wanted to enjoy being with my bf for a bit without having to deal with that can of worms. probably selfish but yeah. anyway after about 3 weeks of dating i told them about him, and they got really pissed off. they said that me not immediately telling them showed i didn't trust them and also is going against our agreement to stay together forever which like i wasn't aware that was an agreement we had but ok. anyway yeah they haven't spoken to me in like a week and are ignoring all my texts. aita?
What are these acronyms?
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phil and cellbit hcs?
VESPER YOUR MIND...
qPhil headcanons masterlist
When Phil needs answers on something, he goes straight to Cellbit (at least pre-Purgatory, he's switched to Bagi over the months bc they've gotten much closer).
Another reason he's so pissed abt the reset is bc the Feds took them the fuck away from The Order, which had all of Cellbit's tools for figuring out the weird new shit they encounter on QI
ANOTHER reason Phil hates the reset is bc there's not much weird shit going on over here? It's just?? Capitalism?? There's nothing to take pictures of for Cellbit. And he really misses dropping an entire goldmine of new pictures for theorizing on Cellbit and watching how excited he gets about it :(
See, Phil and Cellbit were close prior to Purgatory; look at the Order, Phil picking his domain (idr their formal names), etc. But Purgatory did.. something. I mean, it did something to all of Bolas, but something extra to these two's friendship. The leader role, the way Cellbit fell into a sort-of second in command & substitute when Phil wasn't around, Phil (was meant to be) rescuing Cellbit & Baghs. It was teamwork and brothers in arms shit to a degree they'd previously not reached. It's permanently intensified their bond and trust in each other. Which I can't wait to see unfold if Cellbit keeps getting worse. >:D
It's a 50/50 if Phil is concerned about Cellbit's (re)rising murderous tendencies and potentially "resurfacing" cannibal habits or if he's just like "Haha, friend is stabby, lookit him go. :)"
I have a hot take. Roier to Etoiles in Purgatory is Cellbit to Phil. Loyal attack dog more than happy to create bloodshed for their equally scary leader. The authority aspect has kinda gone away post-Purgatory but Cellbit will still kill a man if Phil says do it. Phil wouldn't ask that of him if he didn't have a good reason.
Phil is super awed and inspired by Cellbit's building skills. Idiot will be like "damn, wish I could build like that" as if he can't. Bitch you just refuse to!!! (I want these two to build something big and sick together so bad)
I don't know how things would've played out if Cellbit was present for EK possession things but I know it would've been fucked up and intense. And I can't explore it in AMFMN because Cellbit & Baghera are still missing in it. 😔
That said, Cellbit gets told Phil was possessed by some old piece of shit he used to know and is immediately like "Phil I will fight god for you, I don't give a FUCK"
Phil absolutely loves watching Richas take on more and more of Cellbit's unhinged traits. He's a bit worried he's gonna become a little ball of murder too, but Richas has like half the fucking island as parents, he'll be fiiiiiine.
I don't remember if qPhil knows about the Purgatory 2 murder spree stuff but I like to think he doesn't yet because boy would his reaction be spicy :) If he does know and I've forgotten, he 100% didn't entirely process just How fucked it was.
As close as they've become and as,, kinda chill? Phil has been about the whole murder thing?? He's still deeply worried about Cellbit in other ways post-Purgatory. Dude's seemed withdrawn, he can't remember the last time he saw him with Roier, and just overall things have been different to a degree Phil is sure isn't normal or a slow bounce-back period. But every time he has a free moment to check in, Cellbit's never around.
Actually, as Cellbit gets worse, I think Phil will go from chill with how things have been worsening to Oh Fuck because he's gonna see a lot of his Antarctic self in him. It's not like Phil isn't proud of that era or anything, but. Mentally and emotionally? Being cold and merciless like that takes a toll. One Cellbit shouldn't subject himself to.
Phil cannot for the life of him Not laugh whenever Pac brings up the whole. Leg eating thing. Pac is so out of pocket about it nowadays bc it happened so long ago and Phil gets whiplash from the casual jokes every time. I think if Cellbit made jokes about it Phil would keel over.
Just out of spite and for the sake of clarity: Phil is not Cellbit's fucking parental figure. Cellbit is not his son. They are grown ass men. They are friends. Colleagues. Confidants if we wanna stretch things a bit. There is nothing familial about their bond.
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I just saw your Twst Mommy headcanons (they were really good! I really like them!! Omg Sam calling us Mama in public....)
But how about the Obey Me boys with their own Mommy hcs?
Mommy kink + Obey me boys
MINORS DNI
I didn't want these to sound too much like this or this or this orrr thisss so here's.. these
Wants to call you mommy
The thing is… i really truly genuinely think that all of them want to call you mommy.. Therefore these are just the boys who I think wouldn’t like to be called mommy
Mammon you could absolutely get away with calling him mama/mommy in a domestic sense, however.. Hes soo subby that the moment you assign any dominance with the title, he gets turned off. That’s why I think he likes calling you mommy, because youre the one in charge. That and its hot.
Levi come onnn you knew levi was gonna be here.. He looooves calling you mommy and hes sooo cute and sexy about it !!! I just know it’d fall from his lips in a high pitched whine and oooh it would just drive just abt anyone crazy!!!!
Satan Months ago I probably would have told you that I think satan would like to be called mommy but.. I can only think of him as hard sub these days.. Therefore he is kitty baby boy only :) he is gratuitous with how often he calls you mommy. It slips out in public sometimes and not intentionally
Belphie He’s such a brat he could never be mommy. Unless! he’s knocked the fuck up. He will call you mommy but at first he does it playfully/jokingly I think.. And then it’s VERY much not a joke.
Diavolo so baby boy he can’t mommy!! He loves calling you mommy anyways. It drives him crazy,, the dynamic is so reversed from his usual life it makes him hot and bothered!!
Wants to be called mommy
Lucifer I’ve written too many mommy luci fics to not be completely convinced he’d have a mommy kink. It just fits him and his milf ass. he's so taken with the title hehe.
Asmo He can be mommy 100% !! the title will inspire him to wear more dresses and act like a housewife lmao. He likes to pretend you have kids too (until you finally knock him up.. And then he doesnt need to pretend >:))
Beel Man has such an intense domestic and pregnancy kink that mommy kink goes right along with it. He loves being called mommy if it means you’ll dirty talk to him about getting him pregnant and how you’re going to make him a mommy with so many kids.
Barbatos he is mother!!!! Idk ive always felt that Barb is mommy.. Maybe bc of his canonical caretaker position? Regardless if you call him mommy he receives the title with pride. It makes him very hot and bothered and blushy >:)
Simeon like barb, maybe the only reason I think simeon would like being called mommy is bc of his caretaker tendencies.. Totally lives up to the title, he’s such a milf. Part of it is the domestic kink tho,, so make sure you make him a real mommy hehe
Solomon I think he genuinely loves being called mommy. It makes him wildly horny and he has no excuse or explanation. If you bring it up first, he’s enthusiastic and shows you how turned on it makes him. If not, he’ll be the one to start referring to himself as mommy.
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