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steven lim: we actually need more money for higher production value so that you guys have the best! and we're bringing back a super expensive show! for you guys, the fans!

the fans:

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I think they should've created an OnlyFans account for Professor. It would unironically made them so much money.

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if i had a nickel for every time 3 ex-buzzfeed members that started their own youtube channel continuing what they did back there on a couch after a massive controversy of their own doing, i would have 2 nickels! which isn't a lot but. it's weird that it happened twice

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What I'm happy about the watcher situation is that they took our opions and thought of a solution. Like who does that these days? And this also shows that they do care about us. And they listened.

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less than 12 hours of sleep divided across the 3 of them

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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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Nico: The Ocean is a soup.

Percy:

Percy: Do elaborate.

Nico: What are needed for something to be a soup?

Percy: Erm... Water, salt, some form of vegetation, and personally I prefer some meat in mine.

Nico: *Tilts head*

Percy: The Ocean is a Soup.

Nico: The Ocean is a Soup.

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The mischaracterization of people from PJO is so funny, but ESPECIALLY from HOO onward like.

“Hazel’s such an innocent little angel. She’s always nice and kind and confused.”

Hazel, who’s always ready to fight in the same way Percy is? Hazel, who made it explicitly clear she probably would’ve rocked Octavian’s shit had he not been blackmailing her? Who gets so angry on behalf of the people she loves, to the point where she doesn’t forgive those who have wronged them? Who Percy described as cursing up a storm in one of their first interactions? Who’s been shown time and time again to be FAST to anger? That Hazel?

Or Nico, who’s “a misunderstood emo. A small bean. Cute like a wet cat and innocent like a bunny.”

Nico, who’s cannonically described by most characters as “scary and unnerving?” Nico, who, for a long time, is one of the angriest characters in the series? Who’s only sassy and sarcastic because it took him FOUR YEARS to mellow out? Who’s described as being one of the most powerful demigods, who a lot of people still consider the scariest? Who’s come into his own as a character from TTC to TSATS? That Nico?

Or Annabeth who’s, “cold and calculating. Doesn’t show emotion or express herself”

Annabeth, who’s the most expressive person in the series? Who cries in EVERY book in the OG series? Whether it be for Luke, or Thalia, or Percy, or Chiron, or a literal DOG? Who expresses passion like no other when it comes to architecture and her other interests? Who’s expressed compassion for people she didn’t know? People who at times posed a threat to her? Who isn’t afraid to be angry, or happy, or snide, or rude, or excited, or scared, or ecstatic? Who’s been unapologetically herself since the moment the series started? That’s who doesn’t show emotion? That’s Annabeth?

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sobbing into my plate after overhearing a conversation between a mom and her tiny daughter in this shopping centre food court

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leader of a trio of college kids waking past me at walmart: okay. mission number two, finding where the popcorn is.

his friend: wait, what was mission number one?

leader: fucking getting here, travis.

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i'm seeing that y'all are gonna let watcher control the narrative and act like we misunderstood them and they were never gonna remove their stuff from youtube. you can say whatever you want about their streaming service, but one thing is a fact: they are lying to us pretending that was not their intention and we're spreading misinformation. we not only aren't stupid and understood the video correctly, but also they told variety that that's what they were doing.

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"People wouldn't invent anything if there was no profit motive."

Well, that's clearly a lie.

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it's also kind of insane how fan reliant their business is. aside from are you scared, too many spirits, ghost files that literally use fan submitted stories as their premise, the marketing done by the fanbase is huge. i alone have several watcher posts over 10k notes on here that have breached containment and made it to people's dashboards who don't know what watcher is or never seen an episode. i've had the watcher socials use my posts as memes on their own sites. even the biggest memes that are still from their bfu days (hey there demons, it's me ya boy) is good marketing. what are they gonna do when all of this goes away?

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OMFG THIS COMMENT. GUISE. THAT LAST SENTENCE IS SO FUCKING RAW

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Paul Blofis would absolutely throw hands with Fredrick Chase after finding out how he treated Annabeth and you cannot convince me otherwise.

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No way