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PSA: less diet culture, more dietitians like this

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Wait for it.

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i feel like a rabid animal like i’m about to start biting things

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Wait for it.

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“I’ve been a massage therapist for many years, now. I know what people look like. People have been undressing for me for a long time. I know what you look like: a glance at you, and I can picture pretty well what you’d look like on my table. Let’s start here with what nobody looks like: nobody looks like the people in magazines or movies. Not even models. Nobody. Lean people have a kind of rawboned, unfinished look about them that is very appealing. But they don’t have plump round breasts and plump round asses. You have plump round breasts and a plump round ass, you have a plump round belly and plump round thighs as well. That’s how it works. And that’s very appealing too. Woman have cellulite. All of them. It’s dimply and cute. It’s not a defect. It’s not a health problem. It’s the natural consequence of not consisting of photoshopped pixels, and not having emerged from an airbrush. Men have silly buttocks. Well, if most of your clients are women, anyway. You come to male buttocks and you say – what, this is it? They’re kind of scrawny and the tissue is jumpy because it’s unpadded; you have to dial back the pressure, or they’ll yelp. Adults sag. It doesn’t matter how fit they are. Every decade, an adult sags a little more. All of the tissue hangs a little looser. They wrinkle, too. I don’t know who put about the rumor that just old people wrinkle. You start wrinkling when you start sagging, as soon as you’re all grown up, and the process goes its merry way as long as you live. Which is hopefully a long, long time, right? Everybody on a massage table is beautiful. There are really no exceptions to this rule. At that first long sigh, at that first thought that “I can stop hanging on now, I’m safe” – a luminosity, a glow, begins. Within a few minutes the whole body is radiant with it. It suffuses the room: it suffuses the massage therapist too. People talk about massage therapists being caretakers, and I suppose we are: we like to look after people, and we’re easily moved to tenderness. But to let you in on a secret: I’m in it for the glow. I’ll tell you what people look like, really: they look like flames. Or like the stars, on a clear night in the wilderness.”

— What People Really Look Like

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If you’re feeling like a raging bitch for no discernible reason, you’re probably hungry. Go have a snack. I don’t care if your stomach isn’t growling, just go eat a cookie or smth.

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Adult Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase are the most surreal power couple in the mortal world.

Annabeth Chase, world renowned architect who was entrusted with repairs and renovation on the Empire State Building…

…and her husband, this guy who was wanted by the FBI for blowing up the St Louis Arch seventeen years ago

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Y’all: I present spiced coffee

When making coffee, just add to the grounds before setting the coffee machine (this works best with drip or pour over)

1. Half a cinnamon stick

2. Like 5-6 cardamom pods

3. Two-three cloves

Pound lightly in a molcajete or on a course setting on spice grinder. Add to the top of your grounds. That’s it!

This goes especially good if you take your coffee with cream and/or sugar. I use condensed milk in place of both, and it’s FABULOUS! It’s basically a lazy masala chai with coffee instead of tea leaves.

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Yeah, I get this.

Like, I don’t think they’re all evil monsters. I think it was a shitty, smarmy, greedy move that is going to exclude a lot of the fans who most loved and supported their business when they really needed that support. I think it was insensitively handled. Personally, besides Puppet history and the occasional mystery files Ep, I never actually watched most of the watcher content. I didn’t like it as much as I liked BFU, but that was a personal preference. I know others still like enjoyed the content.

I think this was a terrible business decision. From what people who know the world of YouTube financials, the ballpark estimate of what they were making on YouTube and with sponsors is way more than they’re likely to make off of this site. The site itself is poorly designed, as people who DID buy a sub have mentioned.

I also think it shows a remarkable lack of awareness of their target demographic- teens, broke young adults, international people who can’t afford the subscription since they didn’t adjust it for other areas of the world, or people who might be *able* to afford it, but understandably don’t want another streaming service, don’t think it’s worth their hard-earned money, or were just so put off by how the announcement went that they’re choosing not to on principle. All of these were, from a business sense, pretty massive fuck ups.

Do I think this makes them all terrible people? Not at all. Life is more complicated than that. But I don’t really know them beyond their capacity as content creators, nor does anyone else who watches their content. So while I don’t think they’re awful people, I do think it was a shitty thing to do to fans, almost certainly a shitty business move, and I will probably feel a little bit smug about the company crashing and burning when it eventually does because of this, because I’m a petty bitch and, like many people, I love watching Internet drama that doesn’t actually directly affect my personal life.

So yeah, I hope they learn from this. I hope nobody else subs to their dumb “streaming service”. And I kind of hope their shitty decision is met with shitty consequences. But I am not gonna come at them with a pitchfork and say they deserve to have their lives completely destroyed over this because I don’t think they’re bad people. I think they’re doing a pretty shitty thing and I’m angry about that.

But that said, the vitriol of some of these people on tumblr is definitely concerning. Like I don’t inherently think para social relationships are automatically terrible. But they DO need boundaries and limits. I think it’s definitely over blown and at an unhealthy level if your favorite celebrity doing something shitty causes you the same level of anger as a deep personal betrayal by a loved one.

the watcher discourse has completely gone out of the window on all sides and I have no idea what to believe anymore

like idk it feels like an absolutely terrible business decision that will massively impact viewership and subscribers but immediately calling these people evil feels like some people completely jumped the shark

why have I only seen this hate now? it all feels very parasocial

I'm sure they thought this was a great idea, and it absolutely wasn't. it's a huge disappointment. I don't know their wealth, I don't know what to regard them as. it's all completely out of hand and I don't know what the right information is so much that it actually hurts. I don't want to be soft or hard on them for this. I'm angry at the world in general and the cost of living crises happening and the ability to enjoy things without seeing these deluge of subscriptions everywhere

I'm in the middle and I just want to fucking scream

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Ok I know I already made a post about watchertv and how it’s a horrible idea and no have not had a change of heart about that- but I really just want to get into the math of everything because like, they we’re making a LOT of money.

Patreon: 12,019 supporters (at the time of me checking today. Many definitely unsubscribed when this video dropped) with an average spending of 13.33 a month. Totaling 160,253 dollars a month, or just shy of 2 million dollars a year

Merch sales: they have a very devout fan base that buys a lot of merch, they sell a plastic paper weight for 36 dollars. All of their hoodies are 80 dollars. Their shirts are 35-50 dollars. They sell a pack of 7 patches of their different show logos for 65 dollars. The posters are 80 dollars. To my knowledge They do not publicly share what they make from merch sales, but I know that they have sold out of certain styles, witch means that people are buying these. The merch is without a doubt at a very steep profit margin- no where in the world will it cost 80 or even 40 dollars to make these- so we can just assume that whatever assured total we come too, it will be higher by 10-20 thousand(just an estimate, I’m not an expert on YouTube merch).

Sponsorships: (this info is from moist critical who runs a company who specialize in setting up brand sponsorships with YouTube channels.) watcher is/was a very big and successful channel, with 2 minute sponsorships adds on every video I could find- they are with out a doubt making 20-30 thousand dollars from every one of those sponsorships. They post weekly, meaning they make about 100,000 a month from that. This doesn’t include any money they received from discount codes either, only about 2% of viewers use discount codes so it’s fair to say they receive a few thousand dollars from that, we can just total it to about 101,000 to be conservative.

views: YouTube has always been very hush hush about what they pay. Different YouTubers have stepped forward and said what they make on views alone but watcher is not one of these channels. With watchers average views being about 800,000 per video (very ‘about’, some get 3 million and others only reach 500,000) and YouTubes policy being about .018 cents per view we can say they comfortably make 14,400 per video, 57,000 a month.

Add cents: add cents and views are a different thing, for every add that is seen in a video you get a adicional .018 cents, watchers content is very monetizable, and with it being long from content 30-45 minutes, they have a lot of adds. Let’s just assume 1-2 mid roll ads on every video and that’s an additional 20,000 per video, 80,000 a month.

Adding ALL of that together

Watcher makes 398,253 dollars a month. Flat out, no merch added.

If you think you can’t afford to pay 25 people a month with 398,253 dollars- I literally don’t know what to tell you.

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Full offense, if you have the money to pay for a watcher subscription, you also have the money to buy esims for Gaza, or donate to charities, or donate to Palestinian go fund mes. Put that $6 to helping Palestine instead of supporting three rich content creators. They’ll live

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some of y'all need to cool it about demonizing steven lim so you don't have to adapt the perception you built of your ghoulboys

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At this point I would pay $6 to see the Watcher financials what the FUCK is happening over there

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Apologies to mutuals who are not Watcher fans who keep seeing my furious reblogs on their dash. I really can't stop myself from reblogging and making posts about it.

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watcher selling out is actually catastrophic to me do you even understand

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just gonna leave this here

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