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Reblog to hug prev poster (they need a hug)
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I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth
#what we have started doing more and more is putting non-permanent divides between living spaces#like big feature doors etc so if you rly want an open plan you can have it#but you can define spaces better close them off etc#i actually rly like that bc it gives a chance to let more light in when you feel like it#but also completely block off spaces
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while the topic is still trending can we please talk about how parasocial some of the people in this fandom are?
i'm seeing way too many people talking about how "shane and ryan are being held hostage!!" "ryan sounded so uncomfortable during the announcement, he had to be forced into this!" "there's no way shane would ever support this! he got voted 2 against 1 into accepting this decision!" "i bet shane is thinking 'i told you so' right now with the way he looks in the video!" and becoming body language experts and so on both in the comment sections of the apology and the original announcement.
THESE ARE GROWN MEN. shane and ryan are not uwu innocent little babies being held captive by the big bad evil steven lim or whatever. they are both co-owners of a business. they are businessmen. nobody got voted out 2 against 1. nobody got forced into supporting this. shane and ryan took a part in making this decision come to life just as much as steven did, and they have to take accountability for it, whether you like that or not.
it's okay to admit that your favorite youtubers are not innocent and made a horrible business decision without putting much thought into it, which was a huge mistake that blew up in their faces. it's okay to be critical about the stuff you like, you don't need to delude yourself into thinking shane madej is blinking out "HELP" in morse code in the announcement video or something to free him from any sort of blame.
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Watcher fans, as someone who has seen this rodeo happen to other internet groups and companies time and time again, I suggest not letting your guard down just because they made an update response to their video.
Cos it always starts of with "guyssss nothing is gonna change, everything is going to exactly the same with only some minor changes dont worry! uwu"
And guess what? It's almost and undoubtedly a lie. Every single time I see this happen they slowly roll new things and change it for the worst. "Nothing's gonna change!" and then a year down the line everything is completely different and bad and it's too late to fix it and they have your money so at that point they're not gonna care.
Biggest example I can best describe is Roosterteeth cos I used to be a fan of them for years. They pulled the "nothing's gonna change we're just gonna post stuff a week later than members will get to see" stunt so many times years ago and guess what? They're shutting down this week because it all came to bite them in the end.
I'm not like suddenly anti Watcher or anything in fact I'm glad they're still keeping the youtube channel up but I've been through this rodeo before and this like the easiest corporation tactic to slowly turn the heat up and make shit worst until you the frog notices too late to get out of that boiling pot. The only difference in Watcher is that they did a dumb and accidentally spoiled the ending for the frog before they could turn up the heat and boil it.
Big companies like Disney did it. Small companies like Roosterteeth did it. And now Watcher's doing it. Don't fall for it. "Oops sorry!" Isn't gonna cut it when you break the trust of your audience to that extent. People's opinions of them are never gonna be the same, and everything that has occurred (the video, the silence, the targetted backlash commenting they did and what's gonna happen at the live tour tmr) should make everyone think twice before spending your well earn money on their sketchy platform.
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tbh most youtubers from the watcher gen / age range got into youtube/content creation bc they wanted to work in film and/or tv and this gave them an opportunity and an outlet and i think for a lot of people the goal IS to grow and try and fulfill their dream projects. so them trying to get onto a streaming service or even tv EVENTUALLY would make sense, especially after setting up the company and making this their definitive day job.
but it just feels too early right now? and it feels weird bc cutting it off entirely from the platform, on which their established fanbase is, seems like a huge miscalculation. it is not just the content being paywalled imo, i think it is the fact that nowadays everything else is, too. even if $6 is cheaper than a netflix or a prime or a mubi subscription, the content on offer is infinitely less, PLUS there is already a massive negative feeling towards streaming services on the rise. they are both too late on the queue (no one will be cancelling their netflix to subscribe to this) and too early (the business is not big enough).
like, i get where they are coming from but i wish they'd been smarter about their business. they probably could have spent a little more time diversifying their content and try to find appeal to a wider audience via it before jumping onto this.
idk it is bumming me out
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"we wanna keep the price low enough where anybody and everybody is able to afford it" for an unnecessary $6 a month subscription from the mouth of someone who drives a tesla and wants to make a show where he judges whether a dish with edible gold and caviar on top of it is "worth it" while the majority of their audience is struggling to make rent is giving high key let them eat cake energy
#watcher#a price low enough where anybody is able to afford it is watching shit on youtube without skipping the ads lmao#i find this decision premature to put it lightly#the company is still too young and does not have enough content#plus quitting cold turkey NEVER works come on#just an all around bizarre decision when the fanbase of your flagship personalities#comes from a show that picked up when it was at its cheapest to produce#literally a room and a powerpoint
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— David Foster Wallace , from “The Pale King.”
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Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023), directed by Rachel Lambert
Cinematography by Dustin Lane
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nana x studio nicholson for 'eyes magazine' (2024)
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A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.
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