The Thoughts of a (Dis)Organized Mind

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These inquisitor meetings are kinda boring.

Happy May the 4th be with you!

The light of Alderaan still travels through space and time, if you look up at the night sky it's like it never really left ✨ Happy May the 4th!

Happy Star Wars day! May the Force be with you! @swsource Star Wars Week: Day 6

fyi: you can be fat and hairy and still be a pretty boy.

Pretty boy shouldn't only be for thin, hairless guys. Pretty boy is a damn mindset and you too can be a pretty boy.

Okay look. Yall are being dumb about this. Steven food shows aren't what's expensive in watcher.

One of the easiest ways to go under as a business is not managing your cash flow. And that's exactly what's happened here. Buzzfeed has a number of pans on the fire, if they need to shift budget around that's something they can do. A single studio on the other hand, cannot.

But guys come on. Let's not be dumb here. It's not Steven's show that's costing them too much money. Like, i'm not a fan of Steven, I don't watch his content so I can't speak on its quality. And the optics of the golf leaf tesla caviar situation aren't good. But I'm imploring yall to consider this from a more realistic perspective.

They've made some really poor financial decisions for ghost files and they're pretty plain as day to recognize. Firstly, the studio. A fixed cost. Every month they have to pay rent for a place that by their estimate is expensive. This is an expense that adds ... very little? To the viewing experience if we compare it to the buzzfeed set up. Hence, no new revenue from this investment.

Second of all. 25. People.

25 people =25 people's salaries. And not just anyone, these are producers and sound people and graphics animators and all that jazz, thats not chump change. You have to pay salaries every month whether youre making money or not. Once again, fixed cost with very little direct impact on revenue. No one is watching the show that wasn't watching it before based on its production value.

Plus, a bunch of upfront costs. Booking the venue for ghost files, the transport, lunging your whole crew with accommodation to who knows where.

Consistent cost every month + massive irregular costs for your main revenue source + a long production period = cash flow shortages . These videos are definitely filmed way before they're released, meaning you have to pay these costs before you can actually start making any money.

They make a ton of money, enough for teslas and caviar and all this jazz.... just not consistently. Some videos do better than others, they push their podcasts and low cost shows to try to fill the gap between high income series but like I said, fixed costs. You still have to pay rent this month even if you're planning to make a million dollar next month.

This is 100% about getting a more predictable and more stable source of revenue to fill the holes in their poor cost management. I promise you the expensive food isn't what's making the $100 000 dollar hole in their pocket.

This is why they didn't do a transition or try alternative forms of revenue or whatever, they looked at their costs, they looked at the revenue problem and they looked at the costs of doing this internationally and they said huh this would be alot easier if revenue was consitent and didn't think further than that. Steven's show was mentioned because on YouTube the costs wouldn't justify the additional expense, but if you've got consistent revenue to play around with you get better utilization of your staff, particularly for editing back to back shows instead of one block of production with majority of your staff idling the rest of the time.

This was a terrible financial decision because they didn't do enough market research and aren't controlling thier expansion. It is not because Steven Lyn wants to eat caviar or whatever. Yall are being Dicks.

Okay can we stop acting like Shane and Ryan are hostages? They are grown men and this is their company too. Even if Steven is the driving force, they are supporting this with their full chests. Ryan said it’s the “right thing to do” and Shane had the professor say “ well why not?” Which is every bit as tone deaf as Steves “ everyone and anyone can afford it”

"Steven isn't solely responsible for the paywall shift" and "Nobody wants to watch Steven eat insanely expensive food and have to pay for it" are statements that can coexist btw.

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