#fanbase and support

[bisexualgerardway]

6 mid lvl hardcore bands and counting dropped download fest as part of the barclays bank boycott (backed by the BDS movement) and not a word from the biggest headliners … whatever whatever label issues to worry about WHATEVER. i think fall out boy are being quite cowardly

[mumblers-lobby]

We don't know that guy.

Before anyone starts whining, go donate to the fund OUR community started for actual SA victims. Shut up and put a dollar on the jar. Thanks, Good Night.

[jovialoddity]

Today marks the one-year anniversary of my first ever piece of Mr. Puzzles fanart!!! Here’s a redraw to celebrate :)

God I can’t believe it’s already been one year of this guy taking over my life… can we kill him with hammers (lovingly)

[queenofspeed]

Being a crane wives fan is like "Oh, I've been feeling sad about something, I'll listen to the crane wives new song to cheer myself up" and then the song perfectly describes why your sad about it

[slutforpringles]

rip

[calculatedklown]

People can say a lot of things about Gortash fans. But what they can’t say is that y’all ain’t a supportive little group when it comes to being unhinged about him 24/7. I never receive more hilarious comments than when I post Gortash art, and I think that’s beautiful.

Keep foaming at the mouth and gnaw at the bars of y’all’s enclosure. And always mention it in the tags. I would like to always see it.

[eggcats]

"people are mad that that artists wanted to be paid" no, people are mad that they HAD places of revenue they could have invested in and instead decided to fuck everyone over and piss off their fans who have been there since the buzzfeed days

(+ the only reason they're now saying they're not pulling content is BECAUSE of the backlash, and this isn't even going into how any growth is now impossible if it's their own platform, they are NOT big enough or produce enough content for this)

like, apparently they have a patreon? have never heard of it. absolutely no advertisement on it, when PLENTY of people would subscribe if they plugged it at ALL (like, fans love bts content, early episodes, extra/uncut stuff, having their names be credited at the end, a discord, etc) but I've never heard of it, and according to people who have subscribed, they didn't find it worth their money (not an ideal baseline for their own service)

they have merch? make more and better quality/nicer designs (or just fun quotes! so much of my stuff from their buzzfeed days is just shane quotes, but the only stuff I've bought from them now is their jackets and the professor doll, nothing else. I've looked at their catalog, it's ugly. put a funny quote on a shirt and I'll buy it guys, it's not that hard)

a youtube membership for similar stuff to the patreon, yt livestreams, USE THE PLATFORM YOURE ON MAYBE???

explicitly asking fans to turn off adblock for them on their videos

but, like, I am absolutely not paying $60 just for like 1-2 shows that only get like 4 episodes a year. they do NOT have the content for this on their own (and why tf do they have 25+ employees???? bro what) - not to mention, the inaccessibility the new platform and ability for non US based fans to even subscribe

people watch bc of the dynamic between Shane and Ryan, some of my favorite episodes are ones where we get the random text on screen- nothing fancy

tbh I get what they want but it's been my opinion that too much of their stuff that I watch has become a) formuliac and b) overproduced without much to show (imo mystery files comes to mind, it's Fine but I only enjoyed the banter vs all the unnecessary visuals, the same with ghost files)

I've seen people mention how expensive just the ghost hunting stuff is, and like yeah, maybe stop buying that big fancy brandname equipment without and instead ask for sponsors to advertise your stuff, all that stuff is nonsense anyway so it's not like you're lying about like betterhelp or something

and idk, maybe having a show where you apparently eat gold and caviar isn't the best if you're struggling with money (esp bc who watches it? not me)

what they need is someone who actually knows anything as their ceo, having less than half the staff they do, and investing in the avenues they already have with SOME pay walled content (not all), and maybe learn how to actually produce their shows without bleeding themselves dry bc the fans watch for THEM not the "production value"

[cdrspages]

OKAY THIS IS THE LAST IM SHARING OF THE ANIMATIC UNTIL NEXT WEEK … ALSO VIVAVIDEO IS GOING TO MAKE AN ENEMY OUT OF ME ⚠️‼️ GRAAAAAAAAAAH

[gracie-rosee]

what beef btw sjm and bloomsbury are you talking about?

It’s all theory at this point. There are rumors that their relationship is not so great and many people have theorized that they are in a big legal battle, hence the silence.

My theory? Bloomsbury stopped tagging her in posts after the acoten editions and the hofas paperback announcement so I think maybe those were the last projects in their contract and they’re milking them for the most that they can. Now she’s renegotiating or maybe trying to leave them.

And hopefully she is. Bloomsbury hasn’t actually done good for her personally and are hanging on to her as tight as they can because she’s their biggest money maker, that’s it. Bloomsbury’s CEO publicly blamed SJM for bad business instead of defending her and showing her support. What kind of partner does that?

SJM is entitled to her silence. And I think the backlash after hofas, the fandom hell, and BB just not supporting her on top of just trying to lead a normal life and raise her infant children is too much. People need to remember she was publishing 2 books a year for over a decade. She deserves a vacation.

[antisocialxconstruct]

this evening I am once again mourning the fact that there's never been a really good high budget cyberpunk mmorpg

[zengguos]

god she's so pretty. they could never slay and eat her because she was always figuratively (and literally) eating the rest up by just existing next to them.

[barzfrommarz]

the way dream has not changed. Welcome back 2020

[svt-kiki]

i…. need carat friends in here…….

[the-blueprint]

Fanbase

Yes, U can make money on Fanbase.

[shushmal]

everyone talks about corroded coffin and eddie being a rockstar, but no one talks about the robin-steve-jonathan-argyle 90's ska band like??? the disrespect

[beauty-and-passion]

The anon who got mad about Thomas’ patrons being called his “investors” is wack when it’s been proven he makes AT LEAST 40k a month SOLELY from Patreon, which is nearly half a million every year simply off of Patreon. Not to mention everything else that makes him money. This man has a net worth of 3 million. Google it!

He is an indie creator, but that doesn’t mean people giving him money through the avenue he requests it aren’t INVESTING into his creations. His patrons probably invest more into him than brand deals! The difference is, brand deals get a video in return quickly. The fans? Nothing they’ve been repeatedly hype baited about for years. Shows you where his priorities are and it’s not on those defending this behavior.

His Patreon is basically a Kickstarter for his projects and so far, he’s gotten full funding with next to no results for four years!

Anyone defending this is wild! It’s awesome to support your favorite creators but it seems like that support is going to fund his own pocket instead of actual work. If he was actually using the money supporters gave him for his team and project, he should never have to lay off his ONLY writer and artist with that kind of support and yet, he did.

I couldn't have said it better, anon. Not only it disproves the "free work" idea, but it also highlights how little Thomas actually does for the people who are paying him more than any other. Gosh, his patreons are not his investors, they're basically his employers! And yet, what they ask for never comes.

Sigh.

And in the most recent post, he repeated the same message of "Let your creation come from joy and not negative pressure" which:

makes no sense, because the "negative pressure" he's experiencing is simply people asking him to do what he promised

makes him look like a whiny child, playing victim for nothing and fishing for attention

makes me question if he even is a creator, because every artist knows that you can't just "let yourself work through joy" to get things done. Making something doesn't require just joy, but also commitment and diligence. And yes, also working when you don't feel like doing it. That's how creation works, he should know that (even if the last developments are making me question it).