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Ok y'all. I'm mad.
See, Youtooz teased the mini plushies a while ago, and I've been super excited. But then, I realized they would probably be sold as blind boxes, which is annoying, but whatever. I figured I could buy a few and then find other fanders to trade with.
And THEN, I see the preorder page, and I see this shit.
$29.99 USD. For ONE 6 inch plushie, that you don't even get to pick. Anyone remember how much the original 9 inch plushies cost? Because I do!
What kind of ass backwards entitled bullshit is this?????? They really want to charge us almost $30 USD for MINIATURE plushies THAT WE DON'T EVEN GET TO PICK?????? AND THEN HAVE THE AUDACITY TO OFFER A "DISCOUNT" IF YOU BUY THE FULL SET OF FIVE FOR $100 USD.
And look, I don't know or care if this is directly Thomas's fault. Maybe it's just Youtooz being a shitty greedy company. I remember the FNAF Sun and Moon plushies were $30 each. But those also had magnets in them, so you could pin them to your shoulders/bags/whatever and show them off; so I figured that's what caused the higher price tag.
It just astounds me that a creator like Thomas who claims to be so fan focused would agree to so much of a rip off. I really really hope for his sake and the sake of us as a fandom that this decision wasn't his, because it's gonna reflect really badly if it was.
#warcats rants#ts criticism#ts critical#thomas sanders#thomas sanders critical#youtooz#greed#tw language#so angry right now#i knew it i knew they would be blind boxes#literally the shittiest way to sell merch#might as well tell people you only see them as cash flow#i hope so so much he didnt set the price#i know youtooz is the manufacturer#but i also know thomas gets a cut of the profit#watch me post this at midnight#then go to bed and wake up with death threats in my inbox#brb gotta turn off anon#does anyone else see this as sketchy?#or just me?#>.>#sanders sides#sanders sides plushies#also i have a gut feeling#theres gonna be a lot of mini thomas's on ebay#a few months after release#which -not sorry- that would be so funny#how to tell what your audience really wants#there were two for sale on mercari after the original size plushies dropped#literally the day after i got my first delivery
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I mean we’ve been saying this whole time that everything surrounding you and me so far is so obviously Jennie’s idea and not YG’s and it’s so laughable that the one area that Jennie didn’t do herself - the merch - has been the shittiest part. This merch collection is literally something I could make myself by taking the picture into a print shop and I could probably get it for half the price YG is selling it for too. I can’t believe Jennie managed to get THE Naoko Takeuchi to draw something for her only for YG to create something this mid with it. It’s possibly the worst blackpink merch I have ever seen. I don’t think we’re being dramatic about it either because, just like anon said, this so perfectly encapsulates YG’s repeated and consistent incompetence and lack of creativity and effort. I too thought the you and me rollout was a step in the right direction which made me more hopeful and less hesitant about the idea of the pinks renewing with YG but now… hmm… knetz are talking about how disappointed they are so hopefully they’ll see it and get better merch designers in the future but that might be wishful thinking.
exactly 😐 i honestly expected something cute for this collection so my expectations were admittedly way too high, but it would have never even imagined it would be THIS bad ? like it’s honestly embarrassing cause bp are not some random broke nugu group, they’re the biggest gg of the moment for god’s sake, but that’s so not represented by this merch ? im just so disappointed, and i didnt think yg could disappoint me any more than usual …….
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ok what is the yt drama i have not watched popular youtuber since shane’s jeffree starr series and quit that half way thru so like not to be a dumb whore but what happened
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What's the drama? I want to be nosey.
nfjn there’s a lot to summarize tbh and im just gonna gloss over it but tati westbrook uploaded a video today that (imo) shed some light on what happened with her, shane, j*, and james charles last year and basically claimed that shane and j* fed her a bunch of lies about james that ultimately led her to making that bye sister video (which... i think they did definitely have involvement, but she also said a lot in that video and still claims that she did not lie in it so idk). j* also claims to have some kind of voice memo from a victim of james charles that he’s been spreading around the yt community (which is so fucking disgusting if it’s real/true) and he just basically uses the fact that he has ‘dirt’ on people in order to shut them up or say whatever he wants them to say. meanwhile today, shane (who has so much other shit going on rn like jfc) went on ig live watching tati’s video and calling her a manipulator when he’s literally friends with the biggest manipulator on the platform (j*, who he also continues to claim is like family to him 🙄) and claiming that Tati’s fake crying and rolling his eyes/saying ‘shut up’ when tati mentions being a victim of abuse herself. and im sorry but if you have nothing to hide, you don’t go into attack mode that easily (esp since he was quicker to jump on her than he was to address his own past shitty behavior, some of it he hasn’t addressed--like the smith’s). i personally believe tati that shane and jeffree were out to get ahead of james charles and really stirred this whole pot, i just think j* was the main instigator in all of it, as he usually is. he’s gone back and forth constantly with james since tati’s video last year, blamed everything on tati, spreading around a potential victim’s story (again, it’s alleged at this point) with people all in the name of fame and power and money.
but yeah im not saying any of them behaved correctly by any means, they all did really shitty things. i just think j* is the shittiest in all of this, especially if he fabricated those allegations. and it pretty much just recently came out that shane had involvement in everything too, when no one even knew that before this year. idk shane’s intentions, but again, i agree with tati that he and jeffree were trying to use all of the drama to sell the palette, which was pretty much a landmark in the beauty world. like everyone fucking bought that shit or bought shane’s merch.
there’s a lot more to all of this, like i think this could be an entire chapter in a history book one day djknvjf but yeah.
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1D Day: Hour Four
Over the past few years, I’ve seen people try to insinuate that Zayn wasn’t into 1D Day, that he was moody or distant or some other adjective that implies he was on his way out the door, and to those people I ask, did you actually watch any of this, especially hour four? I mean, seriously, watch Zayn over the course of the whole day, but hour four is a revelation if you’ve ever had that notion. He’s witty, charming, happy, smiley, completely on board with every stupid game, and so professional with the fans and the rest of the team that he makes Liam look like an asshole (and Liam is so very far from being an asshole, like, ever).
In fact, both Zayn and Liam are naturals as hosts; they’re a dream broadcasting team, and for all the (justified, mind you) attitude Louis and (especially) Harry throw down as the day progresses, it’s the complete polar opposite with Ziam. I could watch hours and hours of these two because they manage to convey that fake on-air TV personality chirpiness with a sincerity that’s endlessly compelling. They’re also off-the-charts HOT on this here day (Louis, too, but Jesus CHRIST have mercy on us in hour four). Let’s break it down under the cut.
Hour four kicks off with Zayn and Liam skateboarding onto the set, and Liam is honestly me with his plaintive “I’m really rubbish at skateboarding” as he basically stands on a board that somebody literally pushed in a straight line into the shot.
Zayn’s all excited that this is his first hour (like, he’s literally pumped up for it, and some could argue that he’s as coked up as Harry appears to be, but he’s not as aggressive, he just seems legit happy to be there). Liam’s an old pro by now, and the general mood is positive and calm, in spite of the mega fuckups in hour three and the immediate in-ear issues they’re both already experiencing. Help, they're so hot:
The first segment is about invention ideas from fans, and joining them in the Google+ Hangout (lmaoooo) is Peter Jones (Liam: “a very rich man”) from Dragon’s Den, aka the UK’s Shark Tank, and for all of his cash and presumably all of the D’s, this feels VERY low rent. Way to sell this Google ad, team…maybe that’s why Google+ is a total failure, hmmmm, makes you think. Anyway, the first invention is a 1D Kube, and noah fence to this fan, I’ve made better merch, c’mon, people think outside the box:
Because Peter’s gross, he suggests using nude body parts of the boys instead of their faces, and me as Liam, completely creeped out by that suggestion. The next idea is a 1D pillow, where you go to sleep, and the pillow pipes two 1D songs directly into your brain before powering itself off, but Liam wisely says this might be more distracting than soothing. Peter’s right there with the idea that it should instead offer up soothing pillowtalk (Zayn, take notes!), which instantly worries both me and Liam because it’s weirdly sexi instead of sexy sexi.
The final invention is fart pants, which boils down to deodorized boxers for people like Niall who practically shit themselves when they fart in closed tour buses (paraphrasing). Naturally, Peter likes this idea a LOT, and asks Liam a low-key invasive question about someone stealing his underwear, which leads to a riveting tale of the missing pants and a nervous Liam asking Peter exactly how he knew about this incident. Peter laughs it off as something he found online to embarrass Liam with, but try harder, asshole…they answer worse questions than this before breakfast.
Next, we get Julian “I can’t bother to find out how to spell his last name,” one of the D’s cowriters, in a cringe VT about picking up girls with 1D lyrics. It’s so fucking gross that only Ben Winston could have come up with it, and it goes on FOREVER, even though nothing about it is interesting or cute or witty or anything other than tedious yikes for the women involved. Even Julian knows it’s creepy, and he seems like a guy who’s pretty comfortable with creepy.
We get back in the studio to some actually attractive people who have chemistry together, and, no, it’s not Julian and John “I can’t bother to find out how to spell his last name either” (they make sure to sit far enough apart to maintain their extreme masculinity):
Liam has some good interview questions for these two, such as, “What’s your favorite song that you wrote on for this album,” and John thinks he’s clever by saying it’s both “Little Black Dress” and “Little White Lies,” but the real gem here is the audio of Liam creating “Better Than Words” out of thin air. Look at this fondness while we all listen to Liam’s genius (it’s kind of embarrassing, this whole bit):
We move to fan selfies, and Liam does a terrible Irish accent to request potato selfies for Niall. Moving on to the call box of doom, the two Larries currently rocking out in there seem to dig “Strong” the best (as you do), and Zayn, valiantly battling someone in his ears, politely whispers, “You can crack on listening,” before shutting the door softly.
The VT of randomness from New Zealand prompts Liam to ask, “Zayn, what did you get up to in New Zealand?” (the answer is getting a snake tattoo that’s one of Liam’s favorites on him, in case you’re wondering). But before we can ponder any of that too closely, it’s time for opera singer Rebecca to return for the excruciating opera version of tweets.
Scott’s on the scene to point out the obvious, i.e., Ziam makes it all look so easy, but this next segment is not for the faint of heart. The boys have to blindfold each other (!!) and then feel up crew members to see if they can identify them. Whyyyyy is this so tender:
Someone else blindfolds Liam after he does Zayn (Liam, after it’s done: “Nobody touch me”), and there’s a brief moment where they can feel each other, and Zayn says, “That’s you, Liam,” and fuckkkk me up, wowwww, it’s a lot to take in:
Anyway, they go on to feel up a lot of doughy white guys to see if they can blindly identify them, and AGAIN, it’s gross because Scott keeps encouraging them to feel this person up below the waist, too (note, they don’t know if it’s a guy or a girl). Fortunately, it’s a parade of doughy white guys until they get to Lou Teasdale, and Zayn identifies her immediately because she’s so fidgety.
We head over to another Google Hangout, and god, words cannot express how good Ziam is at this because even though the same shit happens here as it does in the last hour, these two handle it all like pros. I live for Zayn’s, “Have you been watching the whole show? Are we doing a good job?” with an intense amount of sincerity, and thank god these girls give him the thumbs up because they truly are.
My fave part of this segment is the girls who ask them what their first CD and concerts were. Liam says Linkin Park for CD and Gareth Gates for concert, which earns him boos from the homophobes in the studio, but warm hugs from me. Zayn, who answers this fan question to Liam instead of the girls who asked it, says he can’t remember his first CD, but his first gig was JLS with the boys, and wow, the first date realness here:
Zayn’s genuinely sweet throughout all of these fan segments, asking questions and being invested in the answers, dawwww. The last question is about where they get the inspiration for their dance moves, and Liam says he blags its, but Zayn is here to kill us all by saying, “My inspiration for dancing comes from you, Liam (Louis in the background: “hahahahaha”) because you’re such a good dancer,” and god, I’m not ready for this right now, tbh.
There’s a BSE VT from the fans before a bingo spin to figure out who to follow (again, just follow them all, what does it even matter at this point, ratcha fratcha). But the most annoying part of this bit is that even *I* can hear the in-air buzz of chatter from Ben’s team, so I cannot even imagine how annoying it is in actual ears, holy fuck.
Next up is a live link to Finland, to say hello to the fans who created a massive fanbook that Zayn carefully flips through and sincerely thanks everyone for creating. The VT he introduces next is Louis playing footie, and YES, look at this angel who’s only 22:
Naturally, there are LOADS of technical problems and fuckups, but it’s so refreshing to hear that “hahahahaha” in a massive, empty arena, and to see him practicing a sport he clearly loves.
We’re back with the poor bastards running the Guinness Book of World Records, this time with Liam’s ass smashing balloons (Zayn: “If he wins, do we get our names put down as well?”). The first time is a bust (ha) that ends up hurting Liam’s balls (how, I don’t know):
Everyone agrees they can do better, but Zayn’s not having any further fuckups as he literally coaches Sandy in the background about how best to hold the balloons so that Liam’s ass can smash them in the most efficient manner:
Sadly, it’s not enough to smash the record, much to everyone’s chagrin, but there’s no time to fret or redo, we're off to Stan teaching Zayn’s school to sing (ooops, the VT is incorrect, it’s Scott teaching the X Factor staff to sing “What Makes Your Beautiful,” and they’re the shittiest singers ever, so go off on judging people, I guess).
As per usual, the highlights are fucking horrific. Can’t wait for hour five!
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