THAT’S MY TWITTER ACCOUNT. THAT’S MY TWEET. THAT’S THEE RYAN BERGARA READING A TWEET I MADE AFTER WATCHING THE TOP 5 DISNEY DILFS VIDEO. WHAT THE HELL. WHAT THE FUCK. MY NOTIFICATIONS??? THIS SUDDEN FAME??? DURING PRIDE MONTH NO LESS.
Shane: Ghosts are gonna be crazy 100 years from now someone's gonna be like 'I saw a little boy in the hallway doin the stanky leg and then he just disappeared!!'
what i can't comprehend about the whole watcher fiasco is why they're in a rush to completely pull away from youtube when it's very clear that their company isn't a position to do so yet.
this is a four-year-old company who should be building more value to the watcher entertainment name. at this stage of their careers, they should be honed in on building a bigger and more consistent content library, reeling in more viewers, and finding ways to make watcher a household name.
but right now, they don't make enough content to justify a completely separate, paywalled streaming platform. they pump out new shows and new seasons every month, but their upload schedule is so sparse they can't even afford to upload new content for a full week.
and as much as this hurts to say, they don't even have a big enough audience to justify this decision. to the general public, they're still better known by the work they've done under a famous media conglomerate rather than the work they do now. that's not a good thing when you want to pull away from the biggest video sharing platform.
as someone who has been content creation adjacent for most of my professional career, the desire to be less reliant on sponsorships and make high-caliber content in a way that's sustainable is valid. i'm with them on this one. i want my favorite creators to be able to create the content they love without worrying about how they're going to pay their staff and how they're putting food on their table.
i'm just failing to understand how this is going to work out for them when a good chunk of their audience isn't in a position to shell out money for a streaming service. i don't know how they're going to find people who want to pay for watcher tv when their existing fanbase can't even see the value of their streaming service.
people more knowledgeable than i have pointed out that there are many ways for them to find people who are willing to pay to see the television caliber content they've wanted to make from the day they launched without pushing out the people who've also been there from the very start but don't have the financial means to follow them into this new stage of their company.
idk. i think i'm just more upset at how it seems like they didn't even try to find a middle ground between their vision and their audience.
ok i know its my own hubris for participating in the watcher discourse even slightly but.
please god can you guys stop talking about this under the weird lens of "actually it was all stevens idea and shane and ryan secretly hate it heres a clip of shane from 2017 set to sad background music" becuase my GOD it is so fucking annoying. you don't know these guys these are Grown Men what are you ON ABOUT
Shane: I'm all for human rights and shit, but if you're on a tour in a factory and decide to wander off, it should be legal for the floor workers to hunt you for sport.