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anyway i think we should blog about episodes like normal after they premiere on watcher tv. none of this waiting a month so youtube people can see it nonsense i've seen a couple times. if people don't want to be on the platform that's their choice and they can mute accordingly it doesn't have to change our experience.

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Ok, the apology was good and the refunding patreon too. I'll stop talking about it now, my next posts about Watcher will only be about their new shows !

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Behold…

✨WORLDBUILDING✨

Excuse me as I go insane over the fact that Cybertron is an inorganic-organic hybrid planet

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The more I think about it, the more it feels like something desperate. They're not making enough money, so they had the choice to make that one last move or to fire people.

I see so many people saying they don't want to fire their "friends", as if they hired them because they were their friends. No, they started as colleagues, at BuzzFeed or Watcher, and they became friends because of a good working environment. They kept people from BuzzFeed who would have been out of a job with the ending of Unsolved, or who would have keep being miserable in the awful company that is BuzzFeed.

If it was this or firing people... yeah, I understand.

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this fandom is low-key one of the most racist ones i have ever been in and i have been in here one and off since 2020!! like no ur soft uwu white boy bean was not kidnapped by gun-point by theeee evil ceo to make this decision and no he is not ur leftist anti-capitalist paragon who just so happens to buy hundreds of dollars worth of products at whole foods and no! ur not slick calling men of color robotic and greedy and soulless and worthless and claiming that they're responsible for everything you don't like about the company while obviously your white boy fave secretly agrees with you because you can tell by the twitch of his eyes! and don't get me started on people calling ryan dumb or gullible or that steven must have manipulated him into it or that shane is the only one smart enough to idk... see through the evil overlord??? like do y'all hear yourselves? are you not a little ashamed? do you have no self reflection or do you think that because you slobber over someone who says "eat the rich" in one occasional video that it makes you immune from being racist. tale as old as watcher's founding too!

Just gonna post this because it's true in a lot of ways. The narrative surrounding Steven has always gotten right out of hand and a racist under-developed brain can't even put together how detrimental it would have been to the company and Shane, of all people, if Steven hadn't been there for them.

All they care about is monopolising spaces to talk over people of colour for a retweet or two.

I am at zero tolerance for that this time round guys.

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i get people not being happy about the watcher move. i get people mourning that they can't afford to follow the guys rn. but actually wishing they would fail? hoping watcher employees are stressed and anxious? i don't think you actually like them, i think you just like having your whims catered to and you just see the guys as your funny little puppet friends.

i get that parasocial relationships are a...complex topic, particularly when a specific kind of content pretty much requires fostering that vibe. even when you know it's a real phenomenon, it's really easy to fall into the trap of, "these people are really cool/funny! i wish we were friends" (and tbf, i think a "friend crush" is still a *little* different bc i think most parasocial relationships make you think, "we ARE friends...or would be if we met.")

BUT. the flip side is forgetting that these guys are people, too. people who gotta make ends meet, particularly if they want to keep providing great content. people with families, bills, expenses, and yes even little treats. like, shit costs money and we can't accuse someone of greed or hope they fail and then pat ourselves on the back for being anti-capitalist or something. this move is a risk but also surely not an impulsive one, and the guys feel this is the right move both financially and creatively then you should hope they succeed!

and, ftr—i already signed up, and i've already sent out my login info to friends who aren't in a place rn to pay. support the guys if you can, but i think the bare minimum is not hoping they crash and burn.

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I don’t think the Watcher TV move is being made out of greed. They have high production costs, and artists do deserve to be paid for their work. I do, however, think it is a monumentally stupid decision.

First of all, who in their right minds thinks the best way to announce a paywall is a hyped up countdown to a “big surprise”? They literally set themselves up with that.

Second, this is not sustainable. People have been comparing it to other creator-run streaming services like Dropout or Nebula, but those services have bigger audiences, bigger casts, and way more frequent uploads. In Dropout’s case, its more than three times the content (at least) for the same price.

I’m not gonna argue about how it sucks for people who can’t afford it. Unfortunately “artists deserve to be paid” and “everyone deserves art to bring them joy” are both contradictory but true. I will however point out that the majority of Watchers’ audience is young or lower-income. Pricing has to be decided with your target audience in mind.

This didn’t happen because Watcher got insanely evil and greedy, and its true that artists deserve to be paid.

But this was an objectively bad decision no matter where you stand. If Watcher doesn’t change course I will not be surprised to hear them declare bankruptcy in a year or two.

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My only real problem with Watcher is the patreon's situation. I paid for a year of early access to shows, that's what I wanted, and it's being taken away. I would be okay with everything if we had had a year warning.

I feel the need to say that my problem is with their business move, nothing against Steven, Ryan or Shane's characters. I still love them and their content and always will.

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Watcher moving all of their content going forward to a paid streaming service for JUST their own content and not posting on youtube anymore? Pitching that idea to a mostly young viewer base who dont want to/cant pay for an extra streaming service? ohhhh they're so cooked

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if you give “stupid” characters rural/southern accents i don’t like you and if you give “smart” characters rural/southern accents but it’s a punchline i don’t like you even more

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Someone wrote 'Best [character and character] oneshots ever' in their bookmark of one of my fic and it's honestly so sweet like 😭 I think they single-handedly cured my writing block !

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BREAKING: Andrew Ilnyckyj and Adam Bianchi join Watcher! The trio will produce and star in a brand new food show. “We picked up where we left off with Worth It, but we’re also making something completely new,” Andrew shared.

More info to come this Friday with other major announcements.

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“Are you a human being?” - Professor Morris Ashley @wearewatcher

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The Olivier Award for Best Actor goes to @Markgatiss for @MotiveandTheCue at the @NationalTheatre – Lyttelton & Noël Coward Theatre.

Congratulations, Mark!!!!!!!

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M27 Spoilers

I've had a few days to think about it. It was funny for the first day but honestly, I'm quite tired of all of this now. I've fell out of Detective Conan for a long time and have mostly kept to the Magic Kaito side of things. But the writing problems have been growing ever since Gosho started to use Detco's writing format in MK.

For the new reveal, I'm not even that bothered by the "Kaito & Shinichi are related" part. It's been 25+ years, shippers are going to ship. What I hate is that it ties Kaito's story to DC even more, how it makes both the Kudo and the Kuroba parents seem even more unlikable- and for what? What does making Toichi and Yusaku brothers add to the story?

If Gosho really wanted to build up to this reveal, he could've had a flashback chapter in MK. Maybe during Toichi's funeral where Yusaku shows up in the crowd somewhere, have Kaito mistaken him for his father because they look alike.

Kaito's main appearances these days are in DC, where he can only be shown as KID during a heist. Yet whenever we go back to MK, we get the exact same format. Despite years of MK's run, we still have little to no information of who Toichi really was. For a plot whose main character's core motivation is revenge for his father, we get little story about what his father actually did, or any scenes of Kaito investigating past KID heists.

It is true that Gosho has hinted about the reveal in past interviews, and lamp-shaded it in the recent DC Hakuba chapter (Ch1119). But it doesn't change the fact that it contradicts plot points that he has already written (Shinichi's Childhood Adventures), the fact that it took him 10 years to get to this reveal. If your strongest evidence for this reveal having a precedence is, the author has hinted at it before in years-old interviews outside of the story itself, then it is simply bad writing.

Anyways, if you want a story where a funny thief man is a horrible father and gets thrown through the wringer by the narrative, read Arsène Lupin instead!

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