Sooooo Watcher is currently imploding and I have a lot of thoughts about it, especially on my anxiety of what this might mean if their streaming service actually works.
Spoilers on today’s announcement video: Watcher is moving all of their content to their own streaming platform for a fee of $5.99 /month, and they are also archiving all their old content so we cannot watch it for free anymore. This is supposed to all happen by May 31st.
I fit within the majority of feeling disappointed and betrayed. I can’t afford that, and even if I could, why would I support that when other options have not been tried yet? A patreon? Exclusive content? More merch? It’s frustrating seeing creators we trusted to understand and empathize with their audience slap us across the face like this.
I keep thinking of other channels, other companies, that have been on YouTube for longer and have not done something like this to us. Game Theory, Try Guys, Smosh, Drawfee, the list goes on and on. I understand their content might be less work/ money to make, but I feel like most fans would be fine if the quality had to go down a little for us to keep everything free. We don’t need a whole complex set design for them to teach us history or weird mysteries and love it.
And lastly the reason why it gives me so much anxiety is if this actually does marginally well, we might see more YouTubers alienate their content like this for money. Not only would we have major streaming services to worry about, but now all these minor ones too for YouTube content creators that have 1/100th of the available media. I’m exhausted.
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