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👑 Announcing team Pink Parrots! 👑

@.TangoTekLP @.impulseSV @.EthoLP @.theskizzleman

Watch them in MCC on Saturday 4th May at 8pm BST!

ellomello3

God this lineup......... Really tempting me... But I gotta watch Scar for Star Wars Day I literally must

#mcc #mcyt #i am SO here for this team this is amazing #ethos back!!!#and imp skizz tango on an mcc team together? omg #they're gonna have a blast i can't wait #ethoslab #impulsesv #skizzleman #tangotek #etho #tango #impulse #skizz

mcc-updates

All ten MCC Season 4 Kick Off teams!

ellomello3

Holy crap that pink team reveal. I think I gotta watch Green tho

#mcc #mcyt

philsmeatylegss

hey hey hey

Assigning you a song that makes white people go nuts (from experience)

catboybiologist

I didn't even care about the result, the questions here are just delightful

ellomello3

So apparently most people cant just jiggle their eyes super fast on command??

#Sk8er Boi - Avril Lavigne

People keep talking about 'all the hate' fans have been 'attacking' watcher with over the past few days and I genuinely do not know what they are talking about.

#The vast majority of posts Ive seen were people expressing that they feel hurt #or giving actual criticisms about the move #sometimes there was a bit of snark #none of that is bullying #or hate #Have you watched internet drama before? This was incredibly measured #99% of youtubers making a move like this would have been torn apart within a day #but watcher is so well-liked that most people Ive seen are even accepting the apology #watcher #watcher tv #I get youre relieved that people arent posting criticism after criticism now #but that doesnt mean the backlash was just a bunch of hate #i wouldnt even have described it as particularly vitriolic #sure a few posts crossed lines but it was SO few compared to what you would usually see in something like this

wearewatcher

An Update

ellomello3

Whoever did your comms here is the absolute MVP. This was a good response.

#lets hope its not too little too late #the fact that it might be enough to salvage this even though its been 3 days just goes to show how many people genuinely really like you #most creators would be well past the point of no return by now #watcher #watcher tv

moon-lv3r

just watched watcher’s apology video, how are we all feeling?

ellomello3

Much better than I thought it would be (I didn't think they were going to post at all). This is what they should have been doing in the first place and I'm still stunned it took 3 days of outrage for them to say anything. Their reputations are still damaged with me, so I probably won't be watching their videos.

#watcher #watcher entertainment #watcher tv

Watcher are not struggling artists being forced to make a drastic move so they can keep creating. They are people, who don't want to be YouTubers anymore, moving to Vimeo because they believe they can become a "real" TV Studio from there more easily than from YouTube.

They do not care about making content the YT audiences want because they do not want to be YouTubers. They don't care that you prefer the low budget videos, or don't like one series over another, they care about making the TV shows that they want to make. That's all this is.

Watcher went into this fully ready to lose a good portion of their audience because they don't want a YT audience. They only want an audience whos creative vision aligns with theirs - Watcher becoming a TV studio.

This is fine. It's okay to want to pivot your business. The issue is that they decided to attempt this pivot in the most abrupt, insulting way possible - through a video that puts a lot of corporate lip service around making this move "for the fans" while their actions clearly show this has nothing to do with what the fans want. It's disingenuous and condescending.

YouTube audiences not wanting to pay $6 a month for Watcher videos isn't "not wanting to pay artists fairly". Watcher was already being paid (and their apparent mishandling of money in pursuit of projects outside of their budget isn't on the fans). People not wanting to pay them is a direct response to Watcher no longer wanting them as an audience. Very few people want to support a company that takes its audience fans customers for granted, even if they can afford it.

#watcher #watchertv #watcher tv #wearewatcher #it's not that deep unfortunately #ghoul boys #shane madej #ryan bergara #steven lim

lady-raziel

looking back over my notes from crisis comms classes and one of them says that in a crisis a company should make a holding statement ("we hear your concerns/monitoring the situation/more information will be provided shortly") within 15 MINUTES of learning of a situation or within an hour at most.

with watcher it's been almost 48 hours.

if that wasn't bad enough, here's one of the graphics i saved that shows just how bad they're bungling the response. they're doing none of the things the chart says to do and the ONE THING it absolutely says not to do.

#this is interesting #I've never studied crisis comms specifically #watcher #watcher tv #this is going to be a case study for marketing and comms students for sure

ozsvessalius

pssst I couldn't post this as a reply but on the whole watcher "tv quality content on youtube thing" ....

markiplier was also literally nominated for an Emmy for in space. Like. THE EMMYS.

how they even say something like that with a straight face, knowing the kind of content he and so many others are producing, knowing how damn hard Safiya works at her content quality even discounting everybody else.....

I've no idea.

yeah sorry abt that i have replies from non-moots turned off bc of how this website can be at times tjhrerj but ty for going out of ur way to send me an ask abt this bc I HAD NO IDEA???????

i dont rly keep up with tv award shows and havent for years so i literally didnt know, but that truly makes that so much worse. holy fucking crap. get off your own dick, ryan. you arent shit.

ellomello3

NGL I immediately thought of Markiplier and In Space when they said that and I was like ??? Have they...not heard of Mark??

ozsvessalius

nah ffr.

and tbh to speak to your tags, it would seriously be laughably pathetic on a whole nother plane to be so far up their own asses that they'd look people like markiplier as "let's players /derogatory" when they themselves LITERALLY HAVE A LET'S PLAY SERIES ON THE WATCHER CHANNEL.

and not only that, but they've PLAYED FNAF. which literally would not have even gained the popularity it did without markiplier's playthrough of it (which he has continued to update every time a new official game comes out) & matpat's theories. fnaf literally went on to have a movie BECAUSE of mark playing it, and his notoriety for doing so at the time.

so while i wouldn't put it past them to be like 'lol we're the first successful let's players too we're the first successful people to make let's plays so good they're tv quality', it would be sincerely a different scope entirely of an insult.

especially considering what mark has gone on to do. at that point id have no choice but to just be like. okay so y'all are just jealous he can make genuinely good quality content when y'all can't & stayed humble in spite of being even more successful than y'all, huh LOL

ellomello3

I doubt they would call themselves the 'first successful lets players' - I dont think they wanted to make let's play content at all, but it gets clicks so they probably felt they had to do it for the engagement. I cant claim to know how they feel about other content on YT and I certainly don't know anything around their opinions on other creators.

#their video came across as very arrogant however #and I believe they look down on YT content in general #obviously I dont know that for sure but thats certainly the impression they gave me #watcher #the other option is that theyre actually THAT out of touch with the rest of YT #which is just as bad lol

ozsvessalius

pssst I couldn't post this as a reply but on the whole watcher "tv quality content on youtube thing" ....

markiplier was also literally nominated for an Emmy for in space. Like. THE EMMYS.

I've no idea.

yeah sorry abt that i have replies from non-moots turned off bc of how this website can be at times tjhrerj but ty for going out of ur way to send me an ask abt this bc I HAD NO IDEA???????

i dont rly keep up with tv award shows and havent for years so i literally didnt know, but that truly makes that so much worse. holy fucking crap. get off your own dick, ryan. you arent shit.

ellomello3

NGL I immediately thought of Markiplier and In Space when they said that and I was like ??? Have they...not heard of Mark??

#Do they not hang out with other creators? or watch things on YT at all?#they have to have least known about Mark's stuff #thats about as high profile as you get on YT after like MrBeast and his group #Does Mark not count bc he does lets plays?#It really all does come across like they look down on YT in general #or are bafflingly unfamiliar with it despite being there for years #watcher

lantern-hill

Ok sorry but the thing that's so funny is the watcher network isn't even an app. It's just a website. A WEBSITE. can you even functionally use it on your phone? You probably can't do downloads the way you can with Netflix. This is so funny

ellomello3

I'm patiently waiting for people to realize that they're probably just signed up with Vimeo OTT.

psychicbluebirdmiracle

I already saw someone say they paid for it and found out it was through vimeo so yep lol

ellomello3

Oh good. I'm sure people won't get mad about them not mentioning that.

#the OPTICS guys #the optics of abandoning your YT audience so you can try and make more money through Vimeo #and they must know that looks bad because they conveniently didnt mention it #this is going to get way worse before it all settles #watcher #like they recognized the vimeo thing as something they probably shouldnt mention #but missed how everything else in that video would come across?#Im just so baffled

lantern-hill

ellomello3

I'm patiently waiting for people to realize that they're probably just signed up with Vimeo OTT.

#watcher #even as PR disaster artists they knew telling YT audiences they were leaving to be hosted by Vimeo would go over like shit on a bday cake #So they didnt even hint towards it in their goodbye video #but the reason their TOS is Vimeo OTT's TOS #is because theyre basically leaving YT to sign up with Vimeo's creator service that lets people 'start your own OTT channel today'#which is Not A Smart Move #idk who they talked to over there but uhhhhh #yikes fellas lol #disclaimer - I have no direct knowledge of ANY of this but I cannot think of another reason why else their TOS would be Vimeo OTT's TOS #and honestly its not a bad thing for a creative to switch to a platform that suits them better #but it is not a good look to like #conveniently not mention that to the audience youre leaving behind #PR people are so important yall fr

I bet you a contract with Vimeo OTT is gonna leak at some point

#watcher #this is just a suspicion i have from how weird and unspecific the video was #and how quickly this was rushed out #and the absolute bonkers approach #hard launch of watcher tv #soft launch of whatever the hell it is vimeo is doing #this isnt something im saying to be like 'oh see it wasnt their fault'#no it is #this is just a hunch i have

sosuperawesome

Dinosaur Glasses // David White Glass

leavemebetosleep

when I was a kid for some reason I thought Lola Bunny's last name was "Rabbit" and that she was actually Jessica and Roger's daughter. And the reason she wasn't in the original Loony Tunes is just that she wasn't born yet