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Kanna | 25 | demisexual | tired | main loves are Pokemon, Watcher, GMM, Harry Potter, Legend of Zelda, Supernatural, Blue Exorcist, My Hero Academia and Marvel.

[kannagms]

If you haven't watched Monday's GMM episode. Go watch it. At least 5 minutes of it.

I am appalled at Link right now.

Here, we see him looking at Chase, dart in hand. He paused. Deliberated. He had a moment of thought about his next action and he inevitably chose the wrong path.

The pure unadulterated violence as he repeated stabbed the chicken. He got so close to stabbing Chase in the knee SEVERAL times. Rhett's just sitting there, not moving, no clue what to do. Doesn't even get to stop Link. Just watches. The crew is just standing there, mouths agape. Stevie sternly yelling LINK like he's a small child about to stick a fork in an outlet. The violent stabbing doing nothing to actually stop the noise because it's a freaking motor. Just absolute chaos and it wasn't even 5 minutes into the episode.

Plus bonus look of contempt later:

[aslihhbrmrsbouy-deactivated2025]

If I may offer a perspective that may not have occurred to you, OP, it never occurred to me that Chase's lower body was in there until Chase said so, and I strongly believe it never occurred to Link.

To add, I would characterize Link's actions as reckless, but I'm not appalled.

[kannagms]

It's just absolutely hilarious to me because I got a warning from the man the myth the legend Link himself at the DC Tour. I spent the rest of that night and all day Sunday wondering wtf he did.

I also think maybe Link shouldn't be stabbing things that are connected to people, but that's just me.

[kannagms]

If you haven't watched Monday's GMM episode. Go watch it. At least 5 minutes of it.

I am appalled at Link right now.

Here, we see him looking at Chase, dart in hand. He paused. Deliberated. He had a moment of thought about his next action and he inevitably chose the wrong path.

The pure unadulterated violence as he repeated stabbed the chicken. He got so close to stabbing Chase in the knee SEVERAL times. Rhett's just sitting there, not moving, no clue what to do. Doesn't even get to stop Link. Just watches. The crew is just standing there, mouths agape. Stevie sternly yelling LINK like he's a small child about to stick a fork in an outlet. The violent stabbing doing nothing to actually stop the noise because it's a freaking motor. Just absolute chaos and it wasn't even 5 minutes into the episode.

Plus bonus look of contempt later:

[kannagms]

Shout out to me for accidentally attending a pride parade when I was going to the GMM Tour. I'll take it, I've never been to a pride parade and for the half hour I was there before I had to get to the show, I had a great time.

[kannagms]

Shout out to me for accidentally attending a pride parade when I was going to the GMM Tour. I'll take it, I've never been to a pride parade and for the half hour I was there before I had to get to the show, I had a great time.

[kannagms]

April is killing me, mentally, emotionally, and financially. I make a grand total of $2200 a month. I do get an extra paycheck this month thanks to the way the calendar lines up, so $3300.

April 1 ofc starts with my $1300 rent (cannot wait til my lease is up). At $2000.

I owe $800 in taxes. At $1200.

My cats just had surgery. Low cost clinic, still cost $200. At $1000.

Add in the usual bills, car insurance, rent insurance, internet, electricity, student loan, phone bill, etc. Takes me down to roughly $500.

I had my shipment of cat litter this month (3 month supply), which takes $160 (don't come at me for the price, it's the only litter my pretentious little shits will use. Anything else they'll piss and shit on the floor next to them). That's $340.

The cat food I bought made my cats sick. Had to throw out the $20 bag I got (gave to my mom, her chickens love it) bought a new bag for $30. $310.

Just found out that my insurance no longer covers dental. I have 2 cavities. Basically had to get additional dental insurance just to fix this issue. The first time payment was $90. There's $220 left.

On Tuesday (2 days ago) I'm sitting at work, I have DND on my door because I'm editing video and need to focus. My coworker barges in and starts demanding I do something that isn't part of my job nor do I even know how to do it. Informs me that I'm not entitled to have DND on ever. She could've at least knocked. She scared tf out of me just forcing her way in.

I find out that she's been telling higher ups that I sit in my office and sleep/play video games, which I do neither of. Maybe if I'm clocked out on lunch I'll play some games on my phone. But I'm not on the clock. She's putting my job at risk with her lies.

She also told me I needed to see a psychiatrist and gave me a business card. I'm not in the market for a psychiatrist. Never have been, never said i was. She said it's clear I need to be put on medication.

The Watcher thing happened.

I come home work after the thing with my coworker to find a note on my door. Leasing office is doing inspections today (Thursday). I'm dead in the middle of spring cleaning and my apartment looks like a mess. + my cats are recovering from surgery. I'm just waiting for an inadequate housekeeping charge or something to come onto my account. Plus they're checking blinds and will replace broken ones at a cost to me. I know one needs replaced bc my one cat ripped them up. Additional $35. At $185. And we all know that $185 is gonna go to feeding me, with the bare minimum.

Oh and 2 of my moms cats were stolen and there's no information on where they went. So they're just gone.

[ashwilds]

They’ve done it.

WATCHER IS BACK ON YOUTUBE.

Ok, seasons will reassess like a month early then get on YouTube.

They fuckin listened guys.

The Boys are back in town

[kannagms]

I'm a little curious to see how long it'll be before a new video is uploaded to YouTube. I'm assuming they'll post the next vid on the streamer, and then it'll go up in a month on YT.

I don't know but if I had never seen Watcher but came across one of their videos as suggested content, watched it, liked it, and went to their channel to see what else they got...I'd be a little put off by their last 2 videos being titled "Goodbye YouTube" and "An Update". Like my first thought would be like crap, guess I can watch old content but there won't be anything new. Just a dead Fandom.

Personally I'd put the next video they do on YouTube immediately, just to show potential new fans that they are still doing videos because there's no guarantee they're gonna watch the update and be like oh OK I'll sub. Or they do watch and think "so it's going to be dead for a whole month unless I pay for their streamer? Eh, not worth my time."

[evastratt]

One of the grossest things about this watcher controversy to me is that they BUILT so much of their channel based on their fans. The ghost stories at the beginning of ghost files, the stories for are you scared and too many spirits....not to mention that their original base of viewers followed them to the new channel based on the good will they had built up at BuzzFeed. It feels like they're saying thanks for all the content and passion and then slamming the door in everyone's faces.

[kannagms]

My landlord does quarterly inspections on all the apartments and they ALWAYS do it at the WORST times for me. I'm of course never home when they do them, because I have a day job. So I just get to be sitting at work while strangers are in my home.

Meanwhile my cats just got fixed 2 days ago. The last thing they need is people coming in and out making messes/loud noises. All of their toys and cat trees and scratches are moved because I don't want them jumping or playing too much and tear open their stitches.

Plus part of the inspection is just making sure you're actually keeping the place clean. I got the letter right in the middle of my spring cleaning. So my apartment looks like a mess because I'm going through my stuff deciding on what to get rid of. I have books sitting everywhere that I'm sorting. Clothes are tossed around because I have made 3 piles: what I'm keeping, what I'm donating, what I'm not sure about.

It's a literal shitshow in here and I guarantee they are going to add some bs charge to my account. "The apartment is dirty and unkempt" excuse you, besides the spring cleaning, there's not a crumb on the floor, a speck of dust anywhere. It's a little cluttered because I have so many knick knacks, but it's clean. Yall just happened to decide to do this at the literal worst time.

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

"Omg y'all are babies who don't realize that they need to make money and just feel entitled to free art!"

First of all I think most Watcher fans will agree that nobody asked for "TV quality" content. In fact I personally find most of their new shows to be extremely overproduced compared to their Buzzfeed era videos, which were backed by an actual big company. So them blowing their budget on new staff and fancy sets is something few people asked for.

"But this is their art and their company and they're allowed to make it however they want, they can't just constantly make their old stuff to retain an audience!"

I mean, yeah, if this is what they want to keep making, more power to them! But people are not obligated to 1) enjoy it and 2) pay for it. Audiences will fluctuate. Look at the Try Guys and how much their stuff has changed while still being successful. So maybe they'll get a new audience that is willing to pay for the stuff they want to make. But it's perfectly understandable for a large portion of their old fans to leave. Cuz yeah. If you wanna say "um this is capitalism sweaty" then yeah, I'll agree with you. This is capitalism. And I have better things to spend money on. I am not entitled to their art, and they are not entitled to my money. If they stop making stuff I like and have access to, I will stop watching. Taste closed.

[gaily-daily]

"Omg WHy CaNT people JuST supPPorT tHem????"

We have been. Through patreon and buying merch. There is a line. It has been crossed.

[kannagms]

And with the amount of people who didn't even KNOW they had a Patreon, they probably could have done something more to get people to actually pay for that rather than skipping every other step and going straight to "yall get nothing but teasers unless you pay us money and everyone can afford it even though that's not even the slightest bit true"

[seven-oh-four]

i never watched Watcher but these comments are so fucking funny

[kannagms]

Can we have another option. "Only if there are at least a couple of shows that are free on YouTube". I know some creators paywall most of their series and do up two six months delays on Patreon. That's why it baffles me that they outright abandoned 99% of their fandom when there were other options

I mean, with our luck we'd probably only get the "not as popular shows" for free on YouTube. With a few exceptions, the food related content does not get as many views as the more popular ones like Mystery/Ghost Files, Are You Scared...honestly the ones with Ryan and Shane are the most popular and would likely get the proverbial axe of free.

Like, oh, some content is free, yes! But not the ones the majority of you want to actually watch. For those, you need to pay us.

Put content up sooner behind a paywall, be that a day, a week, or a full month then release it with ads for free. Offer bonus content behind the paywall that's not given for free, such as behind the scenes, additional episodes, podcasts, etc. Offer bonuses to those who pay for the streamer/patreon, kind of like what Mythical does with the Quarterly Item. And of course, actually promote the fact that they have this option.

[amiibo-king]

ive been seeing some people deride others as childish or whatever for being like "ghost/mystery files wasnt as good as buzzfeed unsolved" calling it "sour grapes", but i watched a video talkin abt the watcher thing just now (by stateofmoregon) where she points out that, when youve been receiving something for free, and u suddenly have to pay for it, it forces you to think about whether or not you actually like that thing—if it's worth paying for, if you only liked it before because it was free. which i think is a good point. it's not that people are suddenly denying they ever liked ghost/mystery files, its that many of us are being forced to reexamine whether or not ghost/mystery files is something we actually enjoy or if we were just taking it because it was free, and many of us are deciding that no, we never really did enjoy it on the same level as buzzfeed unsolved

i know that i personally havent even watched a ghost/mystery files episode in some time bc every time a new one popped up in my feed i just felt apathetic about it, none of the excitement i used to feel about new bfu eps. and i realized a while ago that ive only really been forcing myself to watch new ones out of the hope that maybe this time itll have the same charm as bfu did. so i really dont think its fair to say its "sour grapes". a lot of people are just being forced to reckon with feelings that theyve had for a while but just never bothered to acknowledge because hey, its free.

[red-wineandcheese]

I haven't watched much of ghost files either . But I'm a huge fan and love the mystery files,are you scared, too many spirits and top five beatdown.

But yeah I guess when people are saying that it's not the same, I guess they're trying to remind them that it was just the two of them chatting that brought so much more attention and love and not fancy production.

[kannagms]

I pop on a playlist to kinda have going on in the background when I'm working. It's Ryan and Shane's banter and dynamic that I'm here for at this point. Ngl I love Are You Scared (every ep has been added to my sleepy time playlist), Too Many Spirits is funny af.

I was super excited for Mystery and Ghost Files - I mean I've been a fan since bfu days. I knew they obviously couldn't do the exact same thing as bfu, but something similar. I thought the intros were pretty cool but, like especially with ghost files, I can't stand the like "Avengers Tony Stark using hologram tech" stuff to show the blueprint. Is it really necessary? And Ryan pretty much repeats the exact same thing every episode in terms of what they're gonna do. It's too much and quite frankly, it's boring.

If there's anything I learned from fans these past few days, we're really just here to listen to Ryan and Shane banter back and forth about ghosts, demons, murderers, and aliens.

[kannagms]

1 quick way Watcher could've avoided the entire fiasco that was Friday-Monday:

Put up a poll.

Watchers, how would you feel about us moving all of our content to a streaming service for a fee?

YES GREAT IDEA I CANT WAIT TO SUB

Depends on price

No, I would not subscribe

Only if all/most content is still free on YouTube

Or something to that effect. No sudden goodbye video that pissed off every fan. No tiktoks, reddit threads, tumblr posts tearing them apart for making this decision. No reaction videos on YouTube. No one attacking anyone. They wouldn't have lost thousands of subscribers on YouTube. Fans wouldn't feel alienated enough that they can't continue watching and are now finding other creators with similar content. The comment section would have alternative suggestions, mentioning patreon and that many fans didn't even know they had a patreon, so they should push for that more, etc.

One poll could have saved everyone a lot of time, energy, and grief.

[cosmicxd]

Petition to give Goatman back his bridge

[montessori-grad]

Watchergate: 4/19-4/22

[brophers-to-gophers]

“Artists need to be paid for their work!”

Agreed however they ARE getting paid!! If Patreon+ ad revenue+ merch sales + tour sales isn’t enough to cover the cost of the videos Watcher has been putting out, maybe the answer is to downsize and scale back instead of punishing their audience for their poor financial decisions.

[mabe1pines]

how is trump alive?? like hes rlly gone thru his whole life like That …. and no one has ever just fuckin decked him?? gave him the ole one two? knocked his lights out??? incredible

[valla-chan]

sorry to improve your day without much notice but 

[glyxiebear]

NEVERMIND REBLOGGING AGAIN BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT WE ALL NEED

[nonbinarydave-archived]

This is cathartic

[bogleech]

People just becoming politically aware are never going to appreciate just how fucking hated this guy was before he was in politics. He was hated for over half a century. Everyone aware of him mocked and derided him as a cheating, greedy corporate asshole and mindless bully and this is by far not the only time anyone clocked his ass but it is probably one of the only times it got caught on video. Hatred of him was bipartisan all my life and it just goes to show how easily right wingers can be suckered by anyone who kisses their collective asshole on their pet agendas.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Never forget that the reason Trump seems like an over-the-top stupidly villainous antagonist from a 90s movie is because half of them were based on Trump and making fun of him.

The reason The Simpsons and a handful of other comedies ‘predicted’ the Trump presidency was because he kept saying he wanted to run and nobody could think of anything funnier than a President Trump.

[randomchild20-deactivated202408]

Seeing tr*mp just get fucking decked instantly made my night better