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memes-wearhouse · 1 day

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My favorite comment from the Watcher apology video.

#watcher #shane madej #ryan bergara #steven lim #try guys #buzzfeed

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feral-peacock · 2 days

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#watcher #try guys #buzzfeed #steven lim #shane madej #ryan begara #eugene lee yang #keith habersberger #zach kornfeld #this is my contribution #for the record i know that the two situations are very different #but come on 3 former buzzfeed employees on a couch speaking directly to their audience???#its all i could see when the video dropped #on youtube of all places #ryan bergara

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fleshadept · 1 day

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No hate at all, but just as someone who’s worked on smaller film production crews in a less expensive city than LA I want to tell you that 29 people on staff is NOTHING for a production company of their size. There’s so much work from project planning and plan development to animation and SFX and graphic design to actual camera operators, audio techs, and lighting crews, to social media marketing teams and then administrative staff to handle all the paperwork involved in getting permission to film in all these locations and organizing flights, hotels, and car rentals for every place they travel to. 29 people is honestly a pretty low number for a company of this caliber.

i know. i just directed a short film with a production crew of 37 and post crew of 11. i am aware of the possibility that productions can be that size. my point was more that they did not need to be “a company of [that] caliber.” they very much could have left buzzfeed, hired a camera op & sound mixer or two, or shit, learned how to do it themselves since it’s youtube and that’s the norm, and more gradually expanded into a professional operation at a sustainable rate. being a "production company of their size" was not a command performance, it was a choice, and it was a bad one.

they did not need to leave buzzfeed and maintain their status as solely talent. the show they were leaving with was not all that complicated! they do not NEED to hire a fucking social media marketing team. a location manager, sure. camera ops and audio for when they're out exploring? sure! but a crew of that size isn't really necessary, is my point.

but they (and the try guys) were used to a quality of life at buzzfeed as talent that they didn't want to let go, and even when the try guys left, i was a little disappointed that they tried to maintain the same level of almost corporate professionalism about their videos instead of like, figuring out how to use a camera or an NLE themselves. i'll admit it's a super petty gripe; like, fine, whatever, shoot for the moon! but it's also meant that they keep feeling the need to Expand and, evidently, legitimize themselves as "more" than just youtubers. they make a LOT of money--but for every one person they hire, that's another person they're obligated to pay a living wage for their skills, and so if they want to be a bigger company, they necessarily must always have Line Go Up. which then compels them to do stupid shit like they did this week

#does this make any sense at all #idfk #watcher #the try guys #buzzfeed #cricket answers #i am AWARE the logistics of shit like this is crazy but that can also be the fun part!

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gingerlamppost · 10 hours

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dude you guys forgive very quickly when someone says they had a reason even when that reason doesn't make any sense, like this is about watcher they 100% where getting sponsors and advertisers (you fucking watched the reads?) and where making easily enough off that alone not even touching patreon or live show sales or merch or ad revenue, but also just generally and I do this too like this isn't a "you're all idiots" thing, this is a "why do we all forgive when we don't know if we have just been lied to" thing, think it's probably a lot of people on here have been manipulated in social relationships before so are conflict averse paired with shit comprehension and a tendency towards sentimentality, idk but we really need to utilise critical thinking on this site more

#watcher #watcher tv #watcher apology #shane madej #ryan bergara #steven lim #BuzzFeed

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gays-and-ghouls · 2 days

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Okay question: anyone still going to the UK live shows this week? Will eggs be thrown? Will the whole place be empty?

#im still gonna go #i think im too curious to not go now #wondering how everyone else feels #i would like to clarify im kidding about the eggs dont kill me #shane madej #ryan bergara #buzzfeed #bf unsolved #watcher #steven lim #ghost files

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feetymcfeetface · 3 days

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