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It keeps getting worse

If they don’t respond to this TOMORROW they will have eviscerated all the goodwill and love their fans had for them. They should have done it hours ago. Going forward, they either need to consult a professional business manager after this astronomically stupid decision or Steven needs to step down and let someone more competent run the company. No one is paying for another streaming service.

things they could have done:

stressed engagement more (like, comment, share, subscribe, etc.)

promoted their patreon more – there are people in the comments shocked to find out they even had one

youtube memberships (with exclusive emojis!)

given patrons/youtube members exclusive behind-the-scenes videos and/or early release videos

joined nebula & given nebula members exclusive behind-the-scenes videos and/or early release videos

streamed horror games on youtube/streamed horror games on twitch & uploaded the VODs on youtube

decreased the production value & staff required to create videos

any or all of the above

not this

literally anything but this

#watcher #watching this go down like 👀

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people keep comparing the WatcherTV move to Dropout (for obvious reasons) but I cannot emphasize enough how vastly different the circumstances between the companies is. like astronomically different

• Watcher does not have the years of experience that Dropout/CollegeHumor did. CH as a company formed in 1999. They've been doing sketch comedy since the early 2000s. they were a company, like an actual company with offices and departments and everything. Watcher hasn't even existed for 5 years

• Because CH has been established for that long, not only do they have an established connection to the industry, but they have an established fan base already. People that knew about and were fans of CH for over a decade, before Dropout was even a thought in someone's head.

• When Dropout was in its infancy, CH was still under their parent company IAC, they weren't roughing it completely on their own the way that Watcher is. They were later dropped by IAC, but having that connection and funding in the vulnerable start was important

• CH was still posting sketches and skits on YouTube for free while filling out Dropout's catalog. They didn't hard shift into exclusively subscription based, they continued doing both for the first couple years in order to help get Dropout established. Even now, they still occasionally post full episodes for free on YouTube, including whole seasons of Dimension 20

• They have a large rotating cast that they move between multiple shows. They have a variety of content and a variety of entertainers to be guests on shows. Watcher has 3 guys which the occasional guest

• A big part of this transition is because Watcher's episodes have a high production cost. That's what they claim. That it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to film one episode of Ghost Files. but why?? why does it cost that much?? I get cost of travel for talent and crew but hundreds of thousands of dollars per episode?

• When IAC dropped CH and they went bankrupt in 2020, they only had 7 employees. When Sam Reich bought the company, they only had 7 employees. not twenty five. I'm not advocating for laying off people, but maybe they shouldn't be payrolling more people than they can afford

• also. Sam Reich is very vocal about how Dropout surviving and succeeding was nothing short of a miracle. They didn't get that success because the business model works, they got that success from years of networking, hard work, and pure luck

#watcher #dropout

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He was asking… a question.

What genuinely hurts me is that being able to relate to a similar situation like this that Damian didn’t ask this to be snide or smart in reply to his guardian.

He was genuinely asking a question.

Like does he genuinely have to spend his whole life trying to be something you want him to be, when you take his childhood, his choice, and his anatomy then what does he truly have left?

He’s spent so much time trying to be perfect for you because he feels like love isn’t something that is to be given but something that is earned. There are ten years of his life that he still hasn’t gotten off his chest and even still as Robin, I doubt he holds much of a choice - still he’s tied to some sort of destiny, and at the end of the Ra’s Al Ghul Resurrection event Bruce mentions that Damian deserves some time not to having a destiny. When does having a path pathed for you stops becoming liberating and starts becoming suffocating?

I seriously hope that somewhere down the line Damian can make a choice based on no hand that’s been dealt to him but the choice he made all by himself and then he owns it.

Till then, baby bird.

#damian wayne #robin

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Ok. *Puts them in a corny, 90s anime romance scene in which Bruce helps Harvey come down from a rough dissociation/derealization episode by using sensory grounding.*

#bruce wayne #harvey dent #batman #two face

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(everybody is okay)

#jon kent #damian wayne #dick grayson #jason todd #nightwing #red hood #robin #superboy

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Every four years, a video of Nightwing doing some crazy acrobatic feat pops up and the internet goes crazy saying things like "Get this man on the Olympics team"

and then that somehow leads to the internet bringing up the face that Dick Grayson-- the last Flying Grayson-- is just sitting around with blood given talent and if anyone should be repping the US in the male Gymnastics Olympics, it should be him

#dick grayson #nightwing #batfam

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If I could kill a writer with my mind...

#now that's...oooh #harley quinn #dc #whyyyyy?

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#WE ARE SO BACK #the foxhole court #the sunshine court #aftg #tfc #tsc

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He's a nerd just not that kind of nerd!

Him being into compsci might be a fanon thing but its canon in my heart

#tim drake #red robin #timothy drake #bros built like a jock under that hoodie

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Holy school night, Batman!

Dick Grayson tiny Robin propaganda. He is such a little guy he is my favourite.

#dick grayson #robin #he needs to be back in the house at nine he has elementary school later #u wouldn’t hit a child would u mr freeze? a little guy? a baby son?

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damian: why'd you shoot that man? i think he's dead

jason: he was pulling out his weapon

damian: what are you, a cop?

jason on the verge of tears: i'm so proud of you, but never compare me to a cop again

#jason todd #damian wayne

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#nightwing #robin #dick grayson #tim drake

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due to recent events

boop!

#nightwing #robin

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Katsuki Yuuri & Pochacco & Victor Nikiforov & Pompompurin & Yuri Plisetsky & Hello Kitty & Makkachin ; Yuri!!! on Ice & Sanrio ☆ Orange Rouge

#AHHH HOW CUUUTE :3 #yuri plisetsky #yuri katsuki #victor nikiforov #makkachin #sanrio #yuri on ice #yoi

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my absolute fave lowstakes hc is that donna and garth and kory’s first proper impression of a vanilla human was dick grayson which like…. permanently fucked up their perception of what humans were supposed to survive. like they see dick jump out of a plane head first with no parachute and are like…. yeah that makes sense. humans can fold themselves into a discus and launch themselves at 80mph to take down enemies. that tracks. humans are just sorta like that ig

then the first time donna tries to throw roy as a javelin and he almost breaks his spine going through a wall and she’s like

#dick grayson #roy harper #donna troy #teen titans #dc comics

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i think this is the most normal brother moment they've ever had

#dick grayson #jason todd #nightwing #red hood

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jason's most hated rogue isn't actually the joker, it's the mad hatter. because he makes alice in wonderland look bad. also because he's occasionally very creepy to children for the sake of his weird little role play fantasy

but joker IS dick's most hated rogue, because he makes clowns look bad. and he's not even funny (which dick makes sure to inform him of every time they cross paths, as a matter of principle)

#jason todd #dick grayson #red hood #nightwing #batfam