EARLY ACCESS: YouTuber Cash Grab Goes Wrong (Watcher)
Added 2024-04-26 16:00:15 +0000 UTCVIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/qYe5ykHb8og
Hey everyone, it's Early Access Day, and today's video is a fun one, as we wonder if maybe some people have forgotten what YouTube's supposed to be about? Do we NEED channels with 30 staff members creating shows that could air on Netflix? Well, one channel certainly found out the answer to that question the hard way. Enjoy!
Once upon a time, YouTube was all amateur content made on no budget. Now, every creator has ambitions of creating their own TV network. But what happens when you ask your audience to fund that, on a platform full of free content? Ask "Watcher", a popular YouTube channel that alienated their fans by telling them they were going to put everything behind a paywall, and that it would be "easily affordable", at a time when so many are broke. Buckley looks at the initial outcry, the classic YouTuber apology in the aftermath, and wonders if, maybe, the true spirit of YouTube has been lost.
Comments
Cut me deep with the Rooster Teeth remark. I've been a pretty big fan of RWBY since college, and I hate that it doesn't get a resolution! I get it, but it still sucks haha
Justin Hudson
2024-05-01 06:59:23 +0000 UTCAt this point, I think they've probably shaped themselves into whatever an algorithm tells them they should look like.
Adam Buckley
2024-04-27 01:40:20 +0000 UTCWhy do those dudes look AI-generated?
Andrew Behm
2024-04-26 20:29:49 +0000 UTC
