#Certified shitpost!1!1!

[the-space-jesus]

So, I'm writing this fanfic//original story, right?

And of course since I don't have time now, I don't write out my ideas, I just note them in the hopes that Il one day have the time to genuinely write the chapters containing said headcanons.

Most of them are pretty normal, like a piece of jewelery that a character always wears, or their favourite band, or some kind of character development moment.

And then you have these.

By the way, Sergei is my selfsona in that universe (he also appears in our amazing teacher fanfiction!! It's on my a03 go read it /silly).

....

I wonder why...

I'm not even kidding this is my school bag that I wore with these exact subjects in them. I'M NOT OVEREXAGGARATING ALSO HOW DO YOU SPELL THAT SORRY I'M EUROPEAN. In my school it's usually the year 1 students that have really really thick bags (little year 1 me once fell with my bag on my back and I literally couldn't get up until my friend helped me), and even though I have long surpassed that stage of my life I still refuse to use my locker, so my bag still looks like this and my back still suffers.

And yes there's a lot of random shit in it.

Also, in the background you can see that the special interest/spin wall has been updated! Guess what fandom I got into haha (there's gonna be a lot more stuff on the wall soon).

The fic itself will be COMPLETELY REVAMPED AND REPOSTED PROPERLY TO MY A03 in two weeks exactly! Please don't look at the old one it hurts my soul.

My a03 is: stupid_cupid21_21

Byebye wtf is this post

[deramin2]

Me, leaning on a wall drinking a CBD kombucha in sunglasses on a cloudy day, having lived through Critical Role episodes C1 E68, C1 E85, C1 E102, C2 E26, C2 E140, C3 E3, C3 E33, and C3 E91 live:

"Hey, you know what the funniest fucking outcome to this horrible death would be? Or the most heart rending tragedy possible that makes Macbeth feel like a happy ending? Here let me post through the very real and intense grief I'm feeling with memes."

[marciliedonato]

*looking at apartment rents* I'm going to start shooting landlords

[similar-blog-showdown]

Welcome to Similar Blog Showdown!!

With so many different blogs out there, it's inevitable that 2(or more) will have similar/the same gimmicks. But, who does it better?

That's what we're here to find out! I'll be posting a poll once a week comparing similar blogs.

* Poll suggestions open!

* Propaganda for your favorite blog (and yourself) is encouraged!

List of planned polls below:

Polls

achievements

rat detectors

gimmick blog compilers

bible percentage/rat certifiers

facts i just made up

vowel counters

bing

google

carbon monoxide detector

gun identifiers

gmail

gimmick blog hunters

gimmickbloghunter hunters

apple

jcjenson

USA

norway

denmark

consonant removers

keyboard completionist

shitpost calligraphers

color counters

word counters

bitchless slenderman

Vowel removers

alphabet counters

identifying cars

exclamania modders

i say ok

Microsoft edge

Ship polls

Mjolnir worthiness polls

Aperture survival polls

Sexy podcast character polls

Alphabetizers

Full list of included blogs

Bonus Poll(s): 1

[kaiserkisser]

welcome

" i'm tired already. after all, till the very end, i never did understand what i was born for. "

STATUS: SEMI-FREAKING OUT N SEMI-INACTIVE BC EXAMS, BLOG CURRENTLY RUNNING ON QUEUE

⋆ᯓ ᡣ𐭩 skylia, she/her, teen, minor

⋆ᯓ ᡣ𐭩 certified diehard xiao, kaiser, dan heng, dazai and chuuya kisser (im totally normal for them all i swear (im lying)), currently hyperfixating on bsd a bit too much

⋆ᯓ ᡣ𐭩 major dazai, mafuyu and sigma kinnie, eternally the world's best overthinker

⋆ᯓ ᡣ𐭩 multifandom main/ interaction blog

⋆ᯓ ᡣ𐭩 IRL bestie- @damyoujackson (ur more slay bro ilysm)

── .✦ links:- about me || rules/byf || my beloved mutuals 1 | mutuals 2 || tagging system || carrd || important!!! || important 2 || about donation asks || notes challenge ✦.──

˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ please note!

-please keep in mind that i shitpost and ramble and reblog a lot on this blog. also, please do read the rules and byf!

-i am intermittently active due to life, and may take from a few hrs to around a day or two to respond, depending on how im feeling. please dont mind that, thank you :)

-i use a lot of small emoticons and tonetags especially, and i keyboard smash and type in caps a lot. if youre not alright with that pls lmk/dm me and ill avoid it. i usually avoid interacting first bc im shy and awkward like that

-but if and when i do open up, i often interact a lot. if u dont like/want that, pls do lmk i will take no offence /gen

₊˚⊹ ⁀➴ ᰔ‧₊˚⊹ dni -> 18+ only blogs ,NSFW blogs, bots, haters, proshippers, general dni criteria. If i feel uncomfortable I will block you. Please avoid interacting with me if you are above 25-30 or so unless you know im comfortable with it (you can ask me first and interacts with my works though)

(other blogs utc-i mostly rb bsd stuff on bsd sb)

୨ৎ writing blog: @xiaosonlybeloved (i write for bsd, genshin, and bllk as of now)

୨ৎ mutuals ONLY can ask for my mootsonly and vent blogs, selfship sb: @lia-forever <3

୨ৎ bsd sb: @chuuya-kisser (insanely active there)

୨ৎ art sb: @skylia-draws ; poetry sb: @lia-feels

୨ৎ yukiyo rp blog (bsd oc) : @fallingdaydreams ; modern au dazai rp blog: @modernzai (pls interact with me lmfao)

୨ৎ 18! dazai rp blog: @mackerel-executive

୨ৎ sskk childhood friends akutagawa rp blog:@lil-rashoumon

୨ৎ if you find my old jjk blog good for you

࿔‧ ֶָ֢˚˖𐦍˖˚ֶָ֢ ‧࿔ currently doing: reading fics, (stu)dying, listening to music

putting this and this and this here bc i want to read everything

old pinned

thank you for your time :)

icon by @spider-lily-infestation , header and other pics in post by @nyctolycoris

[hetalia-themagicalmanac]

WHATS THIS?! IT'S THE UNKNOWN—NO, IT'S ENGLAND WITH A BROOM GOING TO THE UNKNOWN!

poor mary just wanted to be with her dads and uncles and only got (1) jelly bean and (1) tiny cup of lemonade! at least wales is doing his best to make it good to her!

i lowkey kinda rushed this shitpost bc its a certified late night shitpost but this entire willy wonka experience is leaving me in stitches

[clingyduoapologist]

CLINGYDUOAPOLOGIST'S TOP 5 FAVORITE DSMP FAN-COMICS OF ALL TIME

OK NOW this is just a list of some of my personal faves, ones that make me literally feral so

Cheating a bit here but first off honorable mention to Boneless (?) by @thelostmoongazer

Idrk why i remember this one so fondly but it's really cute and always gets a chuckle out of me when I remember it, certified banger 👏

ALRIGHT ON WITH THE OFFICIAL LIST

5: A TIE BECAUSE I GENUINELY CAN'T TELL WHICH I PREFER BETWEEN Au in which Wilbur and Ghostbur merged when Wilbur was revived. AND Dreams I can’t remember both by @moldyhay

ugjughugh honestly i consider the ghostbur merging au more canon than the "limbo forever" stuff just because it makes so much sense to me and y'know what it's 2023 wilbur soot can't say shit to me @sootings fuck you

As for Dreams I can't remember like what else is there to say besides get me that fucking ccrime vaccine stat i don't have much time left

4: The Fox and the Grapes by @space-robinhood

Okay I am not the biggest c!fundy girlie but like COME ON, the way the fable just fits so perfectly, the art, the emotion in every facial expression, the fucking photo of fundy as a baby like I lose my fucking mind every single time I read this comic.

3: mentorly advice by @minecraftsz

Legitimately this was probably my fave dsmp comic for a while. "Shitpost that makes you cry if you think about it too hard about it" is a very specific and difficult-to-master niche of art and minecraftsz has written a dissertation on it in the form of this short comic.

2: friend sweater :) by @kettitrium

I go feral every time this comic comes on my dash like, the way it showcases c!tommy's personality so well, being resourceful, a bitch, and so painfully sentimental, it's brilliant. And the art itself is also gorgeous. Of all these comics, this one probably has my favorite art style.

1: Tommy by @space-robinhood

Like, what can I even say about this one? I literally almost tore my hair out just reading it while trying to copy the link to paste it here. Such a simple, small conversation, but one that manages to carry such a haunting theme of the loss of innocence. The final shot of Tommy standing with his back to the readers, his general's coat slightly tattered, a bow in his hands, it's such a poignant summary of his character, one that I will literally never be able to get over, probably ever. Go read it, then reblog it so I can read it again.

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AND THERE IT IS my extremely based and awesome picks for some incredible fanworks. I see so many people regretting their time in the fandom recently, and I just wanted to share some of the awesome stuff we were able to do also i may have just wanted to compile all of these is one place so i don't have to do detective work to find them but shhh SO go forth and read and like and REBLOG and enjoy :D

[clairedaring]

tag game ✨

huge thank you to the lovely zey @thasorns for thinking of me. i love you too (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

1. why did you choose your url?

no one remembers her but claire dearing from jurassic world will always hold a special place in my heart.

2. any sideblogs? if you have them name them and why you have them.

poomphuripan - the bl sideblog that i started just because my main got deactivated for a bit but i guess for now, it's mostly uppoom and msi-focused. in december, it'll probably be torjj and spare me your mercy-focused. i think i'll probably just be using these for the ql series i have a crazy hyperfixation about.

huiyanan - a pentagon yanan/hui focus sideblog

coryjeacoma - my musical theatre sideblog for random audio bootlegs and sometimes musical gifs

ryuvachirawich - my unused (mostly lakorn) gifs blog for extra gifs i make but that doesn't make it into any main or sideblogs. at first i was trying to keep this sideblog lowkey but then i needed to tag the gifs w my gif tag anyway so i could search for them so disclosing is fine 🤣

3. how long have you been on tumblr?

2014... what do you mean it's been a decade since i started using tumblr.... time isn't real

4. do you have a queue tag?

i tried but i've given up on queue-ing in general so i don't. my tumblr is constantly in two modes: super active or going months without a single post lmaoooo.

5. why did you start your blog in the first place?

i wanted to be where all the gifmakers are but i have too much interests so this shall remains a multi-fandom blog or more like a "whatever media claire is consuming atm" blog 

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

dirk gently is the single most perfect holistic detective in existence. sometimes i'm too attached to my url and my icon, i don't think i can ever change them. headers i can but i haven't changed my url/icon for 3-4 years i think.

7. why did you choose your header?

i feel you linger in the air is THAT series for me. dethroned almost every other thai series on my all time fave list (i say almost because bad genius series is still holding its crown well)

8. what’s your post with the most notes?

i just checked and apparently it's my first and only merlin gifset 😅

9. how many mutuals do you have?

i have no idea but i love all my mutuals （づ￣3￣）づ╭❤️～

10. how many followers do you have?

i hit 1k recently. crazy to me because i've left this tumblr empty for months before starting being active again last october???

11. how many people do you follow?

4000+ but that's only because i'm too lazy to unfollow people. so yea i rarely see things on my dash. i just end up scrolling through my fave gifmakers tags to find things they make.

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

i don't think so????? i mean the closest is probably me saying super random things on this tag.

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

it used to be once a week... but these days it's really a daily routine lmao. although i'm pretty sure i'll leave my tumblr dusting once my stand-in ends... who knows... we'll see...

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?

how can i? i'm so non-confrontational, i reblog things in private to argue with op 😭 lmao (arguments that op will never see lmao, i'm saving them and me both the trouble really). just enfp things.

15. how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts

huh why do i never get them on my dash (⊙x⊙;)

16. do you like tag games?

sometimes i forget but i love being tagged in them because i get to know about all the great mutuals i have on here, especially music tags because i always get incredible new music recommendations

17. do you like ask games?

apparently i had my asks closed without knowing for quite some time so i haven't received asks for so long. maybe one day i'll do them but i have bad records of answering asks so ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

i'm not sure if being THE certified way apologist/way gifmaker qualifies her as tumblr famous but maybe sasa @zhouxiangs is the most famous mutual i have

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

let's call this mutuals whose editing skills i wanna steal (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

lana @sherrymagic whenever you see me reblogging lana's joe sets every week, you'll see me gushing about the consistency in her coloring and that's because that's something i'm obsessed with, especially considering my stand-in's grim/dark cinematographic coloring. also i don't know how lana chooses the perfect lines from each eps to do her recap sets because most of the times i can't even choose between which scenes to gif.

eva @alienwlw eva makes the most beautiful lyrics set and is willing to do my most niche requests and i'm always looking forward to seeing her gifs because it's always so warm and grainy and crisp and i'm just like wahhhh *heart eyes emoji* every time

20. tags?

no pressure tagging anyone today ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 21/04/2024

we are number one but with outdated memes over it

Season 1 Featured on: GilvaSunner's Highest Quality Video Game Rips: Volume 7: Part mm2wood Also on: Now That's What I Call Quality!, SiIvaGunner: Starter Kit & Essentials

Ripped by NBGMusic

When I wrote yesterday's post on Five Nights of Snop Dog, I made a bit of an error in my research. See, though "Five Nights of Snop Dog" was an actual request received, it was actually fellow ripper NBGMusic who got it on his SoundCloud, not Chaze the Chat as I'd claimed. Well, as fate would have it, NBGMusic just so happens to be responsible one of the most well-known rips on the SiIvaGunner channel - and not only is it also tied to Snop Dog himself, its also tied to the glorious age of Montage Parody videos. And with Season 8 having finished an MLG event of its own just yesterday, it's as if the stars all aligned - I can think of no better time to cover we are number one but with outdated memes over it.

Now, the aforementioned magnificent 4/20 event was far bigger than usual for the channel, casting the net to not just cover weed-smoking jokes, but to cover the age of internet shitposting where it was at its most notorious - Montage Parodies. The years from 2012 to 2016 were absolutely FILLED with these, in a way that feels almost lost on the current internet generation, as very few seem to actually remember it fondly. Because like, it was all a bit stupid, wasn't it? Rage comics and impact font memes are remembered nostalgically, YouTube Poops are cherished to this day and continue to see prevalence both in general and on SiIvaGunner - we wouldn't be getting rips like Mr. 2​.​718281828459045235360287471352662497757247093699959574966967627724076630353547594571382178525166427427466391932003059921817413596629043572900334295260595630738132328627943490763233829880753195251019011573834187930702154089149934884167509244761460668082264800168477411853742345442 or Crompton Racing if there weren't people still enthusiastic for them. Montage Parodies were comparatively really short lived, and even back in 2016 SiIvaGunner channel itself didn't really touch them. Sure, we got rips with Smoke Weed Everyday as the joke from time to time, like with Ganja Man 9: Hash Blunt Hash (Shorty's Stage), but I think most people already saw the signs that MLG videos weren't really sticking around. Or at least, that's what *I* thought back in the day - evidently, the whole thing had just a little bit more juice left in it.

Because at the tail end of the channel's life, in September 2016, we received we are number one but with outdated memes over it. Sure, it wasn't the first We Are Number One rip on the channel, but it might as well have been - it landed right as the meme was taking off, and garnered views by the thousands in absolutely record time. For a decent while, it even was THE most viewed rip on the channel - and, funny enough, a 2017 Mel (that's me!) left a comment on the video befuddled over just how popular this MLG video was. Because, like, it's right there in the title - it's we are number one but with outdated memes over it, I thought we were all in agreement that Smoke Weed Everyday and "This is a certified hood classic" and Skrillex and all of that stuff wasn't funny anymore?

So then...why is it still so fucking good?

There's been a bit of a running joke with in the SiIvaGunner Discord (which you should join, by the way!) over how I actually hate this rip, or at least don't have positive feelings toward it. And I'll be honest - I hadn't really listened to it in a long time, and I think for a long time I was still a little bit fed up with MLG videos in general. I don't think they have any shot of becoming relevant again in the same way that YTPMV or rage comics do, ironic-or-not, but it was also kind of presumptuous to ascribe that same kind of obnoxiousness to we are number one but with outdated memes over it. Because sure, it's using outdated memes - but NBGMusic isn't using them in halfmeasures or with the intent to make the audio unlistenable. It's all playing to We Are Number One's melody and progression, which in of itself is honestly kind of novel these days - ever since we got the song's stems released in late 2016, most rips on the channel featuring the jokes have been full on arrangements with its instruments a la Chillin’ Like A Villain or We Are Number 4 (Golden). I love those rips as well, they're all incredibly fun takes on the song - but it's an entirely different flavor from how we are number one but with outdated memes over it goes about doing things.

Even though the title isn't lying, its definitely underselling the rip, it almost makes it sounds like a fucking MrMrMANGOHEAD video (Remember him? Shrek-face Mike Wazowski?). There's a lot of noise to be sure, but its all coordinated in really fun ways! I love the repeating "WHAT" samples playing as Robbie begins his lecturings in trickery, changing to samples shouting "HEY" in the next verse, ironically going against the lyrics' point of "not making a sound". And that's just what happens to the vocals - the main hook of the rip, of course, is how the iconic saxophone hook that plays inbetween the vocals is here matched with pitch-shifted Smoke Weed Everyday's, almost exactly like the aforementioned Ganja Man 9: Hash Blunt Hash (Shorty's Stage) - but its paired with sprinklings of memes tied to MLG parodies, like the legendary "MOM GET THE CAMERA", or of course bits and pieces from Skrillex music. I fucking love that in particular, actually: how traces of Skrillex's dubstep sound are heard in the rip from the very start, yet at 0:56 we're finally given full payoff with the iconic "YO SKRILL DROP IT HARD", leading to a full beat drop that somehow feels perfectly in tune with what We Are Number One is doing alongside it.

You know me - my favorite thing in rips is when they escalate, and though we are number one but with outdated memes over it stays within the same set of jokes throughout, its dedication to covering the *entire* We Are Number One with all of these memes means that it finds new ways to go about it for each segment. I may have been a bit frustrated back then, but in hindsight its easy to see just why this rip got as popular as it did, beyond just playing to the ongoing trend - its a pretty damn high-effort production for being part of a shitposting trend basically defined by being purposefully low-effort and obnoxious. In that sense, I suppose we are number one but with outdated memes over it is like a final hurrah for the age of Montage Parodies - right as we were all letting go of it, as the wild ride of 2016 was making everyone (most importantly YouTube itself) realize that the internet needed to be made a less toxic, less obnoxious place...we got one last jab at all the fun that these videos had to offer. And in turn, it wound up passing the torch to We Are Number One shitposting, beginning a new trend of channels spoofing existing meme music with their own edits and ideas, a trend you'll still see up and about today.

The internet all feels a lot more complicated today in its many corners - Twitter, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, Discord and its Tenor GIFs, all sort of forming their own ideas of what is and isn't in vogue for shitposting anymore, all at each others' throats. For as obnoxious as Montage Parodies often were in hindsight...there's something so oddly nostalgic about how widespread they were - how EVERYONE deep in the online trenches seemed to just be enamored by these absolutely ridiculous videos. we are number one but with outdated memes over it brought people together over their stupidness for one last time, and for just a little while longer after that, We Are Number One did the same. And with yesterday's MLG day, with looking back on this rip in tow...I can't help but miss it all at least a little bit.

[nono-uwu]

Introduction post bc why not!! (Mostly just adding stuff that I didn't want to cram in my bio lol)

Hello hi just call me Nono :) I'm 17, pan and aro and use he/they. Please don't refer to me with feminine terms tyyy

I mostly post about Owari no Seraph, with a focus on Crowley, Chess, Horn and my oc's! I'm also Shinoa's no.1 defender and a certified Ferid hater(/lh). I also post about Project Sekai, Genshin/HSR/ZZZ, PtN and whatever other anime/manga/game I like when I feel like it :3c

You'll mostly see drawings, colorings and card edits from me with the occasional shitpost/random thought and monthly reviews of new ons chapters! I don't really put spoiler warnings on ons stuff but for anything else I try my best to add them

I try my best to tag any commonly sensitive subject but please lmk if I forget something!!

Speaking of tagging, I tag everything with it's corresponding fandoms/characters and my oc's with #nono's ocs, Anything not art related with #nono rambles

I find concrete dni lists a little silly, but anyone I deem generally shitty (yk racist, queerphobic, ableist, etc) gets a block from me (•-•) proshippers included. While I try to keep my content pretty, idk, 'tame', I'd preffer if anyone 14 or younger didn't interact. Not that I can stop you but yk. Be warned. Also I will block someone if I find them annoying (^-^)

I am very picky with who I follow and often follow/unfollow on a whim sorryyyy

I struggle with reading and properly conveying tone over text so tone tags are appreciated! Also sorry if I come off as rude or uninterested sometimes

Since it's SUCH a divise thing in the ons fandom, some ship opinions: I don't care for mikayuu. Gurenshin and guremahi are both cool. I DON'T vibe with Crowferi. Anything minor x adult and incest-y is eugh/neg. I will shove my oc x canon down your throat and you will like it (/silly). Anything else idrc (the more general statements apply to any fandom btw)

My game uid's utc, feel free to add me :) tho I'm not very communicative lol

Genshin (Europe) - 731092927

Hsr (Europe) - 701154818

ZZZ (Europe) - 1500707684

PtN (Europe) - 342381907936777 (NonoUwU)

Prsk (global) - 218311404938153991

[goofballproximitysurveyor]

Carl/Roy ☕

- 22 yrs old (Jan 3 🎂) - genderless, romance complicated aro, t4t - any pronouns - prev urls: roylitchi, sector-7, probably some more but i forgor 💀

I’m extremely shy and busy and not good at 1 on 1 social interaction with people I haven’t talked to a lot. You can DM me and talk to me on discord (same username). If I don’t respond consistently it’s not that I don’t like you or am annoyed I just can’t/don’t know how to respond.

please don’t send me dms or asks if you’re just going to be asking about the no notes post. i don’t know why it happened and i will not respond.

my s/o 💛 - blazblue lorecord

Tags:

Note: I tag art/writing/general commentary as my interests only when I want it to show up in the tag search.

🎨 - my art

certified carl classics - my memes/shitposts that I particularly like

funnies tag - other people's memes/shitposts or clips from my interests that I think are funny

art faves - other people's art that I especially like/think about a lot

Sideblogs:

blazbluebrackets - co-run by me and my partner, hosts blazblue tumblr voting brackets and other fun community-wide stuff.

azraelmousepad [18+ ONLY] - more mature art and light hornyposting that I don't feel like putting on main, nothing against tumblr TOS though.

deadlysign - scans and scanlations!

stabbedjinsaturday - stabbed jin saturday :)

[ao3feed-bakusquad]

Kiri's Kitty

Kiri's Kitty by schelluminium

When Kirishima Eijirou, certified himbo, finds a rather big cat in front of his apartment, he doesn't know what he got himself into. - based on a shitpost I found and wrote this for 3 years ago and now I finally decided to upload it here :D

Words: 5110, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Bakugou Katsuki, Kirishima Eijirou, Kaminari Denki, Ashido Mina

Relationships: Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou

Additional Tags: Crack, Fluff and Humor, zookeeper Bakugou, College Student Kirishima

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48012085

[marciliedonato]

real and true

[grimrester]

hi! i would recommending reading my other posts and reblogs about why this has gone over poorly (just search watcher on my blog).

if we're talking credentials here, im no certified expert, but i've worked in marketing for 5 years and done website design for small businesses for longer. (i use wordpress with the divi theme builder almost exclusively!)

i agree with you completely that using an existing platform is completely normal. to be frank, if they were building this platform from scratch, that could have been an even dumber business move.

the obfuscation i mention in my original post is that in their announcement video, they are specifically talking about this platform as something they have full creative control over, which they don't. if they had been more candid/descriptive about their process for this rollout, fan expectations could have been managed better re: password sharing. honestly it seems as though they DID NOT KNOW that was a limitation of the platform, which means they have no direct input on the functionality of the site.

(vimeo ott is also probably a more limiting website platform than, say, a wordpress site. i've worked with a lot of "turnkey" website solutions in the specific industry i do marketing for, and the vast majority of them are far more restrictive in what you can actually do with the site than non-industry specific builders like wordpress.)

however - using an existing platform ISN'T the main reason they're getting hate for this. in fact, most people mad about the decision haven't even realized that aspect yet, as annaroywn mentioned. the realization that the platform isnt how they presented it in their video is just another drop in the bucket on top of:

1. the tone deaf comments in the announcement video about how everyone can afford it, when they have a fanbase with many people who are struggling and cutting costs. comments like this were not present in dropout's announcement video.

2. saying they were going to pull ALL their content from YouTube, then backtracking and saying existing, posted content will stay free. source: this variety article.

3. only season premieres of their shows will be available for free moving forward. in contrast, dropout initially continued to release some shows and one-off content entirely for free. they didn't go full paywall until years later after collegehumor went under.

again, more detail in my other posts! but imo those are the biggest factors, far bigger than the platform itself. i mostly brought it up because i think it's interesting.

slightly off topic but before you ask, since you asked annaroywn: sharing my website designs would require giving you details about my irl identity tied to my work, which i am definitely not going to do on my largely anonymous shitpost blog, lol

sometime yesterday people on reddit figured out that the new watcher entertainment platform is not a website they have full creative control over (as implied in their video) but instead is from Vimeo OTT. this is why their new platform looks identical to dropout's. vimeo very likely just has a couple templates you pick from and they picked the same one.

this is FASCINATING to me for a few reasons:

it's not unusual for a company to obfuscate how their new web product is built out. "we're using vimeo's content paywall platform" is not nearly as impressive of a statement as "we're launching our own subscription service." this decision sometimes blows up in a company's face though. in this instance, being more candid about the process probably would have helped to mitigate the blowback, because vimeo could have been pinned by the audience as the evil scapegoat company and people wouldn't be feeling stupid when they create accounts and realize all the videos are hosted on vimeo. it also explains why they encouraged password sharing but their subs limit playing videos on more than three devices. it's just a function of the platform they don't control and didn't think about it when they said that.

i really wonder if they made this decision entirely on their own, or if vimeo has recruiters out there trying to make their platform bigger. obviously the watcher guys are responsible for this decision either way, but it sure would explain a lot about why they jumped to this solution to make more money if they had someone at vimeo pitching it to them.

how fucking funny is it that they posted a dramatic "goodbye youtube" video talking about wanting more control and wanting their own special platform just to go to youtube's direct competitor. lol

[il-predestinato]

Girls following F1 be like...

[halion-halion-aito]

can't wait until martin scorsese himself finds out abt goncharov (1973) and decides to actually film a goncharov (2023)