#but i guess that’s the internet for ya

[pixelephant]

ok long ass paragraphs of nuance time

so i totally get why watcher has made this decision, running a creative business on youtube is difficult because algorithms are fickle and views are SO obviously geared towards just when shane and ryan specifically are in content. they can’t branch out into new ventures and cast members and ideas without taking a huge monetary risk of if people will actually watch the damn thing. so streaming gives them that opportunity because no matter the viewership, they still get that income.

but on the other hand, the lack of diversified content is exactly why im hesitant to pay money for the service. there’s just not much there outside of shane and ryan led shows. don’t get me wrong, love their stuff! but if i’m paying for a service, i’d prefer it to be something i can go to for a variety of things.

it’s a catch 22 imo, can’t diversify without the money, can’t get the money without the content they know gets them the views, and so it goes back and forth ad nauseam. personally, i can’t see myself immediately paying for it, but maybe in a few months time when they have that freedom to actually change up their roster i’d be more interested

okay shifting gears, not to be the guy that compares this to rooster teeth and dropout but im gonna be because people are picking one or the other to support their own argument and its bothering me. "rooster teeth proved this method doesn't work!" not true, they shut down because they were owned by warner brothers, a big media conglomerate that doesn’t care about restructuring something to make it work, only dollar signs (while also not exactly being well known for being the best at handling their money). i still think rt could’ve continued to exist in a different capacity if they had never sold to wb (and didn’t have so many scandals) but i guess we’ll never know.

“dropout proves that this system works!” also not true they offer VERY different kinds of content (game shows, story based stuff like d20, pure improve comedy, etc.) from what watcher is doing, they are not a one to one. also as good as they’re doing now, they’re still kind of recovering from the verge of bankruptcy, trying things out, seeing what works. the system itself is not a guarantee for success.

all this to say i get why some people hate this decision. it’s yet another subscription based service to pay for in a media landscape that is frankly too rife with them. it makes things once free now costly. it puts exciting content behind a paywall that some people genuinely cannot afford.

but the people making the exciting content need stable jobs. the company needs a consistent cash flow to be able to pay their employees and continue making cool and interesting things. they can’t rely on the fickleness of youtube views, algorithm changes, and third party sponsorships at the pace they’re going (which is also part of the problem, they grew to fast and honestly set too high a standard of content from the jump for how early into the company they are but hey let’s not go on yet another tangent).

i think the announcement as a whole could’ve been more successful if it wasn’t hyped up ahead of time and/or if it was a more gradual shift to paid shows than a ripping of the bandaid. i also think essentially saying anyone can afford it for $5/month is a bit insensitive so now people are just grasping onto that instead of discussing the reasons for the change. but saying, “a majority of your audience is broke college students this isn’t the move!” isn’t gonna help or change their decision. i’m sorry but they don’t care. companies are not your friends.

[allstrangeandwonderful]

Yeah, thinking more about it, I think a lot of people I follow use this dry, exasperated tone, which I’ve absorbed because I read it as funny, but I’ll try to be more careful with it in the future, bc obviously I can’t know if a stranger is gonna have the same sense of humour. My bad.

In the interest of clearing up:

The dual pressure of perpetual renters rarely being allowed to paint, and investment realtors decorating in the blandest, most inoffensive way possible, are definitely huge factors in the phenomenon, no question; I was just making connections to a specific Baudrillard quote.

Several people in the notes made points too about how a showroom is not the same as a real house, which would have large TVs providing colour, windows (ideally) showcasing colourful nature outside, and personal touches like plants, wall art, family photos, favourite objects, etc., and that the truly bare white rooms aren’t something that actually exists in peoples homes, and these are fair points (I will point out the Kim Kardahsian house does exist, lol, but is obviously not the norm).

And finally - and this is the most important part - my post wasn’t telling anyone what to do. Like, I never said anyone SHOULD do anything; I saw something that was already happening, and said I thought I understood it better based on new information. “Looks like X is affecting Y.” That’s an observation, not a prescription.

…But I still got a lot of notes and tags in a very aggressive “if you’re reducing colour in your life you’re WRONG and you’re letting the capitalist terrorists win!” and “you can pry colour from my cold, dead hands!!!” kind of messages, which…I was a little surprised by. Like obviously I’m not coming to take anyone’s colour away? It says right there in the post that I think minimalism is a wasteland?? I am also mad at capitalism and colour erasure???

But that’s also how I know that most of these responses don’t really have anything to do with me personally. Regardless of what I actually technically said, people are bringing their own baggage to everything they view, and just shouting into the void of their own experiences. I get it.

Oh, the internet.

So I'm reading for an art history class, and Baudrillard is talking about the trends in colour usage from generation to generation (mostly in interior design, but there's definite spillover into fashion, architecture, etc.), and how every new colour movement is a direct rebellion against the previous one, like how the bright colours of the 60s/70s were a direct response to the austerity and seriousness of the WWII/postwar era, and how a shift back to organized, moralistic neutrals were a direct rejection of 60s/70s gaudiness, etc., and that all makes sense, people find their parent's style tacky, sure

But he goes on to observe how we've now been stuck in a lull of pasty tones and naturalistic finishes for some time, and I'm thinking yes, he's so right, but that's weird, because its been hanging around for so long, like what is it rebelling against anymore? What is it answering to? Well all I had to do was be patient because lo and behold, Baudrillard provides the following sentence, which caused me to completely wig out:

"...except of course, for the spheres of advertising and commerce, where colour's power to corrupt enjoys full rein"

And I'm like ooohhhhHHHHHH, so this colourless minimalist wasteland of a design principle:

Is maybe hanging on so stubbornly because this corporate hellscape:

is assaulting all of our eyes, inside and outside of our homes, every waking second, and is tainting the very concept of colour into something we can't relax around in our living spaces.

[inkskinned]

before you know about women, you hear that you do not need to love the man, just that you need to love him through his manhood. which is to say you have seen the future painted in lamb's blood over your eyes - how your mother shoots you a look about your father's inability to cook right. how your aunt holds her wineglass and says i'm gonna kill em. men, right! how your best friend bickers with her boyfriend, how she says i can't help it. i come back to him.

you learn: men are gonna cheat. men aren't going to listen when you're talking, because you're nagging. men think emotions are stupid. they think your life is vapid and your hobbies are embarrassing. men will slam things, but that's because men are allowed to be angry. if you get loud, you're hysterical. if a man gets loud - well, men are animals, men are dogs, men can't control their hands or their eyes or their bodies. they're going to make a snide comment about you in the locker room, about your body, about how you're so fucking annoying. you're going to give him kids, and he will give you the money for the kids, and you're going to be running the house 24/7 - but he gets to relax after a long day, because his job is stressful. the man is on stage, and is a comedian, and says "women!"

and you are supposed to love that. you are supposed to love men through how horrible they are to you - because that's what women do. that's what good women do. wife material. your father even told you once - it'll make sense when you're older. it was like staring down a very lonely tunnel.

it feels like something's caught in your throat, but it's all you know, so. it's okay that you see sex as a necessary tool, a sort of okay-enough ritual to keep him happy, even though he doesn't seem to care about happiness as-applied-to you. it is relationship upkeep. it is kissing him and smiling even though he didn't brush his teeth. it is getting on your knees and looking up and holding back a sigh because he barely holds you as you panic through the night. it's not like the sex is bad and you do like feeling wanted. and besides! he's a man! like... they're another species. you'll never be able to actually communicate, right. he isn't listening.

you just don't get it. you don't feel that sense of i'm gonna climb him like a tree. mostly it just feels fucking exhausting. you play the part perfectly. you smile and nod and are "effortlessly" charming. and it's fine! it's alright! you even love him, if you're looking. you could have good life, and a good family, and perfectly happy.

in the late night you google: am i broken. you google i'm not attracted to my husband. you google i get turned on by books but not by him. you google how to get better in bed.

the first time he yells at you, it almost feels like blankness. like - of course this is happening. this is always how it was going to end up. men get angry, and they yell, and you sit there in silence.

you mention it to your friend - just the once - while you're drunk. she shrugs and says it's like that with me too, i just try to forget and move on. men are always gonna hear what they want to. pick your battles and say sorry even though he's in the wrong. you play solitaire online for a month. you go to your therapist appointment and preach about how you're both so in love.

after all, you have a future to want. nobody lied about it - how many instagram posts say marriage is hard. say real love takes work. say we fight like cats and dogs but the best part is that we always make up. how many of your friends say happy anniversary to the best and worst thing to ever happen to me. if you really loved him - loved yourself too - you'd accept that men are just different from you.

the first time she kisses you, it's on a dare at a party. something large and terrifying whips through your body. you wake up sweating from dreams where her mouth is encrusted with pearls and you pick them off one by one with your teeth. fuck. you sit at the computer and your almost-finished game of sim city. you think about your potential perfect life and your potential future family. you google am i gay quiz with your little hands shaking.

you delete each letter slowly. you don't need to love him. you just need to keep going.

[janet-the-interplanet]

do you think i should make a spamton divorce cake for my mom (soon to be divorced)

[circleofbirds]

Columbo theory: Columbo actually watches the intro to each episode via the Columbo Dimension™, but since "your honor, I saw them do it via a portal to my magical Columbo Dimension™" is not admissible in a court of law the rest of the episode is spent trying to catch the murderer without admitting that he is an eldritch being outside the mortal limitations of time and space

[autumnrory]

i figure they’ll drop it in a few eps like they have with everything else but it would be a little funny if after all the barchie vs varchie shit that they just made beronica endgame

[gnashedouteyes]

Bald man being comforted by an interdementional watcher!

[dimonds456]

I have a lot of mixed feelings about MatPat.

On the one hand, he definitely has a streak of bigotry. The pyro episode really comes to mind on that one, and his refusal to they/them Kris was also not cool, and there have been a lot of other examples here and there.

But he has been getting better. One of his Livestream hosts uses they/them from what I can tell, and I haven't heard any word that he's misgendered them anywhere.

But also, his theories have just been getting lower and lower quality as his channels kinda turned into something one step below a content farm. His Digital Circus theory, for example, he came up with ON GTLive and then just cleaned it up for the episode.

But he was also hosting all four channels. Each channel will have its own host now.

He made a lot of mistakes, but so does everyone.

Am I defending him? I dont know. Do I forgive him? No. Do I honestly care? ...I don't know.

I'm glad he's stepping away. But I'm also gonna miss him.

Like he said in the goodbye video, he was a lot of peoples childhoods. Mine was one of them. He's definitely not the best person nor was he the best influence, but he did help me realize that being a nerd and being passionate are good things. And his passion helped me want to create.

I'm glad he's leaving, but it also feels like my childhood is going with him. One last step towards that all-encompassing 21 in a few months from now.

I'll miss you, Mat. I hope you can continue to grow as a person and support others more in the future. Teach your son what the world failed to teach you when you were younger.

Also read the tags, please, okay Tumblr? Thanks.

[risingsunresistance]

shoutout to this guy in my lobby who i didn't even know was in my lobby kjhfkg

[navree]

anyway the whole watcher Outrage™ about a company making a business decision is motivated by the exact same sentiment as people who want good journalism but also get pissed when news articles are put behind a paywall or the people who want more public transport but get pissed about bus fares or train tickets costing money

[eruscreaminginthedistance]

Mfw tumblr is right and The Locked Tomb is actually good. Goddamnit

[twobitzz]

i started watching a murder at the end of the world and i wasn't really vibing with it until things picked up at e3. then things got juicy at e4

[aropride]

you can ignore this if you want, no worries, but jreg (from the yt channel "jreg") made a really good video talking about yearning for community and human connection titled "learning to be alone". saw your post and i know you like ro ramdin and cj the x and i think you might like that video if you havent seen it. hope you find what you're looking for

oh my god literally after making that post i opened yt and it was the first thing on the recommended page. it was rlly good and i did cry about it fjdkfj. ty <33

[eclipsecrowned]

seeing an event go down in real time on the dash and then less than a week later seeing the telephone version pop up as a psa completely misrepresenting what happened from other moots.

ah, tumblr.

[puppetlooselystrung]

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[iphis-et-iante]

I've been thinking a lot lately, mostly suicidal in nature, but i had a little epiphany that seems to get rid of that

I don't feel at home online anymore. It's too overwhelming, it's horrible to be constantly available to all. It's summer now, c'est les vacances pour moi, and exams are finished this Monday. And i want to turn over a new leaf, i want to live, i don't want to be a shell hollowed out by trauma that has chased me for so long.

I want to be able to live without being constantly seen by others / seeing others, i suppose, and without reminders that for me are inherent to being online.

So, come Monday, post exams, I'm probably going to quietly leave during the night my social media, at least the media where i am known. So, for the most part? No one knows me here, and even if rarely someone I know sees me, it's rare, and it'll be nice maybe for them to know I'm okay

I'll of course let people know I'm not dead, to not do that is horrible, especially when the you're leaving during a bout of suicidality (it's happened to me, he reappeared after a year, i wanted to kill him, i lost so many nights of sleep over thinking i didn't do enough to help him)

So yeah. I'm going to disappear off the internet lol, at least the parts i know people on/i am known, come lundi soir

It's a new chapter in life if you ask me, as I'll be getting my first job soon, I'll be going to the lycée, and I've got stuff coming up, and I'm happy for it :)

Love ya bitches<3