#shane madej edit

[toomanywatchers]

Shane & Ryan Visit A Hollywood Horse Ranch | WWW s3

[skellitonz]

single handedly getting all the mystery files to 3 million views so we can get that ryan/shane foot race

[psmith73]

Pod Watcher 015

[enuui]

long thoughts abt watcher

its so weird to me that people are being like ‘you aren’t entitled to free content’ about the watcher situation bc that’s not the actual problem here. artists deserve to be fairly paid, but the watcher situation reveals a truly bizarre level of business incompetence and a lack of market research.

they actively cultivated a relatively young audience, actively claimed to be ‘eat the rich’ style liberals, then turned over and told that audience that they need to pay $6/month. which again, fine! dropout did it and survived, but dropout had so much more backing it up, went about the transition slowly, and on top of that, their audience was older and therefore had more spending money available.

watcher has none of that. it would be one thing if they had started marketing to an older audience months ago, or changed the style of their content to match the heavy production costs. but as it stands, they built their career off of relatively simple videos with a lower budget, gained a specific type of audience from those videos, then expected that audience to pivot with them when watcher realized they wanted to make a different type of (more expensive, more produced) content.

it can’t work that way. the audience is not acting entitled right now for feeling a shock, bc the audience became loyal to watcher due to a desire for a certain kind of content (specifically the dynamic between shane and ryan).

and if watcher wants to make different content and be paid for it on a more regular basis, that is also okay! but they severely miscalculated their existing audience, and definitely misunderstood how much their current audience wants to watch the style of videos they want to make.

also, imo, ryan and shane have admitted that they dislike the admin side of running a business. i think they truly thrived as regular content creators and not as business managers, and so they struggled to figure out how to run their company and ultimately handed over the reins to steven to wash their hands of it all and go back to making the content they want. and thats also fine, some people are not built for business and work better as individual contributors.

but ryan and shane and steven also seem to have a view that their simple content is almost… beneath them? they talk a lot abt challenging themselves to put out well produced content that their cultivated audience clearly doesn’t really care about. its a mismatch between watcher’s desires for the future and the audience they built in the past that ultimately led to this mess.

they had two options: easier option to make the type of low-budget content their audience has been proven to enjoy, or put in the work to build up an expanded audience so that they could fund the content they wanted to make, put in the work to do a longer, more well thought out transition, put in the work to make connections and figure out how to manage their revenue streams.

and instead they decided to take a shortcut and brute force their existing audience to fund their dreams, and in the process shooting themselves in the foot by alienating their audience. i just can’t comprehend how they reached this conclusion at all.

[mistchievous]

Ghost Files: Season 3 Sneak Peek

[crispycreambacon]

Ryan really channeled his poor little meow meow energy at the end there huh

(Fun fact: Ryan took 10 minutes to do while Shane took. over 30. Dear lord.)

[crypticthumbs]

ghouls and ghosts, and pigeons that go "woo" in the night

[renatayaga]

@wearewatcher a CIGARETTES edit 4 u

[maxxxines]

Santas Gone Wild: Too Many Spirits

[lindamccartneysstrap]

Compilation of Shane Madej being Thee Worst Guest Ever 😌❤️

[theghoulboysblog]

the moon and stars hang out in bars just talking . . . 💛💙

(song: summer’s end, original song by john prine, cover by phoebe bridgers <3)

[toomanywatchers]

[warnadudenexttime]

Technically he didn’t drop kick the puppet, he punched the jellybeans out of him but-

[psmith73]

Ryan “I love chaos” Bergara

[watchersleuth]

Choose Your Fighter: Shane-sona Edition

[anakinisvaderisanakin]

Best friend, you my motherfuckin' soul mate

Because I had this (dumb) idea stuck in my head and I couldn't help myself.

Big thanks everyone on Tumblr for the clip compilations/gifs. I never would have had the time or energy to find so many good scenes myself!

@wearewatcher