#take it or leave it but hating ghost files for not being bfu when ghost files airs for three years is like

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Hey there! First of all, love the account! I don't lurk as much in the watcher fandom (not cause I hate them, I just have another fandom I am currently highly fixated on XD)

But my God. I will not get people/audiences that does not want their creators to grow or evolve from their craft. I keep getting peeved with people of not liking their overproduced stuff and reprimanding them for like "using a lot of money and effects when we only wanted a camera and your presence"

Like I get that they love their audience and those audiences love their past work, but since when did fandoms dictate what a creator wants to make and how to make it?! Absolutely insane to me. Some of them need to move on.

Hi! Thank you for the message it's nice to see that someone enjoys what I'm posting I really appreciate it.

I agree with what you're saying honestly, and especially the comments on ghost files alone being like "this is better than ghost files you should make more of this because ghost files is overproduced that you should fire your crew and do things alone always" is like... very backhanded compliment of the people saying this.

Like yes Ryan said that he's proud of what he made and it really is a good show, but it's not because he had one single camera (even that isn't true, like the shot from the airport is him joking about "travelling light" with only 5 bags to have the entire equipment. He uses his Iphone as a static cam but that's still 2-3 cameras if not more. But of course there's shots of him having one camera on himself so there's the illusion of him just going with an iphone cam and investigating alone.

The fact that people fall for that, only shows that Ryan is very talented at making videos. I think that Ghost files alone is great but not because of the low production but because Ryan had a plan for this show and knew what he wanted to prove with it. The heart he puts in it and his geniuine curiosity about ghosts is what's good about the show. The footage is of very high quality and those cameras aren't free. So while Ghost Files Alone cosplays a lower production youtube video of "just a guy with a camera" and a bit of vlogging it made people think that it's "back to the roots of bfu" or whatever.

I am a watcher fan and discovered them with ghost files and I've been blown away by the production value. I love the things people consider "overproduced" because there's not much of that on youtube and it's unique to me. So maybe I don't have the nostalgia that comes with watching them for years like others. But even when my fave youtuber that I followed for a long time upped his production value the last thing I'd do is complain. I don't really get that argument to be honest. Like "Ohh nooo I'm gonna have to watch well produced shows on youtube for free in 4k with good color grading and great microphones" like what is your problem here?

And the fun thing about watcher is that they went to the bfu channel and made a bfu collab video in december 2024. And even then they sat in the boonker and had their set and everything. The only thing different about that is the buzzfeed editing which is pretty jarring to watch after all these years. Like there really isn't going back to the old times.

I feel like people are entitled and feel like they can tell them what to do because usually for youtubers you have that audience-creator feedback that's not very common in other mediums. So the entitlement comes from the fans because they got used to it. It also comes from the usual disrespect people have for service workers and other people that they pay money for. In this case of course the currency isn't money but their attention (or whatever data youtube gathers when you watch a video and the advertisements and whatever), so they feel like "we ""paid"" you so now you have to listen to us". And when watcher dared to ask for actual money it's like "wait no you're just entertainment in the background why would I actually pay for it". It doesn't matter that watcher puts effort in their videos and they're meant to be watched, from the perspective of average person not respecting people in the service industry it's very easy to be like "I pay you so you have to do what I want". So I think that's where that comes from.

I don't know it's very easy to say "don't like don't watch". The problem with ex-watcher/bfu stans is that they loudly need to announce "Btw I'm not watching those greedy assholes and you're a loser if you do". And when you try to point out that they are still uploading things to youtube then you're apparenly being a loser for idk, being a fan of something.

I really wish they moved on and find something better to do with their time.