#ukelele apology video

[omoksii]

[aangarchy]

LMFAOOOOOOO

[shifeltdubious]

Wowie guess who's back from war

[professorpooopypants]

🕊️; hdrey guys.. its em.... pixek! inhad like a huge mental helth crisis for a while hopw thats ok 🔥🔥🔥🗣️ anyways sordy... art here jingle jingle jingle keep looking woahhh look look!

[positively-peachy-143]

DARREL CURTIS EXPLAIN THIS.

[starrynightsxo]

confession time...

this is bout my tsh and tbosas poll...

guys, sorry I was supposed to start reading tbosas and then exactly after read tsh 😭

unfortunately I have all this summer reading I need to do in preparations for my next academic year. like 3 books before september and I was kind of WAY TOO ambitious thinking I could read these 2 books before 💀

sincerest apologies to all especially @thejudeduarte and @viivdle who have been on me to read tsh for AGES 😭😭

I promise to read them after my pre-reading for my studies lol <33

[deathcabforkralie]

hm well my music taste is all over the place but i definitely love indie and probably any genre except country! Also i wanted to ask but if you had to pick 6 songs as your favorite what would they be? (you can go over 6 if you have more! 🗣️)

- ☄️ anon :]

Ooh! Let me think..

Phantom Limb- The Shins

I Will Possess Your Heart- Death Cab for Cutie

Mawce- Everybody's Worried About Owen

Pumped Up Kicks- Foster The People

New Slang- The Shins

Such Great Heights- The Postal Service

And I agree, I'm not the biggest fan of country either...or pop. I like to think I have a more refined taste, but that might just be wishful thinking.

[tera-starstorm]

sitting peacefully in bed thinking about teal mask and getting hit by the thought "toxic gossip chain" i cant do this anymore

[strayleafs]

All aboard the toxic gossip train! Who's got a ticket for manipulation station 🥳🥳?

[cloudymistedskies]

Just woke up properly. I apologize for my other previous posts earlier. I was still half asleep

[drusic]

the colleen ballinger thing is insane . like actually

[whatever-vi-is-thinking]

i feel like this wasnt the point but wtv. An i the only one who thought it was just a teensy weensy minor itty bitty tiny winy bit odd that Dana own a chicken and waffles joint 😭. LIKE THAT IS CRAZY RIGHT??? or am i trippin. Im new around here but my black spidey senses raised they’re eyebrow at that. Not only that but like she talks about wanting late night grits almost in the same breathe???? i aint never in all the big ole years of my life heard of any nga eatin no late night grits what are we doing. Like idk i just found it a little wierd that her place HAD to be chicken and waffles. She couldn’t own a burger joint? an ice cream parlor? a cute little breakfast cafe? Are chicken and waffles and grits important to her character in a way that I’m not aware of? (this may be the case idrk that much about dc YET!) but this feels like some low key on the low on the slide like a minor offense. and in the year of our lord 2024 at that? 😬

someone PLEASE tell me im trippin tho PLEASE like omg

also can we take pause to notice jasons reaction at the end of their initial conversation, and according to my scientific deductions and the calculations and pythagorean theorum, Jason Peter Todd loves a black woman from infinity to infinity!

i really feel like im trippin but please let me know lol

end of post!

"Killer Croc. Aren't you supposed to be locked away in Arkham? -Cut a deal. Early release for good behaivor. Aren't you missing some Outlaws? That Artemis is smokin'. -Step out. Let's do this."

Red Hood: The Hill (2024) #0.

[lady-raziel]

long reaction to the update

ok. so they put out an update video! since i've been commentating for the last three days i might as well subject you all to more of my thoughts today.

main takeaway: this was a good apology video. i mean it. short and to the point, no overproduction, heartfelt and honest (and not a ukelele to be seen. thank god.) they took ownership of the situation, apologized, and restated how much they value their relationship with the fandom.

their solution is to make the watcher tv platform into kind of an iteration of patreon where content is available for early access before it is released onto youtube later. this is clearly a better option than paywalling everything for everyone. i'm not sure what the relative breakdown of costs turns out to be when you compare how much they were making on patreon after the platform took their cut VS how much it costs in overhead to run and maintain their own platform (how much it costs annually to contract via Vimeo, essentially). but i'm sure that's part of the calculation.

all things considered, that does seem like the best option out of all the alternatives. it allows them to not completely abandon any of the pans they have simmering over the fire for the time being. i don't think i ever thought they were going to just say "oops, forget about the streaming thing! let's pretend that never happened!" because at this point they've invested quite a lot of time and money into it, and i don't disagree that keeping it in some iteration may help them make up some of the funds they're lacking.

i would say, it's fine to keep the streamer. this is one of the ok outcomes, all things considered-- but if they're going to do it, they've GOT to do it smart from this point forward. listen to both the fans and the consultants intimately. both are going to have valid points, and both are going to be right. listening to too much of either side will sink this thing because each has motives and expertise that the other doesn't. if the fans say $6 is too much, listen to them-- but have conversations with business consultants about how much you realistically need to charge to make things work.

also, i'd use this whole situation as a learning experience. watcher is a young company, and it's literally inevitable that mistakes will happen. what's different is that the watcher crew haven't really been in a position before where they've been on the receiving end of the internet-angry-justice-hammer to this extent. it's one thing to watch it happen to others, but it's a position of extreme privilege (and a bit of hubris) to think "but that won't happen to me, because i'm built different." naw, man-- two things in life are inevitable: death and fuckups. the callout posts get us all in the end.

what's really important is that they use this as a wakeup call that even the most loyal fandoms will only follow you so far to the cliff's edge, and you don't want to push that. you have to strike a balance between the passion projects that you think are worthy and the stuff that maybe doesn't excite you as much anymore but the people want to see. a little fanservice keeps the lights on, as unfair as that might seem. i'm gonna make 50 markiplier choccy milk memes just so i can make one niche political joke once and a while for 6 likes. it is what it is.

i'd also use this as a chance to take a very careful look at company structure and finances. it's not fun to do and nobody likes it. trust me-- this is hard whether you're a single adult trying to pay the bills or the freaking US government (speaking from experience on both-- i have to read the president's budget for work frequently). but you all have to ask hard questions about the ratio of creative staff you take on VS staff for administrative and other business roles, as well as the costs and benefits of everything you spend money on. how many staff members are essential to location shoots? can this video be shot with 2 cameras instead of 3 and thus you don't need another cameraperson? you might even have to come to the decision that instead of pitching a new show it makes more sense to use those funds to hire your essential non-creative roles or contract firms or freelancers.

paying staff a fair wage with benefits speaks highly of what watcher wants their values to be. it's hard to find such a position in a creative role and still actually get to work on things you care about. but it would be much worse if watcher didn't make realistic decisions about finances and it lead to the death of the company and everyone losing their jobs. the whole watcher company can work, in my opinion, but not without some sacrifices. they're going to have to run it more like a business and less like a youtube-channel-turned-business in the future if they want to survive.

last thing i'll add is that while i do think this was a good apology video, i still think they hurt themselves by not putting out some sort of statement on Friday or Saturday just to say that they were formulating a response. As i've said in other posts, it's ok and in fact beneficial to not make a kneejerk reaction, but it's also very important to communicate that you SEE what's happening. you SEE what people are saying and THAT'S why you need more time to respond. saying nothing and leaving the angry public to wonder if you dropped your phone off the Hoover Dam or just don't care? that's a fumble. it's a common mistake companies make in a crisis, but that doesn't mean it doesn't erode trust fast.

this could have been handled better in many ways. we see that, and i'm glad watcher says they see that too. crucial going forward is taking all this and patching the errors that caused all this to fall apart and learning from the experience.

tbh at this point what i'm most sad about is that the watcher crew have probably been too stressed out and upset to appreciate some of the absolute bangers people have been laying down to clown on them. i think if it wasn't about them they might be touched by the collective attitude and creative spirit. /j

[devotion-disorder]

on a scale of 1-10, how bad is Noel's YouTube apology video

Actually? if 10 is the worst then he's like a 3-4. He may or may not be making up evidence but he looks and sounds sincere enough, video demonetized and everything. He certainly has enough sense in him to not pull out a ukelele and start singing. He would be the type to avoid addressing anything and let any 'drama' die down on its own though.

[beinghymen]

Imagine if Mitchell made a Ukelele Apology Video for the Box Tunnel Massacre

"🎵🎶 ...The toxic gossip train..."

[loving-jack-kelly]

@dream-rot literallyyyyy

i'm racking my brain for any apology video worse and idk if there has been one. like. you know it's bad when shane fucking dawson addressed more of his controversy than you. jesus christ ma'am. jesus christ.

okay so one of my toxic traits is that I keep up with internet drama like crazy like youtube drama is a favorite pastime of mine and I didn't know an """"""apology"""""" video could be as bad as what colleen ballinger just posted. lmao.