Watcher Destroys Fanbase By Switching Platforms

I watched that entire “Goodbye YouTube” video like this 🤨

They should have announced it on April 1st, then they could have, well, you know, if it went pear-shaped they could have said it was a prank. Spent 4 years building it up, and 4 minutes tearing it down.

It really does feel like they want us to fund Steven's over priced vacations and food under the disguise of content "for us, the viewer"

They forgot the basic OG showbiz rule. "Dont believe your own publicity".

There is a logical fallacy wanting to make TV caliber shows and NOT beholden to advertisers. TV shows are 100% beholden to advertisers. That has never not been a thing.

Steven Lim isn’t why we subbed to watcher…

One youtuber showed what Watcher makes, they make around $520K a year on Youtube, then, they have around 2,901 Patreons, even if the Patrons are only paying $5 each, that's around $63,000. What watcher is failing to see here is, that YOUTUBE is providing Watcher with the Bandwidth and the STreaming FOR FREE, and once Watcher starts it's own Streaming Service, the Bandwidth and STreaming is going to be coming out of THEIR pockets. An expensive they currently don''t have while they're on YouTube. They're also giving up ALL of their Ad Revenue as well. They are going to Hemorrhage money.

ive decided that in the aftermath if its just ryan and shane I will happily watch them again but if steven is part of it I will never sub to watcher again

They just updated that they changed their mind because they heard the audience and understand it was a mistake. So now they’re continuing YouTube for free and the streaming survice is to just get things a month ahead.

I think they're going to double down. Shane's wife has a Tumblr post saying it's hard paying people's wages. Steven posted a week ago about how they hired more people to bring back his food show.

They had 2.88M its now 2.83M. I had unsubscribed from them. It's sad what they are doing to us who had followed them from Buzzfeed. It's also bad timing they haven't done their tour in the UK yet. Is there going to be empty seats? Are the audience going to question them about this or is the show going to skip the Q &A to avoid it.

I personally find Steven to be a bland personality and wouldn't watch any of the videos that focus on him. I was 100% watching for Shane and Ryan

OMG, you had me at your intro & that gap in your left eyebrow! The pandas on your shirt totally put it over the top -- I'm subscribing NOW! Edit: Happy to meet another fan of Puppet History. Hope you also enjoy Shane's summary songs near the end -- silly, ridiculous fun. I also watch Are You Scared, Too Many Spirits, Ghost Files, & Mystery Files, but Puppet History is my favourite.

They just added apology video

If you already pay for Patreon, you STILL have to pay $5.99/mo to watch their streaming service. That should at LEAST be included in one of the Patreon packages.

I think it would be sweet if Shane and Ryan returned to the watcher youtube channel saying they KICKED out stephen.

Here Yee here Yee, watcher has just announced an apology video, very refreshing to hear that they’ve made changes really good changes(brought to you by a watcher fan)

They just backtracked this whole thing. Lol!

I used to think the channel was just Shane & Ryan. After I figured it out the whole deal? I was literally there because I liked the hijinks that their chemistry brought. I think losing THAT hurts viewers the most. Parasocial relationships suck & I don’t think we ever intend on making them but when they are gone it hurts the same.

Steven is literally unfunny and not why I followed S+R.