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215,064 Views ⢠Apr 22, 2024 ⢠Click to toggle off description
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Manufactured Appeal
2:45 So Relatable
4:40 The Personality Phase
6:12 Why I Left Buzzfeed
7:58 Buzzfeed Causes Gamergate (jk but also kinda)
9:21 Look Ma, No Hands
10:01 The Try Guys
11:12 The Watcher Drama
13:20 Buzzfeed As The Villain
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After building its business on YouTube and generating more than 400 million views on the platform, Watcher Entertainment will now offer full series of its original unscripted content â including âGhost Files,â âMystery Filesâ and âPuppet Historyâ â exclusively on its new, subscription-based streaming service.
Watcher was formed by former BuzzFeed creators Steven Lim, Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej, who were behind popular BuzzFeed shows âWorth Itâ and âBuzzFeed Unsolved.â They launched their YouTube channel in January 2020.
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Date of upload: Apr 22, 2024 ^^
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Quinta was the Beyonce of Buzzfeed. Thats all.
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If I had a nickel for every former group of BuzzFeed employees sitting somberly on a couch Iâd have two nickels, which isnât much but itâs weird it happened twice.
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That whole era of buzzfeedâs reign feels very millennial core, very of itâs time. It kinda makes me nostalgic in a way and Iâm not even a millennial.
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Buzzfeedâs worst offenses arenât even known to us, and Iâm curious if thatâll even get exposed. Several ex-employees have insinuated that there were problems they canât discuss for a multitude of reasons, but a lot of them also want as much distance from the company as they can get and are done talking about it all together.
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Honestly, recently I have only kept watching Safiya Nygaard on a more regular basis
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Buzzfeedâs real success story is Quinta! From being a side character in their videos to being a Golden Globe and an Emmy winner herself!
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While Iâm happy to hear Watcher went back on some of their choices, I canât help but feel the trust is broken between them and their audienceâŚwhich is sad, but maybe a good reminder that, at the end of the day, these people are content creators, not our friends.
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I think Safiya Nygarrd is a interesting case study because she, or she and her husband, are the the only face of her independent content. She seems to have a team, but it also seems to be pretty small, a couple of producers and an editor, and they mostly get mentioned in passing. When the only people whose image and personality you have to manage are you and your spouse, and when you only have to pay a handful of people, it is easier to do things like take a year long break because of burnout, or move across the country to be closer to family. If you have a team, a studio, employees, you can't take a break, because people still need health insurance premiums paid and studio rent is due and you can't move to North Carolina because you have 25 employees here, or your co-star isn't going anywhere. Which is probably why Watcher was looking for steadier income then youtube ad money, because LA is expensive and so are full time professionals at a production company. Staying a one woman show does mean that she isn't beholden to those other people or responsible for them.
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The âleaning into the personalityâ reminds me so much of John Mulaney and his divorce. I feel like everyone loved him bc like Ned he was the âI love my wifeâ guy and then when the divorce broke, it went downhill
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It's so wild how Watcher didn't follow the CollegeHumor/Dropout blueprint. Keep SOME YouTube content, but keep new or exclusive content on your own streaming service behind a paywall. This seems like a no-brainer, but they really didn't think it through and fumbled the bag on this one.
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Gonna be honest, Safiya Nygaard has to be my favourite from Buzzfeed. Her videos are long, well-informed, entertaining due to her many niche interests and relatable references and well-produced whilst also feeling down-to-earth. Try Guys are also still pretty good, despite not having Ned and Eugene around often so they work with people who they also have really good dynamics with
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I've been following the Try Guys since they started all the way in those early BuzzFeed days and I'll say that even though their content has kinda gone in a different direction in the last couple years, it's still pretty consistently entertaining. They're definitely my favorite ex-BuzzFeeders. I feel so proud of how well they were able to bounce back from the scandal.
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They say YT is unsustainable, yet spent so much money developing the software for their own streaming service. That must have cost a lot. And the whole 'we didn't want to let anyone go' thing is BS, it's so self serving, if you're bankrupting yourselves to save some employees, then that is an idiotic move, because you'll go bust and your employees will actually be worse off. Let people go if you really need to, then expand if you need as well, its a sad reality, but something many successful companies have done to stay afloat.
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steven lim was on many people's shitlist after him killing the watcher advice podcast because of him saying listener asking for advice regarding homophobic relatives should "understand them". and doubled down in emergency follow up episode, saying he has bigoted friends and he won't stop being friends with them because of that...
doesn't surprise me most folks blamed him for this mess
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I forgot Quinta Brunson came out of Buzzfeed!
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The watcher situation was also so strange bc THEY HAVE A PATREON. With a significant amount of members so people that were already paying there would have been screwed on top of the ppl that watched for free.
They really should have just pushed their Patreon more
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It really was like knowing this whole family of people in its glory days. Similar to what the BA Test Kitchen started to put together a couple years ago. Parasocial content just does so well when you find the right combo of personalities!
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Omg such a good video on my old work place! My first job out of college and I thought I hit the jackpot in terms of career moves. Not so much lol. If you have any questions about the company for a future video or just out of curiousity feel free to ask me. I canât promise I can answer everything but Iâd love to offer more insight
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I relapsed on lady like and worth it videos 2 weeks ago.. this is well-timed
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@jeannekambara1246
3 weeks ago
The whole Watcher situation could have been avoided if they just asked their audience if they'd support a subscription based model.
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