Goodbye YouTube

The fun will continue at www.watchertv.com/ We hope to see you there. edit: Hey all! Seeing a lot of folks saying that we’re pulling all of our content off YouTube. To clarify, all of the content on our YouTube channel will continue to live here forever. For new seasons, the first episodes will be released on YouTube will the remaining coming out exclusively on the Watcher platform.

Y’all remember when the best parts of buzzfeed unsolved was the black screens with nothing but text… Yeah, production quality isn’t why we watched

I cant explain it but this video feels like when your rich corporate boss gives you a pizza party instead of a raise

Rest in peace Shane Madej you would've hated Shane Madej

So, the merch website wasn't making enough with $80 hoodies, $40 tees, and $45/$125 "mystery boxes"? The 13k+ subscribers on your ACTIVE Patreon, with a minimum of $5/month donations (and higher tiers of $10/month, $25/month, and $100/month)? The monetization of your YouTube (2.85 million subs), Instagram (489k followers), and Twitter (248k followers) accounts? The ongoing, sold-out tour shows? The podcast profits? NONE of that was enough? Instead, you felt obligated, for the sake of production quality, to add another streaming service that you want your audience to juggle? Solely for "exclusive" content? Your apology video doesn't break these costs down, either. You need to be FULLY transparent if you want even a sliver of your fans to consider subscribing to something like this.

“Anyone and everyone can afford it” I know my experience is not universal but I have gone two winters without heat because I could not afford it, so no, anyone and everyone cannot afford this.

this feels like when you're at a work meeting and the boss keeps calling the team "a family" when you all make $10 an hour and they're going to Italy for vacation this summer.

I used the CHANGE OUT OF MY CAR for a gallon of gas to get home from my job in disability care. No I don’t have 6 a month or 70$ a year for this.

" You made us rich, but not rich enough :( "

“You’ll still occasionally see us on YouTube. We’ll post trailers for our shows there.” Oh really? For us? The peasants? God bless us one and all.

A case study on how to destroy your brand in 15 minutes.

it's like you helped a friend out emotionally after an abusive relationship just to see them go right back

“Shane finally saw a ghost, the ghost of his career” TOOK ME OUT.

This reeks of rich friends giving awful advice and overestimating your chances tbh

Ever had a friend that became friends with the popular kids? And suddenly you can’t sit with them at lunch anymore? Or talk to them on the bus? This feels like that.

They left Buzzfeed to create Buzzfeed but even Buzzfeed was smart enough to stay and grow on YT.

“i hope you guys follow us this one last time” is CRAZY

we never wanted better quality. all we wanted was shane and ryan, doing their stuff like they were at buzzfeed, but just in a better working environment. nobody asked for this

The production cost for this goodbye video alone could have probably paid for at least 7 videos of Shane and Ryan goofing off and making our lives better. This is so depressing.

It’s crazy how genuinely betrayed I felt watching this. These guys have been my biggest comfort youtubers for so long, and the fact that they’ve become a part of the problem (the problem being my inability to afford anything) was disillusioning in a way that was, honestly, surprisingly upsetting