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

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.

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.

This feels like a breakup, and the reason was you calling me broke.

You might as well change your name to “Watched”.

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

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

Imagine being so tone deaf and living in such a bubble that you can look around in 2024 and think “I bet people are willing to pay for another streaming service.”

I feel gaslit. You're doing this for ME? You're doing something I didn't ask you to do and you're making me pay for the privilege? Wait... What??

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.

25 EMPLOYEES?! You have less than 3M subscribers, what on earth are you thinking?! That’s your problem right there. It’s not a YT problem, or an advertiser problem, it’s a YOU problem. Do better.

This is a budgeting issue. Nobody asked you guys to make television level content. Television level content requires a BUDGET. And when the BUDGET doesn’t make PROFIT, the show gets CANCELLED.

scrolled for five minutes trying to find a single comment expressing that this is anything less than a terrible idea. still looking.

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

Please never remove this video. It needs to remain as a shining beacon on what not to do and how not to make an announcement for ages to come.

Guys stop being so accurate in the comments I can’t like them all

good news everybody, for only $72 a year you can watch a limited pool of content that was built off the backs of a dedicated free fanbase that's been left in the dust by the decisions of a financially out of touch company that once made anti-capitalist jokes!

YouTubers can make more money by devoting one minute of a video to a Raid Shadow Legends ad than I will make in a 40 hour work week. Do NOT ask me to pay more money for things.