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.

After watching their videos for 6+ years I feel like I just lost two friends in a “we’re too cool to hang out with you anymore” kind of way.

You know what I would actually pay 5.99 for? a video of you guys reading through and addressing this entire comment section. Genuinely curious about the thought process here.

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.

So to recap: you overhired, leased an egregiously and needlessly large studio space in one of the most expensive cities in the world and have exhausted all other means of monetization as a result. Basically you pulled a Buzzfeed. Ponderous.

Rip Shane "eat the rich" Madej, you would have hated Shane "all our content is paywalled" Madej.

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 :( "

i’m not a patreon member, but the fact theyre complaining about not having enough money and not once thanking the patreon at all. the people who have been giving them money for years.

Ya know what? Thank you, Watcher. I decided to take the money I spend on your patreon yearly and give it to my local food bank. I should’ve done it a long time ago, but I’ve learned a lesson.

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.

i personally don’t enjoy when youtube channels want to transform into “tv quality” content because a huge part of youtube’s appeal is that it is not something you would see on tv. why do you think the og low budget unsolved vids built such a following?

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

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.

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.

13:59 "and if this is our goodbye to YOU" - They know they're going to lose people. Intentionally throwing away fan support is a WILD move

until we hear any confirmation Shane or Ryan were overruled to make this decision i need people to stop babying them and acting like they didnt get a say in their own business. Steven may be the CEO but theres no way Watcher can continue without Shane and Ryan signing it off. They are grown men who made this decision

The funniest part of this video is that they monetized it and made ya watch multiple ads of them telling you they have to create videos to please advertisers... 😂😅😂