It’s so sad that the ghoul boys died on a ghost hunt, from ghosts

And that’s why they won’t post YouTube videos anymore, because they are dead, from ghost hunting ):

So I have made this blog to just talk about whatever, but the specific reason is so I can talk about the whole watcher entertainment thing that is happening.

I am not a person that cries when it comes to shows or content or people I don’t know personally, but watching the “goodbye YouTube” video made me cry, curl up in a ball on the floor of my room and listen to sad songs for about 2 hours at 2am.

I did not cry because it was heartfelt, but because it was heartbreaking

These two random men (and Steven I suppose) that I have never met but nonetheless have been apart of my life for years now are making it so that I can no longer watch them without forking out money that I do not have.

I am not from America, I do not use USD, which means the price is not $6, it is more than that and I cannot afford it.

Watcher, Please reconsider or compromise, please, I do not want to loose the channel that I watched when I was lonely and lived long distance from my friends, the show that helped me through the lonely moments because I could watch these two best friends goof around in a haunted location.

Goodbye Youtube

Genre: announcement

Date posted: Apr 19, 2024

Closed captioning: yep

Runtime: 14:31

Youtube description: Credits and links to WatcherTV

Trigger warnings: capitalism

My rating: 🫣🫢🫡👋

Full review below vv

If you want to watch a channel shoot themselves in the foot, this is the video to watch. I actually didn't see this video first, but I saw the mass backlash on Tiktok and Twitter. This video documents the shittiest business decision made by any former Buzzfeed member, and that's saying something. If I had a nickel for every video made by former Buzzfeed stars that's making a controversial announcement where the thumbnail is three dudes on a couch with shitty lighting, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's wild that it happened twice.

The video is full of empathy farming while simultaneously putting all of their content behind a paywall. If you want to know what's going on, I don't actually recommend this video. Watch penguinz0 or any other commentary YouTuber for the tea because this video is not worth the watch. The best part of this video is literally the comments section.

I guess we'll see how they walk this one back.

The Watcher apologized for the video they posted on Friday along with apologizing to their audience. They also have made some changes to their original plan.

They look embarrassed and the guy on the very right looks like he is mad.

all good whiskers must come to an end

Dan and phil react to every Phil is not on fire part 3

Where we started - MatPat

Hi, yes, I did cry during the announcement. And yes I cried again when I rewatched the announcement. I didn't realize it, but I went back to check and I've been watching game theory for 12 YEARS. I haven't watched consistently the entire time, but I have been watching pretty regularly again for the past three years (especially the food theories and meta theories <- love those)

I'm going to try and do a bigger composition as a companion piece closer to the retirement date, so fingers crossed I can do that in time. In the meantime I've been rewatching old GT (not) Live stuff to cope, haha!

"The Last Goodbye" Pippin animatic! The fact that Billy Boyd sings The Last Goodbye always makes it feel like a 'missing Pippin song' to me. The line "I saw the light fade from the sky" always reminds me of the moment in Gondor where Pippin sees the stars vanish behind the clouds of Mordor. This animatic is also directly based on/is a study of shots in ROTK-- so if you're really Deep Into It you might be able to pick out exactly what specific scenes I'm referencing. I may continue drawing out the full song, but I've had this opening bit in my head very vividly for a while.

get conanrolled

so mcki robyns-p recently announced an art and/or cover competition for a synthv bank giveaway, so i decided to do my first ever public danganronpa fanart (holy shit-) check out the song that inspired this!

Here I am, at the time I stopped making videos.

New animatic! (un)happy DL-6 day!

How well do Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie really know each other? 🤔 | Vigil - BBC

THOUGHTS ON MATTPATT LEAVING YOUTUBE???

(i personally am just suprised)

I literally BAWLED my eyes out feels like someone DIED I CANT believe we don’t get to grow up with him anymore. I probably wouldn’t have my YouTube channel now without him. but that’s just my seven year long parasocial relationship.

can i just word vomit for a min...

there was a point in late 2023 where i felt like i overstayed my welcome on simblr and i planned on just wrapping frozen pines up as quickly as possible and moving on. continuing to write when it's clear that the audience for it is dwindling felt so embarrassing that i almost didn't even want to put effort into it anymore, because i was afraid it just looked pathetic (obligatory disclaimer: no one made me feel this way, you're all so lovely, it's just the nature of seeing a community change over 7 years). writing already feels very personal to me and it's becoming increasingly harder for me to put my work out there (again, for reasons unrelated to simblr and entirely related to mental illness 🤙🏻). i know my story is so long that it deters new readers, and so sporadic that it makes old readers drop off with time. this has really been bothering me lately because i don't know what i can do to fix it. i don't think there IS anything i can do.

but. okay. don't make fun of me for saying this. dan and phil returning to youtube kinda changed my mindset? they may be pulling a fraction of the views they got in their peak, but they're happier than they've ever been and they're working on things they actually want to do, not things they think will be particularly popular. seeing that has made me realize that it is possible to keep finding joy in a community that has largely moved on without you. obviously my little blog is nowhere near the same scale, so this feels kind of silly, but i've been thinking about all the things i used to do on simblr that were never fun for me, i mainly did them because i knew they would get notes or because i felt like i had to do it. making cc, lookbooks, sim requests, reshade help (oh my god the reshade help), lot downloads, etc. they DID get notes, but i can't imagine spending my time doing any of that stuff ever again tbh.

on top of that, it makes me sad to scroll through my dash and realize that i don't recognize most of the people i see anymore. i still talk to some wonderful people here who i consider friends and that's invaluable to me (💖), but the broader community aspect is something i no longer feel a part of. and believe me, i know i'm at fault here because it's not like i'm going out of my way to talk to new people or participate in trends like i used to. i don't blame anyone except the passage of time!!

frozen pines, and simblr by extension, played such a gigantic part in my life when i needed it the most. and that's not to say that i don't still care about it, because i absolutely do, but it's a different kind of feeling. i've always promised that i would give frozen pines a satisfying conclusion rather than silently abandoning it someday, and though i do intend to keep that promise, i know it's possible that i might never get there. but i don't want to let my own insecurities get in the way of something i really enjoy doing. writing is an intrinsic piece of me that i'll never quit doing, but sharing my writing on tumblr is something that can't (and shouldn't) last forever. i know that. but i'm going to enjoy it to the fullest while we're all still here together 💞

to anyone who's still reading my silly story after all these years (especially those of you who still check in on my blog even though you're not on simblr anymore): thank you thank you thank you THANK YOUUU. you don't have to change a single thing about what you're doing. this is not me fishing for compliments or putting down an ultimatum, this is just me trying to make sense of my feelings.

but with all this being said, i've decided to quit simblr and start my own exclusive streaming service for $60 a year, i hope you'll all support me as i increase my production value 😌

(just kidding. ily. okay that's all)

so now that MatPat is gone, we have

TomRob - Game Theory

LeeCol - Film Theory

AmeRob - Style Theory

SanMas - Food Theory

All hail the newest victims of shortened names for recognizability.

TIME FOR A NEW ERA

Viewers pick my HAIRCUT