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I have full intentions to try and watch the shows but I just never had time, and now I genuinely can't. Like I feel the same and want to watch to see if I can get into it but...
I am actually fine with watcher leaving YouTube. I was an Unsolved watcher myself, particularly enjoyed True Crime (yeah judge me, we all have guilty pleasures). Once they left buzzfeed I understood, but the stuff over at watcher has never been the same to me.
Ghost files and Mystery files are fine, but obviously not the same. Which is understandable, they tried to stop being „the guys from buzzfeed unsolved“ and be „watcher“ instead. Good for them!
Mystery files just never gave me the same enjoyment Unsolved did, it honestly doesn’t seem like a fully baked concept to me. I can’t rly explain it, since they did follow the old unsolved concept. (Also found it funny how Ryan pretended to have come up with a great new idea when mystery files started airing but that’s another story)
Ghost files is good, but as mentioned, Unsolved Supernatural was always the „uglier sibling“ to me.
Puppet history is nice, however I always found myself watching it only when I couldn’t find anything else. I understand ppl loOoOove the professor, that’s great, just not rly my cup of tea.
All the other shows I could never get into. Watched an occasional ep of „Too many spirits“, „are you scared?“ I never understood. Their other shows never enticed me. All that led to me never even subscribing as I have recently noticed oops.
All in all, I think the paywall was a stupid stupid decision, that might not make them more money in the long run. Hope they get the „artistic freedom“ they expect from this change. I’m glad to be rewatching old Unsolved eps from time to time, since that’s something I was doing already anyway.
Bye watcher, I’d lie if I said I’ll rly miss you.
Watcher fandom really is on fire right now, and not in the good way.
i dont understand why watcher didn’t move forward with channel members like smosh did… confusing me. i cant pay $5 for the 2 shows i watch from their channel(puppet history and mystery/ghost files)
I have to give props to the boys for seeing their mistake and almost immediately fixing it, but it’s also hilarious that this how they learned poor people do in fact exist.
Steven Lim probably isn’t the mastermind behind this whole shitty ordeal, but they absolutely should NOT have advertised his expensive ass eating show before that fuckass announcement and he shouldn’t have made that tone deaf comment saying “everyone can afford it”.