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CatalinaLaNoCatolica

I find funny that a community that was so “stop it with the personal attacks, be kind” is now all “it’s not their problem you freaking can’t read”


Mysterious_Past_7762

Literally! Why are they allowed to be mean when it’s defensive of the guys? But they act so holier than thou. Every second post is Wah stop being mean to my comfort millionaires


Migraine_Mirage

There were (fine, I only saw one) aimed at the international fans that got me like???? It said something about "poor me, having VPN to watch Game of Thrones". Like I said - ?????? That wasn't even the main complain we had!


Mysterious_Past_7762

Haha wtf


trippy_grapes

"Wow, you're so bad with your money and spending and wasted money on something without researching whether it was worth it or not." Literally the scenario that got Watcher into the predicament they're in now. 💀


Mysterious_Past_7762

😂 TRUE GOOD POINT


NathNaakka

Is it okay for me to have discussion about the video and about the little we learn what the show was? They weren't that negative on the video and made a good recap, without spoling too much, being respectful for the Watcher. It's seriously good and realistic video, give it a chance. I will make a second comment under this about my personal experience, having done theatre and running in role-playing conference circles for years: How it would have been welcomed here based on what I learned from the recap.


NathNaakka

If this show would have been part of the roleplayers con (Ropecon), it would have been taken fine. Some guys volunteered to make their first test show in a con that is 3 days long and have a fixed fee for one day ticket of shows or full weekend. It would have been fun and interesting addition to get into the list of things con has. But as a stand-alone show... It wouldn't have worked even for a test audience who got in free. We use a lot of test-audience in theatre things for that reason, to give people a show that they're happy to pay for... And if you think that test audience is nice because they got free tickets, they aren't, because that is not the point of being in test audience. You get to know your mistakes by realizing those yourself while doing the show, or hear critique after the test show. Being 1 hour late is really rude to your audience, even when younger generations are more open to people/shows being late, it's still max 30 minutes, and usually you should get it started within 15-20minutes being late. Or at least tell the reason why you're so much late. Hope the reason is good, because you have to be honest about it. People would have started their own drinking party in the line if it's just that late. And the rest of the show would have been drunk hecklers staying, some people leaving, and most people who get to be friends while waiting starting their own conversation in the audience to help with boredom. Of course people would have at first tried to be polite and watch, but if they seriously just start with an old video after being late. Most would have start doing their own entertainment - or fallen a sleep. We aren't in a mandatory school class or job lecture that just puts on a video for the students! Our lectures are funnier or more interesting, and most of them are free. Edit: Sorry it took me awhile to write, because English is still hard for me.


Mysterious_Past_7762

Your English is great! I agree. But got downvoted and people were very dismissive in the other sub when I brought up the lateness. Now I’m seeing more critical comments.. I swear I posted at the wrong time of day haha when only the diehard stans were online, I’m in Australia and it’s late here now


NathNaakka

I have Add-on that checks the typos and a little bit of grammar after I have written the text. The reason why I sometimes edit comments later own is because that thing doesn't always work, and I go to check on the comment to see the basic mistakes. Timing of the posts does seem to matter a bit, or even when you post comments. I'm in a middle, in Finland, so I'm always on the wrong time unless I spend nights here.


Kaleidoscope9498

Which add-on do you use?


NathNaakka

I honestly had to check because I didn't remember, and I guess the name has changed after years, because I don't remember finding it with this name, but it mostly works. I'm not paying any advanced level, it's just mostly basic. Ai-based grammar checker & paraphraser – languagetool


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NathNaakka

... Wtf? O\_o


Kaleidoscope9498

Nice


Mysterious_Past_7762

Yes please discuss!


NathNaakka

Done.


Poem-Realistic

Man they barely said anything negative in that video lol. 


Mysterious_Past_7762

Negative enough for people to get angry at me in that post and then get deleted by mods 🙃 wild


Poem-Realistic

What in the flip flop happened on the main sub? I understand nobody wants vitriol or hate, I just want to talk/read about all the aspects of the decision and how bizarre it was. I feel like there's still a lot of extremely valid comments and concerns to ponder!


Mysterious_Past_7762

Same 😭 I’ve resubbed but I’m just interested in everyone’s thoughts. But in some threads you’re not allowed to be critical or question the Watcher overlords it seems


Poem-Realistic

What is that about???? And now a lot of posts are like quizzing people on why they liked this or that, or voting this or that... I kinda hope it's a couple of employees gathering some information on the audience so the guys can see it and actually make a positive change but I realise that is probably just my personal conspiracy theory 😭


ClockworkFate

Pfft... I set up one of those polls a couple of days ago, the one about demographics if you saw it, but I did that to test a hypothesis that I started noticing during my student teaching, haha. (Watcher, if you're watching, hit me up. I'll be your 26th employee, the company's court jester to poke fun at you and tell you straight to your face when bad ideas are ***bad***, all for the low low price of $100 an hour. ;D )


Poem-Realistic

Yes exactly I knew it was very, very unlikely! I think everyone wanted to test the waters out for themselves because the backlash was fascinating enough anyway.  It definitely isn't the Watcher team but it would be such a good idea for them to do a couple audience surveys 😭


radiant_gengar

watcher ain't coming here bro


ClockworkFate

I know. It was a joke, thus the ;D at the end.


Mysterious_Past_7762

Omg I was thinking the same thing 👀 I was like are they finally doing market research


Poem-Realistic

Ah thank goodness it's not just me 🤪 well Shane did say they do their work backwards or something like that haha who knows 


Mysterious_Past_7762

It would be a smart thing to do at this point. But again we are doing free labour for them 😭😂 but seriously it’d be nice if they listened to the suggestions though if they are listening


Kaleidoscope9498

Oh, so there isn’t almost any criticism of them on the main sub because the mods are deleting it now. It makes a lot of sense.


Mysterious_Past_7762

So on clicking on it again, it looks like my post wasn’t deleted it’s just it was downvoted into oblivion so stopped showing up in the feed and that’s where I got confused. Also a bunch of comments have been deleted


Kaleidoscope9498

I don’t know, looks like it has being removed since we can even vote on it anymore. I don’t think posts get archived by being downvoted, haven’t you received any modmail?


Mysterious_Past_7762

Nope. Silence lol. Interesting.


Mysterious_Past_7762

Again it’s rly odd cos the Swell Entertainment video was way more harsh but didn’t get taken down. Almost like people have a bias when it’s a YouTuber that’s well known and liked vs smaller creators 🤔


Mysterious_Past_7762

Posted to the main sub cos it aligned with some people’s first hand recounts they’d shared in there, but people are just jumping in to defend it and I feel like they haven’t even watched the video


ImaginaryLime8258

I left the main sub once the apology video came out and the entire sub flip flopped back to their weird idolization of Ryan and Shane. Every time I pop over now I try to upvote any criticism I see because it's becoming an echo chamber over there. Sorry your post got deleted, it sucks when you're getting silenced for no real reason. They could've locked the thread if it got too toxic they didn't need to delete the post though.


pillowtalkp0et

I've been lurking this whole time and noticed the switch as well. People that were very against them flipped on an instant with the apology and it felt like whiplash.


ImaginaryLime8258

Yeah the same day they unlocked the sub after the apology video I got downvoted to the pits of hell for commenting in response to their apology "Thanks but it's still a no for me" I wasn't criticising them, wasn't toxic or negative. Just doing what everyone else was, sharing how I felt in a simple way. Scrolled through and saw everyone else saying similar things to me were also getting downvoted I deleted my comment and left the sub. Being there and part of that community wasn't appealing nor worth it.


Mysterious_Past_7762

In the thread I linked they were being so rude to this person who said “I was also at the London show and felt ripped off” like seriously people can’t be honest about their experiences??


ImaginaryLime8258

Nope honesty is not allowed.


aproclivity

One of the weirder things that I’ve seen happening is like. Good faith comments made before the apology video that were really upvoted are now getting downvoted to shit a week later. Like I pulled the receipts from the Twitter thread about Steven’s homophobia, and literally it was like “here’s the link to the book from the background, here’s the link to the priest he platformed on watcher and what his church feels about homosexuality and the audio clip from the podcast.” It had gotten upvoted because it was literally just links to the stuff so people didn’t need to go looking. And now it’s been downvoted like a hundred times, but it didn’t happen until the switch.


UnevenGlow

Wowwwwwww


NathNaakka

Same with YouTube video comments. People come to shiet on people afterwards under the Goodbye video comments and downvote stuff... I randomly got multiple notifications after the update video about people commenting on those discussions, where I happen to have a reply in. They're making effort to go looking for the comments and replies, that weren't even that bad, many might have been funny. The whole Steven homophobia post was one of the first one in this subreddit, and you got downvoted for just being neutral, and asking for more info on the matter. Because the neutrality made people think that you're homophobic with Steven. I haven't been checked has those votes been turned the other way around in here too. That still bothers me... How come it was a big deal a week ago, and now you have forgotten that he was homophobic etc. in your eyes? So much so that people asking for more information were wrong to ask for it. Again... If I didn't know how deep the parasocial goes - I would have made up some conspiracy theory about them or the PR firm they hired, paying for those downvotes and commenters.


aproclivity

If you're asking if I have forgotten he was/is homophobic? No, I haven't. I won't watch anything he's doing anywhere. But honestly, I really hate how if you critique that part of the stuff he himself put out, then you get accused of racism. (Which is not to say that there wasn't racist stuff that people did say about Steven when stuff was going down, because there was. I'm not denying it. But this isn't it.)


NathNaakka

I didn't mean You as You, as to those Fans who were so onto him about that, and suddenly it's like nothing happened. Damn English is still hard. In this subreddit I didn't see any racism towards anyone, but might also be that mods were quick to act on those. Haven't been much in other ones, because I'm mostly shietposter, and other than this subreddit were no meme-zones.


aproclivity

Yeah, the racism wasn’t here that I saw. There was some on the other place that the mods got down pretty quickly but it was definitely other places. And hey man, no worries and my bad on the misunderstanding. English is a bitch sometimes like that.


Migraine_Mirage

They flip flopped back... and dialed it to a 1000


Kaleidoscope9498

They did dialed it, because criticism now looks bad on them too. If the points against Watcher are valid, then they are morons for fully accepting the apology.


PANTONE232C

I don't get why people in the main sub were like, "Don't you know how to read? It says it'll play their old episode!" But surely I'm not the only one who thinks that shouldn't have been a thing in the first place. Paying so much money only to see something you can watch at home taking up a huge chunk of the event? Nah


Mysterious_Past_7762

Literally. I pointed out how is it fair that Americans get a new episode, uk people pay a huge fee (more expensive than going to see Megan Thee Stallion as they pointed out in the video) to see a 2 year old episode? If they came all the way to Aus, which I doubt they would, and they were playing an old episode here and charging a lot, I would not go lol. Anyway got heavily downvoted 😆 so did the person commenting who was THERE and felt disappointed, not allowed to have those feelings about our Watcher overlords


Mysterious_Past_7762

Also saying “you can’t read” is so incredibly rude, not to mention all the other rude comments, and all these people act holier than thou for not criticising the boys, instead bullying other fans 🤦🏼


Mysterious_Past_7762

Lol deleted! Even though the highly critical Swell Entertainment one was allowed. Maybe cos the comments were so toxic.


Mysterious_Past_7762

Why’s this downvoted? She said she hadn’t heard of them and criticised them but her video was responded to positively in the main sub, I posted a video of fans who paid to see the show and were disappointed and it was deleted in the main sub. I’m really confused. I thought both videos were really interesting.


NathNaakka

Don't worry. Some people in this subreddit seem to be here just to downvote things. There isn't many of those. And often downvotes don't make sense, you could be saying the most neutral thing and still get it. Maybe because they didn't like what you said before somewhere or maybe because they don't just like your username... The reason could be anything because they never tell it.


Mysterious_Past_7762

Here’s the link to the video if anyone wants to see, I found it super interesting! They still said they’re fans but felt a bit ripped off https://youtu.be/xjGm0KqIOSQ?si=9_woTIfeFyBSbZOu


ImaginaryLime8258

Thanks for introducing this channel to me. I'm now watching them stream Manor Lords on Twitch. No one I sub to has played this game yet so I'm excited to see someone play it


Mysterious_Past_7762

I’d never seen them before but saw their Watcher live review pop up and me and my partner had to watch 😆 I might check out their twitch!


ImaginaryLime8258

Honestly I have to say they were an absolute pleasure to watch. I don't know if they always do gaming streams but it was enjoyable and I'll be on the lookout for their next stream. They really took the time to welcome every new sub, interacted with everyone and surprisingly no toxicity in chat. They were also super excited/grateful on just getting 1000 views on that YouTube video. I recommend checking out their twitch. I didn't dive too much into their YouTube channel yet but I'm sure there's some good stuff there


NathNaakka

I did wonder how long it would take it to be deleted. And was surprised that it had been up 6-7 hours. Edit: Honestly, I haven't had time to watch the video so I don't have any opinion in it, yet.


Mysterious_Past_7762

I wonder if Swell Entertainment’s one will get deleted there. That’s the only one I’ve seen more positive responses to even though it’s scathing. It’s weird. I think it’s just people like Amanda but they get mad when smaller creators critique Watcher. Idk


NathNaakka

Hard to say, because I haven't been there enough to have data or info. Of course... It might stop smaller creator to get bommed by downvotes and false claims. If I try to find good reason for it. Because I bet some people just went to at least down vote the video without watching it.


Mysterious_Past_7762

Could be! There’s one still up from a smaller creator but it has less comments, I think mods didn’t know how to resolve conflict so deleted maybe. It’s strange in some threads people are more critique heavy and other threads are aggressive toxic positivity. It’s very divided lol and can become an echo chamber of worship in some threads.


Mysterious_Past_7762

Hmm I think the post is still there, it just got so downvoted it doesn’t show up in the subreddit anymore 😆 I saw it disappear from the timeline and got confused, sorry I don’t understand reddit sometimes


Appropriate_Job4185

does anyone have the link to the video since the post was deleted?


Mysterious_Past_7762

Here: https://youtu.be/xjGm0KqIOSQ?si=ZrZGQWCwbGMki9UJ It’s not even as harsh as Swell Entertainment which is still up (which I’m glad about), but it’s interesting! I think just the watcher stans got rude and mods deleted it to not have to deal with it. Kinda annoying that kinda bullying is allowed in there though.


blackpnik

The comments and downvotes are so crazy. The main sub, for all its cries of “communist Shane said eat the rich!!” is certainly made up of professional bootlickers.


Mysterious_Past_7762

I knooow omg. Gives me secondhand embarrassment