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.

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.

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

Rest in peace Shane Madej you would've hated Shane Madej

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

As someone who is in a position where I could afford to give $6 a month, I won’t be supporting this streaming service. Purely because I’d rather literally give money to anything else before a single cent goes towards funding Steven Lim to travel the world and eat overpriced meals. If he wants that lifestyle, he can pay for it himself. Not expecting an audience that is clearly here for Ryan and Shane to fund it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

As someone who CAN afford the new streaming service, this decision is so tone deaf and selfish that I will NOT be investing a dime of my money into y’all. Hope this decision makes the change you wanted

Watcher? I can hardly afford her!

They left Buzzfeed to create Buzzfeed but even Buzzfeed was smart enough to stay and grow on YT.

We watched this video with our marketing teacher and discussed it. You guys really effed up.

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

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.

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.