Yo I love this dude. Just finished his newest video actually! Was hoping he'd do something about these morons.
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Somebody call VH1: "The Fine Bros" are trying to trademark "reaction videos"
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Yo I love this dude. Just finished his newest video actually! Was hoping he'd do something about these morons.
UncleSporky
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Not a Youtuber, but Doug Walker/Channel Awesome has had some marvelous breakdowns over time.
For example there was the time that Doug thought people liked him specifically and not the show he put on, and decided to stop doing nostalgia reviews, and hired actors to do some other weird thing about making movies, which had him losing people left and right until he did an about face and I don't know if he's recovered yet.
And how someone over there tries to have an iron fist over the people they team up with and they lost all their best reviewers and had to partner up with a bunch of unknowns.
Uh oh
superdeluxe
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alfredofroylan
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That's a great analogy.
It's just a video on things he finds stupid.
He'll lay on the Fine Bros and Tyrone Magnus next week.
Jacksinthe
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Look at the number of subscribers.
look at the average number of views each video has.
Consider the ration between the two.
That is the number you look at for engagement.
Now take a look at how far sub numbers have fallen - those are the users who engage.
This will give you a more apt metric for how much the sub drops affect the channel. If they lose 1m subs and their average views per video is 4m - that's a 25% drop. That's huge.
That was so painful. I love Nostalgia Critic but every time he isn't "in character" there's absolutely nothing there for me. Just stick to the thing people like.
NC in general has become a bit too "internet" for me at times but his Mortal Kombat reviews are awesome and I still try to watch all his reviews.
Jimmyfenix
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wow!
Oh yeah, I know what his new video is lol, I just meant I was hoping he'd go something about them in general, not that this video was it.
What's Magnus done?
UncleSporky
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It kind of feels like the people who commission art or web design and withhold payment and try to say "but you're being paid in exposure! Everyone will see your work and you'll get famous and loaded down with other commission work! That's as good as being paid!"
superdeluxe
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It's dropped like 4K in the past 30 minutes. 8-12 every 5 seconds as it auto updates
Game Grumps lost a lot of subscribers the day they abruptly replaced Jontron with Danny, and introduced their new show with Ross.
Of course, that was more of a knee-jerk thing and people came around when they found out that Danny was actually really funny.
I've had to stop watching Nostalgia Critic. The newer ones are always full of long, unfunny sketches (last I saw). Guess he just wanted to keep the actors around. As much as I like Doug's opinions, it's the bad films that are funny rather than him
That was hilarious.
No idea, we're going to find out in the new video.
Right now I'm a little anxious to get it over with because I like both Grade and Tyrone. I'm not subbed to Tyrone though cuz he's just as guilty of doing what Jinx and CJ do.
Doug is a fucking loser
I'm curious as well. Magnus asked him what was up and he said to just wait until next week.
Then he called Magnus' fans slow which was low lol.
I'll admit I'm getting a bit of Schadenfreude from the backlash over this. I think this whole thing is a textbook example on how to not capitalize on your success.
If you're into Gaming channels, then I highly recommend Ahoy - he makes mini-documentaries about a number of gaming-related topics and has a perfect voice for narration. His most recent video about DOOM is one of his longest and took around two months to make. It's one of his best in my opinion. He also never shoves his face in front of the camera, in fact I don't think he's ever made an appearance in any of his videos.
If you're into Gaming channels, then I highly recommend Ahoy - he makes mini-documentaries about a number of gaming-related topics and has a perfect voice for narration. His most recent video about DOOM is one of his longest and took around two months to make. It's one of his best in my opinion. He also never shoves his face in front of the camera, in fact I don't think he's ever made an appearance in any of his videos.
That's not a nice thing to say. Why is he a loser? I don't really know much about Doug himself tbh.
Due to some bad stream management, Rooster Teeth's youtube channel lost around 100,000 subscribers in about three days last August. I remember watching their live stats go down about 2 subscribers every second for awhile, and I think they lost around 39,000 subs in one day.
Also, interestingly enough, nobody at RT seemed to give a damn at all. Which makes me think that, unless this level of unsubscribing continues for an extended period of time, it's not that big of a deal.
I watch Tyrone's videos every now and then so I was wondering what he'd done. Guess I'll wait for the video.
Neat, thanks for the rec. Will check it out.
RT have their own website hosting videos, as well as subscriber revenue outside of YouTube though, so in reality it probably means a hell of a lot less to them than it does to the average Youtuber.
Saw a video recently of an ex-CoD player whose fame went a bit too his head so his community turned his back on him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7mUPYIY5s
I think Tyrone making a video first and wondering why Grade was mad at him due to a tweet Grade made is kinda weird. Why would he do that? I don't think it's cuz Magnus admires Grade so much that he hurt his feelings with what Grade tweeted about him. Just seems out of character.
premium brand deals sure doesn't sound like something a small indie company would say
Fixed2BeBroken
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either those advisors/media managers are not grounded in reality as well...or they are scared to go against the grain/say No/Speak up and against. (The latter being the most likely and the most common from what I've seen while working within big corporations)
also:
so what are people licensing then? Like I said earlier, their BK franchise analogy is fucking horse shit. This would be like if I paid BK to be a franchise owner but they wouldn't let me use the BK logo or call my signature burger The Whopper... da fuq?
I agree. I mean the tweet was pretty harsh but Magnus' thing is to not pay attention to negative remarks.
To make a whole video out of it is not what Tyrone usually does.
SchrodingerC
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Oh yeah, they are dropping to 13.9 mill today.
MonorailCat
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The Burger King analogy is stupid.
What the Fine Brothers proposed was like:
You can either license your Burgershop with us and pay us money ... but you can't use our name and logo or anything affiliated with us.
Or you can open your own burgershop .. which our lawyers will take down.
What the Fine Brothers proposed was like:
You can either license your Burgershop with us and pay us money ... but you can't use our name and logo or anything affiliated with us.
Or you can open your own burgershop .. which our lawyers will take down.
UnforgivenTwin
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Be right back. Gotta get some tissues.
CassidyIzABeast
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I thought that was the whole point of licensing the react name. Everybody gets a zip file with all the logo and intro stuff. How did they think this was a good idea?
That's why I instantly liked H3H3, the slapdash production - just a snarky guy at a desk with a video running, and his wife filming him. Not even a tripod! Really reminded me of the early days of YouTube.
I feel like stuff is getting more and more "produced" right now, with many channels just pumping out content without any regards to quality (Let's Play Happy Wheels season 7 part 53), prank videos, "reaction" videos where a guy has other peoples videos running and basically just sits there and stares into the camera, haul videos, hundreds of hours of ASMR whisper shit, Minecraft till it comes out your ears...
I think Vine is a source of great content, but even that is being ripped and smashed into BEST VINES MIXXX where unrelated people can earn money by, ahem, "aggregating" content.
What annoys me the most is that big brands can afford to smack small producers around as they please with arbitrary strikes, while on the other hand actual content stealing is alive and well (SoFloAntonio on Facebook, @fatjew on Twitter, Jinx on YouTube to name just a couple of people I learned about in the last few weeks) and the big sites don't seem to care at all.
I have the impression that the atmosphere of content on the internet is getting more and more cutthroat, with people stealing content left and right in the most arrogant way, and big sites trying to grow with lowest common denominator click bait and being able to nuke small guys as they please.
how much youtube money is 1 million views monthly per video?
how many videos upload the fine brothers every month?
Seriously. This is a total sham.
Just the React World-program in of itself is pathetic, bu I truly have no words to describe my
Yeah, I suppose that's fair. And RT's issue was confined to that specific weekend. Fine Bros don't have the knowledge that their problem will just go away on Tuesday like RT did. They probably are sweating it a little more than I first thought.
UnforgivenTwin
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I'm going to trademark Get Hype.
Jigolo
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GAF would be in trouble
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