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Watcher’s Move Off YouTube to Paid Streaming Service Sparks Angry Fan Backlash (variety.com)
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Watcher Entertainment's decision to move off YouTube -- and charge $6 per month for access to new series -- prompted a major backlash among fans.

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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 6 points 5 months ago

This is a bad move. They're asking the same price as Dropout, but with 1/30th the content, especially in back-catalog. They already had a very profitable Patreon, and switching to a sub model is just going to lose them a lot of viewers.