Sup, you beautiful bastards. Hope you've been a fantastic Monday evening, Tuesday morning.

You're watching the Philip DeFranco show. You daily dive into the news, and we got a lot to talk about today.

So let's just jump into it.

And the first thing we got to talk about today, it was the most requested story on the text line over the weekend, and that is the Watcher scandal.

Especially because we now have some huge updates. Right. So for those of you who do not know,

Stephen Lim, Ryan Bergara, and Shane Medea are the people behind Watcher. And if you didn't know

their names where they look familiar, you know, they got their start on BuzzFeed video before

moving on to this project. And notably with that, they have a very solid following on YouTube.

But over the weekend, they put out a video called Goodbye YouTube where they announced that they were leaving the platform to create their own streaming service.

Everyone has different missions they're marching towards on YouTube.

Ours was to make a television show.

And, you know, over time, you start to realize like, hey, maybe television shows aren't meant for YouTube.

Perhaps we should find a different place that's better suited to the content that we're making and can support the dollar amount that we're putting into each of these episodes.

And they know that watchers grown a lot. It employs 25 people. There are a lot of costs in

making every episode and relying on advertising doesn't feel sustainable. And so they say that

having their own independent streaming service, it's just going to give them more freedom. With a service set to be ad-free, cost $6 per month or $60 annually. And as far as on YouTube, they said, you know,

when new seasons of shows pop up, we'll post the first episode here. But if you want to see the full

season, you got to go pay. We also have trailers, stuff like that. And so with that, they did not get were expecting, with fans quick to denounce this and share their disproval. Saying things like,

putting all your videos behind a paywall is the nail in the coffin for an internet career.

As well as, going to be honest, I've been watching Ryan and Shane since the beginning of BuzzFeed

days. I've watched them weekly for years now, but I can't justify paying for another streaming

platform just for watcher shows. Think you're going to lose a lot of your audience, to be honest, as well as respectfully, get over yourself. I don't think your audience of broke college students is going to pay for another subscription service just to watch content they've been getting for free for years.

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