Orbis Tabula
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Lol, that chart is such bullshit. It works out to like a 2% decrease.
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The Fine Bros back down after internet backlash, rescind all "React" trademarks
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Yeah that is not a good chart.
Lightning_Roller
Banned
This is what I'm kinda thinking as well about this whole event. The next time they ever think of trying this again, they will just reword the entire thing to make it sound reasonable and approachable but the intention will still be there. As the saying goes, "The Devil is in the details." So yeah, I'm staying unsubbed to those douchecanoes and they brought this upon themselves.
Chezzymann
Member
Nearly 300,000 people unsubscribed in a span of a few days. Yes, thats a small percentage, but its not bullshit. Thats a huge decrease considering they usually gain only 200,000 a month.
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
How I felt through this whole debacle.
Let's see how many more substantial they'll lose before momentum is lost.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
It's a bit misleading but it's not bullshit, a 2% decrease over such a small period of time is huge, especially when you consider that a lot of subs are passive subs, meaning they don't contribute that much to overall views(which is the only thing that matters). The people who unsubbed are active subs(like me) who watch their videos as they come out, so this 2% decrease is kind of a disaster.
Indeed if you like at it from a percentage point of view it's a minimal decrease and that chart makes it look way bigger than it actually is due to the scaling, but losing 250k+ engaged users over a few days is a pretty big deal for anybody as evidenced by their 180.
stump sock
Member
holy shit
so good
Let's hope not. Drive them into oblivion as a warning to others.
ScientificPizza
Banned
if you look at the y axis it's very clear in what's it's representing
250k+ losses, regardless of overall subscription numbers, is massive. that graph just represents how quickly that happened
alfredofroylan
Member
Still nothing on their Facebook page. Do you think they'll try to keep this as low level as possible?
Tom Nook
Member
They'll probably do a video of this soon.
Not really. The scale is consistent.
Hope they do and it's more of them frustrated and yelling at people lol
Of course. There's a reason this is text instead of another video.
Orbis Tabula
Member
Fair enough. I don't know a lot about how YouTube subscriber numbers, so I guess I'm underestimating the impact.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
The internet won. The internet will never forget.
As a side note, good on them to do what we wanted and then they took a bit further by rescinding ALL their trademarks.
As a side note, good on them to do what we wanted and then they took a bit further by rescinding ALL their trademarks.
Subpar Spatula
Banned
That chart is hilarious.
Keeping the apology low level would be the stupidest thing. They're probably working on something to compliment the text and I'm pretty sure they'll do something like Youtubers react to this whole mess, talking about what is like dealing with fans/subscribers and the reality of internet celeb life.
Seriously, how did they not expect this move to backfire? They went through with filing paperwork, filming this video with straight faces, and no one whispered in their ear that this was guaranteed to be downright terrible? They deserve all this bad press and then some. Smug jerks...
Releasing all past Content ID claims is huge, think how many videos that must be.
ScientificPizza
Banned
keeping this low level will just be as harmful as not doing it at all
they should have released this turn around in a video, eat shit from everyone now and just get it over with. they're just going to keep hemorrhaging subs until the message is as wide as possible
Captin Quacker
Member
Same. They can fuck off for even trying this.
Yes, the fact that in the past couple of videos they came off looking completely ridiculous. Especially having their faces in so many parodies these days. My opinion is that they're trying to think what the best way of doing a video apology is. Whatever it is I bet it will be full of cringe.
No it's not. They did it out of self preservation not because it was the right thing to do.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Well they certainly can't use React World with all the shit it's got on it right now.
"Cool" isn't exacly how i'd describe it. They are still awful dicks.
They still are. It'll take a while for the news to get around.
Then again, people have turned watching the sub counter drop into its own form of entertainment. I wouldn't be surprised if people keep tanking it just for the lulz.
Yeah, it got so bad that they had no choice but to do it. The only surprising thing about this is how long it took them to backout.
8 X 11 Printer Paper
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They didn't do it because of humility, they did it to save their relationship with their sponsors.
ElectricBlanketFire
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