Explains why the vibe and energy was kinda off in many of the episodes and Andre was MIA for many episodes per year.
It takes all but 2 seconds of googling 'Andre Segers Crunch', first result shows the tweet.
Tim overworks and I worry for his health, but he does it to himself as he's effectively a one man band. Plus his patreon numbers are public knowledge and he's clearly doing fine financially.
Ive been really enjoying the GVG streams and their daily discussions - love these guys, great to see them finding a healthier path for expressing the love and enthusiasm for the medium.
I get where you are coming from and I don't want to say that the channel is not making enough money to pay its employees. But 3$-5$ per 1000 views as an average is for a lot of channels just to high. Gamexplain has many really short videos without much original content. And as far as I know, on videos which aren't longer than 2 minutes you can't have inbetween ads. The average per 1000 views could easily just be about 2$. Especially older videos will probably make less money per 1000 views. Of course with Covid, where YouTube increased the amount of ads per video, this could have changed this year. But even if the cpm is under 1$ for some less "optimized" videos, gamexplain should still be able to pay more than just 1-2$ per hour. Especially when you have Amazon, Patreon and merch.
Im on the "dont dig stuff up" side, but youre right here, that it sits right therer in the timeline where they themselve had such problems (the FF7 review was shortly prior to that, was it?)
Tweet was less than a month ago, FF7R Review was over 8 months ago.
Oh...oooh. I've seen that tweet yesterday and thought that it was from juli... my bad.
I'm loving GVG as well but I do wonder how sustainable it is. There are so many Nintendo channels right now, For example you have Player essence, Nintendo Life, AndresRestart, Nintendo World Report TV, Switch Watch, Switchforce, Switch Stop, Commonwealth Realm, Source Gaming and of course GameXplain.
That's really interesting, thanks for taking the time to explain that! I stand corrected
Yikes... I didn't think they got that many views myself. This is just sad. I hope everyone involved is getting better deals right now.
You have to start somewhere and YT views arent everything see EZA and co. that all have not that many views on YT and are still viable because of Patreon. We are also still in the mid of a pandemic with alot of things slowing down. Most important thing is they can do what they want and can decide how much wort to put into whatever they get out of it - as long as they are healthy and happy...all other stuff will come in time.
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He is probably taking the weekend to write up a response. It can only go down hill from here.
I agree. I've been a GX fan from back when it was just Andre, Derrick, and occasionally Tom, but this is super disappointing. He's probably working with a lawyer or whatever, but the longer he lets this go the worse it'll be.
It's a mighty fine reach to call my post an abuse of the tag function or an incitement for harassment. Public pressure is one of the few tools available for accountability in situations like this.
I went ahead and just unsubscribed from their YT channel right now. I'm ready to wash my hands of it.
They started in a down period for nintendo news, and there wasnt much while theye are up and running.
I'm right there with you. I found them during the Discussions for Smash 4, I think. What a sad state of affairs. There was nothing quite like a good analysis video from them. Now this just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I'm still subbed but I'm starting not to see a way that I could justify supporting the channel even if Andre responds.
I loved the stuff you put out. Clearly so much time and passion went into those videos, and it's so shitty to find out you got treated the way you did in return. I wish you all the best.
