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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 5:19:28 GMT -5
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lucas_lee
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Post by lucas_lee on Sept 19, 2017 5:27:13 GMT -5
That's like half of the guys I know from that site
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 19, 2017 5:31:50 GMT -5
That's...concerning.
I mean, Sam's got his own thing with Kenny (I think, could be getting those two mixed up) which seems to be successful and doing decently with tours but how do you lose the entirety of your on-screen presence? Especially with a good chunk of them being responsible for the booking of WCPW?
Like, I'm far from the biggest fan of King Ross or Jack the Jobber, but those two hosted your most popular stuff. The only person left is Simon and he does his stuff in London and has more success with his own channel (because I really doubt WhatCulture was the thing that got Simon Miller onto Sky News' video games show) so he's a literal part-timer.
Also, as an aside, could WC actually either hire people who can follow a script in their own words or tell the people they have to read stuff in a professional manner? Chelsea's biggest problem in her debut episode of Fast Count wasn't even that she was bad at hosting, it was that it came off like there was no planning or script. I know you want to be relatable to people but there's a reason why IGN, Nerdist and the like have hosts that do news segments like actual news readers. It makes you look professional and not a bunch of kids who learnt hosting skills 5 minutes ago.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 5:44:06 GMT -5
That's...concerning. I mean, Sam's got his own thing with Kenny (I think, could be getting those two mixed up) which seems to be successful and doing decently with tours but how do you lose the entirety of your on-screen presence? Especially with a good chunk of them being responsible for the booking of WCPW? Like, I'm far from the biggest fan of King Ross or Jack the Jobber, but those two hosted your most popular stuff. The only person left is Simon and he does his stuff in London and has more success with his own channel (because I really doubt WhatCulture was the thing that got Simon Miller onto Sky News' video games show) so he's a literal part-timer. Also, as an aside, could WC actually either hire people who can follow a script in their own words or tell the people they have to read stuff in a professional manner? Chelsea's biggest problem in her debut episode of Fast Count wasn't even that she was bad at hosting, it was that it came off like there was no planning or script. I know you want to be relatable to people but there's a reason why IGN, Nerdist and the like have hosts that do news segments like actual news readers. It makes you look professional and not a bunch of kids who learnt hosting skills 5 minutes ago. It's probably thanks to the YouTube situation. They lost out on a lot of money and probably wanted to renegotiate pay with the hosts. |
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 19, 2017 5:48:13 GMT -5
That's...concerning. I mean, Sam's got his own thing with Kenny (I think, could be getting those two mixed up) which seems to be successful and doing decently with tours but how do you lose the entirety of your on-screen presence? Especially with a good chunk of them being responsible for the booking of WCPW? Like, I'm far from the biggest fan of King Ross or Jack the Jobber, but those two hosted your most popular stuff. The only person left is Simon and he does his stuff in London and has more success with his own channel (because I really doubt WhatCulture was the thing that got Simon Miller onto Sky News' video games show) so he's a literal part-timer. Also, as an aside, could WC actually either hire people who can follow a script in their own words or tell the people they have to read stuff in a professional manner? Chelsea's biggest problem in her debut episode of Fast Count wasn't even that she was bad at hosting, it was that it came off like there was no planning or script. I know you want to be relatable to people but there's a reason why IGN, Nerdist and the like have hosts that do news segments like actual news readers. It makes you look professional and not a bunch of kids who learnt hosting skills 5 minutes ago. It's probably thanks to the YouTube situation. They lost out on a lot of money and probably wanted to renegotiate pay with the hosts. In that sense, it's understandable. And if they were low balling them in negotiations, good on them for leaving. But all that does is worry about the people who'll come in and replace them and how much they're being paid instead. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 5:52:15 GMT -5
It's probably thanks to the YouTube situation. They lost out on a lot of money and probably wanted to renegotiate pay with the hosts. In that sense, it's understandable. And if they were low balling them in negotiations, good on them for leaving. But all that does is worry about the people who'll come in and replace them and how much they're being paid instead. It could be that the pay is fine for what the entails but the hosts think they are worth more, cause they kinda are. I wonder what this means for WCPW if most of them booked those shows. |
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 19, 2017 5:54:54 GMT -5
In that sense, it's understandable. And if they were low balling them in negotiations, good on them for leaving. But all that does is worry about the people who'll come in and replace them and how much they're being paid instead. It could be that the pay is fine for what the entails but the hosts think they are worth more, cause they kinda are. I wonder what this means for WCPW if most of them booked those shows. Considering the channel got to 1m subscribers off the back of Blampied and King Ross in particular, they kind of are yeah. You could make the case for Simon too but, again, Simon's a freelancer and has been on TV recently, he's practically doing it for the love of wrestling. I do hope this is a positive change for WCPW. I can't take the weird suedo Attitude Era booking and the fact that the PWWC just lead to a beatdown segment because Osprey said no to The Presige a week before still annoys me. |
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Post by xCompackx on Sept 19, 2017 6:58:11 GMT -5
Losing Blampied and Pacitti in particular are huge losses as their "Adam vs. Adam" stuff, combined with everything else Blampied and Pacitti do on their own, probably make up most of the content people care about. Sure, they'll likely get Simon (who's... okay-ish?) to do more videos and I'm sure they'll keep doing the PPV reactions with different people, but eh. Hopefully the guys will still do the shtick on a new channel or something.
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Post by Spiderf 4 on Sept 19, 2017 7:12:23 GMT -5
There's going to be a fight over "King Ross" not unlike the "Broken Matt Hardy" fight.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Sept 19, 2017 7:23:28 GMT -5
I haven't even heard of Sam Driver.
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Post by The Heenan Family on Sept 19, 2017 7:47:05 GMT -5
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 19, 2017 7:51:14 GMT -5
I haven't even heard of Sam Driver. He's rarely on but his main job was editing the videos along with Pacitti. |
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Post by the2ndevil on Sept 19, 2017 8:31:42 GMT -5
So they're getting rid of everyone you think about when you think of What Culture.
Man, what happened to explain this sudden mass exodus? My vote is for massive cocaine orgies. If for no other reason than to explain the suddenness of this.
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Post by thetower52 on Sept 19, 2017 8:31:43 GMT -5
Looks like it's time to unsubscribe
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 8:43:43 GMT -5
Looks like it's time to unsubscribe I'll give the new guys a chance but it's gonna be hard to top Plumpy. |
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Sept 19, 2017 8:44:56 GMT -5
Never has this been more fitting
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Post by dreidemy on Sept 19, 2017 9:04:11 GMT -5
Watch Plumpy sign with WWE  |
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Sept 19, 2017 9:06:52 GMT -5
A good twitter thread from a former staff member about how much of a prick the boss of Whatculture is (click the tweet to continue)
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Sept 19, 2017 9:09:22 GMT -5
They're all definitely making their own youtube channel in the next few weeks.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 19, 2017 9:12:25 GMT -5
They're all definitely making their own youtube channel in the next few weeks. Calling it right now, first to leave sets up a channel and the others join it as it trickles down. Essentially, it'll be like how Giant Bomb formed with Ryan Davies and Jeff Gertsmann forming the site and then othe ex Gamespot staff joining not long afterwards. Considering you have three presenters and two editors, good foundation to start with. |
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