Steven Lim, Shane Madej, and Ryan Bergara apologizing for a bit of a bungled transition off of YouTube:
Ryan:
Hey everyone. Last Friday we announced that we’re leaving YouTube and launching our new streaming platform.
Steven:
We messed up. A lot of you spoke out with extremely valid comments and concerns, and we want to take the time now to address those.
Shane:
We’ve been reading the things you’ve been saying, and we’re sorry for the way we handled this as well as the way we communicated it. We understand where you’re coming from. And we’re making immediate changes.
In the words of one commenter on this vid,
- “The absolute crisis mode these guys must’ve been in over the weekend.”
While I’m always ready to applaud creators making stronger moves toward platform ownership (shocker), there are ways to gently migrate your audience, and there are ways to insult them, however unintentionally.
As I’ve had occasion to mention, you don’t have to leave YouTube to fully own your influence.
This goodbye-followed-by-immediate-retraction was hard to watch, but these guys seem a sincere sort, likely to emerge better and wiser for the past few days’ troubles.
— Tang
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