They could easily just stream it over youtube, instead of paying $30,000 to Google and Cloudflare so they could "self-host" (while still censoring chat/tts). The only reason it is costing this much is because Sam and crew didn't do their homework on what it takes to run something like this.
If null was running it the site wouldve been back up by now with a whole new ddos mitigation system.
They're already censoring wrongthink. Something moderated like fishtank doesn't need something as bulletproof as the farms. They just need people that'll actually read the contracts that Sam and co are signing, so that they don't incur $30,000 costs in 3 fucking days.
They could do it relatively cheaply themselves as well and build whatever custom functionality they want. They just need to have competent people doing the web development and infrastructure. Also, thoroughly test everything. They should not only do dry runs of all of the features, leave it running over night, etc. but they should also do stress tests and make sure that they have a playbook for what to do if they get a lot more traffic than expected.
would get banned if they were on youtube or twitch even with the censoring they have now. They would also loose a large cut of the income
It's kind of crazy that someone as hated and unhinged as Sam only has one single extremely poorly made infograph on him as blackmail. One that is 8 years old at this point too. You would think someone like him would have so much more dirt to dig up.
The autists have to be palatable. As in, they gotta have physical aesthetics and not be disgusting, autistic personality in the way that it's charming. Something like Jon, he's the goldilocks. Just right with everything
There's the other one accusing Nick Rochefort being a rapist, too. I've seen that one posted once or twice.
They should just bring up all the mass shootings Sam has orchestrated across the years instead of banging some e-girl.
What the fuck man. Nick has a wife and kids why would people make up shit like that?
mental illness
I'll bite, greed sure, but reality is they put this shit on Twitch or YouTube and they will air for a total of 10 minutes before the stream is hit with a ToS strike. As for pulling down the streams you could watch on VLC, unless they were also going through the same cloud provider, it is shit they "pulled them down" but restreamers are eating into their returns. Let's just remind ourselves that is all independently funded by Sam and he's already said the costs are at least $150K. I can understand his monetary desires to make a return on this show since it will go to fund a potential season 2. For independently created media, you should give a little if you can if you enjoy the work you're seeing, it's not a bad thing.
