Boogie / Boogie2988 / "Francis" / Steven Jason Williams - Fat, Rapidly Declining Divorced "Nice Guy" Middle-Aged Youtuber, Former Edgy Porn Blogger, lied about having cancer and being molested. Cohost of fake drama show "Lolcow Live (LCL)". Just WILL NOT die.

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Sort of unrelated to the thread, but all centralised YouTube alternatives are destined for failure. I'm not even sure YouTube itself pulls in a profit, it's definitely got parts that are bootstrapped by other Google projects that do make money.

PeerTube/federated solutions look to be the way forward after Bitchute and Storyfire go down, decentralisation is what will draw in the people banned from other platforms, the streaming costs are distributed and advertisers can pick and choose which nodes to advertise on and avoid the more unsavoury content.

If people ever do make the switch the these platforms, I imagine the transition would kill a huge chunk of Boogie's audience who wouldn't care to resubscribe to him on a new platform.
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I believe Youtube lost money, but the data they got was worth it to them. Kept consumers on google longer, so it was a winning deal for them.
Very few other companies could sustain the money they spend on youtube.
 
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Boogie saying that Storyfire deserved to succeed shows how entitled these fools are. Let me invest a ton of money into a project that is doomed to fail and then say I deserved to succeed because I spent a lot of money. The entitledment on these idiots is mind-boggling. First off the app/site was shit. I watched a video on there that buffered at the exact same spot each time. Blaze was a dumb idea and then trying to be a Youtube killer where you needed to be approved by Jesse was really dumb. All this beause Jesse only made like $80,000 off one YouTube video.
 
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Jesse's fat cameraman and volunteer firefighter, with zero charisma, has more subscribers on there than Keemstar. Keem's videos were all the most watched on the platform. Definitely no fuckery involved here. He invested $4,700,000+ into StoryFire and still only owned 1/3rd of the company, all the content was hosted on Vimeo? How is this not a fake business? He says he made headway with fucking Comcast and was hoping for investment from Amazon. The entire project seems like vapor-ware.

He acknowledged at the 25:00 min. mark that he's sorry for anybody who held the in-app currency Blaze. People bought it with cash, it wasn't crypto/on the blockchain and that's how creators got "paid". Aside from anyone who was offered an equity deal, everybody else got fucked and is not getting that money back lmao. Imagine not being Keemstar, uploading 100 videos, then the site ending and never seeing a dime. Not much different than an exit scam.

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Boogie had invested significantly into storyfire, he had let it slip that he had points in it on a couple of occasions, he also basically fell out with Mcjuggernuggets when he tried to pull his money from storyfire and was told no.

the problem with storyfire from the start was mjn ego, just because you can make some fake drama videos doesn’t make you a business genius which he thought he was. He was more than happy to slaughter YouTube every chance he got despite it being the reason tor his success in life, he got what he deserved
 
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Hotel in Minsk said:
Jesse's fat cameraman and volunteer firefighter, with zero charisma, has more subscribers on there than Keemstar. Keem's videos were all the most watched on the platform. Definitely no fuckery involved here. He invested $4,700,000+ into StoryFire and still only owned 1/3rd of the company, all the content was hosted on Vimeo?
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How much of that was spent trying to bribe content creators onto the platform? Definitely wasn't Vimeo hosting fees.
 
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Someone help me out here. Making your own video hosting site and paying Vimeo to hold the storage space for you. How is that better for the business? You’re just paying them the same amount you would pay for the servers and more overhead. Unless you were expecting Vimeo to put there ads on the video on your site? That makes no sense.
 
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How much of that was spent trying to bribe content creators onto the platform? I definitely wasn't Vimeo hosting fees.
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I remember Jesse tweeting multiple times at some Youtube creators offering them a ton of money to join Storyfire. I can't remember exactly who he was reaching out to.
 
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I remember Jesse tweeting multiple times at some Youtube creators offering them a ton of money to join Storyfire. I can't remember exactly who he was reaching out to.
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He was spamming the Nelk boys non stop before they started (or announced, this was months ago) their own content website similar to Vitaly, Btw regarding your above comment about Jesse starting SF because of a YouTube video of his only making $82,000 - you weren't kidding lol. It sounds like a joke but he made a video showing Adsense earnings and everything unironically complaining about one video of his only netting $82. Unreal, man ahaha.

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Making your own video hosting site and paying Vimeo to hold the storage space for you. How is that better for the business? Unless you were expecting Vimeo to put there ads on the video on your site?
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Not entirely sure tbh. It sounds like most of the money went to baiting Keemstar types to enroll with little to no focus on hiring talented developers. In fact he doesn't even touch on anything technical in the 27:00 min video. I imagine that at the end of the day using Vimeo's service was just easier. When S&T shut down like 9 months ago~, their Vimeo plan was less than $3,000 monthly from what I remember. The ads however were atrocious and easy to tell how manipulative they were. They were for shitty mobile games that may as well have been malware and such that seemed impossible to exit out of, with a tiny "X" hidden somewhere you had to look for. At least this was the case last Summer but there clearly was very little vetting process.

He sounds surprised that no venture capitalists or Mark Cuban types wanted to jump on board and invest, but who is getting sold on a re-skinned Vimeo clone? What is there that is proprietary about StoryFire, is it for text based stories, or for Boogie2988's newest meltdown?
 
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IIRC with Storyfire the app autmatically subscribed you to the likes of MCJ, Fatcuntbehindacamera and maybe boogie as well. It was an obvious scam from the start and I'm surprised that anyone fell for it .

Remember when MCJ "retired" from youtube and made a big deal about leaving the platform on December 31 (2019 I think?) He uploaded a video like 3 weeks later lol MCJ is an entitled cunt and the complaining about $82k was for 1 month too I believe.

As for that melted candle boogie, he claims to have every disorder and disability under the sun but no one will ever convince me that he isn't bipolar - oh sorry I meant bigpolar - he flip flops on this one but he's bragging about being rich today and when the endorphins of that tweet fade and he falls below the usual serotonin levels that pity parties provide he will be crying poor again.

It's an absolute crime against humanity that boogie still hasn't had a fatal heart attack yet.
 
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i call bullshit on 4.5mil in investment for that pile. He probably wrote everything off to his business. Can't blame a guy for trying, but the concept of me paying you so i can blaze up some creator is fuckin' dumb. It was a sham when he came crawlin' back to YT

if Boogie did invest, he sure didn't promote it. Maybe those 2 hookers he brought over to McGayorNot house ended that friendship.

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someone who knows what they're talking about should've made a lolcow thread on storyfire

knowing what we now know it would've taken the same course as the boogie thread with people negrating it saying IT NO LOLCOW then eating crow as time tells the true story

and boogie shoots a gun in another school zone
 
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Boogie is claiming he didn't financially invest in Storyfire. I remember him being weird about his investments last year, but I don't recall any concrete evidence that he did invest. All I know is he and Jesse don't seem as close as they were 2 years ago.

Jesse's "trigger" for forming storyfire will never stop being funny to me though. Since you guys mentioned it, that rambling video where he compared Youtube clicks to asses in stadium seats and then used an example of him "only" making a shitload of money on one video as the justification, seems so funny in hindsight.

Turns out most of his friends were fence sitters though, Who knew?

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Illuminati Order Official said:
Let me rephrase what Boogie said:
"I hired a prostitute and filmed myself fucking her. I wank to this recording to this day and I'm thinking about releasing it so you all know I had sex but at the same time I fear people will laugh at my performance".
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Wouldn’t that break revenge porn laws or something? He’d be uploading a sex tape of someone without their permission.
 
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most hookers will take a slap to the face for an extra $50.
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Man, you're shopping in some expensive areas.

But yes, you can probably find a porn star in your local area who will fuck you on camera and then not care what you do with the footage as long as she got paid. Especially in this day of Onlyfans. Just depends on what you're into.
 
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