Makes sense. As clueless as Tim may be about a lot of things, he is a grand wizard when it comes to YT. He knows the algorithm about as good as anyone can and is a master of monetizing his content.
That's why I find it so odd that he did his network the way he did. If he built a YT network, kind of like a federated MCN, then he could have done a lot to help people's careers, create a lot of inroads for collaborations and he would have a ton of avenues for exclusive content.
Speaking of federations, how much longer is it going to take Tim's fediverse project? It's not even original software. It's a streamlined installation bundle of open software and he's been talking about it for a fucking year. I'm guessing it's going about as well as their proposed D&D show, which is a whole other subject unto itself. (Ian: D&D's about creating a collaborative story. Tim: You're wrong. It's about having fun.)
Youtube is a very interesting business once you dig into it, and I do agree that he could have done way more to build up his network than he's been doing. Hell, even Doug Walker could figure out that you can just have people audition from wherever and then pick up shows you like to produce content independently with your promotion at no cost to yourself instead of hiring on a bunch of randos and hoping it works out as you sink more and more money into that money pit.
The problem with Tim's fediverse idea is that like you said it already exists, in that you can already buy a package that lets you make a website easily and throw in whatever payment process you want on it. Right now when I buy something on a small stores website it just opens a box and asks how I'd like to do the transaction, Paypal, credit card, whatever and I can just pick which one I want and it does it without issue. What Patreon and other services did was make it easy enough for a brain dead chimp to set up what's essentially a website of that nature. So Tim either needs to make it even easier or to just provide a cheap service that does it for you.
I think he mentioned in a recent something that the D&D show was dead because everyone was too rogueish and it didn't lend to good story telling. That probably just means people didn't want to just do what Tim demanded they do in the adventure it and annoyed him. I haven't played a ton of D&D but the few times I have there were always dumbasses and part of the game was just figuring out how to compensate for them being retards.
Also apart from Timcast and the other segment Tim himself makes, how are the other things under his banner doing? I know that pop culture show is dying in the viewership and everyone keeps tearing into the female host for being a dumbass.
His conspiracy show is moderately successful. He probably only shills it to his audience which may not have an interest in conspiracy theories. If he was smart he'd shill it on Twitter instead of just trying to be LOLSORandom. His pop culture show is still dead since that already has people doing it without Tims autism. His cast castle show is doing okay but he hasn't updated it in a week. Cops probably told him not to show off his compound since it can be mapped. He should probably focus on starting prospects that don't require much, since at this pace he won't ever compete with Netflix (lol)
I wouldn't say the conspiracy show is doing well at all and has a decaying audience. The first couple episodes received about 30k views declining with each episode and now it's struggling to break 10k views. To give you an idea 10k views is about 40$ in cash after Youtube takes its cut, maybe a little more as they are 30 minutes to an hour but not that much more. It's also a bad sign when you get 30k subscribers in half a year and your videos are struggling to break 33% of that as you're still a new and growing channel and the people who initially subscribed are probably still around unlike people who might have joined a year or more ago.
Pop Culture Crisis is actually doing better than Tales from the Inverted World, despite being a dead show. Yes, they only get a few hundred views an upload but they shit out content so frequently it adds up, and when you're producing something that very few people watch it's better to have a lot of it to make the best out of the few people who like you. I added up all of the views they had for videos uploaded 2 weeks ago and it totals 14,915 views which means they are probably doubling the views and revenue of the other show. Looking at Social Blade, Tales from the Inverted World has a total of 184k views roughly in their 5 months, while Pop Culture Crisis has 206k views in their 3 months. Now granted, one has uploaded 12 videos and the other has put out 352 videos. Both shows suck though.
Not sure what the deal is with Cast Castle, maybe Tim kicked out his brother again for being a retard.
