- Hello, everybody! We are the Fine brothers.
It is possible that some of you don't know who we are,
but are the founders of FBE. - We should say it together.
- (both) Hi, we're the Fine brothers.
- I don't know why we did that. - Don't consider yourselves
warned anymore. - Okay.
- We're not gonna spoil things, except for this update video
that has a lot of things that we're giving you
an update about. - So this is an update video.
We're gonna have to be doing these a little bit more
as a channel like ours that has so many
different shows on it, there's changes that happen,
and it can be confusing if we don't talk to you guys.
So this is the first of probably many
whether it's us or other team members here
that'll be coming on to kind of give you the general update.
But this is about gaming. It's the gaming update.
- So we've done a lot of updates about gaming
over time, because it is the thing on the channel
that struggles the most,
because only certain people like to watch it on the channel.
And so, even right now, it's yet another update
about how we're having to change the way gaming works
on the React channel.
- So first of all, the Tuesday games,
the one-off games, those aren't going anywhere.
This is all about the Let's Plays, playing a game all the way through
that we brought back several months ago
after a lot of clamor for it, because we know how much
the people who watch that content probably
are more obsessed with those videos
than any other video FBE even makes
is the Let's Plays fans. - Just as obsessed as we are here
at the company about them. We love them a lot,
but it's the struggle of not everybody wants
to watch those. - So here's reality check time.
- Yeah, so the reality is that even in the other update videos
where we talked about it, the gaming episodes are some
of the most expensive things that we produce
with the amount of time that it takes to put them together.
And so, we've always been trying to figure out, well,
how do we get more people to watch them,
and how do we make this work?
But the time that goes into having all the talent in,
the producers, and the others... - The months of editing, literally.
- ...and everything. - The views just aren't there.
Because that is happening we're having to make
a bit of a change, because it's not just impacting
the Let's Plays themselves, it actually is impacting
the channel completely. - This is the wonderful
algorithm problems on YouTube ongoing,
where if you end up having a video on your channel or show
that we make that is getting less views,
then that makes all the other shows on a channel also start
to get less views as well, 'cause it stops recommending
the videos out to you if you "don't watch the gaming episodes.
- Yeah, that's why you might realize if you stopped watching
one of your favorite YouTubers for a week and then you
never get recommended their video again,
because that's kind of the way the algorithm is.
We are talking to YouTube about this.
They don't believe us all the time about these things.
So the Let's Plays, though, are not completely
going away forever. They're just leaving YouTube.
- We adapt. - We adapt and change.
Raf, what's happening to the Let's Plays?
- We're gonna moving and transitioning a lot
of what we do when it comes to gaming over to Twitch.
And we're gonna do a lot of other things on Twitch
and have already started playing around with Twitch.
And so, this is telling you all the different things
we're gonna be doing on Twitch.
- And going to Twitch is to help make this more sustainable,
because we're live. We don't have to worry
as much about things like the editing.
We're able to also do things
that we see comments about all the time.
Probably the two most common comments
from the gaming fans are, "Why aren't you finishing
this game a hell of a lot faster?" And it's... well--
- It takes us a year to play a game, yes.
- And also, a lot of times we'll play a game,
and then people will say, "That was awesome.
Play it with another generation."
But... it's not gonna work. - That's not possible.
- So this is gonna kind of kill two birds with one stone,
as they say, make it more sustainable to produce,
and also be able to do both of those things
on Twitch in the more easy way.
- And even-- we'll talk about it a little later,
which is that the hope is because the money
on YouTube with demonetization, and all the problems with the views,
Twitch is hopefully a different solution
that allows you guys to help support the show more
to help us continue to make it with subscribing and donating
and things like that. - So let's roll through specifically
what is the transition going to be from the Let's Plays on YouTube
to now all this content on Twitch.
- So first is that with Until Dawn,
that is going to wrap up on the channel tomorrow.
- The last Let's Play upload
tomorrow on the React Channel. - Benny is gonna cry.
Benny's a crier. I don't know if people know that.
- Have you been in a Try Not to Cry yet?
- I have not, but if-- I was gonna say
it's a known thing, but I think it's only known
to the people who work here that I cry all the time.
So tomorrow, Until Dawn is finishing on the channel,
and then next week on Thursday is going to be bringing Tom,
Tori, and Scott, who have been playing Until Dawn
this whole time, they're going to be completing
the Until Dawn experience live on Twitch
with the VR prequel, and that's gonna be next week
on Thursday that you'll be able to do that.
So if you wanna see the last Until Dawn
with those people, you're gonna have to go to Twitch.
- See? That's how we're trying to get you to go over there.
We're not putting it up over here. - You have to go!
- So next is that the two games that everybody's been asking for
the most over the past while is Doki Doki Literature Club
and Dream Daddy. - So first week of April...
- We're gonna start playing those.
- Yes, but it'll be Doki Doki first, then Dream Daddy.
But that's going to be multi-generational.
It's gonna be multiple hour streams. Again, getting through these games
substantially faster, potentially in just two to three weeks.
- For us, that's always been that extra layering
of what we can do here with having so many generations
is I think it'll be really interesting
to watch every week as they're progressing through the game,
what are the different choices and the different things
that the teens are experiencing and thinking versus the elders?
And you can watch that week by week now,
which is cool. - We're hoping a few weeks
after we launch Let's Plays on Twitch to actually
start doing weekly generational gaming tournaments.
But what we've always wanted to do
but have not really been able to do on YouTube
is have the generational tournaments all in the same game,
multiple weeks. Like, each week a different generation,
then the winners of each play in the grand React
generational championship tournament of the month.
- Very important. - There's talk of that
becoming a Sunday stream, so that's coming.
But that's still not all, because as we continue
to grow in hopeful success of this initiative on Twitch,
we also kinda wanna look at the shows that are very popular
on YouTube that everyone loves to play along with
and figure out the live version of that.
So we're talking about things like Guess That Song
or Try Not to Laugh and trying to do those things
not just live but also with you guys in the chat, playing along
or sending things as we're going
to try to stump everybody. - I think we're trying to figure out
if some of these shows might work well
to be an hour-long, two-hour long live version of it
and very engaging with guys and have fun in that way.
But it also could be that we have some things
that are showing almost behind the scenes
of us doing these things. Challenge Chalice is a good example
of we could kind of maybe show that while we're filming.
Or you can just watch the filming of a Teens React.
We're trying to figure out all these different things
that you guys can help us figure out.
What do you like? What do you don't?
- So if all of that wasn't enough to get you to follow us
over on Twitch and subscribe and donate if you're able to
to help support and make us be able to keep making
all this stuff, the Community Team
is still gonna be streaming over there.
They've been streaming there for a while now,
and they're gonna be hanging out, playing games all the time.
So there's gonna be streams constantly,
but including Tom and Eric streaming on Tuesdays
and Fortnite Fridays with Tori. So that's gonna be
going all the time. There's gonna be streams
multiple hours basically every single day,
which is pretty awesome. - To kind of wrap up
this whole update video is that we're having
to figure out how to evolve
as time goes on. - And experiment, yeah.
- And that the reality of it for the company overall
is that we're making 20 videos a week now.
You guys are loving to watch it. We're loving to produce it.
But it's a struggle to figure out how to actually make enough money
to keep producing those things.
- Especially when you have a team as large as this team has become.
- And so, that's where you end up in a situation
from YouTube demonetizing and YouTube not serving
the videos out to the fans, you have to start
putting the content on YouTube, and it makes a very little
amount of money, then you end up on Facebook,
and you make a little bit of money. And now, you're trying
to go over to Twitch and try to make a little bit of money,
because it just hasn't-- the industry hasn't matured yet
where the things like advertising just pays for it all.
- And that's why you'll see us or some of the channels
end up with things like, "Subscribe on Twitch!"
"Donate on Twitch!" even though it feels like,
"But you have this huge YouTube channel.
What do you need that for?" And it is the reality
that the team that is here is producing so much content
we can't do some of these things
unless we have some of that support.
So if you are able to subscribe, it is really a huge, huge thing
that you can do to support FBE.
There's, of course, all of the usual Twitch perks
when you subscribe, like the sub-only Discord
and ads free, and emotes, and all of that.
So all that is already there.
There's gonna be even more cool stuff
especially in success as we keep rolling this out
and seeing what everybody wants. But we're really excited
about this move to Twitch to engage with you all
even in a whole new way.
- We just appreciate you rolling with the punches with us
and trying to figure out how to make this all work
and we'll be keeping on going with these types
of update videos to try to... - We're coming back!
- ...help you guys know more of what's going on
and why we're changing what we're changing,
because there's a lot going on. - And if the algorithm did
serve this video to you,
help everyone else understand. - Doubtful, doubtful.
When they're like, "What happened to Let's Plays?"
you guys can all tell them. - I predict...
130,000 views.
- I predict 170,000 views. - Wooo!
He really likes the algorithm. He thinks that it works.
- Thank you so much. Again, we will see you next week.
Well, we won't. But you will see amazing people next week
on Twitch on Thursday.
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