u/AkemiSasakii

I won’t bore you with all the details but long story short, my family is American. My mother volunteers at a church and controls all the finances. Someone hacked the pastor’s email and told her to send him gift cards which she has done before in the past for him, so she didn’t expect anything. It wasn’t until afterwards it was reviled to be a scam because the pastor called the next day as several church members were scammed and he was trying to warn people.

I emailed the scammers back because they asked for even more money and sent them a fake gift card with an IPS logger. I now have their IPS address. Would I be able to call the Nigerian police? They’re located in Ikoyi. If the police won’t help I’m considering hiring private investigators in Nigeria to expose this person. My mother is on a fixed income taking care of her brother with terminal prostate cancer after her other brother just passed 3 months ago from the same cancer. To be so disgusting the use a pastor’s name to scam, but to also go through confidential emails from a pastor to his members so you can mimic his language and previous conversations is insane.

Anyways I don’t care if I have to spend $5k getting this motherfucker arrested in finding him. It’s the principle. To steal from people at their lowest point is so dehumanizing and appalling. I just want to know is an IPS address and emails enough for either the police or a private investigator in Nigeria to work with to find these people or person?

Thanks and sorry for typos my hands are shaking typing this as I’m so frustrated and upset.

I quite watching Watcher when the whole controversy happened. I supported them so much, even went out of my way to pause my ad blocker whenever I was on their channel so they would get Adsense revenue from all my watching, but the controversy just absolutely spoiled the channel vibes for me and I genuinely couldn’t watch anymore.

Today was my first time checking their channel since the controversy happened. I completely forgot they existed but their channel popped up on my home page for the first time and I clicked on it. For a while after the controversy happened they lost quite a bit of views and subscribers, but it looks like they’re exactly back in view/sub counts as they were before the drama. Glad to see they didn’t fail, but it must suck seeing literally zero to no progress in a year, especially knowing how badly they wanted to leave YouTube as a whole.

They probably thought by now all their subscribers would be on their app, their app would be #1 in the App Store, and they’d be signed for an exclusive Netflix or Hulu show by now and working on their first “real” scripts, but no, they’re still where they’ve been at.

After looking at their channel I went back to Buzzfeed unsolved true crime and was shocked by how different the views were. The average unsolved episode has 10Million plus views with some close to 50M yet the episode with the fewest views of 7 million is close the most popular video ever on watcher with 10 million views.

It’s shocking to see that after all these years Watcher has barley reached the bottom of what BuzzfeedUnsolved was. I get they don’t like true crime or whatever but I don’t get how that makes sense. So you’re uncomfortable speaking about dead people but comfortable going to haunted places where real people died and talking about them on their gravesites and making jokes? It doesn’t make sense. I have to believe there was some contract signed with Buzzfeed stating they couldn’t make a similar show because why would they leave this literal gold mine of a show behind?

Not only would bribing this show back bring them to new heights they haven’t been able to reach, but they’d also solve their huge budgeting issues since all their other shows cost thousands per episode whereas a Buzzfeed unsolved episode can be made for free very easily with CapCut in less than 1-2 days of editing.

Maybe when they’re desperate enough they’ll go back, or I don’t know I know there’s a lot of trauma surrounding Buzzfeed so maybe they just don’t want to bring up old emotions and memories, but this genuinely shocked me with such the huge contrast of views. I could’ve sworn Watcher was getting more views/subs and growing faster than their Buzzfeed unsolved channel ever did but they literally haven’t even done as good as Buzzfeed unsolved worst video (exaggerating a bit). To be fair, Buzzfeed did have a gigantic marketing budget so of course they’d get much more views, but so did they, they just spent it all on fancy offices and cameras instead of where it mattered most.

I don’t have any bad blood for them. I do hope they succeed, just without me as a supporter/fan.

TLDR: Did you know Watcher has yet to reach the same level of fame (views/subs wise) as Buzzfeed Unsolved? I didn’t.