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Glitch and backing up their showrunners

This is something that was originally posted over on r/thedigitalcircus as a comment, but it's prolly worth having it here expanded as its own post.

Gooseworx just posted this on Bsky:

https://bsky.app/profile/gooseworx.bsky.social/post/3mmdo6xwck227

> I know people are upset with my response, which is fine, but I kind of just wanted to make a cartoon, & it's ended up being way more trouble than it's worth. I really just can't keep my heart in this thing anymore. It's gotten too much bigger than me, & I probably shouldn't be the figurehead of it.

That's… incredibly disheartening and hopefully Goose will recover and rediscover her creative passion again. But I want to focus on what Glitch could do to prevent this from happening again.

Among other things, Glitch should provide PR/marketing people as buffers between showrunners and fanbases, along with offering media training. Parasocialism goes both ways and ends up causing grief for creators and fans alike. I get why some folks don't like it when celebrities and other public people have everything go through PR managers and teams, but at a certain scale of popularity this is needed to prevent things from getting out of hand.

As much as it may hurt or take time to get used to, future Glitch showrunners need to limit online interactions significantly going forward; hopefully Goose will also do this to get better too. This was a lesson Toby Fox learned during his first Homestuck era, since then mostly only posting teasers and announcements. At a certain point of mass popularity, any creatives should prolly do the same too.

With regards to other upcoming Glitch show creators:

  • Dana Terrace (KoG) - already has media training from her time at Disney TVA, especially while The Owl House was on the air
  • Nick Szopko (TGD) - prolly the least experienced with mass online popularity (please correct if I'm wrong), will likely need lots of support
  • Ross O'Donovan (Gameoverse) - was already somewhat popular online during the original run of Homestuck and saw what happened there, knows Toby Fox, and has expressed relief that he no longer has to be a YouTuber and streamer, prolly will be okay

Glitch cannot afford having creatives keep getting burned out or disillusioned due to overexposure with Internet Discourse.

u/julicenri — 16 hours ago
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Hehe, dronr balls

We make more MACHINE here and with enough patience, the full OST will be done before you know it.

u/LightSpeedFury01 — 20 hours ago
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GLITCH bit off more than they could chew with the theatrical release, and this past month has been nothing but consequences for not being more prepared.

The two week gap between the theatrical release and the original release date sucked at first, but it was at least understandable once GLITCH revealed it was the best they could do. Everything else has been a total train wreck.

GLITCH terminating their contract with the South Korean distributor in a way that financially hurt them and claiming it was for "security reasons" when that region has no track record of leaks is not okay, and their reason just makes them look stupid now that the movie's just been leaked anyway. And them ignoring certain regions for so long, only to finally get back to them and tell them they wouldn't be able to bring it there because of certain laws is disheartening for fans living there.

Looking back, it really feels like GLITCH got too in over their head here. They probably saw the success of Markiplier's Iron Lung and assumed they could pull off a similar feat with the last episode of their most popular show, but were clearly not prepared to handle everything behind the scenes.

I just hope after this, they get their act together and plan things ahead before making decisions like this.

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u/fazar441 — 1 day ago
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How I look at mfers who purposely watched the leaked finale

Like you hurt the hype, risk you spoiling others, it's just a downright dick move, supporting the leakers and more.

u/Legal_Turnip_7280 — 22 hours ago
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The friendliest of reminders, that these shows have already been greenlit.

I didn’t think that this needed be stated and I’m sure most of you know, but there has been a lot of this discourse here and on twitter about what show would be greenlit next after TADC ends not knowing they have already been green lit for months.

u/Frank_The_Tank_13 — 1 day ago