The FineBros announce React World, lose nearly 300K subscribers in 4 days

[RAMROD 109,313]

4 minutes ago, thatguy said:

Live subscription count

https://tfbsubscribers.github.io/

Sad but well deserved.

 

Certainly reminders for us all too tbh! 

[Manul 7,377]

6 minutes ago, helxig said:

Right? They were already very successful and their brand was only growing and getting bigger. There was no need for them to try and claim a whole sub-genre of entertainment as 'legally theirs'. Especially when it's at the loss of less successful people who would have to pay them to use 'their' format of reacting. 

The whole thing is nuts! It boggles the mind 

That is what makes my head hurt. 

I'm watching the announcement video right now, the way they talk about it is so cringe.

[CyanLights 15,576]

Just now, RAMROD said:

Sad but well deserved.

 

Certainly reminders for us all too tbh! 

Its a shame tbh, they were my favorite channel but this is all just so ridiculous and greedy, its a shame. 

[Morphine Prince 105,676]

They've lost 28 thousand subscribers since I saw this thread lmao. Poor them. This is only the beginning. This will blow up even more and they'll lose many more. 

[PunkTheFunk 124,406]

They're losing roughly 6000 subscribers every hour. They have about 13.941 million right now, so they should be at zero in about three months.

[Sizzily 14,543]

The number for Sunday is 115,000 and they've already lost another 20,000 today. 

[Sunny 12,736]

You can watch a livestream of their subs going down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_qoGYnBJsY

[Rat Boy 43,481]

 

 

[Mr Ricky 9,053]

They fcking losing their mind LOOL

[LaLuna 12,732]

I unsubbed yesterday. These greedy bastards need to know that they truly f*cked up! Hopefully this will deter other big Youtubers from trying to screw over smaller Youtubers. 

[IntoYou1 391]

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[Juliandante 85]

They tweeted this:

Spoiler

 

A message from the Fine Brothers

Hello,

We’re here to apologize.

We realize we built a system that could easily be used for wrong. We are fixing that. The reality that trademarks like these could be used to theoretically give companies (including ours) the power to police and control online video is a valid concern, and though we can assert our intentions are pure, there’s no way to prove them.

We have decided to do the following:

1. Rescind all of our “React” trademarks and applications.*

2. Discontinue the React World program.

3. Release all past Content ID claims.**

The concerns people have about React World are understandable, and that people see a link between that and our past video takedowns, but those were mistakes from an earlier time. It makes perfect sense for people to distrust our motives here, but we are confident that our actions will speak louder than these words moving forward.

This has been a hard week. Our plan is to keep making great content with the help of our amazing staff. Thank you for your time and for hearing us out.

Sincerely,

Benny and Rafi Fine

*This includes “React,” “Kids React,” “Elders React,” “Lyric Breakdown,” etc. Please note: It takes a while for the databases to update, but the necessary paperwork has been filed.

**Content ID is YouTube’s copyright system that automatically flags content that looks like or sounds like copyrighted content. This mostly flags videos that are direct re-uploads of our videos (which is what the system is built for), but if you know of a video that has been claimed or removed incorrectly, please email us with “false claim” in the subject line.

https://medium.com/@FineBrothersEnt/a-message-from-the-fine-brothers-a18ef9b31777#.i8lqvrwq6

 

 

[2007 5,291]

They apologized and canceled their whole project https://medium.com/@FineBrothersEnt/a-message-from-the-fine-brothers-a18ef9b31777#.4odwy0dv6

[CyanLights 15,576]

17 hours ago, Juliandante said:

They tweeted this:

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14 hours ago, Assarrai said:

They apologized and canceled their whole project https://medium.com/@FineBrothersEnt/a-message-from-the-fine-brothers-a18ef9b31777#.4odwy0dv6

A message from the Fine Brothers

Hello,

We’re here to apologize.

We realize we built a system that could easily be used for wrong. We are fixing that. The reality that trademarks like these could be used to theoretically give companies (including ours) the power to police and control online video is a valid concern, and though we can assert our intentions are pure, there’s no way to prove them.

We have decided to do the following:

1. Rescind all of our “React” trademarks and applications.*

2. Discontinue the React World program.

3. Release all past Content ID claims.**

The concerns people have about React World are understandable, and that people see a link between that and our past video takedowns, but those were mistakes from an earlier time. It makes perfect sense for people to distrust our motives here, but we are confident that our actions will speak louder than these words moving forward.

This has been a hard week. Our plan is to keep making great content with the help of our amazing staff. Thank you for your time and for hearing us out.

Sincerely,

Benny and Rafi Fine

*This includes “React,” “Kids React,” “Elders React,” “Lyric Breakdown,” etc. Please note: It takes a while for the databases to update, but the necessary paperwork has been filed.

**Content ID is YouTube’s copyright system that automatically flags content that looks like or sounds like copyrighted content. This mostly flags videos that are direct re-uploads of our videos (which is what the system is built for), but if you know of a video that has been claimed or removed incorrectly, please email us with “false claim” in the subject line.

https://medium.com/@FineBrothersEnt/a-message-from-the-fine-brothers-a18ef9b31777#.i8lqvrwq6

 

 

This doesn't seem to be enough, a lot of people are still angry as hell their new videos are getting crazy amounts of dislikes 

[Brainiac 10,930]

they're still losing subscribers at a rate of about 100 per minute. WOW.