#goodbye sourcefed

the stories that wall could tell | a sourcefed fanmix

a sourcefed sendoff that blends musical memories from the channel with songs by (mostly) youtubers that revolve around themes of loss and goodbyes.

thank you sourcefed for five amazing years of news, friendship, and...what is that a coffee machine?

don’t go/jim and the povolos//fan appreciation song/sourcefed//fire treasure/will haynes//”thirft shop”/elliott morgan and joe bareta//the day the youtubes died/hank green//comment commentary theme/going spaceward//sourcefed sings/schmoyoho//sexy montage/instrumental//the quiet/troye sivan//titanic humming/lee newton and steve zaragoza//i will always love you (cover)/sam tsui//2 dude in a bad mood/sourcefed live//wounded healer/watsky//bear song/steve zaragoza ft. trisha hershberger//stupid/meghan tonjes//it’s hard to say goodbye to yesterday (cover)/todrick hall//benjamin franklin time traveler theme/ben and abe//never forget you (cover)/postmodern jukebox//the master debate song/steve zaragoza//good riddance (time of your life)/green day 

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I’m like devastated that SourceFed and it’s other limbs have been dropped for zero reason, and I’m hypothesising that a part of that is down to the fact that SourceFed was such a mirror for Geek & Sundry and the Vlogs channel in so many ways, but here’s the thing; I’m at least happy that they got to end it right. For such short notice every single person who worked there had such a sense of camaraderie and justice and what was right and looking out for one another and for the audience that even with only a WEEK’s notice, they put together an announcement, a bunch of finale videos AND a goodbye livestream which brought back almost every single person we’d grown to love. They got to end it on their terms and they got to do right by them and by the audience.

So I am just so. impossibly. unendingly. angry that all we got for the vlogs channel was an email telling us not to say anything. “Make your last vlog, tell people it’s your last one and to follow your personal channels, but do not announce that production is ending and that you’ve all lost your jobs. We’ll put a stranger in the middle of your goodbye week just to invalidate you and all the work you’ve done further, to insult you and your audience and the woman we invited as a guest to this gallows march.”

The trouble I was in when I broke rank and announced the end of Geek & Sundry vlogs on my facebook page because I couldn’t cope anymore with the questions I was receiving as the most consistently popular vlogger on the channel and the first to announce my leaving with no warning; no context; no reason.

The injustice is just striking me a little harder today than usual that they got a live stream and a chance to say goodbye properly, with dignity and with honour, and all I got was told to shut up and smile and play nice for the launch of the G&S twitch station less than a fortnight later.

I saved G&S ass so many times during that transition and have to keep watching as they screw up PR time and again for the sake of legacy media companies who despise the new media audiences which have cherished G&S and built it into what it is. We were a bridge between the channel and its audience, a bridge that they deliberately burned.