The Supreme Dark Lord is relentless in his ambitions against the world. Today he formally unveils what he informally did last night on the Darkstream: Unauthorized.TV.
We launched this a little sooner than we'd planned, due to the fact that YouTube demonetized the Big Bear yesterday afternoon. But we already have over one hundred hours of content, including the Darkstreams, Voxiversities, and Owen's shorts and live shows.
The premium content is coming soon, but there is no real difference between the $10 Basic subscription and the $25 Premium monthly subscriptions, it's just about how much support you're willing and able to offer the channel. Most of the content is, and will remain, free. The $5 Feed the Bear subscription is a replacement for Owen's YouTube memberships and primarily supports the Big Bear.
This is NOT a YouTube replacement.
This is meant to be a content network syndicated to other sites, so the website is meant to be a repository that subscribers can directly access rather than the destination in itself. It reminds me of how Red Ice runs their content, which also has a subscription-based members site, but in a smarter manner. I don't think all of you will like it, but I do think enough of you will to make paying $5 or $10/month worth the effort to budget for it.
Expect contributors to be selected, vetted, and invited. Expect content to be similarly centered on quality contributions over quantity of uploads. Assuming that this works as intended, and doesn't become a containment site for stuff YouTube doesn't want (which I expect will be the case for other such sites like Full30), Unauthorized should quickly be a network of content providers that a good part of the population wants made available to them. Good luck, Supreme Dark Lord.
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