I Want to Buy Machinima

[@Jakerton]

My dad works at machinima so if you buy it plz tell him to come home

[@lesouth0348]

What dad Jake?

[@LJ-hk4tv]

@DONT READ MY PROFILE PICTURE Die

[@dontreadmyprofilepicture6945]

DONT READ MY PROFILE PICTURE

[@Corrupt_W]

@@lesouth0348 oh no...

[@davegross4768]

grow up

[@bobbybooshay5388]

I imagine National Treasure on DVD actually makes more than Machinima these days.

[@asparagusmelontoast]

Hahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha

[@calligense02_]

@fours 🇬🇧 How does this bot go from spamming the n-word slur to talking about the bible? Edit: This aged poorly. ⏬

[@atlassolid5946]

@fours 🇬🇧 did you know jesus made a flavored condoms tier list?

[@garrett3055]

@@fours0I tooted, I farted. I straight up sharted. John 11:0

[@arcana5625]

LMAOOOOO WHAT IS THIS REPLY SECTION

[@TheMrSark]

Every contract should be a unique AI generation. Really roll the dice.

[@The0utspoken]

You son of a bitch, I’m in. God will protect us.

[@christopherwells7869]

Pls upload videos again

[@minimany1000]

Sark! I was wondering if I'd see you here. Long time fan since 2014. Thank you for all the entertainment you've provided over the years!

[@tripper3737]

Any vids you'd want back in particular sark?

[@chilliend3383]

SARK, WHERE ARE THE UPLOADS

[@SammiBoi667]

I can't wait for Moist-chinima, Charlie is truly a Hero.

[@301rekkz]

Facts

[@itaachiii]

I keep thinking about how lucky the real owners who banked a whopping $100M for this sinking ship😭😭😭 Warner bros walked out with a fat L

[@graffiti.777]

For some reason I thought machinima was the channel that made the FNAF songs lol. I think it was JT Machinima or something

[@xXxMalachaixXx]

bro yes basically the comment i was gonna make lol

[@wardogbobby2974]

was about to call it that as well. Honestly great brand name change, and could change the M background colour from red to the blue used in the moist esports logo. Would differentiate it a bit from the original; and make it obvious its owned by moist critical who I'm sure a lot of creators are more comfortable working with.

[@Colgateopticwhite12]

I never thought i'd see the day Jesus reveals his master plan to buy Machinima

[@TheUnderNerd]

Accurate

[@ashlyne久]

Holy fuck the people who made these bots are actual degenerates

[@Lucky.695]

So many bots 🤖

[@showregular111]

​@fours02 🇬🇧 bruuuuuuh

[@PurfectChef]

Bots are temporary Moist is ETERNAL remember that commenters

[@thejesuschrist]

I'm 100% behind this!!!

[@apollyonTF]

thanks jesus!! :)

[@sato_ru372]

Thank you Jesus 🙏

[@WhuDhat]

yo, can you tell people to stop spamming "the word" in every comment section

[@TheLastApostle]

Why are you not busy dying for my sins jesus? What are we praying to you for?!

[@apollyonTF]

@@WhuDhat those are just automatic comments from bots owned by bad actors, pay them no attention.

[@Radicalweegee]

The rebirth of Machinima will alow me to go and rewatch the OG Two Best Friend videos. Sounds like a plan , here's hoping Charlie buys it out right

[@TheSoulreaper6000]

Man, I forgot a out those and wish things were different lol

[@dyldragon1]

I went hunting for their old videos on Xbox Live Indie Games a while back and couldn't find them

[@maxineshideout852]

@@dyldragon1 i found games like t.e.c 3001 because of them which sadly the developer took off of the steam store BUT i was still able to download it from the download history of my xbox 360 allowing me to play all the old arcade games i bought :D

[@chris_player2995]

@@dyldragon1 the skyrim video tho 🥺

[@redmangc]

The question is, would he be allowed to do whatever he wants with the "video library".

[@rattles2326]

I'm still glad Ross Scott, the guy behind Freeman's mind, backed up his videos before Machinima deleted everything, so I can still binge the whole series forever.

[@Luckyylove]

Dude him and Thesw1tcher are goated for doing it

[@sexkrazedpanda]

Always excited for the next episode of freeman's mind. I wish he would revisit civil patrol for another episode.

[@cheesytacos6498]

@@sexkrazedpanda why did they stop

[@sippe5535]

Ross's game dungeon is a treasure. Him civvie11 and mandaloregaming are the trifecta of game reviews

[@woobilicious.]

Always backup your shit!

[@birkobird]

Make the old Machinima channel into what it should have been: a place to help smaller creators blow up. Small fee and original video from creator in, Machinima and creator split the ad revenue, creator gets publicity for their content. Finding new creators is borderline impossible right now so this would be a brilliant niche to fill.

[@av_990]

Agreed

[@DerKomischeTyp]

I would love that. I remember finding Freemans Mind and it being the funniest shit to me

[@revtv2497]

I'm a smaller creator, so I inherently think this would be rad.

[@FizzyCape]

i found so many small youtubers during the machina respawn days, it was great.

[@snackojack]

Yes yes yes. I remember back in the day when I had a tiny weewee I was desperate for that Respawn intro and my name on the website, easy collaborations with other creators and such. I wish that would come back man for sure. Also, INBOX.

[@McCallahanIndustries]

Please do. You really took me back with this. I was on the Respawn roster, had 5 of their top 10 videos and was a... well, I can't say it on the comments, close to beating GuNNiT235's Legendary Fake Nuke before MACHINIMA pulled the rug. I believe these videos have all been deleted. I had a playlist of old ones and the warning on KZbin reads: "One or more videos have been removed from the playlist because they were deleted from KZbin." What I do find hilarious is one of the axe-men, or women, who just carved the main channel's directors program and BRUTALLY so, ended up starting her own career as a content creator. I forget who they work for now, but she callously fired all the directors who made videos except a few. She then later, after Machinima shut down had the stones to complain about her videos being removed... but what about all the creators she fired? Hahaha. It's funny. Probably for the best you didn't take the Machinima pill. They apparently awarded the odd good contract during Mw2, the good one, not the husk of a game wearing it's skin from 2022. But quickly wised up to the act and only offered trash. Lifetime contracts with terrible splits, 3 year contracts with terrible splits. They also had requirements, you needed certain minimums to even apply, which was aggravating. If you were a smaller creator you'd have to jump through hoops just to get the trash contract to ride out. So spend a year grinding to even get the opportunity for a contract that locks you in forever or quite awhile with garbage pay. Their requirements were higher than the KZbin partner ones now. It's nuts. But still it's a good piece of KZbin history that big business and Hollywood has purged for no reason. You'd make a great owner and could turn it around far better than any large firm acquisition change of hands between a cable TV and phone company scheme could, or even attempt to. At one time Machinima meant something. Those days are long gone. But they did happen. And I hope you do manage to acquire it and restore it to some glory.

[@kyleralmond6598]

I remember how big you were in the industry of fake videos. That was a fun time.

[@Evanz111]

Jimbothy oh my god! So awesome to see you here! I also had some series on Machinima (although nowhere near as big of a creator) so I was incredibly happy to see this video in my sub box. I’m even going to see if I can find some of my old contacts to try and make Charlie’s idea actually happen. Hope you’ve been doing okay man!

[@dandeliondizzy]

Nerd

[@HAHAd2]

Your channel fell off 😂😂

[@thingamajig17]

@@dandeliondizzy look at your name who you calling a nerd☠

[@andreiarca3024]

Charlie reviving Machinima would be pretty epic.

[@BossKnightFilms]

Wellll... You see... The person that was put in place by WB/AT&T to run Machinima is a bit tied up at the moment, lmao. I doubt Charlie will see this comment, but if you are serious about purchasing the company I'd reach out to the boys from Internet Today. They are Machinima refugees that weren't decision makers but were close to most decision makers at Machinima.

[@abbledapple9004]

Replying to bump this comment just in case it helps keep it at the top! Your info is probably very helpful

[@birchrapter3766]

I'll help too... yay

[@kasaix_yt]

Bump

[@mybedissoft]

More bump!

[@margidda]

bump questionmark?

[@GeremyG]

My man finished the main quest and is just doing side quests now.

[@thomashopkins8958]

@Red Star 🅥 tf!??

[@thegreatpiginthesky3904]

@thomashopkins8958 it's a bot. For some reason Charlie has it really bad

[@riverwashere_]

The bots fr crazy on this video

[@Blue1true4]

Charlie is the Nerevarine

[@Azulkins]

@@p-__ "keep your Kentucky Fried Fetish away from me!"

[@NewYorkGiants012]

I don't know how Machinima didn't hire you on the spot after looking at your first 98 Koshien videos

[@YesNo-ks5fo]

they were afraid of his power

[@researhanddevelopmentcentr6525]

Then black Americans say black lives matter; this video shows ALM > BLM and matters more, which means African lives matter and all lives matter together

[@matteodelapaz1698]

@@researhanddevelopmentcentr6525 What? youre 2 years too late for that.

[@joshowawood1786]

@@matteodelapaz1698 lmfao Fr

[@oyayemayafaro7307]

@@researhanddevelopmentcentr6525 ????

[@AdoboMartin]

I seriously believe Machinima could make a come back if Charlie, and probably only Charlie, bought it and did almost anything with it

[@isaiahdrye8085]

This 👆🏽

[@CrimsonTheOriginal]

Charlie and SomeOrdinaryGamers

[@mrwolf15G]

100%

[@ZerglingLover]

probably could be done by alot of people. pewdiepie, markiplier and a couple others

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

I think its more of a change in the with how that kinda stuff is done, sure you could bring it back but it would'nt be the same

[@Runelee1]

If this actually happens and Machinima somehow comes back to be the competition to KZbin , it would be the greatest redemption of all time.

[@skibdibvy]

I’m better than penguinz0 LMAO

[@RockinRocketScience]

Sadly, KZbin will self-destruct before

[@ansuz5903]

All Time

[@buggy.]

@@skibdibvy ok?

[@Blue.o7.]

@@skibdibvy furry

[@LosTimeNeos]

Get in contact with Rooster Teeth for the information you need. They are owned by the same shell company under the Warner Bros umbrella. Also you should allow the Machine Cinema gaming community to make submissions like they did in the old days.

[@Harmonmj13]

Also, Neebs Gaming and Lowbrow were able to get Battlefield Friends and Sonic for Hire back through Rooster Teeth and now both series are back to producing new episodes. RT is the best way Charlie could get in touch with someone to try and acquire Machinima.

[@lI-tm2pn]

Roosterteeth owns Machinima. I read somewhere before that Fullscreen basically gave them control of it.

[@proy3]

And while he's at it, buy Rooster Teeth.

[@grfrjiglstan]

@@proy3 Even he's not enough of a god to save them.

[@RoosterCP]

Buy roosterteeth while you’re at it, I miss the old roosterteeth days. Edit: didn’t read the comments glad someone said the exact same thing lol

[@wfox4418]

Sounds like they may have turned Machinima and it’s content into a tax write-off. A bunch of content, particularly animated and children’s shows have been removed from HBO Max lately for the same reason. The company gets to say that the content isn’t profitable, and gets a tax break for it- as long as they never profit from it again. So the content disappears.

[@Foagal1775]

That's depressing

[@darkmugetsu6572]

That is how they fucking killed Megas XLR, A damn Tax write off.

[@misterchoc123]

How does that work though. The content had already been created an there is no upkeep. So how do you turn it into a tax writeoff?

[@fieldy409]

People think tax write offs are free money. They're not. All they do is soften the blows. They still would have lost money on this tax write off or not.

[@alexanderthebold]

@@misterchoc123 There are royalty fees that need to be paid to the artists if the show is aired. So rather than pay the artists they will take down the show.

[@RossBoomsocks]

Oh boy, 7 years ago I got involved in a whole thing with Machinima that ended up having Keemstar, Pewdiepie, Leafy, Pyro god you name it getting involved - the most stressful christmas of my life in my early 20s when all I wanted was to maybe not have slightly less than half my earnings being given to me. Never thought i'd outlive that company, still get flashbacks whenever I see it's name appear.

[@crysoarl7344]

I remember when it happened, glad it sorted out.

[@МихаилПенев-ф6с]

Why did I read that in your voice?

[@LunarEdge7]

It feels fucking awesome to see your comment here man

[@chaoticscripts7345]

Just turn it into a better Machinina, host smaller creators and give them a platform to show their content. Make Machinima a community channel.

[@ssfbob456]

@fours 🇬🇧 would have had to existed for that.

[@Ripplistic]

@@ssfbob456 Jesus is real. You talking about god?

[@natsudragneelthefiredragon]

Exactly what I thought

[@ProwoodStuff]

That would be awesome

[@somewont9619]

@@Ripplistic well I mean there has been Many people named jesus.. but the one known from the Bible is not real.

[@OfficiallySnek]

Charlie really is out here wanting to do good in this world

[@dontreadmyprofilepicture5596]

DONT READ MY PROFILE PICTURE

[@adamsh1]

@fours02 🇬🇧 delete or people will mass report you

[@OfficiallySnek]

Wow, what thoughtful creative comments

[@linkshunter608]

@@adamsh1 dont waste ur energy lol its a bot or a loser who will just make another account

[@Its.all.goodman]

Yup, just like Mr.Beast

[@zemilink3905]

It would be such a great idea to make that channel like a place to help small creators reach high places

[@MuensterQ]

that was the original idea behind it LMAO, what do you mean "it would be a great idea"

[@chef_boysauce4399]

That’s what Machinima was. Charlie isn’t doing something new. He’s just trying to do it right, cause Machinima was poorly managed and greedy

[@fatesDeath]

@@MuensterQ i think he ment great idea IF done right...

[@itaachiii]

I keep thinking about how lucky the real owners who banked a whopping $100M for this sinking ship😭😭😭 Warner bros walked out with a fat L

[@the_sorcerer]

I watch the archives and frequently mention the respawn days. Huge influence on me as a gamer.

[@SophiaAstatine]

And on KZbin as a whole.

[@TKFTCaboose]

Found Mr. Sark and APL through Machinima and even now they'll bring up stories about working there and the shenanigans they dealt with. They made the best of it along with Seananners, Hutch, etc but trying to improve the channel was like pulling teeth. If you can't gain the videos back doing a podcast with them would be dope. When shit hits the fan Sark usually says, "Ya know what this reminds me of? ...Machinima."

[@flusen9408]

@@21_tech67make better videos of what, your not father coming back.

[@Ch1ck0n]

@21_tech woah calm down

[@reformed827]

@21_tech spanked by daddy and taking it out on strangers?

[@kotatheshota4330]

@21_tech you haven't even made content my man

[@Link117.]

It’s a bot guys

[@Huntsteve]

This is genuinely one of the coolest things I’ve ever heard from a KZbinr. God bless you Charlie. We all grew up with Machinima and would obviously love to see the creators regain their content. Truly doing the Lord’s work.

[@Jeldin486]

I was one of the Machinima Directors back when they had the Director program prior to changing into an MCN and...yeah, despite it feeling cool to have your stuff on the main channel and making some decent cash for a high schooler for a brief time, it was an awful experience. There were some great ppl that I dealt with (Micah and Joel were awesome), but the actual management was terrible and their contracts and agreements were super sketch. Lost two channels to their lifetime contracts which they offered to me as a minor, they were super strict about me not being able to re-upload my stuff to my own channels so now everything I ever made for them is just gone after they wiped everything without warning, etc. The only reason I was able to keep a third channel I had with them was because I literally emailed Aaron Debevoise (CEO) and made a deal with him to not cause a stink about the other two channels and let them have them if he'd at least give me the third one back. I ended up just deleting them all purely out of spite lol

[@Zen-zt4uk]

Damn dude, sorry to hear that you lost ur channels like that. Least you got a story out of it

[@donseavey3704]

A great idea, however navigating warner bros is gonna be a nightmare

[@ToadTWE]

If Charlie would actually be able to buy Machinima and revive it, it would be the single greatest childhood nostalgia trip of all time

[@setsers1]

It needs to happen

[@rynsart]

I'm the first non bot in this reply section. Hi

[@bigshotinc.5922]

jesus fucking christ these bots are making people that say "these bots" look like bots too because of how often we type it- anyways, agreed Toad!

[@jet2550]

6 of the 7 previous comments are bots. This is the 2022 experience.

[@Tyler-bf7em]

@@rynsart how do we know that

[@KnightSlasher]

Do it Charlie we must not lose the nostalgic Halo times with our friends, we must preserve its history

[@redimage4255]

@fours02 🇬🇧 bot

[@low-budgefudge2164]

Unfortunately though, I think halo is dead, at least for now. Nevermind, halo isn't dead....it's just missing in action..

[@RedAndBlueAndOthersToo]

Wow bots have gotten out of control. Do these risk hurting Charlie’s channel? I don’t know how YT policy works anymore.

[@luckymark571]

@@low-budgefudge2164 Cmon lets admit it, halo is pretty dead rn lol

[@ThisGuyDannyyy]

@@RedAndBlueAndOthersToo this happens on almost every popular KZbin channels. If you ever look on the comments section on CoryxKenshin, most bots always making racist jokes… On TommyInnIt’s videos, they’re using Technoblade for attention… Like Penguinz0 isn’t the only one, but it’s bad

[@technogeek]

Hey Charlie, last I knew, machinima got merged into RoosterTeeth. I'm pretty sure they're managing their catalog as a bunch of their stuff was on the RT first app at some point. Roosterteeth even had to order the 8th season of sonic for hire by low brow before they went independent. You might want to start there.

[@lukeesken5415]

Not quite correct, but close. RoosterTeeth is owned by the holdings company Otter Media (owned by WB Discovery), who through a consummation also owns Machinima. Otter Media's main website appears to be dead since mid-2022, but the company is still fully operational. Their archived leadership page is now out of date, but from a quick search it was easy to find that Sean Kisker is now the head of Otter Media. If Charlie should try to contact anyone, it should be him. I have some potential leads on contact info, but I wouldn't want to post them here out of respect for his privacy. If Charlie sees this message, either he can use his better contacts to find out for himself or I can help as well!

[@crabsinc.]

@@lukeesken5415 イエス・キリスト、クソ人生を手に入れてください。

[@LV-MC]

@@lukeesken5415 Easiest way to find out who owns who would be to start from RoosterTeeth (More than likely Barbara as creative director) then go up the chain until someone knows something.

[@garvanch9684]

@@lukeesken5415 shame how all these massive monopoly companies buy out KZbin channels and then turn them sour with corruption. That is why KZbin is an absolute shit show now because a lot of these creators sold their soul.

[@minimany1000]

@@lukeesken5415 You should email this to Charlie's business email in his about thing in case he doesn't know about it

[@crimsonpirate9]

Not seeing machinima with a red logo is just wrong

[@Bucketofmoney]

I remember watching machinimas a decade ago, it was the best content at the time and gave highlights to creators that have massive audiences today, and it would to great to see those videos again depending on whether the creator wants to have them be unprivated. I do hope Charlie can buy machinima from WB and see what he can do with it. Good luck man.

[@blamethelag4992]

The bots need to fucking chill I swear to god

[@Manganization]

Mashed is basically that for 2D animated works on KZbin now. They've mostly been focused on parodies but they're now making attempts at hosting original animation.

[@JustSomeRandomBurger]

@@blamethelag4992 I would tell you to report them but I don't even think it does anything

[@kamakeii]

The bot is 7 year olds in roblox

[@Jartran72]

it does. On older videos you can often for example 13 responses to a comment but there are only 8 left. The deleted ones were all spam bota

[@cowmeows5493]

If Charlie owns machinima I’ll become a content creator

[@51Jamie]

Guess I'll sub

[@wastingyourtime3957]

ok

[@youngstreetgowild9028]

U shouldn’t

[@normalwhiteguy1555]

Yea bring ur 31 subs

[@aandaroo]

@@normalwhiteguy1555 is anything on your entire channel supposed to be even remotely funny

[@MikesLaffy]

Sark and APL still give me so much joy and entertainment to this day. They are hands down my favourite duo, I'm so happy they still stream together (Charlie collab when?). Hutch and Nanners were also a big part of my high school days. I miss those days of gaming. :,)

[@TheJackalOfDeath]

Mr. Sark?

[@SphericaI]

That brings me back 😢

[@MikesLaffy]

@@TheJackalOfDeath Yessir! He streams a couple times a week on Twitch.

[@Rickagon]

I might remember wrong, but I think they did a podcast with Sark?

[@theL_Rocks]

Sark was the bill burr of gaming

[@bucknerd]

You need to hire a corporate lawyer in the state that Warner Bros corporate headquarters is in, and have them send certified legal request. Pretty sure that will get their attention. They will know how to not only contact, send the legal offer, and actually close the deal with all the i's dotted and t's crossed.

[@petesmart1983]

Pretty much wb wouldn't take notice, there been big company's and actors who want to get rights of movies especially international ones such as Jackie Chan etc and wb just said no

[@barkley8285]

I miss early 2010 youtube, such a special place. Such a sad thing its become since then.

[@fallenberet7955]

It became the very thing we sought to destroy

[@SqLionRio]

I would have been 5

[@DecayedPony]

@@SqLionRio Damn, I feel old now. I was 18

[@boogityhoo7452]

@@DecayedPony i was 20 lol

[@johnl6192]

@@SqLionRio begone child

[@box2122]

Looking forward to Moistchimina becoming a reality

[@TomAltonator]

Underrated comment

[@aura1003]

This is a great idea I really only think Charlie could revive the channel.

[@metallicwind]

Just promise to bring back Machinima Inbox with Mr. Sark and APL

[@SirBladewind]

Truly the best thing that came out of Machinima

[@Tysugan]

If it's not renamed to Moistchinima we riot.

[@Pokanose24x]

I fully agree

[@ODOGHOST]

😂

[@generichuman1919]

@Red Star 🅥 what the heck man

[@mizu3866]

@@generichuman1919 it's a bot program to say the n-word

[@generichuman1919]

@@mizu3866 I know

[@RoamingIRaccoon]

I will never forgive Machinima for basically erasing Arby n the chief

[@justanobadi6655]

They were the games workshop of content creation on KZbin

[@Nomadic_Gaming]

i hate the power rangers and transformers stuff they did and how its next to impossible to find online or find it in full where bits of it havent been yeeted by strikes yet

[@shelby5809]

Are you fucking serious? They got rid of that? This is why we can't have nice things.

[@James11111]

My dude Jon has it all up on his channel. Hell he just wrapped up its newest season.

[@P0nderProductions]

@@James11111 holy shit it's still going? I fuckin miss Arby n the Chief. So nostalgic.

[@operationb.e.n6480]

the Machinima arc was one of my favorites in KZbin history, so much character development for many youtubers

[@MovieJunkieOfficial]

I found machinima as the website way before the KZbin channel. And it was mainly filled with actual machinima. Movies or shorts made with games, a lot of that stuff was amazing. Hosting a vast amount of very creative, highly talented peoples writing and creativity. I watched the decline in real time as these naive young talents sold off their property and ideas. Then Machinima started making their series or shorts themselves and the change was obvious and bad. It was so sad, I even recall logging onto the site to watch some of my faves and being presented with just the logo on a blank site. I’m glad I downloaded a lot of the stuff that I still have to this day.

[@metalbunny8942]

If it does happen I wish it can turn out like before but less scummy like paying the creators more for their content. I loved to join if i can do small animation work with about being payed pennies like old Machinima did to older animator. Just wishfully thinking (hope it happens 🤞)

[@itsnotcolby]

idk how much they paid before hand, but my idea is that ur not gonna get paid well because its there brand, u get a sub boost, view boost, new traction and like a 30-40% cut of how much the vid would make. anymore then that is just dumb for the company to do

[@jereme9019]

nice try

[@skibdibvy]

I’m better than penguinz0 LMAO

[@KaseyC.]

@@itsnotcolby you could absolutely make it work out. Especially with a guy like Charlie who's willing to lose money on the project, at least, creators get 100% revenue (excluding KZbin's cut), Machinima has brand names and ads going through their website, or that's required to be put in Machinima videos, or something like that, and then the creators also get a cut of whatever money is being made off the ad deal. A super scummy and greedy owner wouldn't do something like that, but, again, with it being Charlie specifically, it could absolutely work.

[@beforeflight5566]

@@itsnotcolby They wouldnt even pay the channels. If they did, it was extremely lower than what was promised. Creators didn't get any sort of sub or view boost as well. They were essentially used by the company for money without getting even a fraction of the money they should've

[@chixface5533]

Would probably have to go through roosterteeth, another company that was under the umbrella of fullscreen, just because they already have a direct connection to warner bros.

[@TheyCallMeJelly]

I love how Machinama didnt accept Charlie and now hes trying to buy the entire company 🤣 He really played the long con, and its interesting to think about how he might not be where he is today if he partnered with them

[@SuperHornedtoad]

Lord of War style

[@Абдулло-щ3е9э]

Just a reminder that Internet Today is still going (The guys from Machinima ETC who started their own channel and are basically still doing the same thing).

[@loirai4349]

Charlie I still cant believe youre Charlie. My cousin showed me you around 2009. You fucking grew. Holy shit man. Good shit Charlie. I remember your Machinama stories from the past. Everytime I watch you I see the last video you made without a webcam on that new years, you said you were gonna start using your webcam in the next year more and it went from terrifying to imagine you to normal everyday occurance to see your face. Awesome I get to share this time space with you bud. Thanks for the laughs youve given me even if it was just you saying, "titties". :)

[@jettivonaviska]

You should reach out to Sark and APL. If they can’t get you in, they could get in touch with Fwiz and he might know someone.

[@corwinchapman4565]

they bought machinima to park value and avoid taxes. they de-listed the videos in order to attempt to maintain some amount of value via scarcity. they're not interested in selling it to you because the goal is to sit on it until either the tax-deductible depreciation value makes it worth the investment, or until they can sell it to someone else for 90% of what they bought it for, which plus the taxes they avoided paying by buying it, would make it profitable. it's extractive capitalism, the goal isn't to produce anything, it's to mathematically exploit the resources available for maximum value over time.

[@MaxStormz]

yup

[@AS-ir1zl]

You dont have to explain why if its a lot of work but how did they avoid taxes by buying a channel?I dont undestand it and it sounds interesting to learn

[@yuukisan123]

Exactly

[@Buggolious]

Interesting

[@Nerdnook-MUKLE]

@@AS-ir1zl very very simply put, you don't pay taxes on reinvested profits. You want your profits to be as close to 0 as possible to avoid taxes. Super simply put but that's kinda the gist of it.

[@AkiraN19]

Charlie is the only way to turn Machinima around in any meaningful way. More than that, the fact that Charlie's main motivation for buying the channels is to restore the content makes me a little emotional.

[@MarcussJay]

I still watch Sark & APL to this day. (Same with Hutch and Nanners). Machinima Inbox was the shit

[@dist0rted320]

whenever I think of Machinima, I think of the many old shows created in game engines, especially Halo Forge shows like RvB and C&P (although I'm not sure if that second one was produced by Machinima or not), to me that is synonymous with Machinima. I spent a lot of afternoons after school watching the latest episode of Red Vs. Blue and other Rooster Teeth stuff. It's a shame that sort of content has fallen out of the mainstream, I really loved those days. I hope you can eventually make Machinima at least a fraction of its former self, I would appreciate that like nothing else.

[@nathanhargenrader645]

I think you are confused with the term machinima and the channel Machinima. None of that was made by Machinima the channel nore was it on Machima's channel. RvB for example was on Rooster Teeths channel as they produced it. The term machinima is the genre of video that all of those shows are. Using the game engine to essentially animate out a show.

[@Dodsodalo]

C&P?

[@Flabby_Raccoon]

@@nathanhargenrader645 RVB was on machinima, it showed it in this video

[@dist0rted320]

@@Dodsodalo Chat and Peter. I guess it was meant to be a gag on high school life, but there were two spartans who I'm pretty sure were meant to be brothers (with one being fairly well adjusted and the other being a bit of a douche), and the 'best friend' type character was a really stupid elite called Deuu with a really annoying high-pitch voice. I haven't watched back in a few years, so I couldn't tell you whether or not it's actually good lol but I remember always watching it when I was a kid

[@SquareGoGamers]

For me, Sanity Not Included was THE reason I was subscribed to Machinima. Ahh, nostalgia

[@snickle1980]

i REMEMBER that name.

[@koumer]

yea, i remember being 11 and learning the name "Shadman" from that show too 😂

[@Sonicfalcon16]

One of those guys. Dexter made bidro hamrs now. Lyle is part of oney now

[@Calruxio]

Oh god the jokes are coming back...

[@JoshuaKujo]

hell yeah! apparently they created a sort of spiritual successor? It's called MachinaBants and they've been going for like 2 years now?

[@wideshoesthegreatest5811]

Everyone awaits the day for the video to appear in their notifications boxes ,” an update on machinima”

[@low-budgefudge2164]

Imagine if the year started off with Charlie owning Machinima...wild stuff

[@friedpotato6037]

Holy fucking shit when will these bots ever stop?

[@tylerxboxes8938]

Rooster Teeth owns Machinima now, which WBDiscovery owns

[@piccolo54trunks2]

As someone who grew up on Machinima videos, I don't see why it couldn't work in the modern youtube era. literally just let creators upload on their own channels and keep the brand recognition

[@zangetsu56]

Honestly I agree it was a great time in KZbin history, it still can work most of the old hosts are still around so it wouldn’t be a bad look to get most of them back and turn it into what it used to be with a few shows doing highlights recaps and what not

[@triadwarfare]

Still, that isn't enough as animation is expensive, even for something as simple as Battlefield Friends. They need outside support from investors like Machinima where they can contract creators to get a guaranteed product. When animators try to self publish, they are at the mercy of KZbin. Having a contract with media companies like Machinima guarantees that they would get a fair share of their work but at a fixed rate... however, if they become viral, they'd usually lose out from the additional revenue they would have gotten from that, and that's where the drama in Machinima started.

[@grease_8387]

The problem is the reputation of it, so many innocent creators got fucked over so you’d definitely have to rebrand

[@Stevonicus]

I know some of the Machinima assets went to Rooster Teeth. The main Twitter account got converted into a page for one of Rooster Teeth's channels, and there was a Transformers animated series that Machinima produced that ended up being finished by Rooster Teeth.

[@Q-box]

There was also “Sonic for Hire,” an animated series which also got picked up by Machinima and continued by Rooster Teeth.

[@aemonithomas3157]

If thats the case then it sounds like its owned by time warner.

[@dongojangle106]

@@Q-box i thought Sonic for Hire went to CollegeHumor / Dorkly?

[@SobiTheRobot]

And now Rooster Teeth is hot garbage.

[@Q-box]

​@@dongojangle106 I looked it up and it apparently was transferred from Rooster Teeth to "LowBrow Studios" which has done animation and voice work for CollegeHumor and Dorkly, but not officially to either/or. I don't know for sure, though, as I haven't watched Sonic for Hire in years at this point.

[@KhailAnonymous]

you're gonna have to revive some of us from the dead - also pretty sure they deleted them to avoid future copywrite strikes

[@Ultrashadow05]

Charlie is the hero I never knew I needed

[@jfblast]

This is a Gigachad move from Charlie! I support you all the way, man

[@George-pl7eu]

No Machinima should just died why would you keep company that legit ruined people lives don't care who owns it I don't want to see that name again

[@followeroftheguy]

@@George-pl7eu i have faith that with the right resources, charlie could make machinima something great like giving smaller creators a platform like what it was originally meant to do except giving better contracts and not screwing people over.

[@abbledapple9004]

@@George-pl7eu but it can undo that, have you actually watched the video? Genuine question. If you happened to be one of the people who got fucked over by the channel, wouldn't you want your content back? Or to see it possibly become something good? There are some really good ideas, that with the right ownership, could make the channel redeem itself. It'd need some strong rebranding but it could help a lot of content creators back. It's a bit selfish to say "no don't do this because *I* don't like it and *I* think it should die" even though it could help a lot of people who lost their content, don't you think?

[@PlamoTherapy]

Oh god, seeing Matt and Pat in the Machinima Respawn banner is bringing a tear to my eye. It's never not too soon. Still repect their solo outings tho.

[@F22C1]

I'm taking another commenter's idea. I'm replying to this so the only comment isn't a bot calling you the n word.

[@ryanmartinez1703]

Boy I really hope this is still in the works

[@FacterinoCommenterino]

Today's fact: The reason the plural of Goose is Geese (same with tooth/teeth) but the plural of Moose is still Moose, is because the aforementioned comes from the Latin language while the latter comes from Native American languages, so it doesn’t follow the same rules as most other words.

[@adriel68]

Fun fact: NO ONE CARES

[@Karrrmy]

thanks Facterino Commenterino 👍

[@rickster255]

Thanks man

[@BertMagurt]

Uh it's Meese. Checkmate buddy. 😎

[@TheUnderNerd]

Thanks bro

[@altervisi7748]

Inside gaming was a fundamental part of my young teen years, Adam Bruce and James had unmatched chemistry

[@proxyprone]

Adam puts a sour taste in my mouth now, but I still watch Bruce, Lawrence, & James. Bruce & Lawrence even have a channel together now, Inside Games.

[@aaronzhang2895]

I have not heard the name Machinima for so long. Super nostalgic

[@davidkimber4896]

When Machinima Snapped away the Sonic 4 Hire series, I struggled with the thought that I could never watch it again. Very grateful the community found a way to reupload to the entire series

[@Jirwemthegreat]

Man, if you wanna crowdfund a buyback of machinima, I would back it in a heartbeat.

[@dontreadmyprofilepicture6945]

DONT READ MY PROFILE PICTURE

[@null301_]

@Red Star 🅥 so funny!

[@nlopezsequeda1819]

is your pfp the marathon logo?

[@Jirwemthegreat]

@@nlopezsequeda1819 Yes!

[@Sharklops]

all hail... MOISTCHINIMA !!!

[@ruth80809]

YES! I'M ALL FOR IT AND THE NAME CHANGE! 👍

[@arlo4639]

This is the one condition he must do for his fans if he does buy the company

[@littlejack59]

MOISTSHITIMA

[@battlemasker2365]

I can only imagine Charlie just walking up to Warner Bros hq, passing through security without even acknowledging it, find his way to an executive's office or a board meeting, kicking the door in, looking someone dead in the eyes and saying "My name is Charles White, and I represent [whatever company he's a part of like Moist Esports, or maybe just his cR1t1KaL handle]. I'm buying Machinima."

[@SuperChelo]

And so it begins...

[@1davey29shows]

Unfortunately, I'm fairly certain the old videos were removed, not privated. I've used a few links to old videos (namely Quick Build Challenge) and instead of the "this video has been privated" message I used to get, it now says "this video is unavailable." Could be wrong though, and youtube could have just changed their error message system, idk.

[@wormgf]

i'm pretty sure that means it's deleted then. the other day i clicked on a video i knew was privated it still said this video has been privated

[@wormgf]

hope i'm wrong though

[@xiiimth]

could just be they were unlisted instead

[@Grainus]

@@xiiimth If it's unlisted, anyone with the link is able to watch the video.

[@Renstimp06]

I checked a video that was formerly uploaded to the machinima channel called “Transformers: Titans Return | Aftermath and Rebirth” from 2018 and the link for it takes you to a page saying that it’s privated. This might mean that there’s at least some of the original content that could potentially be accessed someday.

[@IndecisiveJay-]

I honestly forgot Machinima existed 😭

[@rockchik409]

Same. The fucking nostalgia man. I think that are the ones who did or hosted the, Gears of Halo Theift Auto 5.

[@rubbishopinions6468]

"What's up guys, this is ***** with Machinima and today I got an exciting game..." The good old days man.

[@HairyJuan]

Same

[@lhei_tayuun]

Being completely honest, this'd buy WB a *lot* of goodwill for minimal effort. Just making it happen however they can, even just engaging with the concept. Have Ricky the intern track down the Machinima account password and haggle over the price a bit. Watch in a flash as a library of lost~ish media becomes unlost and what that does when you aren't nickle-and-diming the entire public for it.

[@mischievousfish]

Realistically speaking it shouldn't even be that expensive since it's making -1 income

[@DinksDaLopp]

So didn't Doscovery acquire WB and want to cut down on a lot of its spending? So it might be possible for him to get it with the fact it's made like zero of the money they spent to buy it.

[@OscarGreenworth]

Two Best Friends Play and Freeman’s Mind were the best videos on Michinima.

[@this_is_patrick]

Man went from begging Machinima to publish his content to planning to buy it. Insane character development.

[@elliewellie_YouTube]

I'm replying so your only reply isn't a bot calling you the n word

[@mortalsno4086]

Really loving the character development on Charlie this season

[@king_sombrero8193]

He's truly one of the youtubers of all time

[@Melrrian]

Charlie, what actually happened is Warner dissolved Machinima as an entity, and gave a vast majority of their properties to Roosterteeth. That's why you can find things like Forward Unto Dawn and Inside Gaming on Roosterteeth's site, which is quite fitting considering that Roosterteeth started the Machinima genre before Machinima snatched up the name. IIRC, Neebs Gaming, the guys who made Battlefield Friends, had to reach out to Roosterteeth in order to get their show back in order to make new episodes for Battlefield 2042.

[@dust195]

Machinima as a brand still had great nostalgia potential, it had a whole content genre named after it after all. Bring it back as a community focused channel. Have a small flexible team, or maybe even an individual act as a “head” who works with interested parties that pitch an idea for content, and then upload a high quality project once a week or month. Make a Machinima upload be a site wide event!

[@Teh1leftBHind]

The genre isn't named after the company, the company is named after the genre.

[@ViddyOJames]

imagine being this wrong

[@aaronkortas8336]

I really love how moist Charlie is a man of action he spots a problem and he wants to fix it and he's put in a position that makes him potentially capable

[@z3r0_The_Hero]

Moistcinema is the best idea since sliced bread

[@isaacking7190]

Slice bread is the best idea since moistcinema

[@huntermaruyama86]

Charolette and Patrick from Funhaus/WhatAShow were a couple of the last employees before it shut down. They may have a connection to a higher up.

[@propelledgaming9441]

Neebs gaming's animated series battlefield friends was one of my favorite things to watch back in the day and when they stopped working with machinima all the videos were taken down now the only way to watch them is archives and reuploads.

[@TheBattleRabbit860]

I remember when the Machinima website started up when I was in High School, and I remember how awesome a lot of the content was. That was where I started watching Red vs Blue, before Rooster Teeth went their own way. I support this endeavor 100% and I shall pray for your success.

[@sweetschmeat7417]

I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure if you try to use a link for a video that has been privated, you are redirected to a YT page with a message saying "this video has been made private". If any of these creators posted links to these lost videos on social media to promote them, theoretically you could scroll back and click said link to confirm if WB chose to make them private or simply yeeted them.

[@saltystick_99]

Yeah you're right. So literally the only way we can confirm this is if somehow, someone has a link to a Machinima video.

[@FizzyCape]

@@saltystick_99 shouldnt be that hard to find. pick an old machinima creator and check their tweets from a few years ago.

[@camronchlarson3767]

Big brain strat!

[@cheddarsunchipsyes8144]

@UCTfxBWjh1S8FKnSgrW9aP7g grrrr

[@bane2201]

The videos from the series Space Adventure Legend Quest are privated, and I'm guessing it's the same thing for all Machinima videos. (You can check yourself if you want - it's one of the playlists of the user Greasy Tales.) EDIT: Keep in mind those are from the Happy Hour channel (which was Machinima-run), but not the Machinima channel itself.

[@raforsomething]

Charlie is getting more and more ambitious in using his influence and favorable position. And im all here for it

[@alex26138]

The first Gameplay Videos I ever saw were posted by Machinima, i don't know who else remembers "the master's challenge" but that series in particular got me into videogames

[@CyberScoundrel]

Charlie being the CEO of Machinima could quite literally be the greatest move of the year

[@sgtbeercanyt]

Machinima re booted in 2022 could be a dream for new gaming content creators same as it was in 2013 ofc minus the predatory contracts etc.

[@smugbowkid9919]

Charlie is literally the ultimate protagonist, he really is willing to buy an entire property just to help out some fellow KZbinrs and maybe even revive a long lead nostalgia trip.

[@dontreadmyprofilepicture5596]

DONT READ MY PROFILE PICTURE

[@SUPERLINKX2]

@@fours02👴🏻

[@LightRaven96]

@@SUPERLINKX2 congratulations you just emoted a bot.🤡

[@SUPERLINKX2]

@@LightRaven96 damn, I got got yo 🤡 put me in a coffin and throw me into the ocean

[@tyrant3191]

if charlie doesn't walk into the machinima hq building carrying a toilet with the caption "let that shit in" posted on Twitter, I will be disappointed

[@ashfield4313]

You think there's even a margarita flag to mark Machinima still? The thing is dead and gone, the only remnants are on KZbin and some legal filing work lol

[@zairman]

That would be Warner Brothers. lol

[@cogcog5264]

The machinima HQ building is a rundown opium den. What are you talking about

[@Swagenstein]

prepare to be more disappointed than your parents

[@Im.Smaher]

@@Swagenstein Niiice

[@francobuzzetti9424]

update? this be amazing for the gaming community

[@imafknloser4268]

I wonder where Charlie would be if he did sign with machinima

[@TheHepBee]

This man is the definition of “never let them know your next move”

[@NewOrleansSpeed]

Charlie’s original play through of Oregon Trail deserved to be on Machinima dammit

[@plosonen]

Man what a callback, I just watched those videos last week

[@NewOrleansSpeed]

@@plosonen i can’t believe he still had them up lol, such throwbacks. You can see he’s always been like this haha

[@BrandonsOnline]

I work for WB. I can try and see who I can talk to.

[@JReeces]

Sark, Seananners and Hutch are still some of my favorite creators.

[@bruc850]

APLFisher too!

[@lightzpy8049]

Bro pilled

[@DanDasilvaToday]

Happy new years Charlie! Blessings to you and yours!! And yes plz buy machinima

[@dontreadmyprofilepicture5596]

DONT READ MY PROFILE PICTURE

[@coolnamehere-kt2gr]

First non bot comment

[@MasterGhostf]

this is a very clear case of destroying one brand to prop up another brand. It was competition. I doubt there was any intention of making it succesful as they wanted to focus on another brand. I heard Rooster Teeth is owned by warner bros as well. Its possible warner bros is prioritizing rooster teeth if that is the case. I don''t think they will accept the deal.

[@Greatestnesss]

Exactly what they do. No problem paying 100 mil to wipe out the competition.

[@cailemkostiuk377]

But Roosterteeth is going downhill. I don’t know if its worth it for then now.

[@BedsheetGhost_]

PLEASE

[@varggreiva1652]

Machinima is so nostalgic for me , back in the day only the best channels had the machinima's intro , if Charlie really buy this i hope he find some good youtubers to be part of it .

[@cantsuggestareasonablename9101]

Charlie is a great individual and I definitely think he would be a really great leader for machinima also if many channels are spreading news that Charlie brought back a channel to life then the channel machinima would probably become a huge success.