The UK Betrays the BBC

What will happen to the BBC???
Back in 2022, the UK government announced that it would be altering the British Broadcasting Corporation’s funding scheme to the tune of NEGATIVE 2 BILLION pounds!
The BBC is a British state owned media corp. It’s a complex issue, because in the past there have been reports of some… muddy financials at the BBC. But, also, the broadcaster tends to criticize the government where criticism is due…
…So it’s a bit suspicious that the government was defunding them at the time. Because this is a common tactic that governments will use: remove funding from a government-funded agency, wait for the service to deteriorate due to that very lack of funding, then blame the agency for the poor service and sell it off! All while claiming that privatization will improve it!
This video is a bit of a speculative look at how this kind of thing goes down, using the BBC’s experience as an example.
References:
www.reuters.com/business/medi...
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[@ryansearle6157]

“Dude, what the fish and chips?” had me dying

[@that1unfunnyguy332]

You must not have a very good sense of humor

[@XiaSalax]

Same.

[@donanilupa]

It wasn't that funny just a little nod to the British culture

[@Baller474]

" "Dude, what the fish and chips?" had me dying" 🤓🤓🤓

[@ShermanMark1]

Same here!

[@MrSpherical]

What the fish and chips?

[@Vehbi2010]

Yeah, what the fish and chips is going on here?

[@shreddedbulgariamapperofficial]

How only 5 likes

[@R.A.M.A.]

@@shreddedbulgariamapperofficial even after 4 months, it's just 20 likes.. somehow

[@leyrhys]

Chips.

[@flameybox]

​@@R.A.M.A. After 6 months, 32 likes

[@glassowlie]

It's mostly funded through the TV licence. So the reason why they have less funding is due to it being frozen until 2024.

[@water_fallingdown]

"What the fish and chips" HAD ME WHEEZING

[@Computment]

You have no hum-

[@that1unfunnyguy332]

You must have a very bad sense of humor

[@LeftoverHotdogsJr]

"Did you know that aliens built the pyramids!" Yep, that sounds like something TikTok would say.

[@yusufjiyan6332]

Pyramids built aliens

[@piepeteplayz6996]

And they would do 5-minute crafts hacks that are obviously fake

[@TheEnchatedIronaxienAxeth]

And afterwards they will use that annoying female TTS Voice (You know the one)

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

"Did you know Spartans fought naked!" Yep, sounds like a lie that the BBC has broardcasted.

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

At least on TikTok people can voice opinionsand don't have to pay money to abuse enablers.

[@XiaSalax]

1:15 This is my favorite part of the video.

[@Mrlapolo]

Probably the most accurate thing I’ve ever seen from country balls

[@tennisplayz_RBLX]

Didn’t you die Kenny?

[@Mrlapolo]

@@tennisplayz_RBLX I always come back

[@Gorgosauruslibra]

@@Mrlapolocountry balls

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

@@Mrlapolo Then you're an idiot who's against people having a choice in their financial decisions.

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

Look up Jimmy Saville and how the BBC helped him get waay with abusing young women.

[@bjarke7886]

The BBC is not exactly known for being impartial lmao.

[@PZ7537]

I would say if BBC occasionally got on the nerves of both sides, it means it's working just fine.

[@bjarke7886]

@@PZ7537 The BBC is one of the most politically biased news organisations on earth. I am not talking about the Tory / labour split here, i am talking about topics like globalization, immigration, destruction of native culture etc where the BBC can always be counted to be on the same side of the table.

[@xCeL46]

@@PZ7537 The BBC only goes after the right

[@andred7684]

There's no such thing as impartiality.

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

@@PZ7537 How has it got on the nerves of both sides? You can't answer because you're just gaslighting

[@Phantom____________________]

“What the fish and chips” 💀

[@PLuMUK54]

It amazes me that some people do not realise that it is possible to live without the BBC. Many of us do.

[@OatsForSale]

I agree that it is absolutely possible but I think most people are scared of the idea of privitisation as instead of serving the public they chase profits for their shareholders.

[@ChickenVeggi]

Without BBC we would be like America with their CNN and Fox News. BBC is not perfect but it’s hundred times better than them

[@TSR1989FF]

@@OatsForSale Nah. Shareholders are members of the public too, and not all companies and corporations are publicly traded. Tis also of note that the state seldom has anything to nationalize *without* the private sector to create it first.

[@StoryTime-Np6ye]

Never watched BBC and I’m not planning to

[@tapaspanigrahi3331]

Lmao. Serving the public. Labor party slave never serves public

[@KittyKat_official]

0:29 "Ladies and Gentle balls" 💀

[@bartoszstrzelczyk829]

BBC : We only ruined doctor Who. Why do they hate me?

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

Hear! Hear!

[@theftmoxi5]

Trefall

[@El-Djazir-Blobfish]

Now, this is literally 1984 propaganda works terribly, our life we're ruined and our attention span is worse 😞

[@PZ7537]

Avoid TikTok like the plague. Read more quality articles. Read more books. Get some constructive debates with other people. This is the only way to resist the deterioration of our attention span and generally, becoming dumb.

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

@@PZ7537 Look up how the BBC covered Johnny Depp being abused: they aired quotes from Amber Heard over the radio to make people think she was the victim, and they also never aired or even discussed the audio recordings of her abusing Johnny Depp. Trusting the BBC makes you stupid. Also, it's reflected in statistics that people who play video games have a higher intelligence quotient than those who don't, so if you want to be smarter go play some video games.

[@dinoz2113]

Thank

[@El-Djazir-Blobfish]

​@@PZ7537THERE WAS AN ACTUAL PERSON WHO KILLED EVEN A MILLION AND CAUSED CLIMATE CHANGE, just one man, almost made every disasters of history

[@Hat1607]

Rupert Murdoch should’ve been an Australian countryball because he’s Australian!

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

1:05 wait, doesn’t Disney own Fox?

[@maxthecharacter1296]

The entertainment sector, yes. The news sector is still under the guy.

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

@@maxthecharacter1296 oh right, i forgot because there wasn’t anything clarifying which Fox that was

[@jacked4080]

No. Disney owns abc news not fox.

[@timilodeon526]

@@jacked4080 Disney *does* own Fox, they only bought 20th Century Fox, which is the movie company and Fox still owns the Fox Broadcasting Company, which is the television channel

[@timilodeon526]

@@MiguelitoSports sorry I don’t speak spanish

[@AmericanSpartanAlreadyTaken]

Totally not fun fact: the very first logoball debuted in No idea animation’s channel. CONGRATULATIONS GOOGLEBALL!!

[@master_roblox_noob]

UK ball be like when someone's say bad

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

Don't defend Jimmy Saville's enablers.

[@shinatham53]

Before 9th Video : Always Focus on Brands Post 9th Video : Have Polandball fused with it too

[@Pls_sub_to_ulsterball_gaming]

BBCball is not a ball in the companyballs verse BBCball is actually 3 characters each letter is it’s own character which is interesting

[@estebson]

The Mr. Spherical country/planet/whatever balls work different. This was explored in The Countryverse.

[@JohnOnChans]

BBC criticizes the British Party, lives to regret it -future Dhar mann video

[@thewildwegonian92]

I always love when American's think that just cause they watch Fox or CNN that they "know" what's going on

[@FulllNameUnknown]

Did we ask

[@thewildwegonian92]

@@FulllNameUnknown Exactly, most people in this country don't ask anything. Just lethargic worker drones content just enough to enjoy what little they have in life.

[@phoenyx.21]

​@@FulllNameUnknown Shut up Fox news simp

[@jalenr.6542]

And I think it’s funny that nobody cared about the UK literally having state sponsored media, and cutting funding when they criticized the government

[@lucjanl1262]

​@@thewildwegonian92omg, you can't just say that to random people

[@Samthebritishgent]

The BBC shouldn’t be public funded though. They often overstep their boundaries like when they announced we’d be advancing at goose green in the Falklands. They also tend to be politically biased these days. Defeating the whole point of it

[@timhare9867]

Agreed. If it’s so popular let people decide if they want to pay to watch it. Just like any other subscription service.

[@Samthebritishgent]

@@timhare9867 exactly

[@yellowcombatgaming]

...I think this is because they got sold off so that one narrative is shown...

[@alftangoroa5801]

Although, the BBC is quite a staple of good media content, compared to other country realated media content, I just fear we are slipping the funding onto someone else since we can't be bothered to fund it. (I know this is an unpopular opinion but it's good to see other people's reactions and reasoning.)

[@thepeach03]

Ah so because they messed up 40 years ago in a war the UK was going to win anyways it should be privatised. I agree that the BBC has a Tory bias but it's excellent value for money, why would you want to privatise the cultural output of a country

[@memebooms5813]

1:35 I like this part

[@Kevin63GachaandGMOD]

Poor BBC. 😢

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

They are abusers who deserve it.

[@Goji1153]

​@@user-lv5rd6kb5o what do they even do to deserve this

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

@@Goji1153 Tried to covver up Johnny Depp being abused and protected Jimmy Savlie and the Doctor Who cast as he molested young women. They also got themselves into tens of billions of debt by overproducing mercendise for rubbish seasons of Doctor Who and slandered and abused critics of the show. No one buys or watches their stuff anymore. Those are just some of the reasons.

[@drpolargaming]

"have you heard ancient aliens built the pyramids"- tiktok

[@cdarmanin4490]

yes

[@lemonboy9208]

same

[@orcaaugust05]

1:45 Was that MrSpherical using the phone?

[@nightfallion]

Everyone saying their first when this one dude is 2 minutes before everyone 😆

[@ThatAyaatibuggatiDude]

I'm waiting for someone to talk about the part where they say ladies and gentle balls

[@anonimni1288]

Can't for you guys to cover the rise of the disney empire ( by that i mean them buying literally half the entertainment industry)

[@sabamannan156]

Oi bruh mr., that’s the wrong time

[@bonesworth9079]

fish n chips mate!

[@shaydailly]

That is the old logo.

[@pudgesnextturnaround3112]

The BBC logo is still the same ;) ;) but for iplayer, it's purpley pink

[@Keagan758]

1:39 LOL THIS PART GOT ME DYING OF LAUGHTER, GOT ME ROLLING ON THE FLOOR BRUH XD 😂 🤣

[@ok5988]

Mr. Spherical I want to see you do polcompballs

[@isaaccastillo9814]

Have you heard that agent? Aliens, build the pyramids had me dying😂💀😂💀

[@diptosarker810]

Oh no. Anyway, the Dacia Sandero. It's back.

[@o_s-24]

I just noticed that the uk flag is symmetric on the ukball. Fix that Mr. Spherical

[@shirkam3657]

Wow i didn't know the BBC was a news channel

[@friendlyneighborhooddislik486]

Being associated with tiktokers? A fate worse than death

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

The BBC was already shit: that's why it was billions in debt even with government mandated funding that stole from the people they were abusing.

[@captainnice1881]

Better it's sold off than people having to waste money on it every year

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

Agreed, though it may as well have already been sold off to morons.

[@stevel7782]

Oh God, not Rupert Murdoch

[@richiesmeckgeckscas46]

When I saw the title, my mind went straight to the "Ha ha! POOR!" Jacksepticeye meme

[@HamishG199]

Dude what the fish and chips 😂😂😂

[@megazero952]

sorry but until i am not at risk of being arrested for paying the BBC a tax for owning a TV, I do not care about the poor BBC not being able to cover the paychecks

[@vigilantclips5912]

Agreed👍

[@KillCoin56]

Why did they recreate TikTok new so perfectly

[@SOONTATTTENG2]

Elon Musk: BBC is government funded. UK: Stop it.

[@PZ7537]

Musk changed the wordings from "Government-funded" to "Publicly-funded" later on. It is more accurate now.

[@m.howell7381]

Let’s go A new video video

[@Cam_bodia566]

"Dude what the fish and chips" bro what 💀💀

[@AniRichard]

This Is Me When My Mom Has Come To Me For Learning Before Exams. (May-June 2023)

[@timothy_playsz9606]

WHAT THE FISH AND CHIPS 😂

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

Stupid line.

[@ChipMan22]

Talk about a monopoly

[@shaunonlyplaysyt9879]

This is basically what happened to British Rail

[@kakun63]

BBC GO DOWN 🚽

[@Hello-hz7gj]

Sad

[@Axis98484]

Dude what the fish and chips? What kind of slang is that?!!

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

A euphemism.

[@Toodyslexicforyou]

Why is this so accurate

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

It only looks accurate to you because you haven't heard about their history of letting Jimmy Saville abuse young women.

[@Mgameing123]

Don't worry. The railways have experienced exactly that!

[@JeffDeff-hp3el]

Britain sounds like a voice from “I expect you to die”

[@Osardaboy]

Can you please do an Australian company next pls

[@Hat1607]

Good idea

[@jc2076]

If you mean the ABC then I’d glad watch it’s a tax payer leftist funded piece of shit

[@mileseaston]

0:05 had me dying ngl

[@Chaz-videocreator]

U know, it's nice to see some of our British culture implemented into a workerballs video every once in a while! Also all the BBC does to us Brits nowadays is rile us all up! 😂

[@plzgetsomesleep]

NEW WORKERBOI VID

[@belnonaudh1313]

I know I'm not reading the room here, but I have to speak how I feel, and I need a good rant about this. Remembering the kind of company the BBC was when it did have all that funding, I have a chronic inability to feel sorry for it. Don't get me wrong, I'm against privatising and selling the BBC (mostly because I wouldn't trust any company willing it buy it. I vomit at the idea of modern Americanized reboots of The Vicar of Dibley or Blackadder) but if the BBC just went bankrupt or something, I wouldn't feel any great loss. BBC News, at least on a political party stance, was always as impartial as you could possibly get from media, but on an international scale, they were never impartial. Remember that time when BBC News were asked to play God Save the Queen after brexit, and they played the Sex Pistols version instead? Whether you pray to or wipe your arse with the EU flag, or whether you lick pictures of the royal family or burn them for fun, that move always just had the energy of a sulking 6-year-old who refused to eat his vegetables. Ever wonder why people abroad think the BBC is just a news broadcaster and forget that it does anything else? It's mostly because despite being named for and built for being the sole British broadcaster, it hasn't made anything entertaining in years now. Even when they do try and make entertainment, it's boring and terrible nowadays. The new War of the Worlds 3-parter was boring and clearly prioritizes political messaging over being an entertaining piece of media. Same for Upstart Crow, but with the tragic reminder that the golden age of BBC sitcoms (Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Only Fools and Horses, Vicar of Dibley, etc) is long behind us. The last good piece of entertainment they made was Inside Number 9, and that's nearly 10 years old now (maybe you could argue The Goes Wrong Show too, but that's just an adaption of a stage play). Even the far more left-leaning Channel 4 had a good entertaining show recently with the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared TV show, and Red Dwarf moved channels to Dave years ago. The BBC seem to have such a lack of understanding - or total contempt - for their biggest money-makers. We can argue until the cows come home about whether or not it was right to sack Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear for punching the producer, but everyone can agree that replacing them all with pre-established celebrities with no thought and just expecting them to have the same chemistry and charm was a terrible move. Doctor Who had it even worse in the last few years. Much like their other shows, it was just boring and clearly values its political messaging over being entertaining. It's interesting, coming from the supposedly impartial BBC, that they want to put political messaging in all their shows. The Television License Company, which totally has nothing to do with the BBC, has spent years gallivanting the country giving people a hard time and trying to scam people into paying for TV license fees they don't need. It's got to the point where people abroad are using it as a meme to roast the UK. It's literally a national insult. What's even the point of having something that's nationalised and taxpayer funded like the BBC if it costs money to use anyway? What makes it even worse is iPlayer and the dawn of streaming services. The BBC could have been one of the first companies in the Streaming Service race, but it insisted on clinging to its outdated TV license system instead for years. Now that they have a streaming service in the form of Britbox, it's a total mess. If you want to watch New Millennium Doctor Who, you have to pay a license fee and watch it on iPlayer. If you want to watch the old episodes, you have to pay for Britbox as well. It's a total grift. The BBC's nepotism strangled the British animation industry for decades, with no-one but Smallfilms being able to find any success. The only reason Aardman was given a chance was because their co-founder's fathers had connections to the BBC already. Nowadays, the BBC will bend backwards to AVOID employing British animators, like having the Danger Mouse reboot animated in Ireland. Ireland hates our guts, and they don't even have cheaper labour. What is even the point? Also, the several decades the BBC spent trying to cover up Jimmy Saville is just sick. For a company called the British Broadcasting Corporation, I've never known an institution hold the British public in as much contempt. Sometimes I feel the Australians, I hate this whole "whinging pom" culture of the UK where people will complain about anything for years, until it actually threatens to change, at which point we'll just 180 and decide it's part of our national identity now.

[@CaptArgo24]

Cons and the CBC

[@xtremeyoylecake]

The only thing I like about bbc is that they showed BFDI on the news once

[@DarraghMoody]

What the fish and chips 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Yuzzi869]

AH bloody ell man

[@1Russia1midbrain]

I love this 😂❤

[@mannamedisaak3316]

All they do is propaganda

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

Agreed.

[@justincesaralfonsogomezpor7282]

Espera pero si Fox ya se fue

[@MiguelitoSports]

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[@johnrogan8481]

I hate the news I don't give a s*** The only news that tells truth is the epic times So sorry BCC Get lost I will help Britain just kept bothering him so much

[@meloshea8991]

That was bleak bleak i enjoyed it

[@PaixCB]

Kool

[@Big-Chungus21]

I personally find that I like the BBC quite a bit, some of the best nature documentaries and such ever made. Almost all other ones made by Nat Geo and stuff tend to be really over exagerating and obnoxious to watch, its why David Attenborough is a blessing to this country and to the world. BBC news I have mixed opinions on, I do use it personally when not looking at political stuff because while bias exists, its a lot less than what you see on explicitly left or right wing news channels like FOX news in America. Their rebranding recently has also been one of the best ive seen in a company on the small budget of around £2 million they redesigned all of their websites, logos, created their own new fonts, and redid a lot of things like the graphics and stuff they use on TV channels. I personally like BBC a lot more than ITV which is mostly mindless garbage these days. Plus BBC Radio, BBC Iplayer, and all of that are great, and they provide local news services for each UK region. They even have TV and Radio station specifically in Welsh and Scottish Gaelic. BBC food is great too, it encourages people to experiment with cooking (all recipes are free) and healthy eating more. People dont always remember how many services the BBC provide that are really, really useful beyond BBC News. Oh, and no annoying advertisements. I think BBC content seems to be so much better because its not done so much with profit in mind, and therefore tends to be a lot less sensationalist. I kind of hate News that only focus on awful (but kind of insignificant) things like a specific person being murdered or someone doing something that makes people angry or whatever. I think the biggest problem is that they often tend to be more tame than anything, and sometimes *dont* talk about certain things that are important. I wouldnt say theyre particularly left or right leaning, because about 20% of people in a study believed they leaned towards the left, while 20% believed they leaned towards the right… I think any time people see the BBC make an article that doesnt align with their views, they assume its because theyre politically biased, when they also make articles that do align with their own views in equal amounts. I dont think they align themselves with specific political parties or towards the right or left, but there has been plenty of complaints of homophobia / transphobia by the BBC, which is awful.

[@johnylee9896]

That's reason I never believe BBC news

[@colinmeikle7115]

0:13 this is half-right because at the end of the day even if a media outlet is "publicly" funded or nationalized it aligns itself with the party that gives them the most money/benefits. Take the CBC here in Canada for example even when conservatives where in power the CBC maintained a Liberal bias for the simple fact they paid them more.

[@jonasbjerrum1117]

The BBC logo is out of date.

[@Polska-cant-run-from-nepal]

Yes

[@UnitedNations4284]

But hey we still got vnn (a robux version)

[@Greekmappin]

BBC: Big black Car

[@mintel63thecreator]

ITV: *BRUH*

[@billcipher817]

I know that this has nothing to do with this channel, but i just wanna say it anyways: Happy birthday, SolorBalls!

[@agitator.exe01]

Elon called them out for being government funded media and the British government bolted.

[@ehtresih9540]

This isnt speculation. This is what hsppened without a doubt

[@Angrybirdo2009]

HMMMM IMPRESSIVE

[@kobeawesomegamer1696]

Cool

[@leucianreynolds1393]

What will happen to doctor who bc it is or was owned by bbc

[@pikasan17]

Hi

[@Smilprty4thedvl]

Code Blue Cam

[@blkgardner]

The BBC is generally fairly accurate, but it is that way, so that when the British government needs to spread propaganda, is it believed. Likewise, the funding and even the existence of the BBC is dependent on the good graces of the governing coalition, or in practical terms, the Prime Minister. The only reason Thatcher didn't privatize the BBC is because a significant portion of the Tory voter base would have objected to it. But more importantly, privatizing the BBC in the 1980's would have meant forcing television commercials on nearly every in the UK. Privatizing the BBC now means removing the TV license fee, in exchange for losing content that any given person may or may not be actually consuming. The average teenager now watches more youtube videos than actual TV shows.

[@nevm5611]

Nothing of value was really lost.

[@IxGxNxI]

People still watch TV these days?

[@RysterKatz]

Dude, WTFNC= Dude, WhaT The FISh aND cHIpS?!

[@janrudnicki6111]

Vey good

[@user-lv5rd6kb5o]

It was garbage.

[@mrthundergaming7306]

Everytime someone in this comment section says BBC isn't impartial because they don't hire enough "leftists" / or / "rightists", DO U NOT UNDERSTAND THAT IMPARTIALITY DOES NOT MEAN EQUAL REPRESENTATION FOR THE LEFT AND RIGHT WINGERS. IMPARTIALITY MEANS THE REPRESENTATION OF CENTRISTS.

[@thatoneguy6981]

A bit like USA .

[@MiguelitoSports]

1:05 FOX CHANNEL ESTAS VIVO 😢?

[@tpgYT2024_official_antifurry]

Whao