I really do not understand this stealing an audience thing. Molly built a brand on Allears, she realized she could make more profit going solo with her husband and friend, and the audience who had grown to like her followed her.I feel you. The challenges get old. Especially if the mechanics behind the challenge never change. For example how many times are we going to have to "lol" over a bleeping game of rock paper scissors? How many more bleeping charcuterie boards am I going to have to watch you eat?
I'm saying it, it's official. Molly is just another grifter. Oh, Nanaaa!
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They left it on Max's twitch because they did the math. If you didn't know, the lead up to Molly's departure, she was slowly building a private following of AllEarsNet viewers, essentially pilfering AJ's following to make her own. This was helpful in a few ways. One, she saw that a large enough percentage of AllEarsNet viewers was willing to follow her off YouTube and engage with non AllEarsNet content. That's what all those original AMA's and "fun" game streams were for. It was at this point that AJ should have just canned her for cajoling her hard earned audience off-site as a means to redirect revenue into her own pocket, but that's besides the matter... though let's be real, stuff like this is exactly where non-compete contracts make perfect sense. AJ either wasn't smart enough to think ahead, or was just asleep at the wheel as this unfolded. But anyway, they left the twitch stuff on Max's channel because that channel was part of the ruse. The cover for her nefarious audience thievery was that she was just "going on her friend Max's stream". Max, though having appeared on AllEarsNet, was not officially employed by AllEarsNet. So oddly, it was like a loophole where Molly could get private time alone with the AllEarsNet viewership without directly appearing to be underhanded. But oh, it definitely was. When the time finally came and Molly "walked away", she walked away having already curated thousands of stans willing to give her their Twitch stream Prime subscriptions because, "it's basically free!" Max's channel having already been the established home base logically became the place to receive those Twitch dollars. Who knows, I don't stream, it could have even been that to get those free Prime subscriptions you had to have existed as a channel for a certain length of time, and they didn't want to wait. Why Max wouldn't just change the name of his twitch stream, I dunno, conceit maybe? He already had a little guild of followers just from being the "Mr. Toad guy" on AllEarsNet, so I guess he wants to keep them as his own, so to speak.
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Another redundant thing is the Molly AMA's. She literally never answers any bleeping questions. She's not open at all, she's a closed off box, akin to a wall-safe. Like we were just saying, she has like a little bullet list of character traits she leans on; cliche "gags" and call-backs. Kind of like a bad sitcom character. George is getting upset!
Speaking of which, one question always comes up: "Why did you leave AllEarsNet and was it on good terms?" Ever notice that she never bleeping answers that second part? Reflect on all I posited there, and I'd say it's not hard to understand why. She always just answers "Who wouldn't leave to start their own company?" Christ, the narcissism. Her greed not only implicit in her answer, but there's a self-justification revealed in that: "I'm gonna duck over everyone I've claimed to love and care about, because that's what everyone else would do!" Sorry, lady, I couldn't disagree more.
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Molly, I know you read this: enjoy your ill gotten gains. I hope you have so much money that you don't even know what to do with it all, and that it actually pains you, and eventually turns you into some kind of Gollum hag.
Even if she started at Allears with the intention of launching her own channel, I am not sure why that matters. Most on-air personalities and business people do the same thing.
Most importantly, people are free to watch and follow whichever channels they want. If they are getting bored with Allears and drifting elsewhere, that is Allears’s problem and they need to find someone who can properly replace Molly.
There are plenty of reasons to criticize Molly, but I am not sure why being a competent business person is one of them.
And bleeping over everyone she loved and cared about? Allears was a job. They were not her close and personal friends. Do I like my job? Sure, it’s fine. Would I leave to start my own company if I had the capital and consumer base? In a heartbeat. Is that bleeping over the company? Well, maybe, but also it is not my company and therefore not my responsibility to ensure it remains profitable.
Also, I would not then go and publicly bad mouth them either. That seems like a perfectly adult way to handle the situation.