Bigger Beggar

Gotta say, I was really on the verge of unsubbing to Katers17/Katersoneseven yesterday. That furniture contest was just out of control. I'd decided to try to ignore it all and not contribute, since I didn't feel it was fair that she was using her subscriber base to boost her view count. All the other entries from average folks had no such backing so they stood no chance. I blame the contest creators as well to some degree for not thinking this thing through, but Kate realized what she was doing just the same.

But it was just nonstop reminders in her videos and especially on Twitter to view this video. It was getting to the point of desperation. So when she started actually tricking people into viewing her contest entry again under the presumption that it was something else, I was really aggravated. She took advantage of her fans on that one. Even though I didn't want to participate, she got a few more unintended views from me.

Well, then I found out she deleted a bunch of the negative or unhappy comments from the video, and was blocking people. Some of the comments I know for a fact disappeared, because I remembered seeing them earlier on. That's some bullshit right there. You're aggravating your viewers with your actions, and then you silence them when they try to voice their opinions? Fuck that attitude.

In the end, she got third place, so it was slightly satisfying that she didn't take the top at least. But there was still a big prize for that. Cory got first place, and he was doing some pretty similar douche moves himself. He made some sappy video about how he needed to win this contest for his self-esteem. Then he was faking out links on Twitter. He even made a video trying to make people click through to his contest entry video to see the second half of the one you were watching (he'd put the continuation link in the description of the contest one). I closed it and never watched the other half, because like with Kate entering, I didn't think it was fair for Cory either since he had even more subscribers than she did.

Well, here's the kicker: the rules said one entry per household. Kate and Cory live in the same house. Doesn't matter if they're moving soon, they entered and completed the contest under the same roof. They broke the rules. So technically one of them doesn't deserve the prize. I think it's only fair for Cory to keep his, since he had the most views, and Kate to be disqualified, letting one of the "little people" take her spot. I really want one of those average contestants with no big subscriber base to have a big prize, to be honest.

It's also worth mentioning that there were some fanboys in the comments cheating for Kate (and probably Cory too) by running view count bots to help boost her score. Obviously didn't help in the end, but it was cheating nonetheless.

Anyway, the whole thing just pissed me off with how Kate acted about it. That's not the person I subscribed to. Begging and sucking up to fans to win you furniture, and hushing up all the ones who disagree with it, is just bullshit. She's done it before with other smaller contests with less importance, but never to this extreme. Some of her fans may be pretty big tools, but fans are not tools to be used for winning prizes.

It's all a shame, because up to this point, she'd become my favorite vlog. But if it happens again, I'm done. No doubt about it.