How to Ruin Your Career 2.0

The last post with this title was referring to Cory.  I guess Kate learned from the best, because now her career is over as well.

Haven't watched the latest Katersoneseven vlog?  Don't bother. It's just a big middle finger to all the fans, followed by a Keek advertisement.

Is this just a trick to see how fans would react?  Doubt it.  Is it being opportunistic and finding an alternative money source which doesn't depend on the daily effort required to make vlogs?  Probably!

So, let's look at this based on what we know of the situation.  Kate obviously had to be making a reasonable amount of money all of this time to live where they do in California, and to buy all the clothes and makeup that she does.  But she was still always rather tight with her money.  And yet, she suddenly buys a brand new car, despite having already bought one a few months prior which ran fine.  Then she buys an expensive dog and hundreds of dollars of supplies.  Not to mention, she's been talking of them moving into a house soon.  Meanwhile, Cory gets this Heathcliff movie deal with Sparta.  And between all of this, the two of them have been promoting Keek like it's going out of style.  So, money situation?  Probably rather good right now!

But here's the kicker; shortly before buying that car, she returned a $2k computer she'd bought to better edit videos on, because of something related to her finances not working out as she'd thought (and yet bought the aforementioned car shortly after).  Then later, after paying a fortune for the dog, she said she can't afford to replace the camera, which was making noises.  These two particular things stand out to me for a reason: both of them were at times where she seemed to have had quite a bit of money available shortly beforehand, and yet she chose personal/luxury items instead.  Maybe she really was planning on dumping the vlogs way back then, and couldn't justify the expense of a new computer or camera anymore. But money certainly seemed to be coming from somewhere.

But we have to take something else into consideration.  Kate just went to the doctor, and then suddenly the next day she's ending the vlogs.  Does she have some medical issue she doesn't wish to share?  And/or is she pregnant?  You certainly can't hide a growing belly in a daily vlog.

Either way, to me, the reason is irrelevant.  She slammed the door in the face of almost one-hundred-thousand subscribers.  Her video announcing this has twice as many thumbs down as thumbs up.  Even the most hardcore fanboys who are trying to defend her in the comments are being out-commented by all of the people who are completely disappointed or angry about the situation.

So basically, Kate has destroyed most of her fanbase in exactly one minute worth of video.  She's obviously not counting on views from her Katers17 channel to support herself, so this "making short films" thing is either total bullshit to pacify angry fans, or she's actually naive enough to believe that she can somehow continue to make any money from Youtube after ruining years of work to build a fanbase.  Let's face it, her Katers17 channel just isn't very good.  Particularly the more recent stuff.  It wasn't until she became a vlogger that her career really went anywhere.  I do hope she realizes that.

If Kate wanted to stop vlogging, she should have simply started intentionally missing days here and there, or going to just weekdays, or three days a week, etc.  Fans might have been upset, but they wouldn't have been completely taken aback by it.  Unless she has a significant health problem to deal with, then the way she handled this was completely unprofessional, and I do in fact hope it's negative to her career in the future.  Seriously, this is essentially the same as spontaneously quitting a job without notice.  Employers don't like that when looking to hire someone, because they don't want to be left hanging themselves.

So, whatever, I guess.  Things in her vlogs seemed to have bugged me on a more frequent basis as she continued to deteriorate into this vapid individual who we see today.  This just saves me from having to make the decision to unsubscribe.  But the underlying point of the matter is irregardless of whether it's Kate or Shaycarl or any popular Youtuber: this isn't how you handle fans.


p.s. She's lost 500 subscribers in two days.