{"id":7678,"date":"2016-01-06T20:40:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T20:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/?p=7678"},"modified":"2016-01-06T20:40:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T20:40:50","slug":"vip-the-downfall-of-vaughnlive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/vip-the-downfall-of-vaughnlive\/","title":{"rendered":"VIP: The Downfall Of Vaughnlive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For what you get for your $15 each month, the VIP was always going to be controversial. But as more and more people refuse to buy it, and notice i said\u00a0<em>buy\u00a0<\/em>it, not counting the ones Mark has given away, another argument erupted in Ayyone&#8217;s cast, where apparently, Mark financed the 24 hour recent cast from t-rucker.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vid.me\/e\/aphm\" width=\"750\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nHave you ever heard such bullsh*t? If Oma&#8217;s content breached the rules for the &#8216;people&#8217; section, then surely it breached the rules for the whole site and she would of been banned? Since when is there different ToS for individual tabs?<\/p>\n<p>Oh that&#8217;s right, there isn&#8217;t. So Daryl, it was you who was bullsh*tting!<\/p>\n<p>But Ayyone wasn&#8217;t the only one who was picking up on the fact that things are not as they seem with Mark and Scruffy.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden increase in &#8216;servers at full capacity, please buy VIP to view&#8217; has not gone unnoticed. Which is strange, because according to Mark, he&#8217;s added even more servers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7680 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-Vaughn-3-more-servers-added.png\" alt=\"Mark Vaughn - 3 more servers added\" width=\"487\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-Vaughn-3-more-servers-added.png 487w, https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-Vaughn-3-more-servers-added-420x405.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is where Mark play&#8217;s on peoples ignorance. Now believe me, i know from running streaming sites years ago, that just a single 10Gbps server can handle a hell of a lot of traffic. Especially as most casters tend to cast at low bitrates. So another 3, on top of those he already has, should\u00a0<strong>not\u00a0<\/strong>be getting near capacity that quick unless literally thousands of new casters and viewers have appeared since VIP was introduced?<\/p>\n<p>Then when somebody questions this, along with other queries about the running of VaughnLive, Mark responds in a mature, adult, business type manner&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7682 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip.png\" alt=\"Mark gets negative feedback from vip\" width=\"519\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip.png 519w, https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip-420x545.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hmm, is it just me, or does that sound like &#8216; f*ck adding more servers, you don&#8217;t want that message, PAY ME&#8217; ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7683 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip1.png\" alt=\"Mark gets negative feedback from vip1\" width=\"519\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip1.png 519w, https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip1-420x679.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At the same time, if more and more people were coming, you would be making more revenue through adverts, no?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Also, another clever trick Mark does, is to try and convince people that he is doing YOU a huge favour, by letting you stream for free ( even though technically its not anymore)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Don&#8217;t be fooled by this bullsh*t. \u00a0Mark and Scruffy don&#8217;t give a flying f*ck about you, me, anybody that uses Vaughn. They are running it as a\u00a0<em>business,\u00a0<\/em>nothing more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They\u00a0<strong>need you<\/strong> , not the other way round. If traffic drops dramatically, so does their income.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And before Ryan jumps in and claims it&#8217;s all lies, lets take a look at what Mark had to say when asked his thought about having an NHS system where he is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7684 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-and-tax-breaks.png\" alt=\"Mark and tax breaks\" width=\"506\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-and-tax-breaks.png 506w, https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-and-tax-breaks-420x366.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mark, pissed that he might not be able to buy a new smart watch this month, or some new JBL subs?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7685 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-and-tax-breaks1.png\" alt=\"Mark and tax breaks1\" width=\"506\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-and-tax-breaks1.png 506w, https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-and-tax-breaks1-420x97.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Perfectly put and true. Here, we do just that, so people who are living in poverty, will never have to worry about being sick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now Mark loves us all remember. Except, if you are broke and in need of hospital treatment that is..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7686 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-Vaughn-i-dont-care-for-anybody-else.png\" alt=\"Mark Vaughn - i don't care for anybody else\" width=\"453\" height=\"56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-Vaughn-i-dont-care-for-anybody-else.png 453w, https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-Vaughn-i-dont-care-for-anybody-else-420x52.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ah right, so he IS all out for himself and his family. Nobody else, no matter how poor and sick they are, matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Not that that should comes as much of a shock to most of us anyway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But it was another Dan, that not only owned Mark, but proved that when you know exactly what you are talking about and are being civil about it in a debate, the other person(s) always run scared and have to resort to personal insults.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7687 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip2.png\" alt=\"Mark gets negative feedback from vip2\" width=\"519\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip2.png 519w, https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip2-420x679.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Wait! Didn&#8217;t Mark earlier claim that so many new people are joining\/watching VL, that he added 3 more powerful servers and they couldn&#8217;t cope?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So with cheaper VIP and all the thousands of extra traffic, what he makes extra on ads and new VIP&#8217;s, wouldn&#8217;t pay the bills?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">eerr, ok \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7688 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip3.png\" alt=\"Mark gets negative feedback from vip3\" width=\"508\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip3.png 508w, https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip3-420x694.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2 points here. Mark says the ad revenue provides a decent amount. Now considering he claims VaughnLive alone costs him over $22k a month alone, to pay that, and be constantly boasting about what new monitors\/graphics cards\/car hifi\/smart watches that he purchases, i think you could call that a little\u00a0<em>more\u00a0<\/em>than a &#8216;decent&#8217; amount.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Secondly, what Dan is saying about the casters being the money makers, is correct. No casters, no viewers, no money, simple!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7689 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip4.png\" alt=\"Mark gets negative feedback from vip4\" width=\"508\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip4.png 508w, https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip4-420x694.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Remember i was saying about when a person has valid points, the other tends to run scared and start with the insults?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh, also see why i have highlighted Scruffy talking about it as a\u00a0<strong>business<\/strong>&#8230;because that&#8217;s what it is to them, remember that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip5.png\" alt=\"Mark gets negative feedback from vip5\" width=\"508\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip5.png 508w, https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip5-420x694.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/>\ufffc<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7691 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip6.png\" alt=\"Mark gets negative feedback from vip6\" width=\"508\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip6.png 508w, https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip6-420x694.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Again, he&#8217;s spot on. They are only DMCA compliant, because if they don&#8217;t take a channel down when requested, then they lose their site, servers, and a whole load of money in fines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Vaughns will not do anybody a favour, unless of course, it will benefit them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7692 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip7.png\" alt=\"Mark gets negative feedback from vip7\" width=\"508\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip7.png 508w, https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mark-gets-negative-feedback-from-vip7-420x694.png 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sorry Mark, but he approached in an adult, respectful way. Because you knew you couldn&#8217;t realistically deny any of the valid points he made,\u00a0<strong>YOU\u00a0<\/strong>reacted like the 14 yr old immature punk!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4471 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/93.158.203.142\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/John-eyes_99-165_2nd_optimized.gif\" alt=\"John eyes_99-165_2nd_optimized\" width=\"240\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For what you get for your $15 each month, the VIP was always going to be controversial. But as more and more people refuse to buy it, and notice i said\u00a0buy\u00a0it, not counting the ones Mark has given away, another argument erupted in Ayyone&#8217;s cast, where apparently, Mark financed the 24 hour recent cast from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2227,2228,2226,1754,1753,186,2229,1751,2154],"class_list":["post-7678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arrogant","tag-ayyone","tag-lost-the-debate","tag-mark-vaughn","tag-miss-scruffy","tag-mvn","tag-oma","tag-vaughnlive","tag-vip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmuppets.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}