Why Screen Junkies Plus Failed - The Truth Behind What Happened to SJ+ Streaming Service - Part 1 

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I miss the Golden Age of Screen Junkies. Movie Fights brought me in and I fell in love. Then it all fell apart.

I stopped paying attention to SJ when the movie fights format changed and to be honest I was already growing tired of hearing the same arguments every episode for the same movies over and over.

I'm sorry, but I hated Interns of Field. I loved almost everything else on SJ+, but that was hot garbage.

Nice insight. Enjoyed this a lot. Lookforward to Popcorned Planet Plus :P

I was a member of Screen Junkies Plus and I loved it...I was soooo sad when it ended.

This is so weird, to remember it was only going to cost 5 dollars. Back then people didnt support like they do now with superchats and other things that we look at as routine now.

I miss Flickbait. Still one of the greatest RU-vid shows ever. Keep it up Andy!

And to this day I haven’t seen the extended Honest Trailer of BvS.

Seeing that old footage of you, Dan, and Spencer...man I thought you all were the dream team. This was really interesting Andy. Hope this is healing for you finally putting this all out there.

Maybe talk about those screen junkies roasts, they were an awesome use of your talent and peeps like joe starr really excelled at it. Who's idea was it?

Interns of shield is awful dont watch it lol

Brilliant video. I loved getting to hear about the inner workings of SJ+ and your thoughts on what worked and didnt. Looking forward to part 2.

I had SJPlus for probably a 6 months to a year. Favorite shows were Mundy Night Raw, and the honest commentaries. Probably two of the simplest ideas but were really entertaining for me, also two of the most consistent until Mundy left anyway. Everything where you guys brought in other talent to do shows were interesting but just never quite felt like screen junkies and were also less consistent because obviously those people had other stuff to work on as well. Also just wanted to say, what I really loved about the commentaries was how you, Dan, and Spencer went back and did commentaries for the entire back catalog of episodes. It took awhile to do all of it and that had to have been a huge undertaking, so I just wanted to give props on the commitment.

Love this! Can't wait for Part 2

I fell off my bed laughing when that blurred out JTE pic showed up 🤣 love your work Andy!

I’m not the only who noticed his beard changes during the video

This is one of the most interesting/useful videos I’ve seen posted on the channel.

I paid $5 the first month then lost my debit card and cancelled it and the app never kicked me off the service so I got over a year for free

I LOVE when you do videos like this! As a small time content creator, this kind of behind the scenes info is super informative and helpful. It's very difficult to get an honest glimpse into the inner workings of the business like this because everyone want to protect the brands and stars and so on . You're awesome for doing this and telling us really what's happens, and especially in this case when something does not work. Please do more content like this!

It was a stupid idea.

I thought John Campea wanted collider to be the espn of movie news and content. I guess the lesson here is don’t try to become the ESPN of anything 😂😂😂

Damn firing on all cylinders right now, Andy. Great work lately.

Thanks for sharing Andy! I became a Screen Junkies Plus member loved watching you guys do Talking Dead and the Game of Thrones after show. I subscribed for the ability to see more of YOU guys not necessarily the content itself. You guys literally could have talked about anything and I would've watched for $5 a month or more. I've seen you talk about the reason why screen junkies (fandom) is failing now is because there's no more personality. Screen Junkies+ had the personality and I believe you were right in how you wanted to go about it, but the big companies felt they knew better than their creators.

Just about puked all over my keyboard when Andy said "2015". How was it that long ago? 😳

Being a SJ Plus’r from the start... this is so interesting. Yes that app was a nightmare, buggy and crashed a lot for me. 100% felt like an exclusive fan club and loved the “after the fight” shows like that 👍 oh how times have changed. Thanks for the insight 👍

Andy thanks for sharing the behind the scenes story of what made a lot of us and the masses big fans of you! I feel as though I know you so much more and your drive, business savvy and your work ethics! You have so much talent and it shows with what your creating on your new platform now, it just gets better and better man bravo 👏🏼 🙌🏼💯

Ah memories. Back when these Geek-sphere channels were all the rage. Oh how their view numbers shrunk...

Hey Andy! Old fan from SJ here. In fact, I used Screen Junkies data as part of my PhD study about Internet Flow of Information around the time of SJ+. It's great to get some insights about what happened behind the curtains. The type of content you published today is great. Few in the industry have the knowledge and the experience you have. I would encourage you to publish more of this. I'm more than happy to share some thoughts, because this is my field of studies, as an university professor. There are hundreds of movie channels, but not that much about the process of making and creating content (not with your experience, anyway). Keep the good work!

Man i use to watch screen junkies all the time a few years back. Everytime a movie came out that I liked i wanted to see what the Junkies had to say. But yea around the time of them moving to that plus stuff and the guy from this video wasn't on those debate videos i stopped watching. I'm not even sure if they do that anymore.

Yeah for me it was like: "I don't really know or care about most of these shows-- and I can watch what I want for free". If you all launched smaller shows as previews and made a fan base for those shows and then moved them behind a pay wall I think I would of had more incentive to buy.

I was a subscriber. “Does it Hold Up” was my favorite show.

Really insightful! It is fascinating to hear what went on behind the scenes of SJP. Looking forward to pt 2.

Tbh, I've never heard of screen junkies plus until today.

The roasts were my favourite. You and Brett Weiner were the creators of the SJ show and Honest Trailers right? When did he leave?

What in the world happened to Nick Mundy??? He was so hilarious and cannot find anything these days what happened after the rock married him and he had that web show with the wrestler??

Like most things Andy just shifts blame and refuses to accept any responsibility 🙄🙄 like didn't you read any of the deal you signed?

I remember signing up just after the first few weeks, man live movie fights was the best. I avidly watched, everything you put out. Was bummed when it was canceled.

Andy great video, editing on point👌 I too was a screen junkies plus subscriber. Man your right about that damn app. Any chance you can upload does it hold up or any of the content?

I loved does it hold up with Spencer. I really want to watch all those again but can’t. Really bums me out!

I remember signing up for the SJ+ free trial without putting in my billing info and then due to a programming error, just getting it for free for several months. They had to email to ask me (and likely many others) to pay the backlog. Pretty sure I legally didnt have to but I felt bad, so I did. That was a major fumble.

SJU was such a beautiful representation of how talented people could work together to create something wonderful and fun. Just goes to show that ego is poison to good things.

Was that JTE who was blurred out?

I was a screen junkies plus member for its entire run. I remember watching Mundy Night Raw, Andre (Black Nerd) show, Movie Fights, and so many others. You make a good point about becoming a member. This pandemic hit me hard financially but let me crunch some numbers and see what I can do 💪🏾

Hey Andy i love your content! these behind the scenes commentary videos from your screen junkies days are always insightful ;) wish you would make a full on documentary about screen junkies and your work i think that would do amazing!!!

"Higher ups"? All this time I thought you were the founder and owner of Screen Junkies.

Can u make the old shows and vids available?

What do you think of nebula and curiosity stream? Do you think it would have worked in a partnership like that?

Damn, the honest insight into the ScreenJunkies Plus is so intriguing. I'm so glad I found out yesterday that you're back to making content on RU-vid.

I remember you seeding over every female in movie fights. Pretty embrassing bro.

SJ was my life when SJ+ came out and I loved the service. I was sad to see it collapse

This was a great video. I remember paying for Screenjunkies+ and wondering what happened when it disappeared.

Dude, looking back at old SJ photos with you, you're so much thinner now. Looking good man.

I have no idea what you’re talking about (never heard of it) BUT you made it very interesting anyway & I’m looking forward to part 2. This is why I subscribed to you, you make any topic interesting

Really loved this video - Great insights. Can't wait for part 2 ! Andy should a series about tips, advices and pitfalls for people who want to enter the industry

I was a subscriber of SJ Plus! I remember when you guys didn't charge me for 5 months, then took it all at once. I knew something was up, but still loved Screen Junkies in its day!

I'll be frank: Cause people barely want to pay 10 bucks for a lot of content on Netflix, they won't pay for a You Tube geek show. Everything is free now. You Tube is killing it, beating everybody cause it's free.

The audio's half of a second out of sync

I remember binge watching SJ+ when it was temporarily open for free viewing, I think it was only for a week

Okay, I am subscribed to your channel. I haven't received hardly any recommendations from you. Now that you're talking about Screen Junkies and the recommendation comes up. Andy, you've said it before, RU-vid will only push your videos if it looks controversial. You were right! This is so annoying. One of Joe Rogan's guests mentioned the same thing too.

Good job on this video Andy. I never signed up for it because it seem to lack a lot of stuff and did seem like the same things on the RU-vid channel. I’m glad y’all got a chance to do this way before we had all these streaming channels. Can’t wait to hear more.

Mundy Night Raw was wack, but I loved the Pitch show, Interns, Roasts, among others. Ha ha...JTE got blurred.

My favourite video on SJ+ was the top 100 movie fights moments, such nostalgia

I was a subscriber and like you said while I liked the feeling of more screen junkies the sell was Netflix and it really wasn’t. When I wanted to cancel you wrote me a really nice response. Stay safe Andy- you’re a good guy.

loved this Andy! very informative and helpful to see a behind the scenes look at screen junkies plus (without any of the personal drama (: ). it was always something i wanted to buy but never really got around to purchasing. however, i completely agree with you that if the team had marketed it as a fan club instead of a streaming platform it definitely would have worked. that's a very smart thing for you to say, and something i didn't think about until now. i remember, at the time, everyone who was watching screen junkies felt a part of this great community both with the people we saw on our computer screens and those that participated in comments and tweets online. in my opinion, enticing screen junkies fans to latch on to screen junkies plus would have required little more than a push for it as a home base for screen junkies supporters!

I enjoyed SJ+ very much! (Got lucky to have free access:) from you guys)) It showed that quality was aiming high but too much was happening simultaneously! I believe you would get there in some time though. Pity( And you are so right Andy about copies! Just did it recently for me, when the studio I worked for pulled the plug and cut off all the author's rights! And I would love to rewatch old movie fights btw!!!

I was a subscriber from the first day, perhaps the only subcriber in England! I felt the fee for new and original content from creators I was either watching already, or from those the site would introduce me to was worth it. However, it did quickly become clear that something was very wrong. It's a shame that Screen Junkies has pretty much imploded. The SJ+ experiment was just the first nail in the coffin, Andy's 'dismissal' was another, and now Dan (who I felt was the glue that held it together) has gone, there's just nothing left. Honest Trailers has become a bit of a joke... The fact recent episodes are struggling to get 2 million views, when for a time pretty much every single one would be guaranteed 15+ million, and the really viral 'hits' went over 50 million... I don't know, I unsubscribed from SJ a couple of months ago, and i'll look up the Honest Trailer release and see if I'm interested but usually I'm not anymore. But then again, I wouldn't subscribe to this channel either, because I don't really care for the format and much of the content... And that's all I have to say about that....

I was a member for a couple of months. The app threw me off, such a mess, so much worse than how even youtube managed content. But after all I mainly canceled because the lack of time, usually I would wanna see stuff some time later than aired/made and finding all just slightly older content on the app was such a laborious task that I gave up :)

I signed up the whole time then one day my app stopped working. It was at the height of my screen junkies, collider , Schmoes phase

I paid for screen junkies plus and I felt it was for fans to get more content and support you guys. I couldn't imagine anyone signing up for who wasn't already watching moviefights.

Man seeing those old clips man 😢....wouldn’t be a schmoedown without MovieFights

I was a SJ plus member. I was a big fan of Screen Junkies back when you were in charge. Was that Josh blurred out in the group picture? Was that for legal reasons or just personal? You've addressed the people who lied and your other colleagues who turned their backs on you but I've never heard you talk about him.

I remember Screen Junkies Plus. I really enjoyed it for what it was

As someone who is only a casual viewer of screen junkies videos (mostly honest trailers) I'll be honest I've never heard of this SJ+ service until right now. And I've been watching Chris Stuckmann for years now so it's strange that in all that time it's never once really come up even just as an ad a couple of times. Interesting video though. Good to get behind the scenes knowledge on a project like this

Mundy Night Raw didn’t work, the name was good but it was clear Nick wasn’t a competent host. He appeared nervous and unsure in the hot seat. I always thought he worked best when he was heavily produced in a supporting role like “How to Fix”.

I loved SJ+, I would kill to see that top 100 movie fights video again

Those lessons learned are gold. It is rare to have information about businesses and upper management bad decisions and their actual consequenses. Screen Junkies Plus could have better positioning, more time to build up, and be cheaper to produce, yielding a much better profit margin, if people were on the long-run game.

No body will read this but the Interns of FIELD logo looks like the Kosovo Security Forces emblem

I became a member and it was great but it was right there at the end. So for me it was just a couple of months and I watched everything that was on there. Keep it up Andy! Try and bring some form of Movie Fights or Nerd Wars or whatever. That’s how I became a fan of Screen Junkies and I know a lot of people did too. Debate shows about movies is what is missing with the schmoedown. I believe it could work.

I will be replying on every video I see with whether or not I see ads: I did see an ad

This is really good content. Interesting and insightful.

Man I wish you do something like Movie Fights, that was peak movie criticism.

The roasts were so good. Whoever wrote the jokes deserves massive props

I remember being a faithful member of SJ Plus. Man that was good times.

Hey guys, What was the name of the hairy Arms guy and is he still on RU-vid?

i actually joined this for a year, i liked some shows, i followed the chris stuckmann show, the jeremy one too, and even the nick mundy had its moments, those are the ones i remember most.

I really loved screen junkies +. I remember getting a shoutout from spencer about willow lol I remember drinking along with drunk movie fights. Good times! It’s a shame really.

As a SJ+ founder it’s nice to get insight, but I’m sad it didn’t last long and I got the yearly membership

I would watch a “business of making internet videos series” for sure

Thanks for sharing the behind the scenes stories, Andy.

SJ+ was Screen Junkies' peak for real fans. I adored that service and miss it so much!

I watched the three bears episode of Munday Night Raw so many times! Hilarious!

I subscribed to this and really loved a lot of the content.

I remember buying a subscription and loving it at first. I miss those days.

Nice insight, looking forward to part 2.

I joined SJ+ from Day One over here in the UK and I wont lie I did enjoy it. Loved the Whats in the Box and the archive of Movie Fights..........

I was a Screen Junkies Plus Subscriber day 1 I was locked and Loaded, miss those days

I never got screen junkies + but I got the impression it was a fan club from watching movie fights

I was part of Screen Junkies Plus. Golden Age of Screen Junkies indeed.

I signed up to Screen Junkies + back in the day. TV fights, Game Fights, Movie Games.. good times.