Originally Posted by signupdamnit

People will laugh at this but in almost every case when a company either opens their own full length tube or else starts working with them their affiliate support has dropped off. In some cases such companies have even started up with doing shady things such as not paying affiliates. When they first started becoming popular there were a few sponsors who suddenly started dropping off like this seemingly for no reason. I couldn't figure out why at the time but a year or two later it was revealed that right around the time it happened they opened their own full length tube. History tends to often repeat itself.