Unveiling the Harsh Truth of Donut Media

#hoonigan #donutmedia #cars Today we're talking about their tough decision to leave Donut and whats next. Welcome to BigTime! More and more creators are leaving what may seem like the dream job pursue creating for themselves. Donut Media stars Jeremiah and Jobe have announced they have left to start their own channel. Donut faced hard times when the company was bought out by Recurrent.

Check out the BigTime channel: • Why We're Leaving Donut - BIGTIME

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[pain.]

I miss old Donut, when James was explosive doing Bumper to Bumper and Up To Speed.

[RickySterling]

Donut became Buzzfeed for cars awhile ago

[ToyotaGT]

its kinda sad watching it fall off, they got me into cars
up to speed was my fav series

[bottledwaterprod]

When they all raced their daily drivers, you could really feel the contempt for their corporate manager in the Tesla. It was played as a joke, but it didn't feel that way.

[andrewflynn]

it’s a sad time, they’re the reason why i got back into cars

[aslamnurfikri]

I used to watch Donut for Up To Speed. Once they stopped making it I just stopped watching Donut. For me it's like McDonald's discontinuing Big Mac

[kidmods]

Donut has been really boring since 2022 imo

[justinevans]

Your editing is very misleading. Your clip from Jeremiah talking about him not being happy even with the money is NOT a comment about Donut, it was about his previous job in the Biomedical Engineering field. Do better.

[Rauthaz]

Money Pit was my favourite program on Donut. Educational, entertaining, hosted flawlessly by Zach

[manbok]

The older Donut videos were full of fun and joy, you can tell people loved doing it. Investors ruin everything.

[xinrew]

I didn't even know they got bought out until very recently when Zach and Jeremiah left, now everything is very clear as to why the channel has just been really stale. My absolute favourite series was wheelhouse and I'm honestly really bummed to finally be able to confirm that that series just will never come back now, as I've always had a little bit of hope left that it would return some day.

[justinschwieger]

The second part of your clip with Jeremiah has nothing to do with donut. When he talks about not being happy despite how much money he made he was talking about his career before donut. Kinda manipulative to cut it like that especially when the next 2 seconds of the clip show that it wasn’t about donut.

[waynefontaine]

MTV is a good example to use. I was a senior in high school when Nirvana dropped "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in 1991. Soon afterward, the channel began morphing into the "New Jersey Shore" diaper fire that it ultimately became...and it sucked having to witness that fall....🤷🏻‍♂️🤘🏻🇺🇸

[codydonovan]

The first mistake with Donut was ending Science Garage. The second mistake was ending Up to Speed... Literally the series that got Donut to where it is now.

[saltandsoysauce]

Luke: HI I'M INCREDIBLY LOUD! HERE'S A CLIP FROM BIGTIME!
Clip: **barely audible**
Luke: *I'M SUDDENLY BACK AND JARRINGLY LOUDER NOW!*

NORMALIZE. YOUR. FUCKING. AUDIO.

[desertninja__galactic]

I'm surprised how he didn't talk about how series' like Wheelhouse got booted out in favor of stuff like "Testing 42 air fresheners"

[robsolf]

This is what vulture capitalism does to the world. It acquires a reputable and popular brand and milks the goodwill from that brand for as long as they can, constantly cutting budgets, even if revenue increases, to maximize investment dividends and to feed top end management salaries. Eventually, product quality tanks, squandering the relationship made between the brand and its fans. Revenue tanks, but don't you worry your pretty little heads about the capital firms and their investors; they shut the company down and get a big fat tax break for their losses. Then they pick up another brand and rinse/repeat. This is the way of things in an economic system which rewards the people who do nothing with golden life preservers, while leaving those that did everything on the sinking ship. Smart of the donut guys to make their own life preservers, assumably from junk auto accessories they tested from Amazon. I wish them the best of luck and look forward to the content on their new channels.

[MysticalMastodon]

One of those quotes from the “goodbye” video was out of context. Jeremiah was talking about his engineering job when he said it didn’t matter how much money he made.

[nczihgg]

They sold out for a big payday. Nothing new.

[BlueBARv]

I can't stop watching Donut until I see the long awaited reunion with his Dad....🥺