Machinima is failing. They are in the dire shit. No brands want to touch them, they've laid off the people who try to get brands involved, and they are now relying mostly on indirect sales through Youtube ads. This is why they've bloated to over 22,000 partnered channels. This is why you're going to see their "original series” go from their hub Machinima channel to the content creators' respective channels. They want to grow several channels to Pewdiepie levels and make their money that way. They told me this is what their plan was for me. They didn't really even know how that was going to work, thus why they stalled me for so long. My contract was going to be a deal about receiving a "license fee” from them to create videos and put them on my channel. They'd then recuperate that cost from the money my video makes, then I'd keep anything above that.